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Unreasonable batshit neighbours - what have yours done?

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Waitingforwaiter · 30/11/2023 09:36

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?

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tashac89 · 01/12/2023 12:03

She learned to pipe down after a while but there's a list.

Called environmental health pretending to be me and saying i had rats because she didn't like that I had guinea pigs. They were not noisy.

Sent her gardener into my back garden to cut down my roses because 'the thorns were hurting her'. They were next to the fence the other side of my garden not her side.

Sent her son to have a go at me whilst i heavily pregnant because 'you shouldn't be having more than 2 kids!'

Shouted at me over the fence on the way to my mother's funeral because my grass hadn't be cut in a month. Politely explained that I had been at the hospital most of the time with my mother in a coma and I'd deal with it after the funeral and got the charming response 'well everyone dies, it's not an excuse!' How I stopped myself from tearing her apart I will never know.

REP22 · 01/12/2023 12:20

One of my great aunts had a neighbour who would peg out her used tea bags individually on the washing line to dry. When she had accumulated enough, she would package them all up and post them to Christian missionaries in Africa.

Emotionalsupportviper · 01/12/2023 12:23

determinedtomakethiswork · 01/12/2023 10:16

That sounds like it was someone from changing rooms who was responsible.

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LOL!

dick27 · 01/12/2023 12:47

tashac89 · 01/12/2023 12:03

She learned to pipe down after a while but there's a list.

Called environmental health pretending to be me and saying i had rats because she didn't like that I had guinea pigs. They were not noisy.

Sent her gardener into my back garden to cut down my roses because 'the thorns were hurting her'. They were next to the fence the other side of my garden not her side.

Sent her son to have a go at me whilst i heavily pregnant because 'you shouldn't be having more than 2 kids!'

Shouted at me over the fence on the way to my mother's funeral because my grass hadn't be cut in a month. Politely explained that I had been at the hospital most of the time with my mother in a coma and I'd deal with it after the funeral and got the charming response 'well everyone dies, it's not an excuse!' How I stopped myself from tearing her apart I will never know.

The shouting at you on the way to your mother's funeral is horrific!

thenightsky · 01/12/2023 15:40

nzborn · 01/12/2023 08:27

I will try and compete with car set on fire,I'm trying to be a winner in something this year.

The setting half a world away where all houses are bungalows on their own piece of land.

The neighbours of another culture who were never a pain previously except wanting to borrow money all the time and I stopped lending when they stopped paying back.

They are another culture than myself and family so had different practices about how they managed death.

First one was a shocker,they do their own catering so the whole back yard was used as an abattoir which meant about 30 cut open cow bodies were on the back yard.

This culture cooks using an umu which is where the cooking is done in the earth in their back yard this process uses wood fire the flames of which causes damage to trees on my land in actuality its amazing that they didn't chop down my trees for wood

Then neighbours needed to go somewhere while this was happening they chose my place and a lot of men on benches were in my back yard no one had asked if this was ok.

Tents were erected in their front yard for church services,eating was done outside which some of the food waste thrown over on my side.

This lasted for days with only about 4 hours quiet in 24,lots of people were visiting over the days many in the evening so they would park anywhere they wanted including my driveway.

A variant of this happened may times over the years,council would do nothing as it was a funeral and I needed to be kind.

if this doesn't get me to first place I have to be a close second.

Oh that is right up there in the top 3 I reckon. 😱

Madamum18 · 01/12/2023 17:56

Sent us a bill to pay half of her costs to replace HER garden fence because "you have use of it every time you are in your garden!"

As with most terraced houses, and adjoining gardens we have responsibility for the side not joined to hers, she has responsibility for the other side!!

pollymere · 01/12/2023 18:06

I wrote about outdoor plug sockets on that thread because when we moved into our house had the following fun items:

  1. Cable that ran outside to power a socket in the shed. It wasn't underground, just loose on the fence. And it wasn't on the new mains ring so we literally got quite a shock cutting an apparently dead cable with the power off.
  2. There was a plug socket halfway up the wall - on the lighting ring.
  3. The washing machine in the kitchen was plugged into a socket in the bathroom.
  4. The oven is plugged into a socket in a cupboard.
JDEE72 · 01/12/2023 18:16

Mine cut down a tree in my back garden three times over the almost 14 years I’ve been here. Literally, took a fence panel out, came in, and chopped it down. Luckily, it’s quite quick growing, and it came back really well each time. It’s not blocking light or a view. He’s just a miserable bully. Last time I absolutely flipped out and informed him I’d filmed him doing it (because he denied he’d done anything each time, despite being filmed on two of the occasions 🙃) he’s only scared of men, not women… well now he’s scared of this woman.

