Neighbour starts petrol strimmer when in the back garden
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Interestingly, the OP won't confront him due to the possibility of getting in trouble with the police, yet scrotes/scum bags and hoodies take this approach on a daily basis and appear to get away with it.
One of the times when a "direct approach" might actually yield better results, it isn't used. Authorities? What will they do. Nothing in my experience.
Get a hoodie on and go round. Report back with your success.
One of the times when a "direct approach" might actually yield better results, it isn't used. Authorities? What will they do. Nothing in my experience.
Get a hoodie on and go round. Report back with your success.
oyster said:
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?
Even so, kids playing is one thing, and deliberately (or thoughtlessly) making a racket is another.
oyster said:
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?
The guy next door is ever so nice and the one opposite is too, though he makes a habit of starting his DB4 Vantage on a Sunday morning, which sounds like a Lancaster even from 50 yards away.
I'm actually being considerate to these other two neighbours who live there all week... in a way. I have a fixed amount of hedge trimmer, strimmer and mower noise to make; unlike the chap in the OP's tale I'm not starting it for the hell of it. So if I do it when there is already a noise source, then I'm increasing the amount of quiet time. And if that blocks out the screech of posh children, then even better!
Roofless Toothless said:
It always amazes me that as a species we choose to live in villages, towns and cities in houses that sometimes even lean up against eachother and then get very upset that we can hear other people.
Even so, kids playing is one thing, and deliberately (or thoughtlessly) making a racket is another.
i think we buy houses in close proximity to each other because its all we can afford. there aren't many people for whom living in an isolated farmhouse is a viable option, either for cost or logistics. ive started to notice however that certain remote places are plagued with traffic as they evolve into rat runs due to the increasing amount of congestion. a road that i take into work runs through some nice small villages that will have high volumes of cars flying through them for at least 4 hours per day. I see the community speed watches from time to time that I presume are a consequence of people seeking isolation/peace and quiet then finding that over time it becomes quite disrupted.Even so, kids playing is one thing, and deliberately (or thoughtlessly) making a racket is another.
Pica-Pica said:
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 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.
Zombie said:
oldcynic said:
he's being antagonistic.
I'd call it passive aggressive?Ignoring him seems to wind him up even more. He's taken to humming and laughing out loud to himself of late to make it known he's around.
I've spoken to others who have described him as everything from pure evil to a creepy b
d. One even invited me to a party when he finally snuffs it.largelunchbox said:
Can someone explain the frozen sausage thing?
Took me a while but it's like this ...Freeze a sausage until it's stiff enough to hammer into a lawn until buried
Wait for sausage to thaw at which time the local animals (wild or domestic) will smell the delicious sausage
Said animals will attempt to eat the tasty morsel and will need to dig up said lawn to do so ...
leaving the animal happy ...
the perpetrator happy ...
and the lawn owner very unhappy
HTH
RATATTAK said:
largelunchbox said:
Can someone explain the frozen sausage thing?
Took me a while but it's like this ...Freeze a sausage until it's stiff enough to hammer into a lawn until buried
Wait for sausage to thaw at which time the local animals (wild or domestic) will smell the delicious sausage
Said animals will attempt to eat the tasty morsel and will need to dig up said lawn to do so ...
leaving the animal happy ...
the perpetrator happy ...
and the lawn owner very unhappy
HTH
RATATTAK said:
ook me a while but it's like this ...
Freeze a sausage until it's stiff enough to hammer into a lawn until buried
Wait for sausage to thaw at which time the local animals (wild or domestic) will smell the delicious sausage
Said animals will attempt to eat the tasty morsel and will need to dig up said lawn to do so ...
leaving the animal happy ...
the perpetrator happy ...
and the lawn owner very unhappy
HTH
A very diligent PHer actually did this, and documented the results in a thread. Disappointing result, sadly.Freeze a sausage until it's stiff enough to hammer into a lawn until buried
Wait for sausage to thaw at which time the local animals (wild or domestic) will smell the delicious sausage
Said animals will attempt to eat the tasty morsel and will need to dig up said lawn to do so ...
leaving the animal happy ...
the perpetrator happy ...
and the lawn owner very unhappy
HTH
eldar said:
A very diligent PHer actually did this, and documented the results in a thread. Disappointing result, sadly.
Then he does not have Badgers about near him, all you have on estates are loads of cats and a few mangy foxes that can only hunt Kentucky Fried Chicken so it will not work well.Stickyfinger said:
Then he does not have Badgers about near him, all you have on estates are loads of cats and a few mangy foxes that can only hunt Kentucky Fried Chicken so it will not work well.
You don't even need hammered frozen sausages if you have badgers to get them ripping up your lawn. Brummmie said:
Hi Guys,
All summer long i have a neighbour who when the adjoining neighbours try and use their back garden, kids go out to play or a BBQ whatever, he starts hid petrol strimmer and leaves it idling in his garden, I am next but one but its a noisy thing.
I even hear the idle go up when it runs out of fuel, he even re fuels it and repeats. My neighbour just ignores him, hes a horrible old git (late sixties i guess) and loves doing letters about parking etc to the road, the road is only 12 houses in total.
What can be done?
Have you considered that he is probably pissed off with screaming brats & smelly BBQ's spoiling HIS days in the garden? All summer long i have a neighbour who when the adjoining neighbours try and use their back garden, kids go out to play or a BBQ whatever, he starts hid petrol strimmer and leaves it idling in his garden, I am next but one but its a noisy thing.
I even hear the idle go up when it runs out of fuel, he even re fuels it and repeats. My neighbour just ignores him, hes a horrible old git (late sixties i guess) and loves doing letters about parking etc to the road, the road is only 12 houses in total.
What can be done?
WJNB said:
Brummmie said:
Hi Guys,
All summer long i have a neighbour who when the adjoining neighbours try and use their back garden, kids go out to play or a BBQ whatever, he starts hid petrol strimmer and leaves it idling in his garden, I am next but one but its a noisy thing.
I even hear the idle go up when it runs out of fuel, he even re fuels it and repeats. My neighbour just ignores him, hes a horrible old git (late sixties i guess) and loves doing letters about parking etc to the road, the road is only 12 houses in total.
What can be done?
Have you considered that he is probably pissed off with screaming brats & smelly BBQ's spoiling HIS days in the garden? All summer long i have a neighbour who when the adjoining neighbours try and use their back garden, kids go out to play or a BBQ whatever, he starts hid petrol strimmer and leaves it idling in his garden, I am next but one but its a noisy thing.
I even hear the idle go up when it runs out of fuel, he even re fuels it and repeats. My neighbour just ignores him, hes a horrible old git (late sixties i guess) and loves doing letters about parking etc to the road, the road is only 12 houses in total.
What can be done?
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