People Share Their 'Crazy Neighbour' Stories

Certainly, everyone wants a peaceful life. For that to happen, people need to have a good neighborhood. But you will see people who failed to have a good one. 

These people from the Reddit Community shared their silly and crazy neighbor stories. You're on the right page if you are having a bad day. Dive into these stories and enjoy!

1. Had Enough

I had a neighbor who would sneak into my yard at night and roll up my sod. 

It would be laid perfectly the night before, but I'd get up in the morning, and it would be rolled up just like it was when it came from the store.

I finally got pissed and spent the night laying by my back door with a baseball bat and a flashlight, ready to bonk the crap out of whoever it was.

Sure enough, they came around two in the morning, and I stood up, turned the light on, and was face-to-face with four raccoons rolling up my sod, looking for bugs.

Ratrancid

I used to live in a little town of 300 people where we had an elderly neighbor named Gladys. She would routinely look near our garbage can outside and take the recyclable bottles and cans we would leave for her.

After we cleaned out a fish tank, we put the gravel and fake plants in a bag and left it on top of the garbage can because it was already full.

About a week later, Gladys hollered at me while I was outside to come over as she wanted to show me something. She had taken that bag we had left and planted the fake plants along the side of her house.

She said she wasn’t really confident that they would make it, but so far, they seemed to be thriving! I could only nod and compliment her on her green thumb.

Skinvixen

We had the opposite neighbor. 

One that we caught poisoning our trees, including the 5 fruit trees in our backyard that we eat from. We put cameras up and told him if we caught him doing it again, we'd call the cops.

 He stopped even making eye contact with us after that.

He did manage to kill 3 of the fruit trees, which we planted back. 

The 2 that survived are the biggest lemon and tangerine trees I've ever seen in my life, and they produce monster-sized lemons and tangerines, too.

The tangerines are bigger than the grapefruits! I love it, like a magnificent FU to the neighbor. He did it because he hates trees. 

He hates just seeing them.

I'd love a neighbor like OP.

That dude clearly loves plants!

LadySpaulding

This reminded me of this crazy woman in my old neighborhood who used to pretend she was a cop all the time. First, I encountered her screaming at the post office staff because she’d arrived past the pickup time, and they couldn’t guarantee her letter would be in tomorrow. She was there almost an hour, just pitching a fit while they opened the other counters around her.

“Do you know who I am?!” And all that stuff.

The second time I encountered her, she’d cornered some poor child on the bus and was telling her she’d have her arrested because she was a police officer and she didn’t like the way the kid was eating a bag of crisps or whatever.

Real invective stuff.

I stepped in and politely asked if the child knew this wackjob, at which point she backed off.

Anyway, I guess she saw me leave at my stop because I woke up the next morning to find my garden torn up.

Total weirdo.

Slightly2spooked

Well, I used to have a neighbor who was legitimately mentally ill, although I don’t know his actual diagnosis. His truck wouldn’t start one day ( dead battery), and he told everyone on the street that another neighbor was stealing the electricity.

He knew this because of the way this guy parked his vehicle - obviously, it was sucking electricity from the ground for his battery, which drained the car batteries near him. He would often run down the street and warn everyone to hide their valuables because Japan was invading the country. 

He wasn’t on drugs, but he did take medication for his mental illness, and everyone on our street could tell when he stopped taking it. Whenever he would start saying completely irrational things, we would remind him to take his medication, and he would thank us and go home, presumably to take it. 

He lived alone and was getting older, so I think he had a hard time remembering to take it. There were many, many more incidents.

Dovecross

I had a neighbor who wouldn’t let anyone use his driveway because he didn’t want it to get dirty. 

Anyone, including himself. 

He parked on the street outside.

 If he thought you were having a party, he would drag a bunch of plastic bags full of god knows what to the end of his driveway so no one could turn around it.

One time, I came home, and he was outside, hosing it down in the rain.

To his credit, I’ve never seen a cleaner driveway.

StretchDude

Once, I took my kids to the park, and a guy called the police because they were "running around unsupervised all over the park."

He called the cops AFTER he approached my husband and me to keep a better watch over our son (so he knew his parents were there and watching). The park was enclosed. We had multiple parents also there with their kids, and everyone was watching everyone's kids.

Our 4-year-old son never got further than 100 feet from us at the MOST. He was playing with my 8-year-old daughter and her best friend.

