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Neighbours Indiana Jones-ing their way into our garden

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Dadfromthesea · 25/09/2023 15:33

This is making me seethe and chuckle in equal measure.

At the end of our garden are some big old fir trees, then the boundary fence. After that there’s a little stream, and if you kept going you’d find the fence of the people who live in the house behind (let’s call them Mr and Mrs Jones), then their back garden.

The Joneseseses have just bought a big seating unit thing and plonked it at the back end of their garden (the bit nearest us). It’s about 10ft from my boundary fence and a good 70ft from the back of my house - we’re lucky to have a big garden - and there’s the fir trees as well which make it a pretty thick barrier.

But they decided they want some privacy and put up a big canvass barrier. Fair enough, I don’t care.

Except…

They’ve tied it to our fir trees!

They’ve clambered over their own fence, slung a ladder (an actual LADDER) over the stream, scrambled up the bank, and cable tied the bloody thing to our trees! Without so much as a word!

They did it in the dead of night! Came down the other day to discover the bloody Shroud of Turin cable tied to my trees! The ladder was still there on the bank of the stream.

So obviously, being British and terrified of confrontation, I did the natural thing of not mentioning it to them but instead cutting the fucker down. It’s now in my garage.

And they’ve replaced it with another!! It arrived overnight this morning!

Just to be clear - I don’t care that they want to shield themselves from us. It’s a dark green thing so I can barely even see it. But I can see it, and I do care that they’ve gone on a bloody Navy SEAL Commando mission, twice, to my garden to put the bloody thing up!

Yes I could go and talk to them but a) I’ve never said a word to them before b) they might kill me and c) this is funnier.

But tell me I ANBU please.

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CitizenofMoronia · 26/09/2023 12:54

AliceOlive · 26/09/2023 12:46

Bit of housekeeping here: Am I the only one using the Thanks button as an indication of laughter?

im using it in the same way i use the like button on facebook

IncompleteSenten · 26/09/2023 12:55

Put a note through their door "stop tying your shit to my trees"

horseyhorsey17 · 26/09/2023 12:59

Dadfromthesea · 25/09/2023 15:52

I once got a tea towel with my DD’s face on it when she was a baby. It seemed like a good idea but it was actually the most horrific image ever committed to canvas. But it does give me the idea of getting a gigantic canvas sheet with all of our faces on it, and installing it facing their back garden.

I think I love you.

plumtreebroke · 26/09/2023 13:00

They probably think no one uses the area up by the trees and are under the misapprehension that their previous sheets got blown away, so are making the next one more substantial.

Take the new one down then leave some pots, deckchairs, a flag on the trees, a cut out bear, anything as an obvious signs of habitation to demonstrate someone else's interest in the area. Of course they may retaliate by taking your stuff.

heldinadream · 26/09/2023 13:01

@Dadfromthesea present for you, DIY noisy-fuck-off windchimes. (I just need to be on this thread it's magic! 😂)

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TrulyScrumptious22 · 26/09/2023 13:03

Cut it down then dress all in black tonight,...balaclava to, go full on 'because the lady loves milk tray' outfit man....lay in wait...as soon as you see their stupid arses clambering over the fence spring into action with a huge torch under your face and scream A ha!! They will never ever ever ever ever so it again. Please do this and film it 😂😂. What a bunch of weirdos 😬

Buttercupsdaisiesdandelions · 26/09/2023 13:04

Lawyer here - they may genuinely think they own more than they do. You need to check your title deeds to confirm the boundary and then go and speak to them.

Okaygoahead · 26/09/2023 13:05

“whilst I’m not opposed to mentally scarring people for life, I know from experience that it takes planning”

the whole thread is gold, but this has made me laugh the hardest (so far!)

Inkpotlover · 26/09/2023 13:07

Okay, you need to go round now and talk to them. The tit-for-tat is only going to escalate otherwise.

MinnieGirl · 26/09/2023 13:09

I think at this stage you need to get serious…they clearly aren’t going to give up…
I would check your deeds again. And get a copy of their deeds too. Does it say who owns the stream? I would get very clear photographs of the poles and tarpaulin and if they see you doing it , so much the better.
I also think you need to go round and have a conversation with them… making it very clear that they are not to attach anything to your property, and if you see anyone creeping about at night and interfering with your property again, you will contact the police.
I mean…who does this?

