The good thing about watching a movie with bad guys is that when you switch off your TV, all that nastiness and drama disappears and you have peace. Real life however is nothing like the movies, some of the bad guys never go away, least of all if they are your neighbors!
Read these troubling tales of people being tormented by their neighbors to where they just flat-out wished they had never met these people. These tales may make you think the cranky neighbors you have are not so bad.
1. DIY Traffic control
I moved onto a dirt road with several houses on it. My friend has lived down the road his whole life. The people next to my house only come up for the summer and are never there in the winter.
When summer comes, however, there are multiple potholes on the road. Curious, I asked my friend. He said the neighbors come up in the summer and dig the holes themselves in order to 'slow down' traffic.
emf3rd31495
2. Two can play at that game
He had 2 access roads to his property (he didn’t live there, he just had livestock there) and insisted on using the one that cut through our property, despite the fact that it was the longer route and it was a literal unpaved road through the woods.
He didn’t have an easement or anything, just assumed that since he had to drive through our property to get to that crappy lane road, he was allowed to do so.
He was a total jerk to us for no reason, never said hi, and got upset if we were too close to his property despite the fact that he literally drove through our property every day.
Revenge came when lightning struck a tree in the woods and it fell right across the access to the lane road... on OUR property. He hired a service to chop the tree up and told them they could have the wood as part of the payment (it was nice walnut).
My dad wasn’t having any of that. He walked down there with a copy of the sale documents, pointed out the marker that clearly separated our land from our jerk neighbor’s land, and got the neighbor to admit that the tree in question was both from our land and currently lying on our land, not his.
After that my dad sent the crew packing and told them if they took so much as a branch from that tree, it was theft and he (a lawyer) would see them in court for it.
It’s been over 15 years and that tree is still laying across the access to the lane road. He could still access his property via the other road, so he didn’t have a leg to stand on to force an easement. Screw you, Jim.
notsolittleliongirl
3. Not your house
I've posted on Reddit before about my upstairs neighbor who (long story short) got super heated about how I didn't see him in the hallway and say hi once and then blamed his outburst on the fact that laundry makes him cranky.
He drunkenly tried to get into my apartment last Wednesday afternoon and then asked if I had a problem with him.
When I explained that his behavior made me uneasy, he called me passive-aggressive (?)
He then said EVERYONE forgets where they live sometimes, and he'd forgotten where his apartment was because he was humming as he walked up the stairs. It must be so paralyzing to be that allergic to admitting fault.
clocksailor
4. The big chanter
My neighbor would chant "stupid dumb jerk!" over and over and over every time I would do basic things like close the door or take a shower, hard enough for me to hear through the wall of my apartment.
I was FAR from being loud, that guy just has so many issues. I got sick of it and called over the landlord. The landlord tried closing 1 door and the creep started chanting.
My landlord went over right then and threatened to kick him out if he didn't stop. Luckily it worked. I don't live there anymore, but still remember it vividly.
nanababananaba
5. Straight from hell
Context, I grew up in a rural area on a fairly big property. It had been a large farm that got parceled out as the owner aged. So there were 4 3/4 acre lots and my parents 10 acres behind them.
The house was relatively far away from our neighbors. One neighbor was an absolute piece of crap. When I was 8, I remember seeing the cop lights at his door.
Found out when I was a little older that he had tried to assault his father over his oxy prescription (his father owned the house, 30-year-old kid lived there rent-free).
He did a few years in jail, then moved back in with his father whom he had tried to assault. He grew pot on our land, then threatened to assault my mother when my father and I tore it down (but didn't call the cops).
He frequently threatened to assault my mother. I can remember multiple times when I was younger, him banging on our door and screaming threats at my mom.
Other times I can remember thinking about the weapon in my father's office, in case our neighbor actually got inside the house. This was an 8-10 times a year occurrence from age 8-14.
He has calmed down a little after a second arrest and some anger management classes. Nowadays he just has massive bonfires with tons of loud music and leaves empties on our property, which is still a jerk's move, but better than physical intimidation and threats.