The guy called 911 in front of us after arguing with my husband. 

The 911 operator thought it was a lone kid running around on the street at first until she heard he was at a park. The jerkward trying to report it mentioned that his parents were there, and the operator was like, "Yeah.... this isn't an emergency. We're not sending police out.

You could call CPS, I guess, but they may also not want to file a report."

AsuraSantosha

This woman lived next to us and needed to have the police called on her at least once a week.

She would scream at her roommate at all hours of the night, go into a drunken and sometimes drug-filled stupor, and scream at us while tripping out as we sat in our backyard. More than once, I had to kick her out of our home because she walked in unannounced, beer in hand, and drunk as ever.

One time, I called the police because she was screaming about killing someone and rolling around on her front lawn.

Another time, I received a call at work (one in the morning as I work the third shift). My girlfriend informed me they had to evacuate the house because the neighbor's garage was on fire. Turned out that either she or her roommate had done it while doing illegal things or smoking in the garage.

She ended up moving away but would still walk to our house to ask for our lawnmower. 

She was not happy when I told her to get off my porch.

Labbykun

I cared for an elderly woman for many years. She lived until the age of 93 in a crime-ridden inner city neighborhood, being as tough and nasty as any criminal living nearby.

Her oddest actions involved her incorrect belief that she owned the road in front of her house. She didn't even own a car, but she insisted that nobody park there. She would confront them if they parked in front of her house.

If they did it again, she slashed their tires in the middle of the night, over and over for years. She was never caught, but everybody knew it was her.

She only stopped when she lost the physical strength to slash a tire in her mid-80s. Then, she started using spray paint on the cars.

"He don't park in front of my house no more," was all the justification she needed to damage her neighbors' cars.

ThatGuyFromOhio

When I first moved in, my neighbor walked into the house unannounced.

When my wife gets home, sometimes she wants to stay in her car having a phone conversation. He would come out and walk down the side of his house, checking his sprinkler controls, and look at my wife.

He has two huge bushes he refuses to cut. It blocks our view of backing out of our driveway. The fire department came by to clear trees and bushes around the fire hydrants. The neighbor came out and yelled at the fireman. "This bush is older than you!".

Needless to say, I hope there are.

No house fires.

Unsupported

This older lady lives across the street from me, and she is OBSESSED with leaves falling on her lawn, to the point that she will come out of her house and pick up one individual leaf off the grass in the fall (or any other time). 

She spends hours a day outside with the leaf blower in the fall.

She will knock on other neighbors' doors if she thinks you have too many leaves on your grass. She'll come over into your yard and do it yourself, herself, if you're not home.

What I think is weird is that she's in her 70s, has no kids or grandkids living with her, and lives alone in a pretty large 4-bedroom house with an amazing in-ground pool (with a slide and diving board and everything). 

Nobody has used that pool in at least 5 years, yet she opens it every summer. Somehow, she likes my family and has never once yelled at us about our leaves and randomly brings things over, like half-eaten gallons of ice cream, and asks if we want it because she's not using it. 

DTownForever

I grew up on a farm, and we had a neighbor who believed he had a right to use our land whenever and however he wanted, on top of being an insufferable jerkward all the time.

He threatened our family and our animals on a weekly basis. Let his dog come on our property and chase our animals. He would also throw his trash into our pastures. His weird hobby is shooting our horses with BB guns. 

Played music 12+ hours a day through loudspeakers to annoy us. Called the cops any time we had other neighbors over for a BBQ (which just typically resulted in the Sheriff's deputy enjoying some BBQ with us while we regaled them with stories about the crappy neighbor who called them).

He lived on a tiny 1/2 acre lot surrounded by our farmland. So, just about every day, he would hop on his ATV and ride it through the middle of our property like he owned it.

Bedintruder

The neighbor behind us had a leak in his water pipe, and rather than fix it, he just had the sump pump drain it out into the backyard. This meant that all year round, the back of our yard was a little bit damp.

Eventually, the leaky pipe burst and filled the house with five feet of water. His solution to this was just to keep the pump running and flood the entire neighborhood. After about an hour, a posse of all the neighbors whose yards were being flooded confronted him and called the city to shut off the water.  

The city fixed the water pipe, and the neighbor ended up with a large fine.

