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

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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)

Goodynuff I have to say thats easy competition for mine, I couldnt bear it if someone hurt my animals like that.

Crazy neighbour = very bad

Crazy neighbour with gun = move out NOW

I grew up in a good area.... had a (very lovely when his eyeballs were in his head) cocaine addict scientist on one side and a gang of feral kids on the other. One of the feral ones burgled the house of a neighbour and his mum attacked the neighbour for reporting it to the police and getting him slung in prison

One of the houses became a safe house for domestic violence victims... which was fair enough. The first woman who moved in was vile, she would leave her young kids to babysit, they were once locked out and I came home from school to find two ten year olds on the street with a toddler trying to figure out how to break into the house She also let her very mean and nasty ex know where she was within days, the whole area went downhill. Nobody dared to speak out because they were scared.

Eventually mother cracked when he threatened my dp with a knife, she reported everything to the landlord, within weeks they were sent packing and peace resumed

Moved into our first home together and got on ok with the heroin addict neighbour, didn't even mind the frequent raids.... had a huge problem with the four dogs shitting in our garden tho (as she'd trained them to do) final straw came when I put dds pram outside to dry and found it infested with maggots from all the flies

Had a 3 times convicted rapist and his wife living next door next door for a while..... which was interesting

Almost forgot to mention dp living next door to the v succesful business man who had huge parties with various prostitutes when his wife was away

Where I live now is boring as hell, and damn bliss. I am never moving. NEVER

Like KatieWatie I currently have psychologically bad neighbours.

Couple coming up to retirement next door - it is the woman who does not work and no longer has DC at home and seems to be filling her considerable time with gossiping and bitching and her family follow her lead.

She won't acknowledge us at all - but is boarding on obsessed with us. She is not subtle - if people she knows visit us they are first punished by being ignore then none to subtly pumped for information about us. She cut down our hedge with nesting birds in so she could stare into our kitchen and could not see why I was upset. She tells everyone stuff that is not true, that we have cause damage to their property, that we are divorcing, violent, we are moving ect. So many petty little things it is untrue - even done some internet research on us - DH job requires a presence and talked about it loudly so we knew. Can not do anything in garden with out comment though we have put a fence up so she can no longer see. At hard times for us - very serious illness she's very loudly gone on in front of DC how she wishes me or DH or both would die. When DH was away before new fence young men of her family jumped over fence for a laugh and tried to kick our back door in.

I have been so grateful that I was know a little in area and it had gotten better as I have made friends in the area despite best efforts of this woman. I think it is basic bullying and I really wish it affected me less.

I spent ten years saving very hard to buy this our first house - still reading this thread I am still lucky no dead bodies and we are several streets away from where drugs are dealt and raids regularly happen.

My current neighbour watches me and listens at the wall. She watched my every move too. Makes me scared to live ass i feel she will use it against me. I have also had 4 anon phone calls to various authorities about me with false claims.Still no drugs, murders, loud music, verbal abuse so counting my blessings.

I do feel for everyone and i swear after a prolonged bad experience witha neighbour you are never the same again. Unless you can afford a nice detached house.

missbusiness nulliusxinxverbax- it was horrible to go through, at first we couldn't believe he was doing these things, it was so irrational. He brought a lot of grief to a lot of local families. Moving wasn't an option, our family had sunk every penny we had, and a lot we didn't have, into buying the property, hence the living in a tent instead of renting a house.
We took him to court, but he kept not showing up. Even when he was a no-show, we still had to pay for our lawyer's court time, and it wasn't long before we had to take loans out against the property to pay for court costs. After he went bankrupt he did a runner, leaving a lot of chaos in his wake

We had the Noisy Lesbians next door, many years ago. One of them was in denial about their relationship, the other was out and proud. They never spoke to us but had loud, emotional, drunken arguments (at 3am) until we banged on the wall. The day we brought our newborn baby home from the hospital, they bought themselves a drumkit. When I went round to complain about the noise, they claimed that they didn't know what I was talking about.

In the next house, horrid feral kids who chucked stones at our window and set fire to our hedge. Parents didn't like us because we weren't local.

