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To be scared by moving bin bag? Wwyd?

60 replies

RosaParksIsBack · 21/01/2014 20:51

I live in a Victorian semi, bay window on front, front door at side down a (private, mind only) path that also leads to my back gate. Neighbour that I'm not joined to has same so their front door is opposite mine they also have a path to back gate, path is split in half by 3foot wall all along.

So, lots of extra rubbish recently, dh works abroad a lot, I don't drive so have to wait for him to come back to go to tip. Our wheelie bin is outside our front door and about two foot to the right. Currently full, dh in poland.

Bear with me it gets more interesting Grin

I put two black bin bags out the front of my door and to the right by the bin.

Went out last week, came back and one of the bin bags was right in front of my door in the middle of the steps. I thought 'weird' but was so busy just forgot about it. Friday I went to pick children up from school, bin bag my right of door. Came back, came in house. Hour later I opened door to let cat out and the bin bag is on my steps again right in the middle. Freaked out as dh still away and next door were broken into recently. Saw next door and asked them, they say not them, (I could understand sort of if was as it is next to ish their front door but would expect them to just speak to me, they're nice we get on ok) but that a different neighbour who lives opposite and a good 40/50 foot away on other side of a road, had been moaning about my bin bags.

Tonight, left house, bin bag where I put it. Went and picked children up, got back (20 mins) and there was the bin bag in the middle of my steps again in front of my door. Really freaked out as twice it's happened when I've gone to pick children up so is he watching me leave??

I know the type of person to do this is unlikely to be a murderer (!) but aibu to feel totally freaked out and scared? And what should I do?

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HarrietSchulenberg · 21/01/2014 20:54

I would be very tempted to stick a bag of bricks out there and watch the f*cker try to shift them.

MrsTerryPratchett · 21/01/2014 20:56

Note on the bag: medical waste BEWARE.

LynetteScavo · 21/01/2014 20:57

That wouldn't scare me, I would blame the neighbour opposite and get quite Angry

The brick idea is genius!

justgirl · 21/01/2014 20:57

so..it could be the neighbour thats opposite?? to be quite frank, i'd be straight round there to ask wtf they thought they were doing and to mind their bloody own!!

headinhands · 21/01/2014 21:03

Oh god this is why I'm almost too scared to move away from my current house on a council estate. I'd be worried about having to deal with those sorts of freakazoids.

WitchWay · 21/01/2014 21:08

It's not somehow being blown across? Sounds very odd.

Dinnaeknowshitfromclay · 21/01/2014 21:08

I would have to have a mate dress as me and fake going out and then lie in wait behind the door and catch the bugger at it! Perhaps one of those hideous Halloween masks would add a bit of heart attack potential too to put the living bejeezus up the freak!

RosaParksIsBack · 21/01/2014 21:10

Love the bricks idea and the medical waste :D

If it was the neighbours whose door faces mine I could kind of see thier point as the bags are outside my door and therefore theirs albeit with the 3 foot wall in between. But this guy opposite is ages away, prob 15 foot my side path then 3 foot pavement then 10 foot road then 3 foot pavement then his drive - weird!

Dh came back about 6pm to me v upset and wanted to go round but vid asked him not to as I'm scared of some weird neighbour war Confused

My parents have suggested recording on the iPad out the front bay when I go out to capture who goes up my path.

Would non emergency police be interested??

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PumpkinPie2013 · 21/01/2014 21:10

That would freak me out too!!

How well do you know the man opposite? Can you go and speak to him and ask if there are any problems regarding bin bags?

What about next door neighbours? Are they in when you go out? Can they watch what happens?

Most bizarre!

I also second the brick idea! Grin xx

BillyNotQuiteNoMates · 21/01/2014 21:10

A bit of chewed gum stuck on the top of the bag might do the trick! or syrup, or super glue, or dog shit..... (stopping now before i get carried away Wink )

RosaParksIsBack · 21/01/2014 21:12

Witch - thought of that but too heavy definitely

Dinnae - excellent idea, dh has also said for mad to go to pick children up and he'll wait up road to see who it is but this is seriously ridiculous!!

It is strange isn't it? Why not just talk to me? Can anyone think of any other explanation? Can't be animals moving them unless they're very neat!

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looselegs · 21/01/2014 21:13

.....maggots......it's full of maggots.....

AndHarry · 21/01/2014 21:15

I thought this was going to be a thread abouta something moving inside a bin bag and was going to say call the police! That would really freak me out...

Get a bit of chalk and do an ironic 'X' on your step labelled 'bin bag'. Ha.

AndHarry · 21/01/2014 21:15

Or do more recycling!

RosaParksIsBack · 21/01/2014 21:15

Sorry for typos my fingers are too fat for iPad!

Now I do have dogs so could work the dog shit angle Grin

Whoever is going if isn't likely to murder me are they? (Dog shit suggestion aside)? Just freaking me out that they're watching me and walking up my path right to my door

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RosaParksIsBack · 21/01/2014 21:17

MAggots would be uber freaky!!!!!!

Waste is guinea pig / rabbit cages- we don't have garden waste bins so have to put in normal refuse, can it be recycled?

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SqutterNutBaush · 21/01/2014 21:18

Sounds like you're weird neighbour up the street.

I'd be tempted to fill a bag with food waste (messier the better) and a 2 litre bottle of water inside, take it out slit the base with a knife a nd sit somewhere with a good view...

PumpkinPie2013 · 21/01/2014 21:19

Recording on the ipad may be good.

You could try non emergency police.

See if it happens while your dh is home?

Dinnaeknowshitfromclay · 21/01/2014 21:20

I think directly accusing would be wrong and they would just deny it and you would be no further forward. You definitely need to get clever and subversive to know exactly what is going on. In your shoes I would be freaked but I would also have to know for sure who it was otherwise it would drive me crazy. Get inventive.

sharonosaurus · 21/01/2014 21:23

Hide IN the bag OP & scare the fuck life out of them.

Please make two eye holes & a mouth hole though. Grin

Cousin It

Joysmum · 21/01/2014 21:23

I personally would nip across to the neighbours, explaining you've had problems and have reported it to 101 who advised you to ask the neighbours to keep a lookout and set up a camera. That should sort them out! Wink

tethersend · 21/01/2014 21:26

Get inside the bin bag and get your husband to tie it up.

Your neighbour will be laughing on the other side of his face. Possibly from a hospital ward.

tethersend · 21/01/2014 21:27

xpost with sharon Grin

babacoon · 21/01/2014 21:30

OP you have to come back and tell us when you find out.

Personally I am in 100% agreement with sharanosaurus :d

RosaParksIsBack · 21/01/2014 21:31

My dh tying me up in the bin bag and involving the neighbours -kinky Grin Grin !!!

That's another thing that weirded me out, the three times it's happened dh has been away, hasn't happened while he's been here.

I think iPad will be used definitely and possibly me naked in the bin bag should stop it

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