[deleted]
6. Personal DJ
My neighbor (above me) was trying to force me to move out so she put her speakers on her floor pointing straight down and blared them at full volume.
The instant it started I leapt up in outrage at her audacity but after a few seconds I realized... I really, really like this song. So I give it one song and as it's winding down I prepare my outrage once again, only to be choked off when the next song is also a perennial favorite.
I didn't even bother getting upset before realizing that I liked the third song, too. She stopped at midnight when she was legally required to.
She apparently realized she wasn't getting much "bang" for her buck as far as irritating me/effort on her part, so she didn't try it anymore.
Oudeis16
7. Keep your dog to yourself
His dog went through our trash and got sick. The dog ended up needing to go to the vet and told me when he bumped into me at my old job.
"Yeah, it was like 5 grand to get her back to health. You're lucky I don't bill you guys" Mind you this guy let his dog go through everyone's yard and crap wherever it wanted.
It's not like the dog escaped, he just willingly didn't care. The last time I saw him the cops were in his driveway with an apparent domestic incident.
The_Axem_Ranger
8. Old and Grumpy
He used to stand on the footpath drunk every afternoon and yell to my husband about what a witch I was. Once my husband told him to go home and he shaped up to try and punch my husband, who was around 50 years younger than the neighbour.
My infraction? He rang one day to be nosy and check why my husband's car was home on a work day. I politely thanked him for his call and let him know my husband was sleeping and had a cold, nothing to worry about.
Apparently, I was meant to praise him profusely for being such a caring neighbor, and my husband was meant to follow up with a call once he was awake and also lavish him with praise for caring.
Because we didn't however, we got to hear about it loudly every afternoon until we moved several months later. The nerve of some people.
macadamiaicecream
9. The Blacklisters
I partied too hard. As I got home from work one evening, I saw the neighbor chuck a beer bottle at one cop and then throw a punch at another.
Things did not go well for him after that. I found out after the fact that someone had called a noise complaint because it was something like 11 pm on a weekday.
This neighbor was a double jerk though. He had moved off campus with a pair of guys from his frat. The other two guys were cool. We had them over for grilling and vice versa.
The guy who got arrested not only screwed himself but caused so many issues that the other two guys who were on the lease got blacklisted by pretty much every place in town too.
weealex
10. Get Out
It started by letting her kids and animals run wild in my backyard. So, I dropped $5k on a 6' privacy fence that my father-in-law and I built.
Then she had her water turned off for lack of payment and began pooping in plastic bags and throwing them over my fence.
When confronted about it, she kindly denied it and then took to social media.
I called the landlord and had an eviction notice served the next day. It's been 4 years and I kept the screencaps from her profile.
Durania
11. The Parking Fiasco
Got his cop buddies to come put stickers on our cars claiming they were illegally parked so we had to move them so he would have room for his guests to park.
I bought a corner lot in a newer subdivision so I have a curb and sidewalk on two sides of my property. The side of my house has plenty of room for parking which I sometimes use, my stepson uses, and sometimes the other neighbors I like use.
A new neighbor bought a house on the other side of the street from my side and doesn't have a lot of street parking for his lot. He claims that the parking on my side of the road is his because it is across the street from his house.
When confronted about the fact that it is just parking and in no way belongs to him, me, or anybody, he told us he knows people in the police department who can take care of this.
He also picked this time to scream pretty specific mean things about all his new neighbors and how each one was crappy like he is watching us.
deathtastic
12. Sleazy Cheat
One of them was a cowboy builder who even conned his elderly next-door neighbors into getting their roof done for £10,000 even though their tiles were almost brand new.
He then took all their tiles to re-tile his roof for free and put about 10% of his old crappy tiles on their roof then abandoned the project completely.
Don't worry though, we got him arrested and he had to sell his house to pay back his victims although the cost of his house didn't even come close to covering the full costs.
Another neighbor would stand in his back garden really early in the morning and then start shooting local birds with a crossbow.
He put the bodies in regular bin bags and left them in the street where foxes ripped them open and dragged dead birds all over the place, now we have no songbirds in the area.
