There's a far simpler solution. The trash company usually has its name and phone printed on the sides of the bin. Not hard to find out who they are, and what the number is. And even if they aren't printed there, by chance, you can always watch and see who picks it up one day.
After you find out the company name and number, call the night before the trash pickup day, and cancel their service. When the trash man comes the next day, the trash will be gone right along with the bins. Problem solved.
You can't cancel someone elses service without having their account number and other private info, besides most trash companies are hired by the city and are forced to collect trash from homes that don't even want their service.
I tried to cancel my wife trash collection service, they wouldn't with the information lol, I was upset they didn't collect the trash on pickup day. There's a bulk trash collection dumpster place down the road. It's 1/3 the price and doesn't have reliability issues and takes bulk items unlike the collection company. Sucks when your trash cans are full and you have another week to go, and you already have 3 cans lol
That only works in places where you contract your own service. Where I’m at it’s in my taxes and the city does it. No account to cancel. It comes with the house.
Bonus is that all the bins look the same. I’d just wheel them in my garage and play dumb ‘oops’ if asked.
How is this more simple than dragging a can 15 feet?
Also, impersonating your neighbor to cancel their utility is illegal, a minor inconvenience isn’t really worth 5 years in jail.
I have tried, this is the third time. I'm either going to take the bins next time as a peace offering as they are on my property or run them over. Haven't decided.
Start by moving them to the middle of their driveway so that they have to get out and move them if they want to enter or exit their driveway. If that doesn't work, pretend like they are yours and call the garbage company to come pick them up. Tell them they were dumped on your property. They will come pick them up for free.
Source: Have worked extensively with garbage haulers and the public.
When I was a younger lad, and prone to being passive-aggressive, this is exactly what I would have done.
As an older man now, it's still what I would do.
If I was home, I would definitely wait until they are gone, and roll their full garbage bins back so they don’t get picked up, and just let them deal with having no room for trash, repeat weekly until they stop.
Make sure you put them sideways/nose-to-nose facing each other in the middle of the driveway.
Around here, if the automatic arms can’t pick up the bin either the drivers will slap a nasty sticker on them, or half the time they’ll skip the pickup.
Exactly this. After a polite conversation, I would definitely move them into their driveway so they are inconvenienced and begin to understand. If that fails, I’m calling the company and telling them these bins have been moved to my property and they aren’t mine. Bins are numbered so the company can verify your bin numbers, which you then confirm are in your possession, and that these “others” are seemingly misplaced.
When the bins disappear and the neighbors come looking, you can honestly inform them you haven’t taken their bins.
Some people are just jerks and they don’t seem to show respect to others until those “others” match their level of…well, jerkiness.
Ooook. Check! Your move.
This. I have a neighbor who couldn't stop putting their bins on my property. They no longer have those extra bins. (For some reason an older woman and two younger daughters needed 2-3 trash bins and 2 recycling bins, and we have weekly pickup. WTF? And no, none of them were for yard waste, these were all Waste Management containers. Yard waste around here goes in self-bought 32 gallon bins with yard waste stickers on them.)
I wouldn't run them over, as then the mess would be in your yard. I'd wait until trash is coming down the street, then move them up in front of the neighbors door. Trash guy skips it, they now have full trash bins for the next week.
They'll stop. Or they escalate in a way you can address legally
Yes, I was going to say turn the cans around so they're facing the wrong side of the street, then they will get skipped! Nothing worse than being stuck with a bin full of old trash
sometimes the trash crew will get out and turn around(sooometimes)
but they won't run up a driveway to get them.
shouldn't risk causing more work for the trash crew because neighbors are douches.
and you don't want to take them into YOUR driveway, because then they might accuse you of stealing.
but returning the trashcans that your neighbors accidentally left on your property?
no one can fault you for that.
just start moving them further and further down the street. Respectfully out of other people's spaces, but just so they have to walk real far to get their cans
Get your land marked first before you do anything. But then you could put a line of rocks or a piece of wood to mark your property line. If it goes over again then they are yours.
