No respect (more examples)

[jc2bg]

The post about no respect for landowners got me to thinking, and rather than jack the guy's thread, I thought I'd post a slightly different scenario.

My yard has a fairly long frontage (~700 feet) along a narrow, single-lane drive in a subdivision of 14 homes. Two houses are across the street from our yard. Last summer, one of the neighbors across the street had a landscaping company do some work on their yard, and over a period of several days, the landscapers backed their equipment trailer out of their driveway and, rather than work to make the tight turn on the pavement, simply backed their equipment 10-12 feet into our grass. This wouldn't have been so bad, but we had the wettest summer ever, and the resulting ruts are still visible. I told these yahoos that a landscaping company, for crying out loud, should be a touch more sensitive than the average citizen about creating "collateral" lawn damage in the neighborhood, but I'm sorely afraid that they just didn't get it. My taking pictures of the yard and their vehicles *in* the yard got them moving a little quicker, but no apology [even] forthcoming.

Then this winter, my other across-the-lane neighbor hired a new snow removal service. We only had 3 noticeable snows this year, and every single time, this rocket scientist backs into the neighbor's driveway, takes a running start, and proceeds to plow a good portion of the neighbor's gravel directly into the grass of my yard. Same reaction when on the third occasion I finally saw the guy doing it and went down to have a word: "I didn't see any gravel!" So you're plowing snow all day every day in suburban neighborhoods and think it's a good idea to dump the surplus snow from your customers on their neighbor across the street? Even if it was just snow/ice, it's possible that some people might not be thrilled with that method. In this case, however, the snowplow driver was dumping 300-400 pounds of gravel in our grass on each occasion, gravel I'd have to painstakingly remove in the spring or destroy the blades on my JD mower. WHAT was this guy thinking?

I'll tell you what these people weren't thinking: the golden rule had gotten just a little far removed in their memory banks. Rant off.

JC

[RogerR]

I would use the lawn mover to shoot the gravel back to their side of the street, hopefully when their car is in the driveway.

[NASCAR]

In Ohio it is actually a traffic violation to plow smow into a roadway or across a roadway.

[cougarcat22]

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[spinningreel]

used to people would look out for their neighbor, help em out if needed, things are changing in my area. Prescription pill heads, meth, nobody has any pride in their family name, just want to get on a lowly ssi check. Have no desire to make something of themselves. Those gravels will be a pain to pick up, and they will damage your mowing deck and blades.

[crich84]

Well.........If you have problems with the neighbor, and Im not sure that you do, Id throw a couple 2" rocks in his yard and let his mower hit 'em. Then if he make conversation about it Id say "yeah, I've been gettin a lot of rocks in my yard too." and leave it at that.

[scrockett88]

the snow thing happened to me only once 2 houses acrossed the street from me had a plow for fire push snow in front of my gate.i just took my big snowthrower out and put all the snow back in there driveway never hat a nother problem

[jc2bg]

Neighbors are actually very nice, just clueless to the extent that they would never think to check on what their hired help are doing. Glad to hear that you all don't seem to think I'm being too picky about this stuff. Neighbor problems are one thing--we have to take the bad with the good--but for people who claim to be professionals to operate with their heads up their b**t like these examples really disgusts me. It's not just because it's my yard they're messing up, either. If I saw some dimwit plowing gravel into anybody's yard, I'd stop and give them a little something to think about.

It's not OK to act as though you're the only person on the planet; the sooner folks wake up to that fact, the better for everyone.

[haveme1]

My house was on a cul-de-sac. I had to put up a fence because of ppl like the garbage truck felt it was Ok to use 10' of my yard to make the round easier.

My fence did take in the ROW. The city got tar spray on it when they redid the street. I was told to move it but I didnt.

I would think the ROW is looked at as his yard in the OP's example. I would treat it as such also. But nobody else would.