Neighbour posts furious note about bins – and it spectacularly backfires
AN ANGRY neighbour who tried to blame someone else for dumping rubbish has been publicly shamed themselves instead.
A passive-aggressive note which backfired has been shared online - as many people sided with the one hitting back rather than the first complainant.
The original letter posted on a neighbourhood wall instructed: "Please do not dump your garden rubbish up against our wall. Maybe pay for a green bin like we do.”
But rather than having the desired effect, it only provoked an equally-irritated response which suggested the duelling neighbours are well aware of each other.
The reply, stuck on the wall next to the first note, insists: “Wow! Pot calling kettle black!!!
“YOU, who for the past many, many weeks have been dumping your soil and stones from your front garden, up and down the lane from your carrier bags.
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“Is that allowable? You have put it on top of plants, dribbled it along other people’s edges, even taken it down the woods in carrier bags in the bottom of your pushchair.
“We all pay for green bins and love the lane.
“The person who put the rubbish where you don’t like it is wrong and thoughtless, but you could have given more thought to WHERE you put the soil you didn’t want.”
A photograph showing the brick wall war of words was posted on the website Reddit along with a caption phrased as Star Wars character Yoda might: "Begun, the back alley wars have."
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The consensus among the comments appeared to favour the second letter-writer.
One reader remarked: "My money’s on the right-hand one to win. They’ve knocked it out the park with a plastic wallet to protect it from the elements.
"And having it upside down to save water getting in is the nail in lefty’s coffin. Fair bloody play."
Another admirer said: "I love the passion behind the one on the right.
"You can tell they have been going on about the soil for weeks to their partner and jumped at the opportunity to anonymously post this passive aggressive water-proof novel.
"I bet the adrenalin was pumping through them as they got back home to continuing peeping through the window."
Similar neighbourhood disputes have included one man hitting back this week after being accused of walking too heavily.
Also this week it was revealed a motorist responded to a neighbours' note demanding he "stop parking like a dumb idiot" by insisting they "mind their own f***ing business".
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Parking can be a fraught issue among residents, as in one Edinburgh district where a handwritten note of complaint was posted in January this year - the same month that elsewhere a blunt letter was posted simply demanding: "Do not park here."
Some complainants can be more verbose, such as the writer of a lengthier dispatch left on a car windscreen in Muswell Hill, north London.