My kitten loves his hammock in the bathroom window, but my neighbor's trash pile ruins pictures
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.
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Is that the beach from MyHouse.wad?
It's AI. I used self-hosted InvokeAI to inpaint a new window scene for OP's cat.
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.
Came here for this, call housing code enforcement. If they exist where you are.
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.
This was my thoughts too
A community connected could help sort this out and bring good into the world.
I think the cat is happy with the view
Probably enjoying the entertainment all the rodent activity provides
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
Yeah this is a case where some kind of HOA or city blight regulations would actually be a good thing.
Anyone is lucky to even have a house in this economy, calm down.
What does that mean?
Stick a hedge made of cypress trees or something else dense and tall there?
no bylaws against stuff like this? we typically have bylaws against this for reasons like rodent attraction
They just don't want me to build my rat army because I will become unstoppable.
Hey Willard, how's Ben?
Do you want Skaven? Cause this is how you get Skaven.
The trash heap has spoken!
Holy shit, is that fraggle rock?!?
Fraggle Rock was the best show ever 🥹
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!"
Yeah, but, shes adorable lol
Which is fitting because I am pretty sure snow would destroy their ecosystem and kill them all.
No, they actually wanted the snow. I guess they're hardier than you'd think!
Core memories unlocked 😁
Was it the dozers who built everything, and then the fraggles ate it?
When I clicked to see the image, I was honestly expecting the trash pile to be a Tesla Truck.
It will eventually get heaped on there no doubt.
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!
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.
A strategically placed incendiary device would take care of that pile.
"Cast fireball!"
And all the smoke will make some nice new stars.
A “strategically placed” incendiary device that is placed in your next door neighbor’s lot? Right over the fence from your own house? That doesn’t seem very strategic at all.
That's quite the trash stack
You might not see it under normal circumstances, but I'm sure you smell it.
That trash pile is probably visible on Google Earth.
Man could you just imagine what could happen if someone walking by just happened to flick a lit cigarette or 20 into that pile?
I was thinking a "poorly aimed" bottle rocket "from a neighbor kid".
That's a mighty fine trash pile right there.
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.
Yep. Get a Pm2.5, CO2, Formaldehyde, and VOC sensor (roughly £20) and start recording the levels.
That's a health violation
See, this would be a good use of AI.
Just have skynet fly a drone over there and blow the pile to kingdom come.
Not where I thought that was going...
I don't think you cat minds the view. In fact it probably attracts rats and trash birds which they likely enjoy watching
Cute! Also the cat does not seem to care.
The cat is probably keeping an eye on those rodents.
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.
Huge piles of trash might have a few batteries without the ends taped off and cause a fire, just saying
Gawt damn.
Ha ha what a horror. Where do you live, and can't you do something about it?
Shoot fire arrows at it!
Check the wind first.
Who’s your neighbor the trash lady from labyrinth?
A couple gallons of gasoline should clear that right up. Neighbor may even thank you.
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.
Yeah I'll take ugly neighborhoods over predatory organizations run by nimby's designed to keep housing prices up.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Not allowing investment properties is different than not allowing eyesores. I don't think you want to keep prices down by letting the place go to shit.
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.
So, in your country, the government acts like an HOA.
More like the HOAs want to act like a government. But we already have local governments. We don't need two of them.
So the highest level of government should be policing this? You don't think there should be any form of local government?
We already have local governments, too. What a reductive take.
You said you don't need two governments.
This was my first thought as well.
It's funny how many online people turn into libertarians the moment an HOA is mentioned.