Having a good neighbor is one of the greatest things this life could offer. You have someone you could rely on in times of need. But living beside a neighbor who keeps you insane every single day, welcome to your living nightmare.
Here are some stories that will keep your blood pressure high because you will be shocked how these types of neighbors who have no compassion even exist. Brace yourselves and check these out!
1. Neighborly Discord
I looked out of my window to see my neighbor leaning over my 6ft high fence and stretching right into my yard to see some of the main branches off my tree. My tree had never extended over the fence and her limb-hacking ended the life of it.
A few months later, she cut one of the wires attached to our boundary fence that was holding up a shade cloth in my backyard. I called the cops on her. A couple of weeks later, all the plants along our boundary fence mysteriously passed away and seriously damaged some of my trees. I still have no idea what her problem is!
Gadget_girl
2. Mulberry Revenge
My grandmother's next-door neighbor planted one when she was a newlywed. When I was a kid, the thing was so huge it hung over my grandmother's driveway, and the bird crap was so bad they would stain the paint jobs on cars that were parked anywhere nearby.
City ordinance said she couldn't cut the branches down herself because the tree roots were on someone else's property.
When she retired and got a huge bonus from her company, she purchased the lot on the other side of the neighbor and lined both sides of his yard with mulberry trees that she patiently groomed and bent so that they'd hang over his yard.
He got really pissed off about it and cut off the branches of the trees. So she called the city and sued him for the destruction of her property. He was forced to reimburse her for the trees. It was glorious.
Theonewiththetits
3. Barking Trees And Neighborly Wars
Our neighbor has a really yappy dog named Jimmy that drives us crazy. When the neighbor asked us to cut down a little tree in our yard that was casting a shadow on her garden, my husband resolved that we would cut it down only when Jimmy shut up. That is, never.
A couple of weeks later, we found the tree cut down. The maniac must have snuck into the yard at night and cut it down. I can't stand that lady. She is the most selfish woman I know.
Supernanify
4. Feathered Foes
We live near a protected area for endangered animals. One of the animals that the sanctuary is meant to protect is the bald eagle. Since we live next to a field, it's pretty common for an eagle to sit on our porch and disembowel its rabbit for dinner.
We have a neighbor who keeps calling the cops on us because the bird is on our property and claims it is traumatizing his innocent children. He treats us like we're the ones murdering fluffy bunnies for our own amusement.
The police do not respond personally, but they do contact the local chapter of animal control to have them remove the bird and several government agencies to report its behavior.
LadySmuag
5. Cousin V.s. Cousin
My parent's next-door neighbor (who is also my mother's cousin) sued them 3 or 4 times over property disputes and once because his adult son allegedly fell over a decorative rock to prevent said neighbor from parking on my parent's lawn.
The guy's house has been condemned but they still live there. It was the most unreasonable reason ever but that really happened. They acted like it was my parent’s fault and not their kid.
Princessaurus_rex
6. Battling The Screams
The neighbor behind my house would scream at her kids daily to the point our kids would be afraid to play in the backyard. By "scream," I mean horrible words you’ll ever hear. She screams to a kid that looks like he is 8 or 9.
My ex even tried to help out one day; one of her kids was up a 3-storey tall tree of hers that hung over our fence and wouldn't climb down and this banshee was screaming all sorts of bile at him to come down.
My ex calmly says to the boy "Please climb down, sweetie. You might fall" to try and convince him; the woman then turns on her "What the heck do you think you're doing? Don't you talk to my kids!"
I made the mistake of calling the cops on her once while she was abusing several people. She then came after me physically. She was a crazy dangerous woman.
Antarius-of-Smeg
7. Crazy Plant Lady
We used to live in a property with 2 units and we were in the back. Lived there for 4-5 years before the new front unit neighbors, a couple in their 60 to 70 years old, moved in.
A few weeks in, she complained about our front yard bit which was not a shared area and it consisted of a tree and 3-4 small bushes. She wanted us to plant something nicer in our private area (2m x 1m) keeping in mind we were in the back so no one from the street could see it anyway.
My mum told her she didn't have the time to do that so she suggested we hire her gardener to take care of our area and mom told her we didn't have that kind of money to spend.
Next thing you know she sends us her grandson (he would've been late 20s) to try and convince us to change our plants to what she wanted. She hinted we should do it because he was a professional private detective and he was really good at his job. Crazy plant lady.
