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CF neighbour

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Likethebattle · 25/08/2019 14:33

Our neighbour always has an overflowing general waste bin. Again the lid is sitting at an almost 90degree angle and she has stuffed it with all sorts of stuff. She has also placed two bags of shite on top of my bin! Collection is today and I can see them refusing to take it with extra rubbish on top! Aibu to be really annoyed, the local tip is open and they have 3 cars and no disabilities apart from laziness!

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 25/08/2019 16:16

Or you could tie her bin to her gate and say feign innocence
"One of the other neighbours must;ve thought your bin was being moved by local swallywags and mischief makers and tethered it to your property for safe keeping"

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Brefugee · 25/08/2019 16:19

You are unreasonable for saying she has no disability, because you cant be 100 per cent sure of that

she may not be 100% sure there is no disability but she is 100% sure the neighbour is a cheeky fucker. Having a disability isn't an excuse to act like a wanker.

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Likethebattle · 25/08/2019 16:20

@RosaWaiting she’s actually put bags on top of my bin. @TabbyMumzok let’s assume she does have some impairment why can’t her husband or both adult sons who drive go, I think the probability of them all having a hidden illness are nil, especially as both sons (who are there today as I saw them) run their own businesses. She does recycle as her recycling bins go out on the required weeks.

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InvisibleWomenMustBeRead · 25/08/2019 16:31

Take the bags to her front door & leave them there.

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YouJustDoYou · 25/08/2019 16:31

You are unreasonable for saying she has no disability, because you cant be 100 per cent sure of that

There's always one that has to be the "cool, inclusive" one Hmm

If she can hurl bags around, and if the household has three cars, AND she can happily flytip, she can go happily take that extra crap to the actual bin site and not leave it for someone else to sort out.

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Likethebattle · 25/08/2019 16:34

We keep wondering how she fits everything in the house, every bin day there is a random lamp or deckchair sticking out her bin!

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dollydaydream114 · 25/08/2019 16:37

You are unreasonable for saying she has no disability, because you cant be 100 per cent sure of that.

Peak Mumsnet.

Even if she does have a hidden disability that somehow prevents her from sorting her rubbish into the appropriate bins, that wouldn’t give her an excuse to dump her bags on top of someone else’s bin.

FWIW, my neighbours also don’t recycle and have a constantly overflowing general waste bin. I think it unlikely that they both share exactly the same disability that affects their lives in no way whatsoever except their ability to put bottles in different bin to a chicken carcass.

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TabbyMumz · 25/08/2019 16:40

Having a disability isn't an excuse to act like a wanker
@brefugee.... actually it is a very big excuse.

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KUGA · 25/08/2019 16:43

Yes to put the bags by her bin but not the other idea haha

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Likethebattle · 25/08/2019 16:47

Well got home bins have been emptied but as usual there are about 20 of them in the garden talking loudly and with music on. The just foist themselves on you, they are moving soon..,.hopefully whoever replaces them are a bit better...

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TabbyMumz · 25/08/2019 16:48

There's always one that has to be the "cool, inclusive" one
@YouJustDoYou..I sincerely wish I wasn't the "cool inclusive one", because that would mean my family member hadn't had the brain injury and I would be as ignorant as you about the possibility that there just might be something wrong with her, rather than presuming like many others that she is just lazy. We recycle. Therefore our bin closes. I have to be on the ball to make sure my family member with a brain injury isn't missing some and then putting extra bin bags out . Perhaps her family members aren't as fast at me! You see things differently when you have a disabled family member. I don't doubt that lots of people see my family member and think they are annoying and lazy.

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TabbyMumz · 25/08/2019 16:49

"Even if she does have a hidden disability that somehow prevents her from sorting her rubbish into the appropriate bins, that wouldn’t give her an excuse to dump her bags on top of someone else’s bin."
@dollydaydream114....Yes it would.

