Sod a parking dispute - I bring you a fucking wheelie bin dispute.....

[Babyiwantabump]

Absolutely fucking livid . Probably disproportionately so as I am hormonal but I don't care .

Background description :
House then back garden then garage then fenced area then entryway . All my boundary up to where my back fence meets the entryway. I am end terraced so entry runs down left hand side of garden and house too.

Have lived here many years . Not close with any neighbors . One on the left killed my cat other across the entry is pleasant . Say good morning and exchange pleasantries but no more than that .

Have been finding bins on my bit of land behind my house for a while - thought it may have been a mistake that neighbors might have thought it was my bin and put it there all nice as you do.

Today I have just watched several of my neighbors take the bins of people who are out at work or not in off the street and put them on my land! Like the area behind my garage is a fucking neighborhood bin store ! It's not !

It's my fucking land and AIBU to tell them to get the fuck to fucking fuck and fuck off some more!!!

And breathe .

Sad that the police seem to have misadvised you. I had a vile neighbour who threatened to chop my cats legs off next time it went on his property. The police were round the same day.

I would show no mercy to someone who had killed my pet and I'm normally not confrontational. Sorry that you lost your poor boy that way.

unashamedly marking place

No interesting bin stories from me except one which I remember. We live in a block of flats and share one main bin and one recycling bin. The main bit is emptied everyday (except Sunday) but the recycling is only once a week.

Shortly after we moved in we put a load of cardboard boxes (ripped up) in the recycling bin (not moving boxes, delivery boxes). The caretaker took them all out and left them in the street. They had our names and address on them, so we could very easily have been fined for littering.

Sharp words were had! and a compromise was reached

They obviously think they're marvellous and neighbourly and maintaining the 'tone' of the street, so I'd try to shame them.
Arrange some garden stuff in that bit of land - furniture, plant pots, something to make it look 'used' as a garden. Stick up a sign saying 'No fly-tipping. Trespassers will be reported to police'. Ideally put the sign on a chain across the entrance, with the bins behind it. They'll feel like anti-social criminals, having to manoeuvre their bins around your garden furniture and chain to get them out. Even better if you put up a camera, or 'happen' to be at your window or garage watching.

As a' forriner',I now understand 'over 55 only' on estate agents brochures!!

Initially also thought' no skin off your teeth' as you can not even see them.

The cat story though, and their general snotty behaviour, has this old person volunteering to wear the bib and play parking attendant on a deck chair with a walking stick for protection!

Oh no!

I had to drop DD off at a friends for the day this morning and I got home just as everyone was bringing the bins in! I couldn't wait in place to jump out!

I am just about to go get my bins in though and put them where everyone is putting their bins and then remove said bins to the entry!

Bloody kids spoiling my plans!

Placemarking
not even sorry

I'm also partly blaming the council for collecting the bins early!

Yes but maybe they are following the thread and want to get home quickly to read how it turns out

Right . 3 bins dumped in entryway .

No one saw me do it though so I don't really know what's going to happen. I tried to make lots of noise when doing it.

This has been a bit anticlimactic really. I was looking forward to giving "the look"

you think?

I bet someone tries to move them back. The Look could still be necessary. Have you practised The Tut and The Eyeroll just in case?

Blinkin eck that made me jump

Don't worry, OP, I'm sure there was some curtain twitching going on. They'll wait until they think you're not looking and will make a point of putting them back, maybe even further into the garden. Quick, put plant pots, garden furniture across the opening.

Ooh that eye is a bit scary 😱

I am well practiced with the eye roll and the tut with thanks to OH!

Arrrggh! Piglet, that's bloody creepy.

creepy, eh?

Not helping!

Someone moved the bins back onto my land . So I've put them back in the entry again!

Can you sit somewhere you can see them if they come back?

They really believe that your land is their dumping ground, don't they? Arseholes.

Do you have any string/wool and some paper? Just put a bit of string across with some paper with 'Private land. Trespassers will be prosecuted'. Then see if they dare do it again.

With DD out for the day you could get photos, then send them letters saying that you'll be informing the police about the evidence.

You are way too nice and calm about this. Go apeshit on them.

Ooh they'd have gone in my garage after that!

Who the fuck do these people think they are??

I think I'd have to wait at the window now and see if they moved back, then run outside and ask what on earth do they think they are doing.

You could set them on fire!

Of course you won't, but it would solve the problem.

Can you not pop to your local recycling centre and collect old wood and build a fence? Or pallets are cheap and can be easily screwed together to make a small fence. Neither will be pretty, which obviously would be a bonus.