A man has admitted to shovelling snow into his neighbour’s garden to save him time carrying out the chore – and people are outraged.
A man has been slammed for shovelling snow into his neighbour’s garden to make light work of the boring chore.
The guy needed to clear his driveway to be able to get his car in and out for work – but rather than shovel the snow into a pile onto his property, he flung it over his neighbour’s fence.
This sparked outrage with the neighbours, who condemned him for his ‘entitled’ actions. However, he and his wife fail to understand the issue, claiming the extra snow on their side isn’t hurting anyone as it’s on the neighbour’s grass rather than their driveway.
On Reddit, his wife explained: “They have a 6ft fence that runs most of the length of our narrow driveway. For the first 15ft of driveway, there’s no fence and the snow gets shovelled into both yards. For the back portion where we both share driveways, the snow goes exclusively into our tiny yard.
“However, for the mid portion of the driveway, about 20ft, we are surrounded entirely by our house on the right and their fence/yard on the left. There, we put the snow over the fence instead of walking 15ft to deposit a single shovel. We live in NY and our first snowfall of the year was over 15in.”
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She added: “With 40ft of driveway, that’s a lot of snow to contend with. We’ve lived here since 2017 and each winter have done this with no issues with previous tenants.” The neighbours shouted at the man to stop – but as he was wearing headphones, he didn’t hear them.
The following morning, he woke up to a letter in his mailbox. The letter, sent from his neighbour’s landlord, read, “We were told by our young tenants that yesterday, you were shovelling and throwing snow from your property on our side. They politely asked you to stop but you ignored them and just continue. That’s’ not cool and not neighbourly!
“If you engage in such rude and disrespectful behaviour you will force us to call the the police in the future. If you have a problem, you may call us.” Annoyed, the couple sent a message back hoping it would clear up the situation – however, it appeared to do the opposite.
I texted back: “Hey T, it’s A. I received this today and just wanted to set the record straight. My husband (K) is not rude and disrespectful and I resent the implication. He was listening to music and was being yelled at through a window. Your tenant was claiming that he was putting snow on the driveway and that they would have to shovel it later.
“However, he was putting snow onto the lawn. Unless they were intending to shovel the lawn, I do not think this is an issue. I’m sorry that they misrepresented what occurred to you, but I do not consider what happened to be polite. I also do not think you have a case for the police. Please encourage your tenants to speak to us in a more direct manner rather than through windows. Best, A.”
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Wanting to know whether they’re in the wrong, the couple have taken to social media to ask users for their thoughts. One user said: “You’re in the wrong. Yeah it’s into a yard and not a driveway but you are still shovelling snow from your property into someone else’s.”
Another user added: “if you want a massive driveway you have to take responsibility for it. Shovelling snow over a fence is absurd and not at all acceptable. I would be annoyed if somebody that to my yard. Along the fence to our yard that you can’t see is a bench my kids like to sit on in the winter, a compost bin that we use regularly, and lots of the kids toys I don’t want buried and would have to shovel out. Stop being lazy and do the job right.”
A third user said: “I’m sorry for saying it, but yeah, you can’t shovel anything from your property onto someone else’s, that just feels inherently wrong on the politeness scale.”
Sourse: www.express.co.uk
