Unreal - Playing footy in street now illegal

[Acidmouse]

I live on a quiet street, there are 3-4 young kids (ages 6-10) who are virtually always out playing footy, tennis or on their little bikes. I have sometimes played with them for a kickabout and there fine, well behaved and really polite. Occasionally the ball goes into people's gardens and its not an issue, well all apart from one bitch who decided its WW3 if the ball goes on her property. She called the police as the ball went on her lawn, community policeman came and interviewed the kids and familys and then the young lady who complained.

Result is that no games are allowed on the quiet street. I am more than a fuked off this women who is in her twenties has ruined the fun for the kids in the street. What else are they going to do? stay inside play xbox360 24/7?

Is it really a law that can be inforced? what can they possibly do if the ball went in her garden again?

[mckelinho]

I completely agree mate. Kids on my (quiet) street play footie all the time, hit the ball off my car (by mistake) etc but that doesnt bother me. I played footy on the streets when i was young and loved it.

kids should play footie in the street, old woman should be in homes

[Claw75]

when I was a kid we moved to a house that had a nice green right outside. Was one of the reasons my parents chose it; somewhere for us to play, and there were lots of other kids around the same age as me and my brother.  We had a miserable bugger of a neighbour though, and it wasn't long before 'no ball games allowed' signs were put up.  He then got the arse when his dog ran out in front of one of the kids riding his bike and nearly got hit, and a couple of weeks later the old signs came down to be replaced with 'no ball games or cycling allowed'.

To this day I don't even know the neighbour's real name, everyone just called him 'grumpy'.

[kinboshi]

Moved the thread for you

[tikay]

when I was a kid we moved to a house that had a nice green right outside. Was one of the reasons my parents chose it; somewhere for us to play, and there were lots of other kids around the same age as me and my brother.  We had a miserable bugger of a neighbour though, and it wasn't long before 'no ball games allowed' signs were put up.  He then got the arse when his dog ran out in front of one of the kids riding his bike and nearly got hit, and a couple of weeks later the old signs came down to be replaced with 'no ball games or cycling allowed'.

To this day I don't even know the neighbour's real name, everyone just called him 'grumpy'.

Err - where was that, Claire?

[Claw75]

when I was a kid we moved to a house that had a nice green right outside. Was one of the reasons my parents chose it; somewhere for us to play, and there were lots of other kids around the same age as me and my brother.  We had a miserable bugger of a neighbour though, and it wasn't long before 'no ball games allowed' signs were put up.  He then got the arse when his dog ran out in front of one of the kids riding his bike and nearly got hit, and a couple of weeks later the old signs came down to be replaced with 'no ball games or cycling allowed'.

To this day I don't even know the neighbour's real name, everyone just called him 'grumpy'.

Err - where was that, Claire?

You're safe. He was even older than you iirc.

[Acidmouse]

Thanks!

The person who complained is a young women who inherited the house from her granny, she lives alone and parks her bloody mini right in the middle of the street so its a pain to get around sometimes. No idea what her problem is, but I am tempted to egg her house the bitch.

[gatso]

natural justice will prevail when the kids go off the rails as they can't play footy and end up robbing her house

[AndrewT]

161 (3) If a person plays at football or any other game on a highway to the annoyance of a user of the highway he is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine.

Of course, if the kids are under 10 years old, they can't be charged with any offence.

[bolt pp]

go play on the grass, it'll drive you mental if it's right near your house

[boldie]

Just give them bricks to play with..get her to move ...problem solved.

[WarBwastard]

Does she realise she's hurting England's chances of winning the 2018 World Cup.

[Colchester Kev]

Pop a note through her door telling her that her granny loved the kids playing and would be spinning in her grave that her own grandaughter is such a miserable bitch.

[EvilPie]

Sorry to be a stick in the mud but roads are for cars not kids playing football.

I don't care how quiet the road is they shouldn't be playing on it.

[bobAlike]

Where i used to live the kids were playing footie on the road causing no harm to anyone. A road worker from the council was doing some work on the road marking up with yellow paint where the road was going to be dug up. The kids asked him to paint a couple of markers on the road to use as goal posts. As the road was going to be re-surfaced the following week he agreed. (nice chap)

One of the neighbours (not a nice chap) called the police and complained to the council the kids were threatened with an ASBO the nice man lost his job.