Today I am sitting at home and a kid rings the doorbell wanting me to play
I said wafter awhile so HE tries to climb in the windows
I l;ock and he seems to go
here his voive and come outside
Evidently I forgot to unplug the power pack and there he was with his brother the engine was derailed on the trestle and the COaches were leaned vertically aginst a tree trunk
It seems there are so many stupid kids LIKE ME these days who cant not keep of someone elses “Toy”
Oh well
My neighbors are annoying too. One of the flooded a section of my track and the other’s kids keep throwing their ball over the fence and wrecking scenery. You’ve got to wonder where the parents are. If I had done that when I was a kid (which wasn;t too long ago), my dad would have gave me something to cry about.
Be glad you only have to deal with it on your GR.
At a culdesac party the kids almost destroyed all of my trains.
I feel for ya.
I have neighbors who stomp on the track and others who poop all over the place! Seems that Mr. Remington is the only person those deer listen to! Groundhogs, raccoons, and possums (along with the occaisional skunk & blacksnake) get a seranade from Mr. Ruger! Keeps the turkey buzzards happy!
i cannot stand people like that. when i put mine in, i will make sure that i add something extra to prevent any damage from other people. At the Morris arboreuteum, kids climb on the rocks, and sometimes pu***rains off the bridges. I have to sometimes pick up the engine or car, and luckily they have not been ndamaged.
One of the side effects of “civilization” I guess. I’m too much of a nut case for any of my neighbors to even think about doing anthing. Once I even got accused of forcing people to move out of the area, OK, I’ll let everybody think that [}:)]
My best advise is to put up a fence, out of sight-out of mind (or “invisible and insane” as translated into Arabic). Good luck!
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I live in a cul-de-sac and the neighbors haven’t bothered me at all. My layout sits back off the road and I have a pile of gravel that hides it from view. I even have a swimming pool that noone seems to know is there. I can play with my trains in utter privacy.
I have a fenced in yard and a small dog and the next door neighbor’s children (girl) thru rocks at my MTH Challenger last year, the children are still not even school age.
Those types of people make me so mad! Luckily I have no problems, my layout is in the backyard, fenced backyard. I think some of you guys should have a talk with some of these kids and their paretns because if you dont, I will! hehe!
tmccman,
Another example of spoiled kids raising spoiled rotten kids, or parents not parenting - all brought on by Dr. Spock and his “Don’t spank the little buggars , you’ll hurt thier phscye Bullstuffing!”
" Good fences make good neighbors"
Having one of these on your layout might solve the problem.[;)]
(click on pix to enlarge)
Big! [#ditto]
None of my neighbors do that stuff, then again the only kid my age in the neighborhood has a train too so…
All the other neighbors always ask how the train is doing and i tell them it’s almost done. for 2 years now. 1 step forward 1 and a half backwards.
I have ways of getting my neighbors back. One of them was to not even attempt to contain the bamboo that grows in my yard. It’s spreading to his yard now.
I’d like to have a model of the German GUSTAV Cannon.[:D] That’ll certainly scare anyone away.[}:)]
maybe i can mount a custom made turret that shoots high velocity powered pain balls at kids, that is disquised. That could actually be a cannon car that is custom made.
The topic came up in MLS Chat last night. I proposed using a trebuchet to defend the railroad[:D] http://www.tomruby.com/trebuchet.htm
In thinking about this subject, it’s easy to complain about bad neighbors. However I’m sure many of us have good neighbors too. I do. Friend of my family have a young son, just entered first grade. There’s nothing more I love than having himover to see the trains and watching his face light up. My point is take the bad with the good.
It’s your yard, they’re your trains and you’ve made a very large investment of time and money in it. Before you call the cops, you should confront the parents of the offending youngsters and insist that they control their own kids and inform them what you plan to do if they can’t or won’t.
Walt