My Disgusting Neighbour

[BaldingMum]

Terrace house with a shared passageway between mine and my neighbours houses which lead to a gate into my garden (neighbour has never put a gate up for theirs meaning their garden is fully visible to anyone walking down the passageway).

Neighbour has always hoarded in the garden, and it’s an absolute shit hole full of rotting rubbish. This has led to rats over the years which are primarily resident in his garden, although I have seen the odd one venture onto my garden leading me to put bait traps down.

Just about manageable, not ideal. However my neighbour, who has a colonoscopy bag, has started the disgusting habit of emptying his bladder on the back door step. The smell is indescribable. The flies are relentless.

My six year old child has to walk by this to get access to his garden and house (both of which are well kept and tidy).

the stickler is, my house is down hill to his, so inevitably when it rains, guess where all his body waste gets washed to.

He is completely blasé about it, doesn’t see a problem, his property etc etc. I’ve raised an environmental hazard complaint with the local council to see if they can do anything.

It stinks. It’s ruining the enjoyment of our garden. The flies are getting into our house. The rats are increasing.

WIBU to pour bleach where it’s evidentially doing this disgusting act? What the hell can I do to get this stopped?

Contact your council and speak to environmental health

If he can be seen pissing talk to The Police, it may be an offence

Also this might be worth besring in mind if The Police or Council do nothing

https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/report/asb-case-review/

Its a national scheme

Dies he own the house or is it rented, Land Registry can tell you

I had a neighbour do this, he was an alcoholic who did it on the drive way in full view.
I phoned the police non emergency number and reported him, seems some other neighbours did the same, a few weeks later it had stopped so they must have had a talk with him.

Definitely privately owned.

What on earth is a colonoscopy bag? Are you talking faeces or urine?

First stop is the council. There are laws about hoarding rubbish in your garden, and the council enforces these laws. Ditto anti-social behaviour.

Apologies if I got the term wrong. Urine only (I hope to god), but plenty of it…

I'd be raising an adult safeguarding concern. That is not normal behaviour and an indication that all is not right. What does his general health seem like? Does he have any visitors?

I'm thinking issues like can't access the toilet or toilet broken etc.

Does he have a colostomy bag or an indwelling catheter and bag?

Possibly Urostomy?

Good idea

How old is he

I might suggest trying everything at once, ie Social Services, Police, The Council etc

He sounds unwell in a lot of ways, but primarily that's not your concern. You don't want this shit round your kid.

If environmental health don't get back to you in a week I would contact the police given the anti-social nature of it.

Is he exposing himself when he urinates? That would clinch it for me.

He’s the ‘healthy’ one of the household, his lovely wife is housebound.

Their adult children visit most days and are equally frustrated with his behaviour and have challenged him many many times (very open and honest with me). It’s just him and his complete lack of any sort of personal (or other) hygiene. He’s got all his faculties about, still drives etc

A colostomy is a redirected colon, if it was, he would be emptying poo onto his back step.

If it is urine then it’s a urostomy.

Either way I’m astonished the council isn’t doing something about it.

I don't understand is he emptying some kind of urine bag?

You need to hound the authorities until something is done. Do not stop until they take action. Daily calls, daily emails. Send video and pictures. Refuse to be ignored.

Speak to the Antisocial behaviour team in your local council. Also contact a solicitor if that fails- there is likely to be a burden on his title in relation to not causing a nuisance to neighbours etc.

TBH I’ve not seen the process, just heard it knowing he was there. The wet patch and smell is evidence enough.

I’ve been told he’s ’emptying his bladder’, not sure if that means emptying the bag on the floor, or if there’s a valve or plug he can use to bypass the bag (say if he happened to be at the toilet when the urge came, he can divert the urine in there opposed to the bag).

It seems to me that the safeguarding issue may well be with his wife if she is housebound instead of/as well as the neighbour

There's no such thing as a colonoscopy bag - a colonoscopy is a medical procedure

Or a urethral catheter with a leg bag 🤷🏻‍♀️

You might find that swilling and flushing the area with Jeyes Fluid will have more effect to keeping the smell under control and lasts longer.
If he finds the Jeyes aroma too much he might make the connection and stop his filthy habit?

That’s the one. He appears to like showcasing it, always on show outside of his clothes, not even any kind of strapping to stop it swinging around.

Why haven't you reported this to the council? It sounds like an environmental health hazard....rats alone would have been enough but disposing of human waste is horrendous. Just contact them and report this.