Strange old retired neighbor

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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

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I just bumped into him outside tesco, he was nice as pie

I’m confused. Maybe he is playing some type of mind games.

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I’m afraid if you street view it is actually on his land. If you look closely he has dug up an old bit of what looks like crazy (ironic) paving.

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dickymint said:

sc0tt said:

I’m afraid if you street view it is actually on his land. If you look closely he has dug up an old bit of what looks like crazy (ironic) paving.

I realised that via your marked up photo....not sure why you're "afraid" though.
So who does own the block paved area (you only say "joint access") and any covenants on your/their deeds?

Afraid to disappoint so many with the tree in the road

I’m led to believe it is unadopted but I could be incorrect, I haven’t checked the deeds...

Anywho, last update for today, i’ve gone out and realised that I left some suits indoors so I drove back, not 2 minutes later he was out sweeping outside my window and under the bush

The old lady who seems friendly sensed some animosity and asked did I mind them sweeping my pavement... No, crack on my dear.

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Tomo1971 said:

sc0tt said:

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

You are bothered about it, else you wouldn't have started a thread about it.....

What an odd thing to contribute.

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This was just meant to be a light hearted thread.

Apart from pavement tree

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JT111 said:

sc0tt said:

This was just meant to be a light hearted thread.

Apart from pavement tree

Chop the bush down completely and replace with weed. Tell him it's exotic, very difficult to cultivate (only known one in Essex) and you'd be grateful for his help to cultivate it. Then once he has included in his maintenance routine, ring Plod and dob him in.

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He’s back.

So around 6 weeks ago my BIL lopped a load of said bush to make it into a nice little rectangle.

Birds still nest there and we like it so it wasn’t coming down.

Today I come home and the crazy old guy has again lopped off 2 small branches (maybe 12” in length) and thrown them over the fence. Having had a tiring day at work I decided to do the neighbourly thing and pop over for a chat, except, he won’t open the door. The wife saw them hiding upstairs peeping through the blinds.

I gave them a while to answer but the wife now thinks I’m a wuss for not waiting there all night. What would you do?

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KTF said:

sc0tt said:

Pavement tree is looking strong

Its going to take him a while to hide his garage door based on whats growing in the pots.

£2500 that was from crystal windows. He wipes it down every day. He told me so.

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Nope

Also still won’t answer the door. Bin day friday. He will have to come out...

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FredericRobinson said:

Bet he comes out sharpish if you stand next to pavement tree waving an axe about

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Strange fella is back with vengeance.

Passive aggressive shouting over my fence regarding the fallen leaves ruining his rockery a few weeks back.

Unfortunately as a living tree it does have the tendency to drop leaves so he is out sweeping his drive every day.He then gathers the leaves and dumps them at the base of the tree. Each day the leaves blow back on to his rockery.Groundhog day round here.