Aibu to have reported the dustbin lorry to the council?

Are you OPs husband? ☎️

Again, so easily avoided if they had just parked properly no? And if they did do it as a favour to their pal to piss the OP off for badness then double hell mend them.

They were caught in the crossfire of a neighbour with a grudge looking to cause trouble. Blocking a drive for a short time when the intention wasn’t malicious and act was a minor inconvenience/annoyance at best is very different to actively taking photos, curtain twitching, going Hitchcock rear window and ringing to get them in trouble just to get back at said neighbour. Sure OP even said she didn’t feel proud before digging heels in. Punishment didn’t fit the crime.

Maybe their manager will advise them to go back in time and not block someone's drive at the (likely) behest of their arsehole mate?

It's mystifying to me why anyone would think these bin men are in any way victims here.

You weren't petty with your neighbour though. You were petty with someone who had nothing to do with your relationship with the neighbour. I think I might be able to work out why your neighbours don't like you.
Do you feel better now that you got some innocent bin men in to trouble?

Or just tell to stop pissing off people by blocking access for long periods when they arent with thd vehicle. Then this wouldnt happen again ans everyone is happy.

So you are sorry at all. You need a hobby, stop focusing on your neighbour and use this experience to give your head a good wobble.

I can understand you don’t like them, BUT all you’ve achieved is getting his colleagues into trouble and possibly sacked.

Your actions have upped the anti, so now your neighbours will be even worse.

Bravo (not).

What did you think you would achieve? Or do you lack critical thinking?

OP some of your responses are confusing. On the one hand early on you say you do feel a bit bad, that you’re not proud of it, then your responses argue, very strongly the complete opposite. Even have hidden disability now pulled out of the hat 🎩 🪄.

Imho that was a spiteful thing to do, the intention was malicious and I for one do not buy the but what if there was a sudden emergency straw clutching and I needed out of my drive.

It’s clear if it had been a neighbour you got on with your household would not have turned into supergrass HQ.

I feel sorry for the workies. It’s a rubbish job (no pun intended) and a quick cuppa is not worth them getting into trouble for. They were caught in the crossfire and it’s them not even your neighbours who will be in trouble.

You don’t know what any of them are going through already.

You didn’t call because it was blocking your drive, you did it to get at your neighbour,

You said previously

I think my point is they have been petty about countless things with us and I finally broke and was petty back.

But your husband was with you, could he have not gone? Surely easier and quicker than calling the council?

You always knew they were next door though?

And yet…

Quite obviously, most people are saying it didn't matter in this instance, so you didn't need to tell tales on them. Not that it's good to park across driveways at every opportunity, I'm not sure why you think that's what people are saying.

If they'd blocked you in, you needed to get out and they wouldn't move the truck - you'd have got completely different responses.

eeek

i would say you have made a bad situation even worse

brace yourself for the backlash

To be fair you are noticing what everyone else in your street is doing.

We’d be forgiven for thinking you could.

They were next door assuming they were in uniform, there was no tracking required. 😅

Why didn’t she use her words and ask them to move. She took the time to make a call, take photographs but couldn’t simply ask, instead she caused a lot of trouble for these men, causing upset in the neighbourhood, most people have had an unauthorised tea break.
She is an entitled spiteful person.

There is NO excuse for blocking someone’s drive!

I live in a narrow street where there is only room for cars to park on one side. Parking spaces are hard to come by, even though most houses have a drive, because so many people now have more than one vehicle.

Consequently, delivery vans etc have to choose between blocking the entire road or blocking a drive, and do you know what? No-one really gives much of a toss! More often than not, people know where the driver is delivering to or working, and if they don't, it rarely takes more than a couple of minutes to find out.

When the people across the road were having their loft conversion done, my NDN and I were perfectly happy for their tradesmen to block our drives rather than block the whole sodding street and inconvenience everyone when they had to drop off materials and heavy equipment. And the bin men have to block the entire street when they come and empty our bins, too. There's no way they'd ever find a space big enough to park a dustcart here.

It’s ageist, full stop.