r/midlyinfuriating 2d ago

Neighbour keeps poisoning our trees

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u/plombiertropical 2d ago

These trees are very close to his property and risk encroaching on it over the years? In addition, they risk damaging the wall in the future.

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u/DS_WizzerKill 2d ago edited 2d ago

Well, he asked us to cut the tree down to avoid any leaves from going into his pool, therefore we did as he asked (you can see the tree is aound the same height as the wall). He has also been killing our trees for the last 15 years. When this wall was built (about 4 years ago), he deliberately destroyed (using the digger that was used to dig the foundations of the wall) one of our pine trees that was about 2 meters into our garden.

Edit : I should also mention that his wall does not respect the rules on walls, the maximum height authorised is 2 meters, and his is 2.34 meter.

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u/just4cat 2d ago

Have you sought legal advice? If not, you’ve been documenting this and have the means then you absolutely should.

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u/DS_WizzerKill 2d ago

You can raise complaints through the townhall but the issue is the fact that his wife works a said townhall. But we are looking for some other ways we can take action against him

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u/Better_Courage7104 2d ago

Use the recordings from your cameras of him poisoning and do small claims, might even be large claims with how much trees cost.

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u/DROOPY1824 2d ago

He’s been doing this for 15 years and you still haven’t installed a camera?

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u/DS_WizzerKill 2d ago

We would need about 10 different cameras to watch the entire border, we already have 2 installed but since he has no logic over which tree he poisons, we havent got him on video in the act

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u/DROOPY1824 2d ago

My dude that’s like $500 in cameras that would have paid for themselves after 1 tree had been vandalized.

Don’t get me wrong, dudes an asshole, but you’re not helping yourself either.

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u/DS_WizzerKill 2d ago

No your right, but i would somehow need to convince my parents to get 8 more cameras