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?

What's wrong with that!!! Saves you getting up early on bin day to do it surely

When my husband and I first moved I together we lived in a flat that had a combined living room and kitchen. The neighbour upstairs would come down to complain about the noise our fridge made as she could hear it ‘buzzing loudly’. It wasn’t. Just made normal fridge noise and as it was in our main living area I think we would have noticed.

This is the same woman who would blast dance music all hours of the day and night and have blazing arguments with her boyfriend because apparently he fancied her sister. Think they were both druggies to be honest.

Then when we moved into our next flat the man downstairs came up to ask us not to walk about so much - on moving in day as we were taking in the furniture. We had only arrived 15 minutes previously so not like it was hours and hours of noise. Don’t know if he expected us to levitate our stuff in but moving into a house can’t be done without some walking about.

NDN popped round to ask me not to hang my knickers on the line outside as they can see them from their kitchen window and it distracts her husband and adult son.
My knickers are neither cruddy, faded articles nor satin, silk thongs, they’re just regular lady pants from Sainsburys. Apparently I should be drying my ‘smalls’ in my bathroom like every other lady does 🙄

I was once reported to social services for leaving my (adult) children at home while I went away on a city break.

Old neighbours it was parking. They lived on the corner had a double garage and a drive to fit 4 cars. They owned 1 car.We had no garage or drive and had two cars to park in street. They asked us not to park in front of their house. (As in street parking) we could just about get both our cars in front of our house with a overhang of maybe 10 inches. (Couldn't do the overhang to the other side as would have actually blocked that neighbours drive. ). They would come round and demand we move the car. If we ignored them they would park their car right up to our bumper so we would have to move both cars to get out. Absolute twats .

Thankfully we get on fine with new neighbours

Strange neighbours when we moved in very rural so high walls they'd Jerry built out of bricks, brieze blocks bits of wood. None of it painted or in any way protected from the weather. We decided to put a hedge in 50 plants we laboured planting. They all died we reckoned he poisoned them. So we just painted the lot, brick, brieze block and wood cream.

We also found our electricity bills crazy high. We argued about it. One day we turned everything off including fridges freezers, still the meter ticked away. So husband went down to the road to check the electricity pole. Found someone had spliced into our supply. Yep you've guessed it the neighbours. So phoned the electricity board. Who came out and fixed it. Our bills dropped by more than half.

Oh yes, I remember this! I think the OP was a trainee solicitor.

@MissConductUS - The problem with that is that for the last 50 years plus he's never bothered. He moved in the house from brand new as the rest of the estate was being built. The substation had been installed a month or so before especially for the new estate, so he knew where it was and exactly how long it had been there. He's just taken exception to it this week 😲 now the electric company are looking at rerouting the cable in case he takes it upon himself to disconnect it again!

@BMW6

You'd think so, but apparently not at this point! Video evidence has been forwarded so let's hope something comes of it

First place I lived in had an obnoxious entitled woman living next door.
Her alarm clock radio woke me the first morning I was there at 4.30am with a screeching buzzing noise followed by crappy music, it was like it was in my room with me.
I put up with it for a week and then knocked in and politely let her know that it was really loud and was waking me, she informed me that she was in work at 6 so it had to go off at that time, so I asked could she not lower the volume and hit the off button when it woke her only to be informed that it wasn't beside her, it was the opposite side of the room (against my wall!!), she needed it loud and needed it to stay on to ensure she woke in time, then slammed the door on me.
I was away that w/e so I turned my radio on full volume, up against her wall upstairs and the tv the same up against her living room wall. That sorted the alarm.
She then took to allowing and encouraging her dog to shit in my garden and leave it there. Neighbour across the road informed me but asked me not to say she told me as she was afraid of her, poor woman was in her 70's.
I knocked in again and not so politely told her to stop allowing him to shit there and wherever he shat she was to pick it up as it was disgusting. She told me to fuck of that it wasn't her dog doing it.
I picked up the next pile and posted it through her letterbox. It was a warm sunny day and the sun is on the front for the first 4/5 hours of the day. That sorted the dog shit problem.
We had huge big back gardens and I was getting a wall built between us for part of it (patio area running from the back down approx 20ft) I asked her if she wanted to contribute to the cost, knowing full well she wouldn't, was again told to fuck off. So I went ahead and built the wall with all the ugly pillar support thingys on her side, she went mad and told me she didn't want them and to fix it so that it was nicer to look at. Told her no as she didn't contribute, so I got to have that as I paid for it. She told me she was taking legal action and would make me take it all down. Never heard from her legal team🙄

Previous neighbours in our current house one side complained to our landlord that our "brand new" roof was dropping muck and cement on her conservatory, inspector came out and politely pointed out her roof was falling to bits, covered in moss and the muck was coming from there not ours. Then notices they'd illegally attached Thier guttering to ours when building conservatory as they had built over the drain. Then kicked off when landlord asked them to remove it. Then when our landlord asked to point the shared chimney stack "at our landlords cost free of charge for her" she ignored them for 3 month so they only did our side, then she complained they had t give her time to respond. She also claimed the hedge at back of property was hers despite building control confirming it was within our boundary, yet when it was pointed out it was tipping into our garden due to whoever planted it taking out retaining wall that held land back "before we moved in" she didn't want to deal with it. Thankfully she sold up and we now have lovely neighbours and their landlord has worked with ours to sort out the hedge a d we now have the land held back and a neat fence.