Chang_rocks
8. Cracks In The Walls
I lived in a house that had been split into two apartments. Next door was a crackhead. Normally, crackhead kept to herself and didn't bother me except to bum a cigarette or two every few days.
One day she needed a smoke, but I was down to my last pack, and payday wasn't for another three days, so I said no. She must have really needed a smoke because it was like a rage switch had been turned on in her head.
I turned around and went back into my apartment to get away from her screaming at me, and she went back into her apartment and started pounding on the walls. At least I thought she was just pounding on the walls.
Turns out that she grabbed a hammer and smashed her way through the walls of my apartment.
I called her boyfriend who was a decent dude, and he rushed home and got her calmed down. The hole in the walls was basketball-sized by the time she was stopped. Luckily for me, they were already being evicted, so I didn't have to worry about her anymore.
Stopstaringatmeswan4
9. Snailgate
I have been a terrible neighbor, it's something I still feel a little bad about (sort of). Basically, where we lived we would get a lot of snails when it rained, I mean buckets full of them, it was a ritual of my mother's to go out and collect them all and “dispose” of them “humanely” with a brick.
Being a 6 year old I absolutely loved snails and would feel bad for the little guys and would go out and grab as many as I could to save them, of course, it made sense for me to simply throw them over the fence into my neighbor's yard where they could go live happily.
It was only much later that I overheard a conversation between my neighbor and my mother in which she was saying all her roses had been almost destroyed by snails, the even worse part was they belonged to her husband (the roses) who had passed away so they held a lot of sentimental value.
After that the snails got released to the house behind us which my mom didn't like so no one was none the wiser. Sorry lady neighbor I hope your roses grew back okay.
Sugarbombs
10. Uninvited Guest
The neighbor's kid used to always just walk right in the front door. Before I moved into the house the original owner ended the life of the previous neighbor for always parking in his driveway. The house is cursed to make annoying neighbors I guess.
They keep asking why we didn't lock the door. My mom wasn't much of a mom and we were four young boys who had better things to do than worry about that stuff. Nowadays I'm always locking my door!
Sumapplesauce
11. Fields Of Discord
I work in the agricultural industry and sometimes have to help sort out disputes between neighbors. I have always been shocked as to how two grown adults (or two families) will allow the situation to degrade to the point of violence.
One time I was contacted because of a dam usage dispute. The two warring neighbors were unsure of the boundary between their two properties and both wanted to use this one particular dam. Both had in the past fenced it off, and both had cut the other neighbor's fence down.
I identified who the dam belonged to and provided advice accordingly. The neighbor who came off as second-best wasn't happy. He didn't say anything to me. But he did throw a tonne of dynamite in the dam, rendering it useless. It also ended the life of the animals drinking from it at the time of detonation.
Another person is suspected of taking revenge on his neighbor for some sort of personal slight. I say suspected because it's been thoroughly investigated and no one knows the clear details. All I can say is that the neighbor disappeared without a trace and rumor has it, someone had ended his life.
On other occasions, I've had to deal with neighbors who have shot at each other, lit each other's infrastructure on fire, stolen each other's property (including livestock), or even in one case, revenge ruined the neighbor's daughter. Keeps life interesting.
FrankenstineGirls
12. Neighbors From Decibel Dimension
The neighbor’s kids are a horrible man. It starts every spring. They only have one speech volume, which is scream. It sounds like children are being hurt on a daily basis.
They jump all over my porch swing even though I have repeatedly asked the parents to tell them not to. They run up and down the stairs of my porch constantly. I am just waiting for one to get seriously hurt and then it's my fault.
I have a narrow driveway and last summer the one got his bike wedged between my house and my car's passenger door, and scratched the heck out of it. Basically, they just run wild and the parents either don't care or are too drunk to notice at times. I don't know when I turned into a crotchety old man at 30 but heck those kids.
dc5trbo
13. Escaping The Symphony Of Chaos
Our previous neighbors were sorta annoying, rev heads and whatnot, played lame music every so often but they could control their voices and were generally inside, they also had two dogs that rarely barked.
When they moved out I rejoiced, but the rejoicing turned to chagrin. Three kids, under 12, scream non-stop all day. They bought a new puppy, and refuse to train it: Squeals morning and night, barks intermittently throughout the day.
Now to put this into context, on the other side of me is a kindergarten. Those kids scream all day long, but they are nothing compared to my new neighbors. I'm used to the kindergarten, I'm cool with insane screaming all day from those kids, but these new ones were unbearable.
