Neighbour starts petrol strimmer when in the back garden
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TooMany2cvs said:
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
voyds9 said:
Fight petrol with electricity all 600w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymNFyxvIdaM
I would have thought that YOU, of all posters here, would know the only true track to use to counter a two-stroke obsessed neighbour...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE
Spend £100 on the roughest Luton van you can park outside his house, (if it's sign written with the suppliers of strimmers all the better), then register it in his name, by the time the fine from DVLA drops on his door mat for no tax he will have totally forgotten that he even owns a strimmer. You can then relax in your garden while browsing the internet looking for a crappy caravan with removable draw bar to put in the vans place once it finally gets moved, after you and your neighbours have complained to him everyday about his van of course.
This, this and this again.
I was chatting with a good friend recently. We've each taken quite different career paths, but he's 9 years older than me - so when I was 21 and starting my first proper job, I learnt from his experiences about how to approach things to try and get ahead. 20 years later it's most friendly competition & banter between us. Am I a PH company director driving an Aventador paid for in cash?No Not relevant - this is all about life experiences.
One of the lessons he shared with me sticks in my mind - and it was a lesson he was taught when he started his career.
You don't have to be friends with everyone, but it's important to get along with everyone. You might have lots of friends, but if just a few people take umbridge, they'll block your path despite the friends. So it's always important to make sure that you get along with everyone, even if they're not all your friends. So the psychology of what Mr Monk suggests is really bang on the money. Arguably don't even mention the strimmer at all! Just say high, have a chit chat, ask how things are going and so forth...
I was chatting with a good friend recently. We've each taken quite different career paths, but he's 9 years older than me - so when I was 21 and starting my first proper job, I learnt from his experiences about how to approach things to try and get ahead. 20 years later it's most friendly competition & banter between us. Am I a PH company director driving an Aventador paid for in cash?
One of the lessons he shared with me sticks in my mind - and it was a lesson he was taught when he started his career.
You don't have to be friends with everyone, but it's important to get along with everyone. You might have lots of friends, but if just a few people take umbridge, they'll block your path despite the friends. So it's always important to make sure that you get along with everyone, even if they're not all your friends. So the psychology of what Mr Monk suggests is really bang on the money. Arguably don't even mention the strimmer at all! Just say high, have a chit chat, ask how things are going and so forth...
The Mad Monk said:
I don't know if it has been suggested, but:-
Why not go round to see him, very gently, very politely, slowly, ask him how he is, you haven't seen much of him lately, does he need a helping hand with anything - oh, I see you are going to do a bit of strimming - stuff does shoot up doesn't it, etc, etc.
Worth a very careful try?
Why not go round to see him, very gently, very politely, slowly, ask him how he is, you haven't seen much of him lately, does he need a helping hand with anything - oh, I see you are going to do a bit of strimming - stuff does shoot up doesn't it, etc, etc.
Worth a very careful try?
Welshbeef said:
Another option is every single evening Mon to Friday light the BBQ during the summer. Then actually have a BBQ running ALL day long Sat and Sunday it will cost a number of bags of coal but it will drain his fuel and will truely f
k him off.
If it's a close you could write to the council to request a street party with the road closed and invite loads round. Get a big compressor bouncy castle which properly blocks the road.
Buy the kids those huge water guns and have an all afternoon massive man hunt water fight nowhere is out of bounds. Plus get hubdreds of sneaky water bomb grenades to lob where ever you like. Finishing it off with the finale Mr Soak a lot hosepipe to soak anyone's garden who didn't turn up to he BBQ but are in - ie miserable old sod.
The last BBQ we had it was 40 odd people - letters /knocked on neighbours doors letting them know + open invite. BBQ on from midday cooking pretty much all afternoon - that old git would have had to go to the petrol station for a refil
Another option is to simply turn up the music or have outside speakers and whenever he is out in the garden turn them on I'm guessing maybe AcDC rage against the machine jay Z etc something that wouldn't you'd expect fit his music genre /hate it.
The other week he actually had Status Quo 70's stuff playing, and I was in my back garden and I could hear it clearly, I did say to the wife it's even worse than the strimmer! k him off. If it's a close you could write to the council to request a street party with the road closed and invite loads round. Get a big compressor bouncy castle which properly blocks the road.
Buy the kids those huge water guns and have an all afternoon massive man hunt water fight nowhere is out of bounds. Plus get hubdreds of sneaky water bomb grenades to lob where ever you like. Finishing it off with the finale Mr Soak a lot hosepipe to soak anyone's garden who didn't turn up to he BBQ but are in - ie miserable old sod.
