Unreasonable batshit neighbours - what have yours done?

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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?

Aw that's really nice.

My neighbour was a lovely man but unfortunately not always so happy. He'd get very distressed quite frequently after being convinced he'd lost a pound coin. I could hear all of it and it was a bit heartbreaking. So I'd love to see him dressed up as Father Christmas because it meant he was having a good day.

A reclusive hoarder. When I bought my flat next door, I didn't notice that her net curtains were brown and there wear dead flies on the windowsill. Came home one evening and bailiffs were trying to get her to answer the door. I was told by various people that her flat was full of junk but only spoke to her on one occasion, when she was fixated on her post going astray and asked if I'd got any of it.

Stole loads of wood from our woodshed and totally denied having done it, even when we could clearly see pieces of our wood (which my DH had felled and cut up himself) in his shed, and other neighbours had seen him in our garden with a wheelbarrow. (We now have security cameras up and it's stopped happening).

Before I moved I had a batshit older couple on one side, and their daughter on the other side in a terraced row. I feel like they had it out for me because I was in the middle of them for some reason. They had 7 dogs between them and never used leashes, and their small yapping dogs would always be running around outside the houses because they felt like they owned the space. My dog was bitten by one of them while we were walking and picked it up and shook it and after that (their dog was fine, offered to pay vet bills but they didn't take it) I got none stop noise complaints despite my dogs never being left alone (I'd drop them off with my parents when I went anywhere) and police visits about loud music a few times before they were written off as malicious (I've never had a party at my house in my life).
The final straw was them threatening my dogs because their cats would come in my garden and my dogs would chase them off. I'd been listening to the daughter's dog barking for 4h a day when she left it, and the parent's hoard of dogs barking all throughout the day for years and put in my own noise complaint and they got a noise abatement order. It was very satisfying and they stopped the bullying behaviour after that, I moved not long after for other reasons.

Possibly derailing the thread but I've always been quite proud of our neighborhood despite all the new people (lived here 31 years). An elderly couple had a son with mental capacity issues, mental age of about 8 years old. After they passed the neighborhood went to local businesses and got them to hire him as a janitor so he had an income to pay for food, clothes, house taxes, etc and he can walk to work. Despite numerous changes to local business they have always ensured the next business kept him hired on. Every 10 years there is a neighborhood party to paint and perform repairs on the house and do a bit of landscaping. The rest of the time they keep an eye out for any issues but let him live his life in contentment - he loves decorating the house and yard for Christmas, very juvenile looking, but he loves it. 30 plus years now and with lots of different folks involved due to moving in and out, it still all gets done. I love seeing him walk to work, he has aged but still looks like a happy kid every single day.

A girl 3 doors down from my parents house had a note on her door last year around Christmas if not in leave parcels in my folks address wrote on it, this was without even asking my parents was it OK, my mum has copd so running to door was not good for her, she wouldn't even talk to you any other time.

On an electrical theme, when we moved into our house I found a normal extension lead outside under the BBQ unit. The wire went through the wall, and rather that being plugged in had been wired to the bathroom light switch.

nextdoornightmares: Complained our kids bubbles floated into their garden. This was my favourite.

I can imagine.

"Those bubbles suddenly floating over our fence, nearly give me a heart attack they did. My wife had an accident in her knickers. Your kids'll end up in Broadmoor, the way they're going."

My neighbours jump on their trampoline , at 1am and once with their child.They sit in the garden in summer talking until the early morning loudly.
I have asked a few times, if they can be quieter.

I am just going to get ear plugs for summer.They can't help themselves they are just really loud people.They come from southern europe where they stay up late in summer.

I am lucky I don't live in a flat or have an wall in common.

I live close to a train station so our street is busy with commuters cars parked along it. I'm a wheelchair user as I have MS. I have a specially adapted disability car which enables me to still work of which I'm extremely grateful. Trouble is I'm usually unable to park close by my house and I often need my dh to help me out the car by the end of the day. So I applied to our council for a disabled bay to be painted outside my house. It was granted and it was painted in. My next door neighbour who has a two car drive likes to park in it. They have a blue badge displayed. My dh knocked on to find out why they were now parking in the space instead of their drive. And they replied "because we can". And as they have a blue badge there's nothing we can do about it. It's pure nastiness and spite. We have no idea why, no cross words or problems.

One of mine spends lots of hours lawn mowering the road and gutter outside his house. I assume to pick up leaves. This is whilst dozens more leaves are falling down all around him.
It’s quite a sight to watch

Not my neighbours, but years ago when my nan lived in a GF maisonette, the people upstairs used to let their kid piss off the balcony into my nans garden! They were like the Slobs from Harry Enfield.

Lived next to an old man with Diogenes Syndrome (think it's called that). He hoarded rubbish, flat was full of black binliners, containing rotten food, and he had suits hanging up everywhere, even though he only ever wore an ancient raincoat covered in pigeon crap. Newspapers too - he used to forage through everyone's bin after dark. He had no working toilet or heating and the newspapers were for wrapping his, um, stuff in. Neighbours said he had been a very dapper well-dressed man when young. Really sad in a way.

We have fence panels our responsibility/ownership. We want to replace them all because they're rotten. They're rotten because they're covered in ivy which next door insist gives them privacy. Trouble is the roots are lifting our paving slabs path, whereas their property is a good ten feet from the fence. We've replaced, painted the rest of the fencing it's just these two crappy old panels left now. One collapsed in a storm OH reinforced the post. We'd just moved in. I wish now that he'd let it fall

That is so sweet, what a wonderful community of caring people you live among!

edit to say this is to SOBplus

We lived two doors down from a pyromaniac (and quite possibly an arsonist, I suspect)… if he wasn’t burning a bonfire, he was building one.