Oh, and they randomly come into the property. Like sometimes I'm having a shower and some kid goes past at my door level looking for a ball or something. Knock on the front door, this is not your playground. Long story short. I need to move.
Rctsolid
14. The Great Escape
Never had much luck with neighbors, but by God the last one was horrible. They had two massive dogs that were completely untrained, never left the house, and were outside day and night 24/7. Constantly barking setting my dog off as well.
One time one of their dogs escaped by jumping the fence off their patio furniture. We had to call animal control because he was sitting at the end of the driveway charging at people who walked down the street, for God knows how long.
The second time one of them escaped they took off and the douche screamed at my dad for at least an hour accusing him of stealing their dog. Big surprise when one of them never escaped again after moving their patio furniture away from the fence.
To heck with those guys, they left a couple of months ago and my dad was so excited he took a chair and sat in front of our window watching them load their U-haul truck.
synyster1169
15. Fence Fiasco
A few years ago a neighbour two doors down decided to replace a fence. However, they felt their backyard wasn't big enough. So they took down their existing fence. They also cut down three medium-sized trees that were on the other side of their fence, as in not on their property.
Then they built the fence 5 feet onto the neighbor's property. They even bolted it to the neighbor's house. She was a single mom and a brain and breast cancer survivor who didn't have a lot of money for litigation.
I am assuming they just thought there was nothing she could do about it. When we moved though she did have a lawyer who was helping her. I don't know if the fence has been moved yet.
JoJack82
16. Storms Fury And Neighbor’s Betrayal
I lived down the street from an illegal substance dealer. My house was constantly being robbed by his customers. I forgot to lock my car and they stole my GPS, and all my loose change.
I didn't lock my shed and they took my lawnmower and gas. I assume they filled their car up, but on the bright side, they returned the can to my shed after using it. If it wasn't locked up, they would steal it, which is why I don't have a bike anymore.
Then Superstorm Sandy flooded my house with 2 feet of water. My front door wouldn't close because it had swelled from being immersed in water. My neighbors cleaned my house out.
They took everything I own. They even went through my attic. They ripped my pipes out of the wall. They stole my oven, my sink, my furnace, my water heater, my refrigerator, my pavers, my car, my boat, my sports autograph collection with signatures from Willie Mays and Micky Mantle, and my guns.
As expected they never even touched my book collection. Back to what they took: my guitars, my video games, my TV, my sleeping bag, my computer, and my coin collection.
Boobiesucker
17. Early Morning Symphony
In our last apartment, we lived on the 2nd floor. A family on the 4th floor had this kid who was maybe 3 years old. Every morning between 6 and 8 they'd walk up the staircase after having been out, and most of the time the kid would start crying. Loudly.
What was the solution of the parents? Leave the crying kid on the staircase on his own for 15 minutes! Our apartment doors carried sound through them very well, so it was basically like having a screaming 3-year-old in your hallway every morning.
Let's just say it got on my nerves rather quickly. So what did I do? Nothing, of course, I am a Swede.
ClinchClonch
18. Chemical Conundrum
I was probably late to this, but here goes. My wife and my first house after marriage, we got a completely insane neighbor. She had "environmental allergies" which led her to have ridiculous reactions to any chemical.
So she spied on us to make sure we didn't clean or spray anything. She had a "severe reaction" and threatened to sue us when she saw me lining the exterior of our house with chemicals.
The chemical I was using was salt. She chased away 3 pest experts who were hired to help get termites out of my house because I couldn't get anyone to treat the area due to her insane reactions when she saw them.
Finally rushed a Terminex guy one day while she was gone, he fixed the house up, and we decided to get out of there. We sold the house for a postage stamp and a pack of chewing gum. I feel like I made a great deal.
Good luck to the guy who wanted to argue the price with me when I was already giving him a good deal. Enjoy the lawsuits and termites. It must be fun living with a crazy neighbor.
Heavyantigravity
19. Neighbors From Chaos
Our current neighbor asked my wife to do some chores for when she broke her leg. Not so bad, right? The same neighbor also asked our other neighbor to do the same housework when she was completely fine.
The list of chores includes the standard stuff. Laundry, preparing meals, a bit of general cleaning up. It also included digging out the garbage dump that was once their basement, which was rotten with mold and had to be torn down.
I wouldn't say this neighbor asked for help either, more like demanded it. She even demanded to babysit her kids too. Yeah. She and her husband got drunk and burned a hole through the cartilage of their noses. And smash out the windows of their car and truck. And used a wood stove to heat their home when they couldn't pay any bills.
