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

Next door neighbours having loud parties then they decide to put a load of their rubbish in my bin! ( could tell by their crappy bin bags) Promptly took it out and dumped it back by theirs!
They were baffled when the council refused to collect their rubbish. It’s been 3 weeks and no repeat incidents

@MotherOfDemons

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

Need to go update it actually...

Please do. I was gobsmacked at the nerve of people thinking that once a neighbour gets a skip, then it's a free for all to see what they can get rid of without contributing at all to the cost of getting the skip.

Around our neck of the woods, if you're not getting rid of muck or building rubble, then there will be loads of people who drive past and will actually take stuff out of the skip and bring it home with them. They do say one man's rubbish is another man's gold.

I think YABU motherofpoodles. Why should the PP have strange men/people in her house?

For me, not exactly revenge but next door neighbour is such hard work. The best I can do is refuse to accept parcels for them but it keeps me going.

We used to have neighbours who threw syringes over the fence, stole our bin, flytipped etc, then we got an attack dog in the form of a 6 foot 3 polish brick outhouse who moved into our spare room. He drinks a lot but keeps the whole street in check now. We also have a famous local slumlord who imagimes himself an extra in miami vice. He was caught flytipping on video, including begging and offering money to delete the video. Il have to find it, made the newspapers.

Our current house used to be our weekend house before we had to sell up.

we would come down at the weekends and there would be dog shit inside our enclosed garden.

After we sold, the day after we were here (on a weekday) I was standing at the window and saw our neighbour let her jack russell into our garden, wait for it to shit and then take it back to her house.

Next morning we were lying in wait for her. She got the fright of her life at our screamed ;what the fuck are you doing' after coming up behind her quietly.

It was very satisfying.

@Thelnebriati

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)

Oh I posted before reading this! Snap!

We have a very old hifi system which gets loud (it came with a pair of 100w speakers). We usually play it on low because the sound quality is great and I don't like too much noise. Alexa is usually on 2.5 but will go to 5 if I am using mixers in the kitchen.

Our previous neighbours (over 20 years ago) were noisy and irritating, dh got fed up of their loud music on one occasion, turned the speakers to the wall, put one very annoying song on repeat, whacked it on full and went out for a couple of years. We didn't hear noise from them again.

More recently we have a family next door who shout and swear at each other a lot, especially when they've had alcohol. Last year dh started putting Christmas songs on loudly through the summer months everytime they shouted in the garden. They no longer shout in the garden.

@littledrummergirl

We have a very old hifi system which gets loud (it came with a pair of 100w speakers). We usually play it on low because the sound quality is great and I don't like too much noise. Alexa is usually on 2.5 but will go to 5 if I am using mixers in the kitchen.

Our previous neighbours (over 20 years ago) were noisy and irritating, dh got fed up of their loud music on one occasion, turned the speakers to the wall, put one very annoying song on repeat, whacked it on full and went out for a couple of years. We didn't hear noise from them again.

More recently we have a family next door who shout and swear at each other a lot, especially when they've had alcohol. Last year dh started putting Christmas songs on loudly through the summer months everytime they shouted in the garden. They no longer shout in the garden.

Jesus! A couple of YEARS????

Remind me never to piss you or your DH off!!!!

Students not recycling,Nor squashing any recycling filling up their own bins and starting to use other people's bins. They used mine. I took out their untied bag, leant it on their front door and banged loudly. I suspect it fell inwards when they opened the door.

No more rubbish in other people's bins as they did not know which number bin owner had objected.

@LookItsMeAgain that made me belly laugh

Loving all these replies so much

He did time.

He ran an illegal business from his property which meant we had people coming to his house at all hours and would dump rubbish on our property etc. He moved to another part of town, but the long arm of the law caught up with him and he was sent to prison and had to pay back a very large sum of money. He was (is) a massive arse, but not someone you'd want to be on the wrong side of. I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him, but he is a firm favourite of the local media.

Oops. I meant hours. Glad to make you laugh though...

When we got married at a fancy hotel we had the bridal suite and paid for pil to have a room so fil didn’t have to drive home that night. Home is 5 miles away but he likes a drink and how often does your son get married?.

