Unreasonable batshit neighbours - what have yours done?

[Waitingforwaiter]

Something on another thread (about outside sockets for Christmas decorations) made me think of this.

A couple of years ago my upstairs neighbours (we're in maisonettes) decided to install a plug socket outside. Only it wasn't an actual proper outdoor socket, just a normal socket like you'd have in your living room ... But on a brick wall outside.

It is gone now. But - wtf?!

Assuming I am not BU about this!

But ... now I'm curious - What's the most batshit thing others' neighbours have done?

My old neighbour tried to move the fence boundary by nearly a metre when getting the fence redone as she believed it was in the wrong place due to a downpipe (it not our house was built 100years before hers)

Thankfully I was on maternity leave at the time asked her contractor what he was doing in my garden then asked him to leave. She shouted out of the window at me I explained I was more then happy to show her the land registry documents. Contractor moved it back to the original position and Thankfully hadn't started digging up my garden!

If we don’t get to them first, one of the neighbours opens our gate, walks along the long path to the side return and puts our bins out. He’s done it with ndn’s bins for years but started with ours a few months ago.

It doesn’t affect me but our next door neighbour is a conspiracy theorist and the whole inside of her house, literally every wall and window, is covered with foil.
I didn’t know as the house kind of faces away from the road, but we went round to see if she was ok after a power cut once and literally every wall was lined with foil.
She also often wears 4 or 5 hats at once, piled on top of each other, but I quite like this idiosyncrasy.

Ah I remember my days of living in a downstairs maisonette! Every time my upstairs neighbour did their laundry their washing machine spun the water out directly through my kitchen ceiling. After months of trying to get things sorted through the landlord she finally flipped. Launched a lively little verbal tirade that ended with the words ‘You’re fick as fuck, ain’t no water coming from my ‘Ouse’ from the look on her angry twisted little face it didn’t feel like the appropriate time for a lesson on how gravity works

I wish my neighbour would put my bins out!

Used my fence and tree to build their brat a tree house, their brat would scream at my kids and my dog. I told them they had 5 days to remove it or I would, they done nothing so my dh took a chain saw and cut the branches off my tree which theyd used for their house and removed their post which they'd joined to my fence, was still attached by their tree as was in-between the trees but couldn't be used. The wife and daughter came round crying that id ruined the daughters birthday present and they were having a garden party for her and everything was ruined.

I lived in the upstairs of a maisonette years ago, two lads shared the downstairs - my door was on the side of the house, theirs at the front. One night they brought a couple of women home and were really loud/drunk and struggling to get in the front door. One clearly needed to go to the loo as I went downstairs to tell them to shut up and one was pissing up my front door. Fuming. Told him to fuck off then at 7ish next morning banged on the door until he woke and made him clean it. Not really batshit but disgusting.

Extreme nosiness - former policeman, made sure he missed nothing. Him “I saw you coming in this morning” me “oh, er yes?!” him - “you were wearing the same clothes as when you left last night to go to your night out” Me - bereft of speech. On a positive note, I never worried about being burgled. 🤣

Ours I only found out from our Evri lady yesterday is that they refuse to take parcels in for us because “they never see us…” and “why can’t she leave the parcel with our other neighbour…”

I take in parcels for this neighbour regularly so I’m just a bit like wtf??? One time he even put the wrong address on a parcel and it got delivered to our address so obviously that had to be delivered to me. What does it achieve not taking in the odd parcel? It’s not like I have loads of parcels delivered all the time. To me it’s just being neighbourly.

Its just so odd, we’ve obviously “annoyed them” in some weird way and it’s just so strange…

Hose our washing.
Tell us to go in the house so we don’t get wet.
Ask us not to sweep up, or generally go in the garden at all as they don't like it and aren’t used to it.
Batshit.

Celticliving · Today 10:14

MrsSkylerWhite · Today 09:44

If we don’t get to them first, one of the neighbours opens our gate, walks along the long path to the side return and puts our bins out. He’s done it with ndn’s bins for years but started with ours a few months ago.

I wish my neighbour would put my bins out“

You’d think so but I find it quite creepy 😁

Put three holes in the party wall in the attic (no notice given to us under the Party Wall Act - literally only found out because DH heard a strange noise and went to investigate - almost getting brained by a piece of masonry when he opened the hatch). Ignored us when we protested and pointed out they'd completely failed in their legal obligations. Then proceeded to install their cross beams across the width of the wall entirely (so trespassing and preventing us from doing similar works in the future and preventing it from being properly fire proofed). They only stopped the works and took notice of what we were saying when I put a draft injunction application through their door. And even after they extended their scaffolding over our property (across bedroom window and over conservatory) and lifted our tiles to install part of the roof light under them.

