Weird neighbour keeps moving our pram.

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For the past few months, someone in our building of 12 flats has been moving our pram around which I take downstairs every morning and leave next to the front door of the building, on the inside of the security door. We've lived here for 5 years and never had a problem with leaving it there in the morning when we had our first son. This is so my wife doesn't have to carry it downstairs (we live on the upper ground floor).

First someone took it through the security door and left it by the flat post boxes, which was quite a shock since we thought it had been stolen. When my wife found it there we thought it was a cleaner or someone needing to move something large through the hallway, but then it happened a few more times.

Lately the person just moves it away from the corner where I leave it, and actually into the way of anyone who wants to go downstairs to the lower floor where the car park is. At first we thought it was some teenagers next door, so I waited downstairs for them a few times out of view to catch them, but they didn't move it. Then this morning I saw a middle-aged guy from another flat go out and I heard him move the pram, but by the time I got downstairs he had gone.

What do you reckon I should do about it? Like I said, it's in the corner and not in anybody's way, so I don't know why he just moves it away from the wall all the time and more into the hallway. I am planning on waiting for him tomorrow and when he moves it I will quickly try film him on my phone so he can't deny it and I will ask him WTF he is doing moving our pram all the time.

It's not criminal right, so nothing much I can do besides speak to him? It's bizarre behavior, so I thought I would check if there is anything I should say to make sure he stops. I'm not big, so I don't think I can intimidate him. Is filming and confronting him a smart move?

I'm vetoing nuke him from orbit/stand and bang/boxing stance/poo through his letterbox.

UPDATE: To save people reading the whole thread, I confronted the guy this morning, and after initially denying it, he admitted moving the pram and told me to stop leaving it there or he would write to building management. From now on my wife will have to take the pram down.
 
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why would you need to film him?????????

Just ask him politely if its an issue, I'm assuming that if you are both adults you shouldn't have to 'confront' him, and he should give you a reasonable explanation. If he thinks its getting in the way or whatever you should both be able to come to a agreement about where to leave it.

e: I should clarify, if I was being 'filmed and confronted' for moving a pram a few feet, I certainly wouldn't be the weirdest person there :p
 
I can understand why you're annoyed but I've got no idea why you would film him. I imagine he's moving it because he sees it as other tenants leaving their crap lying around.

This is one of those ones where your point of view is directly informed by how it affects you.
 
tbh people probably get fed-up that you think you can have your possessions spill out into the public areas of the block.

Next will be bikes, and crap that people can't keep in their flats. Moving it is weird, sure, but people get pee'd off by things like taking liberties with public spaces...
 
Boycey0211 said:
why would you need to film him?????????

Just ask him politely if its an issue, I'm assuming that if you are both adults you shouldn't have to 'confront' him, and he should give you a reasonable explanation. If he thinks its getting in the way or whatever you should both be able to come to a agreement about where to leave it.

e: I should clarify, if I was being 'filmed and confronted' for moving a pram a few feet, I certainly wouldn't be the weirdest person there :p
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The reason I am filming him is because otherwise there is nothing stopping him from saying "Mate I didn't touch your pram." when I ask him what he's doing. I agree we are both adults, but there is clearly something weird going on in his head if he thinks it's OK to unlock someone else's pram and move it into an insecure location on the other side of the door. We even found dried leaves in it once.

Pug said:
tbh people probably get fed-up that you think you can have your possessions spill out into the public areas of the block.

Next will be bikes, and crap that people can't keep in their flats. Moving it is weird, sure, but people get pee'd off by things like taking liberties with public spaces...
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Like I said, we've lived here for 5 years, long before this guy moved in, and no-one ever had a problem with it before. It's just in the morning so my wife can take our 3 year old to school. She takes it back upstairs at lunchtime when she comes back from picking him up. We use the pram for our 4 month old baby.
 
I'm somewhat confused, do you take the pram downstairs, leave it there, go back to your flat and then go out later? Why not just take it down as you leave for wherever you're going?
 
Leave a polite printed notice hanging on the pram saying why it is left there and asking that it be left alone, or simply explain the situation to whoever it is, politely of course.

Always try explanation and mediation before anything else.
 
Yeah I get you, but I don't think he'll deny it, he probably doesn't know whos it is to ask them about it.

Just because no one has mentioned it before doesn't mean you are right, I had a neigbour that used to leave his curry outside my door because 'it smelled and he didn't want it inside'.

I was the weirdo that kept hanging it off his doorhandle because he wouldn't stop after I asked him to. He got really angry with that and stopped
 
I'm surprised 'boxing stance' is always 1st choice of action...

Seriously if it's out of the way, & it make it easier for your wife, especially if your out, then stick a polite notice on it.
 
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I guess he/she is moving it because you keep leaving it in the way of where the person walks. Same reason why I fold a wing mirror in if a person has parked on the curb and not left enough room for me to walk past, or a person with a pram.
 
It's communal space - would you accept everyone else leaving large bulky items there?

You should keep it in your flat.


Alternatively, nuke from a high altitude stealth bomber (which you did not veto).
 
FutileBreadMachine said:
Like I said, we've lived here for 5 years, long before this guy moved in, and no-one ever had a problem with it before.
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I don't think you can make that assertion. Perhaps the man is simply the first person who is intolerant/odd enough to actually do something about it. I can certainly empathise; leaving your possessions around public areas would likely aggravate me too.

Just go have a word without pointing a camera in his face.
 
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