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Nightmare neighbour story's

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Ladymadness · 25/05/2017 13:29

Wibu to ask you all for your nightmare neighbour story's?
I recently moved home 2 weeks ago and got thinking about my horrid ex neighbours

I'll get you all started with my own story
Back when I still lived with my parents we had a miserable family living opposite. The type who thought they were better than everyone else on the street. The husband was a kickboxer so thought he could intimidate a family of women😂 over the years they had complained that we played football in the street (me and my sisters never played football ever so dunno where he got that from) he screamed at my mom because my sister was not at school because she had chickenpox saying that we were all going to be jobless dole dossers (his words not mine) and went as far to go absolutely batshit one night at midnight kicking our front door down screaming that we were having a party and we're too loud (we were all In bed sleeping)
He tryed running me and my one year old son over in his car at one point !
There are so many other things he did but my post could go on forever .

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Evilstepmum01 · 25/05/2017 14:37

Currently living it. Brand new HA estate, really nice area but we are in a war zone! The boy behind us has serious MH/SEN issues and punches/kicks kids at random. Fell out with kids over the road so he stands on his shed roof playing with his willy. Last month he stood on the shed, pee'd into a cup and threw his pee on their BBQ (with food on). He also feeds chocolate to dogs through the fence. Then factor in the 3 wild boys on the corner who hump the playpark, scream swearwords at our kids, ring doorbells at night and have written off their neighbors car by writing obscenities on it.
They are under HA antisocial behaviour warning already. But we are stuck in the middle of all these battles and used to not use our garden because of it. Not this year! We are fighting back and unlike the other neighbours have so far managed not to fall out with anyone!!
Last night, the new family down the road who are rough as anything, came round to neighbour at back with SEN boy and threatened to kick her head in. Police round again.
We get on with all of them as we have to live here and speak directly and calmly to the parents. But its very hard being stuck in the middle!!
Dreading the summer holidays again. Its going to end up the same as last year with parents being told by police to not let their kids out on their own.
Least its not boring!!

notanurse2017 · 25/05/2017 14:53

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luckylucky24 · 25/05/2017 14:56

Artycake I would accept the invite and go round with your DH. Grin

Albadross · 25/05/2017 15:17

I used to live in a tiny bedsit in a block, which was full of utter twats. There was a builder downstairs who got coked up and then ran around shouting all night, sticking pictures of tits from porn mags on our front doors. A girl I'd gone to school with lived directly next to me with her bf who was a drunken violent prick and used to smash their place up when she was pregnant. He kicked their front door in and threw furniture down the stairwell. I would call the police who'd come and be fobbed off (?!) by him saying someone else did it all, and when they left he'd go around hammering on everyone else's doors threatening us. He played happy hardcore all night at top volume and sprayed shaving foam in my electricity meter. There was a tiny old Italian man who didn't speak English at all too, and he'd get blind drunk and collapse in the car park. Then someone who'd repeatedly raped a friend moved in downstairs. It was a total fucking nightmare.

jamrock · 25/05/2017 15:18

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Fuzzywuzzywasawoman42 · 25/05/2017 15:21

Not sure why my post was deleted??Hmm
I can't recall posting anything inflammatory ...can anyone shed light for me??

MrsGB2225 · 25/05/2017 15:26

My next doors neighbours wife left him and he played James Blunt all night long for months. No one said anything because we all felt sorry for him!

MooMooCat · 25/05/2017 15:27

I used to live in a HA flat and neighbours were drug users and dealers, fights, threats, people calling at all hours and even a stabbing. I sure don't miss that place!

Fuzzywuzzywasawoman42 · 25/05/2017 15:27

Perhaps I'll never know they're still meanGrin

peachgreen · 25/05/2017 17:19

A more humorous one: my next door neighbour (shared building) once went away for a week and left the DVD menu of Sex and the City playing at top volume ALL. WEEK. That's a 20 second snippet of the theme tune on repeat. All day. All night. Worst still, I was in a studio flat at the time so other than being at work I literally couldn't get away from it. I genuinely thought I might go mad. When she came home she couldn't understand why I was so cross!

ShakeOfFara · 25/05/2017 17:27

Woman across the road from us is an alcoholic. She also owns a dog which she allows to run across into our garden so the grass always looks churned up and muddy. We did ask her to stop it which worked for a few weeks.

