OT: Trashy Neighbors

[Hey Adrien!]

Time to stoke up the OT: Summer Threads.

Since April, like clockwork, every morning there is a discarded bag of McDonald's thrown onto our yard: large drink with mostly finished food items. Our house is on the corner of a 3-way stop sign, so the litterer is likely doing a trash dash out the driver’s side window, throwing the bag across the street onto our berm.

The aim of the discarder is remarkably Greg Maddux-esque, the bag usually resides within a two foot radius of the corner of our rustic style fence, mostly with not enough force to make it over the three-foot apex, but generally in the same area.

When it first happened, I was like who litters anymore?, but as the day passed and the routine remained, my anger morphed into general curiosity as it feels as if this is less of a mindless littering and more of a part of this person's morning routine. I don't take it personal anymore, but now I want to learn more of the backstory of this person's consistency.

 

[Deepster]

Anyone have Deepster's address?

I’ll give you mine if you give me yours.

 

[Kolumbo]

OK, this is a big point of conflict in my town.

When walking your dog, is it okay that the dog poops and/or pees on someone's lawn vs the curb grass on the street side of the sidewalk? Of course, I'm not talking about leaving the poop. I mean, are you violating that person's lawn by allowing the dog to pee or poop on the lawn part?

I have no way to get my dog to exclusively poop/pee on the street side of the sidewalk. Maybe I could've trained him as a pup, but I didn't even know this was a controversial issue. People put no pooping dog signs up and my dog seems to think that means he should poop there. To be fair, he can't read. If I'm the trashy neighbor so be it.

I feel bad when my dog poops in someone's yard but I always pick it up. I do feel like it is a violation but as long as someone picks up the poop from my lawn, I am fine. I don't have one of those meticulously manicured lawns. I'm more like, if it's green, that's cool.

 

[Kolumbo]

Another tactic. Get a nice video of the perp in action. Then go to your local facebook group page, such as "I Love Norwalk CT!," and create a post including the video, something along the lines of:

"Shout Out to this kind stranger! Every day, rain or shine, he takes the time to fertilize my lawn by recycling his McDonald's garbage. I'm not sure this is as effective as using compost, but it's the effort that counts! Thank you Mr. Driver of the blue Toyota prism eater of Egg McMuffin's and hashbrowns!"

 

[superjohn]

My brother noticed a dog owned by his neighbor a few doors down doing it's business on his front lawn. He went out with a shovel and threw it in the woods behind his house and asked the neighbor to make sure his dog doesn't do it again. Next day, same thing. My brother cleaned it up and again spoke to the neighbor. Next day dog did the same thing. My brother shovelled it up and walked it down to the neighbor's house and left the mess on the front steps. Never happened again.

It's still better than a high school principal pooping on your lawn/driveway. There seemed to an epidemic years ago where principals were pooping in peoples driveways.

 

[bdbdbdbd]

I don’t own a dog. And I don’t think people should be required to grab up a steaming pile of dog doo and carry it around in a bag. If the dog goes somewhere, it goes there and stays there until it rains.

I have bear crap in my yard every week. No one comes over with a dumb little baggie and cleans that up for me.

If people don't want to pick up the steaming pile out of someone else's yard, they ought to walk their dog in circles around their own yard and wait for the rain. Nobody wants those piles in their yard, and bears aren't crapping in the same yards day after day.

 

[UKemba15]

Time to stoke up the OT: Summer Threads.

Since April, like clockwork, every morning there is a discarded bag of McDonald's thrown onto our yard: large drink with mostly finished food items. Our house is on the corner of a 3-way stop sign, so the litterer is likely doing a trash dash out the driver’s side window, throwing the bag across the street onto our berm.

The aim of the discarder is remarkably Greg Maddux-esque, the bag usually resides within a two foot radius of the corner of our rustic style fence, mostly with not enough force to make it over the three-foot apex, but generally in the same area.

When it first happened, I was like who litters anymore?, but as the day passed and the routine remained, my anger morphed into general curiosity as it feels as if this is less of a mindless littering and more of a part of this person's morning routine. I don't take it personal anymore, but now I want to learn more of the backstory of this person's consistency.

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Wow Adrien, just wow. Three months of generously sharing my “mostly finished” breakfasts with you, and this is the thanks I get? A public shaming? I hope you realize some of those bags had limited-edition Grimace plushies in them, you ungrateful swine.

 

[bdbdbdbd]

OK, this is a big point of conflict in my town.

When walking your dog, is it okay that the dog poops and/or pees on someone's lawn vs the curb grass on the street side of the sidewalk? Of course, I'm not talking about leaving the poop. I mean, are you violating that person's lawn by allowing the dog to pee or poop on the lawn part?