Unfortunately a relative known for taking the piss then decided they’d also like a room so I got a LOT of heavy hints of how if she didn’t also have a room she’d have to get a taxi 😱. This went on for weeks while I sat there agreeing to mil that relative would indeed have to get a taxi 😱.

As if I’m going to pay for a hotel room for someone who slags me off, also the logistics didn’t add up because part of their group was my nephews 16yo gf so there would have been them, 10yo nephew and two 16yo in one room 🤨 I’m not sure 16yo would want to be in pj around 3 other people in one double room & I'm also not sure her mum would have been thrilled either but it wasn’t about them was it? In the end 16yo uncle who has a taxi drove them all home at midnight to make sure his niece got home safely.

I honestly don’t think she had a plan of getting them home that night, I wouldn’t leave her with a pot plant let alone a child.

She could have driven them all in her car but where’s the drama in that? Considering she “doesn’t need to drink to have a good time”.

@Fluffycloudland77 16 yo uncle with a taxi?

They mature early round that way 😃

@BlueLobelia Yours is much funnier! I just stood there with a coffee and a raised eyebrow and watched his dog take a shit while he squirmed

[quote Thelnebriati]@BlueLobelia Yours is much funnier! I just stood there with a coffee and a raised eyebrow and watched his dog take a shit while he squirmed [/quote]
Ah, but you have much more style. ;)

@memberofthewedding I don't suppose you could provide a link to suggested camera please 😁?

When they go on holiday I use my ped egg and throw the shavings over their fence.

@orangejuicer

I think YABU motherofpoodles. Why should the PP have strange men/people in her house?

For me, not exactly revenge but next door neighbour is such hard work. The best I can do is refuse to accept parcels for them but it keeps me going.

Because there's a problem and it would help sort it out, obviously.

Well when you put it that way

I had a neighbour who was generally just a bit of a pain and took no pride in where she lived. Anyway, we had a ginnel (passage) at the back of the houses and she dumped a double mattress in it. I asked her politely a few times when she was planning to move it and she made all sorts of promises and excuses.

I got a bit pissed off about it and o e night, on my way home, I dragged it out of the ginnel, rolled it down the street and propped it up outside her front door.

I was on my way out the following lunch time and she opened her door to find it blocked by a double mattress. I nearly peed my pants I laughed that much.

Came home an hour later and she had finally got it removed.

Local landowner (organisation) thinks they are God's gift and everyone should be grateful to live near them. When we moved in here, a former potato barn they owned was being converted into a house round the corner. Builders parked outside our house, overhanging the drive and making it a PITA to get out. They were really rude. The house was finally finished then took over a year to sell, mostly because of the crap layout and extortionate price. It was bought by some people from the SE of England to use as a 2nd home, who then started renting it out for holidays, which caused more hassle. She moaned about everything - eg the size of our hedge blocked light from one bedroom. Sorry love, the hedge was there long before it was a bedroom and we reduced it by half when we moved in. They finally sold up in January and we now have really nice people living there.

Then I received a letter from the local landowner stating that some stables beyond my lovely next door neighbours were going to be converted into a house. I checked the plans and the CFs had included part of my driveway as theirs. My lovely neighbours hadn't been informed and were in tears. The old guy next door rang the estate office and got the manager's lackey to come and talk to us. He was very snotty as he explained that the architect had used "the ancient boundary stone" on some grass that my neighbour maintained to work out where the plot was. My neighbour took great delight in telling him that the aforementioned "ancient boundary stone" was a piece of rock he'd found and he moved it every time he cut the grass. Lackey's face was a picture. Then he tried to tell me how they had a proven track record in bringing redundant farm buildings back into use for local families. I laughed in his face when he mentioned the former potato barn as its owners were neither local nor residents. "Didn't you think to put a covenant on it?" I asked. Evidently not.

Once I proved that I owned the driveway, his attitude changed. I suggested sitting down with a coffee and sorting out what we all wanted from the deal. Apparently, nobody had ever thought of that before. We objected to their plans formally and they were withdrawn, but it still cost them quite a lot. After that, they fixed up a meeting and we discussed with his boss what would be possible. As a result, my neighbour got an extension to his garden for £1, I got my driveway to myself and they sold the plot to some lovely people. But they are still bullying fuckers who think that throwing their weight about is the way to get on, rather than learning the art of negotiation.