to request payback tactic suggestions for nightmare neighbour?

[annoyedofnorwich]

Yes, I know I should turn the other cheek and yes I will refrain from doing anything daft, but humour my daydreaming about ways to irritate her, please! Suggestions of things you've done or things you'd love to have done when landed with a nightmare neighbour?

[Shiningexample]

sounds tricky!

[annoyedofnorwich]

I'd go for the spelling rude things with stones but might not go down too well if kids go back to school with a newly expanded vocabulary!

[annoyedofnorwich]

MrsG we've been advised to avoid contact entirely- even avoiding greetings.

[Bellatrixandstrange]

You could get loads of frozen sausages and hammer them into her lawn. The local animals will love digging them out!

[annoyedofnorwich]

Which I guess might also rule out spelling rude things with stones!

[annoyedofnorwich]

Bellatrix sadly she has no garden!

[SistersOfPercy]

Mine used to play music half the bloody night. Polite approach failed so Metallica's Master of Puppets at 8am, speakers to the wall was most satisfying, especially as I'm a huge 'tallica fan anyway.

These days her kids have left home and it's just her and a dog that barks constantly when she's out at work. With that in mind I don't really care about our noise anymore, because she knows she can't complain.

[annoyedofnorwich]

Maybe she has garden envy and it's the garden she's photographing, not me!

[annoyedofnorwich]

Hmm might raid the old cd collection sure there's some Metallica in there overdue an outing!

[TheClacksAreDown]

Honestly if she is that bad I would look into whether you can get a harassment order

[annoyedofnorwich]

Two kettles I do wonder what she'll accuse me of next!

[annoyedofnorwich]

Tried that theclacks... essentially she has to do something provable several times in quick succession. If there's a few months between her episodes apparently it isn't a pattern of behaviour so not harassment. Thing is, how can I prove she's photographing me?

[ohtheholidays]

Stick up some CCTV you can use that to catch her taking your picture.

[annoyedofnorwich]

I have cctv but don't think I should point it at her windows! She takes photos from inside.

[annoyedofnorwich]

Got cctv after she drunkenly damaged my car one night and refused to pay to fix it.

[Sunshineboo]

Photograph her back? When you see her snapping you get your phone out and take a picture back.

[Squabblesallaround]

Only go into your garden with a camera, take pics of her back. It should un-nerve her and also good evidence re harassment. My neighbours have parties and I wake up to smashed bottles and cig butts in the garden.. I throw them back over but add a few heaps of extras. I also make sure I then mow the lawn at 8 am....as do several of my other neighbours.

[annoyedofnorwich]

She'd then say I was photographing her/her house and she was only getting evidence! I know what she's like!

[annoyedofnorwich]

Need to stay squeaky clean as the only upside is seeing her tie herself in knots trying to get us in trouble- and resorting to making things up because she has nothing on us! Hence loving life size cut out idea as really can't be told off for that!

[Squabblesallaround]

Well report her to 101 every time she does something (it used to be 2 + complaints to activate harassment charges) and if it's on record already from your side, and she then reports you taking pics of her (taking pics) you have previous incidents on your side to back you up. She sounds bonkers, you have my sympathies

[annoyedofnorwich]

Thanks squabbles. She's been okay for a few weeks- but prior to that I made a number of incident logs with 101. It seems to hang on the fact a lot of what she does, they would have to just take my word for.

[MeeWhoo]

Maybe this could be your new gardening costume...

[annoyedofnorwich]

I love it! Time to Google that!
Have reported to 101. Sort of lost hope with that last time as nothing ever came of it but you're right it's best to log it.

[ijustwannadance]

Could she possibly be bipolar? If she is ok for weeks then goes off on one for a while.

[limitedperiodonly]

we've been advised to avoid contact entirely- even avoiding greetings.

Was that the police? We had that. It's good advice. They were sympathetic to our plight though and had a word with her, which stopped some of it. Like you, we got CCTV after damage too. When we informed her of it, she complained about it but her unlovely presence and the damage stopped, which was the main thing.

Among her many crimes against us was a libellous email to us, copying in all our neighbours. She sent it from her husband's extremely prestigious, world renowned work address, no doubt intending to impress and intimidate. At the time, we sent a mild letter asking her to desist, and she sent back snarky abuse.

I hugged that email to my heart and when it was all over, I forwarded it to his workplace to report abuse of their email system and good name.

They took it very seriously and though they didn't say anything more than it had been dealt with appropriately, and I know he didn't lose his job, I'm pretty sure that for a while he was terrified he was going to and got a severe telling off and a black mark on his record.