Odd things your neighbours do?

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PistonRings said:

A few years ago I noticed that every few days a carrier bag ends up in the dog bin just up the road (I have 3 dogs and plan my routes so I come past the bin on the way home) blocking the bin so no one can use it it till its emptied. This pissed me off as people then just leave their dog ste bag dangling or balancing on the bin like some new wave artistic ornament

Just before Christmas I bumped into my neighbour...the bag fiend. Since, we've noticed she takes a bag of something up to the bin every 3 or 4 days. She has no pets, she never fully fills her recycling bins, food waste bin or black bin.

What the hell is she putting in the dog st bin that frequently. It's not the sort of thing you go investigating, nor bring up in casual conversation

My dad does odd st like this, always taking random stuff to public bins, 10 broken tiles, walk it up to the bus stop bin, broken radio, bin outside the school.

Old fella, never fill their bins, have space to store stuff if they did, both able bodied, know how to use the top.

He also always used to take stuff to the bins round the back of the supermarket before they out gates up.

Lovely fella would help anyone, just strange

After he has washed his car he walks to the end of the road to put bucket of water down drain at end of road

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Blakewater said:

Someone on the housing estate where I live seems to be hiding a drink problem. Bags of lager cans will appear in public bins and woodland areas around the estate. It's even been mentioned on the community Facebook page but still keeps happening.

Just round the corner from us is a new housing estate just about to be built, they just cleared from bramble bushes that have been there for at least 30 years, maybe 100 to make a road entrance

Once the bush clearing machine had been through and removed said bush, on the floor was several thousand miniature vodka bottles

My bet is someone local worked in a hotel, nicked one a day and necked it just before getting home and having to deal with whatever

Truly bizarre to see.

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Hackney said:

pavarotti1980 said:

For some strange reason my neighbour has decided to put his security light in the back garden on permanently. Wonder how expensive this for him?

Given how ste most security lights are I don’t blame him.
Yesterday my motion sensitive and timed light came on when I stepped out the back door but had gone off by the time I reached the bins 3m away.
It came on again when I was 1m from the back door (the light)

Useless.

Have a look underneath, usually some little knobs to adjust the variables

Often hit and miss

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james6546 said:

I'll make a disclaimer that all of our neighbours are lovely and we are so so lucky.

But the guy in the bungalow next to us is always watching me from his kitchen window.

We have a smallholding (hens, ducks and alpacas) and whatever I'm doing I can see him standing in the shadows watching.

It's funny, if I do something like put a gatepost in, then mention it to him like "as you might have seen we now have new gateposts" he always acts like he hasn't seen them despite me seeing him watching me!

I've let a tree grow up, which must have properly ruined his enjoyment! I don't blame him though, he must be very bored

Drag a rolled up carpet with gaffer taped ends about

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Byker28i said:

Bin day is Monday. Rather than use the council provided recycling bins with lids they use stacking open sided plastic trays so paper blows all over the close.

They leave the bin out until about thursday, even though it means driving around it, although I've upset their bin cleaner they have as I humbly suggested when he pressure washes the bin he tips the diluted bin juice down the nearby road drain rather than all over the block paved close...

Joint facebook under some anonymous name and report the bin juice on there as fly tipping

The locals will get in a froth

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Sporky said:

I think the person who caught her had spotted human poop and toilet paper previously, put two and (number) two together one day, and issued a challenge.

It’s funny but tragic at the same time, we have a family friend who is constantly needing a poo. It’s not a medical condition, but a physiological one. If he sees a toilet, someone mentions poo etc he has an overwhelming urge to curl one out.

Pretty much ruins his day to day existence

He has a vw type van specifically so he can jump In the back at a moments notice and poop.

I wonder if there is something similar going on with this woman, or perhaps she has some blockage at home and is too daft to get it sorted.

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SistersofPercy said:

LunarOne said:

Hopefully there's at least one other reason!

Well, yes, he is a bit brilliant in many ways, but was quite impressed with him yesterday. Despite rehearsing in my head a dozen times what I'd have said if he'd have done it when I was in earshot I just know that I'd have forgotten everything and either mumbled or gone full on fishwife

Neighbour has not left the house today, which is unusual, so I'm dying to see if he uses our drive or shuffles the cars. It's also bins night, but I shall be good and pop them out of the way so as not to block his route through my garden.

Setup a micro geocache near his gaff, hours of amusement

You can pull it once you’ve had fun and re enable it whenever you feel like it

Lots of men like me wearing orthopaedic shoes skuttling about should give him something to think about

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LunarOne said:

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SistersofPercy said:

LunarOne said:

Hopefully there's at least one other reason!

