Vegan family issue 'last warning' to neighbours after BBQ row escalates - A family of vegans have sent a 'last warning' to their neighbours asking them to stop having barbecues in the garden after an initial note was ignored - and it's sparked a huge debate

Link: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/vegan-family-issue-last-warning-31674697
Credit: Danielle Kate Wroe Senior Social News Reporter and Shaurya Shaurya for Trinity Mirror
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The note, as shared on social media (Image: Hey Perth / Facebook)

A vegan family were left seething after their meat-eating neighbours ignored their pleas to stop hosting barbecues, forcing them to send a second, more threatening note.

The initial letter sparked quite a debate, with some deeming it a "reasonable" request, while others encouraged the carnivorous family to host another barbecue in defiance, arguing that no one should dictate what they do in their own garden. However, the vegans felt compelled to issue a "last warning" after their initial letters were disregarded by the meat-loving family.

In the first note, signed by 'Sarah, Wayne and kids', they wrote: "Hello neighbour, could you please shut your side window when cooking please? My family are vegan (we eat only plant-based foods) and the smell of the meat you cook makes us feel sick and upset.

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The letter was titled "last warning" (Image: Hey Perth / Facebook)

"We would appreciate your understanding."

However, this plea fell on deaf ears.

In their follow-up letter, the family adopted a different tone, accusing their neighbour of mocking them and being 'downright rude'.

The Mirror reports they claimed their neighbour deliberately caused distress.

The letter stated: "I raised my concerns of the smell of meat making my family feel sick and upset and you go and have a BBQ on Saturday night inviting lots of people, and you knew this would affect me and my family."

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The Second letter, which was shared on social media too (Image: Hey Perth / Facebook)

The family noticed their plea went viral, as one shared with them: "My friend Tina told me you took my letter to social media and it backfired on you which is 'just desserts'."

Ending their note, they added: "Please no more BBQs and please keep that window closed when cooking otherwise I'm going to report you and go to social media too."

Despite their wishes, the correspondence was shared again on the web, provoking a spectrum of opinions.

One individual exclaimed, "This is unbelievable, they want to tell you how to live in your own home," lambasting the situation.
Yet another countered: "They are both in the wrong! ! It's such a shame that this is our society now no commUNITY! !

#1 If you're asking someone to shut their window just shut your bloody own...

"#2 You can't tell another person how to live their lives or what to do, you make the changes for yourself.

#3 If your neighbour has asked you something kindly that you don't agree with address it respectfully like an adult."
 
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I already know how this place will respond and, really, I'd be hard-placed to name a more delightful smell that that of a grill-out, but I wouldn't want the smell of my neighbor's anything in my house. If he's cooking inside then he should direct the smell elsewhere. If he's cooking outside then oh well. Either way, keep your own window closed.

Its probably "fake news"/the two of them all in it together anyways.
 
I would invite the vegan neighbor's kids and treat them to anything they wanted because a "vegan family" means evil parents who force their children to suffer their dumb beliefs. Let the kids know what they're missing and hopefully make the vegan's life worse when their kids decide they don't want to deal with that shit.
 
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This would be a daily occurrence for me in this situation. I'd also invest in some outdoor fans to keep cool while ensuring the wind blew in the correct direction.
Get a big ass projector and play videos of slaughterhouses on the side of my house facing their house. They really picked a fight they can't win.
 
I had an Indonesian guy move in downstairs from me, years ago. Mostly a very quiet dude who kept to himself so I had no complaints. One day I noticed a foul odor near the back porch. I thought maybe my cat had dragged something in- smelled about like a decaying mouse- and checked everywhere. I steamed the carpet. It still reeked there. I looked around, even shaking the branches of a nearby tree to see if some dead squirrel might fall out- who knows? I steamed the carpet again. I checked all my shoes. I used stronger chemicals in the steam cleaner. I washed the deck with bleach. Still reeked.

Then one day I am walking around the back and I see him out on his porch eating a durian slice.

I hope he moves in next to those vegans, next.
 
Why don't the vegans just close their windows? That's a much simpler solution than trying to get the neighbors to do it. But then I guess they couldn't virtue signal their veganism to the world.
It's very clearly one of those simplified ampersands, bro. You might need glasses.
 
The obvious solution here is malicious compliance. Neighbor wants you to stop cooking meat in your house? Ok, do just that - and invite lucas werner to stay over for a week and do all the cooking. If they thought the meat smells were horrifying before just wait until they smell the toasterbortion abominations that the wern would create

Failing that, open a couple cans of surstromming in the back yard. After all they said not to cook meat. They didn't say anything about fish. and you weren't actually cooking it so......
 
I love smoking and grilling meats. One of the best perks is the smell and especially the thought of all your neighbors getting jealous when they smell it. I know I get jealous when I smell theirs. I'm smoking a brisket this weekend for memorial day and can't wait.

I really can't understand people like this. My parents told me about a neighbor of theirs who was going around to the different houses and demanding people to use scent free detergent and dryer sheets so they wouldn't have to smell it. Everyone said tough luck and kept doing it.
 
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