‘I just lost it’: Karen repeatedly reports neighbor's kids for playing too loud outside, neighbor stands up to her, leading to a public neighborhood confrontation

We love to say how our happiest memories from our childhood were going outside with our friends and playing around the neighborhood. There is something so pure about those times, the freedom we felt being outside and enjoying the days under the sun. We played every game known to kids – hide and seek, dodgeball, tag, catch the flag, you name it.

I'm sure those moments were also great for our parents as well. Sending us off for a few hours every day, and as we took out the remaining energy we had for the day, they could do whatever it was they needed to do around the house in peace. All of the parents around the neighborhood loved this arrangement, and everyone was happy.

Except every neighborhood also had a grumpy old person without any kids who hated hearing the sound of children having fun. Every time we were outside, they would come out to complain about us. It was a never-ending dispute between this person, the kids, and their parents, trying to find a middle ground without the neighborhood falling apart, similar to what went down in the story below.

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"AITAH for finally telling my neighbor to stop calling the cops on kids just for playing outside?"

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The Karen in this story not only complained about the children playing in the neighborhood, but she actually called the police every time she was annoyed by the noise they were making.
While I can understand wanting peace, you cannot live in a neighborhood with young families and expect it to be pitch quiet. And if your only solution is to call the cops every time it gets too much for you, then you should definitely expect some backlash.
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