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Neighbours throwing ciggs in our driveways

StereoSound

Next door neighbour randomly flicks his cigarette butts over our hedge into our driveway.
9 or 10 times the past couple weeks he done it. Came home today to find another of his butts beside my front door. Whats the best way to approach this ? He is a abit of a volatile character, big loud mouth on him to, doesnt work, gets the house of the public housing where I own mine. He just walks around all day doing F all. Should I approach him personally when I see him out and about and tell him to stop or get directly onto public housing and complain about him ? I'm not interested in started a feud with this pr!ck. I think either methods is going to create tension between us to be honest. What would you do ?

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Feisar

StereoSound wrote: »

I never spoke to this man in my entire life, he just randomly does this. I didn't provoke him in any way. All I know is what I see, I would never throw crap into my neighbors property for any reason.

Really, your next door neighbour? Never spoke?

Standard Toaster

Pour petrol on all over your drive, put a line of it going up to his drive & garden, and around where he normally loiters, sit back and enjoy. (from a few meters away as you undoubtly destroy both houses)

Bobblehats

Feisar wrote: »

Can we not deescalate and blast it with piss instead?

Free powerhose?! That’d only descale it

buried

You have to be wise about all this if this guy lives right next door, you have to engage with him on a level he will understand, and you already know one of his levels which is smoking cigs so Just look out for the next time he has a cigarette, then go out and have one yourself, have a friendly chat with him about the joys of modern living like the whole covid craic, ask him how he is getting on, $hite like that and then when you are finished your cigarette fling it on your driveway, then immediately say "fahk, I shouldn't do that, the wife hates it when I do that, Ima pick it up and keep it off the driveway for a quiet life" He probably won't do it again. Going for confrontation won't solve nothing, well, up to a point. If he continues to fling his cigs onto your driveway after you engage with him on his level, well then you know he is out for war, then you are fully entitled got to go all out this sort of craic -

chrissb8

Tar him. Nothing like a good Ol' Tarring.

Kylta

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Take a shïte into a shoebox, wrap it with wrapping paper, and leave it on his doorstep overnight for him to open in the morning.

To do the above properly you need to set it on fire and bang on his door, when he stamps out the fire the rest is sh!t has the say

[Deleted User]

Park a leaking diesel car/truck/boat in his driveway- he'll love that.

Kylta

You need to talk to your neighbour for all you know he could be accidentally flicking the butts in your driveway. He could apologise and you could become good neighbours. If he's an asshole well then you'll have to decide what action to take yourself. I don't want to tell you to hit him in case he's cute whore and you end up in court.
I don't want to advise you to destroy his driveway with rubbish. Because he'll go on boards and all these posters will be telling him to burn your gaff etc.
seriously if it was me I talk to him but be confident when talking instead of whining, if it doesn't word threathen him not his house his driveway but him. Tell him that they don't allow smoking in the ICU.

Darc19

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

Perhaps he has a similar opinion of you, as you have of him. Why don’t you grow a pair and talk to him instead of calling him names on the internet.

You'll find that people like the neighbour are not the type that will talk in an adult manner.

I'd almost just ignore it as if he's home all day and the type I think he is, there could be worse issues.

A neighbours dog sh1ts in my garden about 3 times a week - I simply scoop it up and feck it in the ditch. They don't know he does it, and I prefer not to damage relations, so just let it be.

corner of hells

chrissb8 wrote: »

Tar him. Nothing like a good Ol' Tarring.

Jayzus ,, we haven't had starring round these parts in a while.

I'll get my pitchfork and flaming torch ready , no point in half measures.

Phil.x

Put them in an envelope and stick it through his letter box.

corner of hells

NSAman wrote: »

It doesn't matter, that is genius.

There is an end part to the story.

Both my parents spent their last few years in nursing homes , during this time the marriage of the neighbours whose garden he flooded broke up with the house being sold.

When it went sale agreed , I had to break up the cement gulley my dad made to stop the garden flooding on the new neighbours.

pconn062

Move to the countryside and avoid having neighbours at all.

I Am Nobody

Collect enough of the butts to build a pyre in his front garden.Set it alit and dance around it in your sheepskins and facepaint.

[Deleted User]

pconn062 wrote: »

Move to the countryside and avoid having neighbours at all.

I think you can still get Network 2 in the schticks

McDermotX

Smokers are jokers

the14thwarrior

he knows what he is doing.
he just doesn't care.
just flicks the butt anywhere, your driveway, his driveway, the street, the road.

or simply he flicks them in your driveway so he doesn't have to clean up his.

you could always use an excuse like your dog / cat / wife / child keeps picking them up and eating them. jokingly ask him not to do it

or you could sweep them up

really you probably know the answer yourself.
not always the smart thing to piss someone off living next door, if they are capable of crap like this...... what is next?
and obviously your letter to the council would go straight in the bin

endacl

Flick him back, on the butt.

Leg End Reject

Take your driveway in.

Esse85

Is communication completely dead and buried?

What's wrong with saying 'sorry John can you stop flicking cigarette buts in my garden as I find it disrespectful' and don't say anymore. Let him respond.

Unless you live in this estate in Mullingar, then your screwed

https://youtu.be/T510plixPcg

blacknight83

Deposit them back in his letterbox!

chrissb8

corner of hells wrote: »

My elderly father, in his later years had similar problems with neighbours, loud parties, cigarettes being thrown into his garden and so on.

He surprised me with his level of deviousness but he managed to flood the neighbours garden one winter after noticing his neighbours garden was lower than his and then by re-directing rainwater from drains via a cement gulley he created .

That is just magnificent.

JustAThought

OP -
he sounds like a total knacker and could make your life really hard.

Do you have an idea when he takes his ‘smoking breaks’ - film him doing it a lode of times on your iphone /gadget and then just ring the local council and ask for the litter warden - say you have an ongoing problem and evidence of him doing it multiple times and tell him to come out and give him a fine. Make sure you get him half a dozen times throwing it in the public street too - might cool his enthuiasm. Litter wardens lwats want evidence.

Sympathies over freeloading scumbag neighbour.

old_aussie

I found tipping cigarette ash from an ashtray onto a damp car surface works a treat.

No if's no butts!

Blush_01

The number of people who think they know the guy from the OPs description is embarrassing.

OP, talk to him.

If it doesn't work, the flaming sh!te in a shoebox is a memorable escalation path.

This only gets solved one way. You choose the kind of communication you use to get that resolution. But do something productive.

radiata

Phil.x wrote: »

Put them in an envelope and stick it through his letter box.

Or stick your arse in the letterbox after a feed of Guinness

Capt'n Midnight

Flood his driveway and yours with petrol.

Next time he flicks a fag away WOOOSHHHHHH!!!

I Am Nobody

In all honesty If it were me,I'd tell him Look I don't smoke but I know you do.So I would appreciate it if you wouldn't flick your butts in my driveway.At the moment he has no respect for his neighbours so call him on it and then go from there.

Sardonicat

StereoSound wrote: »

I never spoke to this man in my entire life, he just randomly does this. I didn't provoke him in any way. All I know is what I see, I would never throw crap into my neighbors property for any reason.

If you've never spoken to him how do you know his business?

I Am Nobody

Sardonicat wrote: »

If you've never spoken to him how do you know his business?

I must have missed that.Not even a hello the odd chance meeting in the driveway?Thats strange.