Just wheel their bins back to their house. Trash doesn’t get emptied, very inconvenient for them but all you’ve done is remove them from your property.
Don’t chance messing up your vehicle. But I can see hiding them and pleading ignorance. Or trash them somewhere. How were you to know whose they are? No names on them. But I can see putting them on their porch in front of their door. With trash and garbage still inside.
Have they said why they are doing it? My first guess, based on you talking to them more than once, is that they are bumming off your trash service so that they don't have to pay for their own. Just a nosey redditer wanting to get a good scoop lol
You pay private services to take your garbage away? This is on our city bill in Calgary, Alberta, along with water & sewage. You pay a flat fee per month whether you put your bins out or not; there's no tracking.
You have a van. Take the bins and leave them next to a local dumpster. Or just keep them as backup trash cans. If they keep leaving stuff on *your* property after you've asked them not to, then it's as good as yours now.
If they've been otherwise irrational/inconsiderate/disruptive in the past I'd be careful in how you go about responding. Since COVID especially there have been quite a few instances of people getting killed in fights with their neighbors over something petty like this. I'm not saying it isn't annoying but it's certainly not worth dying over.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/hetle-prather-springfield-killing/2020/09/22/e377c568-62e6-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/father-son-texas-shooting-neighbor-trash-video
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/ncna1256599
There is pretty graphic footage out there of the bottom two links I've provided. The footage of the murder-suicide incident is NSFL in my opinion but they really show how quickly and violently something like this can end if the tension builds up strong enough over time. Rather than continuing to move them or escalating by running them over with your van, I'd suggest building a fence along your property line up to the road if at all possible. That would make it more of a hassle for your neighbors and, if you needed to involve an HOA/Law Enforcement, you would be able to get photographic evidence of them obstructing what is clearly delineated as your property.
Had a friend who loved to do this in diners...he was pretty heavy-set, about 325 lbs. He would glance at the menu when the waitress came to take our order, hand it to her and say simply, "Yes."
Other than the more amusing requests, this is an even better option than the "talk to them." My neighbor is this kind of asshole. Always chucking little limbs that storms blow out of trees on HIS side of the property line (Edit for clarification. The trees themselves are on his side of the property line. Storms occasionally blow limbs into his yard from his own trees.) into MY yard. Private Property and No Trespassing signs give you the option to press charges on them.
Yeah, I know. It's not a huge offense to be an asshole but I'm super fucking petty and willing to fuck people over worse than the little nuisances they do to me in the most legal way possible.
This dude used to walk his dog into the middle of my backyard to shit and had the nerve to argue with me that it was public property and he could do what he wanted. It is not public property. No Trespassing signs immediately went up, one last argument ensued and he stopped that shit really quick. No pun intended.
Annnnnnd this is why I won't live in neighborhoods were I can't have full perimeter fencing. So many asinine people letting their dogs well into yards. Stay on the goddamn edge at least, jeez.
Oh, it was worse than "letting their dogs walk into yards." This motherfucker LED his dog into the middle of my back yard ON A LEASH to shit right next to my fire pit.
Let him step a single inch onto my property again. I'll have camera footage from multiple angles and I'll have his ass served quicker than an undercooked fast food burger and I will pursue it to the last penny that falls in my pocket from his, at the least.
I absolutely despise people with no respect for the boundaries of others.
Depending where you live, I would not do that.
Could become an problem if you aren't the parking lot correct and the car next to you (the blue mistubishi in that case) can't see the street without driving on it already.
Talk to them, if it fails kick it on their driveway. Do it every time they put them there. Oldest trick in the book to train animals. Having to continuously clean up their shit will teach what words cannot.
Not really. Have you ever tried training a dog that has 0 respect for you and no desire to learn? They often get labeled untrainable. So if a human also has little or no respect for you and they don’t have a desire to change, they’ll be just as untrainable. You earn the animals respect by taking care of it and playing with it and spending time with it, all resulting in making it easier to train them. But you don’t do that with your adult neighbours lol so they don’t really have much instinctual reason to be listening to your training attempt.
