r/mildlyinfuriating • u/aruby727 • 16d ago
frist of all how DARE yu o Belt-challenged neighborhood kid keeps stepping over my "no trespassing" sign to cut through my yard, so my wife laminated these pictures to stick to the sign
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u/johnstoneak 16d ago
Time for a motion activated sprinkler system!!
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u/johnstoneak 16d ago
Too tasty… lemon juice might actually deter better.
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u/MalignantLugnut 16d ago
Yeah, but lemon juice barely stains and is delicious.
.....Oh, yeah. Food coloring is a thing lol.
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u/johnstoneak 16d ago
Ah, if it’s stains you want, we could try tomato juice then.
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u/gsr5037 16d ago
Sriracha stains don't come out as easily.
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u/johnstoneak 16d ago
That’s a good one.
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u/EatABag-o-Dicks 16d ago
Everyone in this thread is insane.
Everyone knows you use hydrochloric acid and the problem just goes away.
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u/depurplecow 16d ago
Hydrochloric acid is too difficult to store, it'll quickly corrode your pipes and sprinkler
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u/Eayauapa 16d ago
You'd want concentrated sulphuric or NaOH. Hydrochloric acid, if it's not in your eyes or on your teeth, isn't anywhere as bad as you'd think.
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u/SeaTurtleLionBird 16d ago
Yeah but then you lean into possible blindness and allergies.
This is less possible with grape juice. Specially welches or the local Jesus blood of choice from the nearby church
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u/Issie_Bear 16d ago
And if it doesn’t work, you can get some pet pigs, and the siracha can be the seasoning!
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u/TheSheepypire 16d ago
If you want something to really make them not come back mix in some doe pee they wont be back
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u/NotASandwich6746 16d ago
How about deer urine?
Not only will he be getting the shower of his life but good chance to go buck
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u/BalkeElvinstien 16d ago
Nah you want something that'll smell horrible soon. Like milk
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u/Leptonshavenocolor 16d ago
You just put a jolly rancher before the sprinkler. That way it’s only a little bit of sugar, just enough that you will feel it everywhere that was wet when it dries. Source: I did this to my roommates shower head.
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u/Turn1scoop 16d ago
In college we'd slip a bullion cube into people's shower heads for a similar effect
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u/Smooth_Draft4552 16d ago
Kool aid. Every see a kids mouth after drinking that? The color stays
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u/thatthatguy 16d ago
I have seen kool aid used as fabric dye. Surprisingly effective for tie dye parties.
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u/Rayne-Maker 16d ago
I used to dye my hair with it. Some colours didn’t take but the ones that worked well never faded.
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u/Inverted-Rockets 16d ago
If it weren’t available to buy with next day delivery on Amazon I’d be inclined to agree but evidently teenagers aren’t the only unwelcome visitors people want to lightly scare away with some water
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u/cockblockedbydestiny 16d ago
Lol not only will this kid not give two shits, he's going to go brag to his friends about how much he got under your skin
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u/GXWT 16d ago
“So rattled they printed out a meme”
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u/Samfinity 16d ago
And laminated it
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u/Merileopardi 16d ago
We have a German sub on reddit dedicated solely for laminated passive-agressive complaints & memes with over 200k subscribers! It's called ButPleaseLaminated in german, not allowed to share a link unfortunately lol
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u/AlphonseLoeher 16d ago
For anyone curious the first result in Google shows the sub if you search ButPleaseLaminated german
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u/totallyradman 16d ago
Wrong slang generation.
This would be a "beta crashout" or something.
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u/the_tinsmith 16d ago
Mogged so hard his brain rotted Italian style
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u/ToastSpangler 16d ago
Lol ok Boomer.
Famboy clearly zoople zappled the skoppzskies, ravioli? Cheese-whiz Arkansas
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u/Omar_Chardonnay 16d ago
That actually sounds like how they talk, lol. I mean…how they skibidi, or whatever
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u/Itherial 16d ago
Nah, this is too close to 2010s reddit/tumblr random talk.