At least my yard stays basically dry now. I should also mention that this neighbor once rented the house out to a bunch of crackheads, and it nearly burned down because the ex-girlfriend of one of these morons snuck in and set the house on fire.

Kitskill

My parent's next-door neighbor. It started with the "no trespassing" sign in the backyard that faces our yard and nothing else. Set up a motion-activated flood light that faces the side of our house and nothing else. She stabbed our ball when it landed in her yard when we were children. 

Called the cops on the neighbors because "their dog barked constantly" despite them not owning a dog. Thinks my mother (the sweetest person you can meet in this world) is a backstabbing traitor for warning the new neighbors not to let their kids play on Nancy's lawn. 

Verbally assaulted me for chasing deer out of our flower garden, etc. But the true "psycho moment" came with the trees.

We have large trees along the property line (just barely on our side), and she was starting to go all psycho about the tree is gonna fall and crush her house and demand it be cut down.

We consulted an arborist who said it did not but could use a trim that would make it impossible to fall on her yard at all. The entire time they were trimming, she stalked the property line and screamed if anyone stepped over it.

While this trim was happening, a single stick fell on her lawn. She lost it. Threatened to call the cops, told them they better have all their licenses up to date, etc. Arborists tried to blow her off, but my mom insisted they check. 

Sent someone to City Hall and renewed their license. 30 min after that, a cop showed up to check as Nancy had called them. 

Arborists were super thankful for my mom warning them.

XANA12345

I saw the neighbor across the street, a woman who looked to be about 45 or 50 and had only been living there a few weeks, wander into her next-door neighbor’s house while they weren't home, wearing no shirt, just a bra and then like 5 minutes walk out muttering to herself, nothing in her hands or anything.

She kept walking in circles in her driveway, muttering. She lived by herself, and this was concerning to me, so I called 911.  

Cops showed up and talked to her. During that time, the owners of that house showed up, and I told them what happened. They said nothing had been disturbed or anything, and they had never talked to that woman before.

Shortly after that, an ambulance showed up, took the woman away, and I never saw her again.

A month later, some people showed up to take her things out of her house.

[deleted]

I've got a good one. Where to even begin?

He threatened to kill my neighbor's dog because he barked. He would stand at his window at night and look at our house. We could see him because he was illuminated by his TV. He would randomly clap throughout the night.

He would also yell randomly at night.

As a kid, he scared the crap out of me and my siblings with his strange behavior, especially standing at his window at night.

[deleted]

We used to live next to a woman who would have a disco party for her cats in her backyard at 2 am every few days. 

She would put up a disco ball and party lights with music playing.

It was a little bit odd, but what made it crazy was her dancing like a Native American performing a ritual around the disco ball. It’s honestly one of the strangest things I’ve ever witnessed!

Epicsunrise77

Our neighbor threw cat crap from his yard at our pickup because he thought our dog got loose and went in his yard. 

Now, he just throws it in the street.

Haven't caught him doing it. Animal control tells me it's a misdemeanor. The first couple of years we lived there, he called the cops about once a month during the warmer months due to our kids playing in the cul-de-sac.

The neighbors on his other side also have kids the same age as ours, so he's pretty freaked in that regard.  Cops just came by and let us know he called again.

Never amounts to anything, thankfully. He's cooled off lately, though I'm probably tempting fate by saying that.

TigerHijinks

My guy was married but lived totally separately from his wife. She would visit every so often, and he would travel to her too every now and then.

Always wondered about that until I got a chance to be invited into his house.

A Hoarder of garage sale stuff. Dolls and just doll heads scattered around and boxes of toys, and whatever else you can imagine. Only a 2ft path throughout the house.

 He also had an overgrown yard full of all kinds of plants.

It was kind of cool looking, but seeing an overgrown jungle after some years was a bit concerning. 

Nice guy and we would share a beer all the time.

My best neighborhood friend.

Red_headed_stallion

My neighbor has a dog, and so do I. They bark at each other sometimes, and I think they feel like we suck and we’re the problem.

Anyway, one day, they came over to complain about a dead rabbit in their yard. I was kind of flabbergasted because I think that they think my dog killed it, and I threw it over the fence...?

Crazy neighbors.

At another house I lived in, the neighbor dude came over and knocked on the door like the police at about 5 am to yell at me for being parked in his spot.

I had a friend over and had parked on the street to give them the driveway. He also has a driveway. His “spot” was the street parking in front of his house, as mine was occupied by one of his many vehicles.

