#DamageMyFenceWillYou? 😡 Don’t be a victim of reckless drivers damaging your property and demanding compensation. Learn how to protect your fence and your rights with this informative guide.
## The Cul-de-sac Conundrum
Living on a cul-de-sac can have its challenges, especially when there’s a primary school nearby. With limited space for cars to pass and parents rushing to drop off or pick up their kids, it’s no surprise that accidents can happen. But what can you do when your fence becomes the victim of careless drivers?
### The Problem Fence
Picture this: a garden fence running along your property boundary, right next to a narrow path. Sounds vulnerable, right? That’s exactly the situation our neighbor found himself in. Repeatedly, parents dropping off or picking up their kids from the school would reverse into the fence post, causing damage and leaving him with the repair bill.
### The Iron Solution
After countless incidents of his fence being damaged, our neighbor decided enough was enough. Instead of continually replacing wooden posts, he opted for a more durable solution – an iron ‘I’ beam. Not only did this prevent further damage to his fence, but it also sent a clear message to reckless drivers that their actions would not be tolerated.
### The Tables Turn
With the new iron beam in place, it didn’t take long for the next careless driver to come along. This time, however, the outcome was very different. Instead of the neighbor being on the receiving end of demands for compensation, it was the driver who found themselves with a damaged car and a hefty repair bill. The tables had turned, and justice was served.
## Your Rights as a Property Owner
When it comes to protecting your property from damage caused by others, it’s essential to know your rights. Here are some key points to keep in mind:
1. **Property Boundaries**: Make sure you clearly mark your property boundaries to prevent any confusion or disputes over who is responsible for damage.
2. **Legal Recourse**: If someone damages your property, whether intentional or accidental, you have the right to seek compensation for the cost of repairs.
3. **Preventative Measures**: Taking proactive steps, such as installing a more robust fence or adding warning signs, can help deter careless drivers and protect your property.
4. **Documentation**: Keep records of any damage caused to your property, including photographs, witness statements, and repair estimates, to support your claim for compensation.
## Conclusion
Don’t let reckless drivers damage your property and get away with it. By taking proactive steps to protect your fence and knowing your rights as a property owner, you can prevent costly repairs and hold those responsible accountable for their actions. Remember, a sturdy fence and a clear message to drivers can go a long way in safeguarding your property and maintaining peace in your neighborhood. #ProtectYourFence #PropertyRights #DriveSafe. For more tips on property protection and legal rights, visit our website today.
Absolutely love this. They now hit themselves where it hurts.
Wow. They damaged his property and demand compensation from him. Justice
I guy I knew got drunk and thought it was fun to hit mail boxes. The third one totaled his car. Oh how we laughed at him.
Your description of the road and layout confused the heck out of me and I almost didn’t continue reading.
The end part was a winner though 😉
I got halfway through the story and was hoping for a resolution like this. Very satisfying.
He should also have gone down to the beam, noticed any damage, then asked for proof of insurance so he could make a claim against them.
Unfortunately, many parents disrespect homes that are near their schools.
People are unable to move their cars to or from their own driveway due to entitled parents’ self-belief that as they will only be a few minutes so it will be no problem to the house occupier.
This is a twist on the self entitled parents who because their are many of them they are convincing themselves that they are in the right.
I love the story, and it made me laugh.
We live on a highway in the woods in the middle of nowhere. Cars used to like to drive off the road & try to run over the little US flags I stuck in the ground *between the huge trees bordering the road*. Big, solid trees. Pretty close together, too.
We were sitting on the front porch with family when someone missed the flags but managed to sideswipe a couple of trees & lose a hubcap, which flew all the way up to the porch.
The sheriff gave him a ticket & kept his hubcap! Hahaha 😂
Wow when I was in school if you lived within a mile of the school the bus wouldn’t pick you up so we walked to and from school until we went to High School (which was several miles away).
Good for him. I can’t believe people actually demanded compensation!
