Now what?!!

Gingernutty

The kiddies seem to stop/get called in about 20:00 these days.

I leave the house to go to work at around 20:30 ish.

Tonight, on leaving the house, carefully laid out, I found a carpet remnant rolled out across my and the adjoining doorsteps, a set of shelves (complete with plastic 'crockery') sitting beside my doorstep (it looks like an old CD/DVD storage unit), lino, a remnant of a kitchen worktop and, sitting pride of place on my windowsill was the bottom of a chocolate fountain.

It looked as if some kid had been playing 'house' on the doorstep. :huh:

I took them into the house - I'll set about taking them apart for the bins tomorrow morning.

It's just getting weirder.

Gingernutty

I got home from a night shift and started sorting stuff out.

As I was washing the pavement, door step and windowsills (:mad:), a huge police officer got out of a tiddly tiny car and started knocking on doors.

No answer from anyone.

He approached me and asked if I was OK and if I'd had trouble with any children.

I told him what had been happening, showed him last night's haul and when he heard who the housing association were, he made sympathetic noises.

He asked when the trouble starts (after school, weekends and holidays), when did the trouble first start (last Summer) and who were involved (next door, her mate two doors down and some random mates their children attract).

He looked at his list and noted I wasn't on it. Half the neighbourhood is though.

I clearly haven't complained enough.

vroombroom

Gingernutty, I have just read your whole thread and you have my deepest sympathies. It's horrible having neighbours like this.

We moved into a rental property in August 2012 - nice big cul de sac with a mixture of privately owed, council and rented like us.

All was fine until March 2013 and the mackem version of Waynetta Slob moved in a few doors down:

• She had at least 5 kids with different dads. They were out at all hours running on the green outside our house, kicking balls at the windows, kicking balls at the cars. When confronted she would get aggressive. They used to run in and out of gardens, winding my dogs up.
• An aggressive dog that used to run all over the road, biting, !!!!!!!!, attacking everyone. I was scared to take my own two dogs out and especially scared to take my son out as well. I recorded the dog on 3 occasions !!!!!!!! directly outside my house and emailed it to the council. She also had cats crapping in my garden (there was a long running thread on here about that last year!)
• She used to have loud parties every weekend with her friends and kids. It was very intimidating coming home from work.

I changed to working nighshifts just before Xmas and I had to endure these kids running and screaming about, in my garden, knocking on the door and running away.



The final straw was coming home one day from shopping just after Xmas to find two of her kids in my back garden, having climbed over the fence, teasing my rabbits and trying to get them out the hutch. I dread to think what would have happened if we had not got home. I went absolutely ape !!!! at them - never seen anyone run so quick in my life.


After that we started looking at either a new rental or buying a house. We ended buying and we moved out in March. Even when the removal van was there she was sat there, with her dog and her friends, kids screaming everywhere. (one of them tried to get into the house)



I drive past every day as we only live a mile down the road and I still see her. I feel sorry for our neighbours (both homeowners) as they are stuck.

Gingernutty

I got home to find more dried up dog doo on the pavement and kiddies taking an interest in the empty house next door.

I washed and swept the pavement and rang 101 about a vulnerable 'void' property.

Why not? Everyone else seems to have done....

One of the older children, a mate of the ones next door, showed up with an iron.

A proper, flatten-your-clothes iron and, after an unsuccessful attempt at ironing the gutter, then started flinging it around the street in an attempt to break it. :eek:

Even the scutter next door told her ferals to get away.:eek:

Iron eventually thrown, she set up residence on my doorstep.

I ventured out and told here that it was my doorstep (indicating next door's as well) and it wasn't a playground. As well as "Get lost".

I didn't swear, honest guv'nor.

Why, when the ferals live next door, do they congregate around my house?

Gingernutty

Tonight, a broken rocking horse which I've left on the doorstep of one of the scutters.

Gingernutty

Gingernutty wrote: »

Tonight, a broken rocking horse which I've left on the doorstep of one of the scutters.

And has now returned.

I'll take it to pieces and throw it. :mad:

purpleshoes_2

Contact environmental health if you are getting stuff dumped on your doorstep, does your area have community police officers and also you can go through a formal complaints procedure or you should be able to with the housing association/whoever the landlord is of the nuisance tenants.

Dont get involved in tit for tat stuff, its frustrating but its not worth it, if the area has CCTV ask for the housing association to check it and see who is dumping the items

Ask for the items to be uplifted and make it clear they arent yours.

And your local councillor/MP might be able to help if you contact them.

Gingernutty

I know the PCSOs for my area by sight, regularly ring 101 and have complained by email to the sergeant for my area.

I'll look up my MP's surgeries and see how that goes.

PlymouthMaid

Oh Gingernutty I have just read your saga. I feel so sorry for you. We have some awful neighbours right now but not as bad as this thanks goodness although if they had kids I think they would be similar.

Gingernutty

So

After finding bits of the seals from around my windows on the pavement,

I have

Complained about criminal damage to the police (got crime reference number) :mad:

Sent a stiffly worded email to the housing association

Sent another email to the local neighbourhood police sergeant

Traced the lender of the other property a few doors down and found that although the tenants have only moved in last year, the owner of the house has been registered as living at that address since 2005.

So I reported the tenants to the lender.

The local councillor is have an open surgery on Saturday - I'll be there. :mad:

I've also shredded the rocking horse. The Steed of Chucky gave me heart failure every time I walked into the room.....:eek: