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Waitingforwaiter · 2023-11-30T09:36:36+00:00

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?

saoirse31 · 02/12/2023 03:43

I kind of like Cornthecobs neighbour, proclaiming 'seek and ye shall find' at midnight in her front garden!!!

WiddlinDiddlin · 02/12/2023 04:14

My sister has reminded me...

Mrs 'you stole my (imaginary) skirting boards' in North Wales...

Also built a 9ft fence out of scrap wood, pallets, doors etc, claiming we were spying on her.

This was on the boundary line between her property and ours though ours was a good two foot lower down than hers, so in fact the existing 4ft fence her side was so high our side we couldn't see her any but....

Even if we had wanted to, on our side this area was a covered lean-to, which we used to store firewood. At the time of moving in it was early summer and we'd used all the wood so the area looked open. By the time she had finished her Great Wall of Crap, we'd cut, split and brought over several tons of firewood which was then stacked in there... providing a solid wall 5ft deep to the top of the lean-to roof - we couldn't have seen her, even a mouse would have struggled! Total waste of her time, which if she'd listened, she'd have realised.

Speaking of great walls... where my dad now lives is a barn conversion, his immediate neighbours lived in what was the farm house (not now, they burned it down a few years ago but thats another story).

The two properties were split by a boundary wall belonging to them, that took a dead straight line from a pigsty one side to the cowshed the other, and ran for some 40ft

Between buying the property and moving in, we went on holiday.

When we came back, the wall had mysteriously moved 6ft into our side, but dog legged back to theirs at the cowshed end and pigsty end or it would have blocked the cowshed window and pigsty door!

They tried to pretend it had always been like that but.... the cowshed window couldn't open, you could SEE the line of the old wall on the ground their side where they had just taken it down to ground level, and the the mortar was still wet!

Two days of arguing ensued then my dad got somewhat pissed and using a borrowed a small hefty dumper truck, pushed the wall over back into their side, they hadn't even put in foundations, so it all just toppled over.

They were not happy, but seemingly decided they had met their match and rebuilt it where it originally was and never spoke to us again!

VoluptuaSneezelips · 02/12/2023 05:14

Oh your going to love this one, not my neighbour but an ex boyfriend from many years back had a neighbour who was a contemporary artist. The guy nailed a cooker to the side of his house and buried a car upright in the front garden. I've included some newspaper clips from the guys website for your entertainment, feel free to laugh marvel at the works of art.

Unreasonable batshit neighbours - what have yours done?

Whatonearthdidicomeinherefor · 02/12/2023 09:28

Ozgirl75 · 30/11/2023 09:52

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.

I instantly had the father in 'Better call Saul' pop into my head after reading this! 😂

Whatonearthdidicomeinherefor · 02/12/2023 09:47

Years ago I rented a cottage in a small Essex village. The (very creepy) landlord was the local farmer. He would often just turn up and let himself in. One day I was sitting in the bath when I heard him coming up the stairs. I was terrified and froze (no lock on bathroom door). Fortunately I heard him go back down and leave. My boyfriend put bolts on the outside doors after that.

Whatonearthdidicomeinherefor · 02/12/2023 10:00

Justwingingit2005 · 30/11/2023 13:09

We live in a built up area with standard size gardens. Our old old neighbours had a horse. The stabling was expensive so they decided a normal residential garden was ok.
It lasted 2 days. When her horse was biting all her washing off the line, she gave up.

😂😂😂

Pippin2028 · 02/12/2023 10:10

A relative of mine got quite obsessive about her neighbours, they lived in an apartment block in a seaside town so these neighbours owned 2 apartments in the block they used for themselves and holiday let's. The neighbours weren't the freindliest but they didn't cause any issues either but my relative got obsessive about how they were rude to her and she used to take all the junk mail and put it in their letterbox, than when she wanted to sell her flat, a buyer did pull out (it's one of those things thats shit but happens) and she was convinced that these neighbours were the potential buyers who did it to mess with her. She than tried to get other neighbours involved but they weren't interested and she got mad about that. People can be complex 😂

Whatonearthdidicomeinherefor · 02/12/2023 10:20

AngryBirdsNoMore · 30/11/2023 14:39

I realise that in the past I may have been in the batshit neighbour house.