WhatNoUsername · 01/12/2023 18:19

MrsSkylerWhite · 30/11/2023 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.

Ahh that's quite nice. Saves you the bother!

WestendVBroadway · 01/12/2023 18:51

When I was growing up we had a neighbour who was often reporting my parents and other neighbours. The henious crime was......allowing soapy water from car washing to run in front of their house.

OffToJoinTheCircus · 01/12/2023 18:52

Just yesterday my absolutely bonkers neighbour decided to cut through the mains electric cable from the substation next to his back garden. The cable runs under his back garden and he says it's there illegally as they didn't ask him if they could put it there and haven't paid him 'rent' for the use of his garden. Cue him using a grinder to cut through the cable, resulting in a huge fire with 20 foot flames and plumes of black smoke, a couple of explosions, 2 fire engines and over 500 houses with no power!! He escaped with no eyebrows and superficial facial burns. The cable has been there as long as the house (over 50 years) and he's the original owner from new!!

He has form for being bonkers, but this takes it to a whole new level.

Pliudev · 01/12/2023 19:11

Reversed his scrap metal collecting lorry over the bonnet of our 2CV. OK, I'll say it before anyone asks: it really wasn’t scrap until then.

Pliudev · 01/12/2023 19:13

Same neighbour poured quick drying cement down the water mains and cut the water supply to six houses.

Retiredfromearlyyears · 01/12/2023 19:15

That's not 'Batshit crazy' .That's kind of them. Do you not like them touching your bins?

Element4056 · 01/12/2023 19:21

Recently my neighbour has taken up using his treadmill every morning at 5am for over an hour. His treadmill is right next to my bedroom. It vibrates my whole bedroom whilst he's using it and wakes me up without fail. I find it so hard to go back to sleep as I can hear the hum/whirring whilst he's running, and feel my room vibrating!

Myfabby · 01/12/2023 19:25

MrsSkylerWhite · 30/11/2023 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.

My neighbour arranges all the bins left out before the binmen have been and after. By around 5pm, he starts getting tetchy if they are still out in front and then undoes all his had work and puts them in front of any offending neighbours gates, so basically I've been out all day and as I am pulling into in my driveway I have to get out and move the flipping bins! Same neighbour sent 2 of us notes saying we should sync our ocado deliveries as they were two vans in 2 hours and it's terrible for the environment🤔

MissConductUS · 01/12/2023 19:34

OffToJoinTheCircus · 01/12/2023 18:52

Just yesterday my absolutely bonkers neighbour decided to cut through the mains electric cable from the substation next to his back garden. The cable runs under his back garden and he says it's there illegally as they didn't ask him if they could put it there and haven't paid him 'rent' for the use of his garden. Cue him using a grinder to cut through the cable, resulting in a huge fire with 20 foot flames and plumes of black smoke, a couple of explosions, 2 fire engines and over 500 houses with no power!! He escaped with no eyebrows and superficial facial burns. The cable has been there as long as the house (over 50 years) and he's the original owner from new!!

He has form for being bonkers, but this takes it to a whole new level.

He sounds like he's trying for a Darwin Award.

A quick Google search would have told him that power companies have legal easements that allow them to place cables on private property.

Unicorntastic · 01/12/2023 19:42

Timeforallthecheese · 30/11/2023 12:27

Feeds the seagulls. Won’t stop. It’s bloody awful. Seagulls everywhere come 6 pm. Can’t go in the garden as they swoop/are vicious.

