AIBU to ask what your silliest complaints from neighbours are

[Brockaslass]

We have had a load of complaints from one neighbour, her issue was originally boundary issues with our social housing landlord but then she started with us. But here is a few of the silliest.

1. That our rabbit is making her dog bark 24 hours a day. Even though he comes inside part of the day. Supposingly he stamps and makes her jack russel bark. Who is left outsdie all day.
2. That despite having a 3 bed property with room to expand and only 1 child, we had baby clothes on our washing line indicating I was pregnant and she rang the landlord to demand they move us if we are having a baby. "They were actually my DS' dolls clothes". Our housing officer supposingly offended her by telling her we could have 3 or 4 more in that property before we run short of room and didn't clarify that I wasn't pregnant.
3. That we watered her garden one hot summer while she was in hospital
4. That my then 2 year old had walked on the snow on her driveway as we walked him around the cul de sac stamping in fresh snow. (He was about a cm over the boundary, which couldnt be seen because of the snow)
5. That when we are away we allow workmen who work for landlord to park their van on our drive depot is too far away and workmen lives down road with no parking suitable.
6. That her cat likes to sit under the shelter our sons play house creates and wont come in when it rains if he is comfortable, she thinks we should go out and chase him.
7. That the mushrooms growing in her wooden bark border, must be coming off our concrete patch adjoining her garden. Despite the obvious lack of growing medium.
8. That in a meeting we has with housing officer about her complaints, we used sign language because my husband is deaf, she claimed we could be insulting her, despite our housing officer explaining that wasnt the case as he also signs, and us speaking at same time for her benefit. She then decided housing officer was in on it all too.
9. That her 32 year old son is always singing kids songs all day and annoys her because his bedroom is next to my 6 year olds who plays them on his xbox and they get stuck in his head. (Not sure why she can't just tell him to shut up)

10. Funniest of them all is todays, she has rang our emergency repairs line even though hers is private to complain that at dinner time we were cooking meat and she could smell it, and as she is a vegetarian (which I didn't know till now) we must be doing it delibrate. She then complained that the call handler wasn't taking her seriously when she was told that the repairs line is only open on a Sunday for valid emergencies. An inspector rang us shortley after to let us know another complaint had been made, and struggled to tell us for laughing about it.

So come on what's your funniest and silliest or prettiest complaints from neighbours or anyone in fact.

I don't have any to add but wow good luck with that neighbour!

When we lived in a T-shaped block, our downstairs neighbours were convinced any noise came from us (as opposed to the students across the way and two floors up, who liked weeknight parties with open windows.) They kept complaining to our landlord that we didn't answer (being asleep or out). It got quite tense with formal warnings from the landlord, until we gave him receipts to prove we were elsewhere during alleged parties, and the other 9 tenants had all complained about the same flat.

Though most special was my tenant who I asked not to smoke weed becsuse I could smell it next door. She complained to the police that I was harassing her by not letting her use illegal substances...
A very amused sergeant phoned me to let me know. He'd told her it was a civil matter, aka not their problem!

My MIL is the crazy neighbour. She claims the neighbours she is blocking out her light (100% isnt!) Has reported it to the police, council and her MP. Then spent £3k on a solicitor because she claimed it was on her land and giving her depression. She has had to give up now due to lack of funds but every time we go over she shows us how much light she has lost because of it.

God she sounds like a fucking nightmare OP. Don’t know how you manage it.

That I had rats in my back garden. I didn’t cut the lawn as often as they thought appropriate and this was their shit way of trying to scare me into doing it.

She sounds nuts. I'd contact the police, her behaviour isn't just being a nightmare neighbour, it's harassment.

A neighbour once wrote a letter to complain that my cat looked at her when she walked past of left the house. She said it was always in the window overlooking hers staring at her. The cat was a house cat...

When I was a kid our neighbor used to knock on the door and shout at my mother because we played ‘too loudly’ on weekend afternoons. Kids play I’m afraid!! It wasn’t anything horrific either, just the usual kid stuff.

We commented that our neighbor had been busy judging by the cuttings he was loading into his car. He said “yeah I’ve been cutting your hedge”

Erm, no you’ve trimmed your side of the boundary hedge you twat

You have an awful neighbour OP. Glad you can still see the funny side of what must be a really stressful situation.