JohnHW97
13. Shiny new toy
He rang my doorbell at 4 am over and over and asked me to go with him because there was an emergency and it was very important.
I went with him and he took me over to his car and started asking what I thought of it as he looked very proud. I was flabbergasted.
In other words, this dude rang every apartment in the building at 4 am to get people to look at his new car. Who in the world does that?
[deleted]
14. Criminal In Training
May not be a neighbor per se, but a fellow tenant in a shared house at university (each was a self-contained apartment with a bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom).
Dude started smoking pot, which I had no issue with but as I was studying law and frequently met with police as part of my criminal justice module, I requested that he keep it to his room rather than the communal areas of the house.
He obliged initially. I then went home for winter break, and upon returning I found lines of dangerous substances half done on the kitchen counter (along with even rolled up £10 notes and the semi-empty bag).
I stayed clear and later that night, ~2 am, heard a knock at the door. A guy with blood dripping from his head was standing there shouting "ROB get your butt out here. You ripped me off."
Turns out his habit had progressed to dealing, and his supplier to whom he owed a cut was the blood-soaked man on my doorstep barging his way in.
[deleted]
15. If you don't take care of them, we’ll take them
My jerk of a next-door neighbor would leave her pit bulls out in the garden, all day, every day, with no food or water regardless of the weather.
It would be a storm and she’d leave them both outside in the rain, crying. it would be a heatwave and she’d leave them outside with no shade.
Once I picked up on it, I began to knock on her door and ask her to bring the dogs in because leaving them outside was obviously neglect. She would tell me to mind my own business but she’d yell at her kids to bring the dogs inside.
One time, I noticed that she hadn’t learned her lesson, so I contacted the RSCPA (the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) over and over until they sent out a letter to her.
She had the freaking nerve to act like she had no idea why the RSPCA was contacting her. She came up to me in the street and was like “Can you believe I got this letter, saying I am neglectful of my dogs?”
I kept contacting them because despite knowing that the RSPCA was watching her, she still didn’t change her behavior. She honestly didn’t care about those poor dogs.
They would jump at my fence whenever I was in the garden, practically begging. My sisters would jump the fence to give them bowls of water and feed them dog biscuits whenever she wasn’t home.
One day, she was yelling and her kids were crying so I went to see what was going on and it turns out that the RSPCA were removing the dogs from her because of the neglect. It took a few months but I was so happy to see them going to a better home.
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16. Late-night cookies anyone?
I just moved into my new apartment in Chicago and was woken up at 3 AM to some loud knocking on my door. Given it's Chicago, I thought the worst and assumed someone with a loaded gun was on the other side of that door.
A moment passes and I sit silently in my bed running through self-defense scenarios in my head. I then heard a woman yell something through my door that had me on tilt...
This lady then says, "This is your neighbor, I was just wondering if you'd like to buy some Girl Scout cookies". I was shocked.
Naturally, I ignored her offer and proceeded to go back to sleep angry and confused. Either my neighbor was high af, or trying to rob me.
Norezu
17. Criminal Masterminds
When I was a teenager and lived with my parents we had this one neighbor family that seemed sorta off. One day the father knocks on our door and tells my parents they haven't had power for a long time.
He then begged to run an extension cord to one of our outside outlets for the day so his young kids could have cold milk with their cereal in the morning.
My parents agreed to do this for one day. The neighbor kept up their part and disconnected the cable after that day. A week later they hook it back up again without us noticing.
A month goes by and our electricity bill is basically double what it normally is. Parents head to the backyard and find the cable plugged in, yank it out, and confront the neighbor.
At first, the father doesn't show his whole body and cracks the door, but my stepdad gets him to open the door after pointing out that he is concealing a weapon(he didn't have to pull the weapon out).
Stepdad demands an explanation as to why the cable was run to our outlet and the dude just sorta mumbles incoherently and shuts the door, locking it.
The bad neighbor family was in a duplex and their neighbor, sharing the building, came around and asked what was up. The parents explain the whole story and how the next step was calling the police.
