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Article Couple Take Legal Action After Neighbours Kids Lose Too Many Balls Over Their Fence

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A couple in Perth’s southern suburbs has launched legal action against their neighbours, claiming their kids are too playful.

They claim that they are sick of picking up balls, kicked over the fence, but lawyers say its a waste of the court’s time.

In the writ tendered to court, the couple claimed ‘private nuisance’, claiming the three children are bothersome, reports Daily Mail.

They said the children, or friends of the children regularly kicked balls over the fence into their property which had ‘ruined’ their enjoyment of their home.

The couple provided photographic evidence of the offending balls in their yard from February 2016 to January 2019, and said the parents were aware of the incidents.

They allegedly raised concerns with the family in 2015, a year after they moved in to their home.

The couple claim the neighbours have caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to their $1.4million home in Bicton, in Perth.

They are also claiming that the family built a children’s cubbyhouse and shower attached to a brick wall that is solely on their property, and argued a below-ground pool which was installed created a vertical crack in their timber-slat fence.

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  • Unless the law has been changed you didn’t have to throw balls back. We had an issue of kids deliberately throwing balls on our carport roof. I got several off our roof one night alone. I gave up counting after 1 hour. They admitted they were doing it deliberately doing it after I went in and talked to their Dad. Having seen their Dad walking around on their roof there was no way my Mum was going to let him on here. We went and sought advice from the Police whether we could be sued if one of them was injured getting balls down. We were told under no circumstances to let them get up a ladder on Mum’s property but if we had to go up there for any other reason the neighbourly thing was to throw them back. Due to an eye injury from a wet ball which almost caused blindness and a week in hospital that cricket balls would not be returned. They had already been spoken to about that and it had agreed on so when one of them was found they were not given that one back. They were also warned about golf balls. They were given their balls when the gutters were cleaned.

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  • If there is damage involved then they have a right to seek compensation.

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