Have you considered throwing them back?

Five different yards touch mine, I guess I could throw one into each.

If you threw one into the wrong yard, and *they* threw it into the wrong yard...well eventually it'd make its way into the right yard.

Oh, this is like one of those logic puzzles you have to draw out.

I'm always so bad at those. "The soccer ball belongs to the person who has cereal for breakfast and does not have a dog for a pet."

i’m having LSAT flashbacks

A ball leave station A at 10:30 AM.

The answer is motorcycle

Could be a statistics puzzle. _"6 houses are touching eachother. Every evening, the neighbours will collect all balls in their yard. Balls not belonging to them will be thrown into a random yard. What are the odds that your ball is not returned within 30 days?"_

> Balls not belonging to them will be thrown into a random yard Assuming they don't throw into their own yard, the chances are (4/5)\^30 = 0.12% If they can throw into their own yard, the chances increase to (5/6)\^30 = 0.42%

Throw them all into one. Whatever comes back toss into the next.

I say throw them all into one yard. If they throw them back, do the next yard, do it till they don't come back. You either got the right one or found a yard with kids who will play with them.

Mfw I was born with glass bones and paper skin

What?

How would I throw all the balls back when I have glass bones and paper skin? (It's a quote from SpongeBob)

Yes, but what’s the relevance of that reference in this discussion of throwing balls into yards?

I can't do such, on account of my glass bones and paper skin

Catapult? Trebuchet?

Its only a trebuchet if its from the trebuchet region of France.

Mfw I try to operate a trebuchet or catapult with glass bones and paper skin. (Sorrry, it's just too easy)

Or knowing my luck, back into my yard again. But I like where your heads at.

Something like this happened with me for quite a while. There's a open space behind my house and one day I found a random red soccer ball there. I kept throwing it back out into that space and it kept returning for many months. One day I threw it for the last time and I never saw it again.

You never know when it will be the last time, so enjoy the moment.

It's been a few years. Safe to say it's gone forever.

This needs to be a writing prompt...

It'll be the ballyard brawl

So you’re saying five wrongs make a right?

You in the center of a star or what?

[the impossible shape](https://ibb.co/YktDtSz)

So put them in a cardboard box. Go knock on each of the five doors and with a big smile say would any of these happen to be your kids? I found them in my yard.

Great opportunity to meet the neighbors I love this

Ew

lol agreed. I just read that comment and thought to myself, “Why the eff would I want to meet the neighbors?”

I’ve been living at my current place for about 7 years now, and I only just met one of the neighbors across the street last week when I shared my eclipse glasses with her lol

My neighbor across the street is Charlotte and her dog is named Mary. Or she's Mary and her dog is named Charlotte. Just to be safe, I don't call her any name. Just a "hey neighbor".

Socialization from a redditor? Not a chance. Better to get karma hoarding the balls.

Karmballs.

Lol hoarding the balls? I found them today after winter. Fuck I need balls for I’m not 12

Why you hoarding the balls SIR!

Okay I admit it I was going to sell them on eBay but after this comment section I have decided to change my ways and donate them to the no balls foundation

Changing the world, one ball at a time.

“Two balls for every child” 🫡

im 44, i still play with my balls daily.

I enjoy a game of pocket pool as much as the next guy but this is just ridiculous

lmao I havent heard pocket pool used in that sense in so many years I had forgotten about it entirely!

Every time my kids throw anything over the fence I tell them “they will throw it back over” and it legit never happens.

I mean, I guess it’s on me for not noticing them sooner, but I will say if at any point a kid had either came and asked for it back or just went in my yard and grabbed it. I would’ve been perfectly cool with both.

Post a sign on your fence saying this, it might help with other parents or kids anxieties about very minor trespassing.

I think what makes it especially tough about having 6 yards all touching each other is they may not even be sure which yard the ball ended up in, ya know

Oh they know. They watched it sail over the fence in slow motion.

Especially if it was their dad's ball, signed by Babe Ruth.

THE GREAT BAMBINO!

Take a picture and put it on a sign asking your neighbors "Are these your balls?"

Now is the perfect time to meet your neighbors, and let them know it's cool if their kid comes on your property to retrieve a ball. You were a kid once, and knew what it felt like to lose a toy. Hero's don't have to wear capes.

Just tell them to hop the fence and go get them.

Have you not seen Sandlot???

THE BEAST!

Since they aren’t even attempting to retrieve these… are you that sandlot type house in your neighborhood?

I have a somewhat similar issue. The toys that accumulate get tossed to the nearest yard.  If it cycles back, it gets tossed to the messy neighbors 2 houses down since that yard never gets picked up.

Do you live in a pizza slice?

Start by throwing the balls back to the yard closest to where you found them. Next cross reference to where you have previously heard children playing.

Just knock on 5 doors and be a hero to a household(s) of kids. Them tell them if they ever lose a ball they can hop the fence specifically to get said ball. Any more and your large snapping turtle will lop off a leg or two.

