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.

 

[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.