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?

We had a downstairs neighbour that liked to expose himself every time a male walked by. He had set up an array of mirrors so he could see when someone was about to walk by, and prepare his special show in front of the window. He particularly liked delivery drivers, which meant they stopped coming to our flat.
Other than that he was a really lovely guy.

To all of you who have greenery creeping in from neighbouring gardens-use a systemic weedkiller like Roundup. Apply to the leaves, and it works its way back down the plants and kills them from the root. I have a NDN house with students in (very nice and quiet, but obviously they don't do much to the garden) and I get convolvulus coming in under my fence. A few dabs of Roundup gel, and it all dies back.

@LakieLady it would make a great chat over Christmas Dinner 🤣

If you're on a water meter, it's genius!

While living in an apartment building neighbour across the hall had mice. Being a kind-hearted soul she decided to use peppermint to discourage them from her unit. Well, the sweet little things multiplied and migrated until the whole building was infested. It was 6 months of calling in pest control to my unit alone. I was going insane waking to mouse shit everywhere, every day, and having to vacuum and sanitize everything daily. Only managed to catch two myself, but straight to the bin they went.

One of my neighbours has parties where we can hear vomiting into the street because they have their parties in the front garden.

We can see and hear everything. She's vile.

Housemates I once lived with...
First HMO, bloke who said I was too pretty to wear make up, woman who went and got my post from the sorting office (which you need ID for) and then argued with them about it until they gave in, the bloke who used to shout at me, then cry, got back with his ex girlfriend (who he used to beat up) and then had incredibly noisy sex while their son was in the room with them, and was awful to his daughter, the druggie who stole from me, and then dealt drugs out of his room, and have his awful dealer mates round all the time, including the one who threatened to murder his girlfriend, the woman who acted like my friend but would tell everyone everything I ever said to her, and the various parties that would go on, involving drinking, drugs, and sex in the communal living room, and blokes peeing in the back garden. And people would let their mates bring dogs round, which was against the rules (as this all was) and once they ended up in my bedroom! I hate dogs. Landlady wouldn't do a damned thing, she didn't believe that anything was going on, despite the police raiding the place, less than a month after I moved out.
The second wasn't too bad, although my landlord was a nightmare. Someone complained I spent too much time in the kitchen, but they all spent hours in there compared to me, so I ignored that. Then there was the woman who smoked in the house but would deny it, and the woman who decided she was going to dogsit her boyfriend's friend's dog, despite animals not being allowed in the building. Landlord did do something about that, she had to put it outside.

Set her own house on fire. Thankfully detached!

Hey I occasionally do that 😂. Saves having to rinse the suds off after

Similar with downstairs neighbour in local authority flat. His smoke alarm used to go off regularly when he passed out with something on the cooker. I ended up calling out the fire brigade a few times. People regularly hammer loudly at his door at all hours and, every so often, whoever it is is shouting for him and threatening to kick the door in. One time this happened when I was putting rubbish out in my bin so I didn't dare come back into the communal stair and had to go for a walk and come back. Last Christmas /New Year neighbour disappeared for a few weeks (he is known to go into hospital to dry out)and someone was hammering on his door and then punctured it with something (a hammer) and smashed his windows. Oh, and one time a woman hammering on his door to no reply came up to my flat and tried to get in (didn't knock, was trying the door handle and pushing the door). One of his other visitors stole the plants I and a neighboour had put in the stair to brighten it up.
Spoke to my local councilor 6 months ago, and nothing...........

In my younger days flat sharing with friends in London we had a flat in a very dodgy cheap location and our NDN was a spiritualist church where they had nightly séance services 😱

What is she even taking pictures of?

@Pudmyboy I'm tempted but dh won't let me lol

@AhBiscuits I think you live next to my Uncle 😂

We live in 3 storey townhouses. The master bedrooms are on the middle floor on the back overlooking the gardens.

Our neighbours have 2 or 3 BBQ's / parties every summer that go on until 3am. We can hear drunken people singing on their karaoke machine as if it's in our bedroom.

We approached them recently, about it and she had a go at me about my teenage boys making noise when I wasn't in. I apologised for this - this was years ago. And did point out that I wasn't in the house so couldn't really do anything about it but would speak to them, even though she was talking about 2015. My eldest son has now left home and my youngest is 21 now.

I said, you were causing your noise, grown adults. No apology.

Her mother also put her cigarette butts into our recycling bin, we watched her do it and my DH told her not to.

She also asked me during the first lockdown if I was enjoying it 🙈 erm no!

They're selling up thank goodness.

I'm wondering if we live on the same street. 🤔

Thoroughly enjoying this thread!

