[RickeyD]

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Originally Posted by RickeyD
..... but a cup of gasoline poured evenly across the trees drip line once a week for a month or two should take care of your problem for good.
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Posted by Sandtrap:
Yes, it should take care of your tree problem - but you would be liable for the replacement cost of the tree - and I assume we are not talking a sapling. That could be thousands of dollars PLUS criminal charges. Very poor solution as well as showing TOTV what kind of a neighbor you are.



If this is sarcastic nuance ...

I know when to quit when the ladies chime in [emoji33]

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by RickeyD

I know when to quit when the ladies chime in [emoji33]

Very sound thinking.

[Bogie Shooter]

Some of you would qualify as participants on the TV show "Neighbor From Hell".

[NYGUY]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Some of you would qualify as participants on the TV show "Neighbor From Hell".

Is that really a show?....what channel?

[RickeyD]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Some of you would qualify as participants on the TV show "Neighbor From Hell".

Hey, yoo tauken too me ?

[Loudoll]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

It was quite a bit of both. Don't give me the credit. It was this nice man I have been married to for half a century. He said, Choose your battles. We have to live here AND we have to leave here for six months. He is so smart and so good looking too.

I settled in here to read comments but after reading what happened with your neighbor cutting on your tree, I can't enjoy TOTV now because I can't get past this. It makes me ill thinking of how violated you were. The arrogance of that bully's explanation! This was so blatantly wrong, but Sweetie is so right.

[Carl in Tampa]

Originally Posted by Mrs. Heck

Where do I file an official complaint about a neighbor's tree whose debris has caused our driveway to become stained when it lays on our concrete for too long? We recently had our drive stained professionally to keep it nice, and now it's looking worse.

I've really enjoyed reading this thread, which has some accurate responses and some travels far afield.

In summary, if you are talking about a healthy tree shedding leaves and twigs in the normal process of nature it is most unlikely that you can have it declared a "nuisance."

So......in answer to your question of "Where do you file an official complaint...?" This answer is as good as any:

Go to a town square and whistle Dixie........for all the good it will do.

(For the benefit of our many transplanted citizens, the general idiomatic meaning of this phrase is: "to engage in unrealistic fantasies; waste one's time")

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by RickeyD

Not ignorant knowing what the intention and results would be. As far as disregard for a "living" something, I would have no regrets for killing a tree dumping crap onto my decorative driveway. Call me a arbor sociopath, I could care less. It's just a tree, not a dog.

Then the escalation would be it's a dog not a person. When we "care less" stuff happens.

[RickeyD]

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[RickeyD]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Then the escalation would be it's a dog not a person. When we "care less" stuff happens.

That is an invalid argument, try again.

[tuccillo]

What you are suggesting (or not suggesting) is vandalism. I am pretty sure you are just kidding, however.

Originally Posted by RickeyD

Ok, assuming your not a troll why would you decorate your driveway knowing that your neighbors tree debris causes staining ? Seems like good money down the drain to me. Anyway, again assuming your not a troll the problem is yours not your neighbor. His tree debris now belongs to you. Think of it as a gift that keeps on giving. Or, I'm not saying you should do this but a cup of gasoline poured evenly across the trees drip line once a week for a month or two should take care of your problem for good.

[bobbym]

I have a neighbor that was raking my yard when I first moved in. I asked her why she was raking my yard and she told me that the neighbor on the other side turned her in because her tree leaves were falling in that lady's yard. She said that she was told by TV that she had to clean up the leaves from her neighbors yards. She has been doing this for years, never in my life have I herd something so nuts as that. If I am raking my yard and the wind blows what I am raking over in the neighbors yard I would go retrieve those leaves but what the tree drops in their yard is theirs to keep.

[archerlc]

If a live tree , on your property, falls on your neighbors property it is their problem. If a dead tree , on your property, falls on your neighbors property it is your problem.
I had a live tree , that had actually started to go had in the center, break and fall on his garage. You could not see that it was going bad. Full leaf growth.
The first thing the insurance man asked was "Did it have leaves"?
I offered to pay the deductible. He said no. He got a new garage roof for $500.

[velcro]

I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

[hulahips]

Have you asked your neighbors to keep their trees trimmed back?? I can understand your frustration as our homes are so close