Neighbour keeps littering MY back Garden

taker920

Reggie_Rebel wrote: »

Keep them for a week, wrap them in an old towel set light then chuck them back through his letterbox

The answer has already been provided in post #18

marleyboy

tandraig wrote: »

thought long and hard about this marleyboy - realised after I posted first (nice) suggestion that this is the old sod you were talking about on smoking thread. I know what I would do in your place - next time he is outside smoking by your window chuck a bucket of water over him - apologise profusely and tell him you smelled smoke and thought something was on fire!!! do this every ruddy time and he will soon get message!

Lol, love the idea, but as he is smoking from his bedroom window, it would take a firehose to project up to him.

I should explain I live in a semi detached property his rear bedroom window overhangs his kitchen extension and is a mere 2 ft away from my garden, he simply tosses them down from his window and they land facing my back door.

I have no objections to him smoking, I only object to him using my garden as his personal ashtray. It isnt accidental from him, he knows what he is doing as I have already pointed it out to him, yet every day I am left collecting anything upto 10 butt ends a day from outside my back door.

He could always drop them into his own garden with less effort if he chose to do so, but goes the extra yard and ensures they are "aimed" into my garden.

Amistoso_2

OP, you've had lots of suggestions and advice now, what are you thinking your course of action is going to be?

steveo3002

whats the guy like? big /small ? normal or thug type?

have you got any big friends or relations that could have a word? get em storm round and say a fag just hit em on the head and offer to let him pick them up while they stand over him

juby_2002

tip the entire contents of your wheelie bin (on collection day) in his garden and post a note through his letter box saying words to the effect,

dearest neighbour,
i cannot express my gratitude enough for your efforts in providing me with your cigarette butts. these are a much needed item in my day to day life.
please accept the contents of my wheelie bin on a weekly basis as a token of my gratitude.


hehe

mrcol1000

Amistoso wrote: »

OP, you've had lots of suggestions and advice now, what are you thinking your course of action is going to be?

Lets just hope its not listening to 90% of the advice on here otherwise it will be him being prosecuted for flytipping or arrested.

Fella

Commiserations OP, your neighbour sounds like a prize ar*ehole.

I suggest you speak to him once more, face to face, politely, but make it VERY clear that this is not a joking matter & that you want agreement from him that it won't ever happen again. He would need to be a complete idiot to want to initiate a major & serious falling-out with his next-door neighbour over something like this.

If the above doesn't work it's going to be tricky. One possible avenue would be to bang loudly on his door & return his cigarrette butt to him & demand an explanation for why he persists in doing it every time it happens from then on. Again, unless he's actually a masochist he should soon get fed up with that.

kitekat

What about turning it into a game called Catch The Butt,you stand outside your door holding a bucket with a tiny opening at top and tell him each time he misses he has to pick the butt up.Seriously i would get the enviromental health out to see the mess and let them deal with him.

tandraig

marleyboy wrote: »

Lol, love the idea, but as he is smoking from his bedroom window, it would take a firehose to project up to him.

I should explain I live in a semi detached property his rear bedroom window overhangs his kitchen extension and is a mere 2 ft away from my garden, he simply tosses them down from his window and they land facing my back door.

I have no objections to him smoking, I only object to him using my garden as his personal ashtray. It isnt accidental from him, he knows what he is doing as I have already pointed it out to him, yet every day I am left collecting anything upto 10 butt ends a day from outside my back door.

He could always drop them into his own garden with less effort if he chose to do so, but goes the extra yard and ensures they are "aimed" into my garden.

sorry marleyboy - i must have misremembered your post as you saying he also smokes outside and it drifts into your house.......hmmmmmmmm you COULD do it if he has window open and YOU have hosepipe - lol would work even better then!!!!!!!!!!!!! or even better a karcher!!!! blow the old sod off his perch. oops - that wasnt nice was it? MEANT IT THOUGH

tandraig

ok if you arent going to take me up on offer to rough him up for you....I would go with Fellas suggestion if you are at home all day - or collect them all up each day and return them in person - get very loud so all the neighbours can hear !!!
btw - did you say you had only been there few months? did previous owners have probs with this guy and was it in the pack (if you had one?)