One housemate taught sword fighting (for LARPers mostly). Another said she was a white witch. I was a recent graduate who had moved in in a hurry and didn’t know either beforehand. They were both really very nice, it was a great house to live in in many ways and the landlady charged super low rent in order to get long term tenants who she liked and who paid on time.

Front door lock broke. House was in a WELL dodgy area.

Normal course of action? Get a locksmith or ask landlord to get a locksmith.

My housemates’ course of action? Stand in front of the house in full armour (yep) with a longsword (yep yep) for several hours in the middle of the day, several days in a row, loudly and menacingly practicing manoeuvres.

In hindsight it’s amazing he wasn’t reported to the police. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t lived it.

But to be fair, no one ever broke in, and it was months before we got the lock replaced…

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Some of the other posters on here could have used your housemate's services 😂

rainbowstardrops · 02/12/2023 11:03

We'd been in our house for about 10 years or so when a middle aged couple a bit older than us, moved in after our lovely old neighbour died.
Everything was fine at first but as time went on, it was clear that they were a little odd and quirky, especially the man.
Whenever it snowed, he'd be out there shovelling the snow off his driveway and instead of shovelling it onto the lawned part of his garden, he'd shovel great big mounds of it onto my lawn! Funnily enough, the kids had a strong desire to play in the snow (they could have played in the back garden) and oops, most of the snow ended up back on his driveway!

We're end terrace and their porch sticks out a little bit further than the front of our house. In the corner of our garden and by our window, we have a lovely, quite tall, rose bush. we came home one day and they'd pulled the branches of it round the edge of their porch wall so that all the roses were then in there porchway. They'd even attached it to their porch wall! Well DH was straight out there and reinstated our lovely rose!

Another tjme, we had to get a company in to take down a diseased tree at the bottom of our back garden. DH asked if the tree bloke could come into their garden to collect the branches and tidy it all up from their side (they have a side alley with a gate to their garden. He refused. We thought it was a bit odd because even though he was a bit weird, we'd always been pleasant and chatted and said hello etc. We have a blackberry bush running the length of our back garden and when we came home, he'd butchered it and cut a few feet of it away FROM OUR SIDE, so that the tree bloke could climb over the low metal fence that the blackberry bush covered!!!

We were still pleasant (but bloody fumjng) and then back in the summer, a removal lorry turned up and off they went! DH had only stood chatting to him out the front a couple of days before and he hadn't breathed a word that they were moving! Batshit bloke.

TootOnTheBends · 02/12/2023 12:29

@anxiouus did he ever take you up on your Christmas offer?

TootOnTheBends · 02/12/2023 12:31

@seenisambol I’m wondering if face blindness could be a possibility? People who have it may not even recognise people they know well if they aren’t in their usual environment.

Clarinet1 · 02/12/2023 13:20

Re - the Hungarian lady with the tin foil-lined house and the hats, if she has lived through the communist era and, possibly, Nazi occupation, it’s quite likely this would have affected her mental health.
I’ll also add one of my own - in a previous flat I had an upstairs neighbour who confided in my DM that he was transitioning and certainly dressed the part. Next thing I know, he’s in my living room at 9am on a Sunday morning while I’m still in my pyjamas and dressing gown begging for a relationship with me (I’m female and considerably older than he was)!!!!

Pudmyboy · 02/12/2023 13:31

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.

Bloody hell! So lucky he wasn't electrocuted!! Hopefully he will get a hefty fine for the deliberate damage he has done.
Hope you and the remaining 499 houses have got your power back on!

Pudmyboy · 02/12/2023 13:52

They put there Christmas decorations up, before Halloween.
You win, worst neighbours ever! 😂

Pudmyboy · 02/12/2023 13:54

justasking111 · 01/12/2023 22:16

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.

😧a tiny bit illegal! I hope the electricity company has gone after them!

Emotionalsupportviper · 02/12/2023 14:22

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.

I hope the bugger gets charged for all repairs to the cables and any damage to other properties!