Well, yes, he is a bit brilliant in many ways, but was quite impressed with him yesterday. Despite rehearsing in my head a dozen times what I'd have said if he'd have done it when I was in earshot I just know that I'd have forgotten everything and either mumbled or gone full on fishwife

Neighbour has not left the house today, which is unusual, so I'm dying to see if he uses our drive or shuffles the cars. It's also bins night, but I shall be good and pop them out of the way so as not to block his route through my garden.

Setup a micro geocache near his gaff, hours of amusement

You can pull it once you’ve had fun and re enable it whenever you feel like it

Lots of men like me wearing orthopaedic shoes skuttling about should give him something to think about

Does one need to actually bury/hide something physical to set up a geocache? Or can the item to be found be something less tangible, like the ire of one's neighbour? If so, how do I go about setting one up? For research purposes obviously?

I think you have to hide something, but it can be tiny, like a film canister for a bit of paper to go inside

Of course, if you were a wag, you could just set one up without placing it (assuming a local volunteer doesn’t confirm physical existence before the cache goes live)

My friend put one on field next to his folks house about 20 years ago, caused a bit of neighbourhood panic so he had to pull it.

There is merit in being the first finder of a new cache, so there can be a bit of a rush of people

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Flumpo said:

Huntsman said:

My neighbour spends hours arguing with people on internet forums.

No he doesn’t.

You need the council thread, having neighbours to argue with - COUNCIL

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akirk said:

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DukeofBork said:

Red9zero said:

A nearby neighbour of ours used to put a bollard or bin out to save their space.

I’ve taken great pleasure in using the Defender to simply push such things out the way a few times when visiting chums with funny neighbours, they look genuinely dumbfounded.

More than once I have managed to rock crawl onto the top of these types of things, it's good fun and causes similar levels of dumbfoundery

We had a visitor near us ‘rock crawl’ his merc saloon on top of a rock - had to tow him off - a week later he put his girlfriend’s mini in a ditch - police attended and I pulled him out again!

You are a good neighbour pulling off distressed men

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Red9zero said:

Our psycho neighbour got a cockerpoo puppy a few months ago, which was nice of her, so when she is out and all would otherwise be peaceful, we have her dog barking constantly instead. That is until the last week or so, where she seems to have discovered that if the door is left open, the dog doesn't bark. So she goes out, for hours at a time, and leaves her back door wide open so the dog can wander in and out. It`s a nice enough area round here, but I lock our back door if I am upstairs, let alone if I go out. She even has a sign on her gate saying a "spoiled rotten" dog lives there, so there is no need for surreptitious tie wraps. Either very odd or extremely trusting of her.

Back door wide open and dog in?

I’ll get my coat

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RicksAlfas said:

thetapeworm said:

On the subject of bins and neighbours - is it odd to have advance warning of very strong winds but take no steps whatever to stop your three bins from blowing around the neighbourhood?

Or just recovering them and putting them back exactly where they were only for it to happen again?

Or allowing the contents to blow around the area and not make any effort to pick any of it up?

I wedged mine in last night and put a heavy planter in front of them, everyone else on the street seems intent on letting theirs sail towards my driveway at speed when they could have popped them in their garages for the night or put them down the side of the house out of the way.

That said when I went out this morning the whole town seemed to be covered in rogue wheelie bins so it's not just my neighbours.

I am finding more and more people just live their lives by a set routine and aren't capable of any deviation, be it unusual weather, road closed, whatever. There's very little flexible thinking. If a giant hole opened up on a road, I'm sure many commuters would just drive into it on the basis that "I always come this way".

Yup, we live set back from a main road (non estate setting) you place your bin where it doesn’t bother passers by and the like

The usual numpties just Chuck it on the pavement, making young mums move them all out the way to get pushchair through

When it’s windy, they can’t anticipate that they might get knocked over by the wind, just leave them to fall onto the A road causing misery


If it’s windy me and the old boy next door cluster our bins in the hope they offer support/park them in the hedge row a little to reduce a fall direction

When then also have the gimp who puts his bin out around 1am, making no effort to pull it slowly like our other neighbours can manage without us hearing.

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Zetec-S said:

thetapeworm said:

On the subject of bins and neighbours - is it odd to have advance warning of very strong winds but take no steps whatever to stop your three bins from blowing around the neighbourhood?

Or just recovering them and putting them back exactly where they were only for it to happen again?

Or allowing the contents to blow around the area and not make any effort to pick any of it up?

I wedged mine in last night and put a heavy planter in front of them, everyone else on the street seems intent on letting theirs sail towards my driveway at speed when they could have popped them in their garages for the night or put them down the side of the house out of the way.

That said when I went out this morning the whole town seemed to be covered in rogue wheelie bins so it's not just my neighbours.

Round here there's a competition to see who can leave their bin closest to the edge of the kerb when it's windy. And then another competition to see how long it can be ignored when the bin has been blown over.

