WIBU to disable my neighbour's security light?

[Horsemad]

Bloody thing keeps coming on for no reason, other than it's windy. It's like sleeping next to a frickin' lighthouse.

[Kacie123]

Ah that's good horse! I mean, I actually like my in-laws (and vice-versa, I hope!) but I could see relations getting a wee bit twitchy if we had daily neighbourly contact...

[Horsemad]

I saw them - by sight! Just didn't engage in conversation. MIL is a bit of a PITA, so I keep them well at arms' length!

DH saw them, so they weren't exactly abandoned!

[Andrewofgg]

My downstairs neighbour has one in her garden which is overlooked by our bathroom and is so damned sensitive that it switches on if we stand near the sink - and then she blames us for setting it off and waking her! SIBU, I think.

[Epilepsyhelp]

Now I'm imagining you throwing yourself down behind the hedge whenever you spot one of them and commando crawling to the car.. Maybe that's why they got the light, to catch you trying to dodge them

[Horsemad]

Ha ha, it is a bit like that!

[DragAct]

They are maddening - we inherited a full set when we bought our house, and as our garden is a wildlife highway, badgers, rabbits, bats, owls, rabbits, cats, and the occasional deer set them off all the time. We just switched them off.

They seem to be something of a fad in the vicinity - both our nearest neighbours also have them, set to full-on blinding, and on a rather long 'cycle' (so that if something sets them off, they stay on a good while). No idea why - there's zero crime about here, unless you count deer snacking on your carrot tops...

[CrossfireHurricane]

In our old house it was like you were being interviewed by the bloody Gestapo shining a light right at you..
I always mumbled
Vee have vays of making you talk when I passed the owners on the street.
Many many sympathies, they are a blight of modern life

[Horsemad]

Hurrah! I can see DH dealing with it now.

Hopefully tonight I'll get a lovely sleep!

[Horsemad]

My room is DARK!

[Oldraver]

I'm surrounded by the fuckers..next door has one that lights up all their drive which is right angles to my living room. Across the roads is set off by a fart and shines in around the edge of my blackout blind so I have a very thin frame of light, the other house across the road shines into the downstairs bedroom which luckily isnt used much, then there is one at the back because of its positioning (bungalow) shines a beam just above the fence right into your eyesif your in the kitchen or dining room

Meanwhile I have a nice gentle, double, positioned so it lights up just in front of my garage light.... Neighbour admitted her OH bought the searchlight option as it was cheaper.

[crispytruffle]

Neighbour across the road had one which shone straight into my bedroom and lit the whole bedroom up during the night. We have shutters and it still lit up the room. I spoke to the neighbour about it and asked if he could use a lower watt bulb instead but he didn't bother, so when he was away I went over and angled the light so it faced directly onto his drive and not my bedroom window!

[dodobookends]

Elderly MIL has one that is total crap.

It lights up her driveway when you park under it, and the light stays on for precisely 9 seconds (I know, I timed it this evening when we got there) and it isn't enough time to even get out of the car and pick your way round the artfully-placed rockery stones that line the drive like some sort of booby-trap.

She needs the light on as otherwise she can't find the keyhole on her garage door, and we can't seem to be able to adjust the thing. Once it's gone out, that's it - you can jump up and down in front of it waving your arms, but it won't come on again unless you get in the car again and move it about. By the time you've got out of the car, the light is off again.

Life's too short to try and outwit a bloody security light

[Epilepsyhelp]

What did DH do?!?

[Horsemad]

He changed the angle so it was shining on their house wall instead of the driveway and across to our bedroom.

MIL has phoned up this morning to ask him to disconnect it because it's staying on permanently now!! (StepFIL put his finger through the sensor yesterday when trying to sort it!!!)

New light required, methinks!

[DyslexicScientist]

these lights have given me countless rages over the years. Glad you got yours sorted but i think they should have right rules.

Dick across the road has a 500w bulb in his and the vast majority shines on other houses.

No need for a bulb that bright as its pretty dark at night anyway. Its like a second sun. The council are toothless.

[Oldraver]

OP....Now that your FIL has convenientely sabotaged the light, ht

Neighbour friendly light

It does the job its supposed to which is light up your drive, not your neighbours

[Horsemad]

I'm going to make sure DH fits the new one and then it can be positioned correctly so it doesn't illuminate my bedroom, lol!