‘I came home to find my neighbour had screwed my gate shut – I’m fuming’

A man was left dumbfounded when he came home to discover his neighbour had screwed his garden gate shut.

The anonymous man took to the Reddit forum r/mildlyinfuriating to share his story, posting pictures of the gate.

The anonymous forum user wrote: “Came home to find that my neighbour screwed my gate shut. I kicked my own fence down to enter because wtf? It’s not even his property.”

“He doesn’t like when my roommates and I walk through that gate. 

“The crazy thing is, it’s not even his property. 

“It opens into an apartments shared lawn. 

“But it’s the only entry way to the back of my residence.”

Reddit users offered their advice to deal with the pesky neighbour.

One person said: “Contact local police dept, request an officer come by to file a report, contact an attorney and get a legal opinion for damages.”

Another user came up with a cunning plan, suggesting: “Write a letter to everyone on your street that there have been trespassers vandalising your property so you are installing cameras, and if anybody has info on who screwed your gate shut there is a reward for help charging felony trespassing.”

One user suggested: “Just put a sign on it that says there’s a security camera…he sounds like he’s too stupid to realize there isn’t one.”