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I am completely fed up to the back teeth of my foul, inconsiderate neighbours smoking weed (or something stronger.
It fills our garden (prevailing wind is to us), we're attached, so it goes in through all the windows, including my workroom upstairs. Probably even come up from the small recess underneath the floor.
The couple are in their late 30's early 40's with 2 young children (aged 2 and 7) and don't give a toss about anyone except themselves.
She's irrational, so I can't talk to them. I honestly thought they would grow out of it by now. He just says it's non of my business. The neighbours on the other side are fed up with it too.
Please don't tell me to move as it's not possible at this time in my life.
Also don't tell me to live and let live as I'ts been going on for years.
Is there anything I can do?
You can report to police and local authority as antisocial behavior and begin the long process of recording evidence but could take months. Or you could phone social services and report drug use in front of children.
Well, funny thing is, it's illegal you know. Cops might be interested, or at the very least they'll send round a PCSO.
What size is his joint that it's filling the whole house....
Have you actually got windows or just holes in the wall.
Are you sure it's not actually someone inside your own house.
Unless this joint looks like the Saturn 5 it's not filling your house.
It's still a nicer smell than a cigarette or cigar.
Do they own the property or rent? If the latter try talking to their landlord as may be breach of contract. Not that they may care.
It's The Sun, but still - https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3444555/smoke-weed-cannabis-legal-uk-law-neighbours/
Going the police route, while the above says they won't let them know who grassed them up, it would be fairly simple to work out that the only likely people to complain about the smell is going to be a neighbour!
No room for compromise, as in could they do something to keep the smell from wafting or smoke away from the house/garden?
I'd be conflicted personally as I feel class B is way too harsh and should even be made legal with controls on supply and regulation on the strength, but yes the smell can be a problem. Legalise and turn into vape with a pleasant or zero smell in my opinion.
It’s still a nicer smell than a cigarette or cigar.
Cigar in particular. I get a neighbour smoking one which wafts up and across into my upstairs windows, which are open in the hot weather. Can't stand the smell. Thing is, they smoke it outside to avoid it stinking up their own house, but smoke next to their door.
I'd avoid going down the anti social behaviour route as it may have to be declared if you sell. The social services option is the route I would take. Also, if you haven't already, start keeping a detailed diary. Good luck.
Is there anything I can do?
Chill, Winston?
You have to report it. They may well be driving after smoking and are definitely affecting the health and wellbeing of their children. Would everyone turn a blind eye to alcoholic parents neglecting their kids, drink driving and being anti social. Same thing in my view and they need to be made aware of the law.
Report it to the police immediately.
It's unacceptable that you have to live with this .
For clarification my user name relates to my focus mtb not a misspent youth and how niave I was when selecting the user name lol
Would everyone turn a blind eye to alcoholic parents neglecting their kids, drink driving
No.
But you’ve made a quite enormous leap of “logic” from what the op actually said.
So I don’t see how that question is relevant based on what we know.
You have to report it. They may well be driving after smoking and are definitely affecting the health and wellbeing of their children. Would everyone turn a blind eye to alcoholic parents neglecting their kids, drink driving and being anti social. Same thing in my view and they need to be made aware of the law.
FFS. That's like something off the Daily Mail website. Unbelievable.
Feel your pain op at this time of the year with all the windows generally flung open. We have a neighbour in our little street constantly sat out the front smoking weed.
I hate the smell personally. It's not like resin used to smell back in't day. It's pungent and sickly and makes me feel sick.
I've no idea how these folk function. Many do though although our neighbour doesn't really do anything.
Worst of it is, I used to feel sorry for him standing out the front all the time so I made him a bench to sit on. Doh! 😂
As for what you can do, not sure. Not many folks GAS it seems.
Murder them.
Polis.
Personal use the police won't give a shit.
Me I'd check the seals on windows as if they're letting in smoke then they are certainly letting heat out.
You have to report it. They may well be driving after smoking and are definitely affecting the health and wellbeing of their children. Would everyone turn a blind eye to alcoholic parents neglecting their kids, drink driving and being anti social. Same thing in my view and they need to be made aware of the law.
I'm at a modern drugs party.
They're taking charlie, he's got spliff smoke coming out of him, there's someone there smoking a crack.
This isn't the exception any more, it's how people live today.
Get some of your own.
Lace it with some nasty spicey shit, let them have it & film their vomiting/convulsions/frothing.
It'd be a right laugh.
Me I’d check the seals on windows as if they’re letting in smoke then they are certainly letting heat out.
It is summer. People have their windows open.
Indeed but I read that coming through Windows not open windows, even some how gets through the floorboards. This isn't just in the summer as it's gone on for years.
