{"id":34846,"date":"2026-09-21T21:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34846"},"modified":"2026-09-21T21:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T21:40:29","slug":"my-neighbor-ran-over-my-sons-bike-then-my-son-taught-him-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34846","title":{"rendered":"My Neighbor Ran Over My Son\u2019s Bike\u2014Then My Son Taught Him a Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>My Neighbor Destroyed My Son\u2019s Mountain Bike\u2014Then My 12-Year-Old Said, \u201cDad, I\u2019ve Got It Handled.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">My 12-year-old son Jake spent nearly a year mowing lawns and doing extra jobs to save for his dream mountain bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then our neighbor Gary backed his truck over it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The bike was clearly visible at the edge of our yard, but Gary refused to pay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>\u201cIt was parked too close to the road,\u201d<\/strong> he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">I planned to handle it through insurance or small claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But before I could, Jake walked into the kitchen Saturday morning and calmly said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>\u201cDad, I don\u2019t need your help with this one. I\u2019ve got it handled.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then he walked straight to Gary\u2019s house.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea what my son had planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Neighbor Destroyed My Son\u2019s Mountain Bike\u2014Then My 12-Year-Old Said, \u201cDad, I\u2019ve Got It Handled.\u201d My 12-year-old son Jake spent nearly a year mowing lawns and doing extra jobs to save for his dream mountain bike. Then our neighbor Gary backed his truck over it. The bike was clearly visible at the edge of our&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=34846\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;My Neighbor Ran Over My Son\u2019s Bike\u2014Then My Son Taught Him a Lesson&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34848,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34846\/revisions\/34848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}