She's been in rehab for the last 4 months and it's been bliss as her daughter has been dog sitting and always has it on the lead for walks. Our grass has recovered! Neighbour got home today and within 10 minutes the dog was running its circuit of our garden again Angry.

Also dreading her relapsing and restarting the nightly screaming of 'nobody loves me' out in the street Hmm.

Mu123 · 25/05/2017 17:48

Oh christ, trying to decide which ones were the worst over the years.

Probably the heroin addicts, the dw of the pair certain i had been shagging her grotty toothless man, nae cunt in their right mind would touch him with a bargepole. Had a knife to my throat, which ended when her eldest dd came running for my help for their youngest dd fitting.

lolalament · 25/05/2017 17:50

Mine plays loud music for 4 hours every day. I now know the lyrics of the entire Capital Radio play list.

Don't be too impressed with my memory. They only have about 4 songs.

Stormtreader · 25/05/2017 18:01

The woman with obviously unaddressed MH issues - she would play her music at top volume all hours of the day and night, and her boyfriend would get wasted and vomit and pee into the plant pot on the flats landing, and then pass out. Sometimes they would have a row and she would be out on the landing in an open dress showing her underwear, flopping dramatically about on the floor screaming that he didnt love her and she just wanted someone to help. She was escorted home by the police more than once from screaming at people in town, sectioned at least once, and would thump on the doors of the lovely frail old lady or the nice asian couple downstairs screaming abuse through their door at them.

The guy who broke up with his girlfriend and got a dog. Which he left alone in the house for long periods of time. Where it barked. And barked. And barked. And barked. I recorded 3 hours of non-stop barking on the council noise recorder, but none of the officers could get to me in time to witness because they all lived over an hour away.

Ladymadness · 25/05/2017 18:04

Some of these are Shock I actually feel sad for the alcoholic lady who shouts "nobody loves me" I hope going to rehab has helped her x

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Feilin · 25/05/2017 18:25

I was living in rented accomodation and they moved a registered sex offender in next door . On the other side was a lovely family with a little boy. We only found out he was a sex offender as he was caught climbing in their front window one day. He also had daily visits from police (probation checks maybe) and would often be arrested at weekends for basically shrieking like a maniac in the middle of the night. When he was relocated ( nothing was done about the window incident as the police said he wasnt technically in the house 😱😱😱) we had a couple move in and the woman was an utter banshee the arguments were endless . The police rapped my door one afternoon her family had reported her missing and there was no answer at her door , i said well she was fine an hr ago as she was screaming at himmagain. The night before we moved they yelled at each other til 4am when my partner threatned them through the wall and on the actual day they came out of house , she wouldnt even look at us but he kept apologising . Too late . Hope whoever moved in gave them hell.

tanfield90 · 25/05/2017 18:44

There's some pretty horrific stories on here and I'm jolly glad I've not been involved in any of them. I am, however, puzzled because I remember starting a thread about 'odd' neighbours some time in the last year. My story was relatively tame, as were most, yet HQ canned the thread the same day it started.

Teutonic · 25/05/2017 21:15

Oh, how can I forget the mad old lady who lived next door many years ago?
Our kitchen windows faced each other and every morning, with the curtains open, she would strip to the waist and have a wash.
Then she would go outside into the garden and Hoover her lawn.
Unsurprisingly, she was taken away.

bertsdinner · 25/05/2017 21:56

At my old house, I was next door but one to a family, mum, dad, two young kids. Dad was constantly drunk and they had frequent drunken parties, think 30 pissed up family members converging, roaring and bellowing in their garden all night. One New Years Eve, they had fireworks, one got dropped in a steel bin they were using as a makeshift fire container. It went off with a real bang, house shook. They set their fence on fire and the eight year old daughter was sorting it out, throwing on water, policing the adults, as they were too legless to sort it. They were actually ok (when sober), but just prone to mega parties.

Popsicle434544 · 26/05/2017 11:10

My nxt door neibour is a drug dealer, every friday from around 5 theres a non stop flow of people going into his house and just staying 2 mins.
My house always stinks of weed coming feom him (old house with airvents running between)
On average police come twice a month because hes beating shit outa her or visa versa.
There hoarders.
They have a 3 year old that lives with them Sad

We r moving in 3 wks.
Sooooo excited.