They behaved like we were being the unreasonable ones because their works were a bit noisy.

That was just the culmination of years of generally rude and disrespectful behaviour that wasn't enough that we could actually do something about it.

Safe to say I absolutely despise them.

Used to have a shared front garden (semi-detached house)
Neighbour (retirement age) would come and tell me to cut grass on random occasions! If I didn't do it there and then, they'd do it themselves at 6.30am the following Sunday.
When I did do it, (worked f/t) they'd complain that bits of grass had blown onto their path, therefore creating work for them! Batshit.

Set my car on fire

I used to have a young female neighbour opposite who appeared to have some sort of MH issue.
She would come out of her house at midnight on the dot, every night of the week, dressed in a white ankle length nightdress.
She would walk into the middle of her front lawn, throw her arms out wide and shout ' seek and ye shall find '.
Then immediately walk back into her house, never to be seen again until the following midnight.
I have no idea what she was seeking or if she ever found it.

Mine reported me to the police, the council and environmental health and slagged me off on the street WhatsApp because I refused to pay for an expensive piece of equipment to be installed to her hot water heater because the noise it made (HER boiler) was causing “mental distress”. And this somehow was my fault.

The stupid neighbour downstairs would bang on her ceiling (my floor) when the neighbour above me was making too much noise. It didn't matter that she knew it wasn't my flat making the noise.

@Dotjones
Maybe she expected you to pass the bang on to upstairs!

@Thepeopleversuswork
What's on earth was her justification for that? Obviously there isn't one really, but in her own mind what csn she have been thinking?!

A bat shit neighbour by me puts near a loaf of bread out a day on his front lawn then pisses off out in his car. So leaves the seagulls/ pigeons to defecate over everyone else’s. He also spends an unusual amount of time lurking by his outside bins in the dark/ frost / rain - you name it. The oddity of the street!

Ours are parking batshit

They moved in and seemed to think they own the street

We are to park 'ten streets away' (not x street,just ten streets away) and have phoned the police on us because we park outside our house

Then,then they couldn't get a rise out of us,they've taken to moving their car so we can't get in (still no rise out of either of us) so they've taken to slagging us off saying we are violent and have threatened them (we just ignore them)

We ignore them so they've been round,hammering on our door while screaming at us to 'move or we'll phone your landlord to boot you out' (now changed to 'I have spoken to your landlord and he wants you out!')

Good luck with that one tracy-we own our house-funny how nobody in the street has told you that-it was common knowledge when we moved in

Our dear old lady neighbour washes her car in the pouring rain 😂 genius, if not slightly nutty!

We've had 2, both put into a flat owned by a charity.
First one was an alcoholic who had a girlfriend who would come round to us every Thursday or Friday asking us to call an ambulance because her beloved was dying. No love, he has just passed out , again.
2nd one had a lovely mum who would show up early hours of the morning to kick his door and shout obscenities. He would reply by throwing things at her out of the window. Once he nicked our garden chairs and threw them at her.
Very glad we moved.

Woke us up at 6am to ask for a lift into town because they wanted to go shopping…. Apart from saying hello, we have never interacted with these people before. They weren’t impressed we said no and went back to bed.

If it’s not the constant verbal assaults directed at each other, the kids, the kids to each other, grandparents and other family members (think every single “bad” word possible being used by a 6 year old) then it’s the belief they own the street! Dumping skips in the shared spaces whilst away on holidaydespite having a driveway, parking across multiple spaces or parking so stupidly at the edge of a turning circle that makes it almost impossible to manoeuvre within a small cul de sac.

Driving in at 30mph but having a word with neighbours coming in at reasonable (10/12mph) speed because their children could be out playing but and don’t want them ran over - that’s because they run into the road and are left unsupervised. Or the selection of bikes and scooters left on the middle of the road which they will drive around and leave! Or the time he told someone who was purchasing scrap garage door from his neighbour that the sparks better not damage his brickwork????? The sparks can definitely hit ur brickwork 10ft away.

Claiming the communal piece of grass to the left of their house as theirs (it’s not it’s shared) then telling people they could not use it and leaving 10-15 balls, nets and other sport equipment out but shouting out their camera when a dog dares to go near their area.

My favourite was a few weeks ago when we were getting new wifi installed. The access is just at the start of their property and we know they must give access as per deeds. Door was rung multiple times no answer, we had a few issues so took longer and the company was still here when he returned. You would have thought they had to dig for access not just remove the lid he went off his head, said nothing to us but threatened to steal the workers tools and if they came back again he was going to do more than just take tools.

it cheered me up when their kids tipped paint over their driveway n he thought the way to deal with that was using flour😄