The last BBQ we had it was 40 odd people - letters /knocked on neighbours doors letting them know + open invite. BBQ on from midday cooking pretty much all afternoon - that old git would have had to go to the petrol station for a refil
Another option is to simply turn up the music or have outside speakers and whenever he is out in the garden turn them on I'm guessing maybe AcDC rage against the machine jay Z etc something that wouldn't you'd expect fit his music genre /hate it.
elanfan said:
What would be absolutely hilarious would be whilst he's out/ on holiday paint them as actual totem poles. More points for the number of different grumpy faces you can get on them.
You'd have to film the reaction, it'd be priceless!
I think I'd go for a more penis related colour scheme, imagine the rage and hasty action needed to remove two enormous erect wangs poking up from his front garden. You'd have to film the reaction, it'd be priceless!
Arrius said:
Well sounds like a sticky situation. In my apartment, there is a similar old man who thinks he owns the whole place. Doesn't let anyone park in front of his balcony or let anyone water the plants on his side of the building. I was furious enough to kick his ass a couple of times but as a father, I came to my senses. It is as the OP said, this kind of situation is extremely hard to deal with. Police won't do anything and there isn't really a place you can file a complaint about having a terrible neighbour.
But there are opportunities to show by example or particular act of kindness. It costs you nothing at the time, e.g. carry his shopping in or whatever. It is a bit like children, they learn by example. In fact we all do.Brummmie said:
Welshbeef said:
Another option is every single evening Mon to Friday light the BBQ during the summer. Then actually have a BBQ running ALL day long Sat and Sunday it will cost a number of bags of coal but it will drain his fuel and will truely fk him off.
If it's a close you could write to the council to request a street party with the road closed and invite loads round. Get a big compressor bouncy castle which properly blocks the road.
Buy the kids those huge water guns and have an all afternoon massive man hunt water fight nowhere is out of bounds. Plus get hubdreds of sneaky water bomb grenades to lob where ever you like. Finishing it off with the finale Mr Soak a lot hosepipe to soak anyone's garden who didn't turn up to he BBQ but are in - ie miserable old sod.
The last BBQ we had it was 40 odd people - letters /knocked on neighbours doors letting them know + open invite. BBQ on from midday cooking pretty much all afternoon - that old git would have had to go to the petrol station for a refil
Another option is to simply turn up the music or have outside speakers and whenever he is out in the garden turn them on I'm guessing maybe AcDC rage against the machine jay Z etc something that wouldn't you'd expect fit his music genre /hate it.
The other week he actually had Status Quo 70's stuff playing, and I was in my back garden and I could hear it clearly, I did say to the wife it's even worse than the strimmer! k him off. If it's a close you could write to the council to request a street party with the road closed and invite loads round. Get a big compressor bouncy castle which properly blocks the road.
Buy the kids those huge water guns and have an all afternoon massive man hunt water fight nowhere is out of bounds. Plus get hubdreds of sneaky water bomb grenades to lob where ever you like. Finishing it off with the finale Mr Soak a lot hosepipe to soak anyone's garden who didn't turn up to he BBQ but are in - ie miserable old sod.
The last BBQ we had it was 40 odd people - letters /knocked on neighbours doors letting them know + open invite. BBQ on from midday cooking pretty much all afternoon - that old git would have had to go to the petrol station for a refil
Another option is to simply turn up the music or have outside speakers and whenever he is out in the garden turn them on I'm guessing maybe AcDC rage against the machine jay Z etc something that wouldn't you'd expect fit his music genre /hate it.
Johnnytheboy said:
I'm glad you posted a pic of the house as I thought this might be me.
I live in a dead end lane where you could hear a pin drop.
Except for every single bank holiday weekend, when the second-homers next door come down from London with their ~9 year old daughter and all her friends, who then spend the entire weekend shrieking in the garden.
Amazing how often it turns out I need do do something with a power tool.
I'm not being directly vindictive, I just figure if someone else has already ruined the peace and quiet, I may as well make a noise then rather than when it would be otherwise peaceful.
You're comparing a 9 year old having fun (which is what children naturally do), with a grown adult taking revenge?I live in a dead end lane where you could hear a pin drop.
Except for every single bank holiday weekend, when the second-homers next door come down from London with their ~9 year old daughter and all her friends, who then spend the entire weekend shrieking in the garden.
Amazing how often it turns out I need do do something with a power tool.
I'm not being directly vindictive, I just figure if someone else has already ruined the peace and quiet, I may as well make a noise then rather than when it would be otherwise peaceful.
How immature of you.
Tell me, if you like peace and quiet, why don't you buy a house further from neighbours?
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