We have a ditch on our property right by the border with our neighbour. We did some work on our land before the ditch and added drainage, double the spec suggested by the council for drainage. Then we had the worst storms and flooding this area has seen in decades. The road below us literally turned into a river, the main road between the two local towns was flooded and unusable, and the neighbour came to complain that the ditch was flooded. Not his house, not his garden, not the road, but the ditch. Our ditch on our property. Apparently this had never happened before and was due to the works we had done so all our fault. Never got yo the bottom of why he was so bothered.

My old neighbour complained when i had a phone line installed upstairs as the installers ran a wire up the outside of my house. It was in her eyeline when she came out of her house and she didnt like the look of it. We were detached and there was a drive in between. I dont know how she even noticed it.

Jesus! Is it a full moon? So many bonkers people about at the moment!

I don't believe you've made this up btw; I actually think you couldn't make that stuff up! Good luck with it.

Not a complaint against me, but a neighbour in my street once complained that another neighbour was brushing his teeth too loudly .

My neighbours complained that they hear me chasing my daughter upstairs every night.... Probably about 14 steps, takes about 30 seconds of banging and hysterical laughing.

I mean really. DD is coming up 2, so i'm certain there will be more disruptive things to come!

Oh we have a snow police neighbour as well. Everytime it snows, the children in our neighbourhood come outside and play. If they see clear, fresh snow they walk in it. This neighbour hates it and screams at the children every single time! This is not even on her property. Just the road in front of her house and the pavement. Idiot.

Mine was convinced my chickens were making a noise early in the morning and waking her up. In fairness they had done when we were away and my mum who was looking after them didn't shut them up properly, but she claimed they were doing it every day. When I got up early I discovered it was actually the rooks on the church tower.

My mums neighbour reported her to her landlord for not keeping her door knob shiny enough.

Many years ago my neighbour complained about a ley line that she discovered went through one of my front bedrooms and through her bedroom and it was causing an incessant hum .

I was watering a patch of land outside our house that the housing had laid new turf on then completely forgot about and it was almost dead after a week of being left unwatered. It was hot summer so I watered it early in the morning (like you're supposed to). Neighbour didn't complain about being disturbed or anything (you couldn't hear a hose) but the fact that I shouldn't be doing it because the housing association should be doing it, not me and if they didn't I should just let the turf die off. (Why?!). She also tried to claim a hosepipe ban was on. It wasn't. I'd checked anyway.
This same neighbour reported me for sub-letting because BIL would stay over one night every couple of months for DH and him to go do their hobby early and she would see him in the back garden having a cig. She reported any house around if they had a shed or outbuilding erected that she thought looked too big or she didn't like the look of (HA didn't care and refused to entertain her). The funniest one was when she complained that her upstairs neighbour put up a perfectly legal, lovely looking 6ft fence at the end of their garden a good 20ft from hers and she could no longer see into everyone else's back gardens and kitchen windows. She demanded it was taken down. She was ignored.
She complained that my bird feeder attracted rats (there is no rat issue here) but then got her own feeders. I guess hers don't have that problem despite being the same as mine.

I've a good mind to report her for the dogs she pretends are "just visiting" that we know she isn't allowed. But I'm not petty.

I had a neighbour once that totally went berserk and told me not to park my old Mazda in front of her house in case people thought it was theirs 'as we only drive BMW's'.She added that my husband should go and buy me a decent car so that I would fit in with the neighbourhood.That was the just the beginning.I could write a book.

A million years ago , not long married and in first flat.
My dh was doing some drilling, putting up shelves , pictures etc . Neighbour knocked and said we were upsetting her dog, and if it came in and watched what he was doing it would be ok. We let her in !

My cat apparently made the neighbours dog bark by sitting on our windowsill. That was when he wasn't chasing the birds in another neighbours garden - sometimes he did both at the same time!

My downstairs neighbour came up to us - we live on the third and top floor - really angry because there was birdpoop in her garden and ‘the birds were coming from above so it was our responsibility to stop them’.

My neighbours complained I made too much noise dragging my , clearly labelled bin, out of their garden

I'll admit I did make an special scrapey noise with it

Some of my bees were drinking from their pond in the back garden - it would have taken many many bees to make a difference to the level of water in the pond.

That there were bees flying around in the front garden - not true, they were cockchafers, great big maybugs

Our neighbour knocked on the door at 2am Xmas morning to tell us my baby having croup was a disgrace and the cough was annoying him so we should shut the baby up- he was 7 months old

When DS now 5 was only 14 months old and learning to walk out the back garden that summer, our next door neighbor banged our door down and insisted that DS 14 MONTHS OLD was a peeping Tom and watched her get dressed through her back garden facing bedroom window. She was absolutely serious. I told her to ring the police.