It's the gaps in the floor that worry me perhaps the floor is open for summer too
Jeez, bunnyhop, surely you’ve been on here long enough to know hoe these threads go 😂
Absokutely report to local authority and also to their health visitor service (simple google) as they have a 2 year old will be covered by HV. They should not be doing drugs around their children.
Also people saying its how people live, not when you are a responsible adult with young children in your care.
It’s still a nicer smell than a cigarette or cigar.
That’s your opinion though and that’s fine as it sometimes smells nicer just it is damaging to children psychologically.
Not to mention anti social shite that comes with it.
I’m at a modern drugs party.
They’re taking charlie, he’s got spliff smoke coming out of him, there’s someone there smoking a crack.
This isn’t the exception any more, it’s how people live today.
Many won't recognise this behaviour, but in the circles I move in I'm aware of this going on a lot. I'm quite partial to getting wrecked, but the frequency of coke use of some people I know is worrying.
The casual crack & meth use, by fewer people, is much more frightening. I just can't comprehend why anyone would take the risk of getting hooked.
God there are some contrary bell ends on here.
Sympathise with you OP, people like your neighbours can make life unnecessarily stressful.
Can't offer any useful advice but suggest getting together with the other neighbours to go over the options re. Anti-social behaviour.
Hose pipe...
God there are some contrary bell ends on here.
You do know it's ok to have a different opinion.
Can you and the other neighbour call around and have a word? Threaten to dob them in for being shite parents if they don’t act reasonably? That or burning dog shit in your own garden as a form of petty revenge.
Yes she smokes every morning after the swearing episode we put up with, then drives the eldest to school.
They have all their friends round and then I have several of them at it.
Maybe going down the social services is the best route. I've spoken to other neighbours and some say they wouldn't report it, others have said go ahead.
No I don't like the smell of cigarettes or cigars, but the smell of this stuff is vile and a stench.
Many won’t recognise this behaviour,
Well because they haven't seen a 90's comedy TV series.
Ah! More details does sound a bit shite.
then drives the eldest to school.
I’m an expert on this having watched many episodes of Police Interceptors.
If you can be certain they are using drugs then driving them keep reporting to the Police. Eventually they will have to do them for drug driving. (At least that’s what they do on the telly)
I’d take the smoking and driving route. That is a child protection issue.
I am not against smoking weed, but if it is first thing in morning, chances are there’s some poor child care going on in general as well.
Absokutely report to local authority and also to their health visitor service (simple google) as they have a 2 year old will be covered by HV.
Reporting it to the Health Visitor Service would likely be completely useless. Health Visitors have no right of access and are now instructed, where there is potential for a child to be in danger, to pass that information on to Social Services in order to avoid conflict with parents in order to maintain some form of access.
Far better to cut out the middleman and go straight to Social Services if you believe there is a child safety issue.
When on secondment to a Health Visiting Team we visited a number of homes where the scent of weed could be detected, but all we could do is pass on the information to Social Services lest we lose access.
You do know it’s ok to have a different opinion.
Of course, it's the "being a condescending bell end about it" bit that I find objectionable.
Wasn't primarily thinking of you but you've stepped up superbly.
Report it to social services and I suspect - based on MrsMCs current workload - that it will be a low priority.
I'm liking the drug driving option
Chakakhan, seems you have a bad attitude and towards mods too.
Sounds to me that they are growing it and have a massive drugs empire 😁.
Have you tried speaking to them, asking them nicely not to do it.
If that doesn’t work try medieval with ski mask and baseball bats.
smells nicer just it is damaging to children psychologically.
Perhaps that's why she does it in the garden. Being a. Responsible adult n all that.
Chakakhan, seems you have a bad attitude and towards mods too.
That's quite the compliment coming from the forum's most prolific shitposter.
Own them with your Bombers?
We are in the same situation so can understand your problem. Got new double glazing but the smell gets in through boiler flue and in summer open doors and windows 24/7. Both the adult and their 4 children and friends.
The social services must be turning a blind eye as Ive seen them visiting before.
I have had similar issues with my next door neighbors they are all out there creating a stink, forcing me to breath in their burning animal flesh makes me sick!. As if it's normal and execptable behaviour! The whole town sticks of it!
Rang the police, social services and the RSPCA but they don't do anything about
Get some of your own.
Lace it with some nasty spicey shit, let them have it & film their vomiting/convulsions/frothing.
It’d be a right laugh.
Does Old Spice have that effect? Guess it might smell nicer, but not so sure about the comedy value.
I have had similar issues with my next door neighbors they are all out there creating a stink, forcing me to breath in their burning animal flesh...
