You know, from what you have told us, I just cant stand these people. A-holes. Language -- sorry.

Of course they will. And will probably run over your garbage cans too. You can't win with stupid. A solid concrete wall sounds like what you need.

I wish I cold afford that, Ravencajun, but can't.

Do you have a Menards close by? They have tall fence sections that hook together. Maybe a few of them with your garbage cans sitting in them would deter them. They would have to move them to get through. Dang neighbors!! No common sense.

I am so evil! I just envisioned trashcans filled with concrete. Shame on me.

Luck! I hope it all works out.

Maybe some blunt nails in the brick mortar? Just a couple inches high?

No mortar, Monica, only a temporary barrier.

I filed a complaint with the police department with neighbors that overparked with an old car in the middle of my driveway, and never moved it until I complained
] Worked. They got a notice! Not happy, but solved the problem.

have you got a cement block handy as well,to drop into the bottom of the garbage cans?

they wont knock over as easy for sure-put a couple in for good measure-then,if they hit them,they'll know they hit "something"

Well, you wouldn't want to put concrete blocks into the bottoms of the trash cans that you use... Would make it difficult to move them to the curb for trash pickup day; not to mention the fact that when the cans are emptied, the concrete blocks would be emptied, too...

But, if you have an extra, old, trash can or two...

I still like my t-post idea, only costs about seven dollars. Buy a 5 foot one, 3 feet in the ground, 2 feet above ground, just enough to catch a bumper.

I like all of these ideas!!
I feel for you Kath!. Miserable neighbours make life on earth hell. They are so selfish, who died and made them King?Grrrrr.

Where we are now, the landlords are amazing. We love helping them out......take the empty garbage bins in, shoveling snow, yesterday I did some raking on the lawn.

We don't have to do it at all, they're just so nice, and if I/we have the time, we do it.

Our previous bldg, we were the supers, and got a discount in rent, but she was so controlling. When I knew she was coming over, I always washed the stairs and landings (even though they were always swept and washed regularly), and no dust on the ledges, etc. She ripped me a new one for using the laundromat because she raised the price of the washer, because she thought I was using it too much. And saw 4 new small weeds out of the ground under the fire escape, and I got reamed out for that too. So good riddance, and hello nice landlords, who are human.

This post was edited by jasdip on Sun, Apr 13, 14 at 9:39

Garbage cans and bricks look to still be in place this morning. I do have a couple of old garbage cans that I can use if need be. I don't want to do it just yet. Looks tacky enough with the herbies out there. lol

I agree that garbage cans in the front yard can look really awful. But, I just had an idea... Was it last year when someone here at the Table posted a photo of some old tires that had been painted bright colors, then the open centers were used as planters? You could do something like that. It would look nice as well as serving the purpose of making driving that area difficult.

I did a Google search for "painted tires as planters" and this is one of the many images that came up. You wouldn't even need to do anything as elaborate as this:

Just for the record, i was in no way serious.

They are irritating, no doubt! But not worth that kind of trouble.

I'm looking forward to your pictures of a splitrail or other solution.

When trying to converse with "neighbors", they seem to think "you shouldn't care", you weren't using the property so why would it matter.....seems to be what comes out of their mouths. They aren't doing anything wrong. The fact you care is the part they don't "get".

Good fences make good neighbors! :)

I have seen the old tires made into flower beds. They can be done to look good, in the right location. In your case, I would not make the tires so colorful, just the plants, so that when they run into them, it would be surprising, and still manage to cause grief to them and their vehicles.

What ever you decide to do, please post pictures, before and after.

Sue

Here is the flower bed I made last summer with painted tires.
Kittywhiskers

I don't know why you don't call the cops on these drug dealers, but...if their customers drive through your yard a motion sensor light might deter them -- at least at night.

frankly I think you're playing with fire..i'd do more than just complain about the parking to the police...I'd ask if a neighborhood watch branch would come in a marked car...druggies don't care about a few bricks...they do what they want, when they want...please be very careful....ours were so brash to shoot out Christmas lights (right above our bedroom window)....when they thought we were all gone...(I was home sick).

Actually, you can do the same tire idea with concrete blocks! Just do a 'search' with concrete block garden as your words...

Well, there are three cops that live on our street, one on this side of our U shaped road, so I don't know how this one guy doesn't know what's going on. The kid across the street was in last week's paper, arrested for heroin and meth. Not sure if he knows the kids next door to me but I know his older brother does. His brother works at the gym Lauren went to last year and we talked about these neighbors.

There were others in the paper from drug arrests but I don't know the next door neighbors' names.

I feel bad for the kid across the streets parents. The mom works at Lauren's school and the father and one of the boys helped me dig out of the snow when I got stuck in my yard a few years ago.

Going to be a while before I can do something permanent. Big tax bill to pay and upcoming parking pass for work I have to pay for in June. ) :

thank goodness...

How about some shepard hooks or rebar sunk into the ground,then buy several feet of heavy chain at HD and string it between the posts,tie some ribbon or something on it so it's noticible,and no one falls against/thru it.I guarantee they won't want to scratch up their trucks by coming in contact with that chain.HTH
Kathi

A concrete block or two in the bottom of a garbage can ...

... would more than likely be hard on the garbage can, were someone to hit/run over it.

So - you'd be the main loser, should you choose to replace it.

Leave a couple of spaces in the line of bricks, and if the neighbours ask how come the spaces, suggest that the folks on that side of the property appear to be a couple of bricks short of a load.

Question, for a person with something over three dozen cards in his/her wallet,

"Do you call a person with about 40 cards in his wallet ... a few cards short of a deck?".

ole joyfuelled