Neighbor filled my trash can. Furious. Long vent.

[pampam]

Our local dump recycles. If you want ski poles to use for tomato stakes, just go to Machar Mall (the dump building that holds such things) and donate whatever you want and take it home. If you broke the window in your screen door instead of buying a new door go to MMall for the glass. If you want to take such things to the dump, when you bring your garbage to the MMall, stop first at the building and drop it off.

We personally can't drop our garbage off there since we are in town, not the township, but we can still shop at Machar Mall. If there is something of value that we want to give away we just put it by our curb with a free sign. It will be gone within an hour or two. We have garbage pick up once a week, and recycle blue or green box every other week. Twice a year our town has a large item pick up. Just phone the town office to schedule a pick up. It's all included with our taxes, no extra charge.

 

[IceSkatingPrincess]

I'd make the calls anyway. I have only used someone else's trash can once, it was a neighbor who was moving out, AND I got permission first. You don't just use someone else's willy nilly!

 

[aprilgail]

Why would you put a desk in the landfill? Sell it or give it to charity.

If we want anything picked up that is large and doesn't fit in the bin we need to phone and book pick up. It's picked up by someone other than the regular truck with the mechanical arm that picks up the bins. We are charged $10 for the large item pick up on our water bill.

Charity wouldn't have even taken that thing- it was old and broken. if its anything worth giving away I either put it on freecycle or one of the facebook groups- that's how I got rid of an entertainment center and a TV- they were so big I didn't want to haul them out so I put them up on there for free and someone else hauled them away for me Lol

 

[Jennasis]

We have a large dumpster that gets emptied weekly by a private trash company for $75/month. Our home is a farm which is also our business. Occasionally a client will ask if they can put stuff in there (like our farrier had asked if he could dump a few buckets of old horseshoes). I usually say yes. Nobody has ever tried to sneak onto our property to use it...wouldn't go over too well.

 

[tarheel618]

OP
Are the bags still there?

 

[tarheel618]

OP
Are the bags still there?

 

[Shanti]

Some people won't accept responsibility for anything. As a teacher, I and my colleagues see this with certain parents who never want their children held accountable.

A former coworker of mine once had a student steal an entire bag of reward candy from her desk & put it in his backpack. The child's mother blamed the teacher, because the drawer the teacher kept the candy in "wasn't locked."

Annoying & pathetic, just like your neighbor.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I am cheering for you, OP. I can't believe she did that.

 

[keri125]

Oh my gosh, this gets my blood boiling just reading about it! I would love to blow this story off as too crazy to have actually happened, but unfortunately I have dealt with enough rude and entitled people to know this story is entirely too realistic. Like others have said, I commend you on taking command of the situation in a very classy manner. I'm not sure I could have held my temper like that! What I like is that you still got your point across without escalating it.

 

[FINFAN]

Congrats you just met a grownup snowflake!!! It's all about her/him.



Exactly what popped in my head ^
that Snowflake be cray-cray. You handled a very bizarre situation as civil as possible to me.

 

[FINFAN]

You are right. I was very angry and acted out of anger. I don't know if I would have done it differently if I had to do it again, though. This woman seems like she needed a wake up call. I just feel a little embarrassed that I did stoop to her level.

You did not stoop to her level, you took control of an invasion of your property. You returned her property to her, face to face. SHE tossed it onto her lawn, lowering her snowflake self even lower.

 

[manning]

Isn't entitlement wonderful?

 

[FINFAN]

....and then you had to sit on the Group W Bench, didn't you?

'cause you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Although my neighbor did get mad when someone was dumping their doggie poop bags in her trash. It took us awhile to figure out who it was, wasnt even someone from the neighborhood but he decided to use her can.

We had this happen as well. In our area, you have to put your trash into special town-labeled garbage bags. Anything not contained within the yellow bag is not picked up. On MULTIPLE weeks in the SUMMER (emphasis on the heat!), someone was walking their dog and putting their full bags into our garbage can on TOP of our tied up yellow bag. When the collectors came by, they would remove the waste on top, set it on our driveway, and then take the allowed yellow trash bag. That left us sitting on someone's dog poo for a week until we could put it out to the curb with our trash a week later, only to have it happen AGAIN and AGAIN!!! We never did find out who was doing it and it stopped after about five weeks. We live in a larger neighbourhood with a lot of dogs (and no, we don't have one), but most people are very respectful when cleaning up.

As a complete side story, though possibly related, the same style of doggie bags that were ending up in our trash can, also littered an overgrown ditch about a block from our home. They weren't as noticeable in the summer when things were overgrown, but in the spring, when the snow had melted and there was no foliage growing in yet, you could see literally hundreds of doggie bags littering the area, hanging from low branches, etc. It was absolutely disgusting. The town was having a clean-up day and my friend, who lived next to the area, had decided that they would go out and clean it up, but a few days before the clean-up day, someone had already picked them up...not likely the person who initially dumped them there, just someone else who was tired of looking at the mess. As my mom would say, "I don't know what makes some people tick!"

 

[ScottOKW2K]

'cause you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

Excepting Alice

 

[FINFAN]

Excepting Alice

lol...yep, you're right!

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I get your anger. I wholeheartedly applaud you for confronting the situation directly. I don't understand your refusal to follow through with an HOA complaint? Presumably you pay HOA fees? Given the attitude (and actions!) displayed when you addressed the situation, you need to nip this situation in the bud all the way around, kill it with the silver bullets and nail the door shut.

Agree. You need to start a paper trail imo before she does.

 

[lakelandgal70]

You are certainly not whiney. I am always shocked at the attitude of entitlement in most people now a days.