Some paranoid person saw two boys crossing a yard and thought to call the police. My mother does this all the time if she sees someone cutting across a yard. She lives in a town with 0% crime but it doesn’t stop her from being alert!
I do it all the time too.:)
It depends if they’re inside a fenced backyard or merely crossing across the front yard to hand out flyers at the neighbors. Big difference. If Mr. Nosey had watched them for more than a second, he’d have known. But we all know he knew what they were doing and was being a major horse’s behind (no offense to horses).