Aibu about this strange woman

[Buitenlander]

A woman frequently walks around, and if she spots anything left outside someone's house that's clearly meant to be free, she takes a picture and posts it on Facebook to "advertise" it. Several of us have already asked her to please stop doing this, but she hasn't. What do we do?!

That is next level! Photos annoying and invasive. Ignoring you and taking photos around you wired and rude. Reserving things leading to you being abused is wrong on every level.

Don't be ridiculous

She's trying to help people find things they might want, that you're bunging outside hoping someone will pick up to save you a trip to the tip/ charity shop etc.
If you don't want her to do that just do something else with your stuff.

You both sound a bit crackers tbh.

She isn’t doing anything wrong. She’s not saying “Hey everyone , @Buitenlander lives at this address with her partner, two sons and a pet ferret.”

She’s taking a photo of stuff to give away and alerting people to a Facebook group where to find the free stuff. You as the householder don’t need to interact with anyone about it. She’s behaving legally, there is no invasion of privacy.

If you don’t like it, don’t leave your crap out to avoid paying to dispose of it.

How is that ridiculous, we don't have them in Romania

I hate when our neighbours dump shit outside their house, or when certain neighbours dump their shit on the grass opposite our house!! It’s pure laziness and makes the place so untidy

Romania ?? Seriously ? Another drip feed op! I think you’re just making shit up as you go along now

Surprised by the answers here.

I think that’s properly nuts behaviour and it would piss me off too

Irrelevant

I’ve taken photos of houses when I saw a paint colour I liked, when I saw an ornamental tree I thought would be ideal and needed to identify the type, when I thought the architecture would interest my friend and when I’ve been on holiday and seen picturesque buildings.

Anyone can take a photo of a building. What on earth are you frothing about?

I would actually find this woman quite helpful to shift stuff.

Oh really do you then post it online with full info

I don’t think it’s unusual not to disclose what country you live in when it’s not wholly relevant to the OP. If I was posting from NZ about this, I wouldn’t think to mention that fact. Because it would not affect the point if the post

Scream back at him for wasting yours.

Stop putting stuff outside your house.

She’s probably keen to get the junk off the pavement ASAP and sees this as a good way of doing that.

Why are so many people hard of thinking in this thread. The OP has made it clear that the things are left on her property near the front. Not out on the actual pavement. Are people being intentionally thick today? Maybe it’s the heat.

Sometimes - “love the gorgeous cottages here in Tobermory”; “gorgeous example of Bauhaus home” etc.

An address - and just that - isn’t private. You are leaving unwanted stuff out in the hopes it will be taken. She’s increasing the likelihood of that happening.

Op you have had a bad attitude from the start of this thread. You’re not going to get anyone on side being that way. Stop leaving junk outside tour home and get rid of it a different way? If you have no tips is your country not overrun with rubbish?

Pretty easy solution here - stop putting it outside your house.
Put it on marketplace for free.
Sorted.

To be fair I think Romania does have a waste problem.

Have I got this right?

Somewhere in Romania there’s a woman who walks around taking pictures of junk left outside houses, for posting on a local Romanian Facebook page. This place in Romania has no rubbish tips. A Romanian man ‘reserved’ some of the OP’s junk - on Romanian Facebook? - and got angry when it wasn’t there.

If that’s all correct, I have no comment to make except that MN’s spread across Europe is truly impressive.

Still an eyesore though. If my neighbours were regularly leaving stuff outside their house I'd want it gone ASAP too. Driveways full of old crap is hardly nice to look at is it?
OP can arrange the disposal or collection herself if it's that much of an issue for her. Although, not sure how that would be possible from her secret house.

Well perhaps that's something you could campaign for. Out of interest where do all unwanted, broken items go? Are they just fly tipped somewhere?