Crazy neighbor.

Acceptable-While8668

My uncle is the crazy neighbor. I don’t live with him, but he’s in the same neighborhood as me. There are so many stories about him, but I will go with the recent one.

Managed to fall into the septic tank. 

He didn’t fall all the way in and was holding himself up from the edge. My cousin and aunt were inside. I suspect they may have heard some noise coming from outside, but he is a loud man, and it’s really not uncommon. So anyway, a neighbor finally heard his cries for help and helped him out of the septic tank.

Other uncle moments: falling through the ice on the eerie canal (ew), falling through the ice on the lake, tying snow sleds to the back of his truck so his kids could ride them, creating a “sea sled” out of broken water skis and a slab of unfinished wood to tie off his boat because the tube ripped, and many many more. 

We always have fun with him, and so far, we’ve all made it out alive.

Pipette_juice

Yelled at me for shoveling her walk.

She was an older lady who was already a little crazy and had the townhouse next to mine. She would complain that water from my roof fell in her yard. I was renting, so I gave her the management company's number so she could complain to them.

Then we had a huge snowfall, about 3 feet. Knowing she was old, I shoveled her walk and steps. She went ballistic. I put snow in her yard! How dare I!? She was screaming while everyone was digging out their cars, and very quickly, the neighborhood stopped doing things for her.

Bartleby42c

I think I’m the crazy neighbor here.

So there’s a bunch of spiders that live around my apartment complex. I was recently gone for a while, so one spider kept building a web across the staircase. I live on the top floor, so I’m the only one breaking through them.

So anyway, the spider kept building webs across, and one time, as I was leaving, I walked through one and was like, “We freaking talked about this, Carl.”  

 I went down the rest of them and saw my downstairs neighbor looking at me weirdly.

My brain froze, and the only thing I could think to say was, “I was talking to the spider.” Cue him lookin’ confused af and walking into his apartment without any comments. 

So yeah.

Mbutler0

There was a man who lived up the street from me when I was a kid. He was a local legend that everybody called Crazy Larry. This man would attack people for driving up his street after dark and sometimes chased them in his car. He'd start screaming at the cars and would break windows out if he could get close enough.

On weekend nights, he would wait outside of his house in the bushes or inside his car, ducked down so nobody could see him, just waiting for people to come by his house.

A family friend of mine inadvertently turned around in his driveway one night, having no idea who he was or that she was doing something "wrong." He broke out all over windows and was trying to attack her and really scared the hell out of her.

The story was that this started more than a decade before my experiences with him, and the guy likely had some serious issues with PTSD from Vietnam. He was very paranoid about people doing something to his house, and his street ended up being an easy way to turn around in the area. 

I think somebody initially triggered him by complete coincidence, but once the legend started spreading, high school kids would purposely drive up his street to antagonize him.

This went on for decades, unfortunately, and eventually ended up in this man's death after being hit by a car of kids who were antagonizing him. 

It's a really sad story.

Superbee1970440

I have one that is really nosy.

She takes a lot of walks & when she comes to the curtains open at night or the garage door up, she stands on the sidewalk just staring into the house/garage, not even trying to hide what she's doing. 

One day, she had her husband with her at the end of my driveway (they couldn't see I was in my garage) & was questioning him about the value of items I had. 

He was very embarrassed when he saw me & kept trying to get her to leave. 

Told my husband if anything gets stolen from our garage, we know who it was.

Lotsofcoffee321

I have a neighbor who is oddly obsessed with my outdoor cameras.

He thinks they're pointed at his house. They aren't. I've shown him multiple times that none of them can see any part of his property. He still tells other neighbors that I'm using them to spy on him.

When we first moved in, he tried but failed to remove one of the cameras. The attempt was, of course, recorded. I mentioned it to him the next day but didn't specifically tell him that I knew it was him. He said it was probably a prowler.

The next day, I told him that I'd started keeping a gun on my desk in case the prowler returned.

I asked him to let me know if he saw any other shady characters and promised that I'd be outside with a loaded handgun just as fast as he could dial a phone or my camera could alert me to motion. 

He did not make a second attempt.

Also, when we moved in, every single other neighbor stopped by to welcome us and to warn us about him being a jerkward. Probably 90% of them specifically used the word "jerkward."