Hitler and Morrissey were/are both anti-meat...see a pattern?
but the smell gets in through boiler flue
Might want to get the boiler serviced
Youch!
Someone call the mods, a girl just bullied me.
Bunnyhop
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Yes she smokes every morning after the swearing episode we put up with, then drives the eldest to school
Perhaps this is the way you can raise concern to the po-po, rather than dobbing on someone smoking a joint in their back garden. Quick call to Crimestoppers concern for welfare of kid, concern for driving etc?
[Monty Python] "We better not tell him about the meth lab across the road" [/Monty Python]
report them to the police when they get into their cars.
Does Old Spice have that effect?
Who knows? I haven't witnessed anyone smoking Old Spice. I have witnessed lots of prisoners putting themselves at the mercy of paramedics after smoking 'spice' though, or NPS as It's known.
We'd (weed) had a big drop of NPS over the wall at one point & the place had been in a mess with it, down to the point where staff were being affected by it after entering cells where it was being smoked (you often can't smell any difference with tobacco) I was stood on the 3's on C wing when me & my colleague get a strong whiff of cannabis. She looked at me & said, 'well that makes a pleasant ****ing change', we didn't even bother to try & find out who it was.
Doesn’t mean it is pleasant though.
The crap that drugs brings with it royally messing the psyche up of the little degenerated individuals.
Social and health services will do little if anything about the drug use unless the lifestyle is chaotic and the children at obvious risk.
Similarly the police are unlikely to do anything unless they catch her driving under the influence. You could report her for that anonymously and see if anything happens.
antisocial behaviour? I'd be reluctant to go down that road. Is it really that bad? Or just getting up your nose?
Being realistic I doubt there's anything you actually can do (that will be effective).
If you call the police there's a fair chance they won't even respond and even if they do unless they stumble on a big grow they will just have a word. After which your neighbours will be pissed at you and may make your life even worse. Subsequent calls to the police are unlikely to get you any progress (and unless you're mates with the local police chief I doubt they'd send a car to wait and catch them drug-driving)
If you called social services, I dunno if they'd respond but again if they did I'm sure it would set off a proper dispute - even more so than getting police involved.
Other options (throwing dog shit in their garden, playing loud music at unsocialable-to-them hours, physical confrontation, hiring the A-team/Equaliser etc.) are all unlikely to end well.
It’s still a nicer smell than a cigarette or cigar.
It's not; it's a horrible smell like burning rubber.
Report them to the Neighbourhood Watch. They take a dim view of this sort of thing.
They'll probably come round and give them a stern talking to, along the lines of....
"if you're coming here to smoke your fatty spliffers and bimble off to woo-woo land I suggest you go somewhere else!"
Yes I have tried talking to them, but as I explained they are irrational and unable to converse properly in a normal adult way.
As I type this, she is screaming the 'F' word at her partner and 2 year old. All her windows are open (to let the stench out) and I don't see why after 12 years I should put up with this anymore.
Also hubby and I ride bikes and I'm in fear of being run over by her. Her car doesn't possess seat belts or indicators.
There was a time long ago when I had a bit of sympathy, thinking maybe she had depression, however Its now obvious that the drugs have brought about their selfish, inconsiderate, foul, way of life.
Last night (I couldn't stand it any longer and had a word) they told me that it was non of my business and they could do what they liked in their own home and garden. I mentioned that it wasn't acceptable to be smoking that stuff in front of their children. I actually asked them what it is. Also told them it's affecting me. They don't give a toss about anything or anyone. Sad really!
The old neighbours on the other side of them moved because they needed a larger house and they were fed up with the constant (it's all the time when they're in) smoking of weed and the affect it was having on their very young children.
When I saw this yesterday I thought.... "Holy thread resurrection!" Now I realise its not the same one.
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/neighbours-smoking-weed-how-to-deal-with-it/
In which case bunnyhop then really you have the antisocial behaviour route to go down.
It’s not; it’s a horrible smell like burning rubber.
Perhaps nip round and tell them to get a new dealer, cos that stuff is obviously shite 😉
Perhaps nip round and tell them to get a new dealer, cos that stuff is obviously shite 😉
Schools broke up then.
Maybe buy them a crate of stella and ask them consider a substitute as the beer is much better for them, their children, and society at large.
Or move house.
It’s not; it’s a horrible smell like burning rubber.
Soap bar.
You knows it!
The dog shit throwing idea is a good one, however I don't need to do that as their yard is covered in it first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
Their 2 dogs just sit in the house most of the day (one gets taken out by one of her druggy friends) for an hour about once every 2 days.