The husband once tampered with my BBQ. Drained the tank and cut the hose.
Some days you can go on the deck, sit with a beer, and listen to them curse and scream and make a ruckus.
Sometimes you can even see the social worker pull up their driveway. We call those like we call punch-buggies now. It's literally like watching a train wreck in slow motion. It's horrible, it's awe-inspiring, it's saddening and you can't look away at all.
DrunkenTenshi
20. The Unwanted Houseguests
About 10 years ago when we first moved into our current house, we gave our neighbors a set of keys to our house just in case of any emergencies, or if there was something we needed while away on vacation. We frequently went out of town, and my dad would go on short weekend business trips on which my mom and I would accompany him.
Every time we came back, there were always subtle changes in the house, but too small to question. Like missing condiments, less toilet paper on the roll, mats/rugs seeming straighter and cleaner than when we left, etc. About two months later, our family came home from our trip a day and a half earlier.
We pull up to our house, and first of all, see many cars in our driveways, hear the pool and jacuzzi pumps running, and see all the lights on. We go inside only to find our neighbors throwing a dinner party of some sort with a giant mess in the kitchen, every plate, glass, and piece of silverware we owned scattered about the house.
Wine and liquor bottles were lining the counter, a slew of people in our pool and jacuzzi, and worst of all, one of our boats missing from the dock and lifts, and the other one was filled with people leaving our harbor.
The look on the face of the neighbor's wife in the jacuzzi was priceless; a combination of utter shock and heightening fear as she saw my six-foot, big brown dad turning red in the face with intensifying anger. Everyone was out in a matter of minutes, and we had the locks changed, but she was kind enough to send a team of maids to tidy up the place the next morning.
It turns out that for two months, they had been using our house on the weekends. We even found loads of their laundry in our washer and dryer. 10 years fast forward, my mom is best friends with her, and my dad just hates her so much.
beachjammer421
21. High-Time Heroics
My neighbor is a 40-year-old redneck crackhead who is an abusive alcoholic. One time he and his spouse were in a heated argument that could be heard throughout the entire neighborhood.
My friends and I were laughing about it until I heard someone else in their house yell, "Get off, he's bashing her head against the wall!" Well, despite being stoned as all, I got out, jumped off my porch, burst into the house grabbed the neighbor around his neck in a triangle choke-like manner, and controlled him out until the police arrived.
I think the cops knew I was baked but they were happy I prevented what might have ended in a bloody mess. They actually laughed at how red my eyes were and told me to take it easy.
zombie_lawyer
22. Feathers And Fences
We had this one neighbor, who had 5 kids and one on the way, their father worked in an oils field so he would come home at weird times like the middle of the night, and the exhaust on his car was so loud it used to wake up our 8-month-old son.
Every morning at 6:30 the kids would play soccer at our house, and where they would play also happened to be my son's room and window. They used to chunk rocks over the fence while I was mowing my backyard.
They also had 4 chickens and 6 ducks in their backyard to keep as pets, they would let them roam the cul-de-sac and they would poop all over my sidewalk, my porch, and my "welcome" mat.
We lived by them for a year and finally, the week before we moved out and were going to be free, one of their ducks jumped the fence and was then hurt by my dog (a white lab) who in her defense was doing her job, it wouldn't be so bad, but it happened right in front of the kids.
I've never felt so proud, guilty, happy, and sad in such a fluctuation like that. It was as if the 12 months of agony they put me through was instantly paid back, and my dog who is a lazy apartment dog did her job and isn't useless after all, and to me the whole event was hilarious and then I realized what happened and made all the connections, making me feel bad.
HungLikePlanetPluto
23. Preemptive Nuisance
This was around 10 years ago. We received a phone call from the police station, saying that our neighbor had filed a complaint. The complaint was that there was a very large pile of dirt and debris on our lawn in the backyard, and it was obstructing our neighbor's view out of their kitchen window.
Now here's the best part. My family hadn't even moved in yet. We were in the middle of having the house built. It was a new subdivision. The worst part is we had a week to have it removed, otherwise we'd be fined. They are a bi-law against piles of dirt on your lawn.
Helnel
24. Neighbors Nudist Antics
My friend growing up had neighbors that would shoot a BB gun at their house. There are always cadavers of animals on the doorstep and even tried selling his older sister illegal substances to piss off their mom.
Eventually, she got cameras installed around the house to catch them doing stuff to the house but they would sneak around and cut the wires to the cameras. Finally, my friend's mom encased the cameras in plastic, and just in time.