Janey50 · 26/05/2017 20:39

What is it with drug dealers and loud parties?! A former neighbour of mine was a drug dealer and seemed to use any excuse to have a party.

JoffreyBaratheon · 26/05/2017 21:48

Oh heck here is where I et off steam. Have told them all on here. Well, many of them.

So a quick tour round the highlights.

The Great Dog Kicking Incident. I'm woken up by the woman's voice screaming "Get out of the fucking car!" Thinking she's talking to her kids and I might have to ring the SS/NSPCC again (pointless as they never do owt anyway), I looked out to see the woman dragging their elderly, cancer ridden (as it turned out) dog from the car boot, throwing it to the concrete driveway and lovely husband kicked it 4 times in the stomach. Child - then about 3 or so - watched with dispassionate boredom. RSPCA could do nothing as I hadn't filmed it (My phone downstairs, and it was over in seconds). And they denied. Inspector rang next week to update me after I rang them again having seen the man burying the dog in a shallow grave (literally 18" deep) by his back door. I thought he'd killed it but it turned out PDSA vet had put it to sleep as it had advanced cancer. RSPCA had said to me that they must be caring pet owners as "They were going backwards and forwards to the vet". But I suspect that was after they got the calling card the RSPCA Inspector thoughtfully left as they were out when she first visited.

His 2AM arrest - hours of DV and screaming. Police kindly escorted the two kids out to wave him off then allowed the drunk woman and her dodgy drunken friends to return to the house with the kids. (She had been the one drunkenly running around the front garden, before coppers arrived).

Her 2AM arrest - see post on other neighbour thread today. Ended with him left alone, drunk in charge of the kids - screaming DIE OF CANCER repeatedly for an hour til police turned out again, told him he was a slightly naughty boy, and left him to it.

Endless inappropriate shouting. We call him Foghorn Leghorn his voice is so loud.

He's an amateur radio ham so we regularly hear his broadcasts when we tune in to radio 4. He has a mast that is higher than his house roof. Oddly, his radio conversations consist of him saying how great the wife and kids are (when half an hour later he was dragging one or t'other out into the garden threatening to bury them). Or what a great dog owner he is.

He climbs trees like a monkey to put up his stupid aerials then stickybeaks in our garden to see what we're doing. One tree he has denuded of half its branches. It belongs to us.

He has 6 CCTV cameras - so captures every angle of our garden and the field opposite where my kids play football. He is unemployed and no-=one else here has CCTV cameras not even the nneighbours with the swimming pool and heli-pad...

One highlight is the racist rants in the garden. He thinks 'they' stole his job. He is showing no signs of looking for a job.

Another popular rant is why the council won't buy him carpets.

It's a beautiful house in a spectacularly pretty location. He somehow scored this despite being kicked out of the neighbouring council area for ASB. And he has to pay bedroom tax yet despite this the council rented it to him.

The fragrant wife wears a dirty black coat winter or summer. She struts around like Bez in the 1990s. She is in her 20s and he is in his 50s so they are a bit creepy. She has a prison tattoo on her arm with his name on.

He gardens obsessively. Yet he never plants a single plant. SO now his garden consists of large areas of dug over soil. But nothing in it. During the recent contretemps he ran out with a spade at 1AM and threatened to bury one of them (I didn't hear this - another neighbour did).

Ah yes and the garden feature. He obsessively prunes trees and makes ten foot high piles of tree branches. (Sometimes my trees - I don't care as he only prunes his side). Council workmen gave me a new fence and in knocking down the old hedge, they accidentally disturbed one of the tree cutting piles. A swarm of rats ran out and the workmen told me afterwards there were heaps of dirty nappies and soiled dressings and microwave meal for one packets... The garden is neat in the extreme. The tree piles are to cover up the rubbish piles.

Anyone in North Yorkshire recognise these dicks and used to live next to them? (She looks like Skeletor and has a gruff voice - he is bald and tiny). I'd love to chat to their old neighbours.

Ladymadness · 26/05/2017 22:05

JoffreyBaratheon Shock

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Flambola · 26/05/2017 23:17

When I was very young (11) I lived in a block of flats in a rough area. The guy below us used to pkay The Verve's 'The Drugs Don't Work' for hours on repeat. U

Flambola · 26/05/2017 23:18

Oops!

Until his drug dealer threw him from his 9th floor balcon.

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