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To ask for your worst neighbour stories?

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WingsgivenbyRedBull · 16/10/2022 14:46

I’ve been lucky that I’ve not had nightmare neighbours, just rude and inconsiderate ones.

One ex neighbour used to use my driveway all the time until I blocked him in and he stopped.

Had the excessive noise ones - months of renovations, barking dog and crying baby.

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SpacePotato · 18/10/2022 01:05

Not nightmare but CF neighour 2 doors over. Orders parcels and has them delivered every.single.day, not a problem right? Except she is never in to receive them and has told every courier and the Royal Mail that "Cleverer at number 9 will take them in" so I get bailiff slams at all hours of the day upto 8pm at night from her couriers and I take the bloody things in. I have told her that I work and my DH works, she knows I'm disabled and can't lift things but she legitimately doesnt care

My lovely neighbours directly next door have informed me that they no longer speak to her due to this behaviour as she is in her house when the boxes arrive and can't be bothered to be disturbed. She phones and texts me when SHE is ready to collect

Why do you keep taking the parcels in then?? Just stop.
Say no to every courier and post man.

She's taking you for a mug and you are accepting it.

HighlandPony · 18/10/2022 01:14

Not where I live now but I was a care leaver. My first council flat at sixteen was a 4 in a block and I had junkies downstairs. They took their own kids hostage with machetes to ward off a drug raid.

There was a time before that the social came to remove the three youngest kids and they were chucking petrol bombs out in the street at them but I was coming in from my job in the cafe to get changed and go work in the chip shop at night and couldn’t get my uniform so I got stripped off behind a hedge and swapped uniforms with a girl in my street who’d worked the school dinner shift.

The way the doors worked was downstairs front door was round the side and mine was at the front for the upstairs flat. About 4 in the morning a Mercedes’ sprinter pulls up and there’s a massive crash, run to the top of the stairs with a table leg with nails in it and there’s five guys in balaclavas coming up my stairs. Ones got a shotgun. They clock me and go “oh fuck it’s the wrong house” and run away leaving my door off the hinges and lying on the floor. I tried to stay up but fell asleep in a sleeping bag at the top of the stairs and woke up to this man in the fanciest suit and shiny shoes I’d ever seen coming upstairs who asks if I’m my dads lass, apologised for “the wee misunderstanding last night” assures me he’s got a joiner on the way at no cost and gives me six £100 pound notes and asks that we “keep this wee fuck up between me and you”. A week later the junkie downstairs is murdered in a flat and his brother had his fingers removed with an angle grinder. They’d got heroin off sharp suited man to sell but being mad raging junkies had blown their way through it.

When the lass downstairs ODd and died on my doorstep I got a job back in agriculture surrendered my tenancy and moved to a static caravan workers accommodation on an island.

KloppsTeeth · 18/10/2022 01:16

My widowed and elderly Mum lives alone. During covid her neighbour phoned the police on her to report her for having people visit when it was allowed to have a bubble. She had one person, who was also widowed and lives alone visit one per week, no one else visited as we all kept to the rules. She kept phoning to report my Mum. Absolutely nasty thing to do to anyone, she wasn’t breaking any rules.

one neighbour set fire to my exes’ wheelie bin as he thought my ex had reported him to the police for domestic violence because him and his girlfriend had a massive row in the street and he had dragged her inside by her hair. Ex hadn’t reported this as he was ar work at the time, however he was still accused. Wheelie bin fire burnt down the fences and melted the conservatory, side door and windows. Luckily no one was hurt. Exes neighbour is in prison now for gbh and other stuff. Couldn’t pin the arson on him but people knew it was him as he boasted about it.

autienotnaughty · 18/10/2022 01:24

Our old neighbour was obsessed about parking. They had a drive large enough to fit four cars plus a double garage and space for two cars on the street outside their house. (They owned 1 car) we had no drive/garage so parked out side our house . We could park both cars outside with an overlap of a foot in front of their house ( nowhere near drive entrance) they complained so dh started parking over road . After that if anyone parked outside their house they would block them in even if they were just visiting us for five minutes. Legally they had no rights as no one owns the street outside their home but it was a relief to eventually move.

saveforthat · 18/10/2022 01:48

I lived in a flat that overlooked a neighbour's courtyard garden. Following a planning objection, he erected a screen up against my window, blocking the light. He used to write rude messages on the screen. Pathetic bastard.

shebathequeenof · 18/10/2022 01:52

Brigante9 · 16/10/2022 17:02

One neighbour built a coffin in his back garden. Once his python escaped, I was shitting myself because I had cats. He used to wear a t-shirt with ‘Jesus is a cunt’ on it. My strongly Christian neighbour complained to the police and I think he was visited and told not to wear it in public because it was a public order offence or something (we’re going way back)

That t shirt is merch from a terrible band cradle of filth. I hope he didnt also play his music too loud

shebathequeenof · 18/10/2022 01:57

Slicedpeaches · 18/10/2022 00:24

I live am the only girl in a student house with six men, I guess its more like housemates than neighbors but still. Apart from generally being messy, loud, and filling the house with empty bottles, dirty socks and the smell of weed; I have walked in on three of them wanking.
Two on seperate occasions in our shared bathroom- one had not locked the door, the other had not even closed it. And the third was doing it in our kitchen. The damn kitchen.
They are not the worst people I have lived with but they are probably the grossest. Someone has also recently trimmed their pubes in the sink and left them there, next to the toothbrushes.

