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To accuse this neighbour of stealing my plant pot..

32 replies

Lill7778 · 19/09/2022 20:57

I smoke. Yes it's a disgusting habit yada yada.. but it is what it is.

I put my cigarette butt's in a little plant pot next to the porch and empty it every couple of days. You wouldn't know it was there unless you knew I stood out there smoking, which this neighbour does as he sees me regularly.

Said neighbour lives a few doors down and is always on the bum, asking people for cigarettes and picking discarded ones up off the floor.

My other half has caught him snooping around near my front door a handful of times, obviously looking for cigarette butt's with anything left on them. He doesn't say anything he just styled It out and walked off.

At some point this evening 'somebody' has come up to my front door and pinched the plant pot I use to put my cigarettes in. It doesn't take a genius to work out who has done it. The other neighbours are non smokers and definitely not the sort to do something like that.

I couldn't care less about the cigarettes butt's, if he was that desperate I would've given him a cigarette if he had the decency to ask.. but the fact he's pinched the plant pot has really fucked me off. I liked that pot and may have had other plans for it.

So WIBU to confront him even though there's no concrete evidence that it's him?

A few years ago another of these plant pots with cigarette ends in went missing. It's only now I'm connecting the dots. Arsehole.

OP posts:
whatsup00 · 20/09/2022 11:22

Ohhhh... sorry, obviously took me a while to type that out!

GasPanic · 20/09/2022 11:51

Just get an empty baked bean tin and chuck your fag ends in that.

Although in theory you should be able to have whatever you like outside your front door without it getting nicked, TBH it doesn't sound like the sort of area where that is realistic if there are people around so desperate that they are scoping out your front door with a view to picking up ciggie butts.

hellosunshineagainxxx · 20/09/2022 11:56

I hate my neighbour smoking outside their front door it comes straight into my windows. Could be a pissed off nonsmoker neighbour

MyStarBoy · 15/04/2023 09:06

So you’ve got no physical evidence and he’s guilty??

If I lived near you I’d probably take it, because then hopefully you’d fag it in your back garden and not be on display for all to see.

But hey, you know it all!

Throwncrumbs · 15/04/2023 09:12

Log it with the police.

YellowAndGreenToBeSeen · 15/04/2023 09:14

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mangoontoast · 15/04/2023 09:24

MyStarBoy · 15/04/2023 09:06

So you’ve got no physical evidence and he’s guilty??

If I lived near you I’d probably take it, because then hopefully you’d fag it in your back garden and not be on display for all to see.

But hey, you know it all!

If you'd bothered to actually read the thread, rather than randomly commenting on a post from September, you'd see that she does have evidence he took it as he returned it!

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