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

[YouaretooniceNOT]

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)

Oh, yeah, we lived in a flat on a dire estate in Edinburgh where, as I did the washing up, I could see the occupants of the flat across from us shooting up.

Kids were always setting the rubbish chute on fire. Or people would set their flats on fire to get the council to re-house them.

I lived in a tower block and after 18 months of quiet - suddenly the stairwell was being used by heroin addicts - used to have to step over them - i moved out 6 weeks later.

We had a young couple renting the house next door. It started off with loud music, parties and going on until all hours of the morning.

We complained about the noise, thinking that once they knew they were waking and disturbing the dc and us, they would stop. They didn't stop.

Every time we complained about the noise we'd find something broken in our garden. They also broke into our garden during the night and trashed the front and back gardens with food, beer cans and cider bottles. They also threw fruit cider over our windows.

And although we can't prove anything, we had two attempted break ins, the police said they were quite certain the intruder had come through the neighbour's garden.

We were about to report them to the police (advised to by environmental house, who were helping with the noise part) when they moved out suddenly and very recently.

It made a nervous wreck of me, and my story is absolutely nowhere near as bad as most already mentioned. I was ecstatic with relief to find their landlord (he/they were visiting the property) to help us. But they didn't care, it turned out they were related. Showed them photographs of the damage, and told them of the effect on the children

Vaganova

It made a nervous wreck of me

I know exactly how you felt.

Yes, me too. My experience ended in 2005. I wil never be the same again. I dread the day my neighbours move out as it is so quiet here. Loud music, disrespectful neighbours etc and damage, theft of your property when you know the culprits and cannot prove it is a vile ordeal.

Are your new neighbours ok?

When I was 7, my family had bought 100 acres, and were in the process of building a log cabin. While it was being built, we lived in a tent. Our neighbour, very agressive, did a lot of drugs, etc, wanted us to join with a few other neighbours, and pool resources, property and debts!!!! He wanted a commune/farm where evryone still had their own houses. None of the neighbours agreed, including us.
To start with, we didn't realize how nuts he was. He would show up high or drunk, and try to pick fights with my father. Then one night, there was a really heavy thunder storm. Mum, Dad and us kids climbed into our car to wait it out (instead of the tent, with metal poles). At about 3 am, the rain slowed down, and we went back into the tent, as there was more room. At about 5 am, we heard a loud bang, and thought it was thunder.
In the morning we found that the windshield of out car had been shot out! We called the OPP, but they said there wasn't enough proof to charge him.
That fall, to get back at the other neighbours who wouldn't join up with him, he called SS on every parent, ministry of enviroment to report everyone's well/septic/outhouses, and humane socity to report animal abuse on every farm. That winter, he cut the manes and tails off of our horses!
He also shot our dog, and 2 of the neighbours too
Thankfully he lost the property to bankrupcy the next year!

"Played the race card to avoid getting arrested? I think you have got a bit confused there...."

Just what I thought

Crikey.... Whereabouts do you lot live?!? The absolute worst that has ever happened in my area is a few fights (there was a pub on my road) and noise from the vuvuzelas last year.

My new house backs onto a travellers site and I have found them to e kind and courteous neighbours.

Mind you, used to live in Reading and found that to be a tadge on the worrisome side sometimes.

youaretooniceNOT you do have a right to refuse, but apparently only with proof (bruises not enough) and despite my police statement (on round 2 of living there) the council didn't believe me and would not offer me anywhere else, as no arrest had been made. they also tried to then charge me a months rent on the flat. (I managed to get a loan and got a private rental)The council basically claimed I was making it up to get somewhere nicer

Goodynuff How awful, cant believe he shot your dog and reported everyone

My first house was a terrace in the suburbs in the rough end of town. When the survey came back, it was noted that there was a lack of firewalls between all the terraces ie. You could move from loft to loft along the terrace block.
At the top of the road was a pub where even the Pit Bulls thought twice before entering.
My elderly female Glaswegian neighbour was in there all day and used to bring several men back at the end of the night. They'd play Country & Western music very loudly, often same one over and over again; loads of shouting, bottles smashing, crashing against walls etc. until they all passed out.
One night in bed, fast asleep 3 am. and there was a massive crash in my bedroom. It was one of "her" men falling through my loft hatch. He was so pissed he didn't even realise that he'd broken his wrist and his ankle; kept trying to stand up but kept falling over. This was obviously "normal" for him.
It was three years of hell.

ongakgak We used to live just off Byres rd - unfortunately it was Church st round the back of the Western about 50ft away from Balbirs

scotsgirl were the flats in Knightwood? OH niece got kept away from hers for something like that.

Oh yes - when we were in Partick, actually living in the next close to the police station, someone in another flat decided to keep his Father hostage & there was a big hooha with that - though have to say the police got there very quickly
We'd only been there about a week by then as well.

Our first house, in quite a rough area, was surrounded by elderly and quiet neighbours. Bliss. Then one of them died.

A woman moved in who was obviously working as a prostitute from the house. The problem wasn't really her though, it was other people who came to the house (she turned her loud music down when asked).

For the 6 weeks she lived there we had people kicking her door in the middle of the night saying they were coming to get her; screaming arguments and lots of unsavoury looking characters. She disappeared after 6 weeks - no idea where she went. But we realised the street was going to get worse as our elderly neighbours literally died - so we moved as soon as we could.

