"If you think automation isn't a good method, then what do you recommend? Police? A lawsuit? Those take forever to work. What do you recommend to get rid of the kids now and keep them gone?"

Move to the land where there are no kids. Or move someplace where you can fence in all your property and be sure no one will come near you.

Police? Lawsuits...for what? "Your honor, kids were playing in my dirt. MY dirt." You're kidding, right?

Neighborhood kids run all over our yard. Only once in the last 4 years I've lived hear did something get broken. I talked to the kid and he was really nice about it. Join the human race.

Guys like this ruin the neighborhood.

I live in a fenceless suburb. All the kids, and many adults, cut between the houses. So what? Isn't the "get off my lawn, you kids" a Simpson's stereotype. Do you really want to be "that guy?"