WTF is up with my neighbor?
 

The other night I'm sitting in my home/office at the computer (Blinds closed) when I hear noises coming from just outside by the mailbox. I turn off the lights in the room. I turn off the monitor so I'm not back lit. Wheel my chair over to the window and slowly open the blinds and see some dark figure dumping something in my garbage that is out on the curb for the next day.

The guy walks down a few houses into his garage. By now my mouth is wide open (like Niles on Fraser). I walk to our room where my wife is reading a book and tell her what I just saw. She leaps out of bed and heads for the front door..."WTF does he think he is doing". She is still going on her Martini from dinner and is on a mission.

We walk outside to check things out. Of course now my wife is heading down the street..."Excuse me", "Excuse me?" of course I should be the one doing this, but 1.) I'm still staring at the garbage cans thinking... Did he put any batteries or light bulbs in there? because you know, throwing these "Hazardous" items in your garbage is now illegal and punishable by fines. and 2.) Watching this guy get his ass handed to him by my half-lit wife is going to be fun to watch.

It seems he was going back to get MORE!

Now startled by this home slice dressed hissing wife standing a the bottom of his driveway, he says... "Oh I'm sorry, I didn't know you were home." What?

My wife finished off by telling him we was being weired and not to do it ever again.

I can see asking your neighbor if you can dump some extra stuff, but to do it to someone you don't know, when there not home? I would never think of doing such a thing. Would you?

Of course I checked the next morning for body parts. You never know. :cool:

Maybe it was dog poop?

Probably a money thing? So,,,if he gets you to pay for his trash bill? Thus allowing him to save a few dollars per moon? If you ask me? Just another overextended citizen... Trying to follow the (false) American dream..

Is your recycle bin usually full?

What an ass. Would it really be that difficult to simply ask? If we have extra recycling (the wife is a recycling nazi) we simply ask our neighbors across the street if they have space.

People are so odd......

Maybe he saw some garbage on the street and popped in your can since it was close.

I have to say: It's a Califonia thing. Is it so expenisve to put your trash out in front of your own house? Why in the world would anyone walk down from THEIR house and put THEIR trash in YOUR cans? Next time just shoot the f***er and put him in your trash can. Case closed.

at least he wasn't having his carpets cleaned at 10:00PM...

His bin was full, he putting something in yours because yours wasnt?

Shoulda let fly with the home defence Bofors. No court would convict you.
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Regarding trash.... Two neighbors on my parents street are not getting along. This is a hill and the neighbors right down from my parents, do the easy thing, wheel the trash cans out of the drive and down hill a little against the curb. The neighbors down from them, are weird, but also have an issue with the people above them. The weirdo's wheel their full bins UP the street, righ to the property line.

Well, there is the other neighbor above my parents who is an absolute nut case, I could go on for pages... He likes to collect trash from around the city and deposit it around his property. These are expensive homes/properties and he brings the values down.

Yeah! Guys that do that, are real jerks!

what did he dump? i agree, if he had a bag of dog poop, kudos. he picked up the stuff, and he tossed it. personally, if my can is not full, and it rarely is, i dont mind if someone walking by tosses legit trash into my can. no hazmat stuff of course. better than some jackass littering. but let me add, i am very tight with my neighbors.

you have a cool wife, dude. i like firecrackers.

We are limited to how much our trash company will pick up each time so this Christmas we had a HUGE amount of trash and I knew they wouldnt pick it all up so....I stacked half of my trash infront of the neighbors house and the other half with mine!!

Key was - they were out of town AND I was watching their house - Thats OK right?

Well, after some thought, I would too welcome someone to put some trash into my can where I live. If it means the difference between littering and dumping, I'd say dump it, and I would not care where. But if only so it does'nt get out of hand.

now THAT was funny :D

I'm not sure what this means, but .......

THIS THREAD IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT PICTURES!!


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Weird. Trash pickup isn't that expensive where I live. I get a bill of $50-100 every other month for that. I suppose it would be more if I asked for more trashcans. So either your neighbor is cheap, or he's just weird for dumping his trash in your can without asking. Probably the former.

maybe it was his Midget Porn Collection, that he was too embaresed to have in HIS trash can:eek:

What's the deal? There picking the stuff up soon right?

Now, granted, we're getting a small piece of the story. Knowing that, I have to say...
"Lighten up, Francis!"

Uh, its trash, right? Whatever your concerns are, SHARE them with him. Did you find out if his can was full? Did he have a busy trash week and ran over? What time of night was it? If it was 10pm and some guy knocked on your door with a bag of garbage asking "Hey dude, my can's full. Can I toss this in yours?" would that bother you too?

If you got pissed just because he put some stuff in your can, read on.

What the hell is wrong with you? He put some of his trash with your trash. The horror! The horror! Do you really think your trash/garbage has a special place far away from your neighbors trash/garbage? Plus, if your wife had drinks to the point of a bad decision-making ability, why would you let her go and confront someone? The next thing we hear is she *****es him out, it escalates, then the cops are called. Do you really think the cops need to stand on your street, between you, your "drunk" wife and a guy tossing out some trash?

Perspective, perspsective.

BTW, How did this damn soap box get under my chair?SmileWavy

Had a neighbor do that once to another neighbor, i stood there and watched through my window and shook my head in disapproval when they finally saw me. I think they were rationing their trash to the rest of the block for some time.

Next week, they ordered their own trash service :)

Got pics of the hissing wife?

Sorry. I wish I had some also. Even better...Video ;)

I tend to agree, but maybe there is some local condition that makes this an issue? Like the city charges per pound or something to pick up trash?

Our trash gets picked up by the city, unless maybe there is some *really* huge amount of extra trash, there is no special charge based on volume. When my trash can is full, I've put an extra bag in my neighbor's trash can (when it is already out by the curb for pickup, of course).