Not too long after, it recorded them sunbathing nude in the cul de sac. She is more than 300 pounds and the guy wasn't much bigger. Cops were called and not much else was done after that.
Hagrizzle
25. Living Nightmare Next Door
I've had a neighbor from hell pretty much all my life. No job, spends ten hours a day, every day, calling the police on everyone on the block. He likes to get me cited for parking a commercial/industrial vehicle in my residential driveway without a permit. That vehicle is my pick-up.
He has huge, aggressive dogs he lets roam, hunt, and crap, unchained and unsupervised across the backyards and wooded areas of the whole neighborhood. Another neighbor's poodle decided to yip at them while getting walked on his property, they almost ate the dog and the neighbor.
He disputes ownership of a municipal field that used to be used for neighborhood parking. He started watching it at night with infrared goggles, running out and throwing himself onto the hoods of cars, shattering windows, and otherwise defacing anyone who tried to use it but him.
He gets hammered and coked up out of his head then paces up and down the road at night, accosts anyone who's outside after-hours, and occasionally car and storm door windows "just break.” He has a lot of voodoo masks on every surface of the wall of his residence that faces my house, with bright red LEDs in the eye sockets.
He tries to raise farm birds every few years, leaving them to starve and roam free (and get hurt by his dogs) everywhere in the neighborhood. When he's not "on patrol" spends his nights cranked out and peering into everyone's windows and yards from his windows or porch with his infrared goggles.
He occasionally leaves notes like "nice movie you were watching in your living room last night" on the mailboxes. He was so creepy and awkward that no one in the neighborhood even wanted to talk to him.
emlgsh
26. Boo's Steak Heist to a Cat Caper
There was this girl that lived next door to me. Let's call her "Boo" because that's what she liked to be called. I invited her over to my house for drinks once, and she stole my steaks from the freezer! That was when I lived in the ghetto.
When I lived in a more affluent area, crazy still was nearby. Another neighbor stole my cat. The cat went missing for a few days, then showed up back at my doorstep. I took her back in.
He gets hammered and coked up out of his head then paces up and down the road at night, accosts anyone who's outside after-hours, and occasionally car and storm door windows "just break.”
He has a lot of voodoo masks on every surface of the wall of his residence that facesmy house, with bright red LEDs in the eye sockets.
He tries to raise farm birds every few years, leaving them to starve and roam free (and get hurt by his dogs) everywhere in the neighborhood. When he's not "on patrol" spends his nights cranked out and peering into everyone's windows and yards from his windows or porch with his infrared goggles.
He occasionally leaves notes like "nice movie you were watching in your living room last night" on the mailboxes. He was so creepy and awkward that no one in the neighborhood even wanted to talk to him.
emlgsh
27. From Poisoned Poppies To Lonely Pup
Years ago, a crazy neighbor dumped pesticide on the Remembrance Poppies my parents were trying to grow in their front garden. No idea why, I think he was off his meds. Still, nothing will grow in that spot
My parents' current neighbors have a small dog they keep locked up under their house all day and never walk (my parents have even offered to walk it but they won't let them). It barks all day and drives my parents crazy but they still feel sorry for it.
They also leave it there when they go away and my parents aren't sure if they have someone feeding it or just leave a bunch of food. Recently they got two new puppies which they keep upstairs with them and take with them on holidays but the old dog still gets locked up downstairs.
My parents are on the verge of calling the authorities on them because it seems incredibly cruel. It is psychologically if not physically to keep an animal locked up like that with barely any interaction.
Trowzerpants
28. Shotgun Serenade
I woke up at 2 am to somebody screaming obscenities and firing in my front yard. I carefully looked out to see my neighbor in his underwear running towards my mailbox and "chasing off" some people parked by my mailbox.
The neighbor lived right next door, and apparently, his mailbox had been damaged recently. My mailbox is about 160 feet from the house. We live on a dead-end street, and I think the car had stopped so somebody could take a leak.
EvilsTwin
29. Roses And Retribution
I live in a nice neighborhood with my wife and baby. I've got new neighbors who are renting the house beside me. Yesterday, while outside in the evening, my new neighbor peed in my flower bed.
He confidently peed on a rose bush my grandad gave me. He owns a small town nursery. He was awful and he didn’t even regret doing that nasty thing. So now, I'm planning revenge.
Jarkat
30. Crushed Innocence
When I was 11 my father drove into my deaf sleeping cat. The cat crushed in ran into the house and then over and under my neighbor's car where he hid. I was distraught and in tears when I saw its lifeless body.