I have no way to get my dog to exclusively poop/pee on the street side of the sidewalk. Maybe I could've trained him as a pup, but I didn't even know this was a controversial issue. People put no pooping dog signs up and my dog seems to think that means he should poop there. To be fair, he can't read. If I'm the trashy neighbor so be

OK, this is a big point of conflict in my town.

When walking your dog, is it okay that the dog poops and/or pees on someone's lawn vs the curb grass on the street side of the sidewalk? Of course, I'm not talking about leaving the poop. I mean, are you violating that person's lawn by allowing the dog to pee or poop on the lawn part?

I have no way to get my dog to exclusively poop/pee on the street side of the sidewalk. Maybe I could've trained him as a pup, but I didn't even know this was a controversial issue. People put no pooping dog signs up and my dog seems to think that means he should poop there. To be fair, he can't read. If I'm the trashy neighbor so be it.

When you see that your dog is about to go, why not just yank him/her across to the grass along the curb?

 

[Deepster]

If people don't want to pick up the steaming pile out of someone else's yard, they ought to walk their dog in circles around their own yard and wait for the rain. Nobody wants those piles in their yard, and bears aren't crapping in the same yards day after day.

DM me your number and I’ll text you the weekly update.

I’ll have days where i see 4-5 bears a day in my yard.

 

[Waquoit]

I only go for the playscape.

Many a truth spoken in jest.

 

[Leebo]

Here in Japan I've had trash issues with people who live across the street. On trash day, you're supposed to put your trash bags out under nets or in some kind of container, so that crows don't attack them. The people that live across the street from us put out the unprotected bags every time, and every time we end up with trash strewn all about. Other neighbors often come and clean up the trash again before the collectors come, and so there's never any incentive for it to be done right the first time. Super irritating.

 

[M.S.G.]

Quite the McDs aficionado - not sure what to make of that.

It was on an episode of The Food that Built America - also learned that the Whopper came BEFORE the Big Mac

 

[Martin84]

Put a small stick sign. “No littering. We’re watching you.” or say something about it on your neighborhood Facebook page.

 

[beerfan]

I don’t own a dog. And I don’t think people should be required to grab up a steaming pile of dog doo and carry it around in a bag. If the dog goes somewhere, it goes there and stays there until it rains.

I have bear crap in my yard every week. No one comes over with a dumb little baggie and cleans that up for me.

I used to live on a private road, and there was access to walking trails so people used to walk their dogs on the street all the time. At first I didn't mind but one too many times I drove over dog crap that got stuck in my tires and stunk up the garage, and could even smell it in the house in the summer.

I had to be the bad guy and shut down access from my road.

 

[Vancat]

How about neighbors with a really huge dog who don't pick up the crap in their yard until it's time to mow. I wouldn't care, but....it stinks something awful.

 

[dennismenace]

What a great thread this is. I am having more enjoyment reading this vintage BY thread. The comments bring back my years in the eighth grade. May you stay forever young and humorous!

 

[jibsey]

I live in bear country and see one in my yard/neighborhood every day. A spray bottle with ammonia will keep them off the garbage cans.

Or a really big can of tuna with antifreeze.

I’m going to spray ammonia under the lid of the can on garbage day and try this.

 

[CL82]

I’m going to spray ammonia under the lid of the can on garbage day and try this.

Let me know how this works. We've got a raccoon that periodically gets into our trash. I wanted to just put these on...

... but the wife is opposed to it for reasons I don't fully understand.

(One time she threw away a broken vase, and the raccoon must've hopped in for food. The inside of my garbage can looked like a slasher flick. I thought that might have dissuaded him, but ultimately he did come back.)

 

[RuffRuff]

How about neighbors with a really huge dog who don't pick up the crap in their yard until it's time to mow. I wouldn't care, but....it stinks something awful.

Perhaps strategically using as fertilizer?

 

[ctbro1999]

Growing up in West Hartford there were always rumours that some homeowners on Ridgewood and Mountain Rd. did the cinderblock thing. Not ure how true it was but I know it kept a lot of young drivers from driving through those huge piles. No one wanted to be the first one to find out, yep it's true.

Hey, greetings from a fellow West Hartford'er!

 

[mauconnfan]

I don’t own a dog. And I don’t think people should be required to grab up a steaming pile of dog doo and carry it around in a bag. If the dog goes somewhere, it goes there and stays there until it rains.

I have bear crap in my yard every week. No one comes over with a dumb little baggie and cleans that up for me.

If one of my neighbors allow their dog to crap in my yard and they don’t bother to pick it up they won’t appreciate the lit bag on their front porch. I don’t care if it’s a Schitsu or a Great Dane pick your dogs pile up please!

