Cig Stumps In Garden - What Would You Do?

[bluefortress]

For years my next door neighbour has been throwing cig stumps on my path at the front. I knew it was him really and I told him but I didn't want to be accusatory. I have been stopping with parents for sometime lately, went back home today to find this - load of cig stumps in my garden (I don't smoke so none are mine)  

 

https://ibb.co/3dK4JKW
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Also finally video evidence (bottom right at the end you see him throw his cig over)

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Since moving on this new build estate, in the space of 4 years I've had a house burglary (TV and laptop stolen) during the pandemic while I was at work and my car stolen off my drive at night - never saw it again. This is why I put up cameras. This is what you get for moving out  of your parents and trying to create your own life lol. I gave it a try I guess.  I'm certainly moving from this place. 

I know I seem the type of person to moan a lot but there always seems to be drama in my life it feels like I'm always *** on. Or is this just life? 
 

[melv16]

That's the most boring garden in the world. Fag ends make it more interesting 😁

[bluefortress]

Melv I was saving up to personalise it and add some flags and bushes. 
 

What I didn't want to do is do random stuff to it that I'd later regret so I was waiting and saving up. I'm likely moving now anyway. 

[melv16]

Turning all the bins on their side would make it more interesting 🤣

[bluefortress]

I do also have an hosepipe in the corner to spice things up you just can't see it. 

[melv16]

All is forgiven now😁

[tomus42]

If it was me I'd be throwing them back over when I found them.

However, I wouldn't advise doing that because if you're moving I think there's some kind of legal requirement to disclose to your buyer if you're in a dispute with your neighbours.

Do this instead. Save every one you find in some kind of bin outside. On the day you move out just before you drive away for the last time, throw the whole bin over the fence.

[bluefortress]

Thanks Tom.

Not a bad idea and would certainly be justice. As an overthinker tho if I did this I can't help but visualise his 3 year old kid finding them first and it becoming some issue. 

[Old_Geezer]

Put the video up on your "nextdoor" website ?

[bluefortress]

There is a Facebook page for our estate where everyone moans about everything. 
 

I am too chicken to post it on there and show him up though. 

It's a shame as I think it would beat the obstructive parking and noisy neighbour posts. 

[Cloverjo]

I think I would tell him calmly and quietly that I've got video evidence of him chucking his fag-ends into my garden, and would he stop please? 
What a twit, to put it extremely politely. 

[Canary42]

Surely it amounts to fly tipping which is illegal. Have a quiet word with your friendly local copper who might then pay him  visit to warn him of consequences.

[Redhelen72]

In the first picture there is a neat little pile of butts by what appears to be a back door. If you neighbour is throwing his butts over the high fence with such aim i would suggest he gets into darts.

Sorry your video showed nothing to me.

[barry1010]

I find a lot of cigarette ends and general litter on my land because I live in a cul-de-sac and the wind blows it and traps it in to a corner.  It's just part of life but if I knew a neighbour was deliberately throwing his rubbish over the fence I'd ask him to stop.

I'd be wary of mentioning your camera, though, as you could be guilty of breaking the law yourself by recording his garden - he has a right to privacy.  My cameras record only my property and my one neighbour's drive, at his request.  Everything else is shielded from recording.  

Being able to look in to other people's gardens is one thing, recording is another thing altogether

[davebro3]

If you can talk to him I would ask him why he does it & how would he like it if someone did it to him. 

[barry1010]

You could buy this for him and say 'I bought you this so you don't have throw your fag ends in to my garden'

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[davebro3]

PS - If you plan to move and need to sell the house don't get into a neighbour dispute - you may have to disclose it to potential buyers.

[Gizmonster]

I like the idea suggested by tomus42.

No point getting into a dispute if you know you'll be moving out anyway.

Save every cigarette butt and when you're leaving, let him have it  :)

He who laughs last .....

[Smowball]

Personally I'd ask him why he keeps doing it and if he denies it I'd lie and say you were in an upstairs bedroom and happened to be looking out when you actually saw him doing it. Then see what he says. 

[bluefortress]

Thanks all.
 

Dave, gizmonster -yea I agree it's best not to end in dispute if moving it just adds extra complication. Red - yea when I first got home as there were some piled in a corner I thought it was odd it was as though they had been brushed but there's been no one in the garden and there's 20+ more scattered around on the grass. In the vid he can def be seen chucking his cig over.
Barry - yes there's too much complication and red tape to reporting like this.