My father went to pick my mother up from work so they could catch the cat. My neighbour comes over to me who is sitting on the front steps crying his eyes out. First, he asks "Is that your cat under my car?" then "When are you going to clean the blood off my driveway and car?" What kind of sick douche asks that of a child who has just lost his pet?
Shriven666
31. Symphony Of Honks And Squeaks
I live in the Italian countryside, and my house has no fence or gate, all open space. But my neighbors do. All of them have a fence with a gate and to have it opened what do they do? Honk so loudly.
They all have the remote and key to open the gate but nope, let's honk for a solid minute to have the thing opened. I feel like these people have actual servants and make them open the gate just because they want to.
Also, another of these neighbors has the screaming-beyond-reason kids and 24/7 yapping dogs. And said kids seem to own the most squeaky swing in the entire universe. I feel like their father oils it with salted water.
GeneraleRusso
32. Bullies To Bravery
When I was fourteen my mom decided we should move out of our low-income neighborhood and into some middle-income neighborhood that ended in a circle. The people around us were horrible; substance-dependent kids, middle-aged men driving expensive cars to make up for the fact that they cannot satisfy in bed, and wives who's voices made ears bleed.
Well, when we moved there I had my dog Sirius he was a great Dane rottweiler mix sweetest dog on the planet. Admittedly a little scary but never barked or charged anyone.
One day I was sitting out back on our deck reading Harry Potter with my pup by my side and the little rude neighbors started yelling insults at me and my dog. So not to push anything I went inside.
The next day I let Sirius out in the morning and twenty minutes later I heard screaming. The neighbor kid who was sixteen at the time started throwing rocks at my dog and managed to give him a gash on his head then ran away.
Sadly, my dog jumped the fence he didn't bite or chase him just growled. The kid then grabbed a hatchet threw it at my dog and ran inside. The cops showed up later and said they were going to put him down. I told them he ran off.
I gave him to a friend of the family they had a newborn and an acreage Sirius loved that little boy it hurt to let him go but he's happy I don't visit anymore because it got hard. He’s well and that's all that matters.
[deleted]
33. Annoying Wake-Up Call
Tiny houses are all separated by only a thin driveway. Every day, at 3 am, the neighbor gets picked up for work (nurse, I think) by a car that honks the horn. Just one honk, but unnecessary, and right next to my bedroom.
I go and ask them to ask this person to call or knock on their door instead and they start complaining about my tree hanging over the driveway. The result is they cut half the branches off my tree (legal, hanging over their property) and the honking continued. I moved after.
Sunnysidemegg
34. Rooftop Shenanigans
A neighbor's 9-year-old daughter and her friend were walking around on her two-story roof, I knocked on the door to let her know that there were children on her roof and she replied with, "What? You ain't never seen any kids up on the roof before?"
No, actually. I ain't ever seen any kids up on the roof before. She didn’t do anything basically. She ignored the fact that it might be dangerous for them since it was pretty high up there.
MikeyTCO
35. Living Under The Watchful Eyes
Our neighbor is a crazy older lady that we call Bloody Mary. She screams at people when they park even remotely close to her house, and if they close their doors too loudly.
She's always watching. Just standing there at her window, staring. She stared hard when my housemate came home with a boy and kissed him goodbye at the door. She stared hard when my friends came over for band practice.
Most recently, she saw my partner walking around innocently naked through the mostly closed blinds (the slats weren't fully turned shut so there were slight cracks between them), and later that day, when we were walking home from grocery shopping.
She began to scream and swear at us, calling us all sorts of names (and she had two maybe 10-year-old kids with her as she was doing this. What a great example to be setting.).
After we went home, we got a visit from the cops telling us they had heard reports that we were doing "lewd things" with the blinds open (and yeah, I know it's illegal to be naked with the blinds open, but dude, there are so many other ways she could have gone about telling us.)
The worst part is that there is nothing we can do. Apparently, this lady volunteers at the police station and is friends with all the local cops, so they always take her word over ours. Our landlady said that when she used to live in our house, she filed seven harassment complaints against Bloody Mary, and nothing was ever done.
So, my partner and I did the next best thing we could do and put this sign in our window. Almost instantaneously, we got a call from our landlady, saying that Bloody Mary had called her and told her to make us take it down. There is no happy ending to this story except that we're hoping to move away in a month.
