do your neighbors throw garbage out of their windows?

Um, no. Unless you happen to live in Brooklyn in 1805 then I would say this is not normal or acceptable behavior.

If this is the case, please share the plans for your time machine.

Two years ago, someone from the big building next to me threw out of their window a plastic bag containing baby clothing and dirty, used diapers, which got caught up in the huge tree straddling our backyards. For a year, since it was too high up to knock down with a broomstick, we were treated to a "diaper tree", especially lovely in the summer. Who grows up like that? :evil:

My apartment looks out over this nasty little alley between maybe three or four other buildings - it's just a very big airshaft, really. Two years ago my upstairs neighbors threw FISH PARTS out the window. In the middle of summer. The stench was incredible.

ew ew EEEEEW this is so NASTY! who ARE your neighbors? that is some serious trailer trash shit right there. how utterly vile. i thought it was bad when our accross the hall neighbors used to leave their greasy foul meat-garbage out in the halls and then drag it down the stairs leaving a slip and slide slime trail...but seriously EW that is SO much worse. i wonder if there's a way you can collect this garbage (with a biohazard suit and rubber gloves naturally) and deposit the offending articles on their doorstep, with a cheery little note telling them you found some of their lost stuff, and that there is no need to thank you, just a good samaritan doing your job.

because EW.

I live next door to 269 Prospect Place and people throw crap out of their windows all the time. It's disgusting to have to pick up other peoples trash in my own yard.

This is the kind of conversation that suburban-ites think Brooklyn-ites talk about. Garbage out the window? I mean, come on.

i see the occasional garbage on the ground but its suprisingly not bad. but i do always get a kick out of hair clumps (weave peices that fell out maybe?) rolling down the street like tumbleweeds.


i have to confess. i have thrown dead mice out the window when i lived in staten island... the only time i ever had mice thankfully. i have cats now.

anyway, fish parts, that is just vile. put the damn fish parts in a bag and down the trash chute or outside in the trash where they belong. its not really that hard. i cant believe people throw dirty diapers out the window.
i mean, they live there too, why don't they care if theres a dirty diaper in the courtyard type thing.etc

people pee in one of the two elevators in my building. i dont get that either. if you have to take the elevator.. why do you want to make it smell like piss. and you are on your way home. just hold it in. you can tell because, besides the smell of urine, its an old copper elevator and there are stains down towards the bottom that are very ... fluid like. and in a straight line. but it drips down. ew.
its very obvious. people will from time to time write 'DONT PISS IN HERE' or something along those lines on the wall.

I have also thrown a few dead mice out the window, but I was careful to make sure they landed only in my asshole neighbors yard. Hopefully the stray cats ate them.

On a more interesting note, once I freed a mouse onto my roof garden and put him into the rain gutter (so my cats couldn't get to him). I figured he'd die anyway, but I couldn't bear to kill him. And I thought maybe (big maybe) he'd climb up the gutter to the main roof. I don't know what purpose I thought this would serve, but I found out next day. I was lying in bed reading, and out of the corner of my eye I saw some large flying object. I looked out the window and saw that it was a hawk who briefly landed on the main roof. Nature at it's best.

moufaisbad wrote: when i lived in south slope, the neighbors used to throw entire turkey carcases, pots with side dishes and half eaten birthday cakes out the window into our very well tended garden.

Lemme get this straigt: someone threw cake out the window? :?

Animals!! :x

Cupcake wrote: [quote=moufaisbad]when i lived in south slope, the neighbors used to throw entire turkey carcases, pots with side dishes and half eaten birthday cakes out the window into our very well tended garden.

Lemme get this straigt: someone threw cake out the window? :?

Animals!! :x

well its obvious then, by discarding their cake out the window...they chose death. the heathens!

Anonymous wrote: You are all very calm about this. I would be very confrontational about it and if I didn't get a satisfactory change in behavior, I'd knock on their door, and when opened, throw all the garbage on the floor of their apartment.

With all due respect, war with your neighbors is not something to consider lightly. I'm 6'2", 210, and rarely have to get into conflicts. However, even when there is a problem, going from zero to rage in 2.6 seconds usually is the wrong approach. There are a variety of ways to deal with buttheads, and sometimes it's just a matter of making them realize that what they do is affecting others. That said, we all pay for law enforcement to take care of conflicts when they can't be resolved normally.

We put up with a lot in NY (see http://www.alienlovespredator.com/index.php?id=75), and not having a short fuse is one of the keys...

Subject: garbage-being-thrown-out-the-window

We used to have the garbage-being-thrown-out-the-window problem (and other stray garbage problems) in our building too.

In fact, the garbage-throwing was so negligent that our old super was allegedly hit in the head by a flying garbage bag while he was working in our alley! This story was really shocking to me when I moved into the building, and I never dreamed that the problem was so widespread... live and learn in the city!

Thankfully, the garbage-flying-out-the-window has now been solved by our diligent co-op board...