He's fixated on finding out which neighborhood dog keeps crapping in his grass. I know which one it is because I have cameras, but I kept that to myself. I like the dog crap in his yard.

I feel like it deters prowlers.

EarhornJones

I noticed this one man always on his lawn, just standing next to a tree looking straight up, holding a broom and one of those dustpans attached to a metal stick. He would randomly sweep things into his dustpan and continue looking up.

It was so weird.

One day, my wife and I took a walk around the neighborhood and walked past his house. We got to see what it was all about, lol. He just stands and waits for an acorn to fall, then sweeps it up. He does this every night, with reasonable weather.

His lawn has grass but is patchy in some spots. Surprisingly, it looks like a well-swept lawn and not an acorn in sight. 

I got them all over my lawn from my trees, so I know how bad it can get.

Sometimes, his wife will sit outside with him, and when they see an acorn fall, she will point to it, and he'll go sweep it up.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

Also, he will randomly cut a tree branch off the tree now and then with one of those long-reach saws. He is just a very manicured guy with his tree, I guess, not super crazy relatively.

He might have a legitimate reason, but it’s been going on for a while.

Dannydevitolegs

Hid behind her car, and when I started going into my condo, she jumped out and asked if they had followed her. Then, I asked her who, and she replied, "The Nazis". She said nazi subs had been following her car for days.

Knocked on my door, and when I answered, she gave me a stack of assorted magazines she thought I would like. They all had a doctor's office address on them. I can only assume where she got them.

Drove into our concrete steps/porch so hard she separated it from the building. Said she forgot which pedal was which. When I got out of my car, she came over and asked me when I got back from the moon. She saw me wearing a NASA hat, so that meant I must work on the moon.

I actually felt really bad for her. 

When we first moved in, she seemed fine. She was really nice and likable. She would bring us over these beautiful handmade wreaths to hang on our door. We ended up calling the authorities because we were concerned about her. Apparently, she had some "issues" and was on medication, but she sometimes forgot to take it, and when she did, she went downhill fast.

She had not seen her for a long time, and finally, her mother finally stopped by to start cleaning her condo. She moved in with her mother to "take care of her," but according to her mom, it was actually the other way around. 

Her mom was taking care of her and making sure she took her meds.

[deleted]

One of my neighbors was a grumpy old lady.

One time, as kids, one of my friends was over, and we decided to walk down the block, then sat in the yard and ate raisins. No, I don't know why we did, but we did.

Now, keep in mind that we were on the grass that was in between the sidewalk and the street, which is technically owned by the city and not the residents. 

Anyways, we sat by the tree in that grass area, and she came out and yelled at us to go somewhere else.

So, we got up and moved to the next property, but that wasn't good enough for her. Of course, she yelled at us to go farther even though we weren't even in front of her house anymore.

Chewie_i

I guess the craziest neighbor I had (or neighbors, I should say) lived a house down after my next-door neighbor. It was an older lady and a severely overweight man who would sit outside all day during the summer and watch people (presumably, I think it was her son).

He would have his shirt off, and people would watch you all day as you walked up and down the street (at this time, I was around ten.) The older lady also had a granddaughter who was also the spawn of Satan.   

Anyway, one night, we were in our house, and it was late at night. The FBI, HLS, and a dozen other agencies came in and raided his house. 

I mean blowing down doors and the whole nine. 

Come to find out, this dude was harboring illegal stuff, and they took out several computers and hard drives.

Needless to say, he doesn't live there anymore, and I'm damn glad he is gone.

Way14

My crazy neighbor isn’t so crazy, but it's definitely annoying. I live upslope from him (ever so slightly), and he has dug multiple trenches through my yard in the dead of night to relieve drainage issues at his house related to surface water.

I’ve had him fill them in the next day both times. He has created a dam at our property line, etc. Generally, he just forces all his property drainage issues on me as it relates to surface water. We had our foundation repaired, and he insists we regraded our property, which we did not.

About to hand him a printed section of the TX codification that shows him altering or impounding surface water flow to the adverse effect of neighboring properties is illegal, but I’m sure that won’t help.

The best part was his water problems were all self-inflicted as he has dug up his yard so many times it sits slightly lower than all the surrounding property, and it would be fixed by just restoring his dirt and planting sod.

My other neighbor he shares a fence with hates him, too, because he is a rampant HOA complainer, even though his house is potentially in the worst shape in the neighborhood.