The good neighbor is a former police chief and is friends with the entire force, he offers to make the call. Several cop cars arrive. The bad neighbor's father and mother are arrested.
It turns out they were running a substance lab inside the house. The mother was a former street worker and the kids (a boy and girl between ages 7-10) were malnourished.
The kids were put into foster care. No other bad neighbor has beaten that high score yet. Truthfully, I doubt anyone can beat that.
Naleid
18. Abuse Of Power
Not one of her neighbors can stand her, she's pissed off everyone on all sides of her. Her son's a cop so she'll send him over to harass you if you violate any of her peeves.
She did that about one of the dogs, (she hates animals) and my wife answered the door. Her poor kid got an earful and was told to go home before she called his captain to complain about the momma's boy who lives next door harassing people. Hilarious.
She regularly gets into it with her neighbor on the other side, which is a mistake, since that woman is taking care of a dementia-suffering husband and puts up with zero stuff.
I can hear her regularly telling her to get bent. Her college-age other son comes home now and then and they get into shouting matches in the back yard.
He always calls her a witch and other things you just don't call your mom. It must be tiring to be such a raging witch all the time.
penny_can
19. TattleTell
He was really nosey and for some reason he hated me. I was a 14-year-old girl and I don't remember doing anything to this man but he would always rat me out to my parents if he saw me outside.
He told them I was smoking, being intimate in the tree on the front lawn, selling substances, being cruel to animals...he just made things up!
If I were in my backyard he would watch me through our privacy fence. Once I was out back drinking a root beer (one of those in a glass bottle) he popped up from behind the fence with this huge smirk on his face and said "CAUGHT YOU!" and tattled on me.
My dad brought him out back and showed him it was a root beer and then explained to him if he ever caught him looking through our fence he would call the police.
Years later we caught him in our back yard picking up pecans. Thought he would help himself to the wagon he had back there because it "had been sitting a while and so clearly we didn't need it."
The man was a total nut job. He ended up moving away and we never saw him around again. Screw you Jerry from next door and whatever weird problem you have!
HaphazardSquirrels
20. Wheels on the lawn
The neighbor I used to have across the street from me once whined at me for having a car parked partially on the grass (of my own lawn).
The streets were narrow, and you're technically not supposed to park in them. The car was parked so that the tires on the passenger side of the car were both on the grass (by about a foot) but it was at least helping to not block the street.
This was only temporary. When she started whining at me from her house, I thought it was because she didn't like seeing the car in the street. I could have at least understood that.
But no, she was furious (and I do mean furious) simply because the tires on my grass were going to ruin my lawn, and my ruined lawn meant that it was going to lower her property value.
She was trying to sell her home. She argued that parking on my grass was illegal, that her husband was an attorney, and that she was going to be calling the police.
I told her to call, and I told her wimp of a husband to come talk to me. Neither happened. They were such a royal pain in the butt.
Manticor225
21. Embodiment of an HOA
We had an old crotchety neighbor. His wife passed away years ago and he spent his years calling the cops on us for stupid little things, like "vicious dogs" running around our yard (the dog hid behind us when the police came).
He even called the cops because Comcast wasn't working right, and it was up to the PD to fix it. It got to the point where the cops would screen his calls but not send anyone out anymore.
At one point, we had a friend come over once to help with some landscaping. This guy's kids ran their landscaping company, and the guy himself is a state trooper, and all three of them came over in their big truck.
Our little old neighbor comes running over when he sees the truck parked in front of our lawn (which unfortunately happened to be on the other side of the street from his house) and threatens the state trooper with threats of calling the cops, he needs to move the truck, etc.
Statey comes over to us laughing, after he moved the truck down the road a little bit, basically like "I didn't have the heart to tell him I'm a trooper" lol.
The kicker of it all was that if our grass was left without mowing for a couple of days too long, this old neighbor would come over yelling at us because we weren't taking care of the property and it was degrading his property value.
Despite that, he still found it important to not have a landscaping truck temporarily parked on the road for a couple of hours while we took care of the property(a dead-end street with no traffic).
