Bad Neighbors

[Owned by 3 year olds]

I've got gangster wannabees across the street. They aren't bad people, it's just that hearing a truck go down my hill every night isn't the best way to make friends.

And most of my neighbors take up 2 parking spots, which sucks because we have neighbors with 3 or more cars.

 

[Beefcakes]

Neighbors? What the hell are they? I live in Australia, and as such, my nearest neighbor is a good 20 minute drive away...
[/racist views on Australian]
I barely ever speak to my neighbors, but we say hi, and wave, and the normal polite stuff.
You know, the usual [oh I hit a cricket ball over the fence can I grab it] [yes its lovely weather] [great local sports team] jazz...

Edit: But it reminds me, one of my friends neighbors tried to sell there house when the spend a weekend away. That was rather awkward for them

 

[ThaBenMan]

One cookie, in all it's pixelated goodness.

And it was an awesome game.

Oh, why thank you. I shall rejoices in feasting on the plumbery manfool's face!

And sorry for majorly derailing your thread...

 

[PeaceFistCreations]

I had a neighbor that threatened to punch me in the face for riding my bicycle in front of his house. I was about 10 at the time.
Recently, my younger brother and his friend made a crazy-awesome tree fort that had two levels, and was 14 feet off the ground, with only several wooden plank at random points to help you climb.
We hanged out in there, playing card games and smoking while listening to the radio. We never bothered anyone, and we were too deep in the woods from any houses to have been a eyesore or annoyance in any way.
Unfortunately, it was built a little way off from the wayside of a minor trail park that nobody used. As soon as word got out that my brother had made this awesome fort, it was vandalized almost every week by dumb shit kids who couldn't make their own forts. They'd go up there, make a mess, leave their trash, and would either steal shit like our radios, or just throw them out into the woods from on top of the fort.
We would have jumped the kids who did it, but we never found out who it was.
Also, the group of neighbours who owned the park finally saw my brothers fort, and had a talk with him about it. They said they didn't mind it being there, but wanted to talk it over at a meeting wit them that they were having at a party. They invited my brother, but he had no desire to show up at a meeting with a bunch of creepy adults,and skipped it.
A few weeks later, his fort was burned down. The local Firemen (who was part of the group of neighbors that owned the little park) sat and watched it burn down completely before lifting a hand to stop the fire.
I hated my neighborhood after that. I was so proud of my brother for building such a cool fort. He and his friend worked hard on that thing. They had to scale the tree, drag large boards up with them, nailing the floors and wall in while hanging from the branches like a couple monkeys. All that hard honest work, and all the money they put into it, and all the losers, the assholes, and stuck up creeps ruined it for him because of jealousy, or for fun, or because it wasn't a part of their boring and depressing lives.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

One cookie, in all it's pixelated goodness.

And it was an awesome game.

Oh, why thank you. I shall rejoices in feasting on the plumbery manfool's face!

And sorry for majorly derailing your thread...

No problem, BenMan.

 

[Puppeteer Putin]

Luckily I don't have to interact with my neighbors much, but when I do it can be a pain in the ass.

On one side is an old couple, and the man is a control freak (he gets down and straightens his lawn with hedge clippers after he mows it) and he gives us crap about mowing our lawn and our cats and stuff. And when he snowblows his driveway in the winter, without fail it all smacks the side of the house and wakes me up at the asscrack of dawn.

On the other side is another old couple, and the man is a dirty perv - when my mom was younger (she's lived in this house her whole life) he would verbally sexually harass her and even fondled her a couple times, and he talked dirty to my sister too, that bastard.

And across the road lives one of my math teachers from high school - whenever I talk to her I get the feeling that she's judging me and is dissappointed that I dropped out of college. I don't need that crap from her -_-

So probably not as bad as in that link up there, but pretty annoying anyway.

And she never reported this predatory behaviour?? That's insane!

I have one of those Control Freak neighbours too. He's just an utter tool. I once attempted to have a jam with my mates at my house. Yes we were loud as there were a couple amps, a drum kit, you know all the stuff needed to make music. The tosser printed out a document from the council and highlighted the "noise infringement" notice and put it in our mailbox. Now I don't mind neighbours asking us to quiet down but he didn't even confront us or ask us face-to-face. He put this in our mailbox and insinuated that we were breaking the law.

Luckily I had a friend studying law. We did a bit of research and found out we were well within the legal limit. He used his law speak and sent a letter back to him. He came out and threatened to call the police and we said "if you did, you would be charged for wasting police time". Haven't heard from the idiot since.

