Aibu should i call the rozzers on my neighbour?

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My neighbour has told my gardener that she has put weedkiller in MY garden to kill MY weeds WITHOUT telling me!!
I have a dog & 4dcs
Aibu to call the police
Could this have harmed my children or my dog ?

It depends what sort of weedkiller she has used - I think that you should find that out asap.

I think you'd be over reacting somewhat if you called the police!

Better to explain firmly and politely whey they are not to do this again.

i wouldn't call the police, but i'd give your neighbour a bollocking- weedkiller's can be harmful to animals.

was she trying to be helpful or is she just interfering?

YABU having a gardener that does not rid you of weeds what the hell do you pay him for !!

I think the police is a little extreme but yanbu to be pretty angry. That is totally out of order even if you have some sort of major problem like japanese knotweed or ragwort (rural area). Did your neighbour ever raise the issue with you or your gardener before letting fly with the chemicals?

I wouldn't call the police, but I'd be straight round there to give them a bollocking sufficient enough to ensure they didn't bloody do it again!

rozzers. Not heard that for ages!

(helpful)

Do you own your house? If you do and you might ever want to sell it, then don't be so brutal as neighbour dispute can affect your house value. I think your neighbour was a bit U but you really need to speak to them nicely about it first before you unleash hell upon them.

Love your use of word -rozzers :)

She is interfering, and i think my children & animals are a lot more important than fucking weeds.
And no she will not tell me what weed killer it is, and has preceded to throw it on the floor in a temper and burn the bottle in front of me

She is a loon, she has even slagged my mother, father and my mate of in the same discussion, on top of that im also getting prank calls everyday.

I know this all sounds unbelievable but its all true

Wow, don't envy you your neighbour. YANBU.

Not sure you'll get much sympathy from the police though unless you say you have reason to believe she did it intentionally to harm your family. Maybe you could ask them to at least call round and get her to tell them what type of weedkiller it was and warn her of the dangers for the sake of the saftey of your children.

Oh I see, she's an actual nutter. Well, that is a problem.

Haven't heard rozzer since this:
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Are you Paul McCartney?

And is your neighbour called Heather??

"rozzers"

Wow, your neighbour sounds delightful. The police can't and won't do anything about it, so I wouldn't waste time calling them. Make it clear she's not to do it again though!

Si what did the bottle look like?? Was it a spray type bottle?

I always say rozzers, is it archaic now?
anyway, I would be so if a neighbour did this. it is incredibly overbearing and cheeky, did she actually go into your garden to do it or spray over the fence? Weedkiller is horrible toxic stuff, she is barmy using it on someone elses property anyway, but even worse when you have children and pets. Agree though that rozzers may be too much at this stage for the reason above, but you do need to tell her that interfering with your property is illegal and that you are very unhappy and she must not do it again. Hopefully she will apologise. Is she usually this much of a bossy boots?

I'm a bit confused. Whilst it is a bit OTT to phone the police, I would have thought that wilfully pouring poison over your plants (weeds are just plants that grow where you don't want them) would be classed as criminal damage.

I don't see why the Police couldn't do anything...this is tresspass...vandalism...and a downright breach of OP's property without consent!

Sounds abusive and bullying to me and I would phone Police.

If someone tipped rubbish in your garden...you'd phone Police to report 'dumping' or 'fly tipping'....why would it be ok to put poisons onto anyone's property/ground???

you have vulnerable children and a dog whom could be harmed...this is definitely NOT ok!!!

The bottle burned! What in gods name is in it? Massive sympathy. Do you know where she put the stuff - like just on the boundary line or thrown about? If you aren't bothered about the fall-out just get the community rozzers to have a word. Maybe she has some issues and can be helped. I had a problem with my neighbor's builders pissing in the garden, in view of my windows a while back and talking to them just made them stare at my house while they did it (real hillbillies) and in the end I had to say that I would be getting police round if they didn't stop (it worked and they stopped). My neighbours are pretty cool though and they couldn't really argue that I was being unreasonable. We are still friends.

What do you think the police will charge her with?

Yes you should call the police - its criminal damage

She is normally like this, she has even phoned my landlord just now to moan that the tiny weeds are dangerous.
Tbh i will refrain from calling them for now in the hope she gets mental help.
Obviously if anyone gets ill then the police will be called, its quite serious what she has done!

She does sound mentally ill. (I cross posted earlier, sorry). Could you call social services maybe? Or does she have any family? Maybe you do need to let the police know in case things get worse, someone spraying poison around your property is pretty dangerous. I hesitated to say that earlier because of the issue of a problem if you ever want to move, but mental health problems are different from an average annoying neighbour, and so maybe they should have a record of this.