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| Just fill in the part about how they wouldn't get off your lawn and then let the law take its course |
Maybe it was a local phenomenon but as children we were really concerned about the concepts of property rights and civil litigation. Even in the mobile home park, where none of us owned the land, if you wanted a kid to leave your house you would tell them to 'get off our property'. It seemed like a couple of time a day someone was telling someone else where the property line was and how far back from the property they were legally required to stay.
If a kid wouldn't leave the only recourse was to threaten legal action. Every kid was telling other kids that if they didn't get off the property that they would either call the cops or they would sue the offender. If there was a lawyer who was in need of some brisk but profitless business he could have just hung around the mobile home park and slapped some don't-touch-my-porch litigation down several times a day. I am not really sure what we thought suing was but that constant specter hung over all the very serious goings on we kids got up to.