He has started some renovations on his house and I kept the notice. It also lists construction as a "noise infringement"... Oh the temptation.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I had a neighbor that threatened to punch me in the face for riding my bicycle in front of his house. I was about 10 at the time.
Recently, my younger brother and his friend made a crazy-awesome tree fort that had two levels, and was 14 feet off the ground, with only several wooden plank at random points to help you climb.
We hanged out in there, playing card games and smoking while listening to the radio. We never bothered anyone, and we were too deep in the woods from any houses to have been a eyesore or annoyance in any way.
Unfortunately, it was built a little way off from the wayside of a minor trail park that nobody used. As soon as word got out that my brother had made this awesome fort, it was vandalized almost every week by dumb shit kids who couldn't make their own forts. They'd go up there, make a mess, leave their trash, and would either steal shit like our radios, or just throw them out into the woods from on top of the fort.
We would have jumped the kids who did it, but we never found out who it was.
Also, the group of neighbours who owned the park finally saw my brothers fort, and had a talk with him about it. They said they didn't mind it being there, but wanted to talk it over at a meeting wit them that they were having at a party. They invited my brother, but he had no desire to show up at a meeting with a bunch of creepy adults,and skipped it.
A few weeks later, his fort was burned down. The local Firemen (who was part of the group of neighbors that owned the little park) sat and watched it burn down completely before lifting a hand to stop the fire.
I hated my neighborhood after that. I was so proud of my brother for building such a cool fort. He and his friend worked hard on that thing. They had to scale the tree, drag large boards up with them, nailing the floors and wall in while hanging from the branches like a couple monkeys. All that hard honest work, and all the money they put into it, and all the losers, the assholes, and stuck up creeps ruined it for him because of jealousy, or for fun, or because it wasn't a part of their boring and depressing lives.

Wow, I'm sorry. Have ya'll tried to make a new one since?

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Luckily I don't have to interact with my neighbors much, but when I do it can be a pain in the ass.

On one side is an old couple, and the man is a control freak (he gets down and straightens his lawn with hedge clippers after he mows it) and he gives us crap about mowing our lawn and our cats and stuff. And when he snowblows his driveway in the winter, without fail it all smacks the side of the house and wakes me up at the asscrack of dawn.

On the other side is another old couple, and the man is a dirty perv - when my mom was younger (she's lived in this house her whole life) he would verbally sexually harass her and even fondled her a couple times, and he talked dirty to my sister too, that bastard.

And across the road lives one of my math teachers from high school - whenever I talk to her I get the feeling that she's judging me and is dissappointed that I dropped out of college. I don't need that crap from her -_-

So probably not as bad as in that link up there, but pretty annoying anyway.

And she never reported this predatory behaviour?? That's insane!

I have one of those Control Freak neighbours too. He's just an utter tool. I once attempted to have a jam with my mates at my house. Yes we were loud as there were a couple amps, a drum kit, you know all the stuff needed to make music. The tosser printed out a document from the council and highlighted the "noise infringement" notice and put it in our mailbox. Now I don't mind neighbours asking us to quiet down but he didn't even confront us or ask us face-to-face. He put this in our mailbox and insinuated that we were breaking the law.

Luckily I had a friend studying law. We did a bit of research and found out we were well within the legal limit. He used his law speak and sent a letter back to him. He came out and threatened to call the police and we said "if you did, you would be charged for wasting police time". Haven't heard from the idiot since.

He has started some renovations on his house and I kept the notice. It also lists construction as a "noise infringement"... Oh the temptation.

If I were you I would have reported him by now.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

I was the bad neighbor when I was younger. The first house i lived in after I moved out of my parents' house when i was 18 was "the party house." Myself and four other dudes lived at the end of a cul-de-sac, in a huge house near the school we all went to. It was that house you know what i mean, that house; the only residence with a completely yellow lawn, cars parked on said yellow lawn, middle of the night radomn dance parties that would last until sunrise, articles of clothing thrown on the never trimmed hedge or broken fence, naked people running around all boozed up, we even had a crooked mailbox because someone ran over it while wasted. All the other neighbors hated us except this family of Mexican immigrants, not all of them legal, they were cool.

You aren't like that now, are you?

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Had some whiny Cali-forni-an move in next door a few years back. Let see what we got so far...

-He's extremely paranoid. Leaves lights on 24/7, even had the audacity to start doing sweeps with a portable searchlight.
-Very loud family. Dear lord, it's like they yell regular conversation.
-Very loose idea of the term 'property.' He's slowly been encroaching onto his southern neighbor's land.
-Heavy trespassers. Also suspected of poaching deer.
-Spread rumors of my dad eating children... yeah, I don't know either.

-Hide a lawn gnome with exceptionally bright black eyes some where that it would be looking in his windows.
-Don't know what to do about that.
-Plant a flag in his back yard with a note proclaiming that "The Bakalakawakadaka Liberation Front has claimed this land as their own."
-Place a letter in his mailbox that says "We know. Signed, Bambi."
-......Well, maybe they are the ones eating children.

Hope this helps (Though I doubt it will.)

 

[Sevre]

Yeah I once had a family of gypsies live down the road from me. Well they weren't gypsies they were the Irish version of rednecks if they exist. They went around at night breaking their OWN windows and having bareknuckle boxing competitions with each other. Quite scary to watch all this mayhem occur down your own road.

 

[ViolentlyHappy91]

I lived next to a guy that used to break in through our kitchen window and make a shit load of noise and then proceed to make himself dinner. We called the police several time time and it turns out he had dementia and thought it was still his house even though he hadn't lived there for 10 years.

