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In this bonus episode of Dyer Straits, Danny and Dani respond to Reynolds from Liverpool, who's at his wit's end with a neighbor constantly dumping rubbish in their shared alley. The episode dives into the frustration of dealing with fly-tipping, with Danny and Dani sharing personal experiences and offering advice on handling the situation without igniting a neighbourhood feud.
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Speaker A:We're going to answer your questions, dilemmas or problems and we've all got them.
Speaker A:So should we go for it?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:What's this one about, Dan?
Speaker B:Right, we've got one called Rubbish.
Speaker B:Okay, first of all, Reynold from Liverpool.
Speaker A:Oh, his name's Reynold.
Speaker B:Reynold.
Speaker A:Good name.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Dear Danny and Danny, I'm writing to you both in absolute desperation about a situation that's driving me mad.
Speaker B:My name is Reynold and I'm on wit's end with my neighbor's absolutely shocking behavior.
Speaker B:For the past six months, this neighbour has been systematically dumping rubbish all over the shared alleyway behind our terraced houses.
Speaker B:And when I say rubbish, I mean everything from household waste to old furniture, broken electrical items, you name it.
Speaker B:It's like they've turned our communal space into their personal tip.
Speaker B:I've tried everything.
Speaker B:I've spoken to them politely multiple times.
Speaker B:I've left friendly notes explaining the issue.
Speaker B:I've even offered to help them dispose of items properly.
Speaker B:I've documented everything with photos.
Speaker B:I've contacted the local council multiple times.
Speaker B:Nothing works.
Speaker B:The rubbish keeps piling up, it's attracting rats and it's making the entire area look like a complete tip.
Speaker B:My property value must be tanking and is causing me serious stress.
Speaker B:I'm desperate for advice.
Speaker B:How do I handle this without ending up in a full blown neighbourhood war?
Speaker B:I know you two aren't afraid to tell it like it is, so I'm hoping you can give me some straight talking advice on the Dire Straits podcast.
Speaker B:Cheers, Reynold.
Speaker B:I'm fuming for you, Reynold.
Speaker B:We don't like the rubbish there.
Speaker A:Well, we've had our issues around rubbish ourselves.
Speaker B:We've had a few fly tipping things happen recently in our neighborhood, haven't we dad?
Speaker A:Well, I live in quite a lovely area and it's country lanes and sometimes some cunt and I do ap, I do apologize, but again, if you're tuning into a podcast, you know you don't like swearing.
Speaker A:What the fuck are you listening to this for?
Speaker A:And some fucking arseholes have decided, I don't know what time, two, three in the morning.
Speaker A:It's near a school as well, to just dump all their again, mattresses, old beds, a fridge just dumped in like near enough in the middle of the road.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker A:You've had it before.
Speaker B:Yeah, literally the other week outside our.
Speaker A:Gates and then they off and just leave it Right.
Speaker A:There two reasons I was wound up.
Speaker A:One, I thought, that's just wrong, man.
Speaker A:Like there.
Speaker A:There are such things as tips.
Speaker A:Now there's an argument to, you know, you got that they charge you for that they shouldn't, I don't think.
Speaker A:Because rubbish needs to go somewhere.
Speaker A:And so if, like governments again are going to charge people to go to a tip to get.
Speaker A:If you can't afford it, you've got to get rid of this shit.
Speaker A:But to drive it to an area obviously away from your own area, because you could tell by the rubbish it wasn't.
Speaker B:How'd you do that?
Speaker A:Just that.
Speaker A:Because it's an.
Speaker A:Because it's an.
Speaker A:What you're doing is you're going.
Speaker A:You're saying, I can't be bothered with this, so I'm going to dump it and let someone else deal with it.
Speaker A:That winds me up.
Speaker B:I can't bear it.
Speaker A:And you know.
Speaker A:And the second thing is we all made phone calls about it.
Speaker A:Three weeks it took for our council to come and fucking move it.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Three weeks.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:That was.
Speaker A:So you're swerving around it.
Speaker B:It was dangerous.
Speaker A:It was dangerous.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:Like why did it take for.
Speaker A:Because again, we paid council tax.
Speaker A:All of us.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Which I really ate this.
Speaker A:Another bill.
Speaker A:So we paid council tax.
Speaker A:You go, okay, so we pay a council to look after us and the bins and everything.