One of our old neighbours was a lovely single mum but her ex was a nutcase, he would turn up in the middle of the night screaming abuse and trying to kick her door in, we called the police but they said they were too busy to send anyone

Next door neighbour used to threaten to stick a knife in any ball that came over into his garden. When I played in our garden, his son (14/15yrs at the time) used to come to the window naked and jerk off. I was nine.

Fast forward 20 (cough) years and I find out the son is a teacher.

My friend lived next door to a woman with obvious mental health problems. If my friend went into the garden, 70% of the time the woman would scream and shout at her about things she had allegedly done wrong - often crazy stuff like alleging she had broken into her house and moved her food around in her cupboards. The rest of the time the woman was excessively nice to her and very friendly. It really confused my friends DD.

We had family round on Christmas day, my Sis, Bil and Nephew live round the corner, so they left ours at 1.30am Boxing Day. At 2.30 there was a massive fight not far outside their house, where around 20 men and women battered each other with shovels and baseball bats, ending with a bloke in a coma.
Our neighbours either side are lovely. Across the road we believe they deal drugs and they are constantly drunk. Quite funny to watch and hear the weekly friday night rammy.

We live in a not so nice area of Glasgow however ^^ is all that has ever happened.

"can you turn your music down please - it is 4 am"

"well your fucking baby wakes us up everynight"

DS was 2 weeks old at them time!

After us having to put up with their loud music for most nights of the week, till the early hours for 4 years. Followed by the usual drunken rows, they put their flat on the market and moved because they couldnt cope with a baby crying!

And DS1 was such an easy baby!

Another neighbour bumped into them at the doctors. They have since had a baby themselves - who suffers with reflux. Although I wouldnt want to wish reflux on anyone, I am a strong believer in karma!

every single weekend the people that lived across the road would have massive arguments fuelled by too much alcohol. The woman was an alcoholic and they would reguarly throw each other or each other's belongings out of the house on to the street. They would call each other names and every so often his dinner would be thrown out after him.
Her dad also lived there and he would get very drunk and come outside in the most massive dirtiest Y fronts i have ever seen - then hed fall over and wouldnt be able to stand up again.

The police were regular visitors but it was dreadful for their teenage son
the couple at bottom of our garden refused to throw our sons ball back over the garden and told us he would throw them in the bin - my son was 6 and not trouble at all - but not old enough to go and play on his own so he had to play int he garden.

When dh confronted him he called the police on us and threatened to kill my dh The community police officer came round and was lovely.

I cant understand people that live with no regard for others.

The family next door had a teenage son who was a waster and used to have regular friends over and theyd sit playing music loudly - i used to go out and yell at them reguarly and theyd be sorry and be quiet until the next time.

We now live with no immediate neighbouts thank goodness

We now live with no immediate neighbouts thank goodness - ideal location - if i could choose where to live i would opt for NO neighbours too.

My neighbour has a history of making false allegations against me and involving the police (criminal damage/ DD throwing 'rocks' at her) ...- all totally untrue -

I think the police are as fed up with her as I am, but still they have to traipse around here to 'follow up' her lastest pack of lies allegation.

They 'invited' me to go to mediation with her, which I refused on the basis that I wasn't prepared to sit in a room and discuss her fantasies things that never happened.

I wish she would move.

We live in a detached house now. It's bliss!

We had 'psychologically' bad neighbours as I was growing up. They'd stand at the window staring out at us, and were just generally obsessed with everything we did. They had a CCTV camera installed that pointed directly at our driveway, and if we were out in the back garden they'd come out and make sneering remarks from the other side of the fence. It was all very uncomfortable but nothing you could really complain about and be taken seriously IYSWIM. I never sunbathed in the garden because I knew he was watching me. We kept ourselves to ourselves and never asked for it, and they did similar things to others in the neighbourhood but because we had the adjoining property it was worse for us.

It all came to a head one day when my dad could stand it no more and threatened to punch the guy, then it kicked off big time and there were regular slanging matches and threatening each other with bricks. As a 15-year-old I'd have to go get between them.

We started getting hatemail, and some posters went up saying my dad was a paedophile ... the guy also put it around the rest of our neighbours that my dad had vandalised his car. None of it was true.

So no murders, heroin needles in the foyer, or even loud music, but still rubbish all the same.

Should add, my parents now live in a detached (but much worse built) house with a smaller garden. The only reason they moved was to escape those neighbours. It's tragic how some people WANT to try and ruin people's lives and I don't understand what they get from it :(

KatieWatie Sometimes the psychological, can be just as bad, a feeling of bieng watched all the time really isnt good for your mental health.

Some people get a sad sense of power from it.

YouaretooniceNOT my parents have no idea what they're doing, except for the last few months they've been building a kitchen extension. Horrible, horrible man.

LDNmummy As said in my previous post, I understand why when black or asian people get stopped and search more often ect that you might think that, but believe me, where I lived the police were so shit scared of bieng called racist all you had to do was allude to the fact your treatment was because you were not white, and theyd be out the door.

The same with the council. We regularly got the "your racist card", and the council wouldnt touch them for growing / dealing drugs, kidnapping another resident and threatening her, or beating their children with sticks.

"Jamaican culture" appaerently.