Resident hides neighbor’s trash can to prevent sanitation workers from having to empty it as 'punishment' for taking out the trash after hours, neighborly dispute ensues

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    "You're on!”
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    My neighbor told me I couldn't put out my trash, so I put his on vacation hold
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    So I rent a house with my husband and two of our friends, it's a 5 bedroom house. Rent is outrageous in our area, $2400 for a 1 bedroom apartment. So we found this house for $3000, not a bad deal while we save up to buy a house. There are other houses in the neighborhood like this as well our next-door neighbors their house is a five bedroom house and
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    they have nine people living in their house... so it is chaos over there all the time. In our neighborhood we can choose the trash company so it just so happens that we have the same trash company as the next-door neighbors. Our trash company does like us to have the trash out by 7 AM, we don't always get it out that earlier though and that's where this problem started. Most of the time they don't pick up our trash until 11
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    AM so obviously, as long as the trash is out before trash pick up gets here, they can take our trash. The people next-door have three trash cans, and they are overflowing every single week. They put their trash out the night before but unfortunately our neighborhood has raccoons and foxes so the trash is always getting into and last time a raccoon got into their trash, it left a mess in our yard and
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    they wouldn't pick it up. I was pretty p ed about it but I just let it go cleaned up their trash. I did go and put it back in their trashcan and they just sat out front glaring at me while I did that. Here is where this incident started, a couple weeks ago, I didn't get our trash out until almost 9 AM. All four of us was sick. I was on the mend and feeling a little bit better but I slept in and forgot to put out
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    the trash at 7 AM. So I go to put the trash out and my neighbor starts yelling at me saying you were supposed to have your trash out by 7 AM you can't put your trash out now, I said well they haven't come and pick up the trash because your trash cans are full so it's not a big deal, he said no that's the rules, your trash has to be out by 7 AM, if it's not you can't get your trash picked up
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    this week. I said I understand that they want the trash out by 7 AM but they haven't come and picked it up yet so it doesn't matter, so I went ahead and I just walked inside. I went back to bed and a couple hours later I get up to see that our trash can were put to the side of the house and they were still full of trash. So that means that someone moved our trashcan. Our other neighbor came up to me the next day and said that
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    she saw him put our trash can back. She didn't know the situation so she wasn't going to but in and tell him to not do that. Our neighbors are also very proud about their last name. They literally have a flag in their front window with their last name so I called the trash company and I said that I was Mrs.Soandso and I needed to set up a vacation hold for our upcoming pick up.
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    They said no problem we won't pick up your trash next week. They legit only asked for the address, no other information... The next week I made sure that our trash was out at 6:45 AM then I sat and I watched for the trash truck and I watched them come past the house. They drove past my neighbors house didn't pick up their trash, even though their trash was overflowing, picked up ours
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    and the other few people who also have them and left. I know I'm an a ole for doing this, you don't need to tell me, I may have crossed the line. But he also crossed the line by touching our cans and moving them and setting foot on our property. editing to add our lease it up at the end of this month, so we won't be dealing with these cra es for much longer. And if they mess with the house, GOOD. My sl lord can deal with it!
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    [deleted] Genius!! I know others are saying they would have dumped their trash on the neighbor's yard but honestly an all-out war isn't smart. But this, hard-to-trace, evil plotting was truly inspired. *Raises glass*
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    GarrusExMachina It might be hard to trace but after calling the company to chew them out for not taking their bins and hearing about the vacation hold it won't be hard to put 2 and 2 together
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    smallpepino Especially if they have caller ID and put the # in the notes.
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    throwaway1648293746 OP I called from *67 so they won't have my number, I thought about it coming back to me
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    ToraAku Nice petty revenge. The neighbors are insane. Having trash out by 7am is not an unbreakable rule. It's simply what they say so that people who DON'T have their trash out that early and miss pickup don't have a leg to stand on when they call to complain "whine whine you didn't pick up my trash today whine".
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    burnt00toast Are you kidding me? I would have dumped my full bins all over their yard as soon as I realized they'd moved the trash before pickup.
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    KelsierIV Your neighbors are ridiculous and you can be sure that after this, it's pretty much guaranteed you are going to have more run-ins with them. 1st Priority, set up security Cams. 2nd Priority, keeps up informed here on Reddit.
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    waverider669 I think I need to readjust your priorities, Reddit 1st!
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    Crazy-Poseidon what you did was awesome and completely fine and definitely didn't cross the line ;)
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    MidnightMarmot Dude, I take my trash out like 14 min before the truck comes. Those people are control freaks.
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    Soda2411 ..If they don't come till later, It really doesn't matter when the trash is out. Like why?
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    Zerset_ Sometimes reddit goes way overboard on their revenge, and sometimes they don't do enough. This is the first time where I honest to god thought you responded perfectly.
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    Das_Spinne I don't understand why it matters what time you put out the trash so long as you beat the truck. Furthermore, putting out the trash at 9 AM is more considerate than putting it out at 7 AM as people may be sleeping.
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    The_Bogan_Blacksmith They put your trash cans back in your yard.... tresspass. Have them charged.

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