Chatting the neighbour between us one day, she mentioned that he would frequently knock and ask for things to go on the bonfire. On one occasion, she said she’d only got a couple of old telephone directories, which were too thick, and wouldn’t burn. Apparently he looked at her and said ‘everything burns.’ <shudder>

On another occasion, I saw him in their garden with another neighbour, who always wore a long flowing robe, presumably for cultural or religious reasons. Anyway, they’re watching the bonfire, which is not playing ball, next thing, batshit pyro neighbour goes off and returns with a can of petrol, which he proceeds to throw onto the lit bonfire. While man in long robe is standing by it. Quite how the pair of them didn’t each go up like a Roman candle is beyond me.

Had a batshit neighbour who used to go through the communal recycling bins for our block of 8 flats. He spent hours fishing out things that were in the wrong bin and worked out who might have disposed of said item and then went round to that person's flat and started screaming and yelling.
I went absolutely ballistic the day he turned up at my door with a small bag containing used sanitary towels wrapped in the plastic wrappings (yes, they were mine) and started shouting at me saying plastic goes in the plastic bin. Er... no it doesn't.. not that kind of plastic. The sanitary towels were sealed inside two plastic bags and he'd opened both bags to check what was inside. I told him he was a dirty creep going through people's bins and fishing out sanitary towels and if he ever showed up at my door again with anything out of the bins I'd be reporting him. (To whom, I have no idea... but the threat seemed to do the trick)
Fortunately his wife kicked him out and no one has had any more bother about the bins.
He screamed at another neighbour about a cigarette packet which was found in the general rubbish. Another neighbour got it in the neck for disposing of an envelope with a plastic window in the paper bin. They should have cut out the plastic and put that in the plastic and the paper in the paper bin. Apparently.

The batshit woman next door feeds random cats in the stairwell even though the random cats have homes. The cats piss everywhere and my cats have both had cold recently. Never had colds before. Pretty sure it's because of the random cats hanging around. She's also batshit in other ways too - too many to mention here.

The other batshit neighbours erected a bloody great radio antennae on the roof without asking anyone and then threatened us with all sorts when we all said we objected and it had to be removed. It's gone now. Thank fuck.

Mine are just awful - they have reported many neighbours for many things to the police, council etc etc

To me - they've bumped my car trying to park as closely as possible, dumped rubbish on my doorstep, moved stuff I've put out for collection, shouted at me, called me names, bath mouthed me to other neighbours, contacted where I work to say I'm aggressive & intimidating........none of which is true

They've also reported neighbours for antisocial behaviour as their kids were out playing, threatened Tesco delivery people, someone stopped in their allocated space to stop something off and they came at them with a hammer til they moved, sent me messages telling me I had to let their visitors use my parking space, threatened an elderly lady as leaves from her trees dropped in their garden......I could go on

The director of our resident company has had to contact the police numerous times as they harass him

Oh good they sound like mine!! Does it get to you? Mine are making me feel so anxious every time I leave home or come home.......luckily my other neighbours tell me it's them not me and no one else has any issues with me and that I should report them for harassment

Neighbour a few doors down pinched our bin.
We have a large green bin, which you have to pay for from the council. Most people don't bother and just use a little caddy bin.
About a year ago, the bin disappeared. It had our number painted on it, and also had some blobs of fence paint on the top from when I had a DIY mishap, so it was pretty distinctive.
Walked up and down our street and the neighbouring ones looking for it. No sign.
Ordered and paid for a new one.
Then about 3 weeks later I spotted a bin that looked like mine in the neighbours front yard... Same fence paint blobs, except they'd sanded the number off it; you could see it in various lights. Absolute jokers.
I did knock on a few times but never got hold of them and then decided against challenging them as they're rough af and I'm a wuss.
All for the sake of a tenner.

My neighbour has let her property run down to the point of ruin. It has reached the point where it will affect my house and I may have to take legal action soon due to damp and disrepair affecting our shared roof. She leaves the back window in the kitchen open all the time to let her cats in. Doesn't seem bothered by heat loss. I heard shrieking last year when the neighbour the other side ran out of the property. Shrieking neighbour later confessed a rat had run over her foot while they were having a cuppa and it freaked her out. Thinking this might be a one-off, I had a cuppa in there recently and was greeted by a large field mouse who run over my foot. The house seems riddled with them from the smell, and neighbour is not bothered one bit. She refuses to do anything but pick them up and leave them at the front door...

Texted my EXH with details of people/ cars and times they visit my house….

Not batshit crazy but quite petty...

DH and friend spend the day installing some lovely decking with built in lights, she spent the whole day hanging out the window watching them and commenting. Literally the next day I was so excited to have the decking lights come on the garden (early 20's first year in our house) and she had installed a flood light high on the house that completely illuminated both gardens like it was day time 😆

Very funny looking back but at the time I was quite upset 😂

It does make me feel uncomfortable but I just pretend they don't exist. I will completely blank them if they're outside when I'm getting into/out of my car or if I pass them on a walk etc. I used to politely say a curt "hi" but the final nail in the coffin is when they witnessed my 3 year old leave my front garden and go off down the street (yes I'm aware this was my fault for being pre-occupied with my other 2 toddlers before anybody comes for me) and just went back in their house and didn't bother coming to let me know. Obviously I realised very quickly he was off but that's not the point. No matter how you feel about a child's parents, you don't just turn a blind eye to something like that happening. The least they could have done was come round. It doesn't bloody stop them any other time!