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neighbours and drugs

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  • Mrs.W_2
    Mrs.W_2 Posts: 584 Forumite
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    edited 4 September 2012 at 9:03PM
    If you can put up with it yourself, this is a good one for driving off pests!
    Whenever the neighbours sit in their garden and begin to light up, nip out with a portable CD/MP3 player, and play this song on repeat.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsKO_r76kfQ

    It drives off the kids who like sitting on/wrecking our garden fence. :)
  • Darlyd
    Darlyd Posts: 1,337 Forumite
    SS Are !!!!!!!! They don't wanna know... They a bunch of paricks!!

    My DD has a friend who gets beaten up at home by her alcoholic father, they don't care...

    I love the smell of weed weirdly enough, my DH smokes it in the evening in the garage, I can't smell it in the house BUT can smell it when I go in the kitchen (right next it garage with a hall way between)..

    The only thing I can think off is if you register with a site fr £3 (someone posted about it) and find out who owns the house and contact them.
  • claire16c
    claire16c Posts: 7,074 Forumite
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    Mrs.W wrote: »
    If you can put up with it yourself, this is a good one for driving off pests!
    Whenever the neighbours sit in their garden and begin to light up, nip out with a portable CD/MP3 player, and play this song on repeat.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsKO_r76kfQ

    It drives off the kids who like sitting on/wrecking our garden fence. :)
    :rotfl::rotfl:
  • Fire_Fox
    Fire_Fox Posts: 26,026 Forumite
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    Mrs.W wrote: »
    If you can put up with it yourself, this is a good one for driving off pests!
    Whenever the neighbours sit in their garden and begin to light up, nip out with a portable CD/MP3 player, and play this song on repeat.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsKO_r76kfQ

    It drives off the kids who like sitting on/wrecking our garden fence. :)

    :beer::beer::beer::beer::beer:
    Declutterbug-in-progress.⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️
  • Tygermoth
    Tygermoth Posts: 1,413 Forumite
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    edited 5 September 2012 at 6:38AM
    My mum had this issue. The neighbours had little respect for anyone or anything. Permanently smoking (there seemed to be a rotating group of them) Loud music, fighting, 'borrowing' a patio set from the garden while my mum was out so they had somewhere for their friends to sit then being totally unapologetic when she went around to get it back.

    She complained to the landlord who basically said as the house was in the middle of nowhere (farm cottage) it was hard to rent so as long as they kept paying there was little he was willing to do.

    It drove my mum spare as they had a 100 ft garden surrounded by fields so if they sat on the other side of the garden or down the other side of the house (where there was decking and beautiful views over the stream and hillside) there would have been no issue. But they refused. They stuck to the dark dank corner where the fence met her house. The stink of drugs was overwhelming.

    It did solve itself but to in a way I would not wish on the OP.

    The neighbours were in the garden smoking when they had a visitor come to the door, they did the usual and flicked the end down the garden and went to answer. Unbeknown to anyone it smouldered, caught and then set fire to the fence.

    Due to the prevailing wind the fire moved from the fence to the wooden soffits of my mum’s house catching the roof alight.

    The water damage after the fire brigade finished was worse than the fire damage.

    The next day it became obvious the tenants next door had done a runner and cleared out the whole house. The landlord thinks it was because the tenants may have thought they were going to be made to pay towards the damage or held on some kind of charges.

    The total insurance claim was 45K (the landlords insurer ended up paying the lions share the rest covered by my mother’s insurer)

    Next door remains empty.
    Please note I have a cognitive disability - as such my wording can be a bit off, muddled, misspelt or in some cases i can miss out some words totally...
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