He did make for some good stories haha
blalala543
22. Summer has a surprise for you
Just recently, my new scumbag neighbors have decided to throw dirty diapers in my driveway. We know it's them, they have the only diaper-wearing child on the block.
My wife tossed them back into their driveway. Two hours later the same diapers reappeared in my driveway, followed by a third that was only a few feet from my door.
I told my wife to leave them to me for when I got home from work. Upon arriving home, I tossed all three diapers onto their roof, likely never to be seen again...
Well, until the humid Midwest summer bakes those freaking diapers into a glorious, colonic blasting crap storm of a smell for the douchy neighbors.
alex323208
23. Tomato vs Flowers
SO and I rented the middle unit of a one-story 3-unit triplex. A sidewalk led directly up to our front door and on either side of the sidewalk, about 10ft directly in front and slightly to the left and right of our front door were two very small 2ft x 2ft garden areas fashioned out of landscape timbers.
For 6 months of living there nothing was planted in them so we decided to buy and plant some flowers to brighten it up and make it look nice.
The next day we found a handwritten letter on our door in which our left-side neighbor informed us that he was deeply offended that we had taken the liberty to plant flowers in HIS garden (because as he explained, it was the 2x2 garden on his side of the sidewalk).
He said he intended to plant a tomato plant there and he planned to follow through with his plans whether there were flowers or not.
In a letter of our own, we explained that a tomato plant was not the intended use of a flower garden and that his planting a tomato directly in front of our door would be inappropriate.
The next day, we came home to find flowers dug up and placed in front of our door and a tomato plant complete with a metal cage planted in its place.
LikeChicken
24. How to ruin your daughters life 101
They accused my kid of being a menace. Apparently, the fact that my kid has friends other than her kid makes them quite awful.
If you hadn't gotten yourself into a situation where you're no longer on speaking terms with over half the mothers in the neighborhood due to your wild accusations and angry outbursts at 8-year-old kids when you think their parents can't see you, your daughter might have more friends... I will point out that the daughter is a lovely kid and doesn't deserve this.
Alopexdog
25. What you do, we can do better
Was living with my brother and a new family moved in downstairs. It was a mother and two boys in their teens, and the mom had just been divorced, and from what we could tell it was a bummer time.
So these two teenage boys fought constantly. They were incredibly loud and I tried really hard to be empathetic and not complain. We would mention to their mom every now and then and she was very apologetic but it kept going.
So one Sunday they woke us up at 6 am, slamming doors and throwing crap and just being ridiculous. My brother and I set up every piece of audio equipment we had in the house, so a bass amp, two PAs, and a full drum set.
And we blasted Hypnotize by Biggie for about 10 minutes and played along on bass and drums, PA's on full. Never heard those kids make noise again.
Not sure if we shocked them or if they finally got it or what. But we did prove who could make more noise, I guess. Then my brother hooked up with their mom. What was the question?
abeuscher
26. Mission Failed
While we were on holiday our neighbor who was always nice apparently didn't like our fig tree being so close to the fence (which is fair enough).
So when we came back home we were welcomed to a horrendous stench and a half-dead fig tree. Turns out that every day or so he dumped petrol and urine on it to kill it.
Honestly, he's always been an ok neighbor so we never really understood why he thought this was a better idea than just talking to us.
We never confronted him about it. That tree fully recovered, still had the best figs I've ever had, and was around for another 20 years so screw the jerk.
His wife did make the best pizzas I've ever had though. And no, the tree never damaged the fence or his precious concrete.
Killuaxgodspeed
27. New neighbors, New Rules
We had just moved to our new house in the summer and it had a fenced-in pool in the backyard which also had a fence around it.
So, my siblings and I took advantage of it being a hot summer day and were out playing in the pool. I'm the oldest so I'm just keeping an eye out and everything and then I look over outside of the pool fence and I see our neighbor walking around in our yard to the fire pit that we had a further back in the backyard.
I became a little uneasy cause I had only seen this guy once when we first moved in and it looked like the fence that was between his property and ours had a gate on it.
