Can anyone help, our neightbours have purchased a trampoline and their daughter uses it to look at us in the garden and into my kitchen and diningroon even though we have a 6' high fence. We have extended the fence with trellis to obscure the view now the planning officers says this needs planning permission and we will not get it because it makes the fence too high. Does anyone now the law regarding looking over 6' high fences and invaiding our privacy

Are you sure the daughter is using it to spy on you and not just having fun?

From what I remember about being on a trampoline you aren't in the air long enough to have a good look at anything

What kind of dinner parties are you holding?!?:D

Just a thought, you don't live next door to Msb do you

have you spoken to the neighbours to see if they could move it or ask their daughter to bounce the other way?

chippy,

From what you have described, the matter doesn't seem serious enough to me to warrant a search for legal remedies. Relatively speaking, I would say its towards the mild end of invasion of privacy. People soon get bored with trampolines anyway. If only all problems with neighbours were (seemingly) this trivial.

Originally posted by chippy
Can anyone help, our neightbours have purchased a trampoline and their daughter uses it to look at us in the garden and into my kitchen and diningroon even though we have a 6' high fence. We have extended the fence with trellis to obscure the view now the planning officers says this needs planning permission and we will not get it because it makes the fence too high. Does anyone now the law regarding looking over 6' high fences and invaiding our privacy

this sounds like a windup, or do you like to cook naked?

Surely the kid isn't out there on the trampolene all day, every day.

I'm sure that most of us do something that irritates our neighbours at least once a day...why make such a big deal about the whole thing?:rolleyes:

1. Why not have a quiet word with your neighbours explaining how you feel?

2. Can the trampoline be moved further away from your garden?

3. Are you sure the kid really wants to look at you and your house/garden?

4. If you really want to screen off your garden plant some Lleylandii

5. The summer's nearly over, I doubt the trampoline will be used much beyond the next 4-5 weeks.

I think you're winding us up!

Chippy sir, you are a bounder! (like your neighbour) :D

No I wouldn't find a little girl bobbing up and down in her own back garden on her own trampoline an invasion of my privacy.....

Unless she has been particularly discourteous etc I don't even think it warrants mentioning to her or her parents!!

:confused:

Were you ever a child???

Sorry if this isn't what you expected to hear!!

Welcome to the forum...anyway...no offence..:wave:

simple solution - cut the string which holds the mat to the frame - job done :)

Originally posted by Shiesh
Welcome to the forum...anyway...no offence..:wave:
How many times have I come across that as a final line in response to a forum newbie!

Don't take the insults personnaly and welcome to the forum!:hihi:

Get a spud gun, every time she bounces above the fence take a shot at her head, she'll soon stop.

You could always buy one too and have competitions to see who can identify what the other household is eating at their dining table..

Fake someones death on the dining table, with a huge knife in them and blood everywhere. If the police turn-up then you know they were looking.

Are you sure she can see in? most rooms look dark from the outside if the lights reflecting off the glass

Anyway...welcome to the forum :)

Originally posted by nick2
Fake someones death on the dining table, with a huge knife in them and blood everywhere. If the police turn-up then you know they were looking.
And go down for wasting police time...:hihi:

Originally posted by Carmine
And go down for wasting police time...:hihi:

Not if you'd cleaned up before the cops got there and acted all innocent like!

One sad kid sent to lie down and recover....

Originally posted by Splodge_CRB
Not if you'd cleaned up before the cops got there and acted all innocent like!

One sad kid sent to lie down and recover....

yes ! the kid would get an ASBO not be allowed onto the trampoline and the problem would be resolved...

i wouldn't be too sure this is a wind up. As Robert Ardrey explained in his theory of the territorial imperative, people can get easily annoyed and aggressive over perceived invasions of personal space, however trivial. There was a case last year of a guy who shot his neighbour because the latter nipped a couple of inches off a boundary hedge. I like Nick's idea of the spud gun though. Its sounds rather fun.

Sabotage the trampoline...she'll break a leg and be in a plastercast for 6 weeks - physiotherapy for 4 weeks by which time it will be October/November and the trampoline will be indoors for winter I should think...:thumbsup:

2006

Court case finds you guilty for GBH and you go down for 3 years (18 mths) so at least she can trampoline troublefree all through the summer.

