Tell me your little wins against CF and selfish neighbours!

[happygohappy]

I live in an area which suffers badly with flytipping, people just dont care and treat it like a dump. It makes me so angry and sad and I waste so much bloody time reporting it, speaking to councillors etc. Got an update today that something I reported a few weeks ago had evidence in and they've issued a fine to the household

I'm chuffed and hope it is the first fine of many!!

So tell me your little wins, where you've caught out selfish arsehole neighbours (or just people!) and got sweet revenge

I reported my neighbour to police for being an abusive prick.. Police were fantastic, issued him with trespass order. Next day neighbour put his house in the market. The other neighbours were so pleased that they bought me champagne for "taking one for the team" 😂

Neighbour in the same set of flats went away and his brother stayed to housesit. Both flats had a shared WiFi under same landlord. Brother tried to play music ridiculously loud so I blocked all his devices apart from his phone on the firewall. Worked a treat.

One of our neighbors in a block of flats had been scattering rubbish in the shared garden rather than taking it to the big street bins. I caught him at it one night and asked him what he was doing. He said that he was clearing it up. I said to him “Oh, what a great neighbour you are, some dirty bastard has been dumping rubbish out there, it’s horrible, let me help you!” And I dived back into my flat to get a roll of bin bags and held them open while he picked up every scrap of rubbish and put it in, all the time keeping up a chirpy string of chatter about the evils of anti-social neighbors. He was FUMING. 😂

I’ve told this one before under a different name

My bro and sister in law are cf’s-they try to never pay for a thing or con others into paying them for the most basic of favours (they once tried to charge me a tenner to babysit-I only wanted to go to the shop,2 minutes away,for milk and she refused to go for me/bring some round)

They wanted to get married and wanted a do to make the royal wedding look like a do in a scout hut-but they really didn’t want to pay for it
I was a single parent to 6 at the time

They set the date-then didn’t speak a word to me-she was in touch with me everyday before this

They got me to pay for our outfits (kids where bridesmaids/page boys)

They changed the colour scheme without telling me so the clothes I’d spent a fortune on where the ‘wrong’ colour-cue loads of bitching about how I’d refused to buy new stuff-oh and they really thought I’d spend £200 per child per outfit just to be worn once-twice over so it would have been £400 per kid over the two outfits-one that would never have been worn

Bitched about me as I ‘refused’ to go dress shopping with her-I’d not been invited!

She invited me to the hen do-then didn’t tell me she’d changed the times and dates-after I’d paid my share

They refused to allow us to travel with them on the day-leaving me with a massive taxi bill

Bitched as I wore my own jewellery-I should have bought new stuff

Ignored me all day and refused to have us in the wedding photos

They laid on jacket potatoes for the wedding breakfast-30 jacket potatoes to feed about 150 people-they where sat scoffing lobster and other goodies with her family

The ‘champagne’ was so sour and nasty-turned out her lot had the champagne and they gave me (and only me) the cheapest white they could find for some reason-then tried to charge me afterwards for the bottle even tho I’d had half a glass

They threw a tantrum when I left the kids with other family so I could run across to Sainsbury’s to feed them

Told me kids where not welcome at the evening do-they where-just not my lot-I ended up coughing up a fortune in babysitters

(I found out afterwards they’d got everyone to pay for the day-to the point they tried to con my mother into paying 3x’s the amount for the evening do venue-idea being she’d give them the cash for them to pay it-she just went to the venue herself and paid-they ended up having to pay for her shoes-and somehow it got in their heads I should have paid)

The final straw was when I heard her bitching about my present and her shoes in the toilets as ‘she’s raking it in with tax credits-tight cow’

I’d had enough-I stole their wedding cake (kids enjoyed it for breakfast the following day) and karma bit their arses when they went on honeymoon and it pissed it down all week,when the week before it had been a heatwave

I’ve not spoken to them since-but I keep getting told about their entitlement by my son which amuses me no end (I did try to mend bridges when they had a baby by sending 3 presents-all brand new-and got the message back that they didn’t want ‘second hand dirty crap’ and that the cross stitch I made and sent them ‘wasn’t Winnie the Pooh,Charlie’s ark is shite’ so they didn’t want it-and they sent the whole lot back)

