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Anonymous wrote:Film him, so when you do call the police you have evidence. Also film some of the crazy if you can get him to do it again.

Police? No crime is being committed. Learn how to resolve problems like real adults do. It will help you in life.

Did I say she should call the police?

don't escalate. We have a neighbor that doesn't believe in leaf blowers and thinks we should just rake our giant yard with tons of trees/leaves.
We pretend that we care, and are sympathetic..and when they pull out of the driveway on a saturday, we blow the everliving crap out of the leaves in our yard...
People are weird. I want them to call the fire department when our house is on fire and will do what is necessary to protect our relatively friendly neighborly relationship.

Worrying about leaves is a waste of energy.

Sorry, OP. Your neighbor sounds possibly violent.

Anonymous wrote:OP as shitty as this is, blowing them back into his yard just keeps you engaged in this unhealthy, passive-aggressive behavior.

Let....it....go!

+1 Don't listen to the maniacs on DCUM. Having a nutter for a neighbor is bad enough....don't escalate.

My neighbor just spent hours on Sunday blowing ALL the leaves into our culdesac. Wtf. How about raking and baging them instead? Why do I want your leaves blowing on the street? They also then just clog the gutters.

Anonymous wrote:Film him, so when you do call the police you have evidence. Also film some of the crazy if you can get him to do it again.

Police? No crime is being committed. Learn how to resolve problems like real adults do. It will help you in life.

OP as shitty as this is, blowing them back into his yard just keeps you engaged in this unhealthy, passive-aggressive behavior.

Let....it....go!

OP, here, thanks all. No, PP, I'm not going to pay a service to rake / clean my neighbor's lawn, that's absurd. I pick up tons of magnolia leaves from one of his trees when they shed, and yes he gets some oak leaves. All these are from trees planted long before any of us got here.

I just couldn't believe how obnoxious he was. Shouldn't have been a surprise but on some level I don't understand why people would be overtly antagonistic toward people that they live only a few feet away from.

Fence

to cut down the tree in my yard

so he has asked, and you have asked
his behavior is much worse
but why this is any great surprise to you .. it shouldn't be
you have a bad relationship

Film him, so when you do call the police you have evidence. Also film some of the crazy if you can get him to do it again.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He collected a lot himself, but also blew a big pile of leaves into our yard. I happened to arrive home while he was still at it, and when I asked him to please stop, he continued to blow leaves right into my face. And then started screaming at me to cut down the tree in my yard, etc, etc.

Ah, I guessed there was some underlying issue. I can understand his irritation if he doesn't have trees, but you do and they're the leaves in question.

If you're out there anyway with your leaf blower, is there any reason why you'd think it's unreasonable for you to get the leaves on his side too that also came from your tree? Obviously not if there are fences and things involved, but if you're talking about the front yard then I honestly can't see what the fuss is about.

Not really. Nobody can control which way the leaves blow, that's insane. And you clearly can't read since it was a service that did the cleanup, and it's pretty obnoxious for him to blow them back intentionally.

A service will perform whatever service she requests and pays for. If my trees are dropping leaves onto his yard and I'm paying for guys to come out anyway then yeah, I'd just ask them to get the ones that fell/blew on his property too, and pay/tip them extra for it. If I don't enjoy picking up leaves from my trees then I can't expect my neighbor to want to do it either. Or should he have to arrange/pay for a service too, when he doesn't even have trees??

OP, do you have a dog?

Train him to crap in the neighbor's yard. That should make him apoplectic.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He collected a lot himself, but also blew a big pile of leaves into our yard. I happened to arrive home while he was still at it, and when I asked him to please stop, he continued to blow leaves right into my face. And then started screaming at me to cut down the tree in my yard, etc, etc.

Ah, I guessed there was some underlying issue. I can understand his irritation if he doesn't have trees, but you do and they're the leaves in question.

If you're out there anyway with your leaf blower, is there any reason why you'd think it's unreasonable for you to get the leaves on his side too that also came from your tree? Obviously not if there are fences and things involved, but if you're talking about the front yard then I honestly can't see what the fuss is about.

Not really. Nobody can control which way the leaves blow, that's insane. And you clearly can't read since it was a service that did the cleanup, and it's pretty obnoxious for him to blow them back intentionally.