Please tell me your worst NDN stories??

[LittleBirdWeeps]

We have a neighbour who seems to constantly know our business without us telling him, for example last week we popped out and bought a new laptop as our old one was finished.

We haven't spoken about it to him or mentioned it in the garden but today he popped up (over the fence) to DH and said, "How is your new laptop?"

He must have seen us carrying it in! Despite it not being a big item. DH definitely hadn't mentioned it to him and neither had I. So he's either spying or watching via his Ring doorbell. (This isn't the first time he's suddenly known stuff about us without us telling him and I've caught him spying before now.)

So please, tell me your worst next door neighbour stories? Then maybe I can put this in perspective!

My next door neighbour chopped off the edge of our patio with an angle grinder. He then called me a ‘bellend’ when I told him to stop and said we were being territorial over our land! His missus said we were Making them feel like criminals when all they wanted was a bigger house (they were building a kitchen extension and apparently it’s ok to steal some of our land) 🙄

Our old neighbours were totally anal about their garden. When they replaced their fence they wanted to bore holes through our concrete path for the new posts, instead of using the old holes. And if one of my shrubs grew so much half a leaf over the bloody fence she would snip the half leaf off.

It gave me great joy (schadenfreuder) when, during one of their many holidays, a mole tunnelled all around their lawn, only just below the turf, pushing it up like long wiggly Nissen huts.

Had parties every night until early hours, bass so loud my walls shook and pictures fell down. Used my designated parking space as their own. Accused me of racism when I reported them to the police and council.

I had a new neighbour move in who shouts and swears at her disabled child. Have had to report to his school and NSPCC several times.

My other next door neighbour moved her grandson in who plays drum and bass loudly and smokes weed in the garden regularly.

A year ago I had neither neighbours and my road was lovely and quiet.

So many things but if I list them all it would be 'outing' I'm sure. She's a royal pain in the arse complaining about cats, bins, noise, garden blah blah. When we moved in she knocked the door on the pretext of giving us a moving in card so she got invited in. She was/is a real Hyacinth Bucket and then a convo was had about 'how all the neighbours here tend their gardens very well as we all like our gardens to look naice down this road; don't we?'. I think I've weeded a patch of earth between our houses half a dozen times in the 10 years we've lived here. Probably clutching her pearls over that.

The worst thing however was when she lobbed any lumps of (what she thought was our cat) shit from her garden over the fence with it landing on our decking/table/chairs. I went apeshit. Reminded her that there were at least another 8 cats in the road and that foxes used our gardens as a cut through. some of the lumps of poo were bloody huge; no way could they have come out of a cats arse! Silly bint.

Bloody hell!

So so much, but it would all be outing. Total neighbors from hell and very dangerous. Breaking in is probably the highlight.

Years ago I tripped over a cable in an unguarded trench. My knee was too swollen to drive. My very nosy ndn knew I was at home, and spent 2 hrs mowing the lawn in his back garden, in the nude.

It did explain why he had a push mower and not an electric one.

Sadly he didn't have the body for it - from either elevation. Had he looked like Mel Gibson the value of the house would've rocketed.

Made me feel very uncomfortable when he asked a friend why I was off, so hé knew I was alone in the house. Both he and his wife were creepy gits.

Lived in a mid terrace when my older DC were small and the neighbours on one side were horrible. They were actually really lovely when we first moved in and bought us a card and gift when our DD was born which was nice. Then for some reason they didn’t like the fact we had another DC just over a year later and took to hammering and drilling on the walls whenever either of them cried which only made them cry more. They also had some sort of loud horn they would sound in the middle of the night. It became really toxic in the end and I was grateful to move away, haven’t lived in a terrace since.

Bloody hell @Gatekeeper

Paranoid schizophrenic in the flat oppersit, months of issues but I particularly remember being woken at 5am by him bellowing that gay people would burn in hell. He also hated Jews and the Middle class. It was studio flats so we were basically in adjacent rooms, and when he lost it I could hear every word. Not his fault I know, but he terrified me. Eventually I got a GP to advocate on my behalf, and the mh team finally paid attention and helped him to get stable again.