Current house, ever changing tenants one one side, although Allnight Party Woman has moved out . She had a patio heater that belched smoke, parties every weekend, kids who never went to bed and every fucking phone conversation in the front garden, at the top of her voice. On other side deaf, quiet elderly lady who never speaks to us. I love her.

nulliusxinxverbax where do you live (hope you don't mind me asking)?

Is it just me or do alot of these horrid neighbours seem to be living in Scotland? Possibly mostly in Glasgow? Shocking stories! Lived in London 10 years and have never experienced anything as extreme as some of the stories on here

Yes a few did seem to be Glasgow!!

No Im more midlands area. Where I am is a bit like London, I suppose, in thats its very mixed. One street is like the Bronx, next street down silence all night and very posh. Its wierd.

My old next door neighbours didn't have curtains in their front room. You could see in to their lounge 24 hours a day whether there was someone in there or not. They also HATED it if you parked in front of their house. My grandparents parked there once and they left a really shitty note. They were parked correctly, in the street. My grandparents are in their eighties .

They also tried to steal my cat. They put their own collar on him and everything!!

Oh and I'm not too enamoured with my upstairs neighbour who does 2 hours of aerobics at 10pm at night :(

Ah I see. TBH I don't think it is anything to do with 'the race card'. No one could do all that stuff and get away with it because it is their 'culture' or because of their ethnicity. Maybe there is another reason but I just cannot believe it is anything to do with race.

Disgusted they used Jamaican culture as an excuse, bloody ignorant idiots.

Oh and sorry you have to deal with such behaviour in your neighbourhood, I couldn't cope with it.

LDNmummy It is a very low thing to do, and believe me, I didnt buy for a second it was anything at all to do with them bieng jamaican.

But we and other neighbours heard it ourselves. and when other residents had complained, they were told by the council that counter accusations of racism had been made, and basically to back off.

The irony is is that even the way they were, the one and only racist comment I ever heard I reported. I would not stand for it. And I defended them. Look how I was repaid, it was used as a get out clause for drug dealing and unborn baby murdering.

But are the police really just letting all this go? How do you mean unborn baby murdering (or do I want to know)?

The council may very well be letting slide if they are recieving complaints of racism but I think this may be more to do with the councils looking for an excuse to ignore the situation, which is shitty in itself.

It is indeed very low to ascribe their morally reprehensible and illegal behaviour to their ethnicity and play the 'race card'. I cannot abide people who do that.

Is there nothing you and your neighbours can do? Maybe recording incidents of aggression, violence or illegal activity?

I live in HA flat in a new estate only finished about 18 months ago. There is my 'block' which has 4 flats and the one joined has 4 part rent/part buy. We all share a fairly large communal garden.

A family in the part rent/buy have a teenage son (maybe 18 ish now) and when they went away for the weekend he would have his friends over for a party. Fine, no probs and I could make my peace with the smoking outside in the garden. But they were really loud, would leave ciggy butts and empties on the grass and his mates were pissing in the bushes.

The parents denied this saying there wasn't any evidence when they got home of a party and a 'few' friends is OK. (They did do a good manic clean up - I give them that!)

Once they had another party and his friends were drink driving a mo ped up and down the street, no helmets, no shoes, shorts/ mini skirts and one missed my car by about an inch. I informed the police but they couldn't come out as there'd been a murder 8 miles away. I did tell them if they had another dead boby or 2 from an RTA they'd be sorry Finally they went quiet about 5am.

Anyway next morning as we left for work - yes this was a weekday night - they were doing said manic clean up and I politely asked if they could pick up the ciggy butts and bottles from the garden as it belonged to us all. His friend offered to 'come and put a brick through my window and /or my face if I liked - that would tell me to mind my own' I politely declined but I did report to 101 as threat of violence. An officer came around and I did say all I wanted was a warning given and a chat, and that if they visited the parents couldn't deny this was happening.

He did go round and theres not been more parties like this one. (something tells me mummy and daddy had not given permission!!)