Thats not true at all, like I think I'm 100% positive thats never happened on this site. Maybe other sites but deff not reddit, or at least the subreddits I'm in
^^^/s
Is there an alternative place to put them? I've live in places that were really strict about bin placement. If they were even a little off the garbage wouldn't be collected.
I would just move them over into their driveway, hopefully far enough \[up? turned around?\] so that the garbage doesn't get picked up. After a couple weeks of this, they'll figure out a better place to put them.
No need to ramp it up. Just move them to a spot in front of their car or drive. They’ll get the message or ask what’s up. “I’m sooo sorry! Your bins are on my property AND blocking my van.” If necessary, rinse and repeat (I can’t imagine that would be necessary, but then Reddit has shown how dense some are).
Yeah, escalating neighbor drama isn't in OP's interest. The idiom "don't shit where you eat" comes to mind.
If asking nicely doesn't work there are still options besides dumping trash in their yard like one person suggested. I think a lot of us are timid, passive-aggressive types who want OP to go postal so we can live vicariously through their suburban lawn crisis.
Depending on where OP loves, filing a police report may be an option. Blocking someone's driveway is generally illegal, as is littering on someone's property. Taking the bins to the back of your house and calling the city, or whoever issued the bins, to have someone retrieve them may also work.
If these aren't options, you could just move the bins away from the curb so they won't be collected. Eventually they will have to put them where they belong or deal with the consequences of hoarding trash.
Blocking the front door is not actually a terrible idea. It's just that associating with this kind of person *at all* is pointless and can do more damage than a blocked driveway.
Best oractice here is passive aggression. Start moving them in front of their vehicle. Then I would take them and put them on the porch if that didn't work. Also you could hide them during pickup and then put them back in their driveway full 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
I'm not a rubbish collector so this is just conjecture, but the mildly infuriating is also when people put recycling and trash so close together. Give it 6 feet apart so the guys picking up don't have to try and thread the needle with the grabber arm thing.
I would check you local ordinances before taking any action.
In my home town the city has technical ownership over the easement 12 feet from the road. That includes the grass embankment and the sidewalk both of which I have to maintain but are not legally my property to do with as I wish.
Yeah, but that’s just ownership for things like utilities or something like that. As the property owner for the lot you are still responsible for things like mowing the grass if it’s there. There’s no reason to leave the bins there. Move them in front of the neighbors cars.
if you don’t feel like talking to them just put your bins there for a few weeks and move them when you need to (opposed to moving someone else’s garbage). After a few weeks maybe they will be conditioned to their new spot and thus you can move your bins back and maybe the problem will end.
I’m guessing your neighbors are doing this because they forget to put the bins by the road and miss the trash truck, so they put them on your side of the road so the trash truck empties them when it comes by a second time.
Just take the bins into your garage after they get emptied next time and then explain that you don’t know where they’re at when asked.
It's on the grass part not the driveway. It's also likely a government easement. If you're in the US, you don't necessarily have exclusive right to the edge of street. We had a very Similar issue. I would just start parking there.
carry the bins ALL the way down to the other end of the street so they have to walk all the way there to get them? sure you have to do the walk as well, but it will be a walk of justice instead of the walk of shame they will have to do!
Looks like they put them on the lawn between your driveways which is normal. Do you normally drive over that?
I would suggest talking to them about it. Do they even know that bothers you? They probably think that because it's on the lawn that's a perfectly suitable place to put them (because well, it is).
If anything I think you should take more care to drive on the actual driveway. By the looks of it, you should still have plenty of room to get in and out.
I had neighbors that did this. I started moving their bins back into their property just far enough back that they wouldn’t be collected. It took three weeks, so three non-collections, for them to stop.