Dorianfinch
36. Tales Of Menacing Matriarch
The little old lady across the street from me growing up was awful. Her evil dog bit people but because her son was a cop it was never put down. Also, she chained it to the street side of the yard. So it could go from her door to 6 feet into the yards across the street.
She would walk down the street in just panties yelling at the mailman to ring her doorbell no matter what was being delivered. She sat naked at the window and enjoyed traumatizing the poor man.
She "befriended" my people-pleasing mother who felt bad for her. And then she would come over when my parents weren't there and the older kids were in charge. She would then steal and threaten to whoop us.
When her dog finally passed away, her son arrested my older brother. Why? Because she swore she saw them dump rat poison in its dish. A full doggy autopsy revealed the dog passed away because it was 15 and had doggy cancer.
And the kicker, when my baby sister was about 5 she told her, in front of me and my siblings, that she should die because the night she was born was the night her husband passed away. She then referred to her as a soul stealer for several years.
Mrs_Milkman
37. Farewell To Bill
When I was growing up, my father wound up adopting an orange tabby cat that the neighbor behind us had abandoned as a kitten. It took months for this cat to slowly trust my father and another year or two before he would allow anyone else to pick him up or pet him.
Once he opened up, he was the single most affectionate cat I'd ever known. You could pick him up in your arms and he would wrap his tail around your arm like a monkey while hugging your neck.
We had Bill for three or four years, and he lived in our shed out back, spending most of his time in our backyard. Occasionally he'd wander across the street, especially when the other neighbors would give him treats.
One day my father got a knock on the door. The guy standing there was a neighbor from 3 doors down whom we'd never met. The guy had Bill in a trap and said he caught him outside his house, and that Bill was disturbing his chihuahua inside and making the dog bark.
The ultimatum was made: either we could take our cat to the animal shelter, or the next time around he would capture Bill and take him to the pound. Bill simply couldn't stand being an indoor cat, and so my father wasn't left with much choice.
He took Bill back from the neighbor, sat inside crying, and finally drove over to the animal shelter and had him over for adoption. About a week later we noticed activity outside the neighbor's house down the street.
Come to find out, the neighbor and his noisy chihuahua had been in the process of selling their house and moved out just a couple of days after trapping Bill.
My dad rushed back to the animal shelter to get Bill back, but they had already adopted him out. According to the police, they couldn't tell him who had adopted Bill. Somewhere I hope he's still out there with some other loving family that doesn't have a douche neighbor like that.
ArbiterOfTruth
38. Neighbors In Crisis
My neighbors were substance dependents, drunks, possibly abusive, and had all kinds of medical issues. As a kid, I remember ambulances there at least once a month. A lot of times they took up their driveway, so the police cars had to park in ours.
What makes this situation even worse is that they had cats, chickens, and children. The little boy had cystic fibrosis and wasn't allowed to live in the house because of how much the adults smoked, so he was told to live in a tent behind the house with his mother, who didn't comply.
There were always people coming in and going out of that house, I don't even think they were all related. Before I was born, one of the now-adults would come over and get fed by my mom because his parents would forget.
They bought expensive cars at the same time they knocked on our door and asked for money. We reported the situation several times but my mom was afraid they would hurt our family.
Finally, their house got foreclosed on about two years ago and I have no idea where they went, but I do know they left their two cats behind in terrible shape. It's even worse when I add that I live in a very privileged area where this kind of thing does not happen. I was too young to realize that when they lived here.
Shlumpy
39. Parking Wars
I currently have a neighbor who wrote a letter to us. He asked us to stop parking in front of his house. We live next door to them. There are no assigned parking spaces or anything, just a street.
He happens to have more of the sidewalk pavement in front of his house and only a small portion of ours. We told him that that wasn't part of his property so he needed to stop writing letters. He finally let it go.
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40. Tree Trouble
My neighbor has cut down all of the trees in my front yard over the past few months. He cuts them in the middle of the night and I wake up to a missing tree.
We call the cops, and he apologizes and says he is doing it so thieves can't use them as cover to break into his house (all the trees are 20 feet away from his yard).
He shoots fireworks at our house. He cut down 100 feet of my chainlink fence and cut it up in his backyard. He took all the pipe pieces and buried them in front of his house like pikes. I am told by the police it's all Civil. we can sue but it's not really illegal. But I keep calling the police anyway because what else am I supposed to do?
pinkcultleader
41. Chorus Of Yelling
Currently, my neighbors have 7 kids all under the age of 10 and the parent's only communication with them is yelling. Whether it's time to come inside or be disciplined, it's always yelling.
