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If you have playground equipment on your property, is it now public property for all the neighborhood kids to use, like a public park, or is it still your own private property?

Obviously, it’s still your private property which means you can remove the playground equipment if you want to, and there’s literally nothing anyone can do about it.

The neighbors in this story don’t seem to understand that. They’re really upset that some new homeowners made some changes to their property.

Keep reading for the whole story.

AITA for removing a unofficial neighborhood playground

So me and my fiance recently bought a house.

The house has a plot of land next to it where a 2 car garage that burnt down a few years ago used to stand

The previous owner rather then rebuilding the garage decide to build a small playground on the land for the neighborhood kids to use.

Apparently it became pretty popular.

But the new homeowners would rather have a garage than a playground.

But seeing as we do not have kids and have no plan to have them. We have no use for the playground

So when me and my fiance moved in we quickly took the playground down. We are planning to rebuild a new garage as it something we really need.

This cause a small uproar with parents in the neighborhood. We some yelling at us telling use we we can’t take it down as it part of the neighborhood

One neighbor even tried to call the police claiming destructivson of public property

But it wasn’t on public property.

From what I heard she was told it wasn’t on public property it was on our property and we can do as we please.

We been getting a lot of crappy from some of the neighbors but honestly we have many reason to not want this playground

I have work.long nights as a nurse and usally only get few hours of sleep during the day And this may make me sound like a monsters but I do not want kid’s scream and playing in my yard well I’m trying to sleep.

There is liability if the kid get injury or worst. We could get in a lot of trouble.

And then there’s the way the playground looked.

It is a complete eye sore.

This is not some professional store bought playground. It was made using old equipment that the previous owner and some of the neighbors found.

Most of the equipment was very old and rusty. Which again can get me into trouble if one of the kid get sick or Injuried.

So AITA for taking down a neighborhood play ground.

It’s private property. They can do what they want. The neighbors can kick rocks or build their own playground on their property.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

This is a good excuse.

Here’s another thought.

Here’s the realistic approach.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a resident who is not amused by new parking rules, so locks a lot gate to teach management a lesson.

This is true.

The previous homeowners obviously knew how much the neighbors liked the playground. They should’ve chosen to sell to a couple who has kids so the playground would be more likely to stay. But, maybe they didn’t like their neighbors and sold to this couple hoping the playground would go away as some sort of form of revenge.

Regardless, they can build or remove whatever they want on their own property.