Thieving neighbours...What would you do?

[magneticman]

I personally wouldn't have that, now it's your bin, but in the future it could be something else mate.

[Steven W]

Had a good discussion this evening with the wife about this and taken your comments on board. It's really got under my skin for some reason, but I just need to put it aside.

I'm going to mark my bin and leave speaking to them about it, hopefully Karma should mean they'll get what's coming to them.

But, I am going to refuse to take their post anymore. They can go queue at the post office for half and hour on a Saturday.

[steve threlfall]

Annoying but its not worth making an enemy really. She looks like she could knock a bloke out? Sounds like some scally chav scummer to me

Best to just let it go and avoid a potential neighbour from hell situation, with her playing jungle music or something at 4 in the morning. Especially seeying as you work from home, it could be trouble if she hasnt got anything better to do than make your life a misery all the time.

[Lee H]

with her playing jungle music or something at 4 in the morning.

What's wrong with a 'ikkle bit of jungle?

Seriously, mark your bins like a cat marks its terrorty (sp?)

[usxhe190]

Next time they put "their" new bin out, spray your number on it. The bin guys will give you your new bin back.

[iranu]

Just mark your bin and forget about it. Some people are weird and do things ordinary people won't, afterall it is just a bin. I know it wasn't right for them to do it, but aggravating the situation is only gonna come back and bite you in the ass later. They'll get the message when they see the bin marked with your number. Some times you just have to be above it and let it go.

My Name Is Earl is on in 20 mins. Karma

[0iD]

We had a similar prob, ended up branding ours with my dremmel. Can't cover that up..... bin modding... naa...... never catch on

[Behemoth]

I had something similar happen to me at school, i had a really nice Scientific Calculator which was bought for me as a Christmas Present. Someone stole it, so I bought a new one. Some weekslater the new one got stolen and in t's place the old one was returned !!

I could not believe it !!

There are some real odd people in this world and stealing a new bin and replacing it with the old chipped one is just petty beyond belief. To be honest it's not worth getting your pants in a knot for but if things which have cost you money start leaving, like wheel trims from your car for example, then you can start getting heavy.

I dunno something like withholding their delivereies or something would work.

[coco]

just wait till bin day and take back your empty new bin from the theiving git and keep both bins, don't be a wimp otherwise they will always walk all over you

[Behemoth]

just wait till bin day and take back your empty new bin from the theiving git and keep both bins, don't be a wimp otherwise they will always walk all over you

Yup and just makesure you paint your house number on both of them, doubt they go walkies again after that.

[acrobat]

I dont think she thinks you are stupid. I think she is just a rude cow who likes to be mean to people. She probably has no life so she knows that most people wouldn't dare start a feud with her, because she would always win because she has more time to put thought and effort into her evil doings. Personally, I suggest you start taking her bin and keep it next to yours. Then when she takes it back, walk around her garden late at night, naked, calling out to the lost bin and wailing loudly. Then steal it back. And then the next night when she comes back to steal it back yet again, hide in the bin, again, naked, and when she looks inside, politely invite her in to the bin for a cup of tea.

[SiM]

Personally, I suggest you start taking her bin and keep it next to yours. Then when she takes it back, walk around her garden late at night, naked, calling out to the lost bin and wailing loudly. Then steal it back. And then the next night when she comes back to steal it back yet again, hide in the bin, again, naked, and when she looks inside, politely invite her in to the bin for a cup of tea.

LOL!!! Thats hilarious. Do that but film it and put it onto the internet

[funke_munke]

Get up the ladder and put a sneaky hole in the roof, some builders did it to my old house 'cause my mothers ex husband was a copper, and lets just say we still haven't found it and its murdering the ceiling!

KNOCK IT UP A NOTCH!!!

[Rave]

A recycling bin is a recycling bin- you've got your old chipped one back- so mark your house number on it and be done with it. You only put your recylcing in it, who cares if it's chipped?

My problem is not with my neighbours- on both sides they're nice, friendly people. My problem is that we're the only family for five doors either side with a recyling wheelie bin- everyone else has a smaller box with a lid. What can I say, we must just party a bit harder. The thing is, on collection day, despite the bin having been removed from my front garden by the bin men, it almost never ends up anywhere near our house, and I'm forever collecting it from 20 yards up the road. You'd have thought they'd have learned by now?

Anyway, as to the casual disrespect by your neighbours. The absolute best revenge is to never sign for a package for them again- and if you can enlist the neighbours on the other side of them to the cause as well, so much the better. If she's the kind of fat waster that has nothing better to do than order loads of stuff from Kays and Grattan, then over the course of a few years it's going to be a huge inconvenience if both of her neighbours are unable to sign for her parcels when she's down the job centre/ nail bar/ bingo. Heh heh heh!

[tpfoster]

Steal it back and then write your number on it!

[TheAnimus]

Its a bloody recycling bin. Its not important, if thats your only complaint with your neighbours be very grateful!

Its not worth exhasibating things by holding onto their parcels.

I mean in the grand scheme of things will you ever look back and think "thats when it all started to go wrong". No its a sodding bin. Its rude, but you might just find they had extra recycling saw some bins un-used and borrowed them.