Move out.

Theyre doing it on purpose and getting off on you walking in on them.

You cannot live in a house you're being sexually assaulted in.

Smallonesaremorejuicy · 18/10/2022 02:12

HighlandPony · 18/10/2022 01:14

Not where I live now but I was a care leaver. My first council flat at sixteen was a 4 in a block and I had junkies downstairs. They took their own kids hostage with machetes to ward off a drug raid.

There was a time before that the social came to remove the three youngest kids and they were chucking petrol bombs out in the street at them but I was coming in from my job in the cafe to get changed and go work in the chip shop at night and couldn’t get my uniform so I got stripped off behind a hedge and swapped uniforms with a girl in my street who’d worked the school dinner shift.

The way the doors worked was downstairs front door was round the side and mine was at the front for the upstairs flat. About 4 in the morning a Mercedes’ sprinter pulls up and there’s a massive crash, run to the top of the stairs with a table leg with nails in it and there’s five guys in balaclavas coming up my stairs. Ones got a shotgun. They clock me and go “oh fuck it’s the wrong house” and run away leaving my door off the hinges and lying on the floor. I tried to stay up but fell asleep in a sleeping bag at the top of the stairs and woke up to this man in the fanciest suit and shiny shoes I’d ever seen coming upstairs who asks if I’m my dads lass, apologised for “the wee misunderstanding last night” assures me he’s got a joiner on the way at no cost and gives me six £100 pound notes and asks that we “keep this wee fuck up between me and you”. A week later the junkie downstairs is murdered in a flat and his brother had his fingers removed with an angle grinder. They’d got heroin off sharp suited man to sell but being mad raging junkies had blown their way through it.

When the lass downstairs ODd and died on my doorstep I got a job back in agriculture surrendered my tenancy and moved to a static caravan workers accommodation on an island.

The use of the word junkies is offensive. You could say drug addicts.

DPotter · 18/10/2022 02:49

The use of the word junkies is offensive. You could say drug addicts.

Really smallonesaremorejuicy - that's you're take away from Highlandpony's post ?

ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 18/10/2022 03:19

Trampoline screaming by three kids next door, right on the other side of my privacy fence. I once clocked 4 hours 12 minutes of NON-stop jumping and screaming (granted they had visitors that day.) i had to get diazepam at one point.

ifonlylifewasthateasy · 18/10/2022 03:45

Clevererthanyou · 18/10/2022 00:26

Not nightmare but CF neighour 2 doors over. Orders parcels and has them delivered every.single.day, not a problem right? Except she is never in to receive them and has told every courier and the Royal Mail that "Cleverer at number 9 will take them in" so I get bailiff slams at all hours of the day upto 8pm at night from her couriers and I take the bloody things in. I have told her that I work and my DH works, she knows I'm disabled and can't lift things but she legitimately doesnt care.

My lovely neighbours directly next door have informed me that they no longer speak to her due to this behaviour as she is in her house when the boxes arrive and can't be bothered to be disturbed. She phones and texts me when SHE is ready to collect 🤬🤬🤬

Refuse to take them!

SpookyWookyBoo · 18/10/2022 04:10

Poisoned my cat,he's fine now thankfully
They did something else but it's too outing to say.
Especially with the cat story.
Hate the fuckers.

DoubleBuggyDriver · 18/10/2022 04:20

Silverangels · 16/10/2022 14:57

We used to have lovely neighbours until one died and the other side moved
one side allow their kids to scream-all day long-the adults join in and then the dogs start so we can’t use our garden in the summer

the other side never put their bins out-ever
they allow it to build up to massive levels and when it starts to topple over,they go out in the middle of the night to put their rubbish in others bins
one morning,we where on the way to work (i was getting a lift on way to dps work) and we found they’d put loads of their household waste in our recycling bin which meant the big men refused to take it
dp went bonkers-and took their rubbish out-leaving it outside their gate
it was gone by the time we got home

they had the nerve to report us for flytipping THEIR rubbish by giving it back to them!

same bonkers woman spends her time hoovering her house at 4am and reporting us for noise at 4am
the noise she makes at 4am is our fault somehow

Wow these people are insane!

