Tresspassers in our garden - grrrr

daska

We have a trespasser that comes into our garden every night and chucks bread around!

Now, I fully admit that this was mildly amusing the first few times it happened, we thought it was some old biddy mistaking our garden for a public park - there are no other gardens on the high street and this does, admittedly, look more park like with railings and mature trees etc.

But it's happening every night! Sometime between midnight and 7am. So it's obviously not an old biddy. We tried securing the gate and the bread was chucked over the 7' high fence. Last night we secured the gate and the perp made his/her way around to the back of the house and came through the back gate -also depositing a bright yellow, unused, condom. :mad: so we now think it's probably a 'he'.

As some of you might know I'm disabled, my husband is ill and we have a toddler - I really don't want bread of unknown provenance tempting either our toddler or rats and it's not exactly a couple of minutes work - clearing this up basically uses up my 'free' energy for the day! The police aren't overly interested because it's not exactly up there with breaking and entering...

So, as everyone on here has an obvious interest in their garden and might have had to deal with veg/plants being nicked etc. I thought I'd ask for observations/ideas for discouraging said trespasser - preferably ones that are legal though at the moment I'd consider land-mines if I thought we could get away with it.

The odd joke to restore my good humour would be nice as well

Rummer

Have you thought about setting up one of those motion sensor lights that would come on in the area where the bread is being thrown?

Rummer

ducks might be a good purchase to prevent you having to pick up the crumbs!

Lotus-eater

Someone has got it in for you and maybe is trying to attract rats, if you got one of those lights that come on when someone walks into the beam, would that cover the garden, you also used to be able to get ones that set off a internal alarm when the light was triggered, not sure if you still can, but they were pretty cheap.

You want a joke.... be thankful it wasn't a used condom, it doesn't say much about his love life. OK not much of a joke it's the best I can do atm.

msflowerfairy

fake cctv cameras?

tomsolomon

OMG you have a stalker.....
Remember the kid at school you used to bully and steal his sandwich box every day.....;)

RAS

You could get a cheap web cam and set that up to view the garden? And a motion sensor camera?

daska

We think it might be our old neighbour, he a milkman and he has marital problems...

daska

We have problems with 'equipment' in that we live in a rented flat and getting permission to do things can take a while... but the garden is never dark as we have a streetlamp right outside our front gate. I do however have a plethora of PCs, MACs, laptops etc and am not a numpty.

There are three points of access (2 gates and a low wall on the right as you look at the plan) and 'x' marks the bread: (or it would if it let me put the plan in without sqishing it)

Lotus-eater

If you leave the bread will the birds just eat it? If so just leave it and be thankful he's not chucking bricks over the fence.

Zazen999

We have exactly the same problem.



It is the old lady down the road who leaves bread out and the birds drop it as they fly past.