Oooo I received an anonymous letter this morning...from THE VILLAGERS 😬

[FlybirdFly]

Will post a pic later but need to redact info first.

An A4 page complaining about rubbish outside my house, that they’ve been picking it up for months, I have a responsibility to secure my rubbish and I have two weeks to get 2/3 wheelie bins or “measures will be taken”

It’s actually quite polite tbf if you ignore the subtle threat

Only problem is....it isn’t my fucking rubbish! We locked the gate to the field a few months ago and everyone now flytips outside the farm instead (by everyone I mean a few wankers) usually black bags that have missed the bin men/women. They use to chuck them on our farm bonfire but as the gate is locked they throw them on the bondary of my property. My rubbish is kept on my property until bin day.

Unfortunately they’ve missed all the signs saying we have CCTV so I’ll be having a look to see if I can see any pitchforks and angry villagers when I get back from the school run

Mnn

I hope the Bobby has a paddle. I think the letter writer sounds more like Mandy from This Country

This is gripping stuff. I thought I lived in a rural backwater.

OP, I'm at the receiving end of fly tippers too. I live in a block of flats with a communal bin area. despited LARGE NOTICES THAT STATE THE BINS ARE FOR FLAT OWNERS ONLY our lovely neighbours still put their rubbish in our bins causing all sorts of problems and impact us financially. It's so unfair.

Yesterday I saw a couple I din't recognise chucking boxes into our bin yard. I didn't confront them at the time as there is always the possibility the are new residents but I clocked their reg number and later looked at the boxes. The idiots have fly tip our bin yard with boxes showing their address.

Later today I'm making DP dive us to their house and return their rubbish. Not sure if I should just chuck it at their door or put a ribbon on it and knock?

CF idiots definitely chuck them in their garden, perhaps they need an anonymous note telling them to keep their rubbish.

Maybe 'the villagers' have already done the bobby in?! How deep is the creek? Will divers be necessary?

As somebody who was reared in a village, I can say with some ok no certainty that the flytippers will be from a neighbouring village. Flytippers don't tip on their own door step :).

Agog.
I'm a bit worried about the Village Bobby though. Will all the other villagers disappear one by one until it's just you and Miss Anonymous. I reckon it's a woman. Mid 60s. Lives alone and moans that her family never visit.
Where is Miss Marple when you need her?

Just flicked through reading OP's posts.
That letter would make my inner devil want to Fuck With Their Head(s).
I also see a Top of The Lake style series unfolding here.

CCTV man has been over the footage with a fine tooth comb and it’s now an even bigger mystery. Red van man suddenly appears in his van at the back of the farm but isn’t picked up on any CCTV coming on to the farm, he just suddenly appears on one of the cameras, checks his back doors and then leaves. CCTV man has no idea how he did it.

But we know roughly who he is as he uses one of the businesses on the farm for engineering stuff. So next job is to ask them if he is local.

Other than him and the milkman nobody comes near the house. Don’t wish to exclude someone knowing where the CCTV is and climbing over the wall though. So the mystery deepens.

So Red Van Man (hereafter RVM) is now prime suspect for fly-tipping? Or dropping off his letter whilst in your 'fasinate' do we think? RVM def needs hauling in by the local paddleless creek-dwelling girl-in-blue! The plot does indeed thicken....

That's the handwriting of a male over 50 or a woman over 60 by the way. My hunch is that they're 64+.
My money's on them working alone or in a group of 3 max.
The writer is not the ringleader (hasn't the brains) and there's an impressionable youngster or one with a dark secret who is being blackmailed involved. Maybe his family has a jeopardy.
We kniw nothing about the ringleader yet bit there will be a knitted jumper (arran or v baggy) a leather jacket, a suit and some beige or navy slacks involved.

Can - are you a super sleuth??

CERTAIN VILLAGERS

To make you think it’s a posse

Reality, just a Giles and Mary type couple filled with unexpressed rage

My money's on a woman writer too.

Although I think I recognise "Nigel".

I'm v v v worried about the missing policewoman. I fear for her life at this stage.
Perchance she came across flytipper, went to make an arrest and got bumped on the head with a particularly heavy piece of flytipping? I expect to see her mangled corpse on the 9 o'clock news....

and shiny grey slip on shoes CanIBuffalo

Not a super sleuth but went from 0 to heavily overinvested in the time it took to have a quick scroll. It's better than telly and I'll read the lot later

Op, Im totally missing the point but just how big is your farm and how does your day pan out?

Im genuinely interested?

Thank you

Yy to shoes.
And a love interest for the youngster.

Zofanjo

I’m sure Nigel has a “word processor”, I’m not sure he’d write on A4 paper.

Onion, at this stage in the investigation I am suspicious of your motives for asking

Neighbour has just come round and asked for a copy of the letter. He is taking it to Dick (oldest village resident and leader of dog walkers) to ask if he knows anything

Budge up everyone.

[plonks down on sofa]

Please tell me Dick has a dog called Timmy???

It is your rubbish once it's dumped on your land and your responsibility. You need to report it to the environment agency as if they can find names/addresses is the rubbish then they will prosecute.

"Certain villagers" 😂