My first rant and I am so so cross with my ex towny neighbour!

VictoriaEDT

VictoriaEDT

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Really chuffed off at the moment as my inconsiderate towny b*****rd neighbour who moved in two months ago has started flying remote control helicopters (with a 20ft ploom of smoke in tow!) in his field next to my boys. When I confronted him about how dangerous it is and my boys could injure themselves (they went mental); he said "if they injure themselves you cant prove it was the helicopters that caused it! He said he isnt going to stop flying them!

The stupid man bought a 3 acre field specifically to fly these dam things and twice a week goes up in his brand new "ride on" mower to mow a helipad!!!! This is in the middle of noware in somerset!

Im fuming and this is very uncharacteristic of me!
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Lol, there's people that do this at the farm where I keep Chex, luckily they're a field or two away though so the horses can't hear it so loudly. They do get used to the noise, but its not exactly ideal
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. The people fly planes and helicopters, they have a mini grass runway too, they're always out mowing it lol
 
well the signal of remote control helicopters is very easy to intercept, buy yourself a control, fiddle round untill you get the right frequency, take over control of the helicopter and fly it into a tree!
 
If you can buy model planes, and model helicopters, can you also buy model anti- aircraft guns?
Or perhaps you should celebrate every weekend (or whenever he appears) by letting off lots of balloons, with strings dangling...that should screw up his plans!
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An a**e hole over the road has got REAL helicopter which he likes flying over my field...

My townie neighbours kindly put a huge heap of grass clippings right by the fence so my horse could get to them. Luckily horse found them today while we were at home rather than a week day when we'd be at work, so we electric fenced them off. Been watching him for colic all day but so far so good. Think from the depression in the pile that he'd had about a feed scoop full.

And nearly got my head taken off the other week while schooling my 4 yo by an RAF massive twin rotor helicopter. Wrote to complain cos it was REALLY low & REALLY scarey & if I'd been on Cat I wouldn't be alive to tell the tale. They wrote back - apparently they need to practice in case there's a war so they can fly wherever they damn well like, & if I get killed as a result, that's one small sacrifice for the greater good.

Sorry, I seem to have hijacked your rant with a rant of my own, but I meant to sympathise re rubbish neighbours.
 
its not realy hard at all but might be a bit expensive, you pop down to your local modle aircraft shop, ask them for advice as though you want to buy a gift for nephew/father etc, discribe the helicopter in vague female terms, (its big black makes alot of noise those sort of terms), flutter your eyelashes and they will normaly do thier best to get you the right control.

not that i have any experiance of this of course!!
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(well silent flight club at school had to come in useful for something!)
 
No please go ahead and join in! and anyone else too that has a complete pillock of a towny neighbour thats in aww of the country!

He also has 3/4 acre paddock which he has mowed and turned into a garden and put a big washing line in the middle of it as well as lots of flower beds. He lives on his "ride on" mower.....its pathetic!

To top it off I live in a farmhouse and his lives in the converted outbuildings and we share the drive. He has pea shingled the bloody drive whilst we were on holiday because his car got dirty from the dust!!!! The drive belongs to us and its the bloody country!!!
 
Take a tractor over the peashingle preferably one thats just come out of a nice muddy field, hay in pea shingle is always good as well.

Alternatively as he did it without your consent and you own it, send him a letter telling him to remove it or you will have it removed and take him to court over the cost, normaly gets them shifting. (consult the CAB about the correct wording etc)
 
Well at least yours didn't try and steal half your dry stone wall to repair theirs with! Thats what the lot who moved into the land next to us did. They also got some sheep on, which kept excaping into our other very nice neighbours land. Then they got two uncut younsters on their land and had no clue what they were doing with them. And they want to build a monstrosity of a house I could go on and hijack the post so must stop!
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sorry for rant.
 
i think you should take up clay pigeon shooting on those said days...........and miss the clays - maybe you would hit something else!
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guy sounds like a to s s e r!!
 
No wonder you are fed up of him. He sounds a right berk.

Ah, if he is true to type he will get bored of country living and disappear back to where he belongs.

If not, you will have to become a terrorist threat to his heliport.
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You really must mess up the drive too.
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Alternatively befriend tosser of a neighbour and show interest in said helicopter.... find out what model it is and then go to model shop and explain that you reversed over the controls and you desperately need another one or your OH is going to kill you, then demolish said helicopter....

Will you be selling tickets to this grand event..... or make sure you record it on video! Would love to see the blokes face!
 
oh and shavings (dirty ones) are a nightmare to get out of shingle, infact they dont actualy come out no matter what you do, and horse poo is not good for it either!!
 
im trying my best to mess up the drive in my massive great big new nissan navara by skidding where possible......but he just comes out in his cropped trousers trainers and oakleys (even if its cloudy) and smooths it with his feet!
 
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And nearly got my head taken off the other week while schooling my 4 yo by an RAF massive twin rotor helicopter. Wrote to complain cos it was REALLY low & REALLY scarey & if I'd been on Cat I wouldn't be alive to tell the tale. They wrote back - apparently they need to practice in case there's a war so they can fly wherever they damn well like, & if I get killed as a result, that's one small sacrifice for the greater good.


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Were you wearing reflective gear?
 
I can understand why you are upset, but he has the right to do what he likes, same as you do. I presume he doesn't require a licence, or if he does, he has one? The horses will get used to it soon, I promise. If ours can get used to being right next to an RAF base, having helicopters (proper biggies) flown so low over them you can see the pilot, and sometimes they have landrovers swinging from underneath them, and planes galore, then remote controlled helicopters should be a doddle!
 
oh and they both religously go walking at 5pm on the same footpath every night with his baby on his back and his american pit bull terrier. It annoys they other neighbours whose driveway and gardens they walk through every day on this footpath.

Any other tips to drive them back to the town?!
 
Hopefully they will wheezy but im just worried about the meantime whilst they do get used to it. Dont think he needs a license for them though. He has been reported to the council though for changing the use of his paddock into a garden without PPermission!
 
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And nearly got my head taken off the other week while schooling my 4 yo by an RAF massive twin rotor helicopter.

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That happened to us on Friday - I was spitting bricks as the heli would have seen us so decided to fly the otherside of the trees to appear BANG infront of us and landed (which was fine as it landed on the base) - I have emailed to complain that the pilot should have showen a little more sense
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They are good guys though, this is the first *incident* in 3 years and more than likely was a new guy who didn't realise that there is an unwritten rule regarding the horses (YOs land borders the base and there are meetings to ensure everyones safety - like they now put a flag out for us if they are shooting
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He has been reported to the council though for changing the use of his paddock into a garden without PPermission!

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Well that is fair enough, as we are all victimised if we even put a blooming jump in a grazing field
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I may get shot down..but if he has bought the land it is his right to do on it what he wants.
Frustrating, have you talked to him about it?
 
I know he does but he doesnt care that the field is alongside the A30 and I know a 14 year old girl rides down the road and a 75 year old woman. He said "well whats the difference between the holicopter and the cars?" I have tried to talk nicely but thats when he said I couldnt prove the chopper caused injury to the horses and that just wound me up. He has no respect for the country and thats what makes me cross.
 
No I wasn't wearing reflective gear, (altho I wear so much out hacking that I'm prob visible from space) because I was schooling my own horse in my own field which is just behind the house. Out of all the places to ride, this is the one where (I thought) I was entitled to feel safe.

We are a good 15 miles from where the helicopter came from, which is RAF Henlow, so it's not as if we're in their flight path. My horse is light grey, so we'd have shown up quite well.
 
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