I’m told they rock up at mealtimes so family will feed the child and they spend their time trying to dump him off/get others to buy him basic stuff like clothes and shoes etc
my mother is a narcissist and she refuses to engage,I’m told it’s very amusing to watch the 3 of them try to get one up on each other all the time

I’m glad to be out of it

I have a strained faux polite relationship with the CF who lives over the road, ever since I got up early to catch him letting his dog shit on my front garden because he couldn't be arsed to take it for a walk.

I asked him if he needed a bag, and he came over and cleaned it up with a face like a slapped arse
(many thanks to the Mnetter who taught me that expression)

I always refused as I dont allow strangers into my home without a burly male relative present.

I always wonder how people handle a fire, or a medical emergency if a male paramedic or helper of any kind would need access

Living at my parents property some years ago..

The property used to be part of the farm and as the farm yard, it had a pond within the boundaries of the farm, by the front gate. Most farms in this area have this.

My parents deeds show the pond (think big enough you could stand about 30 cows in it for a paddle and they'd all have room to move about, lob a beach ball around etc, quite large) as belonging to their property...

However at the time of renovation the pond was in water and the property needed securing so parent built a rather decorative wall separating property from pond, with a gate leading out to the pond edge.

The property borders common land owned by something like a local council (but not. v. outing!)...

My parent decides to sort out pond some years down the line, as the mature trees are wobbly and threatening his decorative fancy wall - Local Council Type Affair LEAP into action, claiming 'THIS IS OURS YOU CAN'T HAVE IT'...

Parent says 'no s'not, s'on my deeds look, I want to tidy it and maintain it, its full of rather mature trees, poses a risk to my property and since its mine I want to sort it out'..

LCTA: nonono its ours, we've got a bit of paper from the courts to prove its ours, we've spent loads of money proving its ours. Legally, its ours.

My Parent: Well your mature tree standing on YOUR land just fell on my wall and so you owe me a new wall.

LCTA: Shit.

They built him a new wall, a very fancy new wall rather more fancy than the original. They also now maintain the pond as its a historical 'thing' and their remit is to maintain the common land...

All of the above has cost them tens of thousands... they coulda given him his own pond, and spent not a single bean.

I’d had enough-I stole their wedding cake (kids enjoyed it for breakfast the following day)

in any other context I would have thought you were an awful CF, but on this very occasion, wow, I am impressed 😂

Well done, it takes guts, but the world needs more people like you!

@InpatientGardener "panpipes for lovers"

Students in the flat next door kept waking me up by playing guitars and drums in the middle of the night.

After one spectacularly bad night I pushed my CD player up to their wall, put an opera CD on repeat on full blast and went out for the day.

Love these threads

One of my old neighbours over the road dumped a sofa (that had been in their front garden) in the alleyway behind the houses on my side. I was so angry that I wrote their address all over it in thick marker pen and that it had been flytipped. The sofa disappeared very quickly.

Another time their brat of a daughter and her friend had got hold of some polystyrene and proceeded to break it up and leave it blowing around the street. After dark I went out gathered it all up and piled it in their porch. The mother was very confused when she saw it next morning.

Wasn’t my own personal win but it did make me smile.

There is a man who lives around the corner from us and he keeps parking his car right in the corner of our road with his back end sticking out over the junction. There might be a full car space in front of him that he could easily park in but he won’t for some reason. It was parked there as usual when I went to bed one Saturday evening, I slept brilliantly that night , didn’t hear a thing so was quite surprised to look out of the window on the Sunday morning to see a dent on the back wing of the car. He’s now started parking further up the street.

The same neighbours got a doorbell on the same frequency as mine, I had some fun with that as well.

They deserved it all, the stepfather always parked in the street and left their two car driveway empty. If the space was taken he would park on the drive and move it back out when it became free. We had fun with that as well.