:hihi:

2007

Trampolines are out of fashion and she won't wanna use it anymore !!

:thumbsup:

oh yes....and did I say 'Welcome to the Forum....hope you enjoy your stay...no offence!! :wave:

Originally posted by nick2
Fake someones death on the dining table, with a huge knife in them and blood everywhere. If the police turn-up then you know they were looking.

This is a bit extreme, but I think Nick2 has the right idea. You'll just p*** your neighbours off if you tell them to stop their kid's bouncy fun, so why not use a bit of reverse psycology...

I'm sure the pesky trampoline with be dismantled in no time at all once the kid has told mummy and daddy that she saw the neighbours eating dinner in the nude!!!! :wow:

Where fools rush in, lawsuits are quick to follow!

Could she just be looking to see if anyone is watching her, as kids do when they are doing something and want people to notice?
I'm sure she's not really that interested in what you are doing, it's usually just adults who get nosey.

Weaken the middle of the trampoline and move it over either a dissused mine shaft or a well, sit back and wait.

Boing, boing,

rrrrrip,

aaagggggghhhhh,

thud.

Originally posted by nick2
Weaken the middle of the trampoline and move it over either a dissused mine shaft or a well, sit back and wait.

Boing, boing,

rrrrrip,

aaagggggghhhhh,

thud.
Nick2, were you seriously tramatised by a kid with a trampolene as a child?

You seem so ready with harmful and potentially lethal solutions to this problem?:D

Originally posted by JBee
I'm sure the pesky trampoline with be dismantled in no time at all once the kid has told mummy and daddy that she saw the neighbours eating dinner in the nude!!!! :wow:

hehe I was going to suggest this!!! Great minds, JBee :)

I'd say either this, if you are brave enough, or if it's really really affecting the way you live, have a word with the parents. But, hey, summer's almost over, the good weather is winding down... it won't be long before the trampoline is long forgotten :)

Originally posted by Carmine
You seem so ready with harmful and potentially lethal solutions to this problem?:D

You probably don't want to hear my bear-trap ideas then ?

Originally posted by nick2
You probably don't want to hear my bear-trap ideas then ?
I pity the paperboy who peers in through your letterbox!

You could squirt baby oil on it just before she pops out for her little bounce - film the multiple fractures then send the Video into You've Been Framed and earn yourself £200. :clap:

Originally posted by dawny1
You could squirt baby oil on it just before she pops out for her little bounce - film the multiple fractures then send the Video into You've Been Framed and earn yourself £200. :clap:

LMAO funniest post of the day! :clap:

Originally posted by dawny1
You could squirt baby oil on it just before she pops out for her little bounce - film the multiple fractures then send the Video into You've Been Framed and earn yourself £200. :clap:
What'd be even funnier was if you managed to catch the kid's dad come home from the pub and try to impress his mates by bouncing on the contraption while the oil was still present...:D

hehehe yeah Carmine! I almost want to do this to someone myself now, if only there was a guarantee of not being caught :hihi:

PS- like the new avatar

Originally posted by KookyKoo
hehehe yeah Carmine! I almost want to do this to someone myself now, if only there was a guarantee of not being caught :hihi:

PS- like the new avatar
First rule of any such plotting: make sure you have an accomplice to do the dirty work and whom you can squeal on if you get caught!:thumbsup:

Thanks, I like my avatar too...change is as good as a rest.

I have a solution, for which you will need:

Sticky tape (lots)
An extra length of fence
A trampoline/pogo stick
A sense of rhythm

Simply attach the extra length of fence to your head using the sticky tape, and start to build a rhythm up on your chosen bouncing device, which you have placed next to your legal, existing fence.

When the evil spy next door starts to do her thing, match her movements using your own bouncing device. She will no doubt be of shorter height than yourself, being a child, and if you synchronise properly will not be able to see over the top of your ingenious anti-spy head-fence.

Hey presto - no more sneaking a look at your unkempt lawn and hideous gnome collection.

