Bloody selfish thoughtless idiot

[Gadareen]

I am so fed up with the man next door, well actually he doesn't even bloody live next door, his mum does. He lives in the next road but has no driveway, so he parks his car (which is fine) and his works van (not so bloody fine), on his mum's drive.

Now I have no issue with the parking or the fact that he has a works van, what I'm sick and tired of is the cost to us in tyres for our vehicles because every time he cleans the van out, he sweeps assorted nuts, bolts and nails into the road then does a cursory sweep of the tarmac. So far in the past year, we have replaced 5 tyres on our car, 2 on our campervan and 2 on a motorcycle. These were all tyres with good tread and on two occasions we ended up replacing tyres that had only been on the vehicle in question for less than a month! The damage to tyres always shows up within a short time after he has cleaned out his van.

And it's not only the cost in money - it's the danger factor of driving a vehicle with a tyre that is damaged and could cause a blowout. If a blowout happened to the motorcycle, my DH would very likely end up dead.

We have tried speaking to him politely, he changes for a couple of weeks, then reverts to his lazy ways. We always scan the road and our drive (our drive and next doors are all one piece, no divide) when he has been doing his van tidy and sweep out, and we hand him back the items we find, along with a plea for better care to be taken, but nothing changes.

He is out there now, he has the whole of his van contents spread over his mother's drive and right up to ours, the van is parked on the road and he has shit laid out on the road along the dropped kerb right up to where my DH will pull onto the drive later. Shortly he will stand inside the van and sweep dust and small items out of the back doors. If he would only put a dust sheet down to catch the debris it would make so much difference.

If you got this far, thank you for reading - I am so close to going out there and punching him screaming at him, but I'm so close to the edge, I thought it was safer to rant on here I don't want to get arrested

Stop handing him back the items you find, and start placing them behind his wheels...

Tell him (and in writing) that he has three choices

1. put down a dust sheet
2. twice a day sweep out your path and driveway
3. continue as he is and pay for any of your damaged tyres in future

floffel so far we have hesitated to put anything in writing, we get on well with his Mum, but really, the expense we are being put to and the danger factor means I think we should do this now.

Don’t talk to him. Talk to his mum then.

If you get no joy from that then I don’t see that you’ve got any choice but to put it in writing that you will be from here on in be keeping track of his van cleaning activities, including dates, and billing him for damage to your vehicles accordingly.

Or could you contact a local PCSO for advice since his actions are actually a serious risk? Community advice for this kind of thing is their thing I believe.

Put the sharp items under his wheels when no-one is looking. Do it every time. Surely some of them must go into his own tyres, or does he sweep everything out of his way?

Also vote psco, some people are awful. Maybe try his mum too, every time he does it tell her, tell her about costs so far too.