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

Well I never seen anyone fined even for disgusting gardens like the two horrible neighbours I have downstairs their garden is full of crap but nothing

I've not really won in any of my epic battles with neighbours. Everything just escalates.

All of the non-mask wearing residents of the party house next door came down with covid last year and one was seriously ill, needed to go home to her family to be looked after and then infected many of them. They've not had any really loud or busy parties since but the police were called around several times so that may be why they stopped.

An earlier poster asked which cameras I had used.

The ones I originally purchased (Kamtron) are no longer on Amazon but these are similar and use the same software. I purchased two more today:-

www.amazon.co.uk/Lemnoi-Rechargeable-Security-Wireless-Waterproof/dp/B07P6PN1S2/ref=sr_1_20?dchild=1&keywords=kamtron&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1628033244&sr=8-20

There is quite a wide choice of outdoor cameras depending upon price and what you want them to do. These above have the ability to add a solar panel so you wont have to recharge the battery,

Our neighbours moved to the other side of the world and left their rotting piece of shit car parked outside the house. Every time the tax expires I report it to DVLA, because he never gets it declared SORN, it’s taking up a space and I’m petty as fuck.

@Malbecfan ‘ancient boundary stone’!!!

Not technically a CF neighbour just idiot that lives in flat below me. we live in what used to be a house now converted into 2 flats. There was only one letterbox that both flats share - never bothered me as I don't get anything important sent to me at home - all my banking etc online, and tax letters, bank cards, car rego and courier parcels are delivered to my work. The other 2 people who previously have lived in the upstairs flat were fine with this, as was I - I would take their mail when away and it was all good. Anyway, when the dickhead moved in he insisted on his own letterbox labelled as '5a' (house number is 5). Had been there 2 weeks and moaned to the landlord we were too 'noisy' as he likes to go to bed early. Now, me and my DS's are not noisy - I am very careful about that - they never wrestle round the house or anything. So landlord said he'd moaned and I stated that it is hard when we're on the top flat with minimal ventalation between the floor and ceiling, (1950's house) but that I'd try to keep the noise down. 2 days later neighbour banged loudly on door waking me up (I worked a night shift so was not amused) and asked to share my wi-fi as there was 'no address for 5a.' I said no as I have 3 people here and it would seem unfair on him. (Actually I was pissed as this was someone who I'd had no contact with except for him to complain about the noise, didn't know what sort of illegal shit he could download etc etc and was pretty annoyed he'd woken me. ) He said 'oh ok' and looked pretty wounded. Since then he has come up and moaned about the noise at 7pm on a Friday night - my sister was babysitting (I was just about to head out) and she was ready to chew him out! saying the kids were not noisy at all (they weren't!) I emailed my landlords informing them of this, inviting them to contact my sister who could confirm the kids weren't jumping around etc being noisy. I was still feeling a little salty when the recycling bags arrived in my letterbox (we get x amount free here, then have to pay for others), previously me and the tenants downstairs would keep half the bags each. But what a shame - as they weren't in his special '5a' letterbox (none were delivered to '5a' as it's not an official address) that - I kept all of the bags for myself. Something very small I know, but good.

Oops sorry for lack of paragraphs in my previous post!

I live in duplex over an apartment, now the neighbours below didn't work all through last year and this year. It has been party-central pretty much every night, music but mainly fighting till early hours. Still happening, as most of them are happy to claim welfare now.

I was/am working, in health services so on crazy hours.

Every night I cook up a batch of rice or pasta and I feed the seagulls at 6.30am. Their bedroom is directly under me and I just throw it over my wall.

My neighbour was a Teaching Assistant.

At Christmas I found my bin full of someone else’s bin bags, it’s Christmas so we have extra waste and I was annoyed.

Opened the bags and found a class worths of Christmas cards addressed to teaching assistant. I dumped the whole, now opened and leaking bag on her doorstep

@Mumvschildren

"I’d had enough-I stole their wedding cake"

That made me laugh 😂😂😂

Mum's awful neighbours used to pour oil and fat down their drains, wipes and sanpro down the toilet etc. They didn't give a shit. The inevitable happened. They got blocked drains. Sewage was backing up. Their plumber (drains company) was given a stepladder and sent over our fence (owned by my parents) and breaking it. He climbed down by standing on our wheelie bin, denting and splitting it too. He could have simply knocked on our door.

He lifted the drain cover in our patio and discovered a blockage on our side of the property just within our fence line but caused by the neighbours. It was definitely theirs as they were first in the line and 'upstream' of us. Our sewerage drains were clear and we had no issues.

Neighbours duly informed mum that SHE had a blockage on her property and that it would be being cleared the following day and that mum would need to settle up with the plumbing company. It would be £200+ with VAT.

Mum, after flushing her loo and checking the drains, declined the work and said she was doing just fine without it. The neighbours got pretty shitty with her, insisting that it was her financial responsibility. They tried to take it further but my mum just kept saying, "No thank you. We're fine"

When shit started flowing up into the neighbours garden, they had not only had to pay for the drain clearing but had quite a bit of fixing to do with their garden and conservatory to put it right.

Had they not tried to extort money from mum to pay for their error they would have saved a fortune.

I think your DM's neighbours were kind of right @OhRene. Usually you aren't responsible for maintaining the drains once they leave your property or it joins a pipe that has shared use. The lateral pipe was probably the responsibility of the water company. They could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and expense if they hadn't been CFs and contacted the water company. Unless they did and they were the only property feeding in at that point so the water company were going to charge them because they were clearly responsible for damaging the water companies property... which would make them double CFs, if they knew that.