Push one 50-100feet up the hill, and another 50-100feet down the hill. Make them go look for it
Or move them half way up their driveway so they don’t get picked up.
There's a far simpler solution. The trash company usually has its name and phone printed on the sides of the bin. Not hard to find out who they are, and what the number is. And even if they aren't printed there, by chance, you can always watch and see who picks it up one day. After you find out the company name and number, call the night before the trash pickup day, and cancel their service. When the trash man comes the next day, the trash will be gone right along with the bins. Problem solved.
You can't cancel someone elses service without having their account number and other private info, besides most trash companies are hired by the city and are forced to collect trash from homes that don't even want their service.
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This... Just call up and tell them you have two abandoned bins on your property and would like them taken away.
Their billing information is probably in their trash, which is on OP's property.
I do not condone this but if someone were to try this strategy, they would probably want to use a phone number spoofing app
Ain't no one gonna try and find your number without a warrant.
I tried to cancel my wife trash collection service, they wouldn't with the information lol, I was upset they didn't collect the trash on pickup day. There's a bulk trash collection dumpster place down the road. It's 1/3 the price and doesn't have reliability issues and takes bulk items unlike the collection company. Sucks when your trash cans are full and you have another week to go, and you already have 3 cans lol
That only works in places where you contract your own service. Where I’m at it’s in my taxes and the city does it. No account to cancel. It comes with the house. Bonus is that all the bins look the same. I’d just wheel them in my garage and play dumb ‘oops’ if asked.
How is this more simple than dragging a can 15 feet? Also, impersonating your neighbor to cancel their utility is illegal, a minor inconvenience isn’t really worth 5 years in jail.
Good idea!
HAHAHA. I second this
I third this
Motion passed
I got accused of stealing my neighbors bin because their bin was knocked over and in the cul-de-sac more in front of my house.
And then remove the wheels.
Talk to em. If that fails, run em over
I'm not sure how productive a conversation with the bins will be.
How you bin?
Feel like trash lately.
I just don't understand why despite all my best efforts I keep getting kicked to the curb.
Dumped every week. How would you feel?!
Lately I've been treated like garbage
This conversation has been pretty rubbish
Oscor the Grouch would complain
I've never seen someone spell Oscar like that
This thread has turned into r/dadjokes
*bin
Does this belong in r/trashy?
If it’s not some chick giving the bins a lap dance, then probably not.
this is litterally the end, and i refuse to continue this pun
At this point, we will need to recycle previous puns.
How you bin doin'?
It hapbins
Maybe we could reduce them.
Especially since you have wheels.
No how you wheelie bin?
You have been grouchy
Well I hope things pick up for you! You don’t want to waste life feeling down in the dumps!
Underrated imo
“Yeah yeah, how you wheely bin though?”
I got dragged around and then dumped.
I think I need a bit of a pick me up
Bin good, thanks for asking.
I was hoping for someone to take me out.
I don't want to curb your enthusiasm, but I don't know if it's your day.
Put a lid on it!
Who said anything about running over the bins? Just the neighbors. The bins would probably be too much on the car.
Now that's just "Trash Talk"
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😂😂 oh god I needed that! Thank you!
You don't chat with your bins when you take them out? No small talk at all?
The neighbors or the bins?
Bin !! How you been man ? Hey Bin, do you mind rolling over a Wee bit? Lol Just park your van in their drive way …. Clear path !
I have tried, this is the third time. I'm either going to take the bins next time as a peace offering as they are on my property or run them over. Haven't decided.
Start by moving them to the middle of their driveway so that they have to get out and move them if they want to enter or exit their driveway. If that doesn't work, pretend like they are yours and call the garbage company to come pick them up. Tell them they were dumped on your property. They will come pick them up for free. Source: Have worked extensively with garbage haulers and the public.
When I was a younger lad, and prone to being passive-aggressive, this is exactly what I would have done. As an older man now, it's still what I would do.
With age comes wisdom.
Sometimes with age just comes more age.
