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Neighbours throwing ciggs in our driveways

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  • 06-07-2020 7:39pm
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    StereoSound
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭


    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 ?


    Thanks


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    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,340 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    The first thing that comes to mind is simply flick the cigs back into his garden


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    El Gato De Negocios
    Registered Users Posts: 6,696 ✭✭✭El Gato De Negocios


    Randomly flick a molotov cocktail at his front door.


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    suicide_circus
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    you're going to grit your teeth and keep all that rage festering inside you


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    Deub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Deub


    Throw them back on his driveway?

    If he asks you about it, you say you don’t smoke so you don’t know.


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    Lundstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Lundstram


    Burn his house down. If it's a semi-d, remove your belongings and burn it down. Or burn his shed.

    Just burn something.

    But don't kill anyone.


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    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,905 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    StereoSound wrote: »
    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 ?


    Thanks

    Take time out from your rants and scoop up the butts and gently fire them back into his driveway. Overnight if necessary. And breathe.


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    ThewhiteJesus
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    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.


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    looksee
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    He probably hasn't enough brain cells turned on to realise what he is doing. Flicks butt, butt gone, no further thought.

    Gather them up and return them, over the hedge - don't bother having a confrontation, you are wasting your time.


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    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,740 ✭✭✭degsie


    Ask for tips on how to lounge about all day, not as easy as it appears.


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    Spanish Eyes
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    I enjoy rants and posts like this. The obvious solution doesn't require anything awful, just a bit of common sense. Flick the butts back.


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    StereoSound
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭StereoSound


    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.


    I have to live here for the rest of my life that's why, and I don't want someone next door effing and blinding at me everytime I get in the car to go to work and when I come back again. Also, I never lived nextdoor to a cnt before so any advice is welcome.


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    StereoSound
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    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    I enjoy rants and posts like this. The obvious solution doesn't require anything awful, just a bit of common sense. Flick the butts back.


    This is one thing I'll be doing for a start.


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    JeffKenna
    Registered Users Posts: 4,518 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    Let's start bashing people on the dole. Good for nothing fag smoking lazy bollocks.


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    ThewhiteJesus
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    StereoSound wrote: »
    I have to live here for the rest of my life that's why, and I don't want someone next door effing and blinding at me everytime I get in the car to go to work and when I come back again. Also, I never lived nextdoor to a cnt before so any advice is welcome.

    It’s your language and cowardice that I find distasteful. I’m also not convinced it’s him.


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    Spanish Eyes
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    StereoSound wrote: »
    I have to live here for the rest of my life that's why, and I don't want someone next door effing and blinding at me everytime I get in the car to go to work and when I come back again. Also, I never lived nextdoor to a cnt before so any advice is welcome.

    Stand up to Bullies is the only advice I can offer.

    Had it once when I dared put up a trellis. The mad neighbours thought it would encourage burglars WTAF.

    I carefully said that their security was not my business, and jog on.

    Honestly, some people just think they can own the world and its occupants for their own satisfaction. Stand up for yourself and your home and family!

    Bullies can be extinguished with a few chosen words, do not be bullied.


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    JohnnyFlash
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    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.


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    StereoSound
    Registered Users Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭StereoSound


    ThewhiteJesus wrote: »
    It’s your language and cowardice that I find distasteful. I’m also not convinced it’s him.


    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.


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    17togo
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    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Take time out from your rants and scoop up the butts and gently fire them back into his driveway. Overnight if necessary. And breathe.

    I had a similar problem with people that lived in an apartment above my house. Constantly flicking cigarettes down into my garden. I asked them to stop a couple of times but didn't do any good so I gathered them up one day, there was about 30 butt's in the garden, and left them at their front door. They got the message from that. My next move would have been to feed them in through the letter box, or post them back to them! And then a few weeks later were ****ed out of the apt!


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    Boom_Bap
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    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.

    Time to start pebble dashing his gaf with little balls of sh*te.


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,362 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    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 .


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    NSAman
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    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 .

    I like your dad already!!! :)


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    [Deleted User]
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    You might be surprised how reasonable people can be.

    I to this day only talk to my next door neighbor through gritted teeth, he's a businessman, married with kids, nothing untoward but we can't stand each other. It's about ten years now and we have only defrosted enough not to actively sabotage each other's painting of the walls.

    On the other side I had a settled travelers. Had a reputation as a drug dealer and hard man in his day. He used to park his van clogging the footpath, you now where people face into the drive but are on the path? That really grinds my gears. Anyway, I stopped him one day as he was walking his dog and he couldn't have been more receptive. Never did it again, not a bad word and looked after his dog and always cleaned up after it. One of the nicest neighbors I ever had and I know the other side felt the same. He ended up moving a while back as the landlord sold up. New family are nice too.

    Take a chance but don't be confrontational, if he's a dick then back off and we'll all come up with a suitable evil and devious plan B


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    corner of hells
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    NSAman wrote: »
    I like your dad already!!! :)

    It didn't take much planning, other than have to do it without being noticed. My mother was horrified but he didn't give a fcuk .


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    NSAman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,392 ✭✭✭NSAman


    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 .
    corner of hells wrote: »
    It didn't take much planning, other than have to do it without being noticed. My mother was horrified but he didn't give a fcuk .

    It doesn't matter, that is genius.


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    Bobblehats
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    What kind of alternate reality do you operate in. You need to remember life’s a movie; and you’re the hero catch that cigarette mid-flight and use it to light the fuse that’s going to reduce his plot to rubble


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    Standard Toaster
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    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 .

    Excellent, best thing I've read today.


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    Feisar
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    Some people are oblivious to cig butts being rubbish. I know smokers that wouldn’t dream of dropping a bar wrapper on the ground flick a butt away. It’s a bit like when people drink tea outside throwing the last drop out.
    I’d say pop around and ask him not to do it politely. However make sure he doesn’t get a whiff of condescension/passive aggression/I’m better than you.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    Doctors room ghost
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    Ignore the fcukers.them are the sort that thrive on annoying people.sweep the butts into a dustpan and fire them back into their garden but don’t engage them in conversation.
    Ignore them like they don’t exist and they won’t be long getting bored.
    There’s a pond rat like them in every parish in the country.


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    Lucy8080
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    Buy him a pipe for Christmas. He will think you're a grand neighbour altogether and the added bonus is that nobody fcuks their pipe away .

    I bet you are looking forward to Christmas already, giddy with the excitement,like. The look on his face,eh?

    No need to thank me.


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    Feisar
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    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Time to start pebble dashing his gaf with little balls of sh*te.

    Can we not deescalate and blast it with piss instead?

    First they came for the socialists...



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