Neighbours throwing fag butts into our garden?!?

tom9980

Dont ask me why people are so thick but they are. Next door are basically a chav family who mostly keep themselves quiet, and they have improved a lot since she moved her new fella in last year. But the son who is now about 18 until a couple of years ago found it funny to throw 1p and 2p coins at our house. Wet toilet roll from the bathroom window (their house is slightly raised and about 6 metres away), a used condom, and this takes the biscuit a used sanitary towel complete with blood.

This has now stopped in the past year because he has moved out after his girlfriend had a baby, at the tax payers expense of course. Frankly its has never been so peaceful.

aileth

I second sending a clear message by sweeping them up and putting them back over, the ashtray suggestion is also brilliant.

You might get a reputation though! From the dealings with our nightmare neighbour, my OH is now known as 'that man'....

fluffnutter

I normally like to give people the benefit of the doubt in neighbour issues. Often said neighbour from hell won't actually be aware of the disturbance they're causing and a friendly word is all that's needed to resolve things.

But somehow I think not in this case - how can you not realise that throwing your still alight cigarette butts into your neighbour's garden is antisocial at best and dangerous at worst??

Obviously OP is still going to need to try to talk to them, but I suspect a call to the local PCSO or similar so that they can knock the door and have a word might be necessary.

jaxjax123

tom9980 wrote: »

Dont ask me why people are so thick but they are. Next door are basically a chav family who mostly keep themselves quiet, and they have improved a lot since she moved her new fella in last year. But the son who is now about 18 until a couple of years ago found it funny to throw 1p and 2p coins at our house. Wet toilet roll from the bathroom window (their house is slightly raised and about 6 metres away), a used condom, and this takes the biscuit a used sanitary towel complete with blood.

This has now stopped in the past year because he has moved out after his girlfriend had a baby, at the tax payers expense of course. Frankly its has never been so peaceful.

That sounds dreadful, hope his girlfriend and him stay together and he doesn't move back home. What a horrid individual.

geoffky

A few years ago we lived next door to a guy that overliked his drink and got that plastered that he could not be a-rsed to go upstairs for a pee and used to go in his back garden..
Dirty scumbag.

MrsAtobe

Do they own or rent? If it's a rental property, who do they rent from? Having lived next door to chav scum from hell, my advice would be different dependant on their situation.

ERICS_MUM

I am so thankful for "my" street full of lovely neighbours. It's surprising what a difference it makes to all our lives especially for me as I live alone and everyone is so supportive if I need help etc.

I do feel for anyone with neighbours from hell.

Linda xx

warehouse

You need to confront them, and until you do nothing will change.

My own thick neighbours had a few friends over and the next morning there were about 10 fag buts in our garden. I collected them and went round and banged on the door nice and early, no answer. So I sellotaped them to a piece of paper and wrote on it that if it happened again then I have a lot of rubbish that would be coming back their way, then put it through their letterbox.

They posted a note back a day later apologising for what happened and it hasn't happened again.

valk_scot

geoffky wrote: »

A few years ago we lived next door to a guy that overliked his drink and got that plastered that he could not be a-rsed to go upstairs for a pee and used to go in his back garden..
Dirty scumbag.

Really, it depends where he "went" in his back garden? Pee is a most excellent activator for the compost bit and keen (male) gardeners often add a bit to the compost bin, if it's in a private enough area. My young son always preferred using the compost bin to coming indoors, not so much now he's a teenager, lol. . We had no on site loos at our allotment site either so the compost bins were well watered. Ladies did this via a bucket in the shed, I must add!

Birdie85

I hope you get his sorted OP. I don't understand why so many smokers think that their cigarette butts aren't litter? I get so frustrated seeing people throw their still smoking butts on the floor- what do they think happens to them?? :mad:

I live in a flat and the neighbour 2 floors above me just loves to smoke whilst hanging out of their window and throw the lit butts on the floor below, which land nicely right in front of my french door- we have to keep our windows closed because the smoke gets in and it stinks! Again, what do they think happens to these? The magic cigarette fairies don't come in the middle of the night to clean them up! :mad: I may borrow the idea of buying them an ashtray as a hint and see what happens!