Somebody has been throwing beer cans into my yard every night. I picked up 9 of them tonight when I got home and I often find an entire 6 packs worth at a time.

Fed up, I posted two signs directly in front of where the beer cans were asking people to stop throwing beer cans into my yard. I heard somebody ripping them down so I went out and found one of my neighbors saying how "stupid" it was to his girlfriend. He said that he was irritated that one of the signs was directly in front of his gate and that I should just turn the cans in for the scrap money. I think I might have found my can tosser as another neighbor caught a guy tossing them into her yard who used the same excuse. After she confronted him he stopped tossing them. On the other hand the guy could just be a jerk. I didn't bother pointing out that he had also torn down a sign that was nowhere near his gate although I did tell him that the position wasn't meant as an accusation. I just put the signs where the cans were piled up. I figured it wasn't worth arguing over if the guy was just being a jerk and if he's the can tosser he got the message.

Any suggestions that don't involve a night vision camera? I can't afford one right now. I'll of course be checking the ground before I let Tanner out but I'm worried that he will cut his mouth on a can or get sick from the beer. He left a nearly full one alone so I don't think he likes the taste but still.

I can't really limit people's access to my fence line. The back of my fence is directly parallel to a walkway that's used by many people although there's a locked gate on one end so I'm sure it has to be somebody that lives very close.

The occasional litter is just going to happen but somebody has been making a habit of it.

How about putting a sign up saying you have surveillance cameras in operation? They won't be able to see one, but they won't know there actually isn't one, also put something out the front that will make a noise if someone stands on it, or even something unpleasant for them to step in??

I am pretty sure that you found him, someone who WASN'T the butthead in question wouldn't be commenting on it and would actually have spoken to you.

I would make a police report if I found even one more can - for reasons of CYA and escalation. Pretty sure that falls under 'illegal dumping'.