Antaboo · 18/10/2022 07:53

I hear Jimmy Boyle is looking for plots for his next novel😜

KnittingAuntie · 18/10/2022 08:02

When I moved to my current house an elderly neighbour stopped me in the street and enquired my marital status. I told her I was single. A couple of weeks later she stopped me in the street and said she thought I had informed her that I was single but she had seen a man entering my house! She was able to tell me the exact date, time and length of his visit. I told her that it was my brother dropping in for a coffee and a game of Scrabble. A few days later she again told me about another man visiting my house. . . I told her that although I am single, there would be quite a few men visiting my house as I have several male relatives who live locally, I needed work done on the house so workmen would be in and out and the minister of my church had said he would pop in for a coffee so he could see my new home. She offered to chaperone. . . I'm not sure who she thought was at risk . . . me or the male visitors!!!!!! I declined her kind offer and she continues to treat me as though I am running a house of ill repute! Just to add a bit of context, I am a retired lady in my mid sixties - my brothers are all older than me and most of the workmen are guys from my local church.

TodaysFishIsTroutALaCreme · 18/10/2022 08:13

My psycho neighbour decided to drive her car through the side of my house

Lalliella · 18/10/2022 08:24

KnittingAuntie · 18/10/2022 08:02

When I moved to my current house an elderly neighbour stopped me in the street and enquired my marital status. I told her I was single. A couple of weeks later she stopped me in the street and said she thought I had informed her that I was single but she had seen a man entering my house! She was able to tell me the exact date, time and length of his visit. I told her that it was my brother dropping in for a coffee and a game of Scrabble. A few days later she again told me about another man visiting my house. . . I told her that although I am single, there would be quite a few men visiting my house as I have several male relatives who live locally, I needed work done on the house so workmen would be in and out and the minister of my church had said he would pop in for a coffee so he could see my new home. She offered to chaperone. . . I'm not sure who she thought was at risk . . . me or the male visitors!!!!!! I declined her kind offer and she continues to treat me as though I am running a house of ill repute! Just to add a bit of context, I am a retired lady in my mid sixties - my brothers are all older than me and most of the workmen are guys from my local church.

😂 @KnittingAuntie get some pampas grass in your garden and pop a red bulb in your bedroom lamp 🤣

HairyMcLarie · 18/10/2022 08:24

Retiree obsession with fucking powered garden tools here.

A small annoyance in the big scheme of things but we live in a quiet rural area where you can hear only birdsong. We don't even play music as the sound can carry when it's so quiet and the peace is lovely. The climate here is great too so lots of outdoor living and eating

Last two neighbours have been retirees. Their favourite thing is to use industrial garden power tools at around about lunchtime on a Saturday and Sunday

Neighbour 1: 12 solid hours of strimming and then leaf blowing. Hammering nails into a surface. Sawing some fucking thing. Angie grinding some corrugated iron. Maybe some chainsawing if it's a sunny bank holiday.

Neighbour 2: only comes for weekends and holidays and does obsessive tree destruction on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 7am and then uses a diesel chipper which is so old and crap she needs to feed in individual fucking twigs. The chipper gets fired up around 12.30 and stops around 6pm. I checked the decibels while hosting a lunch with friends. 120dB. Ffs!!

We've never actually met her but when we passed her in the street she said hello and told us to never play music with any windows open as the previous owners were a nightmare. We'd never played a peep by that time anyway!

Lalliella · 18/10/2022 08:27

Smallonesaremorejuicy · 18/10/2022 02:12

The use of the word junkies is offensive. You could say drug addicts.

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@Smallonesaremorejuicy so instead of empathising with @HighlandPony for the awful start to adult life they had or praising them for having the strength to get away from it you choose to take this from their post? Wtf is wrong with you?

JesusMaryAndJosephAndTheWeeDon · 18/10/2022 08:39

The time one of them tried to set fire to their house with partner and kids inside was pretty memorable.

We came home to the street cordoned off by the fire service and the other residents of the terrace outside.

LifeIsJustOneBigWTAF · 18/10/2022 08:39

Leaned out of her bedroom window to yell “WRONG!!” As she considered the way we were tiling our extension was not correct.

I'm really sorry that you had a crackpot for a neighbour @ColinRobinsonsfamiliar, but this made me laugh out loud 😆

LifeIsJustOneBigWTAF · 18/10/2022 08:45

With apologies to those of you who actually have to suffer these complete cranks, I have to say this is the funniest thread I have seen in a long time 🤣🤣🤣

milawops · 18/10/2022 08:51

Neighbour reported me to the RSPCA because my Doberman was obviously not being fed. No, he was fed perfectly well but if you stand at the fence, call him over and feed him biscuits everyday sooner or later he's going to go to the fence as soon as he sees you in your garden and wait for his biscuit

milawops · 18/10/2022 08:58

And another house I was in, neighbours had a volatile relationship. One night it all kicked off. I honestly thought he was going to kill her so I called the police. Took 4 of them to get him in a van and take him away. 10 minutes later she's outside with a knife screaming for whoever called the police to come out. She finally went back inside. Got up in the morning and she had slashed the tyres on my car and the car the other side of her.

Georgeskitchen · 18/10/2022 08:59

DPotter · 18/10/2022 02:49

The use of the word junkies is offensive. You could say drug addicts.

Really smallonesaremorejuicy - that's you're take away from Highlandpony's post ?

There's always one isn't there!! I bet she's never lived nextdoor to junkies...oops sorry, addicts 😉