How to stop a neighbour from throwing their rubbish over the hedge

bestpud

Has your dad spoken to the police or a CSO?

The CSOs round here are very good and would deal with this very quickly.

How big is the estate? Could one of you help him out by sitting in a car at the end of every street (one by one) until you spot him entering his own home? You know what time he's out and about so it can't be that difficult, surely?

Then the council can send him a letter and you have the start of a paper trail.

I'm afraid I'd dump it in his garden too but I don't think it will help tbh. Given his age and the way he denied it and carried on, he either has a serious grudge against your dad or he's got some sort of a problem himself.

It's odd that he checks first and stops if your dad is in the garden - that suggests it's malicious but it could also be he had a mental health problem.

We had a neighbour once who had a lot of BBQs and would chuck chicken bones and cans etc into our garden. One evening, my ex collected them up and threw them back. There was a lot of drunken sniggering but they never did it again. Some people really are just plain rude but this doesn't seem to be the case with this guy tbh.

It's essential he keeps a diary of these activities as he will get nowhere without it. Hopefully it will show gaps when this guy was unable to get out for whatever reason.

Another thought - do you have local police and community meetings - they are called PACT here but I don't know is it's a nationwide thing...?

They hold local meetings where community members can go along and discuss concerns like this and can be quite helpful in finding other 'victims' and/or getting some help.

Juneno

Hi,
What kind of rubbish is he throwing? Does any of it have any clues as to who he is or where he lives?
I agree with the others in that the community cops are the best way to go but failing that I'd stick a fake cctv camera on the hedge and tell him I was filming him!
Hope it all turns out well - nothing more annoying than someone littering your garden deliberately! I live just down from the local high school and am sick of picking up rubbish from my garden due to ill mannered kids!

King_Nothing

Bag it up, along with your rubbish, and scatter it on his lawn.

nzmegs

What about cutting the hedge down so it isn't as high. he might be taking advantage of the fact he can't be seen from the house. If the hedge is cut down to around 4 or 5 feet it would still offer some privacy, but might stop him.

venus1978

bestpud wrote: »

Has your dad spoken to the police or a CSO?

The CSOs round here are very good and would deal with this very quickly.

How big is the estate? Could one of you help him out by sitting in a car at the end of every street (one by one) until you spot him entering his own home? You know what time he's out and about so it can't be that difficult, surely?

Then the council can send him a letter and you have the start of a paper trail.

I'm afraid I'd dump it in his garden too but I don't think it will help tbh. Given his age and the way he denied it and carried on, he either has a serious grudge against your dad or he's got some sort of a problem himself.

It's odd that he checks first and stops if your dad is in the garden - that suggests it's malicious but it could also be he had a mental health problem.

We had a neighbour once who had a lot of BBQs and would chuck chicken bones and cans etc into our garden. One evening, my ex collected them up and threw them back. There was a lot of drunken sniggering but they never did it again. Some people really are just plain rude but this doesn't seem to be the case with this guy tbh.

It's essential he keeps a diary of these activities as he will get nowhere without it. Hopefully it will show gaps when this guy was unable to get out for whatever reason.

Another thought - do you have local police and community meetings - they are called PACT here but I don't know is it's a nationwide thing...?

They hold local meetings where community members can go along and discuss concerns like this and can be quite helpful in finding other 'victims' and/or getting some help.

We have no idea what this guys problem is if it is mallicious as dad, until he spoke to him directly to ask him to stop doing this had never met him in his life.

Its not an Estate he lives in, its just streets of houses and bungalows in a rural type area, but the people living there are older people, as there are a lot of bungalows.

He's been living there for 8 years now, he knows most of his neighbours around him and gets along with them, although none of them know the mans identity but I think thats becase he lives up and around the corner.

The guy is so so cagey when he sees anyone about its unreal, dads tried to follow him and work out where he lives just not very sucessfully. He has an idea and has been looking to see if he can spot him coming and going during the day when its less obvious, but nothing so far.

He was going to speak to the man again lastnight if he saw him, but because of the bad weather over here he wasn't sure he would be out. I have't got to speak to dad yet today.

We live in Northern Ireland, I've never heard of PACT before, I'll google it and see what I can find thanks

venus1978

nzmegs wrote: »

What about cutting the hedge down so it isn't as high. he might be taking advantage of the fact he can't be seen from the house. If the hedge is cut down to around 4 or 5 feet it would still offer some privacy, but might stop him.

Hi theres no way dad will cut down the hedges as it offers him a lot of privacy in the front garden and stops the house across the street from looking down into the house. Its one of the things that attracted my mum and dad to the bungalow, they could have pottered about out the front undisterbed.

Plus the hedges are his pride and joy and I'm sure it took someone many many years to grow them the way they did before Dad took them over

venus1978

Juneno wrote: »

Hi,
What kind of rubbish is he throwing? Does any of it have any clues as to who he is or where he lives?
I agree with the others in that the community cops are the best way to go but failing that I'd stick a fake cctv camera on the hedge and tell him I was filming him!
Hope it all turns out well - nothing more annoying than someone littering your garden deliberately! I live just down from the local high school and am sick of picking up rubbish from my garden due to ill mannered kids!

He's getting cigarette butts, orange peels, banana peels apple cores, crisp packets.

On the video the man comes along, stops at the the hedge, puts his hands in his pockets while looking all around him and then when he's sure no one is about he throws it up and over.

CaptainHornblaster

If you throw rubbish out of your garden into the road you can get done for littering, but if you throw rubbish out of your garden into next doors garden it is a civil matter I think. Probably because the rubbish isnt going onto council property.

Clive_Woody

Rather than soaking him with a hosepipe and risking prosecution how about a very loud airhorn to give him the shock of his life.

DON79

Clive_Woody wrote: »

Rather than soaking him with a hosepipe and risking prosecution how about a very loud airhorn to give him the shock of his life.

:rotfl: yes except when he has a heart attack outside your house due to it... the offender is in his 70's too apparently plus the fact that sounding an airhorn at 1am in the morning might get a few complaints

at least with a sprinkler you could claim it was an "accidental soaking"