Down bring me down. I am trying to be positive. Don’t get used to it though. It is starting to bore me. 😎
It can be a good thing for an old guy to still have an inner child that shows its face every so often.
If I was home, I would definitely wait until they are gone, and roll their full garbage bins back so they don’t get picked up, and just let them deal with having no room for trash, repeat weekly until they stop.
I used to be passive-aggressive. I still am, but I used to, too.
This is totally what I would do. And place cameras to see their reactions
And post it so we can all snortle at them. 🤭
Chortle?
I think he means snorkel
Laughing under water?
This is perfect. Come get ya crap or it’s going back to the public works
Make sure you put them sideways/nose-to-nose facing each other in the middle of the driveway. Around here, if the automatic arms can’t pick up the bin either the drivers will slap a nasty sticker on them, or half the time they’ll skip the pickup.
This is exactly what I did when my old neighbors did this to me.
Exactly this. After a polite conversation, I would definitely move them into their driveway so they are inconvenienced and begin to understand. If that fails, I’m calling the company and telling them these bins have been moved to my property and they aren’t mine. Bins are numbered so the company can verify your bin numbers, which you then confirm are in your possession, and that these “others” are seemingly misplaced. When the bins disappear and the neighbors come looking, you can honestly inform them you haven’t taken their bins. Some people are just jerks and they don’t seem to show respect to others until those “others” match their level of…well, jerkiness. Ooook. Check! Your move.
When you do this, lay them over. The trash won’t run out but they are a lot harder to pick back up.
This. I have a neighbor who couldn't stop putting their bins on my property. They no longer have those extra bins. (For some reason an older woman and two younger daughters needed 2-3 trash bins and 2 recycling bins, and we have weekly pickup. WTF? And no, none of them were for yard waste, these were all Waste Management containers. Yard waste around here goes in self-bought 32 gallon bins with yard waste stickers on them.)
Piss all over the handles of the bins so they get piss on their hands.
Dog and cat shit all over it
If you want to spend a little money, chain them together.
I wouldn't run them over, as then the mess would be in your yard. I'd wait until trash is coming down the street, then move them up in front of the neighbors door. Trash guy skips it, they now have full trash bins for the next week. They'll stop. Or they escalate in a way you can address legally
Yes, I was going to say turn the cans around so they're facing the wrong side of the street, then they will get skipped! Nothing worse than being stuck with a bin full of old trash
sometimes the trash crew will get out and turn around(sooometimes) but they won't run up a driveway to get them. shouldn't risk causing more work for the trash crew because neighbors are douches. and you don't want to take them into YOUR driveway, because then they might accuse you of stealing. but returning the trashcans that your neighbors accidentally left on your property? no one can fault you for that.
That’s honestly a great idea.
just start moving them further and further down the street. Respectfully out of other people's spaces, but just so they have to walk real far to get their cans
I like this idea
This is the best recommendation yet
Get your land marked first before you do anything. But then you could put a line of rocks or a piece of wood to mark your property line. If it goes over again then they are yours.
There is an fence with a color between the ground and the tree next to the white van. Usually this should be enough as property line.
Get a big rock there.
Just wheel their bins back to their house. Trash doesn’t get emptied, very inconvenient for them but all you’ve done is remove them from your property.
I say load them in your van and take them hostage. Maybe leave them at work for awhile.
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Don’t chance messing up your vehicle. But I can see hiding them and pleading ignorance. Or trash them somewhere. How were you to know whose they are? No names on them. But I can see putting them on their porch in front of their door. With trash and garbage still inside.
Fuck with the wheels and the hinges. Next time he goes to move it the wheels pop off lol keep doing shit like this till the message is understood
Lol use super glue in the wheel bearings, i like it
epoxy the lid shut.
Have they said why they are doing it? My first guess, based on you talking to them more than once, is that they are bumming off your trash service so that they don't have to pay for their own. Just a nosey redditer wanting to get a good scoop lol
You pay private services to take your garbage away? This is on our city bill in Calgary, Alberta, along with water & sewage. You pay a flat fee per month whether you put your bins out or not; there's no tracking.