OK so nothing like others but it seems bad when its happening.

you would have to read my past posts.....Luckily im not there anymore, nothing was done before I moved, and basically all the decent people have left one way or another.
The police did not search a house that they had been told, by several people, was growing drugs upstairs. they knocked and spoke to them in the kitchen and left. I find that suspicious. Why they did that I dont know, especially as they were smoking weed when the police got there.

The unborn baby was a neighbours. They kicked it out of her infront of her other children, because they were sleeping with the same guy (unbeknown to either of them at the start).
It was a horrible, horrible place and I went to great lengths to get out of there. I dred to think what my child would be like if Id brought her up there. And then people judge the kids of those who live in these areas. Admittedly, sometimes they are shit parents, but bieng a child in a place like that is damaging even if your parenting is good.

nullius I'm sure I read a news story (mag maybe) about the 2 girls your talking about. Was a year or so ago I read it maybe?

Could possibly be? not really sure as far as I know there was no press coverage. but I left.

At the very first flat I rented all by myself (lived with parents and then a shared house before) - was fine for first few weeks. Then a note was left on my door saying "You're a very nice girl, please give me a ring on [mobile number]. Your next door neighbour." Stupid as I am, I thought, well I don't know anybody here, it would be nice to make some friends. Sent him a text and next day we met for a short talk, During which he was very inquisitive (i was going shopping and he wanted to know what time exactly I'll be back etc.) Didn't like him, so when he texted me, saying he could feel the chemistry between us and wanted to kiss me , I replied saying I don't really want to meet him again.

Six months of stalking followed. Constant phonecalls (which I never answered) and texts (which I never replied to). He would knock on my door in the middle of the night and leave nasty notes. He sent me a quote from Phone Booth, a film about guy answering a phone and hearing murder threats, nice .

Then he disappeared, left all his stuff in the flat and never came back, no idea what happened, don't care.

Oh, and then there was the neighbour (same block of flats) who would stand at his window naked and howl to the moon every time there was a full moon. I think he was a warewolf

Lesbian friend and her GF had terrible time with one family of neighbours and all their kids friends. House broken into, threats, 5 year old girls exposing themselves outside of their front window saying things like "this is what you want, come and get it", threatened with a knife, car broken into lots of time, etc, etc.

Police were useless and finally they advised the couple to leave the house as the police who attended (after a threat to murder) thought the couple were in real danger - but nothing ever happened to the kids doing this.

I saw some of this myself when I visited. The kids were aged anything from 4/5 to 18. But after seeing how some of the 5 year olds behaved, I have always been cynical about threads saying "surely teachers should be able to control a 5 year old!". It had to be seen to be believed.

The group of kids seemed to pick on anyone who was seen as "vulnerable" e.g. elderly Asian couple a few doors along and a disabled man living by himself.

lesly33 that is abhorrant, a 5 year old girl?? Who taught them to do that, no child would think that up by themselves. Its akin to calling your friend a paedophile, Gay people are not paedophiles I dont understand where people get that idea from.

Clevercircus That kind of unwanted stalking is like mental torture and the police never handle it well. Glad he's gone.

It was two 5 year old girls. And yes we did wonder/worry about their home life. But the police didn't seem worried about that either.

"The police did not search a house that they had been told, by several people, was growing drugs upstairs. they knocked and spoke to them in the kitchen and left. I find that suspicious. Why they did that I dont know, especially as they were smoking weed when the police got there. "

Yes I see why you would find this suspicious but there may be many reasons for this however suspicious it looks. Of course the council may have not wanted to intervene and so used the racism accusations as an excuse but the police would not. The police may have been building a case instead of charging them on minor offences, that is how they catch people for for more than minor posession and smaller incidents of assault. Even if they were smoking weed at the time, weed has not always been an immediately arrestable offence, especially if they were smoking it in the confines of their own home.

As for the assault on the pregnant woman, that is ghastly but maybe it was seen as a domestic issue, especially if the woman who was assaulted didn't want to press charges for whatever reason.

I'm not making excuses, just think people cannot get away with THAT much just because they cry racism.