After 8 years of living in my house, I just had my first one. It has been building up the entire time. I’m pretty laid back but my threshold was reached.

The guy directly across the street is the one that is obsessed with his lawn. The thing is each time he mows he blows all the grass into the street, a cul de sac. Then he parks his mower in the street and uses leaf blower to clean it off. He then walks and blows the clipping into the neighbors,and my yard.

A friendly neighbor has told me stories of before my time, of leaf blower feuds with a previous resident who no longer lives on the street. I blow my shit into your yard, you blow it into mine type of fued. To the point where guns were carried in back pockets while jousting with leaf blowers.

I work 3rd shift so I wake up around 3 pm. I will fix a coffee and sit on the back porch and just relax. Never fails, he always fires up the old Stihl. Everyday, but whatever. Until the noise is obviously getting louder and closer. I take a peek and he’s always walking across the road, directing the fallen leaves or grass into everyone else’s yard and not his.

My friendly next door neighbor who is equally irritated with the guy has made it known to him multiple times. Usually with standing at the end of his driveway and holding his arms up, the universal gesture of “what the hell?”. Today he laughed and said “he’s blowing into your yard”, I look around the corner and sure enough.

I grab my chihuahua and head down the driveway and gesture to get his attention. I ask why he must blow his stuff into everyone else’s yard, not one other person does it. He says “ I don’t do it intentionally, but leaves are going to go there anyways. I just blow it into the street and the wind takes it down the way(a cul de sac)” Of course for me to get to the point of confrontation, I was pretty spun up. I told him every neighbor has mentioned this bullshit for years, he said he would fix it.

So after my coffee, I fix a bourbon and Squirt just to knock the edge off .

See if your town/city has an ordinance against blowing clippings into the street as they wind up in the sewers..

Have you considered calling Morgan & Morgan?

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
See if your town/city has an ordinance against blowing clippings into the street as they wind up in the sewers..

I’m a couple miles outside of city limits, sort of rural. I know that is an ordinance in the city, since they have storm sewers but don’t think it’s county wide.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
Have you considered calling Morgan & Morgan?

Ha, That would burn way too many calories.

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Originally posted by crue-dell:

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
See if your town/city has an ordinance against blowing clippings into the street as they wind up in the sewers..

I’m a couple miles outside of city limits, sort of rural. I know that is an ordinance in the city, since they have storm sewers but don’t think it’s county wide.

I'd still check. Blowing grass clippings INTO the street is a pretty shitty practice.

I told my neighbor to shut his constantly-barking dog up.

The responses were a mix of "F*** you," "come down here and say that to my face," and some other nonsensical crap.

I wish he'd move.

You have to decide whether the clippings in the street or a hostile neighbor bothers you more. I have learned to tolerate a lot in the interest of peace. My neighbors look out for my place when I am gone and other things.
One neighbor has a floodlight that shines into my front yard. I do not care for it, but it does not bother me enough to do anything. BTW the guy has a short fuse.

I have a blower/vac.

And use the vac, and dump the mulch around my trees.

I do not have neighbor disputes.

over 30 years ago, I was putting a privacy fence up and my next-door neighbor came over and stated he thought it might be straddling the line and be partially on hos property.

So, I pulled the posts, broke off the concrete (it was still green) and moved the fence inside to my property by 6 inches.

When he came home and told me he did not intend for me to move it, I stated, "it's no longer a point of discussion."

Yeah, he was embarrassed, but he never had another word about any negative issues.

My current next door neighbor and his wife are great. I am going to miss them when I move.

Spray Roundup on his lawn in an appropriate phrase or gesture!

We had an asshole that ran a shade-tree real estate business as our next-door neighbor on the South side. A real 4-star shyster.

Among his many, MANY transgressions, he claimed his property ran to the middle of our driveway. Didn't matter how many times we showed him the deed and the landmarks, he was gonna do just as he damn pleased with "his" property.

One day we looked out the kitchen window and he was putting up a trashy used piece of stockade fence well over the line. Seeing as it blocked our view of his shithole, we just said "Thanks for putting up a fence for us."

Couple of days later, he's out there slopping barn-red stain all over it, our shrubs and our grass. That was too much. Mrs. PHPaul went out an confronted him and he got mouthy and went to slap another brush-full of stain on it.

My wife grabbed his arm to stop him. Didn't work for obvious reasons and she stormed into the house boiling mad. About 10 minutes later, the Town Constable pulled into the drive and handed her a summons for assault! (Real Estate Crook and Crooked Constable were asshole buddies)

She actually had to go to court and pay a $250 fine!

In retrospect, I sort of wish I'd have gone out there (I didn't because I knew I'd lose my shit) and knocked him on his fat ass. That would have been worth the the $250

Edit for follow up:

1. Constable lost his job for other (similar) reasons, wound up in a minimum wage Security Guard position and died under questionable circumstances a couple of years later.

2. Real Estate Shyster retired, sold the place to a VERY nice couple who have opened an antique shop and are the best neighbors we've had in the 40-ish years we've lived here.

3. Shyster is in very poor health and I'm determined to live long enough to literally piss on his grave.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
You have to decide whether the clippings in the street or a hostile neighbor bothers you more.

I agree and I let it go for 8 years. More of an annoyance I found humor in. But, like today, he put a lot of effort in walking across the street, to the edge of my yard, removing his leaves and depositing them onto my property. It just struck me as next level disrespectful.

Record the behavior and check local ordinances

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Originally posted by vthoky:
I told my neighbor to shut his constantly-barking dog up.

The responses were a mix of "F*** you," "come down here and say that to my face," and some other nonsensical crap.

I wish he'd move.

Learn to bark like a dog and than carry on a barking contest with his dog. Then at some point, start two dogs barking and then a growling and dog fight sounds with one dog hurting sounds. This all happens out of sight behind your house.

I guess it’s better than my neighbor down the street who cuts his grass and blows all the clippings into the street and leaves it there.

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I fix a bourbon and Squirt just to knock the edge off

I forgot everything you said and didn't read any comments.

I am really glad I have good neighbors. Whenever I slow smoke pork shoulders I always take them some, and I own the only snowblower in the neighborhood which comes in handy occassionly for all of us.

Maybe if you do something kind for him he will change his attitude, maybe not, but sometimes small gestures or small talk make a world of difference.

All of the surrounding neighbors give small gifts for Christmas and look out for each other if one is ill.When a new neighbor moves in we all take them some food items and welcome them to the neighboorhood. It has worked for us so far.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:

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I fix a bourbon and Squirt just to knock the edge off

I forgot everything you said and didn't read any comments.

I would prefer a beer but that's all I had. Born and raised in the claimed Bourbon Capital of the world and almost all the people I know would mix it. Was quite good.

I don't understand his thinking. He made the mess, he should make sure it's not somebody else's problem.

Do you even have to point out to him how he would feel if everybody else blew their clippings onto his lawn?

I hate shitty neighbors.

I’ve caught the hickory tree neighbor of mine using his mower to blow those dammed hickory nuts on to my side of the tree, the side I’ve just spent hours raking up. He lets them fall but walking over that is like walking over ground covered in thousands of golf balls, a busted ankle is certain.

He HAS been removing the huge branches that fall off this thing into my yard when we have wind storms, so it’s not all bad.

Still he REFUSES to have it cut down even after I’ve offered to foot half the bill. I’m so sick of this stupid tree I’ve even considered offering to just pay for the whole job.