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Anonymous wrote:If it’s on their own property, it’s not illegal. If it’s not, that’s illegal and you have the right to complain. You can report it to the city.
Is the space on the street in front of your house considered your property?
No. This thread is full of a bunch of entitled AHs who complain about kids playing outside in “their” beloved extra parking spot one minute and then probably turn around and complain about excessive screen time for kids and “why don’t kids play outside anymore?” the next minute.
Entitled a-holes like…the kind of person who would put up a basketball hoop in front of their neighbor’s house instead of their own?
The neighbor doesn’t own the street, even if it is *gasp* in front of their house!
No normal person would put it somewhere other than in front of their own house, unless they were an entitled a-hole
Exactly, it is a nuisance to others when it's in front of someone else's house.
Americans hate children, the outdoors, and physical activity. All are considered to be a nuisance.
NP. I love all three of those things, but in my neighborhood, we have tons of basketball hoops, but you rarely see anyone using them. Maybe for a bit when it’s brand new, but eventually the novelty wears off and it just sits there for years.
Do you have cameras trained on the hoops? Do you sit in your living room staring out your front window intently watching these hoops all day? I rarely see my neighbors drive their cars, but that doesn’t mean they rarely drive them, and it certainly doesn’t mean I’m going to try to get their cars towed.
You don't need to look out the window -- bouncing basketballs are very, very loud.
You didn’t say you rarely hear anyone using them, you said you rarely see anyone using them… maybe they are being considerate and using those new fangled extra bouncy foam basketballs.
My neighbor owns an EV. I never hear him use it. I guess that means it’s abandoned.
NP. Oh shit you totally schooled PP! If she said see instead of hear that totally negates the fact that every neighbor can hear every single time anyone is playing basketball right outside
The poster was stating what she believes to be true, presumably because she wants it to be true (that the basketball hoops are rarely used). The poster was not stating what she knows to be true, because as she demonstrated with just the tiniest push back against her assertion, she does not know that the hoops are rarely used. Unless she’s actively monitoring these hoops all day for days on end, she has no clue. (i.e. the “hoops are rarely used” poster was talking out of her a$$)
Hope this helps!
Everyone anywhere nearby knows when someone is playing basketball. You conceded this when you said the kids must be using new-fangled foam balls, because even you know normal bballs make a ton of noise. Anyone who works from home is well aware of any basketball happening on their block.
Unless the kids are using the new fangled foam balls, as you just mentioned. I don’t understand why this is so difficult for you.
But this argument is also funny because you are essentially complaining that the hoops are unused and so shouldn’t be there because they are a nuisance, even though by your own admission you never hear or see anyone using them… so is the lack of noise the nuisance? They’re taking up valuable real estate where a car could be idling?
If no one has seen or heard the hoop being used in a very long time, why should it remain? Especially in front of someone else’s house
OP here. It does get used. And I know this because I can hear it. But often not by the kids of the family that put it there. And not by the kids in the house they put it in front of either.
No where have you mentioned talking to the neighbor whose house it is in front of. So it’s very likely the hoop owners asked the hoop hosters if they could place the hoop in front of their house — I’m assuming there is some difference in grade or traffic flow or whatnot thst makes sense. You have no idea, just upset that a hoop is on the street.
It’s getting used, apparently by the whole community (which is often the intent) which is nice for some people, clearly not for you. Do you have kids?
The reason it’s on the street is two fold — you said there is limited parking, which means the owners likely want to keep their drive way free to park because the street can be limited. The basketball does consume some parking space area but much less than a car so may not really impact capacity greatly but if the street is always full, you might get the county to move it. Just take regular photos.
But they put it on public land for the public to use, so you really need to show harm to community.
Is this Lyon Village? What else has such limited parking with SFH?
But you are unlikely to prevail here, these are all over Arlington and this one gets used.