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| K9F Member Since: 12 Nov 2009 Location: Bournemouth Posts: 9610   
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In the late 1980s I too had a running dispute with neighbours over nothing really significant and I came to the conclusion they had nothing better to do!
They were very proud of their garden such to the extent they could have fenced it off and charged entrance. I decided to focus their attention on something else other than their griping. Half a pound of grass seed and I stealthily seeded their flower borders in the middle of the night. A mate of mine was a bird scarer and vermin catcher at an airfield. He provided me with a live mole. Place mole under dustbin lid on lawn and mole has only one way to go. All went quiet on the eastern front and they stopped their mithering as quick as it had started. If you need any help drop me a 'pm.' Moles, rats and seeding a speciality.  If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!
Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!! |
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2nd May 2014 5:58am |
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| eutek Member Since: 03 Mar 2009 Location: High Wycombe Posts: 586 
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Good advice all around, thanks. Like the idea about the grass seed and mole, this couple sound similar... Massive garden in the back, rather proud of it as well.
My wife and the builders are of the opinion that we leave the vent where it is, at the most attach a dummy vent to the roof 
At this point I think I'm inclined to agree, don't want issues with leaks; rather deal with arsey neighbours than water in my roof. |
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2nd May 2014 6:32am |
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| steve E Member Since: 06 Mar 2011 Location: Tenby Posts: 2073 
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I'm not going to fall out with Mal
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2nd May 2014 7:18am |
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| jimbob7 Member Since: 06 Jul 2013 Location: uk Posts: 2055 |
Now what you need to do is show em who's boss, invite ALL of us round to your house for a house breaking/galvanised chassis swap party in the front garden,we'll make it look like scrap yard
 . Pov.spec,ftw. 2006, 110,TD5. |
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2nd May 2014 8:46am |
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| JWL Member Since: 26 Oct 2011 Location: Hereford Posts: 3443  
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Many many years ago when I was a younger person my parents and me lived in a 3 storey block of flats. Some of the residents took umbridge to my parents cars, my mother had a Triumph Herald that needed a push start most mornings and my dad had an Austin Gipsy, we were poor but I had a great childhood. After snotty letters being pushed through the door and snide comments from other residents even though they were no better off than us the old chap came home in his mates secret weapon...................an ex-Pickfords lorry, this he parked across the front of the flats.
We lived on the upper floor and all we could see was the top of the lorry and for those downstairs, just the blue side of the old TK! After a week attitudes changed and it all went quiet and luckily for us it wasn't too much longer before my parents managed to find another cottage to rent back out in the countryside. |
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2nd May 2014 9:08am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20540
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@ Mal -
The ones I was talking about next door we used to let have a bonfire and rent our allotment, the. He started bonfires on there. He then left it and smashed the fence, anyway ignoring the fence I fixed that then concentrated on the bonfire. I knew there would be old metal junk left in there on purpose such as springs, hinges and the like and he thought "ah well, not my problem their junk now, *snigger*" so I got the lot out chucked it back in his garden told the landlord and he had to take it away.
Then things got worse, police came and issued them a legally binding gagging order. Job done. |
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2nd May 2014 9:59am |
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| eutek Member Since: 03 Mar 2009 Location: High Wycombe Posts: 586
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One of my plans for enlarging the parking in front is to have room for more Defenders... not so far off from what I had in mind.  |
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2nd May 2014 11:53am |
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| ZeDefender Member Since: 15 Sep 2011 Location: Munich Posts: 4731  
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You've tried to placate the neighbours and it sounds as though they have rejected your reasonable offer. So they will probably complain whatever you do so reduce your damage and leave the vent where it is. If they succeed with a legal case against you, move it only then, but don't put a hole in a flat roof unless you want to be wet from above and nagged from the side... Tell someone you love them today because life is short.
But shout it at them in German because life is also terrifying and confusing... |
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2nd May 2014 1:10pm |
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| What puddle? Member Since: 25 Oct 2013 Location: Reading Posts: 952
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Horrible when you get shyte neighbours, isn't it? We got fantastic ones one side, and shyte ones the other. Two years ago she said I had thrown branches into her garden
 It was news to me! I had upset her because I rightfully reported her to the RSPCA for locking up their dog all day in a small 'run' (RSPCA did nothing, and now they lock it inside a shed all day - it has tried to chew through the door). A few weeks back we HAD to have three small fires (in an incinerator bin at the end of our long garden). We've had less than one fire per year since we have lived here DESPITE a major diy project. What does she do? She* reports me to the Environment Agency - saying that I am burning trade waste The Environment Agency write me a letter warning me that they'll investigate me if I do it again! Furious doesn't come close. I'm currently in the process of a major complaint against the Environment Agency for allowing anonymous reporting of false claims. Yes, that's right, you can phone the Environment Agency with all manner of nonsense, do so entirely anonymously, and they will respond as though it is real. I go through life not harming anyone or anything, but sometimes, people make life very difficult.
*There are certain reasons that I know for sure it was her, but I can't divulge. She's too dumb to realise that she gave away it was her that contacted them. Now left. |
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3rd May 2014 6:15am |
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| Smilesapart Member Since: 28 Sep 2013 Location: Suffolk Posts: 735
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What a Bitch. I think you should wait til all her washing is on the line and then have another fire, but much closer to her house this time
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3rd May 2014 10:39am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20540
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Why do these things though....
Sad or what! All I can assume is these types don't have a life and don't want others to either. |
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3rd May 2014 10:58am |
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| Smilesapart Member Since: 28 Sep 2013 Location: Suffolk Posts: 735
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It's because they have sad miserable lives with nothing better to occupy their tiny little minds
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3rd May 2014 11:03am |
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| What puddle? Member Since: 25 Oct 2013 Location: Reading Posts: 952
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Funny thing is, I refuse to go down to her level, and it drives my wife crazy that I won't. I told the RSPCA - even though all three dogs always bark at me when they hear me out in the garden, and sometimes, if I have to cut a piece of wood with a power-saw, then I take it into the garage (not healthy!) so that the neighbour isn't inconvenienced by the noise. If I have to do any noisy gardening, like hedge trimming, I make sure I do it before all the family get home. My wife thinks I'm nuts. We've had to put up with her teenage daughter's friends running across our garden at 2.45 in the morning (setting off a garden alarm in the process) and their constantly-barking dogs. They once came home at 12.30 at night and started a garden party! You might think this is a housing estate, but it isn't, it's a 'nice' road. It must really annoy her that all the other neighbours think I'm great, because it's always me that looks out for their homes - we've phoned the police twice for alarms and an actual break-in. And this is the really funny part: When they moved in they too were broken into. Guess who tracked them down (even though they had never come around to introduce themselves) to tell them to get home quick and re-secure their home. Guess who phoned the police? My wife hates them with a passion, and thinks we should retaliate in kind to their noise, but it's not how I was brought up. I would actually LIKE to treat them with the same they give us, but I physically cannot. I was honest with them about reporting them to the RSPCA, as I love animals and they were/are in the wrong. But she obviously has hated me ever since. We live in the hope that they'll move, but it's been seven years now. Her daughter has started living in an outbuilding (that has a kitchen & bathroom), and we're not at all sure about the legality of that. So far, she has kept quiet, at least. Now left.
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3rd May 2014 11:44am |
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| Smilesapart Member Since: 28 Sep 2013 Location: Suffolk Posts: 735
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I'm with your wife, I cannot stand noisy neighbours as I feel it is so disrespectful to others around you. I'd make sure you show them what a REALLY noisy neighbour is like, just when they are all tucked up in bed
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3rd May 2014 1:06pm |
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