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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: John Orchard on November 28, 2014, 12:58:14 pm
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I just got a letter from my local council, they want to inspect my home business ..... I don't have a 'home business', so I call the council, apparently the neighbours have complained that I am running a motorcycle business in my garage!!!
The neighbours complained that there are so many bikes in my garage and they get started during the day (maybe once or twice in a week, and no longer than a minute). Plus they see bikes on trailers coming & going from my place!
The bloke at the council told me to put my details in a letter and all should be cool once he comes to visit.
My neighbours don't realize what 'hornets nest' they have opened!!!!
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Of course local drug dealers seem to go on unmolested >:( Stupid bloody busy bodies!
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gotta love those people with nothing better to do than watch their neighbours and would never come and see you if they had a problem with noise, but just winge and bitch directly to council...glad im outa town...
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I guess the neighbors are off your xmas list this year.
I make a bit of noise, but my neighbor has a jet engine for f*uck knows why but he used to wind it up for hours everyday and the noise and jet fumes where getting beyond a joke. I just stuck my head over the fence and said there was a problem and he has toned it down. All cool...
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gotta love those people with nothing better to do than watch their neighbours and would never come and see you if they had a problem with noise, but just winge and bitch directly to council...glad im outa town...
Moving out of town doesn't resolve the issue altogether. When we moved from 10 acres down to a smaller 1 acre property that had a tired old dog fence around it, my neighbours used to:
1) jump the fence and plug their hose into my bore pump to fill their tank
2) video me working in my shed on my cars and bikes and
3) send letters from their solicitor when I dared spray paint a small repair on the rear of my Landcruiser
Solution?
I fenced the entire acre with a 6 foot steel fence. Asswipes :(
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Just what you need everybody now knows you have heaps of bikes to steal :(
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Some years ago I was renting a place in a fairly swanky cul de sac, I used to park my tow truck out the front of the property overnight as it was a steep drive down to the property and not much turning space . I used to roll out of the Cul de sac and around the corner before starting it to be considerate at night re the noise, it was a fairly new and tidy truck but the neighbours objected as it apparently looked ugly ::)
Nobody approached me directly they snuck off to the council and had a cry ( Gutless Kunts )
The council compliance bloke came to visit and told me I could only park it there for 2 hrs at a time . I didn't argue I just clarified that if the vehicle was parked for 2 hrs and then moved away I could then return for another 2 Hrs ? . He said technically yes that's correct but you could park it off the road and out of sight, I said correct and they could have approached me directly and I probably would have done that. I said I don't pick fights but if they wanna war bring it ;D
So naturally during the day I would park the truck down the drive but about 8.00 PM I would park it in the street and religiously go out at 1 hr and 55 mins start it up drive to the end of the road turn around and park up again and do this every 1hr and 55 mins all through the night ( in between call outs ) .
I did that every other night for a fortnight until the neighbourhood mafia sent over their contingent to ask me to stop. I pointed out it was them who drew first blood and that I was only doing what the requested via the council . I said I would consider going back to the original arrangement of parking it up overnight in the road but the council said I couldn't do that . I suggested that I would need some reassurance from their council mates that if I went back to parking overnight that I would not be ticketed .
Normal service was resumed , I went about my business and they continued to be arseoles to another neighbour about him washing his boat in the street ::) but left me alone ;)
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at least it was council John,mate in minto wanders off to grab lunch (10mins max),comes back to police everywhere, backyards chockers,dog squad, the lot,dobbed in for suspected drug lab in the back shed,apparently running up bullies on metho/full synthetic tooee produces a sweet suss smell with the neighbours ::), :P
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at least it was council John,mate in minto wanders off to grab lunch (10mins max),comes back to police everywhere, backyards chockers,dog squad, the lot,dobbed in for suspected drug lab in the back shed,apparently running up bullies on metho/full synthetic tooee produces a sweet suss smell with the neighbours ::), :P
Ha ha, grouse!
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now you guys have blown this all out of perspective - we know it isn't the neighbours and John is the trouble maker - always has been and probably always will be ;D
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You can be lucky though. My neighbour Matt moved in about 5 years ago. Got talking early on and turned out he digs the VMX scene but unsure how to get involved. i can assist I said.Next minute he has bought and restored an RM400 joined the VCM committee redeveloped our website and we travel to races together.J PS Also most happy for me to slip next door to tear around on his property as required.
