I hate the people who live on the street behind me. We own a double lot, so our backyard is huge and goes clear back to the street behind us. Every kid in the neighborhood thinks it's just an empty field and they all play football, baseball, etc., back there. I do not mind that one bit. However, when my own children go back there today play, sometimes there are obnoxious kids back there all over our swing set and eagle's nest. That's the part I don't like. I also don't like EVERYONE walking their dog OUT of their yard and INTO my backyard (aka the empty field) to take a shit. I have watched it from my windows dozens of times. I have decided that from this point forward, any person I see bringing their dog to MY yard to shit is quite rightly going to be eating that same shit within minutes. Anyway, long story short, the neighbors behind us have a 7-year-old bratty, no wait, a DOUBLE BRATTY, kid who is constantly in my backyard and he picks fights and spits on whoever he can back there, including my kids. My 13-year-old son and about five friends went back there to start a game of football the other day and their bratty kid comes up and starts running through their game and spitting and cussing, etc. All the while, his PIG of a mother is sitting on her front porch watching. My son yelled at him to get away and get out of the yard. His mother comes up, yells at my kid that "he's only seven, leave him alone." I wasn't home at the time it happened. I have had a confrontation with her before when I went into my backyard and told her son to leave because he was fighting and spitting. He just told me, "this isn't your yard" and his mother walked up. I told her I have been watching him attack another kid and that there is no fighting allowed in my yard. She told me that she told her son to go up and kick the other kid's ass because they have been having trouble at school and thatI didn't know the whole story. I said that I didn't know about that and that I didn't care about that, but there was no fighting OR cussing in my yard. Everytime I see him back there, I open my sliding door and tell him to get out. He leaves, but then is back minutes later with his PIG mom sitting on the porch just waiting......

They are trashy, and they would gladly welcome a fist fight, I think.... I have no interest in losing any teeth or hair, but at this point, I have no idea what to do. And, to make matters worse, the dad is every bit of 6'5" and resembles Mr. Clean. While my husband is not a "nancy-boy" and could hold his own, I still don't want to see any part of a fight with a man that size... (secretly, I think I could clean the floor with the wife, ha ha ). We would love to put up a privacy fence, but at an expense of around $6,000. I certainly don't have an extra 6K lying around. What do I do short of a fence? If I put "private property, keep off" signs out there, they will no doubt rip them out, plus I don't want to become the "mean lady" in the brick house.....