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janj2301 · 25/08/2019 16:49

I reported fly tipping of a sofa and old carpet, told the council I had proof of who'd done it (those items were photod on Rightmove) the council removed the stuff but never responded to my several emails to confirm they had fines the neighbour. Another house is listed as a single home but it's being used as HMO, only one bin, usually full the day after the binmen have been. Council don't care about that one either

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Nicolastuffedone · 25/08/2019 16:50

There are others at home with her!! Presumably they don’t all have brain damage....!!!!

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 25/08/2019 17:00

they are moving soon.

Oh you can sneakily post them all the local skip company cards then when they order one , hoist all your crap into it (remove any identifying objects first)

Hopefully they wont just move and leave a load of their rubbish on the driveway Shock

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TabbyMumz · 25/08/2019 17:01

There are others at home with her!! Presumably they don’t all have brain damage....!!!!
No..but you can't be on top of everything and check everything they do. Perhaps there is a meltdown if you point out faults. There could be 101 reasons why, other than just presuming she is lazy.

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Likethebattle · 25/08/2019 17:04

@TabbyMumz she has no brain injury, I’m sorry about your family member but this women is NT. she works full time, she drives, she is able to go running and babysit her young grandkids. Her husband also works, drives, does a lot of gardening, she is about 50. She just seems to think everything is hers. She parks like a dick, she overflows her bin, she flytips,she uses our bin space or garden for her bin so she can park like a dick. She is not unable to visit the tip which is 5 minutes away and open every day part from Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Easter Monday!

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TabbyMumz · 25/08/2019 17:04

To be fair, it's the presumption that there are no disabilities that got to me. You really should never presume that.

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Likethebattle · 25/08/2019 17:05

@70isaLimitNotaTarget no need for a skip just inconvenience your neighbours!

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Likethebattle · 25/08/2019 17:10

@TabbyMumz but you can make a fair guess based on what you see and she is just the kind of person to be a right cf! I’m just angry as hell as we are careful to make sure we dispose of our junk properly and our bin closes. She once put one of her bags in our bin overflowing it and the rubbish was covered in curry sauce or gravy that was then all over our bin 😡😤 at least ask if you can stick your stinking rubbish in our bin.

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littlepaddypaws · 25/08/2019 17:15

enev if she did have a disable concern that doesn't excuse dumping her rubbish with op, and who drives 3 cars if they live on there own ? Confused.
my previous neighbour did this and denied all knowledge although i'd seen her do it several times, [time before phone cameras] one night i dumped the rubbish on the bonnet of her car and a bag ripped in the process. she never did it again, - result !

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Likethebattle · 25/08/2019 17:20

Her and her husband have a car each and an extra one for god knows what reason (maybe a company car). Also. It’s sons are there every Saturday, surely they could sling some rubbish in their car and swing by the tip on the way home? X

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TabbyMumz · 25/08/2019 17:21

"Evenv if she did have a disable concern that doesn't excuse dumping her rubbish with op,".....Yes it does, for the reasons I've put above

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Betsy86 · 25/08/2019 17:22

I thought my neighbours had dumped stuff on my bin once and i was raging internally until next bin day as im very British like that.... they dont collect them until later in the morning on my day off and i happened to be near the window (😄) and saw that my bin was actually rammed full of other peoples crap by... the actual refuse collectors 🙃🙃
I mean literally overflowing bags piled high on top. One of them walks round before the truck comes and takes and rubbish out of small bins with say one sack in it and crams it into other bins so they have less actual bins to drag to the lorry.
I genuinely just stood there in the window like well bloody hell lol. Here we are being extra careful not to overfill them and here they are playing jenga with my bin ffs.
Im still abit annoyed as the lorry comes about half hour later so any last bits of rubbish i did have i cant fit in and also my bin looks an absolute state to the rest of the street. I look like the neighbour that doesnt care Hmm
Not saying that’s whats happening with your neighbour as its clear there just cf!x

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Yellowbutterfly1 · 25/08/2019 17:22

I had new neighbours who never seemed to recycle anything so always had an overflowing bin. One morning I found a large bin bag of their stuff inside my bin, I removed it and placed it in the middle of their driveway.
Did the job as they never did it again.

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