Mum's awful neighbours used to pour oil and fat down their drains, wipes and sanpro down the toilet etc. They didn't give a shit. The inevitable happened. They got blocked drains

This happens to my NDNs about once a year. They cook with oil and grease. The pipe they have to have jetted is the one which leads directly from their house to the public drain. There are also families with young children upstream so disposable nappies, wet wipes and sanitary wear possibly going down as well - none of which I use.

I pour a drain cleaner down the sink every couple of months and it keeps mine clear.

@chesirecat99

I think your DM's neighbours were kind of right *@OhRene*. Usually you aren't responsible for maintaining the drains once they leave your property or it joins a pipe that has shared use. The lateral pipe was probably the responsibility of the water company. They could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and expense if they hadn't been CFs and contacted the water company. Unless they did and they were the only property feeding in at that point so the water company were going to charge them because they were clearly responsible for damaging the water companies property... which would make them double CFs, if they knew that.

Sorry my post maybe wasn't clear. They were the start of the pipe system for that street. No other properties before them so it was 100% their doing.

And they knew that too. My mum pointed out that her drains leaving her property were clear and the blockage was clearly theirs as their drains were upstream of hers and no one else's waste went in there. They told her "Tough shit, it's under your property so you gotta have it cleared".

Mum just shrugged and said, "I'm fine with it like that thank you."

I wish PPs would post more of these ! Am loving this thread.

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff

My street has on street parking, cars nose to tail. Not ideal, but it is what it is.

A charming man three doors away shouted at me out of his car last weekend that my car being parked on the street was causing damage. He wanted me to knock down my front garden and get the kerb dropped. I challenged him and he had no explanation for why my car was worse than anyone else's.

I still moved it a bit down the street.

A huge scaffolder's lorry has now parked there 🤣 funnily enough, I don't think he'll be shouting at the three burly men driving it!

You need council permission to install a dropped kerb anyway.

@ChaToilLeam

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. 😂

Your coronation is at 12 tomorrow, you utter Queen!

@user1493423934

Not technically a CF neighbour just idiot that lives in flat below me. we live in what used to be a house now converted into 2 flats. There was only one letterbox that both flats share - never bothered me as I don't get anything important sent to me at home - all my banking etc online, and tax letters, bank cards, car rego and courier parcels are delivered to my work. The other 2 people who previously have lived in the upstairs flat were fine with this, as was I - I would take their mail when away and it was all good. Anyway, when the dickhead moved in he insisted on his own letterbox labelled as '5a' (house number is 5). Had been there 2 weeks and moaned to the landlord we were too 'noisy' as he likes to go to bed early. Now, me and my DS's are not noisy - I am very careful about that - they never wrestle round the house or anything. So landlord said he'd moaned and I stated that it is hard when we're on the top flat with minimal ventalation between the floor and ceiling, (1950's house) but that I'd try to keep the noise down. 2 days later neighbour banged loudly on door waking me up (I worked a night shift so was not amused) and asked to share my wi-fi as there was 'no address for 5a.' I said no as I have 3 people here and it would seem unfair on him. (Actually I was pissed as this was someone who I'd had no contact with except for him to complain about the noise, didn't know what sort of illegal shit he could download etc etc and was pretty annoyed he'd woken me. ) He said 'oh ok' and looked pretty wounded. Since then he has come up and moaned about the noise at 7pm on a Friday night - my sister was babysitting (I was just about to head out) and she was ready to chew him out! saying the kids were not noisy at all (they weren't!) I emailed my landlords informing them of this, inviting them to contact my sister who could confirm the kids weren't jumping around etc being noisy. I was still feeling a little salty when the recycling bags arrived in my letterbox (we get x amount free here, then have to pay for others), previously me and the tenants downstairs would keep half the bags each. But what a shame - as they weren't in his special '5a' letterbox (none were delivered to '5a' as it's not an official address) that - I kept all of the bags for myself. Something very small I know, but good.

I do like this one. Just the right level of pettiness without being unkind. And well deserved after undeserved criticism.

I do wonder about people who are arseholes one minute and asking for favours the next. We might have slept but we haven't forgotten the fact you were an arsehole yesterday!

I have one neighbour behind me. He did 5 months in prison last year for assaulting me and gets to have his name on the register for 10 years. You know the one I mean.

Since April and longer days I play music loudly in his direction, it doesn't bother my other neighbours due to one being completely deaf and the other house being empty, I have set up a tiny speaker that when it senses movement outside his house it increases the volume but he sleeps during the day and I totally blast the music then. The way it's set up can't hear it from outside the boundaries of around the side of the house. It's only the one place it can be heard loudly, he told one of the girls in the local shop its getting on his nerves who is a friend of mine and took great pleasure in knowing its annoying him.

Housing are in process of rehoming but he is resisting their processes but due to covid he returned to the same house.

After our NDN opposing our extension, which did not impact on them whatsoever, we had no other option but to sell up and move on. The buyers of our house have turned out to be absolute nightmares causing untold grief to NDN. I couldn’t help but smile when I heard how unhappy our NDN had become since our departure!

I lived on a hell hole estate, had words with one set of neighbours & they got a friend to dump their shit heap of a car in my parking space, I reported the car to the police & it was towed away, cost them hundreds to get it back.

These are great-love the pettiness!

@Heliachi, love it!! I like to walk past our old house now and see how it rough it looks. Yep, we sold to hillbillies too. I’m in contact with NDN daughter too. She often tells me how much her family miss us and how much the new family doesn’t fit in with the area.