My neighbor and I got into it on sat.

[mugs]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
While your intentions were good, you overstepped your boundaries. Told the kid what to do once, he obviously relayed the message to his father, his father overrode your instructions and the kid did was his father told him to do. MYOFB.

Pretty much. If he's bothering the construction guys, let them take care of it.

 

[mooglekit]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
When I read that, the only picture of your neighbor that came to mind is a fat bald guy wearing a wife-beater, holding a beer, and sucking on a half burned smoke.

Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Dumba$$ neighbors, everyone has them.

Originally posted by: Aharami
and i bet he wouldnt even hesitate to sue sue sue if his kid gets hurt

I have nothing further to add, well done and :thumbsup:

 

[krunchykrome]

This reminds me of my stupid neighbors. Their kids run wild up and down the street, which really isnt a problem, and it doesnt bother me. Sometimes they get in the way of cars but people slow down and wait for them to get out of the way. But, there are never any parents around. Instead of parental supervision, they put a large bright orange cone in the middle of the road to make cars slow down. Luckily, this cone is at the end of the
cul-de-sac so it doesnt affect me at all, but it still irritates me that they have the nerve to do this, and no one has complained about it. But the topping on the cake is this, they speed up and down the residential street, reving their fart can exhausts in their cars. They burn rubber and intentionally speed like it's a race track. That is what really gets me.

 

[ColdFusion718]

Whatever happened to social responsibility? All of you who said the OP should mind his own business, sure he should have. However, here's the flip side. If you had kids who were doing something obviously dangerous to their safety, wouldn't you appreciated if a kind neighbor exercised some adult authority over them? Jesus H. Christ, we've become a nation of "all about me"'s. Sure, it is your right to tell your children what to do, but damn it sometimes they just don't have any sense when you are not around, that's when the good neighbor comes in handy.

I can't tell you how many times I've gotten myself into trouble and had a neighbor not been there to smack me out of it, I probably would have gotten myself into some serious crap. Now if the OP was verbally abusive and antagonistic towards the kid for no reason, I would understand the dad for being pissed off.

I hope those of you who said MYOB don't have children.

 

[zinfamous]

expect TP to be applied to your house sometime this week. Be ready with garden hose, and/or hounds.

 

[SoulAssassin]

btw, I suggest posting pics of his wife here as payback

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
While your intentions were good, you overstepped your boundaries. Told the kid what to do once, he obviously relayed the message to his father, his father overrode your instructions and the kid did was his father told him to do. MYOFB.

Pretty much. If he's bothering the construction guys, let them take care of it.

My thoughts exactly. The road is public property anyway IIRC?

 

[Chaotic42]

If he does get run over, be sure to let us know if a "500" floats up out of his body.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
While your intentions were good, you overstepped your boundaries. Told the kid what to do once, he obviously relayed the message to his father, his father overrode your instructions and the kid did was his father told him to do. MYOFB.

The father is OBVIOUSLY a over-parenting tool based on the OPs description and I disagree that he overstepped his boundaries in this case. Also, the kid was in the OPs driveway (on his property) and if ANYTHING happened to that kid then who knows what kind of legal trouble he could get into. OP has every right to tell that kid to F-off and I don't blame him for doing so.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
btw, I suggest posting pics of his wife here as payback

I dont even know where the prick lives. Until Sat i have never seen the kid or his dad ever, i dont know where they live.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
Whatever happened to social responsibility? All of you who said the OP should mind his own business, sure he should have. However, here's the flip side. If you had kids who were doing something obviously dangerous to their safety, wouldn't you appreciated if a kind neighbor exercised some adult authority over them? Jesus H. Christ, we've become a nation of "all about me"'s. Sure, it is your right to tell your children what to do, but damn it sometimes they just don't have any sense when you are not around, that's when the good neighbor comes in handy.

I can't tell you how many times I've gotten myself into trouble and had a neighbor not been there to smack me out of it, I probably would have gotten myself into some serious crap. Now if the OP was verbally abusive and antagonistic towards the kid for no reason, I would understand the dad for being pissed off.

I hope those of you who said MYOB don't have children.

sure. he did right on telling the kid to get away.

the kid went to talk to his dad. his dad said he did not have to listen to him. that should have been the end of it.

but he told him again. that was stepping over the line.

 

[49erinnc]

Originally posted by: jhayx7
Let the dumb kid be. Natural selection FTW!