Doesn't affect us but we are fascinated and baffled by it. Couple next door to us -in their mid70s- buy a brand new super-duper camper van every year. They have it on charge constantly and never move it off the drive, ever. Every day he is out there cleaning it outside and inside for hours. He is always doing odd jobs to the inside. She makes sets of curtains and matching seat covers. Then they sell it after a year and get another new one and do the same thing.

I have, nicely, asked about it and been told they are 'planning to drive around Australia' in it (Hmm!) and 'We are planning a long trip around the wholecoastline of the UK'. This was about 3 years ago.

About 2 months ago, I was gardening at the front and they (both of them) got into it and drove it off the drive, along to the end of the road, reversed by the cricket pavilion (it's a cul de sac) and came back along onto their drive. 100 metres maximum. Then the camper disappeared a few days later.

They told DH they sold it and are not getting another one 'at our age'.

Must have wasted tens of thousands of £££s over the last 7years and, presumably, before that when we lived somewhere else.

Oh dear - if my 80 year old neighbours bin is still out when I take mine in, I take it to the side of her house for her, to save her walking down her drive. Dont do anyone elses unless I am asked - like when they are on holiday - but I never thought I was being creepy!

Punched me in the face for asking him to turn down the music at silly o’clock mid week. Told the police we’d broken into his flat and broken his lock even though the door opened outwards and he’d been getting in by using a screwdriver for weeks beached broken the locks. Used to throw his girlfriend across the room regularly. Police/environmental health were round constantly. Neighbours who’d lived there 40 years sold up due to the endless music from 7pm-7am every night.

Long term, they did us a weird favour because we made a killing on the little house we moved into to get away from them.

In our first house-in a terrace- we had a new neighbour who was a newly released ex-con (drug dealing and domestic violence it turned out). Glaswegian. Within 48 hours he was drinking all day, wrecking the, rented house and hitting his wife. DH rang the police numerous times. They would come and take the wife and two small girls to her mother's. A few days later she'd be back. He realised it was us and the couple on the other side reporting him and took to appearing at the bay window in our front garden, pissed, waving a bottle and doing a sort of jig whilst singing, swearing, shouting unintelligible things and wearing a frilly white and yellow negligee and nothing else.

Eventually, the police took him away and the wife got a restraining order. The next thing we heard he was back in prison. She moved away at that point and he never came back. It was then let to a woman who made a living selling sex toys, and accoutrements, at parties in the house. She wasn't there long either.

One of our former neighbours consisted of a mum and two children. We lived in a Victorian terrace so sash windows and no front garden.
The son was a drug dealer (confirmed by a policeman friend) and would regularly have visitors (wonder what they were up to).
Anyway one evening when our daughter was 4 weeks' old, a car pulled up in front of our neighbour's house. The driver kept honking the horn, I assume to attract his attention. This went on for a few minutes so my husband ran outside and told them to 'shut the f* up'. The car drove off.
It then returned an hour later, at about 9pm. Daughter still unsettled, both of us stressed, sleep deprived parents. Anyway, the driver did the same thing again, and again my husband rushed out. This time there were 4 lads waiting for him with a baseball bat. He was hit on the head and knocked down. He managed to get up and rushed to the house. The lads followed him and tried to push open the door he was pushing shut. I was standing there holding our baby completely shocked at what had happened. Fortunately he managed to push the door shut and they drove off.
Thankfully he wasn't badly injured and we decided to move. Thankfully our current neighbours are lovely!

In my previous house, the new next door neighbours had a house warming party, nothing major and I don’t think there were even 10 people there. I went to bed and was woken up an hour later at midnight by my dh alerting me to a lot of screaming outside. I took my ear plugs out and all I heard was “you’ve killed him! I can’t believe you’ve killed him!” I said to my dh that they’re just being drunk & dramatic and to go back to sleep. About 10 minutes later, our bedroom lit up with flashing lights from the ambulance and various police cars. There were a lot of crying and hysterical people outside, it was awful. The next day, I wasn’t allowed to leave the house as my cul de sac was turned into a crime scene. I quizzed the police to see what had happened and a fight had broken out between the men and one of them had hit his head and died in hospital. We left soon after as this really unsettled us. I hate to say this, I was so embarrassed that our house was on the news, whilst feeling absolutely terrible for the poor man’s family. Such an awful time.

My neighbour (flat) was upset that we wanted to use our front garden. The previous owner was happy for her to maintain it. I caught her once picking all the buds of my flowers.

I also had a couple of empty pots with plants that had died back for winter. She stole them and put them outside on her windowsil.

Another one, quite sad, actually. Bought a house and we were doing it up. I was up and down the street to get stuff from B&Q/local shops and clocked the house 3 down. The top floor windows were old fashioned slats, permanently open, lots missing, pigeons galore going in and out. Roof looked to be falling in, obvious holes. There was someone living there! Apparently he didn’t go upstairs to pigeonville. It was sold a couple of years later and done up, new roof/windows etc.