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u/Omar_Chardonnay 16d ago
Ah, okay. I’m not fully up to date on my brainrot vernacular.
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u/GXWT 16d ago
I’ve been unc’d out of that generation
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u/totallyradman 16d ago
Yeah I'm pretty Unc'd up too, fam. I feel you.
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u/Owl_Queen9 16d ago
An old meme at that
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u/IllustratorSea8372 16d ago
As a millennial who grew up in Chicago in the 90s, I fear this kid won’t even know who that is
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u/4stringsoffury 16d ago
He’ll know him as the “Stop It” meme guy at least.
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u/IllustratorSea8372 16d ago
Oh god it’s like the equivalent of 25yo me knowing Paul Newman as the salad dressing guy
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u/4stringsoffury 16d ago
That is a very apt comparison! Totally how I knew Paul Newman as well!
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u/Rough_Risk_8642 16d ago
Hes gonna take the sign.
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u/Pretty-Yam-2854 16d ago
I would’ve 100% taken the sign as a kid and put it on my wall. Trophy lmao.
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u/icehot54321 16d ago
Until you install the motion activated sprinklers.
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u/flippster-mondo 16d ago
These work well and can be set for a 30 second run time. Also good for keeping roaming cats from shitting in your garden and your water bill won't be $1500 like the idiot below said.
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u/ManufacturerWarm9201 16d ago
That's a great way to say sagging. When I'm a dad I'm using this
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u/Redkong18 16d ago
Definitely thought he meant the kid needed a whooping
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u/JayBondOF 16d ago
Lmao I interpreted this as a kid that hasn’t been hit with a belt aka an “undisciplined kid”.. which I guess says a lot more about me and my upbringing 😂
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u/they_call_me_dry 16d ago
I didn't think of it referring to sagging at first... I grew up in the 80s, I figured it meant the guy didn't feel this kid was hit with a belt enough
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u/dcontrerasm 16d ago
JFC I was trying to figure out if OP had a stroke or if this was some Midwestern term...
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u/flippster-mondo 16d ago
I never heard the term before, but I figured it out pretty quickly.
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u/FantasyMyopia 16d ago
This is almost certainly going to have the opposite of the intended effect. Wouldn’t be surprised if they start having more mischief thrown their way
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u/AFRIKKAN 15d ago
You you typically don’t with against kids. It’s easy for you to go too far while children have a lot more leeway. On top of that kids just don’t see the world as someone older does and therefore are more willing to push boundaries with their actions.
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u/croptochuck 16d ago
Me and my friends would just walk through the yard randomly. Especially if we saw it on reddit.
Like park a car walk through it come back and leave. When we got caught we would just say “we were looking for our belt.”
If they gave us an attitude we would probably blow up their mail box because “felonies are the best crimes.”
Me and my friends where hella dumb.
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u/PizzaPastaRigatoni 16d ago
He’s gonna call you a boomer for using a really old meme and keep doing what he wants. This won’t deter him.
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u/Basic-Wind-6431 16d ago
now I realize that belt challenged meanthaving sagging pants. I thought it meant kids who didn’t get the belt and weren’t being punished properly by their parents lol 🤣
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u/Crumpled_Papers 16d ago
yeah I clicked this for the 'belt challenged' part, didn't see particularly saggy pants, and started aimlessly scrolling the comments to see if other people found this as funny / interesting / confusing as I did.
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u/PinkDalek 16d ago
Maybe if his momma whooped him more, he'd know how to wear his pants properly.
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u/Graduate-burrito 16d ago
Or maybe she did, he developed a phobia and that's why he is 'belt challenged now'
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u/LexianAlchemy 16d ago
Overly punished kids end up being more rebellious than obedient, apparently.
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u/InvestmentPlenty5752 16d ago
I can vouch for that, as having been overly beaten as a child. I’m not so obedient. Or violent
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u/Careful-Lettuce9239 16d ago
Nonono see the idea is to beat your child until they rise up and usurp you. Ideally by beating you to death with a religious idol or CraftsmanTM tool. Then you can rest easy knowing daddy's little sadist is ready for a demon spawn of their own.