I feel bad for the kids because they're probably going to be the same way when they're adults. 7 more horrible parents are on the way. Also, their toys are all over the place and often in our yard.
Lawrencethetornado
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42. Living On The Edge
I live in a council estate in a rough city in the UK. It wouldn't be so bad, except for the few douches around, and very much unluckily, the worst douches lived next door, they are our neighbors.
They are horrible. A family of five, parents and three boys. Firstly, let me give you a bit of a profile of the members. The father is an ex-con. He was arrested for breaking into an old man's house to steal a painting and ended up hurting the old man. Got out early for good behavior.
He was a recovering substance addict and had the most horrible voice, it was pretty much a roar. We're pretty sure he hurts his wife. His wife is okay at times but is usually a class-A wench.
The three kids, being raised by a criminal have turned out terribly. One has moved away and seems better, and the youngest one is mostly just a misunderstood kid with learning difficulties, but the middle one is by far the worst. He has an incredible temper and is enough of a little crap to get into constant arguments with his family.
Whilst luckily he never takes this out on people, he's often taken it out on our property. My sister's car is the main target, having a brick being thrown at it, kicked, and keyed.
The worst one was on Christmas Eve this year. He had gotten into an argument with his parents about going out drinking (he's like 17), and this seriously enraged him. So instead of you know, just talking it out and calming down, he decides to come to our door and kick it with all his might repeatedly, then run off.
This scared the living crap out of us and damaged our door. It was Christmas Eve. The worst part is this kid is already a father. I don’t know what kind of father he will become with that temper.
Ohaireddit69
43. Lawn-Loving Grouch
Best neighbor ever. This was ages ago mind you, but here it is. My step-granddad had just left my grandmother. About a month later she had to have a hysterectomy and was laid up for a while at the same time I broke my leg.
Neither one of us could mow our lawn. We quickly started getting passive-aggressive letters in the mail about our lawn. Every 2 days a new one would show up. Finally, 2 weeks later the wench showed her face at my door.
Mom was still in bed, so I answered on crutches. She demanded we mow our lawn. I said we were both sick. She said she didn't care and that we needed to mow our lawn. I repeated that we were sick and asked if she, her husband, or her teenage son could do it for us.
She said it wasn't their responsibility. I said we couldn't do it. She yelled at us to mow our lawn or she'd call the cops and she left. I ended up in my mother's room crying. She called our church friend to help us and he ended up mowing it for us till I could get out there again.
He was pretty upset with the lady, but no one bothered with her because she was just rude and evil. I couldn’t believe someone who’s inhumane like her existed. Somehow omitted that I was 10 years old.
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44. Neighbor’s Unleash Wrath
My family friend in Chicago has a neighbor that is the biggest piece of crap on the planet. They have two little girls 8 and 10 and growing up he would yell obscenities at them like "Shut up you annoying little crap" and stuff like that.
All around a terrible person. Just recently, the father was walking their golden retriever, and the neighbor pulled around the corner in his car. Once the neighbor saw the dad walking, he swerved his car and ran over the dad and the dog.
The father went on life support in critical condition and is currently slowly moving on his way to recovery. The dog didn't make it. So now as we wait to get the statement from the dad the police are building a case from evidence such as the skid marks on the street, and the cameras set up on other houses.
Mrshandanar
45. Backyard Livestock
There was one point where the neighbors decided to raise some goats in their rather small backyard, which made everything stink horribly. Apparently, it was part of some project for their daughter to raise or take care of an animal. We called the city a few times, but the goats stayed.
Sometime later, we were listening to classical music in the backyard, at a fairly low volume. The neighbors must have figured out who called on them because they called the police on us out of spite.
A cop pulled up in the driveway and was confused when the “loud music” was just Sousa. After that, we had to listen to music indoors.
Somewhere along the way, the city had decided that they disliked us because of all the calls about the goats, and so they started reprimanding us for the smallest minutia wrong with our yard: a clump of weeds, a stump, etc.
This made it so calls to the city were worse than useless.
Eventually, the original neighbors moved out, and some new neighbors moved in.
Luckily enough, these neighbors also raised goats in their backyard. Apparently, the husband had been raised out in a rural area, and so it came naturally to him.
Eventually, they switched from goats to the only creature smellier: chickens. The chickens were kept in groups of more than 7 inside the tiniest cage imaginable, on the side of the yard closest to us. I stayed indoors for a long time.
Bonfirebuckler