I wanted to understand how this conflict between two neighbors started. My children never stepped on someone else's property without permission. I wanted to see why her children kept crossing the street to someone else's yard.
So, I pulled up a map of their addresses.
It turns out, both homes are divided into multiple apartments. The 58yo woman was living in an apartment, too, and someone else is listed as the owner of the property.
Next to the property where the 58yo woman lives, there is a large, open yard. But, most of that yard appears to belong to the property next door. There's no fence dividing that yard by property.
Across the street from that yard, the 35yo woman and her children lived. Zooming to street level, the "street" looks as narrow as a driveway. So, now I can see how her children kept ending up in the "field across the street."
Hard to believe the dispute arose over children playing in a field, if the 58yo woman doesn't even own the property where she was living and the yard belongs to the property next door.
She has been dug in there so long that she considers the yard hers. Hearing the children playing in the yard got her very aggravated. So she tried to keep them out of their playground. That empty lot next to her.
I think it may have to do with someone banging on the walls which sounds like what children would do, and which would make the older woman be unhappy to see them next to her residence. But we’ll only know if the news media bothers to go past the first report.
I only played on other people’s property if their children were playing with me.