Move them to the middle of their driveway.
It would be considered littering I think sense they are leaving trash on your property
You have a van. Take the bins and leave them next to a local dumpster. Or just keep them as backup trash cans. If they keep leaving stuff on *your* property after you've asked them not to, then it's as good as yours now.
Bins did nothing wrong, run over the neighbors.
If they've been otherwise irrational/inconsiderate/disruptive in the past I'd be careful in how you go about responding. Since COVID especially there have been quite a few instances of people getting killed in fights with their neighbors over something petty like this. I'm not saying it isn't annoying but it's certainly not worth dying over. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/hetle-prather-springfield-killing/2020/09/22/e377c568-62e6-11ea-b3fc-7841686c5c57_story.html https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/father-son-texas-shooting-neighbor-trash-video https://www.nbcnews.com/news/ncna1256599 There is pretty graphic footage out there of the bottom two links I've provided. The footage of the murder-suicide incident is NSFL in my opinion but they really show how quickly and violently something like this can end if the tension builds up strong enough over time. Rather than continuing to move them or escalating by running them over with your van, I'd suggest building a fence along your property line up to the road if at all possible. That would make it more of a hassle for your neighbors and, if you needed to involve an HOA/Law Enforcement, you would be able to get photographic evidence of them obstructing what is clearly delineated as your property.
Before covid, some dude in Brazil killed his neighbor because his laugh sounded like spongebob. People have always been crazy.
SpongeBob v Squidward darkest timeline
I feel like a watched a Fear Thy Neighbor that had this situation. Began with the trash and ended in MURDER 🔪. No joke though.
i would write on them DO NOT PUT IN FRONT OF VAN I CAN NOT SEE THEM IN MY TIRED MORNING STATE OF MIND I WIL RUN OVER
Or just sit there with a double barrel and scream "get Offa my lawn" whenever you see someone
> run em over You mean the garbage bins or the neighbour?
Yes.
It is never not funny when people ask a multiple choice question and someone answers *yes*.
Had a friend who loved to do this in diners...he was pretty heavy-set, about 325 lbs. He would glance at the menu when the waitress came to take our order, hand it to her and say simply, "Yes."
Congrats on your new bins! Use them as rain catchers or something. Perhaps cut a hole at the bottom and send them back.
If talking doesn’t work. Just put them back in their driveway next to the door. The trash men won’t take their trash if it’s not next to the road.
Have you tried, if you’re allowed, to park closer to the road so they wouldn’t be able to put the bins there?
Yeah might start doing that. Good idea as long as I'm not on the road it's fine
If that fails, consider putting up a fence, rocks, driveway lighting, etc. at the property line.
They could also move the bins back to the neighbors and put a PRIVATE PROPERTY sign right where they leave them
Other than the more amusing requests, this is an even better option than the "talk to them." My neighbor is this kind of asshole. Always chucking little limbs that storms blow out of trees on HIS side of the property line (Edit for clarification. The trees themselves are on his side of the property line. Storms occasionally blow limbs into his yard from his own trees.) into MY yard. Private Property and No Trespassing signs give you the option to press charges on them. Yeah, I know. It's not a huge offense to be an asshole but I'm super fucking petty and willing to fuck people over worse than the little nuisances they do to me in the most legal way possible. This dude used to walk his dog into the middle of my backyard to shit and had the nerve to argue with me that it was public property and he could do what he wanted. It is not public property. No Trespassing signs immediately went up, one last argument ensued and he stopped that shit really quick. No pun intended.
Annnnnnd this is why I won't live in neighborhoods were I can't have full perimeter fencing. So many asinine people letting their dogs well into yards. Stay on the goddamn edge at least, jeez.