 

[Bolverk]

When I was a little kid, my next door neighbour hated small children (even though he had a small daughter of his own). To stop us cutting across the edges of his lawn, he put up fishing wire around the edges of his property. I ended up with a huge welt across my neck when I tried to cut across the very corner of his yard from mine to get to my friends house across the road. My mum took the fishing wire down when she found out and chopped it up into tiny pieces and dumped it on his doorstep. The fights between him and my mum went on and on for months till mum ended up knocking him out and (because it was public housing) the Department of housing relocated him to a different suburb.

 

[mefflin]

I had one neighbor complain about the noise from my room. By the way it was 4am and he come on our yard and knock on my window to tell me that. He sarced me half to death and i wonder how did he jump our fence.

 

[drummersbangharder]

Doesn't every good neighborhood have some bad apples?
I was living with my friend for awhile and she had this crazy Jerry Springer-type family living acrossed the street. My friend told me not to look them in the eye.
One warm spring day we were sitting on the porch smoking a cigarette and we heard the sounds of (loud) sex coming from acrossed the street. We just sat there uncomfortably and chuckled.
Then, out of the house comes the girl, a sexually promiscuous 17 year old, hand in hand with.....HER UNCLE?!?!!?
We sat there our mouths agape and telling ourselves we didn't just see or hear that.
THEN....just about every day after that we noticed that his van would pull into the driveway around 1:00 every afternoon. Her mother worked during the day and I'm assuming she'd quit school. And they always left their darn windows open...probably didn't have AC. Ugh.

We couldn't help but tell a couple people. When we were moving out, we conveniantly heard the sounds of incestuous love again, and one of the guys who knew about the situation yelled out the car window, QUIT SCREWING YOUR UNCLE!!!! haha. Wow. That was some messed up stuff.

 

[quiet_samurai]

I was the bad neighbor when I was younger. The first house i lived in after I moved out of my parents' house when i was 18 was "the party house." Myself and four other dudes lived at the end of a cul-de-sac, in a huge house near the school we all went to. It was that house you know what i mean, that house; the only residence with a completely yellow lawn, cars parked on said yellow lawn, middle of the night radomn dance parties that would last until sunrise, articles of clothing thrown on the never trimmed hedge or broken fence, naked people running around all boozed up, we even had a crooked mailbox because someone ran over it while wasted. All the other neighbors hated us except this family of Mexican immigrants, not all of them legal, they were cool.

You aren't like that now, are you?

Ha, no, I'm 25 now and have moved on. Being mature sucks. Good times though, good times.

 

[-IT-]

My neighbors can be described as loud, very loud. Loud conversations, loud music, a annoying dog that barks day and night without any reason to do so, loud children, people slamming the doors all day long. Damn I hate them.

 

[Oopsie]

I found my old neighbour was a furry, in the middle of the night. I heard some minor noise in the yard, so I went to check it out. There he was, in full suit, talking to our rabbits.
It was the only time I wished I lived in America and could have owned a big boomstick.

 

[Gruthar]

My next door neighbor is insane. They seemed like a nice couple to begin with, though the husband seems to conduct some shady business. Anyway, our beef with them is that they keep this large dog in their back yard. Said back yard is unfortunately close in proximity to my sister's bedroom. The problem is that our neighbors borderline neglect the dog, and pretty much leave it to its own devices. It'll bark incessantly, at all hours of the day and night, and they won't do anything about it. Hell, they've gone on vacation leaving the dog behind in the backyard, barking away at anything and everything.

My sister has been over to talk with them a couple of times. Initially, they seemed willing to help, but then the wife just turned rude and vindictive. On one occasion, my sister's (now ex-) boyfriend yelled over the fence at the dog to shut up (which it did.) The wife heard him yell at the dog, and the two got into an argument, she telling him that he has no right to yell at her dog, that she's going to sue, etc. He basically screams at her to do her worst and storms off. Well, the wife attempted to take out a restraining order out on my sister's ex, citing that incident and claiming she felt threatened by him. It was never served to him, since by that time my sister had broken up with him (for unrelated reasons) and he had moved out.

So out of pure spite, this woman writes a letter to the Homeowner's Association, complaining that the leaves from our 'dead' tree were blowing onto her yard (this was during the winter.) She also writes a letter complaining that we played music too loud (which we don't.) Two days later, she writes another letter complaining that the dust on our driveway was blowing onto her driveway (there was indeed about a cup of dirt on our driveway, remains from the cleanup of a car that seeped a bit of oil. By the way, I live in Arizona, there's freakin' dust everywhere.)

Her last act of spite was to take it upon herself to start a petition to have us evicted from the neighborhood. Though she can't really do that (and I don't think anyone signed it,) our landlord caught wind of this, and went over to our neighbors' to set them straight. So all is quiet for now, and I'm doing my best to restrain my sister from getting into a pissing contest with this woman until we can move out in a few months.

 

[PeaceFistCreations]

Not yet. It cost a good bit of money and time for my brother to make that fort, so he's halted any plans of making another one anytime soon.
Since he's coming of age, he's most likely to get a job and some money under his belt before starting a similar project again. I know he has it in him, but he just needs the right time.