Father catches neighbor giving his son’s basketball to their kid, claims it’s a birthday present: 'I felt bad for the kid, so I let him keep it'

Most of us remember childhood as endless hours playing outside and running through yards, shooting hoops, or tossing a frisbee. Inevitably, something always goes over the fence into the neighbor's yard. And when it does, suddenly a simple game becomes a small moral dilemma. Do you sneak back there and grab it? Do you knock on the door and politely ask for it? Or do you weigh the consequences of both and hope it magically disappears?

It's a scene straight out of The Sandlot, where a simple baseball ends up in a backyard guarded by a terrifying dog, and a handful of kids risk life and limb to retrieve it. Every kid knows that mix of fear, curiosity, and determination for the sake of whatever made-up game you and your friends were playing.

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That’s why the situation with a kid's basketball is so relatable. His ball went missing while he and his dad were playing outside, and their neighbor claimed he couldn’t find it even though it clearly went into his backyard. A month later, the ball was spotted in the neighbor’s yard, with their child playing with it.
Apparently, the father had given it to his own kid as a “birthday gift.”
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"Neighbor stole my son’s basketball and gave it to his kid as a birthday gift"

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