Had constant loud fights / arguments
Threatened my dad and nana
Put our windows in
Broke in & robbed us (no proof for police but we know it was them) twice - once on Boxing Day while we were out visiting relatives
Tried to steal the car several times

I really need to know how this one ended!

Moving in day. Barged in. To tell me I owed her a large sum of money. Off the scale batshit.

My neighbour keeps trying to steal my cat! And then will make digs at me that I'm neglecting her because the cat has been shut in her conservatory with her all day and hasn't had any food.

Our nextdoor ish neighbour is a raving narcissistic, misogynistic, abusive fire & brimstone biblical basher, who likes to throw his windows & doors open & scream to the heavens with offensive bile about healing gay people, burning witches & anyone who sets against him & covering everyone with blood & having the wife who left him for abuse, fall at his feet & beg his forgiveness, kids screaming hysterically in his commercial kitchen & rows with the ex wife & more. All hours of the day & night when it's meant to be a business only, with strict permitted hours. Right under our bedroom window 🥴 He currently has a noise abatement & ASBO warning on him, but he still hasn't shut up

Good God, some of these make my alcoholic drug dealing neighbours look harmless by comparison.

Pretty sure my neighbours have poisoned and killed my cats (three of them) but can't prove it.

My ex neighbour had territory issues re parking

he would come out and shout at anyone who tried to visit me and bang on our door to shout at anyone including the children of the house about parking.

At more than 6ft he wasn’t shy of using his size to intimidate us. It was all I could do to make sure the children saw him as a laughing stock and not a threat

Sounds exactly like our neighbour. She doesn't miss ANYTHING. We are detached and live opposite each other, and she hears my conversations and will comment on them 😳
Occasionally I find it amusing, but most of the time it freaks me out hugely and I swear she's bugged my house.
I simply don't understand how she knows so much

The rented house next door. Had a lovely elderly neighbour before that, but his sons have rented it out (I don't apologise for saying it's unmodernised and dirt cheap rent so has attracted some awful people) since he died and we've had some sorts in since.

All night parties (some mid week). They were meek and apologetic after we called environmental health then broke into our back garden and poured/threw cider on our windows (including DC bedroom window) and threw rubbish around the garden. We'd also had an attempted break in (police said they came in from neighbouring side) and a smashed garden table. They were related to the landlords so they did nothing.

Another neighbour after them had ambulance and police round the first week after the woman tried to strangle her husband (we heard it ☹️) but those turned out to be our best neighbours in the end.

Current are the worst. Plumber and unemployed wife. She shouts outside most of the time, and makes all her 'private' calls outside, no matter what time day or night, sometimes we get the bonus of the other person on speaker at full volume, and plays her radio indoors (preferable). Lots of screaming at the children (though she sometimes closes windows to do this - which doesn't work), and the husband apparently has a drink and aggression problem. They're known as 'the chavs' by the neighbours. They're just inconsiderate, selfish, rude, very thick and obnoxious. They're worse in the summer months, obviously! Hence my mini rant there.

Though I probably should be grateful I don't have the neighbours mentioned in some of these posts

some of these neighbours…

we’ve been lucky. The worst we had was when we lived in a flat, the lady upstairs took a liking to DH and would constantly invite herself round. She also used to set her alarm for 5am and leave it on the wood floor so it would wake us up too.

Very mild in comparison to some of yours.

In a previous house we had a large corner garden which got a lot of sun . DC were young so lots of garden toys . We had also invested in nice garden furniture.
A few times we came home from work and I thought things had been moved . One day I came home early as I was unwell . NDN was stretched out on one of our loungers while her grandchildren played ! I asked her what she was doing and she replied that she liked our garden so why couldn’t she use it when we weren’t there ?
Current neighbours are a 5 car family , cause mayhem in the street with parking wherever they want including on our drive if we happen to have popped out !

Poisoned my cat,can't prove it was though.
Cat is fine now but a bit nervous of new people