This is the view out the northern window in my bathroom. My neighbor has been cleaning their yard for years, which has just involved them piling garbage in a trailer. The trailer has never been emptied, and At this point I doubt they could move it without the majority of the trash falling out.

Luckily the fence on that side of the yard is 6 feet, so I do not really see the trash under normal circumstances.

My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures

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[–] 120 points 10 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 62 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Depending on your locality, your town, county, or state may have laws against this. They're often health department statues against providing something that attracts pests like rats and snakes.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Came here for this, call housing code enforcement. If they exist where you are.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Alternatively, OP could try talking to their neighbor about it instead of getting the state involved. Maybe even offering to help them clean it up? Getting the authorities involved could cost the neighbor money or have bad repercussions and we don't know what their circumstances are.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago*

    Stick a hedge made of cypress trees or something else dense and tall there?

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    no bylaws against stuff like this? we typically have bylaws against this for reasons like rodent attraction

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    The trash heap has spoken!

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Holy shit, is that fraggle rock?!?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Fraggle Rock was the best show ever 🥹

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    A half-hour special called The First Snow of Fraggle Rock was recently released. Nothing fantastic, but it was nice to see them again. Junior has a sister named Princess now!

    She hatched from an egg, so all I could think was "Not the mama, not the mama!"

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    When I clicked to see the image, I was honestly expecting the trash pile to be a Tesla Truck.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago
    1. It's hilarious that the "too lazy to empty the trash bin" behavior can scale like this. Worst case for me is I pick up a couple things that fall when I empty it. For them... well as you said it doesn't appear emptiable!

    2. I was skeptical this cat shelf design would hold, but I picked one up and for the last year it's been my cat's favorite thing. Highly recommend them. Just make sure the suction cups aren't warped, you put them in hot water, clean the window, follow all instructions etc.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    You might not see it under normal circumstances, but I'm sure you smell it.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    That's quite the trash stack

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    That trash pile is probably visible on Google Earth.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Man could you just imagine what could happen if someone walking by just happened to flick a lit cigarette or 20 into that pile?

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    That's a mighty fine trash pile right there.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I would probably send it a complain to the city.

    Although you might not see it often due to the fence (can you not smell it) that much garbage probably is enough to cause substantial pollution being exposed to the sun and rain, and could also pose a fire risk if any batteries or chemicals made it in there.

    There's a reason people can't just open up a business as a private landfill wherever they want.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    A strategically placed incendiary device would take care of that pile.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Do you really like your neighbor? Do you not live somewhere that has property standards? Trying to figure out why you would put up with that next door

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Sounds like they've been contacted by their local solid waste department who was lazy about how most sanitary codes don't define garbage in a trailer as solid waste.

    It's one of the dumber and common loopholes, but a health department with resources (legal and political) would actually require progress at eliminating the garbage since the loophole is based on staging waste for removal.

    States and local juridiction vary wildly.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I don't think you cat minds the view. In fact it probably attracts rats and trash birds which they likely enjoy watching

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Cute! Also the cat does not seem to care.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Huge piles of trash might have a few batteries without the ends taped off and cause a fire, just saying

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Who’s your neighbor the trash lady from labyrinth?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Ha ha what a horror. Where do you live, and can't you do something about it?

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    See, this would be a good use of AI.

    Just have skynet fly a drone over there and blow the pile to kingdom come.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    A couple gallons of gasoline should clear that right up. Neighbor may even thank you.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    Good thing you don't live under an HOA. They are authoritarian pricks who go around telling people they can't pile up trash in their yards where it is visible to others.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    You don’t need to live in a HOA for that. I don’t think we even have those in my country, but the local council here would act if alerted to this.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    So, in your country, the government acts like an HOA.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    More like the HOAs want to act like a government. But we already have local governments. We don't need two of them.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    So the highest level of government should be policing this? You don't think there should be any form of local government?

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah I'll take ugly neighborhoods over predatory organizations run by nimby's designed to keep housing prices up.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Its honestly a USA problem. We have HOAs in my country too but they don't suck.

    With all the outrage you see on american social media in regard to HOAs you'd think they would make some laws and guidelines to make it work better.

    I don't get it's its always wild to me to see HOAs being run by the shittiest of people in your country and apparently they can do whatever they want.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    "I don't get it's its always wild to me to see HOAs being run by the shittiest of people in your country and apparently they can do whatever they want."

    I envy your naivitivity and competence in government. That's literally just how all leadership works here. I'm so fucking tired dawg.

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  • [–] -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, they would say NIYBY to your garbage pile. And that could make their homes more desirable to buy and live in ("keep housing prices up"). Definitely don't want that.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Unironically yes, new families affording homes is more important than a return on investment for people who are privileged enough to own them.

    Housing as an investment is fucked, and nobody but the individuals living their should own a home.

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