I Live In A Very Nice Cul-De-Sac

[Jeza]

We have a piece of grass, trees and flowers. That is the upside. The downside is it is on the edge of a not very nice council estate. From my kitchen window I have just seen two girls drinking out of cans. When they had finished they both threw the cans on to the grass which then bounced in to the flowers. Had Mic been his self he would have picked them up, followed the girls and then thrown them into their garden. As you know he's not, so I picked them up and put them in my recycling bin. This is now why my house is now worth about 20p. Rant over.

[boxtops]

I'd have done the same, these days, jeza - I picked up a used Macdonalds bag just now and put it in my own bin. It's not just your location - some people just don't have the concept of respecting other people's property, believing that someone else is paid to clear up their rubbish :-(

[kloofnek]

I live in a lovely street on the edge of the town...yet from Thurday to Sat I often find a couple beer cans etc. thrown into my garden...even had a tray of half eaten chips left on the wall...this is young ones going home after a night out....I get so annoyed but what one do!!!

[B00]

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[Daffy6543]

Some d...head posted a squashed cider bottle through our letter box the other day and we live in the centre of a very middle class village. No council estate within 2 miles.

[Jeza]

They were not in my garden but in the area which we all pay a service charge for to be kept nice.

[Butterbun]

When my neighbour's son was in his teens, his friends used to come round in an evening with bottles of beer, drink them and throw them over the fence into my back garden along with their cigarette butts. I told her about it only to be told that they don't drink at all. Well, I knew they were not my bottles so I picked them up and threw them back over into her garden. Never happened again. Otherwise, she's quite a nice woman. I know how you feel.

[Mamyalynne]

I live surrounded by greenery,water and wildlife - my side of the fence is private land the other is a private (Members only) Fishing lodge. All areas clearly and politely signed to that effect.


Some folk still to think it is the ideal place to climb over and have a picnic or more often a drinks party and leave their debris behind, I liaise with the Lodge members and inform them so things could harm the ducks and geese etc can be moved soon.

I may add these are not always youngsters.

[Old_Geezer]

I refuse to clean up after the 'low standards' folk I come across. I'd just feel used as the sucker.

Around where I live it seems folk are brought up to think it's normal just to sling stuff down when they have finished with it. What sort of parents did they have ? Maybe they think it is good to provide a need for street cleaners, or that they have a right to expect someone to clear up after them. I suspect though, that they just don't think at all, that they are incapable of it.

There also seems to be more than a fair share of pet owners that having put stuff in at one end of their pet feel they have no responsibility to deal with what comes out the other end.

Sometimes I feel no one seems to be worth the effort. But I try to remind myself it is probably the minority, with limited success.

[Daffy6543]

If my cats were caught messing in someones garden I would happily go round and clean it up if asked politely. Most cat owners would probably be the same.
I don't think they do it anywhere but our flower beds though judging by the twice daily clean-ups I have to perform

[mikey4444]

Alas I am in much the same boat Jeza. My house is worth a little more than 20p...about £65,000 but that is still nothing like it would be if the Council Estate hadn't been extended up the hill to the other side of my road. When I first moved here, there were horses in the field opposite. Now there are lazy, nerdowells ( never do wells ) who have sat outside all summer drinking industrial quantities of lager.

I would move if I could afford and if I could find someone to buy my house.

[Jeza]

I feel exactly the same Mikey. I was brought up in a council house as I'm sure lots of people on here were. It was a lovely street, everyone respected everyone else and their property.

[Mamyalynne]

Well I don't live near a Council Estate,is that what the thread is about?

Thought it was more about littering,sorry.


Litterers and ignorant folk live in all sorts of places.

[dunnitall]

Unfortunately a sign of the unbridled times. Others not respecting others, youngsters not being brought up properly, anything goes attitude and sod everyone except myself! Times have changed IMO for the worse and people don't give a hoot for others in the majority of times....oh how I preferred when other people respected one another and kept their children in check for fear of upsetting neighbours. Those times long gone and well lamented by some of us.

[Daffy6543]

That is very true mamya. I can't abide litter, it is not a hardship to wait until you get to a bin to dispose of your rubbish! I have been known to challenge people when i've seen them drop stuff on the floor.

[mikey4444]

My old Mum once challenged a loutish-looking litterer when he threw a empty drinks can down on to the pavement.

"Pick it up young man" she said

"But I don't need it any more" he scowled back

"neither does Swansea ! " my Mum replied. He meekly picked it up and put in a bin, and my Mum was only about 5ft 2inches !

[horseshoes]

We live in a country lane but it is obviously at the exact distance it takes to visit Macdonalds, eat the revolting food and toss the waste cartons into the lane. It makes me livid. Little scrotes (sp?). Can't they take their waste home with them??? Grrrrrrrrrrrr

[AlwaysConfused]

I live less than a minute (on foot) away from the lovely lakes and fields, beautiful walks with wildlife. Unfortunately I live in a less than desirable postcode area. Have a pub, a chippy and a kebab van within walking distance. Very clean - No problems with litter as people respect the use of bins and dog owners clean up after themselves. The biggest problem comes from the neighbouring estates who assume they can dump large items and furniture etc into our communal bin storage areas. Last week we found an old toilet next to the bin area. I would hang my head in shame - I wouldn't throw out a loo in that state, let alone use it. Rant not over!

[mikey4444]

Very much lamented by me dunnitall ! When I was growing up in the 50's and early 60's people were much more polite, you never heard loud music being played and I can't ever remember seeing any graffiti anywhere. Children were brought up to be polite and respectful.

[jourdain2]

I have often picked up empty wrappers, etc. when I have seen people drop them in the street. Approached the litterbugs and said, nicely, "You seem to have dropped something, here you are." 20 years ago they were nonplussed, now it is sometimes rather different. I remember that when I was teaching there were local Govt. people who went into schools and explained the anti-social and health effects of dropping litter. It didn't seem to make much difference. In my schooldays we had litter-picking as a punishment but someone tried to reinstate it a few years ago and was hauled over the coals for demeaning the children!