My neighbor's girlfriend has developed a sense of entitlement to my pool/husband. We live next to two elderly brothers and one is dating a woman 20 years younger and they all drink, a lot. We met her one time, at a neighborhood party where she tried all night to chat my husband up. When we were walking our dogs later that night, she lunged out of the dark at us, babbling drunkenly. I warned her to stay away from my (leashed) dog and she instead insisted on putting her and my dog almost bit her (good judge of character). Even though my dog did not bite her in any way, she tried to hold her hand and act hurt, as if she had. Also my best friend was at the party with us, and said this woman was trying to come on to her and asked if she could come to our house. And get in bed with her later (my friend a married grandma of 3)

It is for all of these reasons that I will have nothing to do with this woman. Inexplicably, now whenever we come outside she drunkenly a costs us and asks if we are "getting ready to use our pool". I get great pleasure out of saying "No", and then getting right into it. She tried to help herself over our fence one night when we were out there, but my dog let her know that would not be happening.

When she sees my husband, she is incredibly friendly. Saying "HI" to him and never me (thank God). So that now when I see her and my neighbor, I make it a point to smile very big and acknowledge only him.

I don't know what made her feel entitled to our property as I don't even know her, but I am sick of being accosted every time we go outside. I am about to talk to my neighbor about keeping his trash in his own yard.

Not little and not my neighbour at the time but we had a woman transferred to our area after her previous neighbours fire bombed her flat as they were so fed up with her!
After she moved to my area, I could completely see why they'd done it!

See my recent thread on the guy putting dog shit in my skip!

Need to go update it actually...

Panpipes for Lovers

reminds me the start of every 80's movies

I'm not sure if my neighbours at uni were cf but they were really noisy. Would be playing music at full blast while getting ready to go out, stomp around their flat, come back in the early hours and have a party waking us up etc. Asked them to turn it down, we could hear them, we couldn't hear our tv etc. They didn't change.

I came back to flat after uni as I had work, think it was like 2/3 jan. had done a day at work and was having a soak in the bath. Could hear a load if noise upstairs, lots of stamping around etc, no music but they were being noisy selves. I just turned my CD player up loader to ignore them. About two days later they came to say they had been burgled and had I heard anything!

If only they hadn't been noisy buggers all the time I would have thought the noise unusual and would have called the police.

@Mumvschildren

I’ve told this one before under a different name

My bro and sister in law are cf’s-they try to never pay for a thing or con others into paying them for the most basic of favours (they once tried to charge me a tenner to babysit-I only wanted to go to the shop,2 minutes away,for milk and she refused to go for me/bring some round)

They wanted to get married and wanted a do to make the royal wedding look like a do in a scout hut-but they really didn’t want to pay for it
I was a single parent to 6 at the time

They set the date-then didn’t speak a word to me-she was in touch with me everyday before this

They got me to pay for our outfits (kids where bridesmaids/page boys)

They changed the colour scheme without telling me so the clothes I’d spent a fortune on where the ‘wrong’ colour-cue loads of bitching about how I’d refused to buy new stuff-oh and they really thought I’d spend £200 per child per outfit just to be worn once-twice over so it would have been £400 per kid over the two outfits-one that would never have been worn

Bitched about me as I ‘refused’ to go dress shopping with her-I’d not been invited!

She invited me to the hen do-then didn’t tell me she’d changed the times and dates-after I’d paid my share

They refused to allow us to travel with them on the day-leaving me with a massive taxi bill

Bitched as I wore my own jewellery-I should have bought new stuff

Ignored me all day and refused to have us in the wedding photos

They laid on jacket potatoes for the wedding breakfast-30 jacket potatoes to feed about 150 people-they where sat scoffing lobster and other goodies with her family

The ‘champagne’ was so sour and nasty-turned out her lot had the champagne and they gave me (and only me) the cheapest white they could find for some reason-then tried to charge me afterwards for the bottle even tho I’d had half a glass

They threw a tantrum when I left the kids with other family so I could run across to Sainsbury’s to feed them

Told me kids where not welcome at the evening do-they where-just not my lot-I ended up coughing up a fortune in babysitters

