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to want to read of your neighbour(hood) from hell stories?

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YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 19:51

I had a neighbour that played music all day, screamed that my baby was a blind, black bastard/monkey (he had mixed heritage children too!) and salshed my tyres on a regualr basis. He also tried to get into my car to beat me up once.

He was a drug dealer too.

We lived in the most expensive area and our neighbour was a plastic surgeon.

I went to court and gave evidence via videolink once i had fled the poperty. He was found not guilty as he was careful never to behave badly when i had visitors etc.

He died of stomach cancer about 6 years ago i heard.
(sorry if this thread has been done to death)

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hardhatdonned · 13/04/2011 19:53

Current home.

Police kicked down my front door by mistake thinking i was actually my ex next door neighbour. I say ex because she is now residing at her majesty's pleasure for drugs offences.

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YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 19:57

hardhatdonned that must have been scary!! Did they pay for the door? was it at night? OMG!

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AKMD · 13/04/2011 19:57

Probably better in chat but anyway...

Nothing violent but my parents' neighbours moved in about 13 years ago and have been doing non-stop DIY since then. Nearly every weekend and many evenings they are drilling, hammering, sawing... It's a semi so they hear everything. Once they started at 6am on a Sunday morning. My mum suffers from migraines the the only time she ever asked him to stop just for one evening he said no and carried on :( He is a governor at the school my mum works at so she feels that she can't complain to the council or cause too much fuss either. He also treats his wife abysmally :(

travellingwilbury · 13/04/2011 19:57

My neighbour cut his front door in half to save him remembering his keys and I also came home one day to find him in the middle of the road with his ironing board and his iron plugged into an extension lead happy as Larry ironing away .
He also threatened to burn his house down (attached to mine)
And he went away for the weekend leaving his radio on full blast (the half door made it easy to go in and turn off)

He was a very poorly boy

hardhatdonned · 13/04/2011 19:59

Was eventually fixed, not sure who paid for it though because i arranged it through the Housing Association! It would have been scary if i'd have been in bed but as i was on my way out to work it did little more than make me jump :) it's funny looking back but at the time it's not an experience i'd recommend!!

Least i no longer have the neighbour though, and will no longer be living here as of next month so alls well in the end!

pinkstinks · 13/04/2011 20:03

Our neighbours were loid and noisy, and when they figured out that my mum and her (female) partner were living as a couple they:

Threw shitty nappies over the fence
Dumped their household rubbish over our fence
Put pins on our tyres
Threw eggs on our house
Terrorised our cat
Shouted abuse whenever we left the house
Told us we were all sinners etc
Chased me round the street on their bikes (i was about 14)

And then when we got the police involved accused us of being racist and doing it all to them.

sigh.

We had to move ... i bloody loved that house :(

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YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 20:03

AKMD - 13 years of hammering! What are they doing? Did your Mum ever find out? What a nightmare Angry.

travellingwillbury - Shock - lol at radio - is he still there next door?

hardhatdonned - are you going to buy your own place?

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rachelkarengreene · 13/04/2011 20:04

travelling whilst your neighbour does sound a little hard to deal with, I am loving the idea of ironing outdoors...

hardhatdonned · 13/04/2011 20:04

No. I'm moving in with my DP :)

scotsgirl23 · 13/04/2011 20:05

Lived in a tower block, and one evening when I'd got home earlier DH phoned me to say he couldn't get in to the block as it was locked down by the police! Turned out someone had been murdered in the stairwell. He wasn't allowed in until the next day, and I wasn't allowed out (so I missed work, best excuse ever lol!)

If this wasn't bad enough, I was chatting to someone in the lift the next day (at this point we had to sign in and out!) - next day there was a story in the local paper about the person who I had been talking to. Transpired he had done time in Carstairs for nailing someone to a floor (until dead!)

And he wasn't even the murderer of the dead person in the stairwell! That was someone else who live there

I moved out swiftly!

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YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 20:05

pinkstinks Sad - it destroys your life having a shit awful neighbour. Why can't people just live and let live, if it isn't effecting them?

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sloggies · 13/04/2011 20:08

I had a neighbour who took a shine to me when I was in the middle of divorcing my abusive ex h. Feelings were not reciprocated. Eventually this shine turned into a kind of stalking behaviour. I moved bedrooms to be at the front of the house - and he moved bedrooms so he was just through the wall from me...various acts of damage were performed on my car, windows, etc, and eventually I moved house, and let it out, to get away from him. He commited suicide about a week later, on a motorway. Felt very sorry for the truck driver who hit him.

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YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 20:09

hardhatdonned - awwwww, lovely exciting time for you both.

scotsgirl23 - OMG!!! Shock @ nail guy - - how was the person murdered?

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ongakgak · 13/04/2011 20:09

When I was little there was a family that lived round the corner. Nice little cull de sac, lots of leafy semis, detached, bungalows. The man of the house used to go out when it was pissing with rain and wash his windows, ladder, 2nd floor, scrub a dub dub. He also used to individually clean the stones on his drive too. Bonkers.

pinkstinks · 13/04/2011 20:09

youaretoonoceNOT
Thats why it is so awful, we had done nothing to them and how my mum decided to live her life had absolutely no impact on theirs. It was just awful though and being that young I ended up blaming her a little bit - ashamed to say it now.
So their actions really had a profound effect on our family.

But, we moved away to a nicer area, although we went to new builds without proper fireplaces :( and we have such lovely neighbours and our cats are much happier!

The fact the police just didnt care didnt help me formulate a balanced view of the police force though!!

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YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 20:11

sloggies - he moved bedrooms so he was just through the wall from me - sick - Envy and then he killed himself. Sad

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ongakgak · 13/04/2011 20:11

scotsgirl blimey, I used to live in a tenement flat in Glasgow and junkies used to sit outside my front door in the stair well shooting up. Nice.

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YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 20:12

ongakgak - omg - LOL though

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travellingwilbury · 13/04/2011 20:13

He does still live there and is now well thankfully , the scary thing was how all the authorities turned a blind eye to his obvious illness . The first time went on for months . And as much as some of it is hilarious in hindsight at the time it was awful .

He did some truly weird things at the time (two periods of time actually)
The second time was over christmas and armed police smashed his door down which was a wee bit excessive but quite exciting to watch Grin

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YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 20:14

My Auntie had a neighbour whom used to sift the earth in his garden for stones. Trying to rid his massive garden of them. His wife used to find thses stomnes in her wardrobes etc after there was no longer room in the garage etc. When we walked past there house we could hear him sifting....

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Honeybee79 · 13/04/2011 20:15

They're dealing a choice of "white" or "brown" from the flat next to me.

The bloke downstairs loves his big girly anthems - Celine Dion, Witney, Britney etc and he wails along to them day and night.

It's a joy round here!

scotsgirl23 · 13/04/2011 20:17

The guy who was murdered in the stairwell was stabbed to death - although he was stabbed on the 12th floor and made it to the 4th (on foot) before collapsing. His body was found by a 5 year old kid :(

The murder in the block was drug related. The nail guys' victim apparently "owed him money" - well, that's fine then!

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YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 20:17

peabodyblue - nightmare. Any crazy reasons why he would have done this aside from him being vile?

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YouaretooniceNOT · 13/04/2011 20:18

Honeybee79 - I am so sorry - anything you can do about him? GRRRRRRR

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