Then teach your kids to stay off other people's property, it's that simple.
It really irks me that parents today just let their kids run wild and neglect to teach them such things as basic manners, respect for other people's property and how to behave in public such as at a restaurant.
I'm not saying my kids are perfect, but they stay off the neighbors lawns and out of their yards, will ring the doorbell and ASK to retrieve something if it's flown into their yards, and don't run around restaurants raising all kinds of hell while other people are trying to eat in peace.
I mean geez, what the hell is this world coming to when parents instill in their kids that they can act with impunity then harass an old lady because their own kids don't know how to behave?
No wonder this country voted for Obama. (heavy sigh....)
I came home one day and the neighbor’s kids were waiting by my gate. Their football had ended up behind my fence and they wouldn’t go into the yard without permission.
There are still good kids out there. That was awhile ago, one of them is now at West Point.
It was a FOOTBALL. Kick that sucker, it might just fly across the fence, or property boundary.
then harass an old lady because their own kids don't know how to behave?
How do you even know that's the case just from this article? The Grumpess probably told them to stay out of her yard, so if a football flies over there, they can't retrieve it. And she's mean enough just to take the ball and not return it.
Sounds like a whole lot of history between these neighbors and we don't know the half of it from this one article.
The old lady just sounds like a meanie who is just old enough to forget what children are like, and I usually side with the old folks.
The Little Ole’ Lady from Blue Ash, Go Granny, Go Granny, Go Granny, GO! Teach those parents a lesson or two in old fashioned child rearing in a new fashioned way (lawsuit).