Originally posted by Greenback
I have a solution, for which you will need:

Sticky tape (lots)
An extra length of fence
A trampoline/pogo stick
A sense of rhythm

Simply attach the extra length of fence to your head using the sticky tape, and start to build a rhythm up on your chosen bouncing device, which you have placed next to your legal, existing fence.

When the evil spy next door starts to do her thing, match her movements using your own bouncing device. She will no doubt be of shorter height than yourself, being a child, and if you synchronise properly will not be able to see over the top of your ingenious anti-spy head-fence.

Hey presto - no more sneaking a look at your unkempt lawn and hideous gnome collection.
Thanks for that, Greenback...you really made my day.:thumbsup:

The solutions is simple:

Purchase mini-blinds to keep her from looking in and get your own trampoline. :thumbsup:

Awww chippy.

This really isn't a big deal, not unless you make it into one.....the poor girl is only doing kid-stuff. Presumably she isn't very old, is it really such a big deal? I agree with whoever it was who said that she's probably only looking (for the second that she's in the air high enough to see over your fence) to see if anyone's noticed how high she is/how well she's doing.

I wouldn't be surprised if she loses interest in the trampoline very soon, kids do. More to the point tho, don't be so intolerant!

I appreciate you're new to the forum community and don't want to seem unwelcoming. But come on....neighbours have to tolerate each other or there's a nasty atmosphere and that's how trouble starts. Seems a bit sad that you've (presumably) joined the forum just to moan about a little girl playing in her garden!

Originally posted by Greenback
I have a solution, for which you will need:

Sticky tape (lots)
An extra length of fence
A trampoline/pogo stick
A sense of rhythm

Simply attach the extra length of fence to your head using the sticky tape, and start to build a rhythm up on your chosen bouncing device, which you have placed next to your legal, existing fence.

When the evil spy next door starts to do her thing, match her movements using your own bouncing device. She will no doubt be of shorter height than yourself, being a child, and if you synchronise properly will not be able to see over the top of your ingenious anti-spy head-fence.

Hey presto - no more sneaking a look at your unkempt lawn and hideous gnome collection.

I too liked this solution. Shows imagination ;)

Originally posted by Greenback
I have a solution, for which you will need:

Sticky tape (lots)
An extra length of fence
A trampoline/pogo stick
A sense of rhythm

Simply attach the extra length of fence to your head using the sticky tape, and start to build a rhythm up on your chosen bouncing device, which you have placed next to your legal, existing fence.

When the evil spy next door starts to do her thing, match her movements using your own bouncing device. She will no doubt be of shorter height than yourself, being a child, and if you synchronise properly will not be able to see over the top of your ingenious anti-spy head-fence.

Hey presto - no more sneaking a look at your unkempt lawn and hideous gnome collection.

I was going to suggest putting the fence on hydraulics so it went up and down at the same rate as the child, but opted for shooting her instead.

I'm thinking high pressure water hoses here.....

Wait til the wee darlin's at the top of her bounce, aim and see how many gardens you can sail her over
Award yourself x amount of points per garden

Hmmm....this could rank right up there with dwarf tossing as a national sport :thumbsup:

Do you think perhaps the author of this post is currently sat in front of their computer, head in hands thinking why oh why did I put this on the Sheffield Forum?? :D

The next step will to be pick themselves a new user name and start afresh! :hihi:

oK, oK I've got a quandry for you then....

We moved into our house ( one of those terraced thinies which people on right of access to ) about ayear ago and have had the next door neighbour looking into our kitchen window whenever she walks passed. I would not mind but now she is starting to turn the milk sour.

She was very friendly with the people who used to live in our house and can only assume she has been in there plenty of times in the past so why does she feel the need to continually look in. As the extension is newly built and decorated we have not seen fit to change in in anyway and I have left the door open and the blinds fully open on numerous occasions so she has had the oppotunity to have a better look in the past.

Short of inviting her in and saying ''ok now you have seen everything'' what else is a girl to do??

Polite and unpolite answers welcome:mad:

Poke her eyes out, that should stop her.

