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AIBU?

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Trolley wars

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Trollied · 10/05/2019 12:57

Sorry for the length!

We have really inconsiderate neighbours, who constantly bring back trollies from the local supermarket (at the end of our road) and abandon them against our back garden fence/gate which is on a public footpath.
We share a gate with our wheelchair bound neighbour so obviously blocking the gate is a major inconvenience for him.
This has been ongoing for a year, about 5 trollies a week abandoned. Sometimes there will be bin bags left with the trollies overflowing with rubbish.

I left a note a month ago on one of the trollies, asking them to please stop leaving them here as they restrict access and the bin bags of rubbish that occasionally join the trollies have attracted foxes.

Note was ripped off eventually and trollies were shoved back against our fence.

Reported to the supermarket, they sent out a team to collect promptly. But I dont want to have to report every single trolley, theres too many!

Reported to the council for fly tipping. They're looking into it.

I move the trollies every morning so I can wheel the buggy down the path. They get pushed back.

AIBU to write their house number on a new note and put it on the trolleys again? In thinking that if they realise everyone knows its them they might be shamed into taking the trollies back to the shop 2 minutes away?!
They dont leave them there in the day anymore, they wait until its dark then wheel them out 😂
We have clear view of this from inside the house, so I know 100% which house it is.

DH thinks another note is too passive aggressive, I think constantly moving the trollies back against our fence is more passive aggressive!

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DGRossetti · 10/05/2019 13:43

Your husband is wrong - plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

The term may be wrong, but I suspect the action is still breaking some sort of law ... impersonating someone or something isn't a great idea. Especially if it were to cause distress to another. Two wrongs don't make a right.

Gruzinkerbell1 · 10/05/2019 13:45

Fake camera and a security light that will bathe them in a lovely warm glow every time they so much as take one step in the direction of your fence.

Acis · 10/05/2019 13:46

Ask the supermarket manager why they can't put a magnetic strip on the exit from the car park.

Report it to them every single time. If they have to send someone out to collect trolleys several times a week they might begin to take this more seriously.

FrancisCrawford · 10/05/2019 13:48

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Eliza9919 · 10/05/2019 14:05

The trollies are left round the back, our gardens back onto garages. Not easy to go to their garden as it's slightly down an alley behind the garages.

Fill the alley with the trollies. Every night.

Eliza9919 · 10/05/2019 14:06

No help, but around the corner from me is a large block of flats. I noticed a trolley outside them when we first moved here. Over the years I've seen different people pushing it. It appears to be a 'communal' trolley which all the residents push up to the Asda up the road and then return with. It's genius to be fair

That's got to be the most hilarious thing I've read in quite a while.

ControversialFerret · 10/05/2019 14:27

As a skint student I once moved flats with the help of a B&Q flatbed trolley. I was only moving a couple of streets away. I did return it at the end of the day!!

englishdictionary · 10/05/2019 14:50

tip them over and stack them and then empty the rubbish bags on top of the stack I'll warrant they won't be pushed back quite as quickly

But the culprit leaves the trolleys at the fence. So tipping rubbish on them would only affect the supermarket staff who are sent to collect them.

wigglypiggly · 10/05/2019 15:03

Dont put stickers on the trollies, they belong to the supermarket. Report any damage to your fence or blocking gate access.

hatemyhairhun · 10/05/2019 15:04

Just a thought, if the same neighbours are taking 5 trolleys per week from the same store, surely the store would have noticed by now? Wonder if the manager would ban them.

Ineedamanipedi · 10/05/2019 15:05

zippy that’s genius

blackcatclocks · 10/05/2019 15:35

You'd think the supermarket would been keen to stop them really.

Eliza9919 · 10/05/2019 16:15

How are they buying so much everyday that they need a trolley?

Are they just lazy?

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Trollied · 10/05/2019 17:19

@Eliza9919
We've seen them (two adults, both 30s) coming back with one bag in the trolley.... it doesn't make sense

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Yabbers · 10/05/2019 19:22

They dont leave them there in the day anymore, they wait until its dark then wheel them out 😂
That doesn’t make sense.

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Trollied · 10/05/2019 23:28

@Yabbers
Sorry, should have said. They store the trollies in their garden sometimes then wheel them out and abandon them on the path at night

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WonkyDonk87 · 11/05/2019 10:29

Those trolleys cost the stores hundreds of pounds each, i'm pretty sure they don't want them nicked - nor do they want to have to send staff out every day to collect them (imagine if everyone did this!). As you know who it is then maybe the manager would be able to ban them?

reytmardy · 11/05/2019 10:39

I would speak to fire service, ask for a community PC to have a look and report to council

allyouneedis · 11/05/2019 10:52

We had a neighbour who dumped rubbish at our end of the road, they never come this far along or use the car park at this side of the street. We left it there for a week to see if they had maybe arranged for it to be collected, it wasn’t picked up so we took it all back up and dumped it back outside their house. They had dealt with it by the following day. Hopefully mortified that someone knew it was them. I would be tempted to put them in their garden one night with a note attached to them telling them to stop doing it! They must think no one knows it’s them surely.

Acis · 11/05/2019 17:59

So did you manage to talk to the store manager about this, OP?

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Trollied · 13/05/2019 23:45

Didnt manage to talk to the store manager as he is away atm, spoke to the two duty managers though and they took the details down again...
Not a lot they can do though, they said they'd keep an eye on the area and check it for abandoned trollies more often....

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minisoksmakehardwork · 14/05/2019 02:26

Given the difficulties caused to your disabled neighbour, I would utilise their needs to get the issue resolved.

No supermarket is going to want to be associated with disability discrimination.

Have a chat with your local pcso about the targeted behaviour of trolley neighbour towards disabled neighbour ie they are actively and regularly preventing disabled neighbour from leaving their property so would this be classed as disability discrimination.

Because the neighbours are consistently behaving in the same way, it could be considered harassment towards your disabled neighbour and I suspect no one is going to want to be associated with that.

IAmTheChosenOne · 14/05/2019 04:24

I would also put a big sign up at the bottom of my garden saying “number X are lazy fuers who keep dumping these trolleys here” - preferably in a position where they couldn’t reach it to remove it.

That'll up the tone of the neighbour hood won't it

Acis · 14/05/2019 07:35

If the store manager is away and the duty managers are being helpless, contact head office. It really can't be difficult to install a magnetic strip so that they can't take the trolleys out of the car park.

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Trollied · 23/05/2019 20:00

We won!!!!

I stuck labels with the words "property of number blahblah" on the trollies... and we haven't had a single one dumped since!
There are however two in their garden 😂

Little victories

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