To post photos through his door telling him to do one.

[SamanthaCaine]

I've got CCTV. A few years ago I caught a neighbour (fucking old man weirdo) walking up my drive snooping around, looking behind the bins etc.

I left it, but have kept the footage and forgotten about it. Anyway, today he did it again but walked off with one of my recycling bins 😂

Obvs first world problems but I was showing my daughter and saying what a oddball he is. She said I should print off both instances and post it through his letterbox telling him to "fuck off our property you freak". The cantankerous in me says yes. My adult parent in me says no.

But WIBU to do something like this?

Or post it up on the local Facebook page?

Post them through his door, possibly with a more measured message! I'd be tempted though 😁

I would put a note through saying you know he's trespassed and stolen your bin and have proof.
Give him 24 hours to return it and tell him to never come on your property again or you'll report him. I mean the police won't do anything but it might give him a kick.

I wouldn't but I would go round and ask for your bin back and if he denies it, tell him he's on CCTV

And in the message, make sure you mention that if it happens again you won't hesitate to contact the police...

You go to his door, & say" I'll be having my bin back & don't come snooping on my property again."
If he thinks there's any justification, you say "it's on camera. If you want to discuss this further you can do it to the police"

It's so tempting. I've ordered another bin anyway as the council are good like that. But the cheek of it.

And why my house in particular? We all have the exact same bins for glass so he could take anyone's. My neighbours don't even have a drive and theirs are literally on the street. Much easier to steal.

This.

This - I can't believe the voting so far (know there are only 23 votes so far - but still!).

Posting stuff through letter boxes with abusive messages? Seriously?

As above, go around, ask for bin, say you have evidence.

When you get a new one, put a sticker on it saying "Monitored by CCTV - i.e. don't pinch it Ronald/No. 23" or similar!

Yeah, do it, because posting photographs through someone’s door with abusive messages definitely isn’t also a crime.

Go round and get your bin back. If he queries what you’re doing, tell him you have CCTV footage of him taking it. Do it reasonably and calmly.

Can you get your house number on the bin?

Why did you order a new one, rather than knock on his door and say "you have my recycling bin. I'd like it back please"?

Two separate occasions several years apart - perhaps his recycling box has gone missing and he thinks it might have been put back be on your drive? Unless there’s more you haven’t told us, it seems like a bit of an overreaction when a gentle conversation may clear things up. ‘Old man weirdo’ seems rather harsh too.

I'd be a bit careful if he is an "odd ball weirdo". Putting an abusive letter through the door of someone you admit is a bit strange could not go the way you want, especially as he knows exactly who it's from and where you live. I'd just go and knock on his door and say could you have you recycle bin back as you've noticed on CCTV that he has taken it. Go from there. Hopefully knowing you have CCTV will discourage him in the future.

Missing the point but how the hell are you getting it replaced so quickly where I stay we’ve to wait months on one and then it’s a lot of chasing up

me I’d of knocked the door and asked for it back and say I have proof you took it instead of ordering a new one

Do you have a street/area whatsapp group or anything?

I had something similar, my batshit older neighbour up the road kept coming in my garden and doing random stuff. So I posted on the WhatsApp group for our street saying I won’t name names but can they please stop or I’d contact the police.
hes nice as pie to me now 😂

Lovely daughter you've raised there. He obviously thinks that you had his recycling bin, easy cleared up. Does your DD think shaming people on SM is the thing to do? Go on the attack against a pensioner and you need to explain the possible backlash to that, to her.

The real question.

Probably because in all honesty the posting of stuff through the letterbox is like me wanting to punch some people in the face. Nice idea but never going to happen. It's the sort of thing you'd love to do because people are bloody annoying but reality kicks in and I'd rather save the confrontation and just get a replacement.

For info he lives about 10 doors away so not like next door. Hence why I think it's completely weird behaviour.

Thanks. I'm rather proud of her really.

It's all a bit tongue in cheek though so probably sounds worse reading it in black/white.

It's just that we were sat here working while it happened and we're both a bit shocked at the brazenness of it. Her other suggestion was to cone off our house with pictures of his face stuck to them.

Defo get a printed transfer for your bin " leave this one alone bin thief @ no xxx"

How annoying. But god don’t share it on social media before you’ve even bothered talking to him…..that’s my pet peeve.

Your DDs ideas are fairly funny….but I’d probably just knock on his door, tell him you have footage of him taking your bin and ask for it back….or just tell him you’re taking it back. I agree with getting a sticker or marker of some kind.

There's some bloody ageist shit on this thread.

If he's had a bin nicked before then maybe he's put a little mark on his bins to identify which are his. The recycling teams aren't generally careful which gardens they throw bins back into. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he'd been in several gardens looking for his bin?

Some people are particular about having their own one back. Fortunately ours are all wheelie bins now (apart from the food waste bin) and people shove big house number stickers on them or use marker pen or paint to identify their bins.

There's always one.