Strange old retired neighbor

[Russ T Bolt]

sc0tt said:

Evening chaps,

we have a lot of birds nesting in it so I’m happy to leave it as it is.

Haven't read entire thread so may have been covered, but he may be in a bit of bother

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/...

[tighnamara]

sc0tt said:

Not sure I can be called irrational for posting a thread about a neighbor coming over, cutting my bush and then throwing the clippings in the garden.

I just thought it was odd, that is all.

I just had to remind myself what 6" was...........really....there must be more important things to worry about than 2 x 6" branches landing in your garden.
Did your CCTV actually see him cutting these large branches and throwing them in your garden.

[sc0tt]

tighnamara said:

I just had to remind myself what 6" was...........really....there must be more important things to worry about than 2 x 6" branches landing in your garden.
Did your CCTV actually see him cutting these large branches and throwing them in your garden.

I'm really not bothered about it, It is the oddity of it.

[mickk]

Your fence needs a coat of paint and the trampoline needs pruning.

[sc0tt]

mickk said:

Your fence needs a coat of paint and the trampoline needs pruning.

Painting panels I don't see is the last thing on my list. I've already done the insides. That took long enough.

[Zetec-S]

Greendubber said:

sc0tt said:

Looks OK to me.

Return the favour by pruning his pavement tree

Or digging his pavement tree up and replacing it with a much bigger one.

[sc0tt]

Zetec-S said:

Greendubber said:

sc0tt said:

Looks OK to me.

Return the favour by pruning his pavement tree

Or digging his pavement tree up and replacing it with a much bigger one.

Maybe I could swap them over

[Ilovejapcrap]

Never mind the tree are you not parked to close to a junction.

[sc0tt]

Ilovejapcrap said:

Never mind the tree are you not parked to close to a junction.

It's not my car and we see maybe one car every other hour or so.

[sc0tt]

Further developments today, to the rear of my garden I have a tarmac parking space. There is a small drain.

Someone has picked up the 3 broken bits of tarmac surrounding the drain (think inch x inch sized peices) and thrown them in the garden.

I haven’t seen this on CCTV but I have seen him loitering at the back. 40ft away from his home.

[mickk]

The plot thickens.

[The Mad Monk]

sc0tt said:

Further developments today, to the rear of my garden I have a tarmac parking space. There is a small drain.

Someone has picked up the 3 broken bits of tarmac surrounding the drain (think inch x inch sized peices) and thrown them in the garden.

I haven’t seen this on CCTV but I have seen him loitering at the back. 40ft away from his home.

Anyone who didn't know you might think that you were getting a little obsessive.

How many posts by you on this subject now?

[Joshsl]

Check the cctv. If it was him the throw them on his grass via his window?

He might get the message then

[sc0tt]

The Mad Monk said:

sc0tt said:

Further developments today, to the rear of my garden I have a tarmac parking space. There is a small drain.

Someone has picked up the 3 broken bits of tarmac surrounding the drain (think inch x inch sized peices) and thrown them in the garden.

I haven’t seen this on CCTV but I have seen him loitering at the back. 40ft away from his home.

Anyone who didn't know you might think that you were getting a little obsessive.

How many posts by you on this subject now?

Maybe so, i’m sat on my sofa with a beer not obsessing about finding the culprit.

I think its odd that someones dug out some cracked tarmac and lobbed it in my garden. Don’t you?

[DonkeyApple]

It is beginning to sound like you’ve got yourself a ‘live one’.

Trouble is that you are disrespectful youth scum who have just turned up in their civilised cup de sac with all your oik labourers and you’ve dissed all the well healed residents by not going round and blowing them.

Personally, I would place those small pieces into an envelope and put it through his door with a note saying:

Dear Neighbour,

There is a general expectation in society that you act in a mature and civilised manner. With your petty acts of vandalism you are displaying very unneighbourly and uncivilised behaviour. Please desist these petty and childish acts of vandalism and rejoin the human race and voice any issues or concerns that you may have to me directly like a man and a respectable human being. If you start to behave properly then I shall do no more about this and consign your previous behaviour to the history books and willingly move forward with a clean slate.’

[FiF]

I think someone may be on the verge of some mental issues, and it isn't the OP.

[sc0tt]

DonkeyApple said:

It is beginning to sound like you’ve got yourself a ‘live one’.

Trouble is that you are disrespectful youth scum who have just turned up in their civilised cup de sac with all your oik labourers and you’ve dissed all the well healed residents by not going round and blowing them.

Personally, I would place those small pieces into an envelope and put it through his door with a note saying:

Dear Neighbour,

There is a general expectation in society that you act in a mature and civilised manner. With your petty acts of vandalism you are displaying very unneighbourly and uncivilised behaviour. Please desist these petty and childish acts of vandalism and rejoin the human race and voice any issues or concerns that you may have to me directly like a man and a respectable human being. If you start to behave properly then I shall do no more about this and consign your previous behaviour to the history books and willingly move forward with a clean slate.’

I’m guessing every day I go to work and not trim the hedge is annoying him more and more.

It’s a good idea, im willing to let the tarmac slide for the time being because I simply can’t be bothered to look through.

I know what this one is about though, at the end of the close on my land is a dead tree/bush. It’s on the list of things to do but no idea why he is getting aggravated by it. He can’t see it unless he walks up the close.

[Toyoda]

If anyone's in any doubt that the old neighbour is anything other than a complete crank, then look at that pavement tree. Just look at it! A traffic cone there to protect his bit of drive would have been weird enough but planting a bloody tree in the middle of a pavement takes it to another level.

OP, no idea if you're the aggressive type or more chilled but your best bet is to keep on doing what you're doing. Don't rise to his bait, stick those little jobs he wants you to do to the bottom of your list of priorities and sit back in the knowledge that he'll be going inwardly more crazy each day. And keep the cctv rolling in case captain Walt goes postal.

[swisstoni]

Clearly you are inadvertently winding him up beyond all imagining.

I’d keep a log of his activities, with photos.
At may all go away but Sod’s law means it may escalate.

A log will ensure that you don’t forget little incidents that may eventually add up to a case for harassment if things go really nuts.

[sc0tt]

Toyoda said:

If anyone's in any doubt that the old neighbour is anything other than a complete crank, then look at that pavement tree. Just look at it! A traffic cone there to protect his bit of drive would have been weird enough but planting a bloody tree in the middle of a pavement takes it to another level.

OP, no idea if you're the aggressive type or more chilled but your best bet is to keep on doing what you're doing. Don't rise to his bait, stick those little jobs he wants you to do to the bottom of your list of priorities and sit back in the knowledge that he'll be going inwardly more crazy each day. And keep the cctv rolling in case captain Walt goes postal.

I’m not aggressive at all. I’m happy to go to work and back and come back to my own little bit of england after a few years of renting. I’m just not prepared to be bullied by some sad old fella that has nothing better to do and I appear to be winning by not doing much.

I’ll stick a vid up of him going postal at the dead branch (which i’ll add was dead along time before I moved in) tomorrow

Edited by sc0tt on Friday 13th July 21:37