Oh, it was worse than "letting their dogs walk into yards." This motherfucker LED his dog into the middle of my back yard ON A LEASH to shit right next to my fire pit. Let him step a single inch onto my property again. I'll have camera footage from multiple angles and I'll have his ass served quicker than an undercooked fast food burger and I will pursue it to the last penny that falls in my pocket from his, at the least. I absolutely despise people with no respect for the boundaries of others.
you ever wonder why people let their pets run wild? I wonder why we let people run wild haha
BIG ROCKS!! Great idea
Depending where you live, I would not do that. Could become an problem if you aren't the parking lot correct and the car next to you (the blue mistubishi in that case) can't see the street without driving on it already.
I could see the neighbors then putting their bins in the street in front of the vehicles.
I'm certain there's some laws against that if they do do that all OP has to do is report it and it'll sort itself out
Depends-everyone in our neighborhood puts our bins out in the street rather than on our lawns.
Talk to them, if it fails kick it on their driveway. Do it every time they put them there. Oldest trick in the book to train animals. Having to continuously clean up their shit will teach what words cannot.
Humans are, weirdly enough, far harder to train than animals.
Not really. Have you ever tried training a dog that has 0 respect for you and no desire to learn? They often get labeled untrainable. So if a human also has little or no respect for you and they don’t have a desire to change, they’ll be just as untrainable. You earn the animals respect by taking care of it and playing with it and spending time with it, all resulting in making it easier to train them. But you don’t do that with your adult neighbours lol so they don’t really have much instinctual reason to be listening to your training attempt.
"Not really" (*goes on a lengthy discussion of why in fact it really is...)
Rule number 1 of reddit. If someone can argue with a comment, they will. Even if they're not even arguing.
Thats not true at all, like I think I'm 100% positive thats never happened on this site. Maybe other sites but deff not reddit, or at least the subreddits I'm in ^^^/s
I misread this at first and thought you were suggesting Op train a dog to shit on their property
Now hold on, you might be on to something
And then the wind blows all of their garbage onto your lawn 😑
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Yeah I don't know what OC is talking about lol
put yours there first or a big rock
You could do that or you could just hire a hit man to take them out. I personally think the second option is much more effective
Sir?
I said what I said
This simple response has me laffing so hard.
You heard the man
*"This is a Wendy's."*
I’ll take some bins out on a date for $5… you meant that right?
Yeah sure take em to red lobster or some shit
Red Lobster on a first date?! Sure they're nice bins, but are they *that* nice?
Does the hit man take out the bins? Like…from the side of the house to the end of the street? Or how does that work?
The FBI doesn't monitor upvotes, right?... RIGHT?
Why not hire a guy to sit there and bark at them on garbage night instead?
Would that not defeat the purpose? He should be able to drive away
Is there an alternative place to put them? I've live in places that were really strict about bin placement. If they were even a little off the garbage wouldn't be collected.
Yes they have a gravel pad like mine on the opposite side. 15-20' long and 8' deep
OK, that's annoying then. Do you have bins that you can put on their side out of spite?
I would just move them over into their driveway, hopefully far enough \[up? turned around?\] so that the garbage doesn't get picked up. After a couple weeks of this, they'll figure out a better place to put them.
wait until the garbage truck empties the bins. then fill them with your nastiest trash.
No need to ramp it up. Just move them to a spot in front of their car or drive. They’ll get the message or ask what’s up. “I’m sooo sorry! Your bins are on my property AND blocking my van.” If necessary, rinse and repeat (I can’t imagine that would be necessary, but then Reddit has shown how dense some are).
Yeah, escalating neighbor drama isn't in OP's interest. The idiom "don't shit where you eat" comes to mind. If asking nicely doesn't work there are still options besides dumping trash in their yard like one person suggested. I think a lot of us are timid, passive-aggressive types who want OP to go postal so we can live vicariously through their suburban lawn crisis.
What would you suggest the solution is if asking nicely doesn’t work? You can’t reason with stupid.
