It’s frustrating when someone else’s kids keep turning your property into their playground.

That’s what one homeowner has been dealing with after two neighborhood kids started treating the yard like their personal hangout.

At first, it may have seemed harmless, but the kids kept leaning on the fence until they broke it several times.

Then, they started throwing fruit, damaging signs, and ringing the doorbell over and over after being told to stop.

And the worst part is that the adults at their house haven’t been much help either.

Keep reading to learn the full story.

Bored, unsupervised neighbor kids using us as entertainment

We have a plastic dog fence around our backyard—not amazing, but it does the job. We also have no fence along our front yard, but we have some apple and pear trees growing there.

There are two neighbor kids, 8 and 9 years old, who think our dog is fun to look at, so they’ve been leaning on the fence and have broken it 3 times.

They also broke our “No Trespassing” sign. They picked apples from our fence and pegged a visiting child in our front yard with them, thinking this was a fun game.

In an effort to make it stop, they installed a sign full of rules.

We told them we weren’t available to play, so they started a game of “Ding Dong Door Ditch” that lasted over an hour. When we’ve rung their house’s doorbell, nobody comes to answer. The adults living in that house (which has a lot of weird in-and-out traffic) avoid our gaze and don’t talk with us.

We put up a sign of “Important Rules” that basically asks them to stop touching our fence, throwing things, etc.

It was minded until today, when the kid came to antagonize our dog again, but from their property this time. I finally managed to flag down his teenage sister as she drove up, and she’ll ask him to stop.

At this point, she doesn’t want to report them, but she’s thinking about it.

I’m just venting. I’m losing my mind. I remember when my spare time used to involve doing beloved interests rather than re-repairing the fence, putting up new barriers, putting up fabric so they can’t see through the fence, flagging them down, trying to talk to them, printing and posting signs, and so forth. These kids need a new hobby and some supervision.

I don’t want to take action against them any further or have the land surveyed and buy a fence just to avoid the constant trespassing and property damage from these young kids.

I’m considering contacting the police to ask them to do a non-emergency visit to talk with them or calling CPS for a wellness check. I don’t want things to escalate, but this is costing me constant time and money, and at some point, the consequences need to land back on these people.

Wow. It’s hard to believe that one set of neighbors can cause so many problems.

Let’s take a look at what Reddit readers suggest she do to solve the issue.

Now, this is funny.

Here’s someone who thinks it’ll get worse.

This reader would call the police.

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Yet another person who suggests the police.

These kids need some supervision!

The homeowner has already tried being patient, and it’s ridiculous that so much time is going into fixing damage they didn’t cause.

If the parents won’t step in, getting a non-emergency officer involved may be what finally gets their attention.

At some point, the responsibility has to go back where it belongs.