CF neighbour filling our bin - ***gross content warning***

[BelleCarig]

Rare day off with DH. We've been gardening all day (do not try to keep up with us, we're wild) and went to get our garden waste bin only to find it full of the most disgusting rubbish; open bin bags bursting with cat litter, un-bagged dog poo, used sanitary products and a variety of huge maggots among some parcel packaging with the neighbour's name and address on.
I'm not squeamish - I've two small kids and a couple of dogs; disgusting things is kind of our standard operating practice but this so thoroughly grossed me out I had to back away from the bin.

Obviously the answer was to take the rubbish back to the CF neighbour - which we've (credit where it's due - DH has) done. But while I was feeding the children my DH has bagged it all up neatly for them and deposited it at their property rather considerately given the circumstances.

Was IBU to have a slightly heated discussion with my DH to ask WHY he's done that and not just emptied the bin in their garden? And maybe posted a note through their door to vent our spleen?

(I know IABU to post this mostly because I'm excited to share my very own CFer story...)

YANBU Id have tipped it on their front step.

yabu
your dh is a star.
get bin locks so neighbours can't use yours.

I think he has made a very dignified point, I say well done that man.

I'm with Ihopeyourcakeisshit

So glad you got your own CF thread OP

I'd have gone round and told them they had to deal with it. But I wouldn't be cross with your DH. It is after all sorted.

If it were to happen again, I would literally tip it out in their garden. They'd probably call the police but it would be worth it.

YABU - your DH makes his point brilliantly whilst retaining the moral high ground. He is indeed a bit of a star!

He has shamed them in a dignified way. Well done that man.

Bravo to your dh
Personally I couldn't have bagged that up I would have just tipped the bin up in their garden and washed it out in their garden making sure all the gross waste water spreads as far as possible just for good measure.
But I'm a bit of a bitch like that 🤷‍♀️

YABU - your DH makes his point brilliantly whilst retaining the moral high ground. He is indeed a bit of a star!

Agree with this.

I didn't even know him locks existed! (And yes he has his moments of being a total star).

It's usually me that's the dignified one. In fact if it was our normal rubbish bin and not the garden one I'd have probably just left it but this flagrant abuse of the bin system on top of the horrific things they'd chucked in there enraged me. I think he quickly bagged it up and dealt with it so I wasn't cross anymore.

He probably wasn't expecting me to find fault with the way he'd dealt with it - all I can think is he'll have to wash in bleach for at least a week before I allow him in our bed (jokes. A bit...)

My ex-neighbour once threw unbagged poo covered nappies in our blue bin. I promptly swapped her clean bin for our contaminated bin and painted my house number on the clean bin. I did this in broad daylight.

She didn’t try to swap back. She never spoke to me again but I don’t care. She was being a CF to dump poo nappies in our blue bin.

Your dh is ace, I bet he nearly puked. Hopefully they'll be mortified that he's actually touched their stinking filth.

I like to think I would have just emptied it onto their front garden but I would bag up as well because the reality is the CF won’t care and will leave it to be blown around and annoy all the neighbours.

Wtf? Your neighbours are grim!

I didn't even know him locks existed!

Is that the male version of a chastity belt? 😁

Dirty rotten things. Look forward to hearing how they received their returned rubbish. Pity some of the dogshit and maggots didn't make their way into their letterbox.

OP did he speak to them about it?

Your husband is a star!

Apparently they are absolute animals. It's the first time anything like this has happened in the decade we've lived here. And (just in case my immediate neighbours are on Mumsnet and recognise this), it's not neighbours close to us but a house a couple of hundred metres away around a corner.

My concern is we don't know the neighbours and actually the house could be rented and someone has gone in to do an end of tenancy clean and just indiscriminately dumped rubbish in any bin they could find (that they wouldn't get caught at); so while the bags are at the front of the neighbour's house there may be no-one there any more to deal with them and local cats and foxes could rip the bags apart and the rubbish end up all over the place anyway but I'll accept that I'm being unreasonable and let my lovely DH know that the vipers of mumsnet (and occasionally me) think he's a bit of a star...

What did the neighbour say when your dh presented him with his rubbish?

@S1naidSucks ha!

How did you know which house it belonged to then?

He didn't speak to them, just left it neatly bagged up at their front door. (And legged it before anybody saw him.)

@Cherrysoup because they'd also left some delivery packaging with their names and address on it - multiple packaging wrappers so it was a safe bet...

for Belle DH