He smiled and waved to us and I was like nope, and told my siblings to get out of the pool and inside. I told my mom straight away and she was livid.
That week, my dad and mom put a lock on our side of that gate so our neighbor couldn't get into our backyard. He noticed a bit later that he couldn't get into our backyard and was upset for some reason.
Apparently, the previous owners and he were like best friends and he used their backyard all the time to come and burn branches and leaves in their fire pit.
Ok, good for them, but this was our house now and you don't go walking into people's property without asking them first. Especially since we didn't know him at all!
So while, god forbid, he may not had malicious intentions, it was still really creepy and kind of wtf when he got upset that we put a lock on our side of the fence to keep him off of our property. We don't talk to him much after that.
mikigski
28. Just call me
My family was on vacation, and the person who was supposed to be caring for my dog left him outside in the rain. My neighbors called the police on my dog for barking at 9:00 PM at night.
We talked with them on the phone and politely asked them to just call our cell next time. The next day, they did it again. My dog has had more encounters with the law enforcement than me.
[deleted]
29. Noah’s Flood
Plugged his sink pipes with toilet paper and flooded his bathroom, flooding our apartment below him. We told him to stop and he refused to, said he was trying to destroy our apartment to get back at the landlords.
The police said it was a landlord issue and the landlord said it was a police issue. After the police asked him to stop that night (said they couldn't do anything about it legally and that it was our problem, they were freaking awful), the neighbor ran his sink for 2 more minutes, stomping his feet and shouting at us, causing the most flooding yet.
We called the police back and they were condescending and laughing at us, telling us to deal with it ourselves. A few days later the police, landlord, and plumber had to force his door open to fix the sink because he wouldn't let them in without a warrant - which they came back with.
He was kicked out a month later. I think he disliked us because on four occasions he passed out drunk cooking food in the middle of the night, setting off everybody's smoke detectors (filling our place with smoke too), so we had to knock and wake him up, or get the police/fire dept involved when he was unconscious in a burning room and wouldn't answer.
Not even to mention the sexual harassment of the women living here or the attempts to break into our apartment when we weren't home. Just, holy crap, that guy.
PK_Thundah
30. 911 Buddies
Our neighbor has called the police on us for our pool not being clean and running by the beginning of May. He always reports us for the pettiest of excuses.
Children's hockey sticks and Wiffle Ball bats on our front lawn, our fence not being of the best quality, our pool gate being too short and has a demon spawn grandson living with him who pulls up my flowers regularly.
He called because we had a storage container in our driveway. He has also called because of a vehicle being parked in our laneway for too long, meanwhile, the jerk has got a car that's been parked at the end of his driveway for longer than I have been living there.
smudgetron
31. The Banshee
She just screams and goes on these long rants while screaming, then slams doors while continuing to rant and scream. Happens any hour of the day and can last between 5 minutes to an hour continuing on and off throughout the day.
We can hear her with all the doors closed despite our house being double brick. We've tried talking to her which has led to nowhere.
The police can't do anything as it's not consistent nor can the local government as its anti-social behaviour so the police have to deal with it.
We can't get in contact with the homeowner so our next bet is to figure out which real estate agent is managing the property and put through a formal complaint.
Which sounds like a lot of work and might not even fix anything. Open to all suggestions on how to deal with her.
Thelostandthefound
32. Amateur Skateboarder
The dude would practice his skateboard ollies in his freaking living room. I lived next door and would hear this constant THUNK sound.
Never mind that we lived two blocks from a nice park that had tons of space he could practice in. No, that would require him to make an effort.
I and the neighbor on the other side told him multiple times to stop and it took getting the property manager involved to make him stop. A few months later, he got evicted for failure to pay rent. Can't say I was sad to see him go.
apocalypticradish
33. Let Rex Run
Called the cops because of my dog. I lived in a house where the house next door was empty for over a year, so my dogs were used to having that extra yard space to play.
Then a family moved in, so I didn't let them go over there anymore. One day my little dog got outside before I had the leash on him and he ran into their yard for a total of maybe ten seconds before I got him back.
