My entitled neighbor freaks out on me after I fuss at his kid for literally breaking into my back garden. Things got so bad that this guy threatened to call the police on me saying that I mistreated his kid and that he was allowed to break into my backyard. And I'm honestly still pissed off about this situation because right now I really don't know what to do. Here's what happened. Okay, for a bit of context, I have four chickens who live in a cozy coop at the end of my back garden. One of them by the name of whiskey, has survived a fox attack, is eight years old, and is still laying eggs. And we affectionately refer to her as our guard chicken or the snitch because she will scream for us if any intruders, usually squirrels, enter our yard, or any other chickens escape. It was a nice sunny Sunday morning, and I had my friends over for brunch when I heard whiskey screaming. And when I looked out the window, I see the neighbor's kid crouched down next to my chicken coop. So I shout out to him, hey, what are you doing? The kid then responds back by saying, I'm just getting my ball back. And I look and see that he's holding two balls. I then looked at

him and I said, well, get out of my garden. The kid responds by saying, that's not very nice. But I say back to him, well, it's not very nice to break into other people's gardens. At this point, he climbs back into his garden through a gap in the fence at the very back of the garden. Meanwhile, I've gone to knock on their front door to speak to their parents, assuming that they must not know what was happening.

So I go up to their door and I say, Hi, did you know your son was breaking into our garden? Now, right off the rip, the dad immediately started yelling. He says to me, is it okay what you said to my son? But I responded back by saying what, telling him that he can't break into our property. The entitled dad then said, he's just a kid. It's okay for him to do that. But I told him, no, he's legally not allowed to do that. I don't want some random kid messing around with my chickens. The dad then said, you threaten my kid. You swore him. But I responded by saying, I never threatened him, and I just wanted him off my property. But the dad doubled down and said, it's fine for kids to do that. You know what? I don't have to listen to this. He then goes to slam the door in my face, but stops when I step forward onto their doorstep, but not into their house. I then say to him, well, how would you like it if I broke into your garden? The dad then says again, they're just kids and that it's okay. He then said that I was threatening them and then he said, call the police. At this point, my unfortunate tendency to cry when I'm angry started to get the better of me. So I stepped back and I yelled that I wanted to speak to the police because actually I had done nothing wrong. Then I went back into my house. I did end up calling the non-emergency line and the operator I spoke to reassured me that

they were definitely not entitled to break in whether they were kids or not. And even if I swore at them,

I had not broken any laws. So now we have to fix the fence gap and hope that the unhinged adult

man living next door who thinks that it's perfectly fine to wander onto people's yards

without permission doesn't decide to do that again himself. I'm starting to doubt that this was the first time the kids had broken in, as whiskey had been screaming all day Saturday, but I really couldn't see anything when I checked. So seriously, am I in the wrong in this situation? Because right now, I'm still incredibly upset. No, you are definitely not in the wrong. This is so stupid. That dad is like desperate to try and find some kind of justification for his stupid kid breaking into your property. And I think you have it right. I don't think this is the first time they've done that. And I don't think it would be the last unless you did something about it. People like this, specifically the dad, who encouraged this kind of crappy behavior, in my opinion, have no business

being parents. He literally tried to be like, oh yeah, this is fine. Kids do this all the time. And it's like, wait a second, I remember being a kid. And if I drop something in my neighbor's backyard, I'm not about to like break into that property to get it. I'm going to knock on the front door and be like, hey, can I get my ball in your backyard? And then either they get it or I get it. You don't rip a hole in the fence and climb through and get it yourself, because I guarantee

you that dumb kid was probably just trying to mess with those chickens. He probably didn't even care about the ball. And most likely used that as an excuse to get what he wanted. So yeah, this whole situation is really dumb and I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Because this entitled jerk is absolutely at fault. If you like Am I the Jerk, you're probably going to love Am I the Genius. Check it out,

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to submit your own stories. Am I the jerk for kicking out a couple who brought their baby and toddler

to my wedding even though I explained to them that my wedding was a child-free event? Because now the entire family's talking about it, and I don't know what to do. Here's what happened. Okay, so this is a couple I'm not very close with, but the wife has a longtime family friend, so I felt that I should invite her. To be perfectly clear, all of my invitations stated that there were to be no children at this wedding,

but she and her husband, friend. So I felt that I should invite her. To be perfectly clear, all of my invitations stated that

there were to be no children at this wedding, but she and her husband showed up with their infant and

toddler, who I think is like maybe four years old. At the actual wedding ceremony, I let it slide. I was

preoccupied for obvious reasons. I also thought that maybe they plan not to attend the reception

or to have someone pick the kids up before it started.

Anyways, the reception rolls around and lo and behold, they still have their children.

I had many other guests and I didn't really feel like dealing with it.

So I asked our event planner to go over to them and discuss whether someone was picking up the

child as the reception was not supposed to have children.

I mean, everyone was drinking and loud and rowdy and a crying child and another little one running around was not part of the plan. The infant already had to be taken out once during the wedding ceremony because of fuzziness, and the toddler was, from what I could see, already appearing cranky. So my event planner went to talk to the couple, though I could tell they were arguing with my event

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