Neighbour issues....

[Hedgehogparty]

Have just gone and seen 4 bikes locked to our railings in our front garden. Thought at first they were friends of my son until he saw someone else locking their bike there and then hurrying into next door.

Have just knocked there. Family house with visitors- No apology, just been told that's what students do.
I've said I don't mind them being left there, but I object to not being asked.
These neighbours and their visitors have previous form for parking over our drive and appearing not to think it unreasonable.

Is this thoughtless and/ or bloody rude?!
Or am I being unreasonable.....

OP - you implied earlier that you wouldn't mind if they had asked. I think I would mind if they're traipsing through my garden.

I don't think academics are intentionally rude, they just don't have room in their person for the common sense and politeness genes.

Bolt cutters, cut the chains and put all the bikes in neighbours' garden.

This is bloody rude.

Where I used to live there were masses of private and public buildings that had railings at the front and loads of them had signs saying that any bikes left attached to the railings would be removed.

It's perfectly reasonable to expect to be able to look out your windows and not see other peoples junk cluttering up the front of your property. And as for leaving them in your garden? Well words fail me.

I would be determined to get some more locks and lock them on myself, then they would have to come and beg and apologise for them to be removed and would not be likely to do it again!

get some bolt cutters. Go back knock on entitled knobbers door and tell them they have 1 minute to emote their shit from your garden else it's all going in the street. This time you will give them a warning, next time no warning.
Tell the entitled, educated knobbers that they are nothing but ignorant yobs who have no respect.

And don't tell them you wouldn't mind if they ask.
They have no business trespassing and they can park their bikes on their own property.

This isn't students for you.

This is knobbish behaviour from entitled twats and the only way to deal with them is get tough.

Yes I have had some very entitled knobber student neighbours. Could be the same tossers lol, they even said it's typical student behaviour...

For Goodness sake put them in their place once and for all. Cut the sodding locks and chuck the whole lot next door. If they complain, tell them not to trespass in future.
Knobs

extra locks that they can't open sounds like a much better idea than cutting theirs off (which is probably technically criminal) & you can always pretend to be out when they come to your door - imagine their frustration (& how rude they will think you are )

oh please do that, OP!

Get bolt croppers then knock on the door and tell them very clearly "remove your rubbish from my garden in the next 5 minutes or I will put it on the street"

Dont apologise, dont explain, dont waffle, dont engage

Why on earth aren't they attached to the fence on the NEIGHBOURS side? Pretty sure if my visitors started parking on my neighbours drives they would be mightily pissed. How is this different? You don't just walk into a strangers garden to chain your bike up wtf s wrong with these people?

Why do they need to go into your gaden with their bikes. Could they be tied up on the other side?

Or as baby said.

Agree with others who say get bolt cutters and throw bikes into their garden, if they complain poke them in the eye for being rude.

I'd tell them they have two days to remove their bikes from your property, then remove them myself and put them back in their garden.

Beyond cheeky.

Two days! I wouldn't wait that long.

I think I'd cut them off and ride them round to the police station and say they were abandoned in my garden.

Don't cut the chain, it sounds like the kind of people that would lodge a complaint with the police. Get a big chain and chain all the bikes together. They can remove them from the fence but not from each other.

I've had to NC because this would out me.

I live in a university town where loads and loads of people use bikes to get around (students and residents).

Finding a safe place to lock your bike is key, because there's a lot of bike crime, so we all lock onto lamp-posts, street signs, etc (blocking pavements). Railings are TOTALLY fair game.

And students are generally considered by residents to be over-privileged, inconsiderate, arrogant cunts.

Going into someone else's garden to use the other side of bike railings ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY is not. That's outrageous. LOVE the idea of buying a cheap lock and locking them to the railings. Ditto bolt cutters.

this behaviour is outrageous. Agree you should water your garden, and leave the sprinkler I dearly hope you have running all night!

I second chaining the bikes together for a laugh and pleading ignorance when they can't cycle off

I agree with chaining them together/to the railings, then pretend to be out all of tomorrow.

Im pretty sure cutting the locks off is actually criminal damage unless there is a sign warning them it will happen, I might be wrong but I wouldn't risk it.