A woman has been praised for reporting her neighbour’s family to the police after they tried to swim in her private pool – but her neighbour believes she should learn to share
A woman has been blasted for landing her neighbour’s family a criminal record – but she claims they deserve the mark against their names. She explained how she has a private swimming pool in her garden and makes sure to protect it from wild animals and trespassers by installing signs, fences and covers.
Despite this, she caught some ‘strange figures’ trying to break into her property while she was away on holiday, prompting her to call the police. The anonymous woman said on Reddit: “The front of my driveway has a sign that reads Private Property No Trespassing as you pull up to the driveway.
“I have a fence up around my pool to keep out unwanted animals and intruders with only way in is a key to unlock the gate. I have security cameras on certain places of the house pointing to the pool.”
While on holiday, she received an alert on her phone from her security system informing her about suspicious activity.
“I checked to see the live footage, it was three teens that were in early teens and one adult trying to climb the fence to my pool.
“I have a tarp over my pool at all times which can only be removed from a switch in my house, you’d think they’d see the tarp and leave. I immediately called the police and they told me they’d take care of it.”
However, they continued to try to climb the fence but were arrested before making it into the pool.
“The day I get home my neighbour who must’ve been watching for my car storms over and starts screaming at me, “My sister and her kids are going to have a criminal record now because of you!”
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“I said, ‘So that’s who my cameras detected. You should know my sign in front of my house says private property no trespassing!'”
The angry neighbour ‘promised’ to see her in court, where she expected to be let off.
She said: “The sister of the neighbour plead in court it was a hot summer day and they wanted to cool down so her sister insisted that they go use my pool but to ignore the sign that said private property because her sister and I are good friends.
“My neighbour and I are not good friends. I explained to the judges I did not give consent for neighbour to use my pool while I was gone.
“The judges saw all the evidence needed especially of the sign in my driveway saying no trespassing and found the neighbour and her sister guilty of second degree trespassing which in my state carries the punishment of $200 fine and twenty days in jail.”
She says the judge found the two nephews and niece guilty as well and her lawyer put in for a restraining order.
She added: “The teens lawyer tried to explain the teens didn’t know about the sign in my driveway but the judge dismissed that because they willingly listened to their mother and aunt it was ok to trespass.”
Commenting on her post, one user said: “Imagine trespassing then suing the person you trespassed on. Olympic level delusion.”
Another user added: “Love the neighbour blaming you for her family’s records, when it was in fact she that prompted all this.” A third user said: “I’d inform the whole neighbourhood about this.”
