"Sacha" wrote in message
Tell them they don't need to ask - just go and get it. Worked fine for
me
some years ago.
Then they would be trespassing and if it was my garden, they would be in
grave danger of being seriously injured by my dogs.


But it isn't your garden and they're not trespassing if they ask and are
granted permission. And we don't know that the OP has dogs. At that
particular point in my life, I had two dogs and it never crossed my mind
that they would attack anyone, let alone children, because that wasn't in
their nature. I see no point in keeping vicious animals.

The poster to whom I was replying said, "they don't need to ask - just go
and get it.".
That implies no permission was sought. It would thence be trespass.
So you had 2 dogs who would not guard your property. Good for you. What was
the point in keeping them?
Only one of my animals could be considered dangerous. I keep him because I
love him, he loves me and I have no fears of pikeys or anyone else breaking
in to steal my parrots from the aviary block while he is in the yard. Or
breaking in to steal anything for that matter.
You don't see the need, but perhaps you don't live way out in the sticks
with no streetlights, on your own and where other properties on the 2 mile
remote stretch of lane have been broken into.
All I can say is that it is a good job Kip never came to you as a pup. You
would not have seen the need to keep him and would no doubt have had him put
down.
Good job we aren't all the same. I could not abide a dozy bugger of a dog
who would not protect me and mine.
I was making a point to someone who maintained it was ok for the kids
firstly to kick the ball over, and then to simply go and fetch it without
asking permission. The garden owner might have a dog who hated kids, he
might also have had a shed with chemicals in or a greenhouse with brittle
glass, or a fall in-able pond for the little darlings to drown themselves
in.
The point I am making is that nobody should enter someone's property unless
they have permission.