Neighbours + Rotten Veg

aileth

Hi all, I posted a long post about this with all the background on the House board but it's been very quiet, probably because it was such a long post!

So I'll keep it simple here, one question:

If your neighbours started chucking rotten fruit and veg over your fence, what would you do?

My dad has been tempted to throw it back, but tit-for-tat with said neighbours is a losing game. Their back yard is all paving slabs so it's not as if he can leave it and fertilise the flowers!

wiogs

I would want to know why the neighbours were throwing their rubbish into my garden.

Any ideas?

good_advice

Let him know you have seen him/her doing it!
Tell the other neighbours to shame them.
Shout out to make them jump when you catch them! make them know you have seen.

Lily-Rose_3

I would plain and simple ask the, why they're doing it!

See if you can video them doing it.

aileth

There was a huge kick-off between them at the end of last year, where they claimed my parents were incredibly noisy, and they would do things like banging on the wall and screaming for my parents to be quiet when they were laid in bed! They contacted the Council without a single word to my parents claiming the tumble drier was keeping them up all night (tumble drier is in a shed at the bottom of the garden) and they never put it on at night.

In contrast, the neighbours used to have the most horrific arguments with her screaming so loud my parents called the Police once.

All seemed to be sorted just after Christmas with my dad sitting down and having a chat with the husband (his wife is a psychopath), culminating with the bloke inviting my dad to the pub for a drink. Seems he is rather beleaguered with his nutcase wife and hadn't heard anything she'd complained of.

Anyway, all went quiet until about a week ago, where rotten food is now being thrown over the fence. My dad has attempted to talk to the wife when she is in the back garden but gets told to f-off. No sign of husband so think he has legged it.

These aren't chavvy ASBO types. They are a middle-class family. We are wondering whether it is the kids throwing it, but wouldn't put it past the wife as she is a fruitcake.

tom9980

I would get Video evidence edit a copy of multiple throwing events and send the whole street a specially made DVD including DVD case with their ugly mugs printed on the front entitled "Our Lovely Neighbours"

aileth

tom9980 wrote: »

I would get Video evidence edit a copy of multiple throwing events and send the whole street a specially made DVD including DVD case with their ugly mugs printed on the front entitled "Our Lovely Neighbours"

Better idea than my dad's, who wanted to throw meat over and swarm their garden with cats and foxes :eek:

Morglin

If you know it's her, use the rotten veg, make her a stew and take it round saying you thought it was a hint that she wanted her dinner....:whistle:

Lin

pimento

Call your local Environmental Health department and tell them you have spotted a rat eating one of the rotten cabbages your neighbour is in the habit of throwing over the fence. Then let them deal with it.

KxMx

I'd rig up some CCTV so it's clear the direction the rotten stuff is coming from, and then complain to the relevant places.

Mirno

Don't throw it back (or anything else for that matter) - if they video your Father throwing stuff in their garden it's him in trouble.
Get evidence of them doing it, and report it to the council (environmental health) and/or the police.