 

[Scottzer]

What stinks is that you can’t kill them and eat them. Not safe, especially in summer - need to pressure cook the meat due to parasites. I’ve also heard they cry when shot, that seems awful.

 

[prankster]

What stinks is that you can’t kill them and eat them. Not safe, especially in summer - need to pressure cook the meat due to parasites. I’ve also heard they cry when shot, that seems awful.

If I may offer...

It would appear that a line is being crossed, right about here.

 

[RuffRuff]

What stinks is that you can’t kill them and eat them. Not safe, especially in summer - need to pressure cook the meat due to parasites. I’ve also heard they cry when shot, that seems awful.

Parmesan anything and it’s deliscious

 

[Hoophound]

In Vermont we put ammonia soaked rags in Tupperware (no lid) on our trash box. It helps, but after a while they learn to fling it several feet away. I’m in VT right now and our wooden trash bin is fairly massacred. I’ll have to do some rebuilding in the fall. It is covered in claw marks and splintered wood. We’ve got an overload of bears in New England these days.

 

[RuffRuff]

In Vermont we put ammonia soaked rags in Tupperware (no lid) on our trash box. It helps, but after a while they learn to fling it several feet away. I’m in VT right now and our wooden trash bin is fairly massacred. I’ll have to do some rebuilding in the fall. It is covered in claw marks and splintered wood. We’ve got an overload of bears in New England these days.

Family has a place in Dover and we had to put a trash bag in the shed once because the transfer station closes early on Sundays. Came back to the door fully torn off and the garbage scattered across the lawn. Kinda think that was something bigger than a raccoon.

 

[Fishy]

Let's hope anyone putting a cinder block in the street hiding under leaves gets arrested and sued. That's a BS, dangerous thing to do.

When kids come to my door for Halloween, I give them cinderblocks painted to look like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

 

[Fishy]

I feel that's always standard for pickup Chinese, pizza-subs I don't ever remember doing pickup anywhere else.

Wanting your food fresh is definetly one reason, also you have to rely on the driver finding your address, don't want the obligation of tipping, and who knows you driver could be a serial killer.

I once trapped a DoorDash delivery woman in my garage.

It was during the pandemic where it was no contact so we would direct them to put food on the garage steps. I have a smart garage door opener that's set to close at 9 pm or 12 am, if I leave it open by accident.

Delivery comes at 8:59, so she's in the garage at 9 when the warning lights and beeps start going off and the garage door closes her in. Only dawns on me a minute or later that it's 9 pm and the door probably shut and the driver will not get in. I open the door and there she is.

If you talk to anyone about the hows and whys of a smart garage door, you seem like a nut. If you try to do to a woman you've accidentally taken hostage, it's a lot worse.

I'd love to say that we had a good laugh about it, but we didn't.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I once trapped a DoorDash delivery woman in my garage.

It was during the pandemic where it was no contact so we would direct them to put food on the garage steps. I have a smart garage door opener that's set to close at 9 pm or 12 am, if I leave it open by accident.

Delivery comes at 8:59, so she's in the garage at 9 when the warning lights and beeps start going off and the garage door closes her in. Only dawns on me a minute or later that it's 9 pm and the door probably shut and the driver will not get in. I open the door and there she is.

If you talk to anyone about the hows and whys of a smart garage door, you seem like a nut. If you try to do to a woman you've accidentally taken hostage, it's a lot worse.

I'd love to say that we had a good laugh about it, but we didn't.

She couldn't have been your first hostage.

 

[CL82]

I once trapped a DoorDash delivery woman in my garage.

It was during the pandemic where it was no contact so we would direct them to put food on the garage steps. I have a smart garage door opener that's set to close at 9 pm or 12 am, if I leave it open by accident.

Delivery comes at 8:59, so she's in the garage at 9 when the warning lights and beeps start going off and the garage door closes her in. Only dawns on me a minute or later that it's 9 pm and the door probably shut and the driver will not get in. I open the door and there she is.

If you talk to anyone about the hows and whys of a smart garage door, you seem like a nut. If you try to do to a woman you've accidentally taken hostage, it's a lot worse.

I'd love to say that we had a good laugh about it, but we didn't.

I would imagine that she really didn't care about the hows or whys of your smart garage door and just wanted to get the hell out of there.

(Plus, the bloody Woodchipper may have been disconcerting to her.)

 

[RuffRuff]

I would imagine that she really didn't care about the hows or whys of your smart garage door and just wanted to get the hell out of there.

(Plus, the bloody Woodchipper may have been disconcerting to her.)

Shoulda been in there dressed as an Uber driver and told her you’ve been trapped there for months.