Over the past year my neighbour has sporadically lit bonfires in an oil drum. When he has lots of leaves, rubbish or anything else he can't be bothered to take to the tip or compost he sets light to it in his oil drum.
The problem is, we live in tiny terraced houses with ten foot gardens, so the bonfires he lights send smoke all over the back of our house and into any open windows. When neighbour first started this, dh and I tried to approach him about it but he ignored us knocking at the door (I think he'd seen us frantically closing windows and knew we were round to complain). So after a few weeks we complained to his landlord in writing and went to see the landlord. He was vaguely interested but obviously couldn't be bothered to deal with it.
So today the neighbour had a bonfire for over an hour, smoke billowing into my house whilst I closed all the windows asap. The serious thing is that ds is six months and had been having a nap in his cot with the window open - his room was filled with smoke. Thankfully as I realised the smoke was there I moved him and he was fine, but had I been in the front of the house I wouldn't have realised and ds could have suffered a lot of smoke inhalation, with horrendous consequences.
I called to the neighbour from the upstairs window once ds was safe and the neighbour was his usual arrogant self, he told me to close the windows if the smoke bothered me and sneered when I said how could I know to close the windows if he didn't tell me he was having a bonfire?! I said didn't he care a six month old baby was napping in a room filled with smoke and he continued his arrogant sneer and disappeared from view.
I called the police on the non emergency number to report his behaviour as I believe it to be dangerous.Aibu? The police said they will speak to him.