Caught neighbours using my garden

[Weird21]

I have a block of flats next to my house and I thought for a while things have been moved in my garden and it seemed a bit weird. I’ve got a lock on the gate and it’s always locked. So over the weekend I’ve installed a small out door camera under my guttering which records the whole back garden.

So I’ve come home tonight after work (I work the late shift) and found two cigarette butts on the path by my seating area. So I checked the camera and the neighbors have climbed my wall and been sitting in my garden from 2pm until 8pm using my seating and table. To say I’m annoyed is an understatement but how to I confront them as they aren’t the friendliest of people at the best of times. So I guess they’ve been doing this since the nice weather began.

Unfortunately it’s not difficult to see i’m out as I have to drive to work and so once my cars not there they obviously know I’m out.

I just don’t know how to approach this as I’m a single woman and just concerned it’ll escalate but I can’t allow this what would you all do? I thought maybe a note through their door asking them to not use it anymore. They haven’t seen the camera but now I wonder how long it’s been going on.

It doesn't matter if the OP was true or not. The papers can correctly state 'a user on Mumsnet said X, Y and Z and got the responses A, B and C'. That's a truthful report of the thread. The paper is just repeating what was posted on the forum, not making a judgement about the veracity of the post. They get a sensational story for minimal effort and in this case it's one they can illustrate with a picture of a model in a bikini. Win-win for them.
Not that it's really "news" though.

We neeeeeed an update on this.

@DdraigGoch

It doesn't matter if the OP was true or not. The papers can correctly state 'a user on Mumsnet said X, Y and Z and got the responses A, B and C'. That's a truthful report of the thread. The paper is just repeating what was posted on the forum, not making a judgement about the veracity of the post. They get a sensational story for minimal effort and in this case it's one they can illustrate with a picture of a model in a bikini. Win-win for them. Not that it's really "news" though.

Newspaper websites need cheap clickbait filler. The likes of this is gold dust.

We have a neighbour who we caught climibig our fence a few times to get into our garden - he said things like I wanted to cut your plants or the water company needed access - firstly they're our plants - he should leave them alone and secondly if the water company needs access to our property that's our decision to allow them not his. So we came up with a clever solution - we put our bins against the fence he was climbing over - now he'll either land in a pile of rubbish or injure himself on the bins - either way he'll think twice about climbing the fence again without permission!!

If you know which seat your neighbours are sitting on you could add things like mice traps on the seat - they'd soon get the idea that you know and they're not welcome!

Newspaper websites need cheap clickbait filler. The likes of this is gold dust.
Sad state of journalism.

@DdraigGoch

Newspaper websites need cheap clickbait filler. The likes of this is gold dust. Sad state of journalism.

Problem is people want quality journalism but don't want to pay for it, so there's no money to fund it.

@Ravenclawsome. I'm happy to pay for quality reporting so subscribe to The Times. This thread was mentioned in there today.

@Weird21 hi I'm clearing out my watch folder, how did this all end, have you managed to stop them coming over into your garden

ZOMBIE THREAD

Wow was that 2021 that's flown!

Aw, it's a young zombie, only a year and a half old. Bless...

I remember this one and would have liked an update from @Weird21 but guess they had their reasons for not coming back. I think this was their only thread?