ULPT request: get neighbour relocated

Posted by YesterdayOnce@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 15 comments

England, UK

We live in a small community village, our green has 14 houses. 11 of these are owned and the other 3 are social housing, 2 of said neighbours are lovely but 1 is an absolutely nightmare.

Over the last 18months has has;

Smashed multiple windows in his own property twice.

Been drugged/intoxicated/delusional at least a dozen times and roaming the streets, trying people's doors and throwing things at people's windows.

Let's his dogs roam the streets and becomes aggressive when confronted.

Plays heavy music outside until early hours (we leave 5 houses away and we hear it loud enough to keep us up).

Has personally entered our property once because he thought there were dead people under our child's bed.

And a list of other nuisances.

Multiple police reports filed by multiple neighbours. If it's music / dogs they just talk to him about it and then as soon as they've gone, he's just reverts instantly. If he's having a delusion, they call for an ambulance and he gets taken away. Police say that they have limited powers over someone having a mental health episode and care comes first - he's never violent with them. They even told us that they could do nothing about him entering our property, it's our onus to secure our property (he came in through our backdoor in the middle of summer).

His father came round to apologise to us recently after another episode, he said he's washed his hand of him. When he gets admitted he just discharges himself and comes home.

Multiple complaints to the local council and housing authority, same story, nothing ever comes of it. Most recently one of the council workers gave us a very frank answer that infuriated us, she gave us the spiel about them having to protect people with mental health conditions and then capped it with "we know if we move him, he's just going to be like this elsewhere so to us it's no different. It's just work and money to relocate him just to have the same issues again at the next house so we wouldn't bother". I think she thought she was doing us a favour by giving us "the truth" and not the formal bullshit reasons.

Our children can no longer play outside and we can't live in peace.

We've tried all the formal avenues and the system has failed us, I'm now at the stage where this needs more informal intervention.

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Hugeboibox@reddit

I think severe violence is the only option left

kimbossmcmahlin@reddit

Piss disc under his door at every given opportunity.

Immediate_Stress845@reddit

Hire an ice cream truck to sit outside his house playing the music over and over. When he eventually freaks out make sure you catch it on camera. Have the ice cream truck driver armed for his own protection. Make sure he can also testify against him and that he doesn't know the ice cream truck driver. Police will be called.

Witty_Candle_3448@reddit

Arm everyone with giant squirt guns. If he tries to enter your yard, everyone yell, "Go Home" and squirt with squirt guns. Keep doors and gates locked, warn the children that the man is crazy and dangerous. Stay outside with the kids. Each home should arm themselves with pepper spray, post "No Trespassing" signs in the yard and at the door, if he tries to enter spray the person. Can citizens use tasers? If he tries to enter use the taser. I don't understand how this mentally ill person is not contained. There are a variety of locks used to protect the mentally ill. Ask the dad if you can help by installing a keypad on the door? If someone is harmed, the dad will be help responsible.

Wrasse22@reddit

Have you tried contacting your MP? I would write it from a burner email and at the end of the email I would put something along the lines of "you have now been told how bad the situation is, if someone gets hurt then there will be blood on your hands, and I will make sure everyone knows you had the opportunity to sort this" a mp wouldn't want to have their career in jeopardy

YesterdayOnce@reddit (OP)

This is a lot more ethical than I was expecting but this isn't an avenue we have explored.

FilthyDogsCunt@reddit

Don't do this, they'll come looking for you, not your neighbour.

Not going to go with the threat part but the MP is a good shout.

Estudiier@reddit

Maybe animal welfare? At least they can care for the animals.

Secret-Tackle8040@reddit

If someone like this entered my home where my children live they would exit on a gurney, likely in a body bag.

Unfortunately the UK doesn't have the same consideration as the US on this, excessive force would put us at fault.

Would it really be excessive if a deranged man was in your children's room and you walloped them with a cricket bat or a tea kettle or tin of spotted dick or whatever passes for home defense there? What are you supposed to do in that situation? Onvite them to watch Benny Hill while you wait for the bobby?!?

raquelball@reddit

Gift him a chainsaw or some other weapon and hope he either irreparably harms himself or waves it around in public and the police may actually have to do their jobs.

Or worm your way into this crazy mans life, gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss your way into becoming his Power of Attorney (or the UK equivalent) and then ship him off to a mental facility for the criminally insane where he can't just discharge himself without your approval.

deathboyuk@reddit

It strikes me that somebody with such cognitive issues and a fondness for walking on other people's property might easily find themselves falling into a hole full of spikes with a tarp slung over it.

Appreciate the comment but not exactly a realistic solution.