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Neighbor storing garbage in their backyard. (with pic) UPDATED: 10/18/2011

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Why would you have to pay for trash service? Isn't that what taxes are for? Regardless, that's not right what he's doing. He could at least haul it to the dump. Now would be hard as those bags are probably all leaky and gross, but had they done it from the get go it would not be the end of the world. If they have a truck, then they really has no excuse.

That said, pour a bit of gas on it at night and light it on fire.

Makes me realize how good I have it. One neighbor is an old guy who is hardly ever there, the back neighbors are active and always in the back yard doing stuff, but nothing out of the norm, and he told me he's building a fence next year so we'll both have our privacy, and the other side neighbors are quiet too. They have the occasional party but it's over by midnight, and they're not really that loud even when they do have one.
 
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OP,

In a "perfect" world I would have you as a neighbor ... putting up with whatever crap I decide to throw your way.

Please consider reporting your scum-of-the-Earth neighbors. Their unsanitary lifestyle could have effects on you, your family and the rest of the neighborhood.

People like this should live in caves ...
 
Eli said:
Ah, America. Where everyone thinks they can be up in everyone elses shit. It's really too bad you don't have an HOA. 🙄

Reason #5623708723 why I don't want neighbors.

That said, this particular incident is probably a health department matter.
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I'm baffled by your statement. Is it your contention that the fellow has the right to have a garbage dump in his back yard? Or that's it's somehow wrong to ask that it be removed?

Even without any sort of city rules, it's bad manners. The fellow needs to be spoken to, he needs to clean up his mess.
 
LOL sucks. Just takes one. I have a neighbor who keeps a lot of kid toys in their yard, kind of trashes them up. Nobody else in the entire hood does this!
 
Make the call. Living next to a garbage dump is unhealthy and can attract rodents and insects.

Since you're outside the city limits, the county may or may not be able to do anything about this.
 
Soak the pile in diesel if no one comes. It won't get rid of it, but it'll keep bugs/vermin down. They may also get tired of smelling diesel, and move the pile.
 
Knock on their door and ask them if you can throw the bags to the front, so the city picks it up. Chances are they'll refuse the offer and every time they throw a bag in their backyard, they will think about your offer. Over time, it'll become unbearable and they will be forced to throw all their garbage in the front.
 
El Guaraguao said:
Knock on their door and ask them if you can throw the bags to the front, so the city picks it up. Chances are they'll refuse the offer and every time they throw a bag in their backyard, they will think about your offer. Over time, it'll become unbearable and they will be forced to throw all their garbage in the front.
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If you live in a rural area where you have to pay for garbage service, no one from the town will be stopping to pick it up.
 
Your neighbors are going to bring back the bubonic plague in the US unless you report them immediately.
 
Eli said:
Ah, America. Where everyone thinks they can be up in everyone elses shit. It's really too bad you don't have an HOA. 🙄

Reason #5623708723 why I don't want neighbors.

That said, this particular incident is probably a health department matter.
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Someone on ATOT owns a filthy property. :whiste:
 
Eli said:
Ah, America. Where everyone thinks they can be up in everyone elses shit. It's really too bad you don't have an HOA. 🙄

Reason #5623708723 why I don't want neighbors.

That said, this particular incident is probably a health department matter.
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Ah america where neighbors dont want a piece of shit to turn their neighborhood into a slum.

you want to live in your own filth have at it.

My crack head sister does the same shit. how she gets away with it is beyond me. she threw her garbage out behind the unattached garage and it was as high as the gutter and had an unholy stink.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Why would you have to pay for trash service? Isn't that what taxes are for? Regardless,
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maybe becuase his town and my town does not tax on trash pickup. many small towns contract out to a private trash collection company and the residents pay the company per quarter. ours is like 30 bucks or something per quarter.
 
OutHouse said:
maybe becuase his town and my town does not tax on trash pickup. many small towns contract out to a private trash collection company and the residents pay the company per quarter. ours is like 30 bucks or something per quarter.
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Just seems odd. Never heard of that before.
 
Guess I take it for granted that ours is free then. They even recently revamped the whole system. They dropped two big bins off at every single house. One for recycling and one for garbage. Both are now picked up weekly (before recycling was only every 2 weeks) and they accept way more stuff for recycling now. Before it was just #1 and #2 plastic, for example. They have these new garbage trucks with robot arms that pick up the bins. Never realized garbage pickup could be that high tech.
 
"Hi, I noticed that you have a lot of garbage accumulating in your back yard. I know that times are tough for a lot of people in this country right now, so if you need some help, I'll pay the $16 for the quarter for you so you can set your garbage out to the curb. I'd hate to see mice or rodents causing even worse troubles down the road for either of us, and figured it's the least I can do to help a neighbor out."

Did you try that approach yet?
 
Red Squirrel said:
Guess I take it for granted that ours is free then. They even recently revamped the whole system. They dropped two big bins off at every single house. One for recycling and one for garbage. Both are now picked up weekly (before recycling was only every 2 weeks) and they accept way more stuff for recycling now. Before it was just #1 and #2 plastic, for example. They have these new garbage trucks with robot arms that pick up the bins. Never realized garbage pickup could be that high tech.
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It's not free, you pay for it in a tax somewhere. Some places simply give you the option of do it yourself or have someone pick it up. Some cities don't want to bother with it, easier to just contract it out (might even be cheaper that way), and others (generally large cities) take care of it themselves.
 
well it's free in the sense that I don't have to pay directly for it, like some people pay taxes AND apparently have to pay for that too. I just pay taxes and everything is included.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Why would you have to pay for trash service? Isn't that what taxes are for? Regardless, that's not right what he's doing. He could at least haul it to the dump. Now would be hard as those bags are probably all leaky and gross, but had they done it from the get go it would not be the end of the world. If they have a truck, then they really has no excuse.

That said, pour a bit of gas on it at night and light it on fire.

Makes me realize how good I have it. One neighbor is an old guy who is hardly ever there, the back neighbors are active and always in the back yard doing stuff, but nothing out of the norm, and he told me he's building a fence next year so we'll both have our privacy, and the other side neighbors are quiet too. They have the occasional party but it's over by midnight, and they're not really that loud even when they do have one.
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Red Squirrel said:
Guess I take it for granted that ours is free then. They even recently revamped the whole system. They dropped two big bins off at every single house. One for recycling and one for garbage. Both are now picked up weekly (before recycling was only every 2 weeks) and they accept way more stuff for recycling now. Before it was just #1 and #2 plastic, for example. They have these new garbage trucks with robot arms that pick up the bins. Never realized garbage pickup could be that high tech.
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😵

This makes no sense.
 
More information about these neighbors:

So apparently they also do not have any type of utility service. Which means no electricity or water. I don't know how you could survive without water service. I suppose it's possible that they could have some type of well, but all of the other homes in the neighborhood are connected to city water. They are the only house on the street with no record of service on the utility website.

They don't have any vehicles and I always see them walking back and forth to the convenience store at the end of the road. My wife thinks they might be squatters but I don't know. According to public records the house was last sold in 1984 to a guy with a PO Box number as his address and I don't think he is getting homestead exemption. I don't know what the hell is going on but now I'm worried. These people could be dangerous so I'm definitely not confronting them.

I submitted an anonymous ticket on the county website regarding the garbage in the yard. I've got a reference number so I can check for updates on their website. They just updated it today with the comment "address never had a garbage service account" and the case was forwarded to code enforcement.
 
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