To not want people puking, pissing through my cellar grate

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I live between the bars and local "Nite-Club". Just heard puking noises, then somebody (female) laughing and saying you just puked up in their cellar.

I can't concrete it over - when I bought my home the cellar was airtight, and caused the entire house to smell mouldy. So got the concrete removed from the grate, and a window put in.

I suppose I'll just have to venture into the cellar tomorrow and clean the vomit off the outside of the window.

But why do people think it's amusing to do this?

YNBU!

I used to work in a nightclub, my most vivid memory was of a man who completely inebriated, doing a fast walk back towards the toilets with his hand holding his vomit in his mouth, with the biggest gleeful look on his face!

OP, if it's protected, would it be better to speak to the council? I'd be pissed off too, so satellite dishes aren't allowed but it's okay for people to lose control of their bodily functions and leave pavement pizzas outside peoples properties every weekend?

Meanwhile is there some sort of vent you van put in that will stop it happening but still keep the cellar ventilated? Of course you shouldn't have to but it saves having to clean other peoples vomit up each weekend.

*can not van sorry.

I'd speak with the council. I'm sure the nightclub have a responsibility to ensure patrons leaving the club don't disturb neighbours as a condition of the license. At the very least the club should be responsible for cleaning up.

Sounds like this person was drunk and didn't purposely target your cellar. It's still absolutely disgusting but you chose to buy a home right between bars and a night club, it was hardly going to be a quiet existence.

Expecting quiet where people are having late night fun is unreasonable.

Expecting people not to vomit and piss all over the streets is a different thing.

We are far too tolerant of that kind of antisocial behaviour in this country.

This is what ASBOs were invented for.

There needs to be sanctions for people (mostly men) treating our public spaces as toilets.

Urgh, I live on the (admittedly rather small) high street of my town.
It's a touristy place so in the summer this happens all the time.

The worst though, is when people let their dogs shit in my porch doorway.

Absolutely foul and Dd1 who has some sensory problems used to be terrified of stepping in it. Literally screaming, or afraid to leave the house invade someone's dog had shit there.

Also, the amount of people who try to come into my house is staggering.
I had one woman try to push past me when I was trying to get pram and fretful toddler out the door, and when I said "excuse me, that's my house your trying to force your way into" she had the nerve to reply arsily "well I can see that now huff "

So yeah, I love my flat, but really really hate the general public.

And breathe.

doinitfine, I agree. Antisocial behaviour is unacceptable. But I wouldn't want to live in a place where that became an ongoing battle to fight.

boomerwang I do know that for some people housing choices are non existent and end up living in some poor conditions.

I suspect that the OP is not one of these people though. She chose to buy a property in that location.

There's a fantastic video doing the rounds on FB of someone in a similar situation to yourself.
He got so hacked off with the puking and pissing that he put up signs warning people they'd be filmed.
He films them, shouts a lot and soaks them with high power water guns.

The problem is that while this would be quite cathartic, it wouldn't actually achieve that much because I doubt that many of these are 'repeat offenders' - I think it's different drunk people, not a couple of people who keep returning!

This sounds horrible, OP and you have my sympathy. I remember when I lived in a city centre someone was once sick on my car, which was a lovely surprise in the morning (though someone else deliberately broke off its wing mirror another night, which was even less nice). I do wonder whether there's something you could put over it to make it less attractive; I think people might at first glance think it's a drain and so actually quite a good place to be sick (hence the woman's comment). A grille with a few flowerpots on it might set off a few 'this is somebody's property' alarms, which won't deter the wilfully antisocial, but might stop some of it.

But I wouldn't want to live in a place where that became an ongoing battle to fight.

Fair enough.

But really nobody should have to live with this as an ongoing batlle.

Towns and cities are better if people live in the centre of them.

It is better for everyone that cares about our urban environment that people aren't put off living in towns due to antisocial behaviour.

If you care about having a nice town that doesn't stink of piss and isn't covered in vomit on a weekend morning, this is your battle too.