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Filthy neighbour
There is some bloke up the road from me who is a really filthy neighbour. I mean really filthy. We've both lived here for years and I've seen his property fall apart and his front garden (if you can call it that) degenerate into an overgrown weedy patch of shite-infested triffid grass and dumping ground for old half bricks and other people's rubbish.
His house is full of junk too as you can glimpse though the windows (never washed in 40 years). He is not quite in the class of that bloke from Crouch End who got on the telly but he must be close.
Now the dustbinmen say they are refusing to empty his dustbin because they will not walk in the long grass because they have seen rats.
I went and knocked on his door yesterday and gave him a polite roasting along the lines of 'I'm ashamed of this street , and what are you going to do about the rats?', to which his response of course was 'mind your own business' and then he started ranting and said 'Can't you see I've had it all cleaned?'. Oh yeah? Mad as sevenpence. Mad but luckily not particularly scary.
Now people have started chucking their shit and old food boxes on top.
Apparently you can't do anything if someone has a squalid front garden and lives in shit. Or is there? ANy suggestions?
His house is full of junk too as you can glimpse though the windows (never washed in 40 years). He is not quite in the class of that bloke from Crouch End who got on the telly but he must be close.
Now the dustbinmen say they are refusing to empty his dustbin because they will not walk in the long grass because they have seen rats.
I went and knocked on his door yesterday and gave him a polite roasting along the lines of 'I'm ashamed of this street , and what are you going to do about the rats?', to which his response of course was 'mind your own business' and then he started ranting and said 'Can't you see I've had it all cleaned?'. Oh yeah? Mad as sevenpence. Mad but luckily not particularly scary.
Now people have started chucking their shit and old food boxes on top.
Apparently you can't do anything if someone has a squalid front garden and lives in shit. Or is there? ANy suggestions?
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Title interested me, then after reading realised that the word filthy conjures up very very different images.
My suggestion would be to mind your own business as he suggested.
If you genuinely think it is a health hazard then you can call environmental health, and then stand back and laugh as his house is ransacked and he is made to pay for bringing Shame into The Utopia of N4.
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I've known of neighbours living in squalid states for apparently years, and seen their places tranformed after accepting help from social services. I think the issue in many cases is that these people are simply not "on the radar" for social services or environmental health, until it gets really bad and someone, typically a neighbour, intervenes.
If there is a health risk then contact Environmental Health.
If there is a genuine concern about the mans mental or physical health then contact social services.
If it is a matter of 'Bringing Down the Neighbourhood' then maybe you have to look at yourself.
You have tried to speak to the man, if there is no reasoning then you have to make a decision.
@ Arkady, I wouldn't say the responses are negative, within most of the rantings there is the only advice that is possible, and that is do something or butt out.
There is advice there from everyone and if KRS takes it then great, there cannot be much harm in following it up, unless it's an over reaction and then he'll have to live with any repercussions.
Either way it is a lovely SG.org chat, that as always highlights peoples faults (myself included) and painful over-compensation and hypocrisy.. it is rife on this site and I love prodding it and laughing at it and actually learning from the few sensible or actually helpful posts.
Sorry for the Essay - there's my own hypocricy right there.
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You are correct.. I have hyphenated it now as not to cause further offence.
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I christen my neighbour Rubbish Man. In every sense.