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We have just had a fake letter from the Council through the door...most odd

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Fillyjonk · 10/05/2007 18:59

Asking us to remove some rubbish from the front of the house

We were initially most irate because we have ben trying to get the council to pick up this stuff for us for about 3 months (looooong story)

Then we realised that the letter was printed on a poorly scanned copy of a council letterhead-no name, no dept, nothing. Also addressed to "The Occupiers" when they bloody know who lives where we live. And sent by post (council sends franked mail)

am oscillating between and being upset that one of our neighbours has done this (am assuming its a neighbour).

ps its not a vast amount of rubbish. Its a small carpet and its only actually been there about two weeks, the council agreed to collect and then didn't.

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Fillyjonk · 10/05/2007 19:00

and its in our front garden ANYWAY btw.

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DarrellRivers · 10/05/2007 19:01

sneaky neighbours by the sound of it

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Fillyjonk · 10/05/2007 19:01

am that neighbour would do this

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TheArmadillo · 10/05/2007 19:02

Ignore it and pity the people who sent it. They obviously have nothing better to do with their time whereas you have a life.

They are obviously also cowards in not being able to talk to you face to face.

They're less intelligent than you thinking that it would fool you.

All that letter proves is that you are a better, cleverer, nicer person with a life. Let it make you feel better about yourself. They have shown you your true colours alongside their own shoddy ones.

Taylormama · 10/05/2007 19:03

how bizarre to go to all that effort when a quick knock at your door would have meant you could have told them is was the council's fault it was still there

marthamoo · 10/05/2007 19:06

Oh I hate that kind of thing. We had a (sort of) similar situation when one of our neighbours (we have our suspicions) put a note on another neighbour's car purporting to be written by us telling them, very nastily, not to park in front of our house. Luckily the neighbour who got the note came to talk to us instead of just punching dh on the nose (it was a very nasty note) and we were able to tell them it wasn't us and they could park where they liked (terraced houses, no off road parking - first come first serve and all that).

Left a nasty taste though...

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Fillyjonk · 10/05/2007 19:16

dp just phoned them. its a forgery, deffo, acc to them.

they do, apparently, have a dept that deals with such things. god knows what they'll do. you can't go around fingerprinting people for suspected trademark infringement.

I am slightly that anyone would CARE that we have a small amount of rubbish, awaiting collection, in the front yard. I mean, why would you? We've been here 4 years-its obvious that we don't NORMALLY have rubbish there, this is a special case because we've renovated a room. And we can't get the carpet in the car (small car) so are dependent on the council to collect it.

How bloody sad is that?

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Eight · 10/05/2007 19:18

Wait until nightfall and then drag it into the garden of the most likely suspect.
Then change the house number on the envelope of the forged letter and shove it through their letterbox.

Twiglett · 10/05/2007 19:20

but its been there for 3 months and is probably an eye-sore .. its taken them 3 months to get to the point where they feel a letter is appropriate and they're patently scared of addressing you personally on it in case they offend.

It might actually help the council get it picked up (did you know you can normally slip the bin men a few quid to get rid of stuff like that)

after all you are patently the scummy trash of the neighbourhood and they're just trying to bring you in line with the manicured lawns

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Fillyjonk · 10/05/2007 19:20

pmsl

i actually don't know who it is

i like ALL my neighbours

there is a SMALL chance that it is a mean old man who used to try to bump our car if we parked on "his" bit of the street, but I HONESTLY thought he had died...

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nightowl · 10/05/2007 19:22

ooh. i was once reported to the local council for my alarm going off a few times when it was quite new and was having many adjustments made. had a horrible anonymous letter.

my very adult (not) response was to pin a letter on my front door which said something along the lines of:

"thankyou for your kind letter, however, although we have called in the alarm company and the problem has been rectified, this matter is not of immediate importance to us as our son is currently in hospital after yet another asthma attack. as soon as we are available you are very welcome to air your concerns to us face to face and we can inform you of actions being taken to prevent this problem from re-occuring"

ie...next time just knock the flaming door and ask what's being done...we don't bite, you spineless eejits.

when we got back from the hospital that night, note was gone and two very sheepish neighbours avoided us for a long time!

Eight · 10/05/2007 19:22

filly, are you casting aspersions on the character of the poor old dead man down the road?

daisy1999 · 10/05/2007 19:22

to be honest 3 months is long enough for your poor neighbours to viewing the eyesore. I don't blame them for being annoyed.

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Fillyjonk · 10/05/2007 19:23

I don't give a crap10 if its picked up atm, twiglett, i am too upset that one of my neighbours has send me a rather malicious forged letter.

tbh, its my property. its not like i have a skip on my front lawn or anything. But regardless, it IS my property

and i don't think its ok to send forged, anonymous letters through peoples doors. its upsetting

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NoodleStroodle · 10/05/2007 19:23

Our neighbours phoned the police - 999- about the water people digging up the road to put in our new supply...

NoodleStroodle · 10/05/2007 19:24

Filly -
Ignore - they are mad and have nothing else to do with their time.

Bit of repect for their initiative though..

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Fillyjonk · 10/05/2007 19:25

"to be honest 3 months is long enough for your poor neighbours to viewing the eyesore. I don't blame them for being annoyed. "

oh fuck off

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SaintGeorge · 10/05/2007 19:25

Twiglett/Daisy - 2 weeks, not 3 months. Give poor Filly a break

daisy1999 · 10/05/2007 19:25

{hmm] I can see why they didn't knock at your door!

nightowl · 10/05/2007 19:26

daisy op said carpet was there only for about 2 weeks. think the issue here is why the need for a forged letter? it takes less time for someone to pop over the road and ask what's going on?

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Fillyjonk · 10/05/2007 19:26

its just the usual crap, isnt' it?

kicking people when they are upset about something

but its ok, daisy, cos just like the writer of my letter, you're anonymous

so you go for it, dear

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Pruni · 10/05/2007 19:30

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Twiglett · 10/05/2007 19:32

I misread I thought it was 3 monhts it had been there .. 2 weeks is patently different

I also misread the sentiment behind the OP tbh I thought you found it odd and bizarre .. I was just joshing .. sorry for any offence

Pruni · 10/05/2007 19:34

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SparklyGothKat · 10/05/2007 19:36

AFter my bins was stolen and food left on the floor, a nasty smell came up. I went out and bagged the food, and bleached the ground. The smell was still there. I got a very nasty letter through my door from a neighbour. My dad then found my bins down the road in a hedge, so I cleaned my bins, and binned the smelly bag, and bleached the ground again. That letter made me feel terrible, even though it was not my fault that my bins were stolen.