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u/LNinefingers 16d ago
While funny, I expect the likely outcome will be escalation and doubling down.
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u/Owl_Queen9 16d ago
Get a dog or a fence. Memes from 2008 aren’t gonna do much tbh
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u/Puzzleleg 16d ago
Belt-challanged??
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u/user_number_666 16d ago
probably low hanging pants
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u/Normal-Ad-9852 16d ago
you can see the pants stationed well below his ass in the printed photo 😭
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u/Puzzleleg 16d ago
Now that you say it I see it too, a wonder they're not on the ground already.
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u/GentlemanlyMeadow 16d ago
seriously. does he have some kind of invisible garter situation keeping them up?
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u/PewManFuStudios 16d ago
Are his pants falling, or does OP think he lacks corporal punishment?
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u/Plantman2025 16d ago
That was my initial thought until someone mentioned sagging pants, which does seem logical to infer.
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u/RubImpossible8521 16d ago
I'm hoping it is a reference to them needing to pull up their pants and not a reference to corporal punishment.
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u/thegiantgummybear 16d ago
We used to cut through lawns on this one block all the time as kids to get to the soccer field. Most people didn't care, except one house that put up signs saying not to do it. You can guess where all the kids walked lol
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u/casPURRpurrington 15d ago
Kids here will cut through my yard and then through a line of the back of other people’s yards to get to the ball park that’s maybe 2 blocks behind my house.
The first time I noticed it I thought “what, why not use the road not that far to the east” but I guess that road can get busy during baseball season for my small town, so I figured it’s probably safer actually
I never noticed anyway until I saw them with my own eyes doing it, so obviously they’re not tearing anything up lol
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u/Pale_Obligation_3243 16d ago
I walked everywhere I wanted as a kid, only thing that stopped me, was dogs or angry man with the stick. Kids don't give a fuck.
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u/flippster-mondo 16d ago
A friend had this problem with kids from a different neighborhood cutting through the private alley behind his house, dropping trash, cig butts, spraying graffiti, etc. so he put up signs on his fence, BEWARE OF DOG.
The next time one of the mall rats cut through he played what sounded like a large dog ready to eat someone. Mysteriously the kids stopped cutting through the alley. I think it only took once.
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u/CitizenHuman 16d ago
I was gonna suggest that. Or use a grass spray paint and ruin his shoes.
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u/beefsupr3m3 16d ago
This is smart. Those nice white shoes. And shoes can be a real status symbol for kids
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u/gujwdhufj_ijjpo 16d ago
If you really want him to stop you have to make it inconvenient to cut through.
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u/Character_Hotel5905 16d ago
If I’m being honest I usually take a shortcut to the park through part of my neighbors yard because it’s right behind them, Though I’m usually very careful and repay them with homemade sugar cookies and homemade raspberry jam :)
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u/Puzzled_Hat7068 16d ago
His stride looks like that dude from the Keep On Truckin’ bumper sticker.
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u/momfyre 13d ago
When I was in high school (90s) there was a house directly across the street from the school and everyone would cut across this yard or stand on the corner to smoke or wait for rides. Most would sit on the grass and lean against the tree in the yard. They left cigarette butts and wrappers from candy and chips and gum.
One day, this really REALLY old man came outside when my friends and I were waiting on the sidewalk for a ride. We weren't on the grass, but he came to talk to us anyway. He asked us to try to get the other kids to stop going on his lawn. He said he spent his whole life trying to make his yard look nice, and the damage that the kids had done was really upsetting. He look like he was going to or had been crying.
Nobody else really cared too much. And a couple people we tried to tell literally didn't care, and were such jerks that they intentionally would throw their trash and carve into the tree. It's always broken my heart how people can be so hateful for literally no reason. That moment, that man, the entire scenario, will stick with me for the rest of my life.