My old neighbour (now deceased) used to do this, I hate seagulls so every time they ventured into my garden I used to throw pebbles at our metal shed and the noise frightened them off! It worked because even after all this time they never land in my garden 😂 it’s obviously passed down generations of seagulls

BMW6 · 01/12/2023 19:50

OffToJoinTheCircus · 01/12/2023 18:52

Just yesterday my absolutely bonkers neighbour decided to cut through the mains electric cable from the substation next to his back garden. The cable runs under his back garden and he says it's there illegally as they didn't ask him if they could put it there and haven't paid him 'rent' for the use of his garden. Cue him using a grinder to cut through the cable, resulting in a huge fire with 20 foot flames and plumes of black smoke, a couple of explosions, 2 fire engines and over 500 houses with no power!! He escaped with no eyebrows and superficial facial burns. The cable has been there as long as the house (over 50 years) and he's the original owner from new!!

He has form for being bonkers, but this takes it to a whole new level.

We have a winner!!!

I imagine he's been arrested for criminal damage?

MiaMae24 · 01/12/2023 20:02

Mine in September she’s 42 , she head butted my 73 year old mother . Police not taking it any further, I’m to sit on my hands . But only for so long . She’s got a whole load of evidence against her that she has an ASBO where housing can take her straight to court and kick her out her home

Another2Cats · 01/12/2023 20:08

TeapotCollection · 30/11/2023 12:41

Can anyone remember the neighbour who tried to extend their terraced house into the shared entry? One of the most batshit crazy things I’ve ever seen on here

@TeapotCollection

Yes, I do. But I'm really struggling to remember the title. I believe it involved a solicitor who was bullying their next door neighbour into accepting it. I may be getting that mixed up with another thread though.

Morgysmum · 01/12/2023 20:25

Not that level of crazy.
But we moved in January, the new neighbours are odd, the neighbour over the road, doesn't have curtains, we can see into his room our bedroom. One morning, I was downstairs washing up, when I saw movement, the guy had woken up, no top on, or he could have been naked for all I could tell, then he stars doing a weird dance. They have blinds downstairs, so it isn't like they are against privacy. They put there Christmas decorations up, before Halloween.
Another set of neighbours, blonde hair blue eyed, mother and daughter... I had stopped at my parents house, when my parents brought me home, parking in our street is one side of the road. As at outside of the house, there is a steep curb, so we cannot park at our side of the road. I told my dad to park in the first available spot, which wasn't far from our house. This little girl, is riding up the footpath on her scooter, then stares at us, a bit odd but she is only little, then her mother walks up, she does the same, it's like we had killed there dad.. Like Stephen King's Village of the damned. Then they watched us, walk to our house, still creepily they started playing in there front yard, like they were watching the house. Then after I waved goodbye to my parents 30 minutes later, the woman and her kids, dissappear in the house as soon as my parents leave. There isn't designated parking. Very odd family.

Lurkermumofadults · 01/12/2023 20:31

We've had many crazy neighbours, we seem to attract them whether in the north or the south of England. One neighbour when we moved into our old house keyed our car and then got in it, took handbrake off and rolled it down the hill from outside his house to our house (no reserved parking on a public road!). When we moved up north last year, we thought people were friendlier but no, they've all been hostile especially about our vegetation. The one next door spent the whole year arguing with us about taking down a really nice hedge, which gave him and us great privacy and shelter from winds etc - then went ahead and did it anyway, leaving us with a terrible mess and direct view into his garden - then we find out randomly that his house is now for sale advertised with photos of said hedge and 'really private rear garden' - so obviously emailed the estate agent immediately to let them know the truth...what a weirdo!

TheUltima · 01/12/2023 20:39

cymraes12 · 30/11/2023 23:15

Not as batshit as most of these but a story that still makes me laugh nearly 40 years later. When I was a child, my parents had a very placid cat who used to let me dress him up in outfits I’d taken off my cuddly toys. One day I put him in a fetching Hawaiian shirt and scarf, moved onto other things and the cat went outside in his outfit. Minutes later the nextdoor but one neighbour came round to ask my dad what the hell we were playing at, because the cat had jumped over the fence into their garden still dressed up, and his wife and children were TRAUMATISED because they thought it was ‘a goblin.’

Clearly quite a low threshold for trauma …

A goblin 😂 this is one of the few times I have actually laughed out loud on MNs

DoughBallss · 01/12/2023 20:46

Somebody I know ordered a new hoover, she was out when it was delivered so her neighbour took it. When she went to pick it up they’d unboxed it and hoovered the whole downstairs to ‘test it’ 🤣