A woman has been left outraged after the neighbourhood children commandeered her driveway as their make-shift playground.
She explained how up to a dozen children claimed her driveway as their own, playing football over her car, chalking all over the tarmac and leaving their bikes and toys there at all hours.
While she tolerated it at first, she soon came to resent the children - between around aged five to 14 - explaining how they march all over her plants and tear up her lawn.
Taking to Reddit, she said: "We live in a low to moderate income neighbourhood with small front yards. Maybe half of the homes have driveways. I kid you not there can be up to a dozen kids playing in our yard and driveway.
"They trampled my plants and were beating my tree with a stick and damaged it. We have told them to stop three times. I don't know what to do, the tree and plants are the final straw though."
She asked her husband to build a fence at the edge of their property to stop the children from free roaming all over it - but he refused as it would make "more work mowing".
She added: " The children are always unsupervised so there's no parents to talk to.
"Even if there were, some people on the street are a bit crazy, we had a neighbour lose their mind because we asked them to get their car out of our driveway.
"Another screamed at me for stopping in front of her house on the sidewalk ... I had dropped something."
Desperate to put an end to things, she asked Reddit users what they'd do in this situation.
In response, one user said: "This might sound crazy but, dog or cat poo - or they sell fertiliser that looks like it.
"I was having issues with kids smashing my decorative rocks in the street and asking them to stop wasn't helping.
"Then I remembered when I used to play tag with the neighbourhood kids when I was little and there was one yard all the kids avoided because it had what looked like cat poop all over the yard.
"I later learned from my dad that it was just fertiliser.
"Remembering that, I scooped my dog's poop and put some, like, every four feet around the edge of the yard.
"It was there for about a month, but for the next year, no more shattered rocks in the street. If it starts happening again, I just repeat the process."
Another user added: "Definitely do the fence, especially if you have crazy neighbours."
A third user said: "Fertilise your yard and plants with fish and seaweed fertiliser - the smell is unbearable. Reapply as needed."
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