Homeowner starts confiscating stray pickleballs after players trespass from neighbor's $18,500 court, getts billed $184: ‘My basil bed was flattened’

A few stray pickleballs sparked a $184 neighborhood showdown.There's nothing worse than a bad neighbor who built a whole pickleball court in his backyard and hosts a tournament every weekend. As we can all imagine, the people who live next to him are not going to be happy with this, not only for the sound and the people cheering, but also because of the balls that trespass their fences and land in their yards… or their vegetable gardens.In this case, the user u/Educational_Sink8355 shared the awkward situation with his wealthy next-door neighbor and those crazy balls. At first, the players decided to climb over the fence and pick the ball back up. This caused his vegetable garden to be stepped all over, and he realized most of his crops were flattened. He told his neighbor that this should stop, and if they knocked on the door, he would give the balls back.There was a little gate next to it, and people started to open that door to get those balls, but they didn't latch it properly, and his dog escaped… things couldn't get worse, but they did. The dog got his paw hurt, and the vet bill ended up being $300! He was so furious that he decided to start collecting every single ball and …

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