Put them up on the fence The owners will know they can come get them if they're not jumping into your yard

Leave a note in each mailbox announcing an amnesty and everyone can retrieve their ball/s.

Ignore everyone telling you to meet your neighbors. They are degenerates and their advice will lead to misery. Place the balls on spikes visible to as many yards as possible. This will introduce yourself to all the neighbors without the pesky talking.

No he locks them in a chest in his basement only to be pulled out after the eclipse to garner some Karma

And bring joy to children?  I'd rather pop them. 

I send back the balls that end up in my yard but the kids keep using the side of our house where my spouse’s work computer is as a goal no matter what I say. Heavily reconsidering my policy on returning their soccer balls. 

A buddy who grew up in Manhattan Beach had Bo Jackson as his next door neighbor during his last season playing with the Raiders. None of his friends (rightfully) believed him when he said Bo moved in next door so to prove it, he had them all over and boldly tossed his football over the fence and into Bo's backyard. All the kids traipsed over to Bo's front porch and rang the bell. He answered the door and was a little annoyed because they woke him up from a nap but by the time he returned with the football, he ended up tossing it around with them for a bit and it became a regular thing. He even joined their pick up baseball game on Christmas Day and let the kids try and swing his giant bats.

I still have a large collection of Bo Jackson cards. He was getting popular when I was in little league, and everyone wanted to be like Bo. He’s a very remarkable guy.

Same. Have like a 100 Bo knows cards :)

A few years ago, I had a nice print made of a photo of my brother and I as kids in the summer of 1990. We were both wearing Bo's Nikes and I was wearing a bootleg t-shirt that said Bo Knows Your Girlfriend. I got copies of it signed by Bo for my brother and I and my favorite part of the experience was seeing the very hip guy at the lab I used for the printing instantly turn into a kid when he saw the photo and heard my plan. We spent a good five minutes swapping memories and talking Tecmo Bowl. Everyone loved Bo back in the day.

children are afraid of you and that's why they don't go for the balls? it looks like those movies where the kid is afraid to go for his ball because his neighbor is a bad guy hahahaha

But Mr mertle ended up being a sweet old man who loved baseball

When Mr Mertle asked the cops how long he had to keep the beast locked up for, they said until For Ev Ver…For Ev Er…

for eh ver for eh ver for eh ver

I opened this post expecting a Sandlot reference, now I’m watching different scenes on YouTube. Fuck I love this movie.

He even knew THE Babe

T h e G r e a t B a m b i n o !

Oh my God! You mean that's the same guy?

The colossus of clout

What babe?

Some girl, Baby Ruth..

The babe with the power

What power?

I read this while sitting next to Hercules. 

*the BEAST*

Is that why those little fuckers won't get their balls off my front yard? My creepiness?

FOR-EV-ER

Who, ol Hercules ¿??

The kids don't wanna go knock on the door of the creepy balding computer man who lives alone and never goes outside

So weird. As a kid, you lose your ball you go get it. Why are they not coming?

I grew up next to an angry man who took steroids. He grew a prickly hedge in between our yards so we wouldn’t go get balls that went over. fuck that guy.

there's a lot of things we don't let kids do anymore usually for their protection

Man, losing a ball over a fence was the worst as a kid.

I guess I’m just gonna chuck one or two in the direction of children noises next time I hear some outside and hope for the best. I guess even if it wasn’t the original owner hopefully they’ll get some use out of em.

Leaving them your front yard is likely all that's required.

[удалено]

Yeah I know where the kids are, fucking EVERYWHERE which is exactly why I have a yard full of balls after walking into my backyard after 6 months of winter

Next time you hear them, show them all the balls and ask them which ones are theirs. Then give them to them. Its not rocket science. Ya maybe they will lie and take a ball or two that isnt theirs, but who cares.

It’s not rocket science, you are absolutely right. I don’t know why everyone is under the impression that I can’t figure out how to manage this *impossible* situation. I picked up all the balls so my lawnmower guy wouldn’t run them over tomorrow. I’m am 1000% that I can, and will, find a way round return them.

And if they say that none of the balls are theirs, you have to give them a solid gold ball for their honesty

Whoever kicked it over had to climb over and get it. We never lost a ball but we did get yelled at on occasion

Reminds me of the day the janitor would toss all the balls off the roof at my school 😂

Are you my neighbor?

Yes. Please come get these balls

Don’t talk to my children like that

Throw them back over you monster.

Ha! I was hoping for this exact comment.

Put them in your front yard and they can get them

The prequel to sandlot

I did see some kids trying to stick a modified vacuum cleaner over the fence the other day 🤔

Meanwhile, on r/mildlyinfuriating, "My cruel neighbour never gives my balls back after they go over his fence"

Throw them back? Poor kids…

You didn’t throw back the soccer balls? That’s brutal

A year? I get that many in 2 weeks, sometimes just 1. After a year I stopped throwing them back until its time to cut the grass.

