'I dumped trash on my neighbor's doorstep': Redditor gets back at neighbor for leaving trash all over their back patio

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 8, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

It's very easy to be a decent neighbor, so why do so many people mess it up? Seriously, all you have to do is keep to yourself and make sure that any shared space is respected as a shared space and not your own. To be an average good neighbor requires next to no effort. It's essentially the same as the bare minimum requirements of being a generally decent human being. However, somehow, countless neighbors fail to meet these very basic requirements. Instead, they end up showing their true colors as bottom-of-the-barrel humans who tend to have absolutely no regard for other people's privacy or space.

 

This Redditor's story is further proof that you're more likely to come across a bad neighbor these days than a good one. Like my mother with her neighbors, OP was particularly enraged at the trash etiquette. One night, they saw a spilled pile of trash all over their patio. When they went back to watch the security camera footage, they saw that a neighbor's guest had taken out the trash and tossed the bag, causing it to spill everywhere. Instead of picking it up and doing the decent thing, the guest simply laughed and walked away. So, as properly petty revenge, the Redditor collected that trash and dumped it right on the neighbor's doorstep. As a neighbor, you are also responsible for your guest's etiquette, so we believe this act was fully justified.

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions. For more, check out this post about a neighbor's feud with a Karen.

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    Automotive tire - "I'm not going to pay rent to live in a trash-filled apartment complex."
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    Font - I dumped trash on my neighbors doorstep and don't feel guilty Back story. I woke up yesterday and went outside. I live in an apartment but I have a back patio. I noticed trash everywhere. I have a security cam though and I went back and checked my security cam footage. The neighbor had her guest take out the trash. Except she didn't take it to the dumpster.
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    Font - She threw it against the dog run fence and the bag broke open spewing trash everywhere. She just laughed and left it there. So I collected the trash and dumped it on her doorstep where it belonged. I don't feel the least bit guilty. I'm not going to pay rent to live in a trash filled apartment complex. I don't understand how people can litter and feel fine about it.
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    Font - wannabejoanie 13 hr. ago When I was viewing houses to buy, I noticed one had a small pile of old cat litter that looked like maybe it had been tossed over the fence from the neighbors. Whatever.
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    Font - We bought the place. Couple weeks in, we get a light snow. I come out to smoke and see big trash bag over the pile. There are clear footsteps going from their front door to this area- which is weird af, the trash cans are in the front and closer to the door than where they tossed this garbage. So I went over, picked it up, and knocked on their door. No answer. Left it there so it would be knocked over by the screen door when they left the house. Never had trash in my yard from them again.
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    Font - 00 Exciting_Mud5054 OP. 13 hr. ago That's like super rude of them. I can't imagine what their thought process was there. 4 478 Reply Share
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    Font - 00 Exciting Mud5054 OP. 13 hr. ago That's like super rude of them. I can't imagine what their thought process was there. 478 Reply Share
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    Font - look-alive-sunshine. 13 hr. ago I don't blame you but I'd also show the footage to your leasing office so they can say something to the neighbor 359 Reply Share
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    Font - 00 Exciting_Mud5054 OP. 13 hr. ago I did that as well. I have it recorded from 2 different angles (I have a cam in my bedroom window and one out the back window facing the patio). I sent both angles to the apt manager yesterday morning as soon as I saw who threw the trash. These neighbors have been nothing but trouble since they moved in. 347 Reply Share
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    Font - Rabid Dingo 12 hr. ago. edited 12 hr. ago I live out in the boonies. Like 15+ Mike's out of city limits. The number of piles of trash I see driving by is infuriating. People choose to just go out, dump their and go home.
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    Font - I want to go dig through it and find a bill or junk mail and do the same. Just leave it on their door step. If they are going to willingly commit a crime. Why not drive behind a big box store and use their dumpster illegally? Ugh. I yearn for your pettiness. 300 Reply Share
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    Font - beach_bum_bitch. 10 hr. ago I have a neighbor that comes up from florida for the summer and is too cheap for trash service. Anything he burns he buried in the 88 acres of woods next to my house.
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    Font - They left a glass table sit out all winter and it shattered. So what did he do with the glass? He dumped it in the woods. Where my kids occasionally play and people walk their dogs.
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    Font - So I went and filled up 2 big trash bags with the shattered glass and took it over to his porch, rang the doorbell and he answered. I said you can't leave this in the woods. As we caught out trail camera. Surely embarrassing. He hasn't done it since. 174 Reply Share
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    Font - Arizona Coyote. 6 hr. ago I watched a "lady" at Wal Mart drop 5 dirty diapers outside her car then just walk in like she owned the place. (Passing by at least 4 trash cans by the door, and one by the cart corral)
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    Font - I just went over, scooped them up and opened them up and stuck them under her windshield wipers. She got the bonus of two diapers that were not just wet ones....
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    Font - Yes, I'm aware that's gross. Yes, I'm aware I'm an hole. And yes, I definitely went and washed my hands afterwards. Just getting those answers out of the way before the hate mail starts. 120 Reply Share
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    Font - confusedicious 7 hr. ago Someone once dumped 5 contractor bags of trash on my property. I went through the bags and found multiple pieces of mail with his address. On my way to return the trash to him I came up with a different plan. I put his mail at the top of each bag of trash and left a bag in the yard of each of his closest neighbors 108 Reply Share
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    Font - jcmacon 11 hr. ago . I live on a dirt road out in the deep country. There are something like maybe 20 properties on our entire road. You'd think that since it is a private road out here in the middle of no where with only a few people living on it that we could keep it clean. That'd be a nope. People throw our their beer cans/bottles, fast food trash, mail, etc. all over the road. I had to let the grass and weeds at the front of my property get taller than my truck in order to keep other
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    Font - 00 Exciting_Mud5054 OP 11 hr. ago Put up some cameras. It's worth catching the nasties that do it. I don't understand why people can't respect things that don't belong to them. 58 Reply Share
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