{"id":191720,"date":"2025-10-05T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191720\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:54:10","slug":"his-neighbor-let-his-kids-basketball-hoop-drift-into-his-driveway-every-morning-but-when-he-drew-a-chalk-line-to-keep-it-out-it-sparked-a-petty-squabble-that-solved-nothing-twistedsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/191720\/","title":{"rendered":"His Neighbor Let His Kids\u2019 Basketball Hoop Drift Into His Driveway Every Morning, But When He Drew A Chalk Line To Keep It Out, It Sparked A Petty Squabble That Solved Nothing \u00bb TwistedSifter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"basketball<\/p>\n

Pexels\/Reddit<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to tell when someone values convenience over courtesy.<\/p>\n

For one homeowner, the proof came every morning at 5 a.m. when he had to move his neighbor\u2019s rolling basketball hoop<\/a> just to leave for work.<\/p>\n

And when the neighbor refused to do anything about it, that small daily struggle turned into a much bigger fight.<\/p>\n

Read on for the full story.<\/p>\n

I live on a slight hill in a quiet cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n

My neighbor keeps a portable basketball hoop near the curb by our shared boundary.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s starting to impact this homeowner\u2019s daily routine.<\/p>\n

Overnight the base creeps downhill and ends up straddling my driveway apron. More than once I had to stop in the dark before work and move it just to get out.<\/p>\n

No damage has happened, but it feels unsafe and irritating at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n

The neighbor was immediately dismissive of his concerns.<\/p>\n

I politely asked them several times to weigh the base or park it fully on their side. They said it was for the neighborhood kids and promised to refill the base.<\/p>\n

Nothing changed over the next few weeks despite the conversations.<\/p>\n

So the homeowner decided to do something about it himself.<\/p>\n

I decided to try a simple visual fix that would not cost anyone money.<\/p>\n

I measured our property line and drew a thin chalk mark across the apron with a small \u201ckeep clear\u201d note. When the hoop drifted over the line, I would gently roll it back a couple of feet. I did not lock it, tip it, hide it, or block anyone from playing.<\/p>\n

But the neighbor wasn\u2019t a fan.<\/p>\n

Neighbor doesn\u2019t seem happy about it and accused me of being petty and territorial.<\/p>\n

The apron is my driveway. I just only want to avoid being trapped before dawn.<\/p>\n

Yet the neighbor refuses to collaborate on any kind of solution.<\/p>\n

I even offered to buy a sandbag or wheel chock to keep the base in place.<\/p>\n

They refused the offer and IDK why, but it is the best thing we can do to have a win-win situation.<\/p>\n

I get that seeing a line can feel fussy and that kids might feel watched.<\/p>\n

AITA?<\/p>\n

Sounds like he gave this neighbor every opportunity to compromise, and when he wouldn\u2019t, he had to take matters into his own hands.<\/p>\n

What did Reddit think?<\/p>\n

If anything, this homeowner handled the intrusion better than many others would have.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

For many people, it\u2019s out of sight, out of mind. So you just have to find a way to put the issue in their sight.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

If it were up to this commenter, they would do this.<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

Why not just claim the basketball hoop as their own at this point?<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

Some neighbors just never learn the error of their ways.<\/p>\n

Apparently respecting his driveway was too much to ask.<\/p>\n

If you thought that was an interesting story, check this one out about a man who created a points system for his inheritance, and a family friend ends up getting almost all of it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pexels\/Reddit It\u2019s not hard to tell when someone values convenience over courtesy. For one homeowner, the proof came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[37776,64,63,121355,726,121356,121357,20246,2579,121358,85,116361,4048],"class_list":{"0":"post-191720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-aita","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-bad-neighbors","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-basketball-hoop","14":"tag-boundaries","15":"tag-picture","16":"tag-reddit","17":"tag-rude-people","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-suburbia","20":"tag-top"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}