Speaker A:And I think that that's goes for the fire brigade and the police in your area.
Speaker A:All that bollocks.
Speaker A:Another thing is if someone dumps all that shit in the middle of the road, then the council, because we pay them, whatever it is, 300 quid a month to come and move it.
Speaker A:Please can you come move this?
Speaker A:Because there's children in the area.
Speaker A:And also someone might set light to.
Speaker B:This massive pile of it.
Speaker B:Weren't there huge.
Speaker B:That must have been a big truck to like dump all that.
Speaker A:Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker A:Just absolutely.
Speaker A:You know, and it would have took time.
Speaker A:That's the other thing.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:You can't just dump that quickly.
Speaker B:Because we had it.
Speaker B:I just.
Speaker A:I can't understand when we viewed him.
Speaker B:We had it literally just outside, you know, the gates where, like where the little equestrian center thing is.
Speaker B:It was just there.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:A massive pile of it.
Speaker B:But then when we first moved there, I remember seeing a sign, no flight tipping cameras and stuff.
Speaker A:So they.
Speaker A:So they've.
Speaker A:So they've done.
Speaker B:But they must have done.
Speaker B:But there must.
Speaker A:Is there any cameras there?
Speaker B:I don't think there is.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Because there isn't a camera where they Don't.
Speaker B:If there is a camera that's when they don't fly tip.
Speaker A:Honestly, I mean the thing about this Reynold is I don't know.
Speaker A:These were.
Speaker A:No, I have no idea.
Speaker B:This would literally.
Speaker A:Well, this is your neighbor and the.
Speaker B:Fact that he's reached out multiple times and going, listen, what can I do?
Speaker B:I would lose my head in the end.
Speaker B:Why is this person doing this?
Speaker B:It's so selfish.
Speaker A:I think you've got.
Speaker A:Look, listen, you've either got to rely on your counsel.
Speaker A:It sounds like you can't because they don't give a fuck.
Speaker B:I'd ring the police or what the.
Speaker A:Fuck the old bill going to do.
Speaker B:I'd have to ring the police.
Speaker A:Old Bill do fuck all at the moment you've got about, you know, like I don't understand what they actually do, the police.
Speaker A:You know, it might be down to the fact that, you know, the budget for the police in this country has been stripped back so much.
Speaker A:There ain't no police about.
Speaker A:You know, God forbid your house gets burgled.
Speaker A:They're just not about, mate.
Speaker A:They're just not about.
Speaker A:Oh, just like, you know, like they won't turn up, you know, whatever.
Speaker A:So we're in a weird stage with that.
Speaker A:I think you've got to again confront your fucking neighbor, mate.
Speaker A:And you've got to go around there and say, what mate, what are you doing?
Speaker B:Yeah, there's like seriously all the neighborhood like meet up and then like go to the house and be like, come on, like enough.
Speaker A:Well that's what you would think would happen and people come together and you would say, mate, like, listen, I'm not being tricky.
Speaker A:I want it like you're leaving shit, just shit.
Speaker A:Piles of shit there.
Speaker A:Like you've got to do something about it, mate.
Speaker A:Like we'll club together if you skin and we'll take it down the tip together.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker A:But let's like let's get.
Speaker A:You gotta get.
Speaker A:You gotta stop doing this.
Speaker A:You got to try and be a decent human being about it, Reynold.
Speaker A:But you know, that's really taking the piss.
Speaker A:And you're right, it's the rats and shit.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And you don't want to be living like that.
Speaker B:Living like that.
Speaker A:Look, I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker A:Maybe I shouldn't declare this but me and your mother have to do some fly tipping.
Speaker A:Now.
Speaker A:It's not actually fly tipping because what we do is because the bit again going back to the cancel tax and our bins and you get the same.
Speaker A:Our main bin gets Changed every two weeks.
Speaker A:So we have normal bins then recycling every Tuesday.
Speaker A:Yeah, all right, so.
Speaker A:So you've got two weeks.
Speaker A:I've only got one bin now.
Speaker A:Especially when the Terribles come over and there's nappies and, you know, you soon fill up.
Speaker A:We run out of space.
Speaker B:So do I.
Speaker A:Right, so what we have to do is we go down to Custom House where we was brought up, where your nan lives, Carol, who lives on a Masonette, and they've got.
Speaker A:Again, this is probably gonna be all over the papers.
