We appear to have inadvertently irked our neighbours

[mamacasshadahairyass]

Our NDNs have been confrontational and agressive since they moved to our street in 2012. If we see them at the front of their property, we wait until theyve disappeared before we go out just to avoid them. Today, things just got, well, wierd.

We've been burgled a few times, so Yesterday we put a new security fence in our garden. Its on our property and not a party boundary structure. As soon as he got in from work, or NDN was round shouting that he doesnt want to look at it and demanding we remove it, and making veiled threats to burn down an outbuilding. Also, his wife was roaring at the top of her voice at DP in the street, calling him various names and said that theyre sending someone round over the weekend to take it down.

WIBU to tell them to FOTTFSOF?

Oh that's good
Hope they come to their senses. Or they move!

Where is the fence?

Fences or walls adjoining a highway often need planning permission if they are to be higher than 1m.

Of course this doesn't change the fact that your NDN are nutters.

Front or back garden?

We had neighbours from hell too. We just called the non-emergency number for our police station and asked them to log it. They used to give us a reference number. All of the other neighbours did the same. After a certain number of incidents they came out to discuss it with us as a group and then popped round to them to have a chat. Pretty much nipped it in the bud.

if you have no more burglaries , then it's worth it. I had a neighbour get really mad at me when i put up a fence with a locked gate that blocked access to my backyard.We had been losing the grapes every year and had flowers dug up. All that stopped and we ate the grapes. Think it was her as she started scattering paper and rubbish in my new expensive front yard herbal garden. Could not beleive my eyes when i caught her in scattering delicto . I hammered on the window so hard nearly broke it and went out and told her off. No more garbage in the herb garden.

Can you set up a camera pointing at the fence? Not on their property but enough to record any damage. You can get an IP web cam pretty cheaply. If you put up a small sign saying this fence is monitored it may be enough to deter them

They are probably the burglars, why else would they overreact like that? Very easy to stake out the house next. M

Here's a great fence fight story for you all.

www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/72590164/wellingtons-viewslashing-fence-to-go.html

It's been hauled through the courts and last week it was ruled that the crazy fucker who put it up does in fact need to haul it down.

Not saying yours needs to come down OP though of course!

Ghoul, that was my first thought too. The neighbours could be the burglars.

I doubt theyre the burglars, we have a fairly good idea who they are as we've seen a neighbours stolen bicycle outside a house not far away.

Maryz - ironically our fence looks nothing like that, but NDN has erected almost identical fencing to that outside our back doors. Which is fine with us - it means we cant see them and they cant see us.

Ours is within our back garden, nowhere near a highway.

Its pissing down with rain here and theyre stood in their back garden staring at it!

Wave cheerily then tilt the blinds so the fuckers can't look in.
I feel your pain we've neighbours like this, in fact he wheel spun his car reversing out of his drive today and going past my house.

Wow, that NZ fence is unreal! 4m high, too - just ridiculous! Hopefully in future WCC will be more careful and stop rubber-stamping shit through without checking the site!

I think you should log this threat with the police, just so that if something happens to your fence, there will be some form of... Well not "evidence" but some form of information that it is likely to be them. Fences don't tend to burn themselves down.

Could you consider moving or is that out of the question?

You've been burgled "a few times"?
A fence won't keep them out unless it's so high and ugly that it certainly will upset neighbours. And it will make your property look like a prison camp.
It's the house itself that you need to keep secure with proper door and window locks. Fit a visible alarm, and security cameras. That way you'll also have evidence if the neighbours do anything nasty.

Did you report seeing the stolen bicycle to the police? If they are regular burglars the police may well know about them and be glad to see the evidence.

We have an alarm that is linked to the police, anti-bump locks on the doors and windows are all locked. Security lighting in the garden. People have takn stuff from our shed which isnt alarmed and from our house whilst we've actually been in it.

Our neighbours told the police about the bicycle, gave them the frame number, details of where it was etc. No follow up on this at all.

It looks like you are doing just about all you can mama.
Seems you have more than your fair share of scrotes round there :(