JerkbergIV

My neighbor blew up two of his boats because he thought someone was hiding in them.

Also, he was convinced I’d been breaking into his house and hacking his electronics for 10 years (I’m22yo). Another one is he stays up at night screaming for no reason.

He came to my house looking for me, telling my parents he was “gonna end this.”

I have a restraining order on him now.

BossManSeth

I once totally randomly caught my neighbors on camera at 1 am dumping trash into and onto my bins, which were already on the curb for morning pickup.

I wouldn't mind a little trash if there's space in my bins, but they put about twice as much as can fit, overflowing the bins and mixing the recycling and compost with their trash.

I promptly returned it, neatly piled on their porch with a note written on a bill with their name and address on it, quoting the county ordnance on dumping (the volume was enough for a $5,000 fine), and that they were on camera.

A couple of days later, they left an envelope saying "Sorry neighbor," with tickets for a concert, a "free" concert in a sketchy venue with a printed invitation that screamed "MLM recruiting event."

I wonder if they even understand that what they did is not an apology.

I haven't crossed paths or words with them again.

Mazamorac

Several years after I graduated from high school, I moved into a small house in a neighborhood not far from my parents, and a couple of days later, I came out of work to find two flat tires. I called them to come and get me and told them why, and Dad said he'd gone over to check on something and found a board with several dozen big nails, several inches long, in my driveway.

I still don't know how I could have driven over that and not known, but he showed it to me, and it didn't look like it had been freshly made. I never found out who did it, but my brother said he had gone over before I moved in to check the place out, and a young guy across the street was giving him the stink eye.

I was skeptical at the time because of my brother's teenage attitude but cut to a couple of years ago when I was looking up property records in that neighborhood and found out that, at the time, the house was owned by one of my HS classmates whose family has owned a house-flipping business for many decades. 

I barely knew the guy, and I still find it hard to believe he would ever have done anything like that to anyone, but maybe he wasn't who I thought he was after all.

Notthesedays

Whenever it rains, and her cats aren’t inside, she goes around the whole neighborhood and harasses everyone, accusing them of stealing her cats. She also dances around a stick in her front yard when it storms.

Sometimes, when you’re outside, you’ll hear her having a conversation with herself, and she’ll start screaming about being married to a guy called JP.

She calls people to come down and mow her lawn for her. By the time they’ve finished, she locks herself inside and doesn’t leave until they’re gone so she doesn’t have to pay them.  

One time, people came out and trimmed the tree branches on her nature strip. They left the branches on the ground, and she came over to mine (I’m next door) and started abusing my family and blaming us for leaving them there.

One time, she came over demanding “the truth” but wouldn’t specify what she wanted to know. After repeating multiple times that I didn’t know what she wanted the truth about, she said that my dad would know. I got him to talk to her, and she still wouldn’t say what she wanted the truth about.

She’s now locked in a psych ward.

GayDinoNuggie

Oh boy, I have a good one. 

So this guy in the apartment next door is quiet for about 16 hours a day, not a single peep. For about 6-8 hours each day, he audibly screams at the top of his lungs and claps his hands. Sometimes, he screams real words. Other times, it's just noises.

I live in an apartment, so this is obviously very noticeable to the whole floor. You can even hear him in the hallways above and below my floor.

I literally met the guy when I moved in, and he seemed nice. I've held the elevator door for him, and he always was very polite. He must be a drug user or have a serious mental illness because this is not normal human behavior.

I contacted the building manager about this, and he has been quieter since then, but you can still hear him speaking nonsense for about 6 hours straight.

R3m0t3c0ntr0l

I had a neighbor who kept coming onto my property to 'help' with my yard.

As I slept during the day, I only saw the aftermath of his trespassing - cut grass and chopped 'weeds' (flowers I had been trying to grow, but he "didn't like them"). Finally caught him one day cause his weedwhacker was throwing rocks at my windows. 

I asked him nicely to stop, that he was killing off plants I wanted to grow and that he didn't have my permission to be on my property to start with.   

Finally got him to leave, but he continued on days I was asleep. Put locks on my gates to keep him out of my yards, but my driveway was open.

Put a chain with a bright yellow NO TRESPASSING sign across it. He ignored it. Finally got to the point where I actually had to yell at him to leave after pointing out the several KEEP OUT signs I had up by then.

