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?

There is some truly batshit replies on this thread!

OP you were NOT wrong to report the bin lorry being parked over your driveway for 40 minutes. Of course you weren’t!
It is against the law to block driveways for a start. You shouldn’t have to go around looking for the driver to move their abandoned vehicle in order for you to get in or out of your property. I betting a large lorry like that was also causing an obstruction on the road too as most residential roads are not designed to allow large vehicles to be parked up. So probably in the way of the emergency services too.
The fact that the OP did not need to go out during that time is irrelevant. They were parked illegally and without permission and I too would have reported the driver.

Equally if they decided to seek revenge by not picking up the rubbish they are being paid to collect. Well again they would be reported. Along with video evidence. Repeatedly if necessary!

He was not working. So does not matter to him.

He sounds like an antagonistic prick. Fuck him, I don’t blame you. No way he’s parked there by accident.

They were the binmen, not your neighbours. So really it had nothing to do with your neighbours where the binmen parked.
Just own it, you wanted to be a bitch and you managed it. Pat yourself on the back

I think you've hit the nail on the head.
I was seeing if I was being unreasonable because the fall out with the neighbour has tainted my view.
I guess like all things it would bother some and others not at all.
I was obviously more annoyed because of it having my neighbours involvement but was trying to see if people would still be annoyed without the history with the neighbour.
Maybe I wasn't explaining myself well enough.

Not only 60+ but set in their ways.
What does this even mean???
And it's always applied to people who are 60+ like me but I'll go whatever way you want me to 😄

Poor fuckers have one of the shittest jobs imaginable. Now you went and grassed them up for stopping for a cup of tea…

He didn't park there. He wasn't working.

I was trying to explain we are at different stages of life and therfore clash because of that. Being set in there ways wasn't related to being 60 odd hence I said "and" and not "so" I wasn't implying everyone over a certain age is that way at all.

You were unnecessarily mean. No need to report them - if you needed to get out you could easily have knocked. Why get people into trouble when you didn't need to.

You won’t be clashing just because of age any more though.

You’ve made sure of that.

Thank you @CurlewKate - I was wondering what the hell that had to do with it or why having a young family privileges you.

OP, you knew where these people were, if you needed to go out, you could have just asked. Why on earth would you call the council?

Fwiw, chickens in the back yard can be a right pain in the neck for neighbours. There are banned on my estate, through a covenant.

I voted that you’re not being unreasonable OP. I would have done the same thing. Especially as a woman, it is difficult to approach men to ask them to move their vans etc. I have asked before when similar has happened, and been threatened. So now I always call my local council. Hence I’ve become known as the crazy woman, which is fine by me

Yes, it's almost like he was being goady, isn't it?

I'm not buying the 'poor binmen' crap, they dumped their lorry across someone's drive and fucked off for 40 minutes even though other parking was available. FAFO.

And if they had parked less dickishly, no one would ever have been the wiser about their unsolicited tea break, would they?

One for the papers and a Daily Mail sad face?

Petty and daft. Quite the combination.

YANBU. I have lovely neighbours but even they look askance at a van outside their house for that long (for a service for me).

If they really needed to park there, the decent thing to do is knock on the door and ASK.

The twats have clearly enlisted the lorry driver to annoy you. Well done for complaining.

Yeah, I mean nobody is going to see that are they?

Well yeah thats kind of my point you cant see round it at the junction so is dangerous

so you intentionally got the bin men in trouble to spite your neighbours. mature.

but op only reported them because they went in her neighbours. if they'd been sat in the cab having adriml or had gone into Colin's house opposite she wouldn't care. this isn't about them failing in their role os ambassadors for the council whilst putting life and liberty at risk, it's about petty power plays.

Look I get it. We also have nosy as fuck neighbours. However if you needed to get out you knew where the drivers were and could have just gone round and asked if they’d move it.

Id be furious if a bin lorry was left across my drive for 40 mins. Was it general waste? It would stink, surely. What about the risk to children who might be playing nearby and got curious? Id be sure the council wouldnt look too fondly on that.

I hate people who park across drives, regardless of who they are. Its very rude.

But yes, you will have pissed off the neighbours even more.

Chickens are annoying and bring rats and mice, they shouldn’t be in suburban gardens. You don’t like them, they don’t like you, and now you’ve risked the jobs of several other men with your pettiness when you didn’t need to go anywhere and weren’t inconvenienced. I’m not saying they haven’t been unreasonable, but that’s spiteful