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We were away on holiday over Easter and had the temerity to leave our snow shovel and broom next to our front door. Our neighbour seemingly took offence to this and decided to tidy them away (dump them on the floor next to the garage door).
She’s previously commented on the positioning of our cars, my shepherd’s hut and the kid’s climbing frame. But I’d not witnessed anything this weird before.
Much though I despise our ring kit, it sometimes offers up little gems like this of the truly bat$hit crazy people who inhabit our world.
WWSTWD? Bombers are probably too brutal, there’s a set of EFCs lying around, perhaps they could be left to ooze over the drive?
A shepherd's hut?
You are david cameron and ICMFP.
EDIT: tell her you have video footage of her trespassing and any recurrence will be reported.
Also consider moving shepherd's hut and climbing frame to positions which will maximise her irritation.
Is it possible she thought that leaving the shovel there was advertising the fact that you were on holiday, leaving an empty house? In which case she was perhaps trying to do you a favour.
My first thought is same as Scotroutes. If my neighbour had done same, I would move them for that very reason.
Batshit crazy neighbours. Yep had one of those. Once had a full on hairdryer moment from ex-neighbour in front of a friend who was visiting our house. All about some of the builders stuff in the front garden.
My wife once accidentally opened a letter wrongly delivered to our house. It was a letter stating that they were refunding her the cost of the anger management course as there was nothing they could do for her.
She would also argue with people leaving bad reviews for her restaurant on Trip Advisor.
Is that her partner telling her, you've got CCTV in the clip?
Also consider moving shepherd’s hut and climbing frame to positions which will maximise her irritation.
I'd suggest making the snow shovel and broom a perminent feature, screwing them down would add to the joy.
I did think she might just have been helpful, but her husband’s commentary suggests otherwise. Also it’s 25m from the gates to the front door. The gates lie 200m up a farm track in the middle of nowhere and she literally dumped them on the floor in front of the garage.
Talk to her and ask why she moved them?
Talk to her and ask why she moved them?
This, because I don't think it will be a surprise that it's on camera:
Is that her partner telling her, you’ve got CCTV in the clip
To my ears, that sounds like someone saying "What for? They've got CCTV", which would lead me to suspect it was an act of trying to remove signs that you're away; the (presumably) other half's question and stating you've got a camera could be to explain to her that it's unnecessary.
Or she could just be one of those people, as initially suspected. I might be mishearing the name, but it sounds like 'Lou'. Which is often short for...
If she finds the snow shovel offensive enough to have to move it out of sight I would up the ante.
After a nice letter saying please dont enter our property when you know we are away and throw our possessions on the floor
Then acquire a fridge, washing machine, bigger fridge, beer keg, large rusty bbq, V8 engine and gearbox, rusty transit van etc etc
You will be able to retire on the tik tok hits with a tiny bit of effort and a directional mic down the drive
I’d suggest making the snow shovel and broom a perminent feature, screwing them down would add to the joy.
This genuinely made me laugh. Perhaps paint them hot orange or similar for added visual effect.
Leave them there again but smear the handles with a suitable repulsive/sticky gunk of your choosing!
Humourous answers aside, if someone is that wound up by something as trivial as this, they have problems. The bigger thing to do is try and understand what triggers it and try and minimize the triggers. You are under no obligation to do this, but you will have the moral high ground.
Sorry binman - no one has the right to come onto your property and move your stuff.
Sorry binman – no one has the right to come onto your property and move your stuff.
Not sure I inferred anything about rights.
Does she know she's now on the internet?
What binman said is essentially what my wife said. My programmed empathy sometimes misses out these queues.
Spoke to the previous owner who basically confirmed that she’s a bottom bracket short of a bicycle.
What binman said is essentially what my wife said. My programmed empathy sometimes misses out these queues.
Spoke to the previous owner who basically confirmed that she’s a bottom bracket short of a bicycle.
Just trying to add some balence, your wife is a better person than me as I did spend a few minutes wondering whether you could rig the broom and snow shovel to something that exploded if it was moved 😁.
It looks to me like she has an indignant walk and sounds like she's chucking your property on the ground whilst poor mr is trying to rein her in a bit. I reckon her problems might be terminal not temporary. I'd just tell her to keep off my property or else the footage will be posted on the community website.
EDIT: tell her you have video footage of her trespassing and any recurrence will be reported.
I'm intrigued, to whom?
I’m intrigued, to whom?