(I found out afterwards they’d got everyone to pay for the day-to the point they tried to con my mother into paying 3x’s the amount for the evening do venue-idea being she’d give them the cash for them to pay it-she just went to the venue herself and paid-they ended up having to pay for her shoes-and somehow it got in their heads I should have paid)

The final straw was when I heard her bitching about my present and her shoes in the toilets as ‘she’s raking it in with tax credits-tight cow’

I’d had enough-I stole their wedding cake (kids enjoyed it for breakfast the following day) and karma bit their arses when they went on honeymoon and it pissed it down all week,when the week before it had been a heatwave

I’ve not spoken to them since-but I keep getting told about their entitlement by my son which amuses me no end (I did try to mend bridges when they had a baby by sending 3 presents-all brand new-and got the message back that they didn’t want ‘second hand dirty crap’ and that the cross stitch I made and sent them ‘wasn’t Winnie the Pooh,Charlie’s ark is shite’ so they didn’t want it-and they sent the whole lot back)

I’m told they rock up at mealtimes so family will feed the child and they spend their time trying to dump him off/get others to buy him basic stuff like clothes and shoes etc
my mother is a narcissist and she refuses to engage,I’m told it’s very amusing to watch the 3 of them try to get one up on each other all the time

I’m glad to be out of it

Jesus. What a mess.

Oh I remember the stealing the wedding cake story!!

CF neighbor has been harassing us for years and also ganged up on us with her parents that lived on the same street. Her father was a nasty old man who would join CF neighbours in harassing us and one evening, made a sexual comment towards me as he passed me on the street. I went inside my home, called the police on him for sexually harassing me on the street and they came over and warned him at his house (in front of his wife) to stop harassing me, a woman at least 30 years younger than him.

He never did that again.

*had been

Thankfully we moved and they’re still stuck with their miserable selves. Makes me smile when I think of it and my own happy life.

Friend who had a fantastic life, childfree into her late 30s living in an amazing country with a great job on a very high wage. Overall a nice person but very judgemental of mothers ("my child would never do that" etc) and would constantly give out parenting advice or make comments about friends children "always being sick" (normal 5 year olds picking up reception class bugs). Thought she knew everything about motherhood because she worked in education...but had never spent more than an hour alone with a child outside that setting.

Had a child of her own. Complains constantly how hard it is and how tired she is. Informs friends and family its "their turn" to have her child because she just had him. Has zero control over his behaviour. He is a livewire and runs round from 6am-8pm. Sweet child but just has never had boundaries. Bites and wets his pants daily still aged 7. Also he is always sick due to where she chooses to work (imagine having hayfever and living in a field of flowers). I do sometimes wonder if she remembers making other mothers around her feel like shit and all the helpful advice she gave out over the years. She doesnt seem to and has no shame complaining about her life and how challenging parenting is.

@memberofthewedding

Had another little bit of revenge against NDN on wednesday last.

They use a lot of oil and grease in their cooking and my plumber tells me that this can go solid once it hits cold water if you put it down the drain. About once a year NDN has to have their drains jetted which costs a pretty penny. In the past Ive had their plumbers calling at my home without appointment wanting to come in to my home to see if the problem is "connected". Our houses are detached. I always refused as I dont allow strangers into my home without a burly male relative present. I told them they could make an appointment by writing to me on their letter head but they never did. The NDNs whinged that they would have to pay for another visit but thats their problem.

On other occasions they have called out the local water company to inspect the drains and on two occasions I have given them (the utility company) access to the inspection drain in my garden but they never found any problems. No problems with my own sinks or loos have ever emerged. So its obviously something the nDNs are doing.

They had the plumbers out on wednesday last - three men and two vans - jet washing their drains. The foreman knocked on my door but I was watching on my cctv and did not answer. I just sat there enjoying their antics and knowing it was costing my NDNs £££.

They say that revenge is a dish best served cold.

Well you can imagine how much fun I had after them dumping rubbish on my garden!

Sorry about the black bin situation but you sound hard work and petty regarding the drains. Laughing about them having to come back out? What about the engineer that has to come back at your convenience?