Lousy Neighbour

[bedbugy]

i have this next door neighbour who is ab normal and a bit of a dolt

each evening between 6/7 he burns coconut husk around his shack this is an annoying smell that lingers for hours we have tried talking to him but he still contiues is vile habit

what i'd like to know is there a body that can enforce him to stop or can i take it up with the munisipality

[skipvice]

Thats not so bad, my neighbour burn wood to make charcoal 24/7 and all my neighbours burn there trash in there front yard daily. If the wind is blowing your way, your are going to have a bad day.

[samuibeachcomber]

i have this next door neighbour who is ab normal and a bit of a dolt

each evening between 6/7 he burns coconut husk around his shack this is an annoying smell that lingers for hours we have tried talking to him but he still contiues is vile habit

what i'd like to know is there a body that can enforce him to stop or can i take it up with the munisipality

part and parcel of living in thailand i know your post is a serious one,but its not like back home.here they've been doing the things that annoy you for centuries,do you honestly expect them to say"sorry" i wont do it again.

[meom]

Burning coconut husk acts as mosquito repellant so he's actually doing you a favor.

[garyh]

You must be new to Thailand.

[Soutpeel]

what i'd like to know is there a body that can enforce him to stop or can i take it up with the munisipality

.....do you know what country you are in Toto ??.... ....my suggestion...pay him to stop burning them....that will work...

[slapout]

Post 4 and 5 win this weeks prize for understanding, informative, and polite replies. I can imagine that if the op would have asked the fellow burning the husks he may have learned something and even possibly found someone a tad more clever than he thought.

[dumball]

Yeah , I guess you are correct , better to die from smoke inhalation than get bitten by a mosquito , smart people ?????????

[jackr]

If you're in CM there's a number you can call to get him hung, drawn and quartered

[Moonrakers]

Burning coconut husk acts as mosquito repellant so he's actually doing you a favor.

Yep.

Maybe he is asking somebody right now what to do about the lousy farang neighbour who is trying to stop him from stopping the mozzies getting into his house.

[garyh]

Post 4 and 5 win this weeks prize for understanding, informative, and polite replies. I can imagine that if the op would have asked the fellow burning the husks he may have learned something and even possibly found someone a tad more clever than he thought.

LOL I think you have piped us at the post for the weekly prize.

[dumball]

Perhaps the guy could get a tad more civilised and come into the present day , like put mosquito screens on his windows , beats destroying his and his neighbours lungs , goes for all the daily garbage burners also .

[geriatrickid]

Perhaps the guy could get a tad more civilised and come into the present day , like put mosquito screens on his windows , beats destroying his and his neighbours lungs , goes for all the daily garbage burners also .

Ahh but if he did that, then those posts lamenting air quality wouldn't make their annual appearance as people start choking on air particulate and complaining about air quality. There are better ways to discourage mosquitos. You know, stuff like removing the stagnant water collection points from the yards.

[Heng]

Where do you live? I'm looking for a place for my cousin to start up his slaughter house biz. We absolutely don't plan on burning anything. As for the smell... well, surely your up to international specifications house will keep that out.

[globalwander1]

i have this next door neighbour who is ab normal and a bit of a dolt

each evening between 6/7 he burns coconut husk around his shack this is an annoying smell that lingers for hours we have tried talking to him but he still contiues is vile habit

what i'd like to know is there a body that can enforce him to stop or can i take it up with the munisipality

What type of settlement is your home in?, village , city? Is your land a small plot? 'an ounce of prevention' as they say. Do you really want suggestions or are you just complaining? No disrespect intended.

[Saiyan]

Give him some meat to do over the husks and it will smell like a barbeque.

[delmersomsri]

i have this next door neighbour who is ab normal and a bit of a dolt

each evening between 6/7 he burns coconut husk around his shack this is an annoying smell that lingers for hours we have tried talking to him but he still contiues is vile habit

what i'd like to know is there a body that can enforce him to stop or can i take it up with the munisipality

Buy a mosquito net for your neighbors sleeping area and suggest that he stop his ritual of burning coconut husk. If you pay him you will just open pandora's box.