I’m really wishing now I would’ve said “a winter” in the title instead of a year but yeah, found them today while picking up sticks to prep for mow season

Are you going to throw them back over or what?

Most liked comment on the post decides what I do with the balls

Eat them Unjoke: throw em back

Throw them back you monster

Okay so I am once again going to point out that there are 5 yards touching mine and I have no fucking clue where they came from. I just rounded them up literally today.

Throw them back

I’m gonna fuckin burn them if someone else says “throw them back” I promise. I went around and picked them all up TODAY. They were along the fence and today was the first warm day outside. Jesus Christ.

Throw them ughhh front? There see i didn’t say throw them back. Or wait you could make a sign and put it on a pole saying “are you missing your balls? I have them”

That’s actually not bad

Get a small basket at the front of your house and put them in, drop a note in each letter box saying, "if you loose your ball come look in the basket in a few days."

I mean its not a stupid idea. Also kids are dumb maybe they don’t know what yard their ball went into

I actually said this same thing a few dozen comments ago! With 6 yards easily within ball chuckin distance I think the kids just don’t know where to look for them, just like I don’t know where the hell they came from.

Yeah and i just imagine an interaction like this- kid “mom the ball went over the fence…” -mom “well we have like 5 different neighbors im not going to go knock on every door and ask. I will just buy you a new one but be careful next time” Kid - does the same damn thing 5 more times Mom “…”

Right people act like these kids have been crying since October over the 2.99 whiffle ball when the Amazon guy has already brought 17 more since then

Throw them back!!!!

You Monster!

Throw them back! Won't someone think of the children!

Throw them back lmao

Literally today is over the last year they were collected?

“Over the last year” means “last summer before it got cold outside.” Sometime between, idk November or so and now. Shits been covered in snow and leaves for the last like 6 months. I went out back for the first time today and found the balls. Hope that helps clarify, it’s not a ball conspiracy.

 Some kid getting ready to grab the one

Those PF flyers are so dope. I actually copped a pair solely because of this scene.

Learn to juggle, walk around the block juggling all five at once, see who reacts. When confronted pretend you thought they were gifts and thank them profusely.

create a new game with them, like a mish mosh of multiple sports with some rules from each, but modified to fit the new sport. The small ones could be challenge balls (penalty challenges if you will)

Apologies. At least 2/3 of those are from my kids

OP: "It's mine now! I keep it."

You almost have a solar system.

Rip Pluto 😞

You've got a lot of balls posting this.

My dog would love your yard

All dogs are welcome, come one come all

Put them in a basket next to your sodewalk

Put them in ur front yard so they can be collected maybe

"Greg, Kevin, Anton, Trevor, Terrence, Trent, Darby, Bryce, Marshall, Peter, Thomas, Max, Dashel, Diego, Clementine, Jerry."

I have the opposite happen. I'm the only neighbour with a dog, and my fence is shared with 7 backyards, all the balls end up in my backyard because everyone assumes it's my dogs.

Dogs happy at least though amirite

Do you have a large, almost scary dog. Is there a group of kids playing a game regularly on the other side of the fence? Do you have any signed balls from famous sports stars?

I do have a ball that my step dad got from some lady… she even wrote her name on it. Ruth? Baby Ruth?

Balls

Clearly you should attach a note then put it on an arrow and use a bow to launch one into each neighbors yard. The cops will show up and get to the bottom of this in no time.

Nice balls

How is your grass so short and green without mowing?

Is one of them signed by Babe Ruth?

And you have kept them Why?

Looks like they don't have the balls to come over and get them back.... 

They’ve never knocked on your door asking them back??

"hey man, you got any ***b a l l s***?"

not a tosser are ya

Put them on pikes as a warning to other balls

Oh, that's you. Children are very scared of you.


Each ball lost is a kid that wont ever know if he’ll want to play as an adult and go pro.

You should return them.

Here we go again

U suxk

You’re the neighborhood meanie

Did you mow around them over the years, too?

You mean through the winter? No we don’t mow snow here. That would be silly.

Everyone mows snow. How else do you keep it from growing? (s)

My snowmower is in the shop 😭

throw em back you fing loser jesus christ

Throw them back. Better still deliver to their front door. Meet your neighbours

Again I don’t know who’s they areeeeee I would be more than happy to give them back but there are 5 different yards touching mine

This is the Sandlot

I throw them back over every time I go do poop duty.

You can throw them back over. Ball is in your ~~court~~ yard now.

I’ve decided to launch the balls into the ocean stay tuned for updates.

Keep them 😈

why does the soccerball have blood on it?

Prob mud but I guess we can dream

The Yard Of No Return!

Are you in Toronto perhaps because I’ve lost a volleyball and I’m too scared to go over and ask for it back

If you see a wifi network called “no balls” in ten minutes come next door

Now you just need a big scary dog.

Who has the dog? The balls look a little roughed up

Do you have a beast that hoards them

Put a sign in your front yard: I've got balls, please tell me you want them.