I’ve heard similar stories of country roads where kids would drive past mailboxes and either hit them with baseball bats, or sideswipe them with trucks to break them, just for shits and giggles.
Then the wood post gets replaced by a very big metal/iron post and painted to match.
Some teens tried it again with terrible results. Either the bat bouncing right back into their own faces, or your arms not feeling great after or absolutely demolishing that part of the truck etc.
Serves them right!
He should have gotten a stamp with a car on it, and added one to the front porch every time someone hit it. Driver comes to complain, “Thanks, I made ace!”
Do you really say “were” which rhymes with Sir, as opposed to “where” which rhymes with Square, and has a distinctive ***H*** sound at the beginning?
Neighbor would always get upset because people would do a 3 point turnaround going up his driveway while running over his grass. He finally got fed up and put some big boulders on the side of his driveway. Within the first week a vehicle got hung up on the rock. Person wanted compensation he just laughed in her face. When there was a few inches of snow fall they would get covered and you wouldn’t know they were there. The neighbor would call me over and point out the tire marks and say got another one. He had such an evil laugh. Neighbors would comment, “ I heard Ernie’s rocks 🪨 got another one. “
When I moved into my house over 25 years ago, we put in a new fence. We live on an alley that runs alongside and behind my house. Less than a year later, a garbage truck had hit the back corner of the fence numerous times.
I rehired the fencing company to fix the corner post. I had them put in a cast iron post buried as deep as they get it (they got it 4 feet deep). Once installed, I had them fill it with concrete.
3 weeks after the work was done, a garbage truck hit it. Hit it so hard it rendered their truck undrivable. My post remained unmoved.
Never a problem since.
Oh, and I sent a bill to the garage company for the damage.
I had a similar problem at a bar I used to own. There was a 4” steel pipe that protected the corner of the building that cars cutting the corner too sharp would hit. After multiple repairs I decided to replace it with a 6” round 1”thick pipe I dug out of a junk yard it had a few bolts that I cut off but left about 1/2 inch sticking out about 2 feet off the ground. The next few cars that cut that corner too sharp had the side of the car peeled open like a banana. Everybody would come outside when it happened and have a good laugh and snap pictures of the peeled open vehicle.
We lived across the street from a school (ugh) and had a chainlink fence. In the 3 years that we lived there, the chainlink had been knocked down 5x.🤬
100mm and 4″ in same post! Brit?
People would block my driveway making me unable to get into or out of my drive. Sit there until I laid on the horn as long as I could before they would get the hint and move. Same car. Had the nerve to get upset with me for trying to get into my drive way. Elementary school got out nearly the same time as high school. I had to pick up my elementary school kid. I lived by the hs. Never again will I live by any school.
Thanks for sharing. This is a very solid post.
Why on earth were they driving so violently at an area where *kids* are coming and going?
Shoulda asked for their information and insurance, then filed a report against them with it demanding compensation for the property they backed into
As an elementary teacher I was a crossing guard one day a week. My job was to stop parents from exiting the drive thru pick up/drop off, to allow walking students and/or parents to cross. I had one very entitled mom who felt if she was walking she shouldn’t need to stop. She expected to cross immediately! Plus, if she was in the drive thru she expected to be given immediate right-of-way!
Well played by your neighbor. It just blows my mind that someone could choose to damage to someone else’s property and then seek compensation when they mess up their own property.
Oh those people are the worst!
Hahaha great.
My grandmas old house the people across the road would back out of their driveway and always hit and push the snow piles back into her driveway and never would shovel it back out. So we filled the recycle box with water and dumped it into the snow pile so they cracked the rear bumper of their car and SUV slamming into a 3ft ice block.
Ah, nothing better than word of mouth!
Some guy my dad worked with used to have his garbage cans run over by some teenager who lived on the street. I think after like the fourth or fifth time of him doing this he got fed up and filled the garbage bins with bricks.
Kid totalled his car. Kids dad came over to start shit, but got told what his kid was doing and it’s not illegal to throw away bricks.