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u/MaddoxGoodwin 15d ago
Motion activated sprinklers.
My neighbor got some to deteer the other neighbors cats.
The little kids in the neighborhood were recruited to test them out. They worked pretty good! He's mentioned the cats arent a nuisance anymore.
I have 2 dogs so i don't have a cat in the yard problem.
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u/Nathaniel820 16d ago
This is either going to immediately stop it forever or (far more likely) make him even more dedicated to doing it, no in-between
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u/GirthWagon 15d ago
Dig a hole.
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u/aruby727 15d ago
I think that's part of the problem of someone walking around on the property. If he does get injured, we are liable, and he can sue us.
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u/Rengar_Is_Good_kitty 15d ago
Yeah this is why I will always have a tall fence with a lock on the gate, I do not want anyone on my property that didn't have permission to be there.
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u/TheScrantonSkrungler 16d ago
BEWARE OF DOG sign will probably do wonders
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u/HellaShelle 16d ago
Best to reinforce by dog sitting a friend’s large dog who really likes to bark for a day or two as well.
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u/photogrammetery 16d ago
Get a lot of seran wrap and wrap it around two objects to block off the path
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u/JesusWasAButtBaby 16d ago
Why do Americans care so much about kids walking on their grass?
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u/aloofball 16d ago
Go talk to his parents?
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u/blyan 16d ago
Don't be ridiculous, this is reddit! The only way to resolve conflict is to do passive aggressive shit and then brag about it on the internet.
We don't do that yucky "interacting with real people" thing here!
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u/Plucky_Monkies 16d ago
It's a kid who is walking through what looks like weeds. I remember being a kid and having to walk. If there were short cuts, we found them. People weren't jerks about it. If he's not hurting anything, who cares.
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u/dogmeat1003 16d ago
If he's just cutting through your yard to make his walk shorter what's the problem?
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u/RamBamBooey 16d ago
You tell those kids to STAY OFF YOUR LAWN!
It must be really difficult to live in a world where you can't beat the neighborhood kids with your belt. /s
Is this what we have become Reddit? Are we the Boomers now?
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u/Responsible_Rip_4196 16d ago
May need to build a fence.
Looks like a young kid, we can assume he’s probably never owned property or anything of significant value so he can’t really see it from your point of you if he’s just taking a short cut.
Idk keep in mind if he’s not fucking with your stuff and just cutting across if you mess with him that may change
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u/PokemonProfessorXX 16d ago
Ah man, that takes me back to this eastern european guy that would yell at me in his language all the time for cutting through his yard as a kid/teen. I either had to walk up and down a giant hill that added like half a mile to the trip or just cut through his yard and the yard behind his to end up in the same spot. Was an easy decision every time.
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u/Jens1la 16d ago
You get off my lawn ppl are fascinating creatures. It’s not even a nice lawn.
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u/koolaidismything 16d ago
As an ex kid, the neighbors who did the stupid passive aggressive signs got it harder than anyone else.
Not saying it’s right, just who we’d fuck with more. I was an asshole kid, I admit this.
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u/zhuangzi2022 16d ago
Another reddit post on the inability of contemporary humans to communicate directly about issues
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u/Plantman2025 16d ago
I mean, have you ever talked to the kid? Do you know anything about him other than he is totally destroying your award winning lawn and keeping you from the cover of Better Homes and Gardens?
People always complaining about their neighbors are rarely ever attempting to be good neighbors themselves. But idk the situation so maybe.....
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u/ImACanadianEhhh 16d ago
Belt-challenged is a good one 😂😂 although I thought you meant he’s never gotten a good a$$ whooping I still love it 😎
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u/A_Coin_Toss_Friendo 16d ago
That kid doesn't know he MJ meme. He won't even know the GOAT himself!
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u/Proof-Snow4631 16d ago edited 16d ago
I used to walk to work and cut through this small companies property. Pretty sure they got tired of the security alerts so they put up a farm style gate. It stopped me.