Short of setting up some industrial fans to blow all the smoke back at their house and claiming the resulting wind/noise is none of your neighbours business because the fans are on your side of the fence, I'd go down the anti-diabetic behaviour route.
That or petty stuff like sand in their petrol tank to stop them driving.
Maybe buy them a crate of stella and ask them consider a substitute as the beer is much better for them, their children, and society at large.
A couple of cans of Stella before driving the kids to school would be better for society at large?
Ask them politely to stop. If they carry on, knock him out.
A couple of cans of Stella before driving the kids to school would be better for society at large?
I interpreted this as an ironic commentary on the bizarre differences between our cannabis laws and our alcohol laws, rather than a serious suggestion. You never know on stw though, the cannabis threads do tend to dredge up some truly strange views.
I know you don't want to hear this, but the bottom line is that you have no real control over your neighbours' behaviour, but you can control your own actions. It sounds like you've done all the obvious things and while you really don't want to, if you're really finding things intolerable, maybe you do need to consider whether you can move.
A friend of mine moved from his dream house in the Eden Valley a year or so back because he found his neighbours unbearable to the point where it was intolerable for him and his wife. He didn't want to go, but ultimately it was the only feasible solution. He's a lot happier now.
I'm not sure what else you can realistically do. Getting enmeshed in an ongoing feud with the police involved sounds nightmarish. Anyway, the expresso machine is always on stand-by if you want to drop round for a chat, a cuppa and to blow off a bit of steam.
Is it rented, or housing association, then try landlord to see if there is any leverage that way.
Round here they use ultrasound to keep the kids away from certain areas so maybe a high frequency noise genetator
If it's possible that the driver and the kids are not in seat belts, and the driver is stoned then traffic police need to be informed
Burn some tyres, revenge is a dish best served by a 205/50 15, harsh but these are desperate times
Creosote the fence, use lots of creosote, in a spray for extra efect
My weirdo neighbor invited rats into his compost heap, and has been pour ING jayes fluid into various holes ever since, that stinks as well
Burn some weed yourself, but cover it
in diesel first, and preferably some Japanese knot weed, should be appreciated.
Move to rented house and rent out yours, drastic but peace and solitude are well worth the financial cost
Buy them a extraction fan and carbon filter, show them how to get away with smoking indoors. Appeal to laziness.
Its now obvious that the drugs have brought about their selfish, inconsiderate, foul, way of life.
............had a lot of sympathy with you until I read this opinion of yours, now you just sound as if you dont really know what you're talking about (although I am not doubting the smell, but burnt rubber??). Still got some sympathy for you mind.
Would your opinion change if it became legalised and could be purchased, like alcohol, from retailers legally? Would they not be so selfish, inconsiderate or foul then?
Yes, I smoke it daily for years now, not skunk (the smelly type OP is talking about), I'm not selfish, inconsiderate or foul.......or at least people dont tell me to my face that I am........or maybe they do and I am too foul to notice or care? Or too out of it to notice? I'm knocking on 50s door, have two children who both went to Uni and now have better jobs than my OK job, wife has own successful business, two dogs who get walked twice a day for ab hour a time, 3 holidays/adventures abroad each year.........what I'm saying is that not every weed smoker is the same as your neighbour. Maybe its a bad neighbourhood you live in?
Disappointed by the tone of some of the replies here - no one should have their quality of life ruined by a neighbour's illegal actions, and there is a young kid involved here as well.
Sadly, the only way to resolve it will be unpleasant, whether you try and stay and go down the Police/Children's Services/antisocial behaviour route, or you move yourself. I fear the latter would the lesser evil though.
Buy them vapes to try out..........no smoke to carry the smell but doesn't rule out smell completely. And its so so more effective than smoking weed that they will be too stoned, lethargic and relaxed to be bothered skinning up to smoke it.
@SiB your quoted comment obviously factored in their other anti-social/poor parenting qualities, not just the fact they like the odd smoke
We had similarly disgusting neighbours when we lived in Burnley so we did the only thing possible, sold the house for less than it was worth and moved.
SiB - have spoken to a mental health nurse and she says constant use of weed for many years can make you into the very type my neighbour is. Obviously you've been lucky and its not affected you.
BadWiredDog - thanks for the offer.
Now she has her friends round and all their screaming children and I haven't smelt the weed, maybe, just maybe my little outburst last night has made them think.
I’d go down the anti-diabetic behaviour route.
Best autocorrect I’ve seen for a while. Just bombard them with sugar and the jobs a good un
Whereabouts in the country are we talking?
Leafy Cheshire.
Jane, scratch her Bentley.