September 1, 2026 at 5:25 am

A Man Keeps Catching His Neighbor’s Kids Sneaking Onto His Property To Mess With His Car, So He Decides Enough Is Enough

by Matthew Gilligan

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Well, this sure sounds like an interesting place to live

And by interesting, I mean A COMPLETE NIGHTMARE.

Because it appears that children are running wild in this town and no one can stop them.

Unfortunately for this guy, they’ve taken a liking to his property.

Check out why he’s so frustrated about dealing with these feral children.

Children will not stop coming on my property and messing with my car.

“(M19 living with my 23F sister in Virginia)

I’ve lived in this house for about a year now and previously have not had any issues with any neighbors, but starting this summer, children from the house behind mine will not stop sneaking onto my property and littering and damaging or attempting to damage things in some way.

Yikes…

It seems to be a house where the children are completely unsupervised, the back yard looks almost like they are hoarders and I think there are 4 children there.

The younger boys have crawled over our fence multiple times now to mess around in our backyard and been caught and will not stop.

One time they came with a net and tried to steal or kill, I don’t know, the fish out of a small fish pond we have. These kids are 5th-6th graders so they know better.

Wow…this is bad.

The older boy has snuck into the side of our yard to drink beers and proceeded to throw the beer cans in our yard and my sister went out and made them clean up after themselves and get off the property.

Now my car keeps ending up with random changes that I didn’t make.

One day all the windows opened when it was raining and covered the interior of my car with water, and when I checked there was a empty bottle of soda in the back and one of my carpet mats was missing.

I know for a fact I didn’t do any of that.

Then, today, the front seat of my car had a pile of gravel on the floor.

This is out of control!

I just cleaned my car and have not gone anywhere with gravel. My car is always locked.

Previously tried to contact the parent but there was no answer when I knocked despite the sounds of people inside.

Debating if I should call CPS or the police to get this figured out.

Obviously the children aren’t being parented or watched over so I’m more irritated at the parents than kids but at the same time now I’m dealing with damages I have to clean up after when I’m living paycheck to paycheck and in school so I’m just angry as hell and need this to be stopped.”

Check out what readers had to say about this.

This person didn’t hold back.

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Another individual shared their thoughts.

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This Reddit user asked a question.

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Another person weighed in.

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And this reader shared their thoughts.

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Where, oh, where, are the parents?

And what the hell are they doing?

This is wild!

These kids need some supervision, no doubt about it!

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