A mum has been left baffled after her neighbour demanded that her two young children stop playing on their scooters on the public footpath outside her home - despite having no ownership over the area.
Taking to Mumsnet, the woman said the neighbour initially came to her door and told her to stop letting the youngsters ride their scooters past her house.
She then approached the parent's daughter directly, telling the little girl not to ride on the footpath near her property, the Mirror reports.
However, the perplexed mum says the footpath is for public use and is not part of the neighbour's land, giving her absolutely no right to make the "bonkers" requestThe mum said her neighbour has been taking the issue "really personally" because the children are often outside her house, but the mum is firm in her belief that "you can't ask people not to use a footpath".
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