[Heng]

Yeah, just giving him free stuff will just totally change his attitude on life.

[Cuban]

One of the key requirements to living in rural Thailand - have space around your property.

[Thongkorn]

Perhaps the guy could get a tad more civilised and come into the present day , like put mosquito screens on his windows , beats destroying his and his neighbours lungs , goes for all the daily garbage burners also .

Ahh but if he did that, then those posts lamenting air quality wouldn't make their annual appearance as people start choking on air particulate and complaining about air quality. There are better ways to discourage mosquitos. You know, stuff like removing the stagnant water collection points from the yards.

This is Thailand Thais do what Thais have done for Years , Everything that has been Suggested costs money , Coconut husks are free and its a proven method,

[Cuban]

>Coconut husks are free and its a proven method,

And after they have been used as the dogs' pull-apart toys they burn well too.

[rabcbroon]

you have neighbour that lives in a shack

[johnson36]

Perhaps the guy could get a tad more civilised and come into the present day , like put mosquito screens on his windows , beats destroying his and his neighbours lungs , goes for all the daily garbage burners also .

Ahh but if he did that, then those posts lamenting air quality wouldn't make their annual appearance as people start choking on air particulate and complaining about air quality. There are better ways to discourage mosquitos. You know, stuff like removing the stagnant water collection points from the yards.

This is Thailand Thais do what Thais have done for Years , Everything that has been Suggested costs money , Coconut husks are free and its a proven method,

I agree, in the villages they do things the same as they would have done 50 years ago and if you go there in 50 years time they will still be doing the things the same way, Ive spent many days in my wifes families village and it didn't take me long to work out that they don't like change, its very hard to teach or show them a different way to do something. My wife will not tell her mother anything, because she is her mother and also because its an older person. Last year I noticed all the vegetables / herbs and chillies were kept in on the floor where I regularly see rats running around at night, there was open bags of chillies with lots of mouldy ones, the fridge was empty apart from some bottles of water, I asked my wife why her mum doesn't keep the food in the fridge, as we do in the UK, her response " because she doesn't" I tell her to tell her mum, she say she can not. How will the villages ever develop if the children can't tell there parents a better way of doing something. My wife has lived in the UK for 6 years now and has learnt alot and speaks perfect English but she will not teach or tell her parents anything.

[Soutpeel]

you have neighbour that lives in a shack

Better than living in shoe I suppose...

Guess we know the turn this thread is going to make now...

[Cuban]

Better than living in shoe I suppose...

...we dreamed of living in a shoe, there was sixteen of us sharing a hole in the road, nothing to eat but cold gravel...

[rabcbroon]

Better than living in shoe I suppose...

...we dreamed of living in a shoe, there was sixteen of us sharing a hole in the road, nothing to eat but cold gravel...

cold gravel . . . . . . . . was a luxury in my day

[phazey]

If there are multiple problems of neighbours burning things which in one form or another annoy you - the obvious investment to make would be in a hose pipe....

[Payboy]

Maybe, its easier to talk to the mozzies and see if they'll stay away for a fee.

[caf]

If there are multiple problems of neighbours burning things which in one form or another annoy you - the obvious investment to make would be in a hose pipe....

and what do you think thais would do if you used your hosepipe??

perhaps you'd like to try the experiment and let us know what they did in retribution.

the only way is to talk to them and get the neighbours on your side and they may have a word

[mca]

Better than living in shoe I suppose...

...we dreamed of living in a shoe, there was sixteen of us sharing a hole in the road, nothing to eat but cold gravel...

Cold gravel! COLD GRAVEL! Bloody luxury! My mum used to stick her fingers down her throat and vomit to give us a hot meal during winter.

My dad gave me an empty shoebox for Christmas and told me it was an Action Man deserter.

etc. etc.