To call the police if this happens one more time

[PlentyPlenty]

I am so sick of our fucking neighbours they just have absolutely no respect for anyone.

There have been a few issues but my biggest annoyance recently is that they and their friends just seem to think it's fine to use our driveway all the time. They have a front garden, we have a drive. They are separated by a fence but there is a gap at the top to get bins in and out of the back of the houses.

Their friends are always riding motorbikes up and down our drive, or even just pacing up and down it taking phone calls. I have gone out and asked several times that they don't do this because it sets off our dog and often wakes our baby from his naps either by the dog barking or the noise from the bikes.

They have just done it again and woken up the baby, so I went out, crying baby in my arms and asked them to stop (politely) and to use their friends front garden if they wanted to get their bike out.

I just received a load of abuse back and he continued off down my drive.

AIBU to think this is cheeky as fuck and to ring the police if I see one person from there step foot on my property again when they shouldn't be?

Install a big spring loaded board with weight trigger in the gap, like the ones Hollywood stuntmen use to throw themselves through the air in fight scenes. Opposite that install a brick wall. Cover the brick wall in dog shit. Avoid walking through the gap yourself and wait.

You could video it and sell the footage to pay for it all.

We've got parking spaces in front of our business, and the NDN is a complete PITA who drives over our dropped curb and across our spaces so he can park on his front without bumping up the curb. We paid for ours but he's too tight to and uses ours. He nearly ran our dog over the one day as he flew over our curb, so I got some of the lads in the workshop to go to the local builders merchants and we blocked the space between his front and ours with a row of metal old fashioned bins that we filled with bags of gravel.

I nearly pissed myself laughing watching him from upstairs trying to move them the next morning. He banged on our door insisted that he had a route of access over our front, but funnily enough Land Registry don't have any record of it.

Next time lean out the top window and very loudly shout “fuck off you little shits”. And then shut the window quick before they hurl abuse back! 😂

Seriously though, now you have given them a mouthful and they now know your not a pushover they may stop doing it.

I vote for getting a panther! 🐆

That’s brilliant @ConnieCaterpillar70, how satisfying!

You need a gate.

You know you get those motion sensor things at Halloween that cackle when you walk past? Could you get a whole host of those to make a din when they cross over?

@PlentyPlenty

Sorry attached now.

Put a gate on your bit with a lock that cannot be reached from their side.

I just can't over the fact people do this - play on someone's drive and walk up and down on the phone - without even an ounce of shame.

What the actual feck is up with some people?

@ConnieCaterpillar70’s is a really good solution. Spare bin or very large planter with a few big bags of gravel in the bottom so they can’t get through. If it’s a planter, put 3 inches of soil on top and some bedding plants.

@Angrypregnantlady

Block off the access. Trespass isn't a police matter so they can't do anything.

Trespass isn't. Abuse can be.

If your neighbour's friends are using abusive or threatening language, then definitely call the police - ideally record the whole thing so you have evidence.

Gate and a panther

It makes more sense to put gates up at the bottom of the driveway as it will stop them wandering around on your drive as well as the motorcycle issue. Sure it's annoying having to open them to drive on and off but worth it.

If youre not able to physically block them out then you need some stuff ,stuff to discourage them ,broken glass ? Dog shit ? Use your imagination but make sure it looks accidental and be prepared for them to be pissed off at you if they figure out you did it ,be subtle !

Can you get DH ago take your car occasionally so they won’t know if he’s home or not? Or park out of sight?

Meantime prioritise getting a gate and a WiFi camera to record their trespassing.

Do they happen to rent? If so they will be in breach of tenancy almost certainly. Redress through landlord if so

There are far too many threads saying "Contact their landlord" and in 99.9% of cases the LL does not want to get involved in personal disputes between neighbours. Unless the person is directly breaking their tenancy agreement in a significant way LL would be very unwise to intervene as they could be accused of harassment. Running snitching to an LL over anything other than very serious anti social behaviour can be interpreted as malicious gossip.

Many years ago when I was a tenant I had a series of petty disputes with NDN involving bins, parking spaces, etc. None of these was in breach of my tenancy. She snitched to my LL who told her that she regarded this as a private dispute and did not like snitches and tattle tales. Both she and I threatened NDN with legal action for harassment if there was any more of it. I would have been quite ready to follow up with a hard line legal letter.

I'd take a wee chair into their garden and sit with a book... right in front of their window. Or start making phone calls whilst pacing on their lawn.
If they ask you to move you could just say that as they often do this on your driveway you didn't think they'd mind.

memberofthe we may have read the op differently. I read that this was repeated trespass despite request not to by ndn or visitors of ndn which the op feels intimidated by. That’s not petty. Significant breach of very standard clauses in tenancies if they are tenants. If the landlord does nothing here course is then against the landlord he would owe diy of car to anyone caused nuisance by tenant.
Not sure why that would be ‘tittle tattle’ or petty - ffs op is not comfortable in her home due to repeated flagrant trespass.
So sensible to see if they are owners or tenants.
Hope your issue got sorted whether petty or not.

Duty of care that should read

The only way to stop these ignoramus - if that's the right word - is a gate with a lock and CCTV. You don't want the intimidation every time your dh goes out

Time to put a gate and fence all the way around and lock it

People like that rarely own their home, could you contact their landlord/letting agent and have them evicted?

The police won’t do anything though

I mean, trespass is a civil matter and they certainly wouldn’t dispatch officers immediately for an argument between neighbours like this.

I would keep a diary and report each incident to 101. Maybe in time there could enough evidence for harassment

Appalling behaviour - YANBU tbh I would make a report just in case they escalate - they sound like thugs poor you

Put the bins back in position sll set for them to move them except this time have something really smelly like dog poop under the handles they won't like that, rinse and repeat