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This story is analogous to a landowner and a group of neighborhood kids. The landowner allows the kids to play baseball in his field, but then the kids complain the grass is not cut, they are playing late into the evening, a few kids vandalize damage his flower bed, and his lawyers tell him he will be sued if he doesn't make all these safety changes, and so the landowner says screw it and puts up a fence.

Rather in this analogy the landowner didn’t own all of the field and somehow the kids get blamed for him failing to keep track of what he does and does not own.

Problem with analogies is that they are all made up.

Sort of. In this case, as other posters have mentioned, the "landlord" did some questionable things.

    > his lawyers tell him

Is this common in the US? I cannot imagine someone from Italy or France writing a post like this.

Agreed. How about the "landlord" expected the kids to cut the grass and weed the gardens house for use of the field, and only allowed them access on certain days and times.

A generation ago kids would use other people's backyards or a company's land for play. It became less common due to fears of lawsuits. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALawyer/comments/1czlq5k/who_is_...

More like the landlord wanted the kids to cut the grass for free so he gave them permission to look at the grass but not touch it and explicitly forbid playing on the grass. Oh and it turns out he doesn't even own all the land.