My neighbour has a lemon tree!

[cat_mioux]

I need those lemons.

I noticed when I walked along my driveway a squished lemon was on the concrete and I'd just bought lemons at the supermarket today because I like a dash of lemon in sparkling water. But lemons are $1.20 each!

I looked over his fence and he has a lemon tree hidden by my tree. I climbed up the garden wall as far as I could get but I can't reach them. **bleep** it.

Soooo ... do you think a nice handwritten note 'if you have any spare I'd love a few lemons every week' popped into his letterbox would be ok? We only know each other by saying hello 'neighbour' in passing. I'm way too shy to knock on his door. He's a nice elderly gentleman. A couple of times he's jump started my car last winter but only because he was out the front in his garden and noticed I had a flat battery.

I'm a little wary of getting too friendly with my neighbours, retired Greeks. Last time I got friendly with one he wanted to take me off to  Greece for a naughty holiday. Fingers down the throat *arggghhh*. The other retired Greek guy on the other side knocked on my door last year and wanted to come in. He started trying to muscle his way in through the front door. I firmly said no and shut it. Nowadays he behaves and when he see's me he passes me pomegranites over the fence.

But I want lemons! This neighbour is lovely but I'm still wary.

How do I get these lemons? Does "I want your lemons" mean "come in for coffee sometimes *wink*"?

[the_bob_delusion]

That wasn't my point. My point was you can get people willing to sell you trees that are much bigger and better for much less. 

I'm sure if you offered $50, you'll also get takers. I see people on gumtree doing that all the time. I think that's a great idea to get someone to get rid of things you no longer need. 

What people need is relative. What you considered $170 may only be worth $50 to another. 

[*mrgrizz*]

i had 2 cocos palms in the front yard that were nearing power lines.

i advertised them free will help you remove. no body wanted them.

was a job to remove them

[joz*garage]

nice try mrgrizz, lol

i responded to a couple of pencil pines, ad, which were offered for free, on the phone she said they were house gutter height, when i got there they were much higher grown into the power lines

she must of recieved a council work order

and i bet she had no takers

[*crikey*mate*]

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@**freethinker_bob** wrote:

when I was little, my dad fashioned a long stick with a wire holding a net that can reach across the fence to grab neighbour's fruit. 

I have never considered that stealing or tresspassing. As far as I know, no one owns the air space above their property. 

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Yeah, they do. "To a reasonable height for the ordinary use and enjoyment of the land and structures upon it"

[the_bob_delusion]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@**freethinker_bob** wrote:

when I was little, my dad fashioned a long stick with a wire holding a net that can reach across the fence to grab neighbour's fruit. 

I have never considered that stealing or tresspassing. As far as I know, no one owns the air space above their property. 

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Yeah, they do. "To a reasonable height for the ordinary use and enjoyment of the land and structures upon it"

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so if they didn't know about it and never will and doesn't affect their life one bit, how does it affect their enjoyment of the land above it. 

[**meep**]

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@icyfroth wrote:

Cat, crank up your courage and just knock on the door, tell them you've noticed lemons fallen off the tree on your side of the fence and ask them if they'd mind you coming to pick of a bag full.

My daughter has a lemon (lemonade) tree I would kill for. They just let them drop off the tree and rot on the ground. The chooks don't peck them either.

I go through at least 3 lemons a week, and to me, that's a shameful waste.

At least she could make lemon marmalade with it, but no.

My daughter would welcome someone taking her surplus lemons and I'm sure you neighbour would too.

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That's what I would suggest also.  To see your neighbour instead of communicating by leaving a note.

I have a great neighbour.  Whatever is over my side of the fence, is mine.  I end up with bags full on macadamias.   Thankfully the trees are alongside the driveway and the nuts don't fall in the enclosed back yard where my dog could eat them.

He grows everything.  Lemons, pomegranates and some other strange looking fruit. 

[*crikey*mate*]

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@**freethinker_bob** wrote:

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@**freethinker_bob** wrote:

when I was little, my dad fashioned a long stick with a wire holding a net that can reach across the fence to grab neighbour's fruit. 

I have never considered that stealing or tresspassing. As far as I know, no one owns the air space above their property. 

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Yeah, they do. "To a reasonable height for the ordinary use and enjoyment of the land and structures upon it"

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so if they didn't know about it and never will and doesn't affect their life one bit, how does it affect their enjoyment of the land above it. 

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it is still tresspass whether they know about it, or whether it does literally affect their enjoyment.

you said as far as you knew no one owns the airspace over their property.

I am telling you that they do, but that the height is controlled and quantified so as to allow for things such as air travel.

Bernstein of Leigh (Baron) v Skyviews and General Ltd [1978] QB 479

Things that protrude over your fence into your airspce

LJP Investments Pty Ltd v Howard Chia Investments Pty Ltd (1989) 24 NSWLR 490

A protruding sign

Kelsen v Imperial Tobacco Co Ltd [1957] 2 QB 334

The firing of a bullet over another's land

Davies v Bennison (1927) 22 Tas LR 52

[*crikey*mate*]

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@**freethinker_bob** wrote:

when I was little, my dad fashioned a long stick with a wire holding a net that can reach across the fence to grab neighbour's fruit. 

I have never considered that stealing or tresspassing. As far as I know, no one owns the air space above their property. 

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Yeah, they do. "To a reasonable height for the ordinary use and enjoyment of the land and structures upon it"

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and as for the removal of someone else's possession from their propert without their permission, even if the posessions are superflous - that's theft anyway you look at it.

[latina4621]

i forgot to add to my post that i wouldn't pay 170.00 for one

yes you can get a lemon tree a lot cheaper than that  also you can do what they did yourself getting it to grow on a trellis if you so wished and it suited your needs.

we get  quite a few off our old tree , we do give to friends, neighbours so none is wasted

[joz*garage]

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@**freethinker_bob** wrote:

That wasn't my point. My point was you can get people willing to sell you trees that are much bigger and better for much less. 

I'm sure if you offered $50, you'll also get takers. I see people on gumtree doing that all the time. I think that's a great idea to get someone to get rid of things you no longer need. 

What people need is relative. What you considered $170 may only be worth $50 to another. 

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yeah well. i was just sayin' you can do better & source them for free, that was my point