We also had one complain our radiator was banging and sounded too loud, she reported the repair on our behalf but when plumber came he pointed out it was literally a hushed hissing noise and slight click as heating came on and pointed out she must be sitting by her walk with a glass. She also complained that our TV was too loud all the time, despite hubby watching TV on silent with subtitles due to him being partially deaf and me never been much of a TV person. Hubby lived in that home first and when I moved in she clearly didn't like me, for some reason had thought I was his carer or something at first. She was envisioning Xbox nights with him. Not that I'd have cared if she genuinely wanted to play games but once she realised we were together she made it clear she hated me. She literally moved furniture at night and often fell due to epileptic seizures. Posty knocked on my door as he was aware she was on floor fitting on day and as she was coming round we tried to talk to her through the letterbox while we awaited paramedics "called by pisty" and she complained that I'd encouraged a man to look through her door at her. Thankfully posty made t clear it was him who had rang paramedics and asked for my help, next time I won't bother. We applied for permission to install a 6 foot fence round our back garden due to keeping hens and landlord granted it on condition it was either returned to the height it had been "3ft" or left 6ft and in a good condition when we left. She then decided to do the same attaching her fence to ours, just as we decided to move. So we cut down the 6ft fence all round and returned it to a 3ft fence in better condition than before but we had last laugh as she sat watching out of her window screaming down the phone at the landlord that she was now going to have one side lower than the rest. But couldn't do anything about it. Karma was a bitch and it felt great. Thankfully landlord knew who was the one causing the problems and only helped us get somewhere better by agreeing with her that the house wasn't suitable for 2 people as it was a 1 bedroom "despite it being a huge double bedroom" so pushed us up the list for overcrowding. She even rang our housing officer once on his mobile while he was in or house, telling him that we were drilling and hammering all day, as he is stood there listening to the noise coming from her house not ours and when they went to visit her they even found random holes drilled into the bathroom wall. She was just pure nuts.

We lived in the end house of 3 terraced townhouses. We were very proud of our little house and put up very full hanging baskets. The plants in the basket adjacent to the neighbour had the temerity to grow out into her air space. So she cut a beautifully straight line up through the flowers and foliage making the basket (and her) look quite weird. She also told us off for the run off from our lawn which drained onto her concrete drive - as it would make the weeds grow!

The house adjoining ours is privately rented. We've lived here 22 years and in that time we've probably had nearly as many neighbours (and there have been periods where it has been empty - my favourite!). In the past we have had:
The man who would lock his gf in the house when he went out.
The young woman who was a screamer. She enjoyed 'afternoon delight', and I had to inform her we could hear her because the kids were little and we're asking questions!
The religious family - very pleasant until he beat and kicked her to a pulp in the front garden and then ran away (because he knew I'd called the police/ambulance).
The drug dealer whose staffies would jump the fence and growl at me in my own garden. He was also a wife beater and they moved out after he put her in hospital.
The delightful woman with feral children. The kids would shout abuse at my kids whenever in the garden, climbed over the fence and stole toys out of our garden and positioned their swing so that they could kick the fence down. Mum liked having parties and would have music playing all night until around 6am.
The people who got a greyhound and left it outside all the time, without shelter.
Since it's been used to house people who are new to the country, it has been much better (although the current family are quite loud). If the house ever goes on the market, we'll buy it!

Another one! When we were first married we lived in a bed sit in a large northern city. One Sunday night people in the next room were having a party and only played one record 'I who have nothing' over and over and over again. The party went on into the night, despite us asking to turn it down as we had work the next day. Down it went for a minute of two then up it went again. The arms of Morpheus finally claimed us about 2hrs before we had to get up.
Next morning while they were sleeping in, DH turned our Hi fi speakers ( with gazillions of watts per channel) round and put the 1812 overture on at night club level. A lady across the road said she thought it was some kind of explosion and she nearly fell out of bed. That was the end of that problem!