No one was outside besides us. Two hours later the sheriff was at my door saying the neighbors called him because our dog was in their yard and their kids are afraid of dogs. Okay!
So you could've just come over to my door and explained your kids are afraid and I would've explained that I'll do my best to make sure it never happens again and how it was an accident in the first place.
Even the sheriff thought it was ridiculous, we live in a small town, no need to call the cops when we could've just had a conversation between the two of us.
JustLetMeGetAName
34. Back to her old ways
From 6th grade to the end of high school, I lived next door to a girl that I didn't particularly know, but some of my friends did because they dated the same guys. We always thought she was promiscuous.
Anyway, I met her years later, only because I started dating my boyfriend and she is dating his brother. Over 3 years we became pretty close friends because of this and we always thought it was so crazy we never talked or met.
Rewind to about a month ago. I go out with her and another friend, and she invites a guy from work she's been talking to. Remember though, she's dating my boyfriend's brother.
Anyway, a guy from work takes her home, BF’s brother catches them and they break up, and she tells me I betrayed her by not being on her side, and telling my boyfriend things that were said that night.
We are no longer friends because I didn't choose to stand by someone who is a sneaky witch. Now, she's my old jerk neighbor again.
Lb962121
35. Can’t take care of one, gotta have two
We had a lovely older gent as a neighbor. Quiet, and clean, we got along well. Then... either he ended up in an old folks home or passed on, I'm not certain, but his child moved in with her boyfriend.
The boyfriend had a pitbull... who while not MEAN was completely unsocialized to anyone but them and on top of that, they never walked this poor thing.
It would just be in their relatively small backyard all the time, barking, excited to see anyone at all but too unsocialized to pet.
Our backyard began to smell of dog crap in the summer because they didn't clean up after it. And then...They got a freaking Rottie pup.
Now it's even BIGGER than this big pitbull, also unsocialized, unwalked, etc. In the summer, so many times, their water dish is empty for hours and hours on end.
Many times over, I've given them a drink from the hose, which they are desperate for. Police don't give a damn. Arrghh jerk pet owners.
Jantra
36. Arrest Them All
Not current neighbors and this happened about 10 years ago when I was 22 or so. I lived in an apartment complex on the bottom floor. Each apartment had a small balcony with a sliding glass door to it.
The incident was maybe 2 weeks after I moved in. The people who lived on the top floor so 2 floors were I’m pretty sure young navy guys who used to have parties all the time which is to be expected.
I was setting up for my first party in this place myself and it was just me and my friend Tiny (tiny is 6’-6” and almost 300lbs at the time) setting up.
It was maybe like 7 or 8 pm and we could hear the navy guys having a party already in full swing and we could hear people outside upstairs.
Tiny was out having a smoke on the patio when we heard what we think is dripping water outside. It’s dark and the patios above would allow for water to fall all the way down to me.
It starts becoming more rapid and I see it hitting tiny in the head and covering him. It pulled up on the top banister of my patio and he ran his hand through it only to realize it wasn’t water but puke and a lot of it.
One if not more of the navy guys had just puked all over him from 2 stories up. He was naturally ready to kill them and I somehow stopped him from doing so.
Instead, we called the cops and came to find out all but like 2 people there were underage and I saw a few people being led away in handcuffs.
DaG_Boomstick
37. Clapback of the century
I was clearing out some trees in the woods next to my house. This lady then stopped and asked all snotty and arrogant ‘Did you ask your neighbors if you could do that’?
I replied ‘When my neighbors start paying my mortgage I’ll get their permission’. Boom! It felt so good saying that. It should be noted that many people stopped and complimented how cleaned up and nice it looked.
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38. Call Smokey The Bear
Live outside the city limits. Wooded acreage. A year ago I took one of my dogs out at 10 pm for her last pee before bed. I noticed a light on my neighbor’s property on the other side of his pond.
Close by where the woods start. After looking at it for a minute, I realized it was fire. I called him and told him there was a fire in his woods.
