Thread: Keeping kids out of my yard

GW, that's just scary. Scary like a fox, LOL.

I used to have the kid problem too. Then I got six German Shepherds, viola no more kids. At least I haven't seen any kids and the dogs aren't hungry.


Seriously I would landscape not necessarily fencing or hedges but a strategic tree here, a pile of rocks there, a post for a bird feeder right there, and all of a sudden your yard isn't a playing field any more.

Sounds like it's running about 3 to 1 for putting out landmines. Send the kids to Tennessee. They can play in my backyard!

Norm

buy a bull and put it in the back yard.

string fishing line between trees, and watch them clothline themselves

paintball gun

flatten the ball they use with a bb gun

but in all seriousness I would be careful with the dogs. If you get a dog that looks mean, acts mean, ..., and you bought it to intimidate the children, and then it bites one of them, you will probably be in real trouble. This house you just worked so hard in obtaining will now belong to that little kid.

(i make no comment on particulare breeds of dogs, and don't want to be called a dogbiggot)

Originally Posted by mhailey

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(i make no comment on particulare breeds of dogs, and don't want to be called a dogbiggot)

A dogbiggot?

I do like the idea of re-landscaping the backyard to be less like a playing field. But if you do it with plants they might get trampled...

Got any friends who look really tough or whatever? Have a costume party housewarming where the theme is something suitably intimidating.

James.

[quote=mhailey;123074]
flatten the ball they use with a bb gun

Unless there have been some amazing advances in wiffle technology in the 30 yrs since I last played with one, I'd guarantee you can't flatten a wiffle ball with a bb gun. Or any other gun. You might flatten it by running over it with your car, but then you'd have those pesky tire tracks in your back yard.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

A dogbiggot?

I do like the idea of re-landscaping the backyard to be less like a playing field. But if you do it with plants they might get trampled...

Find an older home in your town where they are redoing their landscaping. The landscape company will probably give you the large mature holly bushes that they had to use a backhoe to dig up. Plant THOSE along the border.

Then put alcohol in the sprinkler, LOL>

Have a 6'x2' subtle berm somewhere towards the back edge of the property. Leave a spade and a back of Lime on the back porch.

Okay, missed the part about the wiffle ball.

how about this. evertime they play, demand that as a part of playing in your yard you get to join them, and then play full contact.

Level the little suckers.