I'm gonna lean towards this one as well

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: ColdFusion718
Whatever happened to social responsibility? All of you who said the OP should mind his own business, sure he should have. However, here's the flip side. If you had kids who were doing something obviously dangerous to their safety, wouldn't you appreciated if a kind neighbor exercised some adult authority over them? Jesus H. Christ, we've become a nation of "all about me"'s. Sure, it is your right to tell your children what to do, but damn it sometimes they just don't have any sense when you are not around, that's when the good neighbor comes in handy.

I can't tell you how many times I've gotten myself into trouble and had a neighbor not been there to smack me out of it, I probably would have gotten myself into some serious crap. Now if the OP was verbally abusive and antagonistic towards the kid for no reason, I would understand the dad for being pissed off.

I hope those of you who said MYOB don't have children.

yep, the neighbor is the ass in this story. prick should be so lucky that his kid is still alive.

 

[deerslayer]

You should have busted out the lawn chair, cooler, and beer and waited for his dumb ass to get steamrolled.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: Alone
Legendary thread in the making.

Indeed.

 

[lupi]

Except for you forgetting to turn on your hose to knock the kid off his bike, Can't say you did anything wrong.

 

[alien42]

bb gun ftw

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I say paint a grid in the street and we can put bets on where the smear ends up.

I like the kids logic, my daddy says i don't have to listen to you. Well that little sh!t better hope he listens when he gets his a$$ kicked by a bigger kid because his daddy said he didn't have to do something.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
While your intentions were good, you overstepped your boundaries. Told the kid what to do once, he obviously relayed the message to his father, his father overrode your instructions and the kid did was his father told him to do. MYOFB.

The father is OBVIOUSLY a over-parenting tool based on the OPs description and I disagree that he overstepped his boundaries in this case. Also, the kid was in the OPs driveway (on his property) and if ANYTHING happened to that kid then who knows what kind of legal trouble he could get into. OP has every right to tell that kid to F-off and I don't blame him for doing so.

How does telling your kid to go do what he wants translate into over-parenting? If anything the father of the kid of the bike was ignoring what his kid was doing and that's a lack of parenting in my book. Also, re-read the OP...no where is it stated the kid was IN his driveway which excludes the OPer from any legal responsibility so let's make sure we have our facts straight.

I stand by my previous statement that the OPer made a good effort to protect the kid from a possible danger and I applaud him for that but he's not the kids father and ended up crossing the line into other people's business.

 

[Jeff7]

Haven't you heard? Kids these days are completely infallible, and no one has the right to tell them to do anything they don't want to do, lest it put a dent in their fragile and all-important self esteem.

 

[DVad3r]

Wow you care so much, it's suprising. Honestly you should of just told him to gtfo, if he dident then that isent your responsibility. Next time let them get run over by a roller.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
While your intentions were good, you overstepped your boundaries. Told the kid what to do once, he obviously relayed the message to his father, his father overrode your instructions and the kid did was his father told him to do. MYOFB.

The father is OBVIOUSLY a over-parenting tool based on the OPs description and I disagree that he overstepped his boundaries in this case. Also, the kid was in the OPs driveway (on his property) and if ANYTHING happened to that kid then who knows what kind of legal trouble he could get into. OP has every right to tell that kid to F-off and I don't blame him for doing so.

no the kid was never on my property. he was riding in circles at the end of my driveway (in the street) staring me down just waiting for me to say something else.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: SoulAssassin
While your intentions were good, you overstepped your boundaries. Told the kid what to do once, he obviously relayed the message to his father, his father overrode your instructions and the kid did was his father told him to do. MYOFB.

The father is OBVIOUSLY a over-parenting tool based on the OPs description and I disagree that he overstepped his boundaries in this case. Also, the kid was in the OPs driveway (on his property) and if ANYTHING happened to that kid then who knows what kind of legal trouble he could get into. OP has every right to tell that kid to F-off and I don't blame him for doing so.

no the kid was never on my property. he was riding in circles at the end of my driveway (in the street) staring me down just waiting for me to say something else.

You told him once, he went back and told his dad and came back. He wasn't on your property and wasn't in any immediate danger.

You did your part and he wasn't on your property. Should have just left it at that.

Although it would be interesting to see if you post within the next couple of weeks:

"My car was egged, WTF?"

 

[Linflas]

And there in a nutshell is the genesis of lack of respect for authority. Back when I was a kid if an adult told me to not ride my bike in that area I didn't ride my bike there. If had gone to my father he would have backed up the neighbor unless it was something totally off the wall and even then he probably would have somewhat backed the adult and had a conversation with him later with me not around.

 

[jpeyton]

Your neighbor was right, you were wrong.

You offered up advice, telling the kid to play somewhere else. He didn't take the advice. End of story. Time to get off your power trip and stop being the neighborhood safety police.