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Advice Re A Cigar Butt Chucker
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Hi
Someone has taken to throwing their cigar butts into our garden . We collected about half a dozen of them last week and I've just picked another one up today.
Any ideas as to how we can deter this so-and-so without descending to Victor Meldrew levels?
Our garden has quite a high stone wall around it, then there is a wrought iron gate. Most of the butts were chucked over the wall, but today's find had been thrown through the gate.
Thanks, folks.
Someone has taken to throwing their cigar butts into our garden . We collected about half a dozen of them last week and I've just picked another one up today.
Any ideas as to how we can deter this so-and-so without descending to Victor Meldrew levels?
Our garden has quite a high stone wall around it, then there is a wrought iron gate. Most of the butts were chucked over the wall, but today's find had been thrown through the gate.
Thanks, folks.
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The latest update on the buttchucker.
He has been unmasked and I am quite shocked.
It is our over the road neighbour. We smelled cigar smoke and saw him smoking one in his garden right opposite where the butts have been landing.
OK, we didn't actually catch him chucking the butt, but we have been very vigilant and have had several neighbours on standby too and not another soul in the street smokes cigars.
Lordalex told him to stop and, although there have been a few in the street since then, no more in our garden.
We smelled cigar smoke again a few days later and lurked by our gate watching his wall, when , surprise surprise up popped his head obviously checking that there was no one around before he chucked the butt.
He was clearly not pleased to see us, but no further butts.
We have taken the view that he may not be 'the full shilling' so are going to ignore him .....as long as he doesn't do anything else to annoy.
Thanks to everyone for their advice etc.
Just goes to show, doesn't it....he's been our neighbour for 20 years or thereabouts and, although we have never been friends, there has been no animosity that we were aware of.
Nowt so queer as folk.
He has been unmasked and I am quite shocked.
It is our over the road neighbour. We smelled cigar smoke and saw him smoking one in his garden right opposite where the butts have been landing.
OK, we didn't actually catch him chucking the butt, but we have been very vigilant and have had several neighbours on standby too and not another soul in the street smokes cigars.
Lordalex told him to stop and, although there have been a few in the street since then, no more in our garden.
We smelled cigar smoke again a few days later and lurked by our gate watching his wall, when , surprise surprise up popped his head obviously checking that there was no one around before he chucked the butt.
He was clearly not pleased to see us, but no further butts.
We have taken the view that he may not be 'the full shilling' so are going to ignore him .....as long as he doesn't do anything else to annoy.
Thanks to everyone for their advice etc.
Just goes to show, doesn't it....he's been our neighbour for 20 years or thereabouts and, although we have never been friends, there has been no animosity that we were aware of.
Nowt so queer as folk.