RegretNo7183

Everyone seems to have different but similar experiences with her. It's similar in that she's always visibly intoxicated and doing something weird. It's different in that the weirdness varies a lot.

She bothers us by constantly knocking on our door and telling long-winded stories about how she's in the FBI.  

 She bothers another neighbor by going into that person's yard and swinging from trees while screaming. She bothers another neighbor (townhome complex) by pounding on the walls at all hours of the night.

My personal favorite is that she keeps moving a few people's trash cans around. Multiple times a day on trash day. Usually, she moves them to block garage doors, but sometimes, she just drags them into the street.

SpicyWonderBread

Good lord, I should write a book about my neighbor.

She is a public school bus driver. When she tested positive for COVID-19, of course, after denying its existence forever and claiming it was man-made in a China lab, she still didn't wear a mask, even during the quarantine period. 

She was posting on Facebook about thinking she had a sinus infection for a few days before getting tested. She had been going to work before the positive result, but the school said she had "minimal contact with others." Her boyfriend kept going to work (maskless), and her kids kept going to in-person school.

On her Smart car, she has two pink window decals: one a deer brandishing antlers made of automatic weapons and another of an AR-15 that says, "Don't take my guns, control your kids." This is a woman who screams every day at her children.

I heard it through the walls. While on the topic of her car, she decided to paint it with blue spray paint. 

In our shared parking lot. 

In our four-plex, each tenant gets one space and two extra spaces. She and her boyfriend occupy three spaces and occasionally park a camping trailer on the street parking below.

In the summer, while apparently claiming unemployment fraudulently, she bought a convertible, and the state forced her to pay everything back. She went on the news to ask for help to pay her bills. After that, it's been all complaining about communism and the welfare state while also asking for info about how to declare bankruptcy.

She stores all kinds of crap in our shared spaces: BBQs, Tupperware boxes, scooters, and bicycles. She has a camera security system aimed right at my door.

She has this habit of locking her doors multiple times every morning and night (OCD?), and she clicks her car's horn at least five times with her clicker every time she comes home.

She's a real peach.

AlliterativeAhole

I’ve moved, thankfully, but I used to live in a quiet suburban neighborhood. My girlfriend and I had nearly identical work schedules, so we would walk our dogs together at the same time every morning and night.

For some damn reason, this elderly woman would always be walking around the neighborhood at the same time. Not with a dog, not jogging, not listening to music, just walking. By herself. And I swear she would try to do it at the same time as us.

Anyways, apparently, she hated dogs. The first time we saw her, she crossed the road just so she would be on the same side as us. We pulled our dogs off to the side, greeted her, and let her pass. Our dogs were super mellow and weren’t barking or trying to pull towards her or anything.

She goes, “uh uh. Take those dogs away from me. I’m not walking near any damn dogs.” We were confused and unsure what she wanted, so we backed up further. She stopped and said, “no! Uh uh! Take them across the street. I’m not walking anywhere near them, and if they try to bite me, I’ll call animal control.”

Still confused, we reluctantly crossed the road and continued our walk. Honestly, we assumed she was some sort of crazy homeless lady. We kept looking back to see where she was going, and of course, she lived right across from us. So yes, she crossed the street just to confront us, then crossed back to go home.

This continued just about every day. Any time we saw her coming, she would just point at us to cross the road and would mumble stuff like, “Them dogs don’t belong here” or “Keep those dogs locked in your yard.” Keep in mind our dogs never did anything, and we were never rude to her or anything (even though I wanted to be).

The day we moved out, we took all our furniture and stuff and saved the dogs for last (it was easier that way). By the time we went to pick them up, it was pretty late. 10-11 pm or so. I knew she was asleep since all her lights were off, so I made a point of letting the dogs crap right on her lawn, which they did.

I always pick up after my dogs, but fudge that lady.

I hope that at least ruined her morning after all the times she ruined ours.

PrometheusAborted

Oh man, where do I even start with my neighbor?

For the past year that we have been in lockdown, this man just walks onto his balcony all the time. I peek out of my window in the morning, and he is walking. I go out in the evening, he is walking. I sit outside on my balcony at the most random hour of the night, and...you guessed it, he is walking. 