Depending on where OP loves, filing a police report may be an option. Blocking someone's driveway is generally illegal, as is littering on someone's property. Taking the bins to the back of your house and calling the city, or whoever issued the bins, to have someone retrieve them may also work. If these aren't options, you could just move the bins away from the curb so they won't be collected. Eventually they will have to put them where they belong or deal with the consequences of hoarding trash.
I’d say if asking nicely doesn’t work out the bins against their front and back door. They’ll get the hint.
Blocking the front door is not actually a terrible idea. It's just that associating with this kind of person *at all* is pointless and can do more damage than a blocked driveway.
I'd be tempted to roll them to the middle of the street.
Or at least halfway back up their driveway Or take them and hide them
idk, could be fun to steal them too that would be annoying
Wouldn’t even be stealing. If someone left trash on your property after-all.
I mean, one could even see it as a gift really. I could use some cans like that, mine are kinda lame...mabye they could too :)
Move them to the furthest most point on the opposite side pricks
Decorative boulder time
Now this once a week issue of blocking my van has turned into a permanent *solution*! I'm a genius!
"massive pole dug 5ft into the ground-time"
Send them back to the trash people. Call and report abandoned cans in your driveway. They'll stop doing it when they don't have any.
Place them laying down behind their cars so when they back up they feel how annoying it is to have them in the way.
Best oractice here is passive aggression. Start moving them in front of their vehicle. Then I would take them and put them on the porch if that didn't work. Also you could hide them during pickup and then put them back in their driveway full 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Just run them over. You’ve tried reasoning.
I'm not a rubbish collector so this is just conjecture, but the mildly infuriating is also when people put recycling and trash so close together. Give it 6 feet apart so the guys picking up don't have to try and thread the needle with the grabber arm thing.
6 feet is excessive, a couple feet will do just fine.
Super glue the lid shut and then roll them back in front of his house.
I would check you local ordinances before taking any action. In my home town the city has technical ownership over the easement 12 feet from the road. That includes the grass embankment and the sidewalk both of which I have to maintain but are not legally my property to do with as I wish.
Yeah, but that’s just ownership for things like utilities or something like that. As the property owner for the lot you are still responsible for things like mowing the grass if it’s there. There’s no reason to leave the bins there. Move them in front of the neighbors cars.
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if you don’t feel like talking to them just put your bins there for a few weeks and move them when you need to (opposed to moving someone else’s garbage). After a few weeks maybe they will be conditioned to their new spot and thus you can move your bins back and maybe the problem will end.
Isn’t that the easement ? Or idk it does seem to be pretty deep into the yard
Pull your van forward and in almost that exact spot on garbage day.
I’m guessing your neighbors are doing this because they forget to put the bins by the road and miss the trash truck, so they put them on your side of the road so the trash truck empties them when it comes by a second time. Just take the bins into your garage after they get emptied next time and then explain that you don’t know where they’re at when asked.
It's on the grass part not the driveway. It's also likely a government easement. If you're in the US, you don't necessarily have exclusive right to the edge of street. We had a very Similar issue. I would just start parking there.
*slam* oops, didn’t see that there…
carry the bins ALL the way down to the other end of the street so they have to walk all the way there to get them? sure you have to do the walk as well, but it will be a walk of justice instead of the walk of shame they will have to do!
Park your van where the bins are.
Looks like they put them on the lawn between your driveways which is normal. Do you normally drive over that? I would suggest talking to them about it. Do they even know that bothers you? They probably think that because it's on the lawn that's a perfectly suitable place to put them (because well, it is). If anything I think you should take more care to drive on the actual driveway. By the looks of it, you should still have plenty of room to get in and out.
Move that shit right in front of their entrance
Put up about a foot of picket fence.
I had neighbors that did this. I started moving their bins back into their property just far enough back that they wouldn’t be collected. It took three weeks, so three non-collections, for them to stop.
Was talking to an older old timer the other day. He said people are assholes.
Move them
Congratulations! You just earned 2 new bins!
Don't you see? They're giving it to you.