I wouldn't think of knocking on their door and asking, just like I wouldn't expect someone to knock on my door and ask me to drop some trash in my can as it's sitting on the curb for pickup. Who cares?

There have been a couple off these "neighbor put their trash in my trashcan when it was out for pickup" threads, so I assume there must be something involved that we don't know about, or some process or charges that are different than where we live.

Well considering that here in Cali you can't dump garbage in your Garbage cans, and that every little thing may kill the planet, and that if I do, you'll be fined...Yes it is a big deal when some guy down the street is dumping a **** load of his garbage in my can that I pay 30$ a month for.

And as for it being a small amount. Not quite, he filled my cans with much more than I was dumping. Like I said he was going back for more.

I actually on a real basis, agree. What's the big deal. But in a society that considers it's self civil and polite...dumping your garbage in a strangers can is just rude.

And by the way, my wife was not "Drunk" she was "buzzed" and that was the best part. He's lucky she wasn't just getting home from work, she's a Lawyer and that would have been messy.
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maybe he is spying on you, going through your trash, for tinfoil to make into a hat
my dog is usually with me when I am throwing that in the trash
generally do that daily, throw it in with the dog crap

Good point. If it's just a little here and there, it's not a big deal. :rolleyes: So why do people who do this type of thing (covert trash sharing) seemingly do it so sneakily?

When I'm on a walk out in the neighborhood I'll pick up street trash and toss it into the nearest can. Unless your neighbor fills your trash so you can't use it, and he ain't tossing paint/monitors/chemicals or other verboten items, then honestly I don't see what the big deal is.

What was it that he put in there?

They frown on this in Sweden too.

Seriously, how's the recycle bin? I have a lot of recyclables to get rid of...

BTW, where exactly do you live in T.O...

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My neighbor does this to me all the time -- has been trimming an enormous tree and always has too much for his can on a weekly basis. So he dumps the extra trimmings in my can, or refills his can once they take the garbage from his side of the street and puts his can in front of my house, which they get later in their route. I have 'caught' him doing this, and he explained what he was up to.

I don't really care. I suppose I may be getting charged for an extra can? Whatever...

I can't get worked up about this stuff.

Not sure, but it looked like he was cleaning out his garage at 10 at night. :confused:

Hoppla-la! There you go. It is air born. Like the darn flu.

I found out later, the dog poo-in-the-trash-bin incidence was not random. It is a humorous game in the neighborhood. Starting at a corner house, throw a random piece of garbage in the bin of the neighbor to your left, who in his turn throws something in the next guys bin and so on and so on. The next morning, like Christmas, you explore the bin to find out what you got. Really entertaining.

Yes, it is still cold, dark and quite up here..

I had a neighbor who would walk his dog in front of our house every morning before I was up, he'd let the dog shlt on our lawn as he was reading my daily newspaper. When the dog was done, he put the newspaper back in the delivery tube and went home.

When I saw him doing it one morning, just walked out to my car w/ a rifle in it's case and put it in the trunk, didn't say a word and went back in the house. Haven't seen the guy again.

You guys ever think about leaving California? A given you that won't make as much money, but krikey, how much bs can you put up with? Life's to short.
Jim

That can is the least used. ;)

Near CLU.

I pay $5 a month for trash pickup and they will pick up ANYTHING, from regular trash to gravel to leaves to tree limbs. There is no limit on what (except yard clippings) or how much. With that as my reference point, I don't understand why this is a big deal, or why the neighbore would even think of doing it.

If I had space available and my neighbor asked first, no problem. Someone picking anything up that's laying on the ground and tossing it (including dog poo) in the nearest trash can - no problem.

Someone sneaking out in the dark of night and cramming my trashcan with their stuff- PROBLEM. I usually have an early morning pile of stuff to throw away and if the neighbor had done that without asking, then I would have no way to get rid of my garbage.

We were cleaning out a huge messy lot and house in a very, shall we say, "low rent" neighborhood.... We had a 20 yard dumpster dropped of at considerable expense. Scroungy people in the neighborhood kept entering the property and throwing their garbage into the dumpster. We're talking huge amounts of garbage. Bear in mind that they had to enter the back yard to do this! I kept turning people away - NO YOU CANT DO THIS GET YOUR OWN GARBAGE SERVICE!

The worst was some jerk drug a dead washer and dryer down the alley into the backyard and left it beside the dumpster. I called the police on that one. The drag-trail was easy to follow in the damp soil back to their origination. The police officer gave them the option of immediately dragging it back and apologizing or being cited for illegal dumping and trespass.

They drug it all back... In sum, anything with permission is OK w/me and anything small picked up in my neighborhood near my can is OK. Otherwise, get your own garbage service.

angela

My wife caught our neighbor overfilling our can a few years ago. I went out, pulled the bag, found a piece of mail in the bag so we knew whose it was and called our then property manager. The neighbor was sent a letter stating that if he did it again he would be asked to move AND he would have to pay our extra charge.

Here, if the lid doesn't tightly fit on the can then it's an extra $5 for "excess garbage." That means you have to get really creative with pizza boxes to make everything fit with the lid on "tightly." The city also has the right to refuse to take your garbage if they feel there is too high a percentage of recyclables in the garbage and then you're stuck with a full can for another week. Recycling doesn't even have to be in the recycle bin. If it's full, put your extras in paper bags by the bin and they will take it.

In my city, everyone who owns a house pays for garbage pick-up no matter what. Even if the house is empty and therefore no trash, you still gotta pay. Nope, there has to be something elase to it. My guess is that he had more trash than he could fit in his cans and he put it in yours because you had extra room. No harm, no foul, no reason to get excited or anything but it is weird.