To be highly irritated by neighbour that keeps displaying banners outside their house

[conniedescending]

A neighbour on our road displays a banner on their house almost all of the time with a written message. Their supposed to be 'humerous' messages but make the area seem downmarket and it's less than salubrious as it is.

People in cars can read them and there's been accidents on the road before because people are rubber necking as they go past.

Every time a new msg goes up i get a batshit rage come on and have plans to get a ladder in the night and rip the fucking thing down.

[IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou]

make the area seem downmarket and it's less than salubrious as it is.

Hang on, we are still talking about Leicester right??

[alltoomuchrightnow]

oh dear. He would perhaps make more of an impact if could spell. Can't view the Nestles video..... But why the Hare Krishna music for the banners one?

[MaccaPaccaismyNemesis]

Drove by today and there was a mannequin! Has that always been there?

[Wishful80smontage]

We love brocks hill macca we have tickets for the new amphitheatre show :)

[Wishful80smontage]

I knew this would be the house before I clicked on I drive past it to get to work nearby. Often thought wtf about the banners - and what the person behind them is like!
Lots of us live in Leics then!

[conniedescending]

I was looking outside my window today and wondering how many MN were driving past! The banners are poor taste and I don't really want my younger kids reading them and the language everyday.

I'm going to call LCC and ask if there's anything they can do. Inter tingly enough I have never seen the banners go up or down. They just seem to change one day. I wonder if he does them overnight!

[sashh]

Do you live near here?

www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.591699,-2.099263,3a,43.1y,48.15h,82.01t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s2nBCpjhvwktp93F2BUypZQ!2e0

[StupidBloodyKindle]

Nestle are wankers full stop, for what they did in terms of promoting formula feed in African countries. I remember the boycott nestle campaigns in the student unions over twenty years ago. So yep, no question, the guy's had a stressful time of it. Wasn't he ex RAF? But, that's by the by, many if not all of us have shit to deal with. Such is life. Very few lead a charmed existence without stress, tragedy or mental/physical illness. But we don't all find solace in misogynist, fattist or insulting comments, masquerading as free speech/humour. Some of us just go to see stand-up instead.

[Aussiemum78]

Those banners would meet an unfortunate fire accident if they were near me.

[BettyCatKitten]

I'm at the nestle pictures, disgusting. I won't be buying their products any more. The poor guy was hounded by nestle.

[StupidBloodyKindle]

YANBU

It would be like living next to one of Steve Wright's posse or a Fast Show character. Look at me, I'm being funny.
I'm so so whacky/kooky/goofball. It's all Bantz.
And if you have a problem with it it's because you are humourless/have a sense of humour by-pass/are po faced.

When maybe, just maybe, it's not that funny. Theresa May sexy? Undertaker, no fatsos? Kate Middleton should get her baps out?
It's like Viz taken literally. Characters like Jonny No Foot, where Mr Price goes out in a wheelchair holding a fake bloody foot next to a stump, is beyond Dom Joly. Maybe this guy should be doing League of Gentlemen, Christ knows, but the time on his hands could be put to better use than changing his name to Pppppppppprice to make it into the papers, with a suggestion that it is pronounced like Gareth Gates would say it.

The papers probably won't touch the banners as a story because the guy is quite clearly vulnerable.
The police turn a blind eye, following the Keith Vazz(sic) comment, probably for the same reason.
But one guy's Harmless is another neighbour's Hell.

[Blink1982]

Have to say though he does seem a nice guy from what ive seen him post on facebook. Plus i think the accidents are further down the road at the lights, rather than his house.

[Blink1982]

I live round the corner OP. I used to love it, but im a bit 'what a nob' now esp when his banners are about the made up characters he has. And that mannequin needs to find a good skip.

[ReginaBlitz]

The banners are ridiculous! Funnily enough I always say to my oh you would be pissed off living next door to him. He has been in the local paper for changing his name and being arrested for some other stupid antic.

I don't know how he gets away with it tbh the banners really aren't funny and the guy is obviously unhinged. Funny thing is on one of the biggest and worst council estates in Leicester his house is one of very few that are not council!

[Hygge]

He's got a point about David Cameron, so he's not being entirely unreasonable, but if those signs and that van were outside my house day after day it would drive me crazy.

Can you not have a word with the council or something?

[BettyCatKitten]

David Cameron is a wanka! I agree!,

[SistersofPercy]

Who owns the house?
If it's a HA property I'll be 99% certain there will be a clause in his tenancy agreement about not displaying banners or flying flags.

[WhataMistakeaToMakea]

I drove past a house that had painted the entire side of their house with a picture of david Cameron strangling a nurse saying 'nhs safe in our hands'. It was very distracting but fair play to them for feeling so passionately they actually painted the side of their house!

Anything sweary or with poor grammar would just look tacky and annoy me though.

[MaccaPaccaismyNemesis]

Tbh I avoided it as having been to it for the last few years I'm not sure how I can bear another year of canal boats and overpriced rides. Will probably go back next year!

Does anyone else go to Brocks Hill Country Park? Had a free day out there Saturday and can recommend it. No signs there though .

[usualsuspect333]

How many of you went to the Riverside Festival this weekend? It's a very MN festival

[CustardOmlet]

Another Leicester MN-er, it makes me chuckle seeing what the banner says, but can see how it would piss you off if accidents were happening outside your house!

[OsMalleytheCat]

Regularly drive past there (another Leicester MNetter!) and whilst I'm glad he's not my neighbour I don't think he's really causing much (any?) harm, have never heard of him being the cause of an accident (although happy to be proven wrong!) perhaps a bit of slow moving traffic due to gawkers but most locals know it's there so is of little interest...
Don't know that there is much you can do tbh op, his house he's not making excessive noise or being antisocial is he?

[iwouldgoouttonight]

I knew where you meant as soon as I read the title of the thread! I drive past it on my way to work. I used to think the van was quite funny, but the banner messages are just a bit odd. I often wonder how they change the messages; the banner looks quite permanent, do they take it down every time or just go up a ladder and replace the letters? (I realise this isn't important)

[MaccaPaccaismyNemesis]

If you see a deranged woman eating breakfast in her car at about 8 in the morning, looking bedraggled and muttering to herself it could indeed be me.