To be angry with my neighbours

[M24L]

So long story short had a bit of a run in with the neighbours a few years back, both me, my DH and the guy next door have moved on from it but his girlfriend hasn't.

The girlfriend will ignore us if walking past and refuses to take any parcels in now (which is fine). She doesn't work so she's always at home while her man works, so normally around lunch time each day she throws out the leftover food from the night before. She throws it out onto the street outside her driveway normally more so over our side every single day.

This evening while I was in the kitchen shes came out of her house and chucked food directly right in front of our car which is parked in our drive way.

I am livid beyond words because its evident that it has been a deliberate stunt and now I'm left with what should I do.

AIBU for not wanting to let it go, being one to many times it's happened.

YANBU I'd really like to pick the food up and dump it all at her door step 🥴

ask her completely straight faced if she would like you to but her a bin for her crusts, better still, take one round, gift wrapped, when he's there.

sorry, buy her a bin i meant

@Bluntness100

Honestly that’s so grim, wtf does that,

Honestly I’d not rise to it, not directly, she’s possibly looking for a fight. But I’d video her and report it anonymously, make a new email anonymous address with a fake name and send it to environmental health.

Yes I agree with @Bluntness100, don’t rise to it and don’t engage with her. Just get it on film over a handful of different dates perhaps accompanied by a diary of dates this has happened and then report to environmental health along with any vermin you have seen (it’ll help if you have seen a rat the size of a Yorkshire Terrier so don’t forget that!).

I don’t think they disclose who has reported but I guess it will be pretty obvious though not proven. It will piss her off if she hasn’t got a direct rise out of you but has still ended up with a communication from the local borough council.

Meat trees, slipping on roast potatoes, gutter pizza...this thread is just !

@DoubleTweenQueen

If she’s throwing it onto the public road, can’t she be fined for littering? Need to film it and report to Environmental Health?

If it’s onto your property, probably antisocial behaviour or harassment.

Need to get her other half to get her to stop? Film and show to him?

^^ this!

@CavernousScream

She throws waste food out onto the street? Where do you live, the fifteenth century?

Literally spat my wine out 🤣

You could complain to the pizza takeaway place. Tell them their pizza boxes are being thrown into the street every night by their regular customer. You are going to have to tell Environmental Health unless it stops.

That is weird. Yanbu. However you can't reason with the unreasonable. And I always say if someone is deliberately going out there way to annoy you is to not be annoyed (therefore not giving them what they want). If the birds eat the food quickly i would ignore ignore ignore. Dont give her the satisfaction of letting her know it bothers u. If it comes to a point where u have to walk though her rottening food I would complain to the relevant people (not sure who that is mind you. Whoever you report antisocial behaviour too) and not communicate with her directly.

Sorry that should read the best way to deal with someone trying to annoy you is not to be annoyed.

I think she’s trying to attract rats to your house

A whole pizza a night he can't eat,
So the wife throws it out on the street,
They're the neighbours from hell,
I hear you all yell
Throw it back and hastily retreat :)

I also agree with @Bluntness100 that you shouldn’t get involved in a confrontation with her or her partner. It could easily escalate badly. Just record evidence and email it anonymously to Environmental Health.

Did I miss the diagram?

What a weird dirty cow

I would mention it in passing to her other half and say she needs to stop feeding the rats as that will cause us both a problem. Do you not have waste food collection

You should give her a pizza your mind!

Not be long until the rats start descending, hopefully into her home the dirty bitch.

I'd ask him why he buys a whole pizza each day, yet she's throwing half out into the road the following day, he could save a fortune popping it in the fridge overnight. I wonder if he thinks she/the kids have the remainder for lunch and isn't aware it's chucked out

Just out of interest, is the food still out there in the morning? Only asking because I feed the foxes at the front of my house (in dog bowls) but perhaps she is throwing the leftovers out for the foxes. My foxes come round at roughly the same time every night, eat their food and go. There is never any food left there the following morning.

@Ilovemypantry

Just out of interest, is the food still out there in the morning? Only asking because I feed the foxes at the front of my house (in dog bowls) but perhaps she is throwing the leftovers out for the foxes. My foxes come round at roughly the same time every night, eat their food and go. There is never any food left there the following morning.

So you do this too?!

Does she own or rent? Could you complain to a landlord?

Do film her and report. And in the meantime go out with big garden broom every day and sweep it back into her path.

What she's doing is really gross. You've got to wonder what goes through some peoples heads?

Could you get a dash cam OP?