Royalbloo · 26/09/2023 13:10

Medlady · 25/09/2023 16:18

Hahhaaaa!!!!!! I'll chip in!

Stephisaur · 26/09/2023 13:11

Right, I've done no work this morning because I've read all of this 😂

CFery of the highest degree from the neighbours.

I think I'd be tempted to cut it to shreds and lob it back over their fence.

ScrambledSmegs · 26/09/2023 13:12

Maybe get some Private Property - No Trespassing signs and attach them to your fence. They'll probably ignore them but it means they will have no recourse to wails of "but we didn't realise" when this inevitably becomes a face-to-face issue.

LostThestral · 26/09/2023 13:12

think it's got to be a boundary issue & you just need to go & talk to them. BUT it's very important you put the giant spiders & brownies in the tress before you talk to them

CherryCokeFanatic · 26/09/2023 13:13

Why don’t you just go talk to them and tell them to stop tying things to your trees and hanging a tarp in your land (from what I gather it’s within your fenced area? I’m guessing your fence is very low or not a solid one?

Lollypop701 · 26/09/2023 13:14

If you do go round…. Make sure you Take the shrouds tarps back looking like a body in a bag… you have the extra 2 tarps to use anyway…

because I think the neighbours are on here and are quietly joining in, how else would they have the bloody extra shrouds ready and waiting??? Because you put it in here!!! They will arrive at the last entry and take a bow (with a tomb raider hat on!)

anchoviesanchovies · 26/09/2023 13:15

PomegranateRose · 26/09/2023 12:16

OP - this is one of the most entertaining things I've seen all week, annoyance and sheer audacity of these neighbours aside. Your sense of humour about it is cracking and I think based on that alone I would love if you were a neighbour of mine!

I'm with you PomegranateRose, this is my first ever comment on mumsnet purely so I can see what happens next, loving it!

MavisMcMinty · 26/09/2023 13:16

HotApplePiePunch · 26/09/2023 12:35

My DGP house had a stream at bottom of the garden that served as the boundary - they didn't have fences up most of the gardens did not - the other side was council playing fields with trees on their bank.

I think they were riparian owners - so had ownership to mid stream https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/104175/Riparian-Owners-FAQs-v2.pdf.

Might be worth checking deeds to see if there is anything about the stream on them.

Yes, I was going to say that my 2.3 acres are bordered by a river (stream), and I “own” up to the middle of it, my farmer neighbour “owns” the half nearest his land.

horseyhorsey17 · 26/09/2023 13:17

Buttercupsdaisiesdandelions · 26/09/2023 13:04

Lawyer here - they may genuinely think they own more than they do. You need to check your title deeds to confirm the boundary and then go and speak to them.

But if they think that, why are they putting the tarps up at night, and why haven't they come round to ask why the OP keeps removing/destroying their property and presumably trespassing on their land?

Mind you, s/he hasn't done that either.

Coatscoatscoast · 26/09/2023 13:18

I’m on some dull training, so have taken the time to mock up a diagram in order to try and work out what is happening here. Op does this look about right??

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Niinja · 26/09/2023 13:18

Either a land grab of the stream or they already think it's theirs. How would you feel about them putting up a 6ft fence between your garden and the stream? Land grabs are very difficult to fight, and to defeat.

BarnacleBeasley · 26/09/2023 13:18

MavisMcMinty · 26/09/2023 13:16

Yes, I was going to say that my 2.3 acres are bordered by a river (stream), and I “own” up to the middle of it, my farmer neighbour “owns” the half nearest his land.

On this basis, I think OP should dig up the new tarp with the poles, and hammer it down right in the middle of the stream, marking (what is probably when he looks at the deeds just to make sure) the actual boundary.

shellyleppard · 26/09/2023 13:20

Alice olive.....we need a emoji for laughing!!! I have been saying thanks instead of laughing at some of the comments. Its the best thing I've seen on mumsnet ever

Malificent1 · 26/09/2023 13:20

Waiting for the day you wake up to discover you’ve been bricked in…

CitizenofMoronia · 26/09/2023 13:21

Coatscoatscoast · 26/09/2023 13:18

I’m on some dull training, so have taken the time to mock up a diagram in order to try and work out what is happening here. Op does this look about right??

No OP has 2 fences the wire one, trees, the boundary fence, and the stream... why they have 2 fences is anyone's guess andIF the NDN does not have a fence I can see why they think the stream and up to the wire fence is theirs

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