He blew me off and told me “Oh I was just burning some leaves today”. Totally unconcerned. I called him a freaking moron, hung up, and called the fire dept.
They came out and he was all apologetic to them. Said he didn’t know it was still burning. It’s really his parent's place. He moved in after his father died.
We lived next to his parents for 35 years and never had a cross word. Lovely people. He’s not, not even close by a longshot.
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39. Sun Dial
When I was a kid my next-door neighbor sued the guy across from him because his tree got tall enough that it blocked the sun for an additional 15 minutes each morning from when he purchased the house 20 years previous.
He was about 80 years old and his argument was that in another 20 years, it would likely be 30 mins. He died less than a year after his case was thrown out.
righthanddan
40. Paint or Poison
Neighbors have 2 outside cats. They wander in our garden all the time. The neighbor lady comes stomping over, an older lady, with white hair, and a grumpy husband glaring at us over the fences between our yards.
Proceeds to yell at me for putting something on her cat (a white cat). I look at the cat, look at the lady and she points to the cat's tummy, covered in pink and blue and yellow streaks.
She thinks I'm poisoning her cat.
I point out the sidewalk chalk all over the patio and my young daughter and explain the cat keeps coming over and rolling all over her drawings. Lady looks at the chalk, looks at the cat, looks at me, and stomps away.
mumfywest
41. Oscar the garbage man (and family)
My neighbors refused to clean their freaking flat. A family of three lived there, a woman and her two adult kids. They lived there for ten years and never cleaned anything in the place even once.
The son had to bathe himself in aftershave even after a shower, the daughter had a weird phobia and outright refused to shower so whenever she was nearby, you'd know it.
They had a cat and the poor thing reached the point where it would just give up on cleaning itself. Whenever the door to that place opened, the entire stairwell would reek for hours.
They even had the gall to get offended when neighbors resorted to lighting incense in order to help disguise the stench.
People's shoes would get stuck on the floor in there because of the half-inch thick layer of sticky grime. They eventually got evicted and the landlord had to spend the equivalent of around 20,000 to completely renovate the place.
KittyCatOmaniac
42. Trashy Surprise
Had this hillbilly rental neighbor family 2-1 situation at a suburban townhouse. They had like 6 kids between them constantly screaming and screwing with our stuff.
The kids started going through our trash. One evening I threw out a broken suitcase, I guess it had some sexy Halloween costume in it or something, one of the kids came up to me as I was getting out of my vehicle and said: “We took your suitcase... and my mom took your costume tehehehe”
So I filled a box with cat crap and taped it up, wrote “handle with care” all over it, and put it in the trash. Then watched from my window as the whole freaking family took a box of cat crap into their house opened it (presumably) and then brought it back out to the trash.
Kmaexo
43. A change of heart
We have a tiny patch of shared front lawn with our neighbor. When mowing, it makes sense just to mow the whole patch for both of us, which is what we would do.
Not what he would do though. It was annoying to have the yard looking divided like that and we thought less of them because of their pettiness.
Fast forward a few years and my husband gets cancer. Those neighbors stepped up and helped us with everything yard-related.
Four years out my husband still struggles with pain and fatigue and they are STILL taking care of the lawn. All that to say - sometimes jerks can turn into angels.
MboteOsali
44. Horror Neighbors
Called the cops on my 3-year-old daughter because she was WALKING too loudly at 2 pm on a Saturday. Another time he tried kicking our door down because my husband flushed the toilet too late at night.
A number of other things happened that resulted in a judge granting us a "do not contact" order against him which he violated twice within a month.
Our landlord let us out of our lease early without any fee and actually went with me to court to testify against him. We were just glad to get out of there.
TheLadyCrash
45. Control your men
He lets his yard guy cut onto other neighbors' property. As in, he thinks that 3ish feet on both sides are his. No, those 3 feet belong to the people that bought the land.
And the yard guy is NUTS. He threatened one of the neighbors with clippers after she asked him to stay out of her yard after cutting too low and pulling up her newly grown grass. And the guy just allows it...
donteatbooty_yucky