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...)

your dh is an absolute gem!
well done that man.
he does not stoop himself so low as your neighbours.

@DoomsdayCult that is awful, well done you. I definitely wouldn't have been as assertive in that situation!

Ack! Dirty bastards!

I think your DH has been really decent about it

I'd probably have taken pics and reported it to the council if I couldn't face dragging to their doorstep

definitely get a bin lock.

Wa just about to do this to our neighbours who think it is okay to hose their drive whilst they are doing building works hosing all their shit, concrete etc on my property and in front of it. Also, even worse, into the mains drains. I wanted to shovel it up and tip it in their porch but DH wouldnt let me. Mistake really, because whilst more mild mannered than me, when he blows, he blows and our neighbour may well end up wearing his concrete concoction along with the cones he uses to stop anyone parking near his house. Will post the pics in due course.

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

Brilliant! Bet they’re a bit amazed! And why have they left their street to do it? Cheeky fuckers!

Don't go thinking bin locks are secure.

When we went to fortnightly collections, my bin was hijacked by scutters and it literally took months for me to throw my rubbish away in my bin.

The lock doesn't use a 'key' as such, it's one of those triangular types that opens utility cupboards.

A strong pair of pliers also works.

Kudos to your DH.

Honestly cherry utter factors leaving the address labels in there; which is also kind of making me wonder if it was an end of tenancy clean because surely people living there wouldn't be so silly?

*dafties not factors. Please excuse my terrible typing, I haven't even had wine (yet)

Please excuse my terrible typing, I haven't even had wine (yet)

Good lord, it’s Friday night, woman, come on! 🍷

YANBU

What is it about bins?

Our neighbours leave their bin outside our side of the fence. We have a garden to the left of the house. They have one to the front and right hand side. Then the foot path where they always make sure their bin is on our side past the dividing fence. They leave them out all the time. They put their rubbish in until it is overflowing and it looks like it is ours. They wheel it down outside ours, the bin men put it back outside ours and if I am home I move it up. They move it back. They leave it there all the time

We move our bins into our garden. Other people will think it is our stinky rubbish. We recycle so our bin is barely half full.
Apart from the fact that people with push chairs or in wheelchairs can’t get past.
We aren’t on speaking term due to another problem so won’t speak to them about it but they must be doing it to annoy as I am talking about 4-5metres.

Ewww! How vile.

This actually happened to us with our black bin and I still shudder thinking back to it. Our nd neighbors never even do their own bin bags up properly and and just leave them on the road permanently overflowing. On this one occasion they put dirty food containers, actual food, soiled wipes, a manky hairbrush and other such disgustingness in our bin LOOSE. We rarely fill our black bin so didn’t notice for a while by which time it started to stink and there were maggots crawling in it. My DH did similar to yours and bagged it all up and put it in their bin and I’ve never ever forgiven the dirty bastards.

We keep our black bin in the garage now so they can’t get at it.

Ewwwww! @tequilasunrises What's wrong with people??
Unfortunately I can't move the bin into the garage as that's DHs gym. I had thought about moving them into our garden but one of our dogs would definitely pee on them and the youngest toddler would undoubtedly find that entertaining...

How will they know it's their nasty crap if it's all bagged up!

Bowerbird could you paint the neighbours house or flat no. in large lettering on the bin just do everybody knows who it belongs to.

hopefully it won't happen again but you can get bin cages as well - not sure how best to explain that!

I came home once - live in a flat - to find a neighbour almost in tears after he cleared out a load of stuff, including used nappies, that someone had dumped in his bin, and caused maggots.

After that we took money from the sink fund to have an enclosure thing with a key so only people living in the block can get at the bins that belong to the block. It's ridiculous that some people are so disgusting.

Your husband is a class act.

What he should have done is bag it up and put a hole in the bottom of it so when they pick it up it goes all over their garden 👹

Can't you walk round to see if lights are on? Will solve whether it's an end of tenancy clean or not. Go on, you know you want to and a breath of fresh air will do you good.

@Claphands ha I like the way your mind works, they'd have to bring it in through the house, that would have been great revenge

Kate I wish I could but DH has buggered off to the pub (basking in his hero status) and I'm home with sleeping children. I tried to convince him to walk past on his way but he refused in case they saw him.

I say power to him. I hope you took pics of the addresses on items inside the bags before 'returning' them.

Just in case you two are accused of fly tipping yourselves...

My scrubber ex-neighbours did the same thing to my a few years back. My exh did the same as yours but we didn't get the smug factor as they never saw that we threw it back - the bin men actually went and got the bag from their drive. I was so pissed off