The answer is simply, you need some Timing Devices connected to the fence and the trampoline so when the kid lands on the trampoline, and sets off the devices, the fence will follow the kid in the air everytime = privacy !!:thumbsup: :hihi: :heyhey:
you never know it might just work??
:suspect:

I can just see the headline on tomorrows star...Child injured in freak accident with trampoline and computer :hihi:

The author of this post, if they're not sulking with us all by now, should read this CLICK HERE (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4728645.stm) and take heart that statistically next doors child has an excellent chance of coming to a sticky end by using the trampoline. The report however doesn't mention spud gun injuries, high pressure hoses,incapacity by bay oil etc which are perhaps restricted to the Sheffield area! :hihi:

Originally posted by bertie749
oK, oK I've got a quandry for you then....

We moved into our house ( one of those terraced thinies which people on right of access to ) about ayear ago and have had the next door neighbour looking into our kitchen window whenever she walks passed. I would not mind but now she is starting to turn the milk sour.

She was very friendly with the people who used to live in our house and can only assume she has been in there plenty of times in the past so why does she feel the need to continually look in. As the extension is newly built and decorated we have not seen fit to change in in anyway and I have left the door open and the blinds fully open on numerous occasions so she has had the oppotunity to have a better look in the past.

Short of inviting her in and saying ''ok now you have seen everything'' what else is a girl to do

Polite and unpolite answers welcome:mad:

You're sure she's not just looking in so that if you're there she can smile and wave and call Hiya?

If she was friendly with the people before you, maybe she misses their company.



:)

Originally posted by daverity
Do you think perhaps the author of this post is currently sat in front of their computer, head in hands thinking why oh why did I put this on the Sheffield Forum?? :D

The next step will to be pick themselves a new user name and start afresh! :hihi:

Do you think perhaps the author of this post is an existing long-served member of the forum who couldn't face the comments he/she would get for starting such a thread, so picked themselves a new user name just for the purpose?

:D :suspect: :D

I should have explained the kid is thirteen and pulls faces we have extended the fence in the part that over looks our patio since then we have had a letter from the council telling us to remove the extra bit of trellis to stop her looking in. She only goes on the trampoline when we are in the garden and she encourages her friends to pull faces at us. Funny she doesn't do it when we have company round. The mother keeps giving us verbal abuse and there isn't anything that can be done.

Get a good .22 rifle or take to polishing your trumpet in the garden!


Or light a nice smoky bonfire everytime she's out.

:thumbsup:

Originally posted by chippy
Can anyone help, our neightbours have purchased a trampoline and their daughter uses it to look at us in the garden and into my kitchen and diningroon even though we have a 6' high fence. We have extended the fence with trellis to obscure the view now the planning officers says this needs planning permission and we will not get it because it makes the fence too high. Does anyone now the law regarding looking over 6' high fences and invaiding our privacy

wait till she's 18 and bouncing up and down on that trampoline. I'm sure you wont complain then:D

LOL this must be the stupidest, most petty thread ever on here?

ffs shes a kid, shes bouncing on a trampoline, she might have a crafty look, but come on

Originally posted by melthebell
LOL this must be the stupidest, most petty thread ever on here?

ffs shes a kid, shes bouncing on a trampoline, she might have a crafty look, but come on

for the sake of buying two lots of nets for the windows. Maybe she bounces up and dowmn with a clipboard making notes?

Originally posted by robbie
wait till she's 18 and bouncing up and down on that trampoline. I'm sure you wont complain then:D

You beat me to that one robbie!! :D :D :D :D

Originally posted by chippy
I should have explained the kid is thirteen and pulls faces we have extended the fence in the part that over looks our patio since then we have had a letter from the council telling us to remove the extra bit of trellis to stop her looking in. She only goes on the trampoline when we are in the garden and she encourages her friends to pull faces at us. Funny she doesn't do it when we have company round. The mother keeps giving us verbal abuse and there isn't anything that can be done.

she only goes on it when you're in the garden. But not when you have company. And she pulls faces.
Ignore it, surely you can out wait a 13 year old.

As for her mother, if she is being verbally abusive, record it and report it to the council/police, that should stop that.

