 Show A mother of seven put up a message for her neighbors in West Sacramento to see. "This neighborhood is full of Karens!" reads the sign that's taped to her family's basketball hoop out front. Raquel Davis told CBS13 she reached her breaking point when a neighbor complained about her children skateboarding in front of their home on a Saturday night. "I didn't know it was not okay for kids to be outside skateboarding," said Davis. The neighbor told Davis he could hear the kids from inside his home and asked if they could quiet down and watch their language. Davis said she talked to her children but the neighbor left visibly upset. That's when she decided to put up the sign. "I felt this is my son's birthday. They're out skateboarding and I guess I was at my final straw," said Davis. "My last thing. I don't know what to do so I put up the sign." Davis told CBS13 the cops have been called on her children at least three times within the last few months. "So now that it's with my kids and cops are being called on them, I don't really know how to resolve this when they're just skateboarding," she said. CBS13 also talked to one neighbor who says while he hasn't called the police, everyone on the block is fired up about the skateboarding and other noise complaints. “These folks moved in and it’s basically ‘The Animal House,’ house in the neighborhood,” Bruce Foster told CBS13. “There is like no sense of noise control.” “That’s why I came to this because I don’t know what else to do," continued Davis. "I don’t know who’s calling. I keep my kids in past dark. I don’t know what to do." Photo: Getty Images At our beach house, we have a basketball hoop in the driveway. It's a bit of an odd setup, because we have 2 garages and 2 driveways. One driveway/garage is attached to the house and is in front of the house. We are on a corner lot, and the other garage is detached, large, and the driveway is on the side street. So, it's further from the house, but it is VERY obviously part of the same property. (And we aren't talking acres of land here. It's a small beach community.) We don't live there full time, and sometimes many weeks go by between our visits there, even at this time of year. Sometimes we find evidence that people must have been using the hoop. For example, last weekend we arrived to find that someone had adjusted the hoop to make it lower. So obviously young kids (or short adults) were using it. Or something just adjusted it to be funny, I don't know. We also had an issue last year when someone we knew (but not well -- we aren't friends) was letting his kids use the hoop both when we weren't there, and when we were! I had a few times when I was in the house and suddenly heard a bouncing ball in the driveway...looked out to find a group of kids playing. I finally had a talk with the kids (they were HS age) and said I didn't want to be liable if someone got hurt, so please don't use the hoop. (BTW, one of the kids was hanging from the hoop, the ball was bouncing into the garden, etc...). Another time there was a big group kids, AND their dads, using the hoop (while I was in the house) and half of them were sprawled out on the grass like it was a public park. I went out and said, "Uh, hellooo...." And they were like, "Oh, we didn't know you were here!" As if it would be totally fine if I wasn't home. (BTW we don't leave a basketball out, so these people are obviously planning ahead and bringing their own. It's not like they're just walking by and deciding to shoot a few hoops.) Agh. So, first of all, what would you do? Just let it be used and be super chill about the whole thing? Or would you be annoyed too? And assuming you're in the annoyed camp, what would you do? I thought about making some kind of sign that "cheerfully" states that the driveway and hoop are private property. But how do I create a sign that would hold up to the weather (moisture, wind, etc)? And what's the best (briefest) way to word it? Oh, and just to be clear, this is an in-ground basketball hoop that costs several hundred dollars, not a toy hoop. Signed, Cranky in New England I realize this is non-wedding related, but the wedding wire community is always helpful at advice. My husband and I moved into a new house that was recently built. There is a basketball hoop placed 2 inches from our property line in front of our property where we would like to park. We live on a VERY steep slope in the back that leads to a very large creek. Before we moved in, the ball went onto our property and rolled all the way behind our house where it is very steep to climb down. The boy went down after his ball, falling numerous times, hanging onto our house for balance. This has happened a few times. It is very dangerous because of the slope. The owner of the hoop lives across the street and down a little bit. We have a small garage that we are using for storage and won't be parking in. We would like to park in front of the house where this hoop is, which we have been doing since we moved in... (continued in comments) 94 Comments
Can a basketball hoop be in the street?In some areas, a properly displayed basketball hoop on private property can still result in the rim and net overhanging the sidewalk or street. The Fire Code requires an 8 feet clearance over any street or sidewalk for vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic.
Is a basketball hoop an attractive nuisance?Types of Attractive Nuisances
Outdoor fire pits, a tree house, play sets, basketball hoops, pets, and more are all examples of attractive nuisances. If a person owns something that can entice others on to their property than they are at an increased risk for liability or damage to the home.
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How do you deal with a basketball noise?Here are some ways you can block basketball noise:. Add mass to the wall the basketball is bounced off.. Dampen the floor.. Reinforce your fence.. Reduce sound transmission through your windows.. Use a white noise machine.. |
Neighbors put basketball hoop in front of my house
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