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Neighbours broke our plant pots

35 replies

GrumpyL · 12/11/2023 22:13

AIBU? Our house has a large driveway and front garden which is “open plan” and is adjacent to our neighbour’s driveway. We’ve block paved the whole area so no longer have a garden/grass area. We’ve noticed that nearly every visitor to our neighbours house walk across our drive to get to our neighbours front door (our front doors are on the side of our house so it’s a direct line from the road where their visitors park). My DH is parked on the area that is adjacent to their drive and we’ve seen a visitor hit my DH’s car (a £70k Mercedes) with her coat. We’ve also seen a visitor ride her bike across our drive, again very close to DH car. So we decided to put some plant troughs along the front of our drive adjacent to the pavement and the put 2 along the edge of our driveway (approx 20cm from the boundary line) to stop our driveway being used as a walk way. This seemed to have solved the issue. Then a couple of months ago we noticed one of the troughs has a small dent. It looked like it had been hit by our neighbour but we didn’t mention it. Then a few weeks ago we went away for a few days and when we got home one of the troughs had been completely destroyed. It was smashed to pieces and the stones/plants were on our driveway. The neighbours said they didn’t think they had hit it but there was no way it was damaged by anyone else. On Friday night we actually saw our neighbours hit one as they were reversing onto their drive. Thankfully they didn’t break it. Today our neighbour came round to say the pots were causing them trouble as they can’t seem them. Again I will point out they are 20cm (a whole bricks length) inside the boundary line, they are not “on” the boundary at all and do not overhang our neighbours driveway at all. Our neighbour also said she’d stumped her toe on the pots when she went out to our elderly neighbour the other night. Again, that means she was walking on our driveway. My question is AIBU by wanting to leave the pots where they are or should we move them?

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Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 12/11/2023 23:45

Put some garden canes in the pots and wrap some hazard tape around them, top them off with some traffic cones. Put a flyer for specsavers through their letterbox.
they might get the hint they are being ridiculous……

TeaGinandFags · 12/11/2023 23:48

Or caltrops. Also effective if a mediaeval army invade your front garden. Multipurpose.

Ha ha ha! Unfortunately that excellent suggestion may bite you on the bum.

If you want to go down that route may I suggest a rose hedge with blackthorn and hymalayan blackberry; a plant that can stop a bus let alone trespassing neighbours.

therealcookiemonster · 12/11/2023 23:50

I think Mercs are designed to withstand coats... it will be ok. just give it a pat on the head and a cup of hot tea

NewtonPulsifer · 13/11/2023 00:21

Penguin bollards.

whatchagonnado · 13/11/2023 16:02

Just put up a fence or plant a hedge if you prefer greenery. Plant pots will be difficult to see in a car

BenZodiazapam · 13/11/2023 16:06

Get some concrete plant pots or some rocks. I expect they will help focus their minds.

SeenYourArse · 13/11/2023 22:50

Janieforever · 12/11/2023 22:39

Surprised anyone thinks youre being reasonable. They can’t see them, they have told you the issue, you don’t need to remove them just paint them white or something.

to be fair you lost me though at hitting your 70 k merc with a coat 😂

So you think they should just not say anything and pay to have the scratches repaired themselves then?! You are either a multimillionaire or drive a £500 banger! You either don’t care if your car gets scratched to shit and rusts or your so wealthy £70k is small change to you obviously. Else why else would you not care about someone damaging your valuable hard earned property

EvilElsa · 13/11/2023 22:55

Fence (you could do chain and posts) or taller hedge plants. CCTV with sign and tell neighbour directly you will putting it in as someone keeps damaging your property and trespassing.

SeenYourArse · 13/11/2023 22:56

therealcookiemonster · 12/11/2023 23:50

I think Mercs are designed to withstand coats... it will be ok. just give it a pat on the head and a cup of hot tea

It’s the zips! they really do scratch, our son scratched my DHs car with his coat zip by accident and it cost us hundreds to have fixed (we had to under the company car rules 😩)

therealcookiemonster · 14/11/2023 01:17

@SeenYourArse gosh! learn something new everyday.

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