Aibu to have reported the dustbin lorry to the council?

[Bumpyroads]

Bit of back story us and our next door neighbours quietly dislike each other. Nobody has really said anything but I know we both annoy each other from what is said about the street. They moan about us, things we do etc.

Recently they have been playing loud music in the garden at the weekends in a passive aggressive way. This started when they complained about our chickens being noisy ( we have rehomed the chickens because of this but thats another story) the reason I'm saying all of this is because in general I am just in a bad mood about our neighbours and don't know if this has tainted my reaction.

So next door neighbour is a bin man, he wasn't at work.
Bin lorry come and parks up across my drive . Workmen get out and go in neighbours house/garden for 40 minutes having a drink and break. All this time I was unable to get off or access my drive. There was a bin lorry parked unattended across it.

So husband rings to complain to the council. They were confused as on their tracker the lorry was supposedly elsewhere. They also agreed 40minutes was excessive but said they must have been emptying bins? No they were having a cuppa at my neighbours! Council are going to investigate, I suspect they were taking unauthorised breaks and turning the tracker off.. maybe.

Anyway the reason this has also annoyed me so much is our neighbours have lived hear 30+ years and act like they own the street. Complain about anything we do (leaves from our trees fall in their garden for example.) They are 60+ and set in their ways and we are a young family. Tbh I just dont think they like us, we normally don't rise to it and smile and wave etc. But this time I had had enough and complained.

Aibu? And have we just started ww3?

eeek

i would say you have made a bad situation even worse

brace yourself for the backlash

To everyone that thinks its ok can you now go and park infront of your neighbours drive?
Or even better next time you're visiting a friend park infront of their neighbours drive.

According to mumsnet It's fine they know where you are and they can just come and ask you to move when they want to leave their own house.
Bet you wouldn't do it, I know i wouldn't.

Quite obviously, most people are saying it didn't matter in this instance, so you didn't need to tell tales on them. Not that it's good to park across driveways at every opportunity, I'm not sure why you think that's what people are saying.

If they'd blocked you in, you needed to get out and they wouldn't move the truck - you'd have got completely different responses.

Why should I have to go to theirs and knock when they could have just parked elsewhere?
They couldn't be bothered to walk a few meters from a more sensible parking spot but its fine for me the walk round theirs and ask?

I have a hidden disability they may or may not know about. But obviously I shouldn't mention this as dont want to discriminate as I did with age.

And yet…

You always knew they were next door though?

But your husband was with you, could he have not gone? Surely easier and quicker than calling the council?

You didn’t call because it was blocking your drive, you did it to get at your neighbour,

You said previously

I think my point is they have been petty about countless things with us and I finally broke and was petty back.

OP some of your responses are confusing. On the one hand early on you say you do feel a bit bad, that you’re not proud of it, then your responses argue, very strongly the complete opposite. Even have hidden disability now pulled out of the hat 🎩 🪄.

Imho that was a spiteful thing to do, the intention was malicious and I for one do not buy the but what if there was a sudden emergency straw clutching and I needed out of my drive.

It’s clear if it had been a neighbour you got on with your household would not have turned into supergrass HQ.

I feel sorry for the workies. It’s a rubbish job (no pun intended) and a quick cuppa is not worth them getting into trouble for. They were caught in the crossfire and it’s them not even your neighbours who will be in trouble.

You don’t know what any of them are going through already.

I can understand you don’t like them, BUT all you’ve achieved is getting his colleagues into trouble and possibly sacked.

Your actions have upped the anti, so now your neighbours will be even worse.

Bravo (not).

What did you think you would achieve? Or do you lack critical thinking?

So you are sorry at all. You need a hobby, stop focusing on your neighbour and use this experience to give your head a good wobble.

Or just tell to stop pissing off people by blocking access for long periods when they arent with thd vehicle. Then this wouldnt happen again ans everyone is happy.

You weren't petty with your neighbour though. You were petty with someone who had nothing to do with your relationship with the neighbour. I think I might be able to work out why your neighbours don't like you.
Do you feel better now that you got some innocent bin men in to trouble?

Maybe their manager will advise them to go back in time and not block someone's drive at the (likely) behest of their arsehole mate?

It's mystifying to me why anyone would think these bin men are in any way victims here.

They were caught in the crossfire of a neighbour with a grudge looking to cause trouble. Blocking a drive for a short time when the intention wasn’t malicious and act was a minor inconvenience/annoyance at best is very different to actively taking photos, curtain twitching, going Hitchcock rear window and ringing to get them in trouble just to get back at said neighbour. Sure OP even said she didn’t feel proud before digging heels in. Punishment didn’t fit the crime.

Again, so easily avoided if they had just parked properly no? And if they did do it as a favour to their pal to piss the OP off for badness then double hell mend them.

Are you OPs husband? ☎️

Oh no, you got me.

Haha husband what you doing on here?

Honey, get the dinner on, I'm starving. 😆

Victims? There are no victims in this situation. Everyone is so dramatic these days. It was an inconvenience at best.

I'm surprised everyone's kicking the op here. I wouldnt want a huge stinking bin lorry on my road for any longer than it was supposed to be on the road for. And I expect most of the people here would feel the same if it was their road

I am also very certain they are not meant to deviate from their rounds

When I use the word 'victim' I'm thinking of the posts going on about the 'poor binmen'. They're really not.

But you haven’t done anything to your neighbour ….. you have complained about his mates. This will have zero impact on your neighbour other than him getting upset because they are his mates. He won’t lose his job / be disciplined or suffer any concequences so what exactly have you achieved other than the potential for your bins to be “missed”, your rubbish accidentally spilled on your drive , bin damaged ( which you will then have to pay for ).

I get it you are annoyed with your neighbour but in reality you have behaved like a stroppy teenager - you could have just asked them to move their lorry if you needed to get out like an adult - but you say you didn’t need to get out. For your 30 seconds of feeling like you got one over the neighbour in fact you haven’t and actually shown yourself to be as petty as them and yes they will know you complained because they will know which drive they blocked.