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?

And I thought our former neighbours were batshit. They are nothing compared to some of these. My favourite is ripping up our hedge whilst out and putting up a wooden panelling fence. Then accusing us of letting ‘your rain make them wet’! My DSis was their at the time and shouted it’s called rain!

😱WTF???

“Complained our kids bubbles floated into their garden. This was my favourite”
Mine too 😀

About this time last year I paid €2.5k to have my garden "cleared". It had become overgrown, as I have worked away a lot since 2010. When I am at home it is usually to do washing and ironing, these days. If I can, i.e. it is not raining, I do mow the grass.
The understanding with the gardening people was that they would come back and do more stuff. Ha Ha.
I have been away a lot this year, too. Whilst I was away in September, someone (probably neighbour as they are very "strange" about things contaminating their garden, i.e. weeds) came and cut back a load of stuff right by their fence.
I was somewhat taken aback, when I first saw it, nobody has spoken to me about it, but OK, if it disturbed them, fine.
Thing is, we live in a rural village and immediately behind us are fields. There are loads of birds, so they are going to get "stuff" in their garden that is really nothing to do with me at all.
I actually do not care these days as they got a big benefit from me paying €5k to have a tree cut down (it was old and diseased and I needed permission) in 2019.

Neighbours opposite took in a parcel for me a few weeks ago. I got back late on a Friday to the note. Knocked Saturday lunchtime ish-both their cars in their drive, used ring doorbell-no answer. Looked through their sitting room window as I walked back to my own house-they're both sitting there!
Next day, knocked again. Both cars in drive although this time I couldn't see anyone. Knocked again, no answer.

Monday. I'm out, dog walker who they're very familiar with comes round. I asked him to ask them for it if he sees them. He does. They give him parcel and say that they've 'Been waiting for me all week'-All week? It's Monday and the bloody thing only arrived on Friday-I'd tried every day since! And that they 'Weren't happy that I'd kept them waiting'.
I went over to apologise and explain-guess what no answer. So I put a note through their door saying I'd knocked twice, and that they were welcome to never take anything in for me again if they'd rather not.

I'll still take in for them though, because I am not a complete arsehole.

I had this problem with our old neighbour. DH and I are disabled and have an assisted bin collection - binmen take them from where they’re stored, empty and then put them back. NDN had been there a long time before we moved in and decided without asking that he would start to put them out for us before he went to work. I told him it was kind of him but asked him to stop several times, explaining that we had an assisted collection. He just ignored us and carried on - only problem was, he wasn’t there to put them back, so the binmen continued to replace them after they were emptied.

That stopped after a couple of weeks when word got back to the council, and we got a letter saying the assisted collection would stop as it clearly wasn’t needed, so we we’re left with immovable bins at the end of the drive every week and had to rely on neighbours to move them until we could sort it out with the council. When collection resumed we had to resort to locking the bins behind the gate and only unlocking them after he had left for work. Never could fathom out why he wouldn’t just stop when we asked him.

This was a few years ago, but still gets mentioned by our (very good ) neighbours.
One of the families that backed on to our row of houses decided to have a party in their garden. They borrowed the karaoke system from the nearby pub, along with a sound system that resembled the skyline of New York.
None of our neighbours knew anything about it until 12:00 on a Saturday in July, a wall of sound slammed into our houses. I'm not kidding, it was front row at the Pyramid Stage levels of loud.
I did what the other neighbours did – looked out of the window, saw that the party was almost entirely populated by the Weatherspoons heavy infantry and went “Nope, I'll just ride it out”.
Trying to find one that could talk would have been a miracle in itself...
This went on till 12 midnight. Various neighbours rang the police, but no one came, quite frankly I think there would have been a riot if they had.
To give an idea of the noise level, I was on the PC with headphones, playing loud music and I could hear the party music over mine.
Me old mum, who lived with us at the time scarpered to her cousin's for the afternoon. She returned at 5ish and the she and the taxi driver could hear the music as they came back via the opposite end of the village (it's one of those villages that has been swallowed by the nearby expanding town).
As I said, it went on till midnight, or rather the music stopped. They then sat in the garden talking till 2am. I say talking, but it was more like shouting to each other at the top of their lungs About the Ludicrous display last night and what was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
The next morning, they emerged, only to get a right telling off from a lot of parents with young sleep deprived kids.
They were genuinely shocked that they weren't seen as the coolest family on the block. Luckily they moved a couple of months later.

Downstairs neighbour recently complained the noise of my washing machine was too noisy.
After nearly twenty years of them having various soap theme tunes blaring on repeat at random times of the morning.

Lived in a house flat where post was put through a communal front door. Had a dodgy AF upstairs neighbour who would sell her own Mum for some cigarettes. Found months worth of my post stuffed behind pipes in the utility communal cupboard, including opened birthday cards. It also explained where all the DVDs from my subscription to Love Film (back when they used to post you out the actual DVD!) had gone, and things I'd ordered from Amazon and that I had been complaining to Royal Mail about! The cheeky cow had been stealing the lot. I had also thought everyone had forgotten my birthday that year! I never did anything about it as I was moving out shortly and she was in a whole heap of other trouble with social services and the landlord and was on her way to being evicted and having her children removed. So I let the post thing go!