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once the council is convinced that you arnt in a shop / business, start the bloody things up as much as you can but just inside the noise hours.... 7 - 6 weekdays and 9 - 5 weekends I think. check on your council website. 8)
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A while ago my uncle told me a story about when he bought his house in the 50s. About a week or so after he moved in he got his shot gun out & walked around the property shooting rounds into the ground well the police arrived a short time later & they spoke for a while & then left.
The stories in the area after that event left his house safe for years. The people thought he was a escaped criminal. Jimson
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My Fav story comes from my mate. The police turned up one night around 9.00 and said they had a complaint. He didn’t think much of it at the time and let it go. Then they kept coming back on other evenings.
The Police were over it as well. But the New guy kept complaining. Well it turned out he was renting the house so my mate tracked down the owner and simply purchased the house from him. He went down knocked on the door and told the new guy he was his landlord. Now F#ck Off, turned and left problem solved.
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Time to move out to the track John. Very little you can do once the neighbors start being jerks. Every time someone complains the council must act or they get accused of "not doing their job". Tough one mate. Hope it works out.
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Some years ago I was renting a place in a fairly swanky cul de sac, I used to park my tow truck out the front of the property overnight as it was a steep drive down to the property and not much turning space . I used to roll out of the Cul de sac and around the corner before starting it to be considerate at night re the noise, it was a fairly new and tidy truck but the neighbours objected as it apparently looked ugly ::)
Nobody approached me directly they snuck off to the council and had a cry ( Gutless Kunts )
The council compliance bloke came to visit and told me I could only park it there for 2 hrs at a time . I didn't argue I just clarified that if the vehicle was parked for 2 hrs and then moved away I could then return for another 2 Hrs ? . He said technically yes that's correct but you could park it off the road and out of sight, I said correct and they could have approached me directly and I probably would have done that. I said I don't pick fights but if they wanna war bring it ;D
So naturally during the day I would park the truck down the drive but about 8.00 PM I would park it in the street and religiously go out at 1 hr and 55 mins start it up drive to the end of the road turn around and park up again and do this every 1hr and 55 mins all through the night ( in between call outs ) .
I did that every other night for a fortnight until the neighbourhood mafia sent over their contingent to ask me to stop. I pointed out it was them who drew first blood and that I was only doing what the requested via the council . I said I would consider going back to the original arrangement of parking it up overnight in the road but the council said I couldn't do that . I suggested that I would need some reassurance from their council mates that if I went back to parking overnight that I would not be ticketed .
Normal service was resumed , I went about my business and they continued to be arseoles to another neighbour about him washing his boat in the street ::) but left me alone ;)
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Bugs Bunny..."of course you know this means WAR" >:(
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I live in a small rural community where the smallest blocks are around 1 acre. But I still got crap from a neighbor who just moved up from Melbourne. They whinged about everything I did and couldn't mind their business for the love of money. So, do what I did when my new neighbors complained about me working in the shed late at night and making noise......Get the lawn mower or whipper snipper cranking bang on 7am every other day.... They soon get jack of that carry on and you will get a visit from the council or coppers like I did. But hey, "I can't help it if I am fire conscious and like to keep my yard under control" ;D The neighbor moved out and now I have a new neighbor that thinks what I do is cool and comes over for a cold beverage or 2 every now and then.
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We heard on the small-town-rumour-mill that a new neighbour was going to complain about the dead cars among the trees right at the back of our block (adjoining the very back of their block). The bit where the cars had been reducing in number since they bought the place seemed irrelevant.
They have a few big trees at the back of their block that they want removed. The tree surgeon knocked on our door and offered us good money for access through our block, as they couldn't get the truck past the neighbour's house.
The trees and the cars are still there... but there's a lovely steel fence on the adjoining boundary, that just appeared one day, at no cost to us.
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Free lessons on how to run an electric energized stock fence given ;) Amazing how many "whingers that have moved in from suburban parts" do not recognize one along ya back fence line. More fun when the bastards piss on it in the dark ;D
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Yes the joys of living in a rural area r great farmers cutting hay and baling all hrs of the night and shifting equipment never hear them ???????? .So I can truly say never get any complaints about starting bikes any hr of day or night the benefits r great no whinging neighbors ????
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Yes the joys of living in a rural area r great farmers cutting hay and baling all hrs of the night and shifting equipment never hear them ???????? .So I can truly say never get any complaints about starting bikes any hr of day or night the benefits r great no whinging neighbors ????
I wish I could say the same positive things about my community. People I don't even know whinge about me and my bikes even though I only ride em after they've been washed just to dry the brakes out.... I guess when ya live in a small rural place your supposed to be a sheep farmer or cropper, otherwise you must be up to no good.....