Originally posted by chippy
Can anyone help, our neightbours have purchased a trampoline and their daughter uses it to look at us in the garden and into my kitchen and diningroon even though we have a 6' high fence. We have extended the fence with trellis to obscure the view now the planning officers says this needs planning permission and we will not get it because it makes the fence too high. Does anyone now the law regarding looking over 6' high fences and invaiding our privacy Should all houses have their first floor cut off then ?
Or perhaps you have such a fascinating life that your neighbours feel the need to look at what your doing ?
Last option: You're a bit sad ...

When she's bouncing up and down , go in your garden and when you've judged her face is to appear , hold up a large picture of Elton John or Bob Geldof-----that'll soon put a stop to her antics.

why not just eat your dinner in the nude?

13 years old and still pulling faces!

Is she retarded by any chance? :loopy:

Originally posted by Splodge_CRB
13 years old and still pulling faces!

Is she retarded by any chance? :loopy:

13 & not pregnant?

She's not from Rotherham then :hihi:

Ah...that explains why she wanted a trampoline at her age. Tell her it might dislodge the baby in the ninth month only!

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
13 & not pregnant?

She's not from Rotherham then :hihi:
Trampolining isn't good for pregnancy. Now why do you think anybody would buy a 13yr old a trampoline? :suspect:

:hihi:

Ask floors to go if you can borrow that hideous inflatable thing with wavy arms for the weekend, and see how they feel about some muppet looking over the fence :hihi:

Make a tree house overlooking their bedroom & put a washing machine in it. set it to spin every now and then so it shakes the treehouse.

That should freak em out :hihi:

She's 13 and she pulls faces at you :hihi: She's obviously only continuing to do it cos she can see it gets to you (more fun that way).

Think back to when you were 13, I'm sure you can remember what made you continue to do something? Make a point of going out in your garden every minute you can spare, every time she pulls faces just laugh out loud, harder and louder each time. Once she see's that you may possibly be enjoying it she'll stop - guaranteed.

And, laughing (even forced) releases those feel-good chemicals in your brain so you'll feel better too :clap:

Psychological warfare time....

When you next have company point out her trampolining skills to your guests in a voice loud enough for her to hear then say that she's very forward for a ten year old, can't think of any 13 yr olds who wouldn't hate that and try to act more grown up after

If she attempts to correct you then just look very very shocked!

I did that once on a kid who was acting like a total hick, worked a charm!

Or how about REALLY going for the psychological attack and being really nice to her next time she's out bouncing?

Call out Hiyyyyaaaa!!!! With a big smile and a wave. Tell how good she's getting and how impressed you are that she can go so high! Tell her she needs to keep practising if she wants to get into the next Olympics! Tell her how much you'd love to have a go on a trampoline!

a) you both might be surprised that it's nice to be nice to each other and

b) if she really is doing this bouncing business just to annoy you, the thing will have moss and cobbies on it before you know it and the mother will have it in Exchange and Mart faster than your extending trellis took to blow down.

Win/win!

:P

The two previous posts on psycological warfare are both really good ideas.
:clap:

If she can see she's getting to you, then the game is exciting, and it'll increase her streetcred with her mates if she is seen to be bullying you.

Being friendly but patronising is definitely the way forward. How about praising her skills, and then saying: "Will you be old enough to go to 'big school' in September? They might have a trampolining club there."

This implies that you think she's about to go to secondary school for the first time (making her about 11), and that you think she's be naff enough to join an after-school sports club!

Then keep up with the friendship offensive. Offer her lemonade and sweeties. Ask her if she's got herself a boyfriend yet. See if she'll let you have a go on her trampoline.

she''' be running for the Pennines in no time! :hihi:

Might seem petty but it's usually the petty things that make the difference between war and peace. Be super sweet to the little brat, keep a log of her parent's offensive behaviour, make a complaint to the relevant council officials and plant the stuff previously suggested for future. Print out and send her parents a copy of the link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4728645.stm referred to by daverity.

Summer wont last long so why not make the most of it and have barbecues in the garden and invite them so that you can try to make friends with them.