Strange old retired neighbor

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shady lee said:

DonkeyApple said:

The other way to look at it is that for as long as the old boy is alive and kicking he’s going to maintaining your shrubbery and all you ever need to is dispose of the waste. That is a bit of a bargain.

This!

He hasn't maintained it though. As suggested, I think they were warning shots. 2, 6" bit of branch.

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The Mad Monk said:

hornmeister said:

I've first hand experience of old folks going a bit odd with silly little things like this. Can be a side affect of things like early parkinsons. Stuff that you would normally think nothing of, can suddenly be very important to them and they find it difficult to comprehend common sense. I've learned to cut them a little slack.

And of course, it can't possibly be the younger person that is acting in a somewhat irrational fashion.

Can it?

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.

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Thats What She Said said:

bimsb6 said:

That is a strange place for a tree .

I reckon thats deliberate, to stop people reversing onto 'his' pavement.

When we moved in we had a multitude of deliveries. Without fail, he would come out the front and stand at the edge of his rockery to ensure the drivers came nowhere near

I also caught him shouting at a takeaway leaflet guy for walking across his grass because he had just watered it.

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AC43 said:

sc0tt said:

Here we go.

https://mapstreetview.com/#unlgn_6oav_1l.a_-7f40

My bush infront of the estate car. His house is that opposite.

I own the strip of land down the side of the fence.

FWIW it looks to me like a shrub that has been well tended over the years but is now 2 months past a proper trim and which is starting to sprout madly.

If it was mine I'd lop off the new growth as I'd personally try to keep the shape and the density.

That is a 4 year old pic

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AC43 said:

sc0tt said:

AC43 said:

sc0tt said:

Here we go.

https://mapstreetview.com/#unlgn_6oav_1l.a_-7f40

My bush infront of the estate car. His house is that opposite.

I own the strip of land down the side of the fence.

FWIW it looks to me like a shrub that has been well tended over the years but is now 2 months past a proper trim and which is starting to sprout madly.

If it was mine I'd lop off the new growth as I'd personally try to keep the shape and the density.

That is a 4 year old pic

Fair enough. Maybe point that out next time you post an ancient photo asking for opinions.

Fortunately i wasn’t asking for opions on the bush size, merelt demonstrating the lay of the land with the street view image.

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Probably more of a tree now looking at the 4 years on

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The Mad Monk said:

I am amazed at the number of people that want to start World War III, because someone has cut a couple of twigs from a tree in a public place.

Aggressive, or what?

It was supposed to be a light hearted thread. I don't think anyone wants to do that.

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AC43 said:

sc0tt said:

Hmmm....well it's obviously much much bigger but it actually looks well tended/shaped in that picture.

I'd be quite happy looking onto that.

You're right. It is odd behaviour.

Behind that is obviously my external wall with just drab brick and a sky dish so I could lop it down and he could stare at a wall if he wanted.

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AC43 said:

sc0tt said:

AC43 said:

sc0tt said:

Hmmm....well it's obviously much much bigger but it actually looks well tended/shaped in that picture.

I'd be quite happy looking onto that.

You're right. It is odd behaviour.

Behind that is obviously my external wall with just drab brick and a sky dish so I could lop it down and he could stare at a wall if he wanted.

Well exactly.

FWIW, in my experience people can be very odd about trees. Theirs or other peoples.

Like some of the other posters on here I'm a bit a pruning nutter. I was expecting to see something that had been really let go.

But, no. A nicely tended, nicely shaped tree-sized shrub.

Thanks, confirmed my suspicion that there is exactly nothing wrong with it. The Shrub shall stay. As is!

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netherfield said:

Looks like the previous owner has changed his car and parked it outside your house;)

Family member popped in last night.

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dickymint said:

KTF said:

It must have taken him some time to dig a hole in the pavement to get that tree in.

Has anyone reported it to the local council yet as someone with a pram or a person in a wheelchair may find their progress impeded

Council wont give a toss they don't own it apparently.................and nor would I

If you look closely, that is actually part of his drive. Still why he planted a tree there is unknown to me.

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netherfield said:

Doesn't said neighbour complain about the shtub overhanging higher up the paved area on the right hand side

That has all been removed now and replaced with matching brick work.

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Steve Campbell said:

Fit one of these on your wall behind the bush.

http://www.themiddlefinger.com/tag/house/

Leave it a few weeks.

Chop down the bush.

Problem sorted.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.