Speaker A:And so what they've got, they've got a shoot room.
Speaker A:So they've got the great big.
Speaker A:Where Carol lives.
Speaker A:I mean, it's a half hour drive.
Speaker A:So sometimes I find myself going into my bin, picking out old bags with Chinese in it and rotting maggots, probably in the bottom bin juice, putting them in me Bentley in the boat all the way to Custom House so that I can get rid of a couple of bags to make some room and go and put them in the big silver bins and there's always plenty of room.
Speaker A:You know, sometimes the neighbours poke their nut out the window and they say, what's Danny Dyer doing looking through my bin?
Speaker A:Well, I'm not actually going through the bins, I'm just putting a few bags in.
Speaker A:So I don't want to cause any ago stress.
Speaker A:I wouldn't do it if there was no room.
Speaker A:But I need to make room so that I can, you know, just get through that two week period.
Speaker B:Because I run up the council about us like getting a bigger bin.
Speaker B:But you have to be a family of what, a week currently?
Speaker B:Do you mean you're a family of five, aren't you only living in your four?
Speaker A:Well, if you include Debs, then you.
Speaker B:Think you have to be a family of six to get a bigger bin, which is bollocks.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:And it's not that much bigger.
Speaker A:Yeah, I've noticed actually next door's got a bigger bin.
Speaker B:Yeah, they had a new baby.
Speaker B:They probably had a new baby for a bigger bin.
Speaker A:Thing is.
Speaker A:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker A:I mean, I think, oh, God, maybe.
Speaker B:I'll churn out another one.
Speaker A:Do I want to bang another one out?
Speaker A:No, I don't think.
Speaker A:I don't think it's so important, that bin thing.
Speaker A:And anyone that owns your property, you'll understand this bollocks.
Speaker A:People that don't understand are people that ain't got an ass.
Speaker A:Because once you, you know when you got a because.
Speaker A:And that's the other thing.
Speaker A:If you missed that.
Speaker A:But you've done it once.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:When you've missed the bin, I've sobbed.
Speaker A:That's a month.
Speaker A:Sobbed a month for shit.
Speaker B:I have literally wanted to chase the bin.
Speaker B:Megan.
Speaker B:No, I have cried over my boy.
Speaker A:I forgot to take the bin down.
Speaker A:I've heard it on the street.
Speaker A:I've jumped out of my bed in little Speedos, run down, put me slippers on naked to run that bin down because God forbid you miss it.
Speaker A:The aggravation of trying to sort that shit out, you got to think that's in the.
Speaker A:Cuz the bottom bag in that bin will be two weeks old.
Speaker A:You can imagine what that smelling like.
Speaker B:Imagine.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:It's like dead people in there.
Speaker A:So Reynold, what you got to do mate is you've got to have it out with this, this geezer or woman, whoever the it is and you've got to start, you know, trying to get on with them and try and make it civil because you can't have this.
Speaker A:You know, this is outrageous behavior and you know, some people do have that habit of just dumping wherever the they fancy and it's not on.
Speaker A:You can't do it.
Speaker B:Absolutely not.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker A:So if it's a money thing and they're a bit skin then you've got again you shouldn't have to put your hand in your pocket though.
Speaker A:But you know it needs to go in a tip.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Do you know what I mean?
Speaker A:It's weird innit, because when you buy a property you buy your dream house, you can't buy your neighbors.
Speaker B:Of course you can't.
Speaker A:We spoke about this.
Speaker A:It's just as important to try and luckily roll the dice.
Speaker A:Pray to the neighbor gods that you move next to someone that's a fucking decent human being and you can become friends and it's all lovely and you're going to live in harmony.
Speaker A:But yeah, this is wound me up this one, Reynold, and I'll be thinking about you all day so I wish you luck with it mate.
Speaker A:But you've got to manipulate this into being your mate and that you can come together as a team just to stop this.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:I wish you all the best, Reynold.
Speaker A:Do get in touch and let us know if we don't get canceled obviously as a podcast because we would love to know and love to love you to send a picture of you and your scruffy neighbor holding hands.
Speaker B:Thanks for listening to Dire Straits.
Speaker B:We'll be back next week with more of your questions.
Speaker B:If you'd like us to solve your problems.
Speaker B:Please get in touch on Dyers global.com or find us at dyerspod on Instagram.
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