Here is our back yard:

You will note that there is a fine sprinkling of snow on the grass, what one might call a 'dusting'. I can also tell you that we had some slight flurries over night as well, so there was more snow on the lawn this morning when i took the picture than there was last night around 9:00pm.

Nonetheless, you will see sled marks in the "snow".

Mind you, the scale of this picture is such that the top of that hill is about 30 ft away, and the very bottom of the picture is basically where our back door is.

Again, nonetheless, for over an hour last night, we had kids sledding down that hill. On less than an inch of snow. On, essentially, the grass.

And these weren't little kids. These kids were 15, 16 easy. And they were whooping and squealing like 6 year olds in their first big snowstorm. Right outside our door, about 2 feet from where min and i were sitting, watching them, horrified.

I don't mind kids ("kids") playing in our backyard. But this was just... weird.

Set some traps.

i suggested we dig a trench and shove sticks with sharpened tips in it, but fnord thought that might not be legal.

i suppose i'll have to settle for shrubbery with brambles.

What about a good ol' fashioned fence?

And why do you let strange children play on your property?

do they see you? cause you should start holding up score cards. make it entertaining. also if its a competition, they're more likely to hurt themselves and then maybe they wont want to sled on grass anymore.

How many points if one of the kids hurls themselves through a window? Cause that takes aim and precision...

Like a ninja.

And it would have to be closed. It doesn't count unless they're willing to endure having shards of broken glass embedded in their flesh.