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?

But I bet she wouldn't have complained if she got on with her neighbour. It's just pathetic. OP said she did because she doesn't like her neighbour but her complaining didn't affect the neighbour.
Also sounds like the tracker wasn't working as you can't just disconnect them. Bin men can take their lunch break when they want (well I assume they can)so we don't know if it was an unauthorized break.

If the dustbin men hadn't been doing something wrong in the first place, then they couldn't have been "weaponised" could they. and I would like to point out that this dustbin man is the neighbour who started it all and is the problem, the issue is that the OP is now putting boundaries in place which is the right thing to do.

I don't get why people are blaming the OP here when the neighbours are the aggressors.

And if they hadn't be doing anything wrong by parking in front of her house in the first place then they would have nothing to worry about. She did not report them for being on an unauthorised break, her husband reported them for blocking their drive, which is a fair shout. If they were taking an unauthorised break, all the more reason they should have parked considerately. Not the OPs fault

Are you seriously saying you've never taken an extra break? Or had 10 minutes when you shouldn't? I think most people have.

That's not the point though is it, if they hadn't blocked someone's drive no one would be any the wiser.

Oh I think a complaint still would’ve gone in, because they shouldn’t have been on a break then! Abd after all OP would be saving the council tax payers money!

I'd be surprised if she even noticed if they were parked down the street, although she'd need to confirm that herself. Parked across her drive is harder to ignore.

No you wasn’t petty you were out and out nasty. You have potentially put their jobs at risk because they are friends with your neighbour who you don’t like. Good job I’m not your neighbour because I’d be making your life very miserable from now on.

they were next door, they are their friends so by default she wanted to cause trouble for them. I tho k you’d notice a bin lorry next door. If they were down the road and in someone else’s home, then yes it would’ve been a non issue.

They made trouble for themselves by parking across someone's drive which is an actual offence. It's on them.

Oh yeah such a massive offence! I mean they should’ve called the police…

I think OP has brought more trouble on herself…. like the chickens and the plants growing on the neighbours side.

Neighbourly relations are not going to improve are they! It was reported as retaliation, looking at last update by OP. That most is a mile away from the first post where they “annoy each other”.

So what if it's not massive? They dumped their stupid big truck across her drive for badness, it's shitty behaviour no matter how you look at it.

And she got rid of the chickens after they complained.

She did get rid of the chickens, quite rightly! Cannot understand what made her get them in the first place, badness?

You think she got chickens...for badness? Are you quite well?

You think they parked across their drive for badness…. Are you ok?

Of the two, which is more likely do you think? The bin men who are the colleagues of the neighbour who hates her and who could have parked elsewhere, or keeping chickens which others in the neighbourhood were also doing?

Judging by the way the story has changed a number of times, it wouldn’t be OP!

I mean the opening post, so different to the last post

The proclaiming that it was done just because they’ve parked across their drive, then it’s not the case!

She’s not really a reliable source of information!

All I know is, if I parked across a stranger's drive I wouldn't be surprised if they were pissed off. It's shitty.

Fair enough! But OP admitted it was done to get at her neighbours!

Fair enough, but OP reported them to get at the neighbours, she’s admitted that!

Ah, if only they'd parked in a proper space. All of this could have been so easily avoided.

Ahh if only OP hadn’t fallen out with her neighbours… 🤷‍♀️

Are you only capable of mimicking me rather than make a point?

Anyway, I'm off. Have at it.

just showing you two sides to stories!

Enjoy your evening 👋!

A council lorry (the kind they use for emptying the bins in the parks etc) once sat with it’s engine idling outside my neighbours house for over 30mins while the the driver was out of the vehicle chatting to the neighbour (who has since moved and was absolutely awful). I reported them for the idling which I think is much pettier than what you did.