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.
Grasmere
Phoning the cops when they get in the car drugged up would be a good way of shopping them without the neighbours knowing it was you.
We occasionally get a whiff from 2 and 3 doors down (both houses), but both aren't screaming idiots, and it's occasional. My brother had similar issues with his neighbours, had it out with them a few times and it seems to be better.
Im just going to point out something thats obvious to someone that does smoke grass and a bit more tricky for a few others to figure out. Reporting your neighbour to the police doesnt solve your problem.
Difficult to figure that out so we'll not hold it against you.
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You can get kits with fan ducting and carbon filters online listed for hydoponics growing ironicaly. I am going to ask a builder friend to cut a hole above front door and make a box to house it. So when we have had enough of the smell we can flick the switch and create possitive pressure in the house. What has caused me to make this decision? On the hottest day of the year our fine neighbours have just set fire to their large collection of dog mess that has over the last few weeks been air dried to just the right amount for burning.
Think twice about reporting things to councils. You might not like the solution they find to your problems.
Actually, mentioned to cigar stuff, which was mild annoyance but it's pissing me off last few days. Hot weather, outdoor smoking next to house and everyone has windows open so house is filled with smoke now while trying to sleep. Crap all can do about it other than shut windows in hot weather. Wouldn't be so bad if they weren't crap cigs.
Think your self lucky deadkenny that they are not actual crap.
Park a beaten up plumbers van out the front of their house and randomly take cups of tea out to it.
Fit it with a suspiciously large antennae.
Put the phone number for the local police station on the side.
You could buy them a vaporizer
https://vaping360.com/best-weed-vaporizers/portables/
Lets them get as high as they like, better for their health and no big clouds of smelly smoke.
The Police aren't going to bust them for smoking at home (though they might give them a warning to do it more discretely). Driving while stoned is not great so shop them for that if you want but you've still got to live next door to them.
First of all check to see if the car she is using is taxed and MOt’d, call the police and explain you have seen her smoke weed and then drive in the car with kids!! Likelihood is if they are that scummy they won’t be taxing their car. Which would encourage police further. Regardless of the smoke in your property, you need to report this. What if she killed someone and you hadn’t reported to police. Driving under the influence is illegal for a reason.
I do sympathise with you over this, I visited some friends recently to see their new born. As we were walking to their back garden I could smell that horrible, acrid smell where their neighbours thought it was appropriate to smoke it. I have no problem with people doing it, but the smoke and smell was everywhere and their neighbors have a new born. You literally could not get away from the smell.
