AIBU to feel uneasy that neighbours went into my garden?

[Magpiesinthegarden]

My next door neighbours have had rats in their garden and informed me to not put any rubbish bags out my garden and keep the garden clear. I purchased a wheelie bin for the black bags (only the usual amount) and all recycling was collected apart from 2 sealed bags of cardboard and a few garden bags with grass in. I’ve been unwell and haven’t managed to move them. I’ve just been into the garden and the bags were gone and were put into my wheelie bin (outside my house) and the garden bags were tied up.

AIBU to feel a bit weird that they’ve been in my garden?

I'd be annoyed too.

very annoyed. But that doesn't give them, you or me the right to enter a neighbour's property.

she wasn't well. She doesn't have to answer her front door when she doesn't want to/feel well enough to.

they could have put a note through the door (as she suggested).

they don't have the right to enter her property.

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I’m not trying to 11ereife you but my neighbour let herself into my garden and went in my pool when my son and his friends were there !!!

So they probably tried to ask you and since they had got rid of the rats wanted to act quickly to make sure they didn’t come back. When you see them just mention that you would prefer them to ask you before coming into your garden. However. It wouldn’t have bothered me at all.

There are a lot weirder neighbours then that

No it wasn’t. It was latched. Locked would assume padlock etc.
locked means you need something to be able to open, like a key or a code.

Just say thank you the next time you see them

I’m sure you greatly enjoyed mansplaining the finer details of garden gate closing mechanisms. I’m sure we can agree it’s civil trespass, regardless 😊

I think given she would rather they hadn’t entered her private land without permission, that thanking them would be a little bit of a strange response.

If your that ill you can’t get outside to put your rubbish in the bin I think you’ve got bigger worries than your neighbours coming in your garden tbh

These bags just contained cardboard, and grass cuttings. It wasn’t rotting food remains.

You go into your neighbours garden to round up rubbish? Is this a weekly/fortnightly occurrence out of interest?

Mansplaining 🤣🤣

They have saved you from the rodents, I would not complain.

I'm sure you've heard that before 😊

That's very helpful information for the OP. I'm sure she's thrilled with your insightful pronouncement that due to ill-health she has no right to be concerned about anything else in her life.

Also see, other uninvited guests: trespassers.

They did a nice thing. It sounds like they even tried to knock. I doubt this will descend into a land grab…they’re just trying to sort the rats.

I don't think anyone is thinking they're planning a land grab... they didn't do a nice thing, they did what they wanted to do. They didn't have the OP's permission to enter her property.

#teamneighbour

This isn’t an issue. They’ve done something nice not broken in!

It was rotting food remains - OP has said it was empty food tins etc. A dream for rats.

The fact that neighbours had to ask her to get her rubbish in order in the first place hints at their probable frustration with her, and the extortionate amount they’ll have had to pay the pest controllers as a result.

They then asked her to be wary of continuing to leave trash lying around so she then had the genius idea to buy an actual bin. 🥴

Despite the bin, she admits she STILL left bags of emptied food packaging and tins to accumulate in the garden, plus stores of cardboard and paper (for rats nests). This is despite knowing full well her neighbours had had to pay for pest extermination and had asked her not to do this.

They then went to try to speak to her again. Knocked 3 times. OP avoided answering the door.

So they opened the unlocked gate, popped the trash in the bin. Job done.

Only on MN would you get the “I’d feel VIOLATED” brigade. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Yeah, makes me laugh every time

I'd be annoyed if I was the neighbour too. But I still wouldn't go onto her property without permission.

Not 'VIOLATED' nor a 'brigade.' Just not somebody that thinks I'm entitled to access someone else's property regardless how frustrated I might be. Probably a bit less dramatic than you were hoping for.

She might well have other worries. That doesn't negate this one.

Whatever she has going on, her neighbours don't have the right to enter her property.