I entered my newly decorated bathroom after hearing a crash to find, the ceiling down with water running onto the floor. My neighbour said it wasn’t her. Finally got her to accept it was and turn off the water.
It took months for the insurance find people to repair it only for it to happen again. I tore up stairs to have her turn off her water. She said it wasn’t her. Firstly she blamed another on the opposite side of the building and then she turned on me and said it was my water coming from someplace in my flat working its way up and then pouring down in my bathroom.

I would have loved to witness your cat leaping into my garden dressed up! I would have pissed myself laughing!😂

Surely that’s a nice thing ?

Let's see...ONE neighbor, over the course of a few years:

Now, I lived in an upstairs apartment. My downstairs neighbor decided she didn't like me (or anyone else, not unexpected). She wrote letters of complaint to the management that I...1) Walked around late at night (I'm a day sleeper, but until then was making sure that I had everything I needed from my bedroom, which was directly above hers, before 10 PM), 2) washed dishes too late at night, 3) took showers and baths too late at night, and 4) sat down on my toilet too hard! I made the mistake of listening to meditation music, and she told the neighbors that I "worshiped Dungeon and Dragons, and threw Satan parties," and to not let me near their pets. Additionally, she tried to pay two of the neighbors NOT to help me bring groceries in, which would have left me making several trips up the stairs with shopping bags AND a walker. THAT one was the one that got her a letter from management stating that this is now harassment, and to cease and desist. They also immediately moved me to a downstairs apartment, well away from her. LOL, the new apartment was a two-bedroom, for the same rent, and she was LIVID.

She died about three years ago, and I understand that her children did not even claim the body, and she was given a pauper's burial. I really hated that, even for her, but she treated her kids worse than she treated her neighbors. I did hear that her little dog went to a good and loving home, so that was the happy ending.

Some of these neighbours!

Some years ago now - next door-but-one were drug dealers and weed growers. They terrorised the whole street, made everyone's lives a misery (including my next door neighbour, an elderly lady). They'd been reported to the police multiple times with no action taken. One night, my elderly neighbour came to my door as the troublemakers were fighting with a rival gang. While I was on the phone to the police (again!), the battle spilled out into the street. Baseball bats, furniture, all sorts of things were being used as weapons. One bloke ran out in nothing but his underpants and threw a kids bike at the opposition. Fortunately the cavalry arrived in the shape of the local police and arrested the lot.

Oh, how may I count the ways:

1. Address 1: Total psycho upstairs flooded my flat four times in two years with mains pressure water by disconnecting plumbing pipes because she thought she should have been offered my GF flat when the previous tenant passed away. I was moved as my flat was in disrepair due to this;

2. Address 2: Total psycho bent copper two doors down used to 'patrol' the grounds, peering through windows and verbally abusing people, carrying her warrant badge in her pocket and coming on duty in order to arrest people who retaliated back. Jumped me in a dark alley next to my home one night and made a false 999 call claiming I was attacking her, luckily I had it all on video. I moved to get away from her insane stalking. She was subsequently sacked from force;

3. Address 3: Oppo neighbour on same corridor was having three to four day raves with a massive speaker the size of a double bed in his front room. For fun the guests were throwing bottles into the street to smash on the pavement. My whole flat was shaking. He had a compulsory purchase put on his flat and I was moved;

4. Current address: Oppo neighbour on same corridor and her violent bloke 'bottled' someone in the corridor over an argument about £13. Police did abs nothing in the face of overwhelming evidence plus CCTV on our whole building. I have been asked to move by my HA but have refused.

Lived on an estate which had a "residents association".

Our NDN reported us to the residents association for running a laundry business.

We weren't, my friend bought her kids school uniform round and I washed and dried it as her washing machine had broke.

I had a woman come out and check I didn't have an industrial sized washing machine and tumble dryer.

He banged on my door one morning to complain that my cat kept drinking out of his bird bath.

He told my Husband he saw men coming and going in taxis when DH was at work and I was WFH.

He was an odd man and he had no family or friends. Despite all of the complaints about us (we were a normal couple, never played loud music, rarely had anyone over etc) we always asked if he would like to spend Christmas with us, I'd knock on his door and ask if he needed anything from the shop or pharmacy if we had snow etc. he'd always say no. I realised I hadn't seen him for about a week (this was strange as he was always walking around the car park writing down peoples number plates to check they were taxed) and knocked on his door and no answer. I called 101 and asked for a welfare check and he was found dead on his bedroom floor.

I have a mystery bin putter outer. I’ve no idea who it is but it saves me a job on a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. I’ve been here 5 years and never got to the bottom of it, but long may it continue.

My old neighbour did this too! Efficient.

We get on really well with our neighbours, regularly take in parcels for each other, we even had them round for tea when we first moved in. However, if I ever walk past them in the street they completely ignore me. At first I thought they didn't recognise me, then I worried I'd done something to upset them but now I think they're just quite awkward. I've stopped saying hello now as they never respond so we just walk past each other in silence. So weird!