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My Neighbor Is Stealing My Water

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Why not go for the reverse and put seeds into the hose? This way something undersirable starts to give on his lawn and flowers.
 
You gotta be careful if you put something in the hose or water. You said that when he's done he just puts it on your lawn - you don't want your lawn to get messed up too.
 
if you know someone with a pesticide licence then call me. I can give you the name of the chemical that will reak havoc on woody ornamentals
 
You could always rub a healthy amount of poison ivy all over the last couple feet of hose. Just make sure you're careful handling the hose if you're allergic.

 
New hose.
New nozzle.
Large bag of crushed rock salt.
Put nozzle on end of hose, close nozzle.
Empty rock salt into the hose from the other end.
Attach hose to your outlet.
Wait and laugh.

Alternately, you can fill the hose with bleach or something else, but the rock salt has the least liklihood of leaking onto your own property and the water should dissolve enough of the salt to kill his plants.

ZV
 
one day after he uses your water and waters his florwers and grass..... at night get over to his back yard and spill larg amonts of weed killer in his flowers and his yard in the grass put zigzag patterns or do in at the front yard of his house so every one sees.
 
Just goto the pound and get the meanest and biggest dog you can find that they are gonna put down, and leave him in the back yard. Problem solved.
 
Better than dye: use a UV reactive dye. Purchase a massive focused blacklight and shine that ****** at his house at night. Profit!
 
I'd do one or more of these...

1. call cops.. stealing is stealing
2. put green-dye pepper spray all over your garden hose faucet and the end of your garden hose (make sure to wipe them off before you use them)
3. put a sign on your faucet that says 'MY WATER'
4. get a big dog
 
why don't u just install one of those spigots that you need a special key to turn on? Problem solved, I know those keys are rather common, but would he really go out of his way to buy one of those keys just to use your water? he should also get the point that you know what he's doing without actually confronting him and making him look bad. Seriously, be the bigger man, don't get caught in to this back and forth retaliation thing with him, you've still gotta live next to the guy for the foreseeable future.
 
Originally posted by: jbourne77
My neighbor and I are both "yard junkies". We're meticulous about our lawns, etc. We both have several reels of water hose attached at various locations on our homes.

Almost every day when I come home, my water is turned on and the hose is scattered. Obviously I know someone was using it, but I had no idea who. We live in a pretty nice neighborhood so it's a little surprising.

Anyway, my sister stopped by my house this afternoon to drop some things off, and she said she saw my garden hose from the rear of the house extended all the way into my neighbor's backyard. She went inside and peered out one of the second story windows and saw him watering his flowers with it.

Note that I have a fenced yard.

So, do I:

a) Unscrew all of his hoses and turn all of the spickets on
b) Write my initials in his lawn using Round Up
c) Slice the root of his biggest tree with my edger

Anyone who wants to whine about destruction of property can blow me because, frankly, I don't care.
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Bleach on the lawn does wonders.
 
1. Padlock on the hose reel to stop it being unwound.
2. Shutoff tap inside the house that turns the outside tap off.
3. Sign on the hose reel that says "Stop stealing my water or next time I'll wire it into the mains".
4. Pee on his car. Daily.
5. Thermite.
 
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