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Neighbor’s Security Camera Records You. OK To Be Naughty? [Survey]
“Obviously, they want to see something, Could I walk around nude in my back yard and do adult things?” someone wondered.
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“Obviously, they want to see something, Could I walk around nude in my back yard and do adult things?” someone wondered.
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No Mow May is one way to help pollinators, but not the only one, many readers said. Others called it an unproven “half-baked idea.”
For some people, the mowing season is in full swing. Others, who are observing “No Mow May,” say the pause helps imperiled pollinators.
Being respectful is important, readers told us, whether to immediate neighbors or the DIYers who want to make the most of their weekends.
When close neighbors start their circular saws and drills and begin pounding hammers at daybreak, do you fume or admire their ambition?
When neighbor kids overstay, there may be a reason. When it comes to setting boundaries, “you don’t,” one reader said. “Just enjoy the kids.
The neighbor’s kids and your kids are pals, but they’re always hanging out at your house. Their parents never reciprocate. What do you do?
Should a 75-year-old with a bad back have to scrape a bundt cake off his driveway in what one reader called society’s “not it” game?
Responsibility follows trash, right? You might think. Or do you and your neighbors owe it to each other to pick up trash when you see it?
Dogs do need room to romp, but unleashing them on daily walks in the neighborhood and parks is dangerous, entitled and rude, readers said.
Leashes may be required, but some people give their dogs the freedom to romp — and jump and slobber on people, or worse, knock them down.
Feeding birds brings great joy to some but expensive hassles for neighbors who have to exterminate rats and other critters drawn to feeders.
Besides pretty birds, your neighbor’s back yard feeder may attract squirrels and raccoons, rats and cats, or even bears. What do you do?
Many readers said how they store RVs on their property is nobody’s business, but others said private property rights aren’t absolute.
Some neighborhoods have covenants dictating when people can park their RVs on their property or on the street. What do you think about this?
Twinkling lights year-round make some people happy. Others are over it. When it comes to blow-up displays, “just nope,” several readers say.
You may think there’s no harm in extending the magic of the holidays with your twinkling lights, but your neighbors may be over them.
When neighbors continually ask for annoying favors, it’s best to shut it down, even if they never talk to you again, several readers said.
It’s not the people who need help in a pinch who are annoying, but those who habitually take advantage of your generosity. What do you do?
Readers made New Year’s resolutions for their neighbors about leaf blowers, free-range cats, nosiness and noisiness, and property upkeep.
Competition for on-street parking is fierce during the holidays, but it doesn’t do much good to complain, readers told us.
“Who are we to say what our neighbors can and cannot display?” said a Patch reader who claims to be Santa. “Their house, their tastes.”
Are bright lights with animated characters synchronized to music your thing? Or do you prefer wreaths and bows and a few twinkling lights?
There’s always that one neighbor who wouldn’t know a snow shovel if hit over the head with it — not that we’re advising that for shirkers.
Readers defending gas-powered leaf blowers huffed and puffed — “Move to another country!” one implored — as others stood up for pollinators.
Whatever the age of the trick-or-treater, Halloween is a time for spirited fun in neighborhoods across the country.
Is it OK for kids to trick or treat when they’re 17 or 18? What about 15 or 16? Or is this a Halloween ritual for the under-9 crowd?
Lighten up and enjoy your neighbors’ creativity, many readers said. Others said blood and guts may be too much for young trick-or-treaters.
“Living in a community means letting other people live their lives while you live your own,” said a reader who thinks that’s lost on some.
The bottom line on neighborhood smoking etiquette, one reader said: “Personal freedoms end when they negatively impact others’ well-being.”
Readers spoke clearly. Persistent door-to-door solicitors are rude, they said; why should they put on manners when shooing the pests away?
Readers raise a stink about dog walkers who let their pets “squat and go,” leaving their neighbors to clean up the mess left behind.
Many readers get over it if dog owners drop the doo in their empty trash cans; another wants to know “who is sniffing trash cans, anyway?”
If you’re still in bed at 8, are you the problem? Do climate and gig jobs change weekend power tool rules? Is dawn to midnight OK with you?
When neighbors don’t mind their own business but are harmless, chill; some readers described situations that escalated far beyond nosiness.
Many readers are down with their neighbors’ DIY 4th of July fireworks shows, but there are exceptions — ones they say should be respected.
Good neighbors don’t get up in other people’s business but will clean up the blood if you cut yourself and have to go to the hospital.
Loud music, trashy yards and gawking neighbors are annoying, but what do you do when a dog lifts its leg and mock pees on your inside pup?
As the No Mow May movement gains ground, not everyone thinks letting flowering weeds grow does much to help bees and pollinators.
Try talking it out, readers say, but because these dogs have been allowed to trespass and act like galoots in the past, that may work.