What a stupid sod!

Emotionalsupportviper · 02/12/2023 14:28

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.

Like Stephen King's Village of the damned.

Or the Midwich Cuckoos

Emotionalsupportviper · 02/12/2023 14:30

TheUltima · 01/12/2023 20:39

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

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I know!

Like any self-respecting goblin would be seen dead in a Hawiian shirt.

Lillythepussy · 02/12/2023 15:05

I have lived in this house for 11 years and my neighbours are absolutely horrible. I’m waiting for my children to,be finished with school so I can move.
it started with neighbours wanting to park on my drive. Obviously I didn’t allow them to, and a huge arguement started. Then they wanted to park in front of my drive, refused to open their doors to move their cars, so I rang the local authority and each time they blocked access to my drive they were fined,this has been going on for years. I now park in front of my drive to stop them blocking me in. There is a bit of road between my drive and neighbours to the right of me, that they have “claimed” to park. If I park there they come out and scowl at me.
Word has now spread to people around the corner, who all come and park right up to the edge of my drive whenever possible. One woman who parked half way across my drive and was fined, came to my house to complain, asked for “that woman who lives upstairs”, seemed taken aback when I told her that it was me and I live in the entire house. She insisted that I wasn’t the woman with the “two disabled kids”, referring to my two autistic sons. I think she expected me to be more mousey and weak, instead I was outside with one of my German shepherds. She actually tried to convince me that she was my neighbour and that I should be kinder and let people park there!
these neighbours have tried to stop my sons local authority transport to special school parking at my house to pick them up, they have complained endlessly about my extremely well trained dogs, stolen my packages, crashed into my parked car, thrown kit cigarettes into my garden, thrown rocks at my children, followed me and filmed me, put their rubbish in my bins, stolen plants from my garden, broken down my fence to gain entry. I now have extensive cctv, so they put hoodies up when they want to harass me
sometimes I laugh at their stupidity, but mostly it depresses me, and definitely affects how I live my life

BG2015 · 02/12/2023 15:08

@Lillythepussy that's truly awful. Why are people so horrible?
I bet you can't wait to move.

CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau · 02/12/2023 15:41

Rude @Emotionalsupportviper! Some goblins suffer with low self-esteem and might struggle with self-care :(

Beastieboys · 02/12/2023 15:46

My neighbours appeared to be nice and friendly initially and to be fair he was but she was a loony! She first reported us for removing a listed fire place which was infact a piece of old wood hammered to the wall with 2 nails ,she had stood on our wall to peer over net curtains to check.
Then when they were "in funds" they would choose so called heritage builders to do jobs give them the keys and bugger off for months then come to me and would come to me to complain about shoddy work and the facts that "things had gone missing" then she would avoid paying them.
She once went on holiday and hired a cat sitter who she told she could stay in the house and later on 11pm ish she phoned me to say she had decided that she didn't like the sound of her now and would I go round and kick her out!.
I used to have a key to feed the cat but she demanded it back because I wouldn't give her one of mine ( my daughter lived at home so didn't feel the need to dish out keys)
There were many many other incidents that were so bizarre I could write a book .

catotangent · 02/12/2023 16:39

The goblin cat is hilarious

Emotionalsupportviper · 02/12/2023 16:53

CeciledeVolangesdeNouveau · 02/12/2023 15:41

Rude @Emotionalsupportviper! Some goblins suffer with low self-esteem and might struggle with self-care :(

Nah!

Goblins are narcissists to a folklore-ish creature, and pride themselves on looking dapper. (Or at least as dapper as being small, squat and grotesque with leathery skin will allow*)

98% of spats sold worldwide today are destined for the goblin market. (The other 2% are commissioned by the Royal Regiment of Scotland (formerly the Scots Guards)).

You are probably thinking of trolls, a widely misunderstood creature with a reputation for nastiness that belies their gentle, unassuming nature.

*They buy a lot of Skin-So-Soft, too. Without them and the SAS, Avon would have gone into receivership in the 1950s. Fact.

Glasgowgal200 · 02/12/2023 20:57

Report them to police - that's harassment