I'll draw the line at picking up all the crap, but if I'm out on the morning dog walk I'll move/pick up any bins which are blocking the way, yet I've seen other people literally step over one rather than spend the 5 seconds picking it up.

Likewise a few times I've got out the car to move one in the middle of the road, yet most people mount the pavement to drive round. I've even seen one person turn their car around and go a different way....

Jenny from facebook told me this is classic a foreign gypsy trick

You stop to bend over to pick stuff up, they will then put the ghost of a dead gypsy dog up your bum and steal your dog

Might even put a chalk mark on the ground

Stay safe hun

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Roofless Toothless said:

Why does it always seem to be bin day wherever you go on Google Earth Street View?

You talk rubbish, you wheelie do

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Alfa numeric said:

There’s a bloke in my village that absolutely has to park his car outside the front of his house despite having a garage around the back. Trouble is he lives on the main road into the village, which is in itself the main way that other villages access major roads, so twice a day the traffic builds up outside his house and the road slowly grinds to a halt.

Recently one night his car was hit at speed and was completely destroyed. Yet the following day a hire van appeared in the same spot, sitting in all of the sand that had been put down to soak up the fluids from his written off car. Shortly after another car appeared in the spot, already festooned with adverts for his children’s party business.

As you can imagine he’s not very popular. The local facebook groups have several posts about him, many people stating that they’d never use him for their kids parties. He’s also been called the least liked person in the village, which considering he lives about three minutes away from Captain Tom’s house is quite the accolade…

Beeeeep beeep beep as you pass

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Kev_Mk3 said:

Chap over the road from me as we are end cul desac just our house and his. Always trims or works on the front garden at the most random of times and 90% of the time in the rain in winter, in shorts. 3 days ago he was cutting the bush with scissors, Saturday someone turned up and cut it down taking it away so the chap over from me decided to pull ivy off and dump it on the ground before going for a walk.

He is very socially difficult but his wife and daughter are lovely - they actually say the same thing about him! Since he retired he spends 8hours a day 7 days a week in the gym.


Rest of my neighbours are just utter bellend gossips, who like to try out doing each other (keeping up with the jones situation) so we avoid them like the plague. Sad really as all our kids are the same age and be great if they socialised but the parents are raciest sadly (They are very raciest about myself and wife behind our backs as we've heard them talking about us when we have been outside )

Terrible really, their loss

Keeping up with the Jones’s always tickles me. Nothing I really have is that fancy but (at the moment ) I am financially in a reasonable spot due to not having everything on lease.

My wife will go out with the female half of our friends for drinks and she says the all moan about not having enough for a new sofa as they are still paying for the previous two, the car lease is coming to an end and the next one is going to be a lot more etc

I couldn’t sit in a fancy car or sofa knowing it’s financially crippling me and mentally bringing me down

The school run is comical with all the huns and their flash leased motors, then you see the state of their chaotic life’s and wonder really who is impressed by the 3 year old merc

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I think a lot of people are just selfish and simply can’t think of anyone else than themselves

Years ago we purchased a do er upper and I was very considerate of the neighbours and noise, I thought they appreciated it

We had a baby and out of the blue the dozy sod next door started drilling at 2130 on a Sunday evening.

I let it slide for an hour in case it was some urgent work, when I knocked on the door he just looked puzzled at why I was asking him to stop


The house was an old ex authority house with concrete gutters and also needed a new roof (concrete gutters are fine until they are not, then you are in all sorts of lining / leaking / seeping)

I got a quote for a new roof and sanding off of the gutters to be replaced with conventional guttering

For arguments sake let’s say they wanted 25 grand to do my half and 32 to do mine and the other half of semi all done at the same time. (So basically a tiny material cost difference)

At the time i couldn’t really stretch to get mine done but could if I could get next door involved we’d both get it done a lot cheaper and a MUCH neater job. I approached him and he wasn’t really interested which is fine

A year or so later his mum dies and he gets some inheritance

I was asleep in bed and hear a scaffolding start to go up, the daft sod is only getting his done, this annoyed me as the overlap always becomes a gray area.

He had it all done and I asked how much he paid, it was roughly the same as I was quoted, he would have saved himself about 10k if we’d had it done together. I can only think he either didn’t think of others or he didn’t like me

Thankfully we had decided to move and moved on before our roof and gutters became a problem, so in hindsight his selfishness was a blessing but I still can’t figure out the thought process

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My sister is considerate of others when it suits her agenda

She was moaning about a neighbours kid on their trampoline, few year later she moves after having a kid and shoves the trampoline right down the bottom of the garden as the noise is annoying - fk the neighbours

Some with her bloody barking dog, kicks up a fuss over other dogs, but forgets her dog yaps all the time, selfish tt. Don’t know where she gets it from as both my folks are considerate of others