This is so lovely, I think it's the nicest story on this thread 😍

Also had different neighbours let all my tires down because I legitimately parked on the road outside their house for a few days. Not blocking their drive, not on their drive, not blocking their view, just on the public road outside their house. Some people are lovely!

We had a neighbour a few doors away who would garden in the middle of the night and rig up some sort of light to do so. His partner would throw bags of rubbish out of their bedroom window, mainly nappies, to nearish their bin. He loved doing bonfires. Their back garden was very overgrown and when he'd have one of his late night garden clearance sessions, he'd then have a bonfire. Once he decided to have it during the summer, on a Sunday afternoon. Well, the shouting from various other neighbours to put it out got through very quickly as it was very soon out. Thankfully they have moved out, which I think their adjoining neighbours are grateful for as they have very late night arguments.

Could you park on their drive, on the space they are not using because they are using yours?

I am an NHS podiatrist and in the cul de sac of my previous house lived 4 of my patients fron work. It was a very small town.
Three were fine and never bothered Mr but the 4th used to turn up at my front door several times a week and often really late at night with "diabetic emergencies" which weren't.
My boss said I wasn't to treat her outside work as I wouldn't be insured.
So I refused to treat her and said she had to go to a&e like everyone else. My house is not a 24 hour on call service.
Nonetheless she'd still come over at all hours no matter how late it was every single time.

Oh my god, I shouldn't laugh but I can't help it...
The mental image is too overpowering! 😂

Some of these are terrifying but some of them are a bit hilarious.
So grateful for my nice neighbours right now!

Not nearly as crazy as most of these but here’s some from neighbours of the past…

My mum & dads next door neighbour growing up was a real busy body. Her broken gate got stolen & she somehow deduced that it must have been my older brothers who stole it.
My mum caught her snooping in our front garden looking through the tall side gate round the back of the house. My mum obviously asks her what she’s doing & she literally said “well, my gates been stolen, I wondered if your boys knew anything about it”
My mums response wasn’t very polite!

The same neighbour used to accuse us of not feeding our 2 cats, when they were obviously well fed, cared for pets.
She was an odd one.

Our previous next door neighbour was never nasty, just dense. He would put his recycling box out on the street overflowing with cans/bottles etc & no lid on, the cans and bottles were forever falling off into the street and blowing into our front yard. Some of the neighbours further up did the same, so our street always looked scruffy with litter. I always felt sorry for the road sweeper, he’d do such a good job cleaning the street, then a week later it would be covered in cans and bottles.

Years ago I had a neighbour, a retired lady, who for some reason took a dislike to me. If she saw me she would cross the street to avoid me. I have no idea why - I'd always been friendly and not caused her any problems. Eventually she moved to Spain. A few years later I was doorstepped by a journalist from the local rag who told me she had contacted them about her 'mad former neighbour' (me) pursuing her to Spain and stalking her. Apparently she had reported me to the police in both Spain and the UK, and when that failed to elicit a response she reported me to the local press. The journalist wanted to do an interview, but I said no. I never heard of or from her again.

For a horrible moment, I thought that kid might have been my DB, but we lived in flats and none of them had gardens.

For at least a year, from the age of approx 2, DB thought it was hilarious to piss through the balcony railings any time he could get out there unsupervised. My DF fitted a bolt to the balcony door to stop him going out unaccompanied, but DB could climb better than a monkey and managed scramble up a tall sideboard thingy to undo it.

He's 58 now, and I may have to remind him of this.

Ours cleared out a load of old furniture from their house, stuck it in their garden against our fence, then set fire to the lot.

One of our neighbours regularly burn plastic next door to the house on an empty
plot of land. They do it when I have my washing out mostly or in the summer when all windows are open so we can choke on the fumes 🙄

Blanking us because we don't want a massive hour long chat every time we come and go from the house so the day we appear 'busy' he gets offended and now won't talk to us - stupid old sod!

Currently in the midst of batshit neighbour hell. Have had to install CCTV, even though I hate it. Over a 5 day period she's already been caught 4 times coming onto my property to take pics.

This is mild compared to most of these stories. A retired couple lived across the street from our old house, and we live in an area that gets a lot of snow. Our landscaper would plow out our driveway if it was more than an inch or two. One winter he was plowing the snow out of our driveway and across the road, so some of it wound up on the edge of the neighbor's front lawn. When the husband saw this, he went batshit and came out screaming at the plow driver. His lawn already had a foot of snow on it. He also used to complain about leaves from our yard blowing across the road into his yard.

I did get a bit of revenge. He had a little snow blower he used to clear his driveway, but rather than blowing it to the side, onto his lawn, he blew it out onto the road, which had already been plowed by the town. The town took a very dim view of this, so I reported him and they came out and gave him a stern talking to with the threat of a citation if he did it again.

We sold the house and moved the following summer, so never had to deal with him again.

Our downstairs neighbout put a complaint o to out landlord about us throwing cigarette butt's over the balcony.

Neither of us have ever smoked;)

That’s neighbourly of him. What’s the problem?