It's trespassing, which in itself not a crime, it can be classed as anti-social behaviour.
So you can report it to the local council or even the police.
Shepherd's hut, hairdryer moment, what parallel universe have I stumbled into here?
Humourous answers aside, if someone is that wound up by something as trivial as this, they have problems.
Are you referring to the neighbour or the OP? 😁
The bigger thing to do is try and understand what triggers it and try and minimize the triggers.
Trigger's broom, obvs.
Ask her to replace the broken snow shovel and broom as you have video evidence of them being fine until she interfered with them.
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I thought perhaps string Christmas lights around them, or even have neon signs made...
It’s trespassing, which in itself not a crime, it can be classed as anti-social behaviour.
So you can report it to the local council or even the police.
It’s probably best to avoid escalating disputes with neighbours tbh, it could cause problems when it comes time to sell.
Can you have a reasonable conversation with the woman? If not don’t worry about it and accept she’s odd. Life’s too short and all that.
bottom bracket short of a bicycle.
Lol....not heard that used before👏
It’s trespassing, which in itself not a crime, it can be classed as anti-social behaviour.
So you can report it to the local council or even the police.
The OP should go to the council and the police because someone moved their brush around a corner?
Prop up a framed picture of her moving the shovel in the same place. If she does it again, replace it with a picture of her moving the picture.
PS Posting the world 'ling' multiple times can lead to unforseen consequences on this forum.
I think I’ll leave the rozzas alone, they’ve enough to deal with without trying to reprimand the errant brush displacer of Beamish.
Reposition and attach blank firing shotgun tripmine and film the consequences.. Please
The OP should go to the council and the police because someone moved their brush around a corner?
I would’ve thought its more that she made the rather unnecessary trip down his drive onto his property to carry out the completely unnecessary act of moving the homeowner’s items. Unless you think that is normal and/or acceptable behaviour, I suppose.
Whether or not it's normal or acceptable, I very much doubt that any authority will be overly concerned with the capital crime of moving a neighbour's cleaning materials a few metres.
The last thing you want is to be in a position where every time you do something outside your house you're thinking 'what would her next door think/say/do whatever.' It's like low level narcissistic bullying and you need to put a stop to it. It is triviaL but what you decide to leave around in your yard is no business of hers.
BTW it all looks very orderly anyway but I would be a bit concerned about that board behind the shepherd's residence delaminating.
You need a gnome for that snow shovel.
A gnome?
No, what he needs is a full sized pirate mannequin holding the snow shovel. Whilst stamding to attention, complete with black teeth, parrot and tricorn hat.
every time you do something outside your house you’re thinking ‘what would her next door think/say/do whatever.
It's that sort of thinking that makes me put underwear on when I have to put the bin out though. And trousers.
Make of them a sacrificial offering; hide them beneath their car so the next time it's driven away they get run over. Maybe add a dead animal for extra impact; something the cat brought home, roadkill, whatever, no animal cruelty should be necessary.
<makes mental note: never, ever cross other mountain bikers, they’re like you but invincible in more dimensions>.
OP states it's 25 mtr from gates to front door and gates are 200+ mtrs fron road.
So neighbour hasn't just leaned over the fence or 'popped around'.
She has deliberately gone out of her way to trespass and interfere.
That merits a very clear...stay off my property, you have no rights to be on my land; any repetition will lead directly to a complaint to police.
Nip over to hers and move a few small things about? Plant pot, shrubbery, their car.
Nothing to add beyond suggesting she never visit Canada. It's the norm to have the snow shovel outside leaning against the house for 6 months of the year as otherwise how do you start clearing the path? No point having it in the garage when there's 2ft of snow between you and it.
I suggest you don't just sweep it under the carpet, swallow a scoop of concrete and HTFU and confront the neighbour...
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...or you could try what I did when i was a teenager. We had a neighbour that wanted to buy land off us but we refused and he became a regular pain, complaining about everything, such as he didn't like where our visitors parked their cars when they came to our house. He claimed the cars restricted his view of the main road when he tried to pull out. This was BS because we had to use the same route to the road and it made no difference at all.
A couple of nights before I left for uni I came home at silly o'clock and a mate and I decided to play football in the garden to annoy him. Just hitting passes the length of the lawn. To make it worse we took all our clothes off, so that he'd certainly hear the sound of skin on ball(s) but he'd be too embarrassed to do anything about it.
Perhaps this summer you could try sunbathing au naturel?