Mate found his shed been lived in

[saaby93]

Mate checked his shed and found its been lived in. It's out of the way at a scrubby end of the garden with a footpath the other side, but there's a ropey half blanket and 'medical' equipment.
Also a mouldy take-away so looks like it's last been lived in over a month.
What do you do? Stick all the stuff in a bag and take down the tip or let someone know?

[Digger]

Leave an invoice for overdue rent.

[lucido grigio]

Bin the stuff ,buy a big padlock, secure entry to the garden better.

[rbgos]

Should be easy enough to rig up some sort of alarm that goes off in your house when the door is opened. Wait until that happens, then call the cops.

[StoatInACoat]

First thing that would concern me would be where whoever lived in it had been going to the toilet to be honest.

"Medical equipment" presumably needles? I'd put on some steel soled boots and check none have been deposited anywhere else in the garden and be really careful about touching or moving anything.

[Burwood]

This being PH, i'm amazed no one has suggested locking them in and set fire to the shed

[Vocal Minority]

I'm afraid to say Mr Inacoat is bang on.

Be every so careful around that stuff. It also needs disposing of properly. It may be worth ringing up a local needle exchange or similar and asking for advice on how to properly dispose of them.

grim task I am afraid

[PurpleTurtle]

1) Mow the scrubby bit of garden so it's worthy of the lawn thread
2) Leave a Camping Gaz stove in the shed
3) Hammer frozen sausages into the scrub/lawn
4) Leave a note to say "your dinner is in the lawn, please tidy up after yourself"

Helping the less fortunate the PH way.

[xjay1337]

Dominate the shed?

[Davey S2]

saaby93 said:

What do you do?

Employ numerous booby-traps from the film Home Alone.

[saaby93]

lucido grigio said:

Bin the stuff ,buy a big padlock, secure entry to the garden better.

No used stuff in the shed. Only the takeaway remnants to worry about.
If you bin the clean in its wrapper stuff and get caught red handed binning it ( what do you have in that bag) - what happens
Good point above about the lack of facilities, nothing obvious - didn't look too far

[Yipper]

Sleep in the shed for the next month to see if they return.

[8-P]

One of these under the blanket and check daily. But dont forget its there and trap yourself.

[dazwalsh]

The very first thing that sprung to mind was fire, burn it to the ground and leave the blanket on top of the charred remains.

Or just for fun, fill the shed with hundreds of balloons, thatll freak em out. Plus when they inadvertently pop one you will know someone is in, then quickly set about the shed with as much pallet wrap as you can get your hands on, before reverting to plan 1- fire.

[Ian Geary]

My inlaws rented a house, and the landlord kept pet crocodiles in the garage.

Just sayin'

Ian

[MitchT]

I'd be half expecting to find a letting agent somewhere in the equation.

[V8RX7]

That's nothing, my Dad called me because he found a lad sleeping in his car on the drive !

We woke him and he was more surprised / confused than we were and he stumbled off.

Clean it up, bag it up and lock the shed.

[roofer]

StoatInACoat said:

First thing that would concern me would be where whoever lived in it had been going to the toilet to be honest.

"Medical equipment" presumably needles? I'd put on some steel soled boots and check none have been deposited anywhere else in the garden and be really careful about touching or moving anything.

Indeed. We have had a spate of smackheads leaving discarded needles in the lockbox of our containers at the mo. Lads put there hand up to unlock, stabbed with a needle. Only one thus far fortunately, show's the scumminess of these dirgebags.

[Tomo1971]

What to do?

Get it on Rightmove pronto - £300 a week and im sure could get at least 6 romanians in there!

[Prohibiting]

dazwalsh said:

Or just for fun, fill the shed with hundreds of balloons, thatll freak em out. Plus when they inadvertently pop one you will know someone is in