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Who's the most badly behaved here?

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Seasonaldisorder · 03/01/2020 19:04

I'm neither of the people in this scenario but live opposite them and have heard been forced to listen to both sides...they're both being unreasonable wankers but who's the most unreasonable?
Neighbour A was going away over Xmas. Asked neighbour B if he could pull his bin to the property boundary on bin day otherwise it wouldn't be collected. Neighbour B agreed and then asked is they could use A's mainly empty bin for their Xmas rubbish overflow. A agreed as long as it was bagged up and not loose (they are very houseproud and this obviously also extends to their bin!)
Anyway neighbour B filled up the bin with a load of unbagged shite (including food waste!) and then FORGOT TO PUT IT OUT.
Neighbor A was furious on his return to find a full uncollected bin, and told B to empty it out and clean it. He asked him on NYD when B had a horrific hangover. B said he'd do it the next day. A waited until 5.00 the next day and, after no sign of B coming round, rolled his wheelie bin round to neighbour B and upended it on his path.

It's been carnage. Foxes and cats spread the rubbish as B didn't notice for a while so the other neighbors are furious. B actually called the non emergency police number (according to his son who's friends with my son and is MORTIFIED) but apparently they were VERY short with him.
I think A was entirely in the right but he lost the moral high ground when he emptied rubbish everywhere. DH thinks A is the hero he's been waiting for but I think this is because hes mild mannered and diligent with our bins so this whole fiasco is amazing to him!
So... who's the MOST idiotic?

OP posts:
CornishPorsche · 04/01/2020 11:34

B is an asshat..

PlanDeRaccordement · 04/01/2020 11:38

Both bad.
If I were A, instead of dumping Bs rubbish from my bin on his path, I would have swapped bins. Left the full bin with B and taken Bs empty one. After all Bs rubbish is in that bin. I would have painted my house number on the empty bin directly after liberating it from B so that if B did call the police there’d be a full bin with B with Bs rubbish versus and empty bin, with me, A, and my A house number on it.

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