Residents walk all over neighbors' lawns after they block access to the sidewalk by leaving their garbage cans for pickup: ‘I feel an ounce of satisfaction by doing this’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Sep 12, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

Most of us don't think twice when we walk outside and something blocks our way. Sure, it can be a bit of an inconvenience, having to go around it or step over something in the way, but it doesn't really affect us much.

But there is an insignificant number of people whose lives actually do become more complicated when someone else decides to block the sidewalk and the pedestrian paths, like the person in the story below, who currently walks with a cane.

Their neighbors leave the garbage cans for pickup on the sidewalk every single day. Which means that the sidewalk is always blocked. Due to an injury, this resident is currently using a cane, and being blocked by a trash can every day is not a picnic.

The only way for them to actually pass is by stepping over the neighbors' precious lawns, and that is what this resident is doing. Will someone confront them about it? Keep scrolling to read the full story and find out.

After you finish reading this tale, click here to check out the story of a neighbor who decided to drill holes in the shared fence so they could spy on the next-door residents.

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    Don’t want me walking on your lawn? Don’t leave your garbage can blocking the sidewalk.

    Here's something small and petty I do when on my daily walk around the neighborhood.
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    You're supposed to put your trash by the curb once a week on garbage pickup day.
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    Since everyone in my neighborhood uses different trash collection companies, every day of the work week, there are multiple garbage toters by the curb.
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    I had a recent injury to my knee that required walking with a cane.
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    No company specifies that garbage toters can't be in the middle of the sidewalk.
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    It was annoying and really an inconvenience to step into the street to go around them when I was using a cane.
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    I started walking around them by stepping on people's lawns, not destroying landscape, but walking a step or two on their property.
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    People in my neighborhood get very upset when children or anyone else walks on their grass.
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    No one's ever challenged me, but I still feel an ounce of satisfaction by doing this when the sidewalk is completely blocked.
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    Former Ad952 Print a copy of the Americans with Disability Act that shows sidewalks must be kept clear of all items to allow for wheel chairs and people with difficulty walking
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    mykindofexcellence OP I see many baby buggies out; I wonder what the moms do. I guess they just go around them, too, whichever way is easiest street or lawn.
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    Coder Joe1 I bet you hobble with scissors in your hands, you rebel.
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    Bitter_Match_8299 Next step is secretly replacing their garden gnomes with tiny plastic flamingos. A true suburban menace.
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    YakCertain5472 Got to get them some cute outfits too!
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    Lumpy_Marsupial_1559 Suggestion: Send it to the local waste companies, along with photographs and a suggestion that they contact all their clients about compliance with the law - and that they won't pick up the waste if the sidewalk is blocked and extra pickup due to this issue will be charged as an extra service. The companies will probably love it because they get to make more money *and* look like responsible citizens.
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    EllyKayNobodys Fool I think this means your neighbors recognize your right to rule over them, they don't challenge when you step on their territory.
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    mordecai98 Make sure to put your full weight on your cane when walking in the grass. A little divot, especially when damp will help with your stability.
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    Frequent-Word-9349 Nah, the true chaos agent moves the bin just barely onto the neighbor's property line. Let them sort it out.
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    NoMeat9329 I take the trash bins off the sidewalk and put them halfway back up their driveway. There's an habitual offender on a major street in my neighborhood.
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    Cherry_Hammer You should check your town's ordinances. In my city, blocking a public walkway is a ticketable offense.
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