I'm curious about this "sweet" policeman. Did he inform you that he was acting on a complaint? Did you ask him who you might contact to address the permission issue and the complaint? Did you try to get permission? Like I said, just curious because of the trespass issue. Were you prepared to sign a release that said that you would hold the property owner harmless in the event that you or you son was injured on the private property? Why did you automatically assume that the owers were crabby old men and not just people who were afraid of liability issues in our increasingly litigous society?