My family has started calling him walker. The weird thing is, he is a fairly young man (around 36 or so) with a big house, a really hot wife, a 14-year-old kid, a blooming business, expensive cars, and whatnot. But despite so many things going on for him, he walks at an eerily slow pace all throughout the day, occasionally with an alcohol bottle in hand.

Everyone in our vicinity sure as heck wonders what's up with him to be walking like this.

Once in a blue moon, his wife joins him, too. I understand wanting to exercise your body, but his walking is just obsessive to the point that he has become a regular topic of discussion for everyone's dinners.

I am currently on vacation, but heck, even I've got work to do. 

Sometimes, I'll scroll through Reddit or watch a movie to pass the time, but I don't understand how this man has nothing else to do, like spending time with his family, playing with his dog, or even watching TV.

I used to admire him for doing this, but now, just seeing him outside in his stoic/semi-frustrated expression and judgemental face, walking from one end to the other, just makes me hurl.

PunkoJunkoEatsSalt

About 2 weeks ago, my girlfriend and I were about to go to sleep when we heard the firefighters arriving. We went to check the window, and there was this huge black cloud of smoke coming from our neighbor's place.

The whole neighborhood was gathered outside to see what was happening. Their house was completely caught up in flames. After the firefighters got rid of the fire, the house was destroyed. The wood it was made of was now pitch black.

Luckily, nobody was home when it happened, and their pet chickens were saved. Later, we found out that the guy had an argument with his wife because of his addiction to alcohol.

Basically, he lit the gas and threw a firematch inside, causing the fire to start, all because of an argument about him getting home late after drinking too much. 

The house wasn't even theirs, though. It was a rent.

The guy was arrested after confessing the crime. He apparently also had some issues with drug addiction in the past.

TheWhiteWolf1120

This guy lives right next to me.

He spends every waking minute outside talking to his plants or chasing his poorly-trained dog down the street in his underwear at 3 AM.

One time, he broke into my backyard in the middle of the night - yes, in his underwear - and started screaming incoherently outside my window. Supposedly, the story is that he is looking for his dog. I ran outside with a gun, not knowing anything other than a screaming person in the yard at night, and he looked me in the eye and said, "Go ahead, call the cops." 

He then ran sideways in a weird crab walk and effortlessly vaulted back over the fence like something out of a found footage movie.  

Cops showed up, and he just stared at them through his window for 15 minutes until they threatened to kick it down.

Didn't press charges because I think he's mentally ill, but I have awkward looks with him whenever I'm mowing the yard now because he's always out there talking to his plants.

Npainmusic

We had a crazy neighbor whom we nicknamed "Axel Rose."

One time, he was cutting boards in his garage while drunk, and he accidentally cut off two of his fingers. Instead of calling an ambulance like a normal person, he decided to run out of the garage and show my father what he had done.

I remember him saying something along the lines of "Look what I just did, dude!" to which my father replied, "...Dude, you should call an ambulance."

When I was 12, we had a distracted driver in total 2 of our vehicles outside of our house on the side of the street. Now, mind you, we don't live on a busy road, and it was around 1 am when our vehicles got hit. 

The neighbors were drinking outside around a bonfire when it happened. Axel heard the commotion and ran out front to see the woman who hit our cars fleeing on foot through our yard.

He gathered the rest of the neighbors from his yard and proceeded to drunkenly chase the woman through our yard, only to have his wife tackle her and wrestle her to the ground. 

My father came out to witness the neighbor's dog piling the woman, all while shouting, "Neighbor Hood watch, Neighbor Hood watch!"

We don't have a neighborhood watch.

Zaranni

I had just moved in and had deliveries and contractors coming in and out that morning when the neighbor came over to introduce herself.

She came 7 times in one day! During one visit, she told me her son sold cell phone plans, and "everyone" in the neighborhood had switched to him. On the 6th visit, while I was distracted by a furniture delivery, she brought her son over.

I came into the kitchen, and he had my phone, had canceled my service, and handed me a card for my new plan! If that's not bad enough? It didn't work!   

I was livid, but knowing no one and trying not to be the new witch in the HOA, I attempted to keep my cool with this older woman.

It took until almost midnight to get my service restored and keep my previous number. I lost all the points I had accumulated. And Gladys Kravitz refused to leave until I got it straightened out.

Shortly after this, she invited me to ride with her and her husband on election day so they could tell me who to vote for! It took months of me refusing to answer the door for her to stop coming over.

DisinterestdObserver