Lazy, lowlife excuses for neighbours - advice needed

[vifferman]

Yeah, I agree with Toads.

For a start, it sounds like you don't really know your neighbours yet. Introduce yourself to them, mention in passing the beer can problem and ask them to tell you if they see anything. If it is them, they'll probably stop, and if it's not, they may catch whoever it is.

It's esy to get annoyed with your neighbours if you don't know them, and easy to jump to conclusions. We live in an area that used to be bush, and still has lots of native trees including a reserve behind us. Our newish neighbours first contacted us and told us they were going to be burning some rubbish and when my wife objected they said they were going to do it anyway, Later we heard they were going to be cutting down some mature manukas that screen their house from ours. At first it sounded like they wanted our permission, and then like they were going to cut them down regardless. We were really pissed off, as we thought, "If they don't like the trees, why buy in the friggin area?!?"
Then we moaned to our other neighbours about it, and they said that the manukas were prone to breaking and falling down when mature, and were quite close to the house. So we went and talked to the people behind us, and initially we were suspicious and "anti", till we found out they'd already had one tree fall on their shed, and in a previous house they'd had a tree limb come crashin through the bedroom roof, narrowly missing their baby, so naturally they were a bit paranoid about the same thing happening again.

All is good now, despite the view now being a bit different, they didn't cut down any of our trees (like it sounded they would). A bit of conversation and perspective (the trees loked lovely from our place, but menacing from theirs) helps to sort things out.

Sometimes it just doesn't work, like the time we built our first new house, and planted a plane tree on the west side of our house, deliberately chosen so as to give shade to our house in the late afternoon, while not blocking the neighbour's morning sun in the winter. We overheard the neighbours complaining about it, that it would block their morning sun in the winter...
They also complained about our fence being over their boundary (it was actually inside ours), because the next neighbour's fence was WAY inside their own boundary, making ours look like we'd gone too far the other way. So we got my wife's cousin to come and survey it with a theodolite, making it look all official, and they were happy.
Stupid, because they didn't even own the house... Stopped them moaning though...

[Gixxer]

Get two to four of my your mates that the neighbours havn't seen/met before, get them to put on black 2 piece suits, skinny black ties and wear ray-bans.

Get them to then pull up in a bigish car (with the plates off) with the stero blasting with "little green bag" or "Stick in the middle with you", stop, get out all cool, walk up to the neighbours mail box and smash the shit out of it, toss the rubbish (which u would have placed in the boot before hand) all over the driveway, drive off like nothing has happened.

Get them to carry airpistols/BB guns as to scare the people off if they get too close, and if they don't buy it, beat the crud out of one of them and
stick them in the boot, take them back to an empty construction site, and teach them a lession.

[note : you can wear "ex-president" masks if your really worried about being seen]



-Indy

You need at least one of them in a matching purple 2 peice track suit, carring a 1980's motorola brick cell phone.

Just dump it next to there driveway, if they come over to have a chat about it, just plead ignorance, or you can draw down on them and fill em with lead.

[**R1**]

That Aaron must be a friend of zeds

No, im a friend of OAB, and must you take everything so dam seriously?

did you think i would actualy do that? ...yeah i probly would

but only coz OAB is a good mate that duznt deserve o be shat on by dik heads.

but i wont take what you said to hart coz u wernt to know.

[Sniper]

No, im a friend of OAB, and must you take everything so dam seriously?

did you think i would actualy do that? ...yeah i probly would

but only coz OAB is a good mate that duznt deserve o be shat on by dik heads.

but i wont take what you said to hart coz u wernt to know.

Signature obviously isnt there for show?

[Coyote]

No, im a friend of OAB, and must you take everything so dam seriously?

did you think i would actualy do that? ...yeah i probly would

but only coz OAB is a good mate that duznt deserve o be shat on by dik heads.

but i wont take what you said to hart coz u wernt to know.

w3rd

[**R1**]

Signature obviously isnt there for show?

hell no! to much time riding and surfing in my younga days (pot didnt help much either) and not much ed-umi-catio-n, abbreviating everthing for tx msging duznt help either. but

[Mongoose]

No, im a friend of OAB, and must you take everything so dam seriously?

did you think i would actualy do that? ...yeah i probly would

but only coz OAB is a good mate that duznt deserve o be shat on by dik heads.

but i wont take what you said to hart coz u wernt to know.

I fink I git dat decifered and no wot u mean, u is rite I dun werent to no, eh?

Phaaaaark its hard to type like you guys

[toads]

hell no! to much time riding and surfing in my younga days (pot didnt help much either) and not much ed-umi-catio-n, abbreviating everthing for tx msging duznt help either. but

We all know the answer to that one mate, Hitcher cares, very much!

[Coyote]

(pot didnt help much either)

Just when I thought it couldn't get worse

[onearmedbandit]

Yeah, rather than being a peaceful, productive member of society who smokes pot, I'd rather be one of those wife-beating, child-scaring, drunk driver alcohol drinkers.

Don't get me wrong here, nothing against alcohol. But I have seen far worse acts commited by those who took the legal high 'alcohol' than anything by someone who smoked some pot. Alcohol has a lot to answer for, I know that first hand.

[Coyote]

Don't get me wrong here, nothing against alcohol. But I have seen far worse acts commited by those who took the legal high 'alcohol' than anything by someone who smoked some pot. Alcohol has a lot to answer for, I know that first hand.

Plus, after a night of booze, during a hang over, your estrogen levels rise, basically giving you tits. That has always put me off beer

[bungbung]

Point out to your neighbours that their 'beer titties' are unbecoming. I bet that'll dramatically reduce their beer consumption = less empties on your driveway

[Blakamin]

Plus, after a night of booze, during a hang over, your estrogen levels rise, basically giving you tits. That has always put me off beer

come on!!! I'd have tits to my knees if that was true!!!!

[Mongoose]

Yeah, rather than being a peaceful, productive member of society who smokes pot, I'd rather be one of those wife-beating, child-scaring, drunk driver alcohol drinkers.

Don't get me wrong here, nothing against alcohol. But I have seen far worse acts commited by those who took the legal high 'alcohol' than anything by someone who smoked some pot. Alcohol has a lot to answer for, I know that first hand.

With logic like that are you trying to keep the thread building to surpass "That Thread"?

[onearmedbandit]

There are certain people who shouldn't smoke pot, some that should limit their consumption, and some who can function perfectly well using it. Same as alcohol, in fact the same as almost anything we do in life. In was in fact an over generalisation in response to the typical negative response towards marijuana use, where as alcohol is all good as far as many members of this site are concerned.

Anyway, I'm not going to hi-jack this thread into a debate on marijuana use, its just another extremely bi-polar topic that will never be agreed upon. Like religion, what bikes the best, v-twin against I-4, etc etc etc. My response was to Alarumbas post, I thought I picked up a negative attitude there. I should've just ignored it.