Resident blocks neighbor's gate with waste, ensuring they can't leave their house, as payback for neighbor refusing to clean up when trimming his trees: ‘Ever heard of a dumpster?’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jul 9, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

People who tend to procrastinate know how hard it is to complete even the smallest of tasks. That is why many procrastinators will testify that they find different methods to get themselves to complete their tasks. One of the most popular methods that people follow is the 2-minute rule – If the task is going to take you less than two minutes to do, don't let yourself ignore it or add it to your to-do list, do it immediately. 

That is what the neighbor in this Reddit story should have done, because the alternative caused him a lot more problems and a lot more work. For years, OP's (original poster) neighbor has been trimming his trees but never once cleaned up the mess he was making on OP's side, even though it would not have taken him more than two minutes to do so. That is until OP gets tired of his neighbor's inability to take responsibility for his mess, and decides to give him a taste of his own medicine.

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    "Ever heard of a dumpster?"
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    Neighbors
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    3 years ago the house behind me across the alley sold to a gentleman and his wife. The gentleman is a handy guy and said he was going to be trimming the trees in their new
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    property gradually, if we minded him using the garbage dumpster to throw away the smaller branches. No problem just don't over fill it where we can't use it and make sure not to
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    leave branches on my side of the alley that separates our property. For three years during the spring/summer/fall time we have had to deal with branches
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    left on my side of the alley, the part that I have to maintain. I have been just disposing of them in the dumpster like he should be. Today when I go to mow and maintain my section of the alley,
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    it is filled with branches and tree clippings. To the point that I could not have put them all in the dumpster. His side of the alley was freshly mowed and looked very nice. Mine looked
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    like someone should be calling code enforcement because of all of his tree trimmings. Queue the petty side of me. I stacked all the large branches up against his gate and then pulled every bit of the tree
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    trimmings and smaller branches on those. Took me a good hour to get them all over there and positioned. Stacked them in such a way that when the gate is opened, they will fall and block their access to the alley. They
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    will have to drive around to the back side to clean them up, or stack them all inside their yard to then get to the alley to dispose of them. Will be his choice. I have pointed one of my
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    security cameras towards that area so hopefully I can watch what he decides to do. I am hoping that the gentleman has enough gall to come and ask me about them. This will happen on my property if he would like to talk about it.
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    Sugarpuff_Karma · 15 hr. ago I'd have them back over his wall.....not placed in a neat pile →
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    Vast-Philosopher-164 OP 15 hr. ago There was nothing nice or neat about the placement. More like rage placed. I get your point, but my satisfaction is in it will inconvenience him while also making him deal with them.
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    Didn't want to hurt his pets or any of the other stuff in his yard. Not a lawyer and don't have one on retainer to deal with any blowback from something like that.
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    SeanBZA · 12 hr. ago Plus they are technically not on his property till he actually opens the door, thus he caused them to fall on his property, and they were all in the area he is responsible to upkeep as well.
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    heynonnynonnomous · 10 hr. ago After the first few months of these shenanigans I would have revoked my permission to use the dumpster. I need to know how this ends. You should definitely post an update. Updateme!
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    CoderJoe1 15 hr. ago The key to your revenge was gatekeeping his mess.
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    gothiclg 4 hr. ago This makes me appreciate my old neighbor. He'd occasionally borrow our trash cans overnight to finish up yard work. I never once took our cans to the curb when he did that.
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    kmflushing · 9 hr. ago Make sure to rescind your permission for him to use your dumpster - letter, text, email, whatever. Document.
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    ConfusedAt63 · 15 hr. ago • Well, you found a way to lean on your neighbor! Good story!
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    N4ANO. 2 hr. ago "Gentleman"???????????????????????? ??????
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