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?

@VeronicaSawyer89 mmmm I wonder!

They do it on New Years Eve too but that party at least stays in doors.

We went away for New Year last year as we couldn't bare the running up and down the stairs and the singing!

Going away this NYE too

I had a triple whammy a few decades back. First, I was in a block of flats with a very noisy neighbour above me. It was so bad the council put monitoring equipment in. He got the boot, but the next tennant was just as bad!
I moved to a council house on the local estate. I should have picked up on the fact that half the close consisted of empty houses. One neighbour had really made an effort on his garden. The local youths decided to vandalise it and his car. He chased them off and they came back with their big brothers who tried to break in to "teach him a lesson". He and his family had to be escorted out under police protention. The next night, they started on my front garden, taking run ups to jump into the hedge. Not thinking, I chased them off. They came back 15 minutes later, banging on the windows, trying to get me to come outside. I was on my own, no phone or way to call for help and quite frankly I was filling my pants.
The next day, I called on a friend who was selling his big victorian house. I offered to move in to look after it while he sorted his new house. He was happy with that arragement and I moved in the next day. He then warns me that the neighbour fights with his girlfriend on a regular basis. She'd storm out and he'd put his stereo on at full volume, hoping someone knocked on his door to complain so he could hit them...
Luckily, my friend sold the house after a couple of months and I found a lovely little terraced house. Peace at last! (well for a bit).

I also remember this one but I’m not sure if I can blame my neighbour for it..as it was more a police error.

Anyway, used to live in a house that had a converted downstairs area separate from the rest of the house. It’s hard to explain but we had the living room and kitchen, plus the bathroom and bedrooms upstairs, and the neighbour had the other rooms as like a one bedroom flat.

Anyway, I’m not sure what he did, but he did something that caused the police to issue a warrant and storm the house.

Early morning comes and me and dh are sleeping, woken up by a banging noise. I wander into the spare bedroom (naked…) to find a police man climbing in through the window. We both looked very surprised to see each other .

Unfortunately, it did give us a bad name with the other people on the street because they believed at first we were being raided. Took several days of “no it was not us, it was down stairs neighbour”

Tried to claim a whole building.
In 1942 my grandparents were tenant farmers: 40 acres, cottage, barn , shippons and an outbarn. They bought the farm eventually and when my grandparents died my dad bought his brother out and we lived there. Had the same neighbours all the time. When my parents retired they sold the farm. The couple who bought it divorced a few years later and split the buildings between them. The now deceased next door neighbours son then claimed that the outbarn was his. Despite the fact that it was entirely on our land and we'd been using it for 60years. It ended up as a legal battle. He lost.

We got on with them for ages were friendly etc then all of a sudden she just changed this year but I think it's been brewing ages. It's always me she targets and intimidates

It started off with little things that have built up clearly trying to provoke us or get a reaction, like hacking our hedging, strimming it after we had tidied up our borders so all the shit went into ours, kept a feral vicious cat, rehomed it despite knowing full well it was attacking our cat and had cost us vets fees etc, £500 to be exact, yet she kept the cat

Sarcastic comments all the time which gradually built up to bigger things.

She watches everyone's movements and what everyone does, I now feel intimidated in my garden like I'm being watched, and judged. She also has a camera which imposes on our garden this is new too. We noticed it recently.

She had a go at me saying my husband must not like her anymore as he "never speaks to her anymore" which is complete rubbish he always speaks, and was speaking to her a day earlier with her husband, yet the next day she was all over him outside and flirty like comments

She had a go at me and then ignored me, asking why I gave a rose I rehomed because it was in the wrong spot, , to someone else in the village and not her" despite me offering it her twice, and her declining, she stood having a go at me over the hedge about it trying to punish me or some other weird narc shit

I had some friends round and we were chatting outside on our patio and she started strimming loudly and banging right near my patio area

I returned from holiday in July and she had hacked our hedge (it is ours not theirs ) taking a foot off it at each end, leaving it bigger in the middle. It looked ridiculous . We were fuming but haven't reacted.

Complained when we moved our washing line that she could see it on her patio and didn't like where it is (she can't see it there's a 6ft hedge between us) 😂

Most recently, and the worst behaviour has been her telling my husband he's "personally attacking "and "ganging up on her" because he offered to fuss their new neighbours who are attached to her (poor them) puppy. She's now completely ignoring us and doing petty things like putting plants to block seeing us out the front. Absolutely neurotic narcissistic behaviour, jealous and paranoid.
There's more too and I'm expecting more to come with her, she's batshit. Utterly

OH thinks I'm a bit standoffish with the neighbours. But you can't fall out if you don't fall in.

@Ozgirl75 ooo why? What’s the foil supposed to do?

The foil blocks the government mind control rays. 😂

Not as batshit as most of these but a story that still makes me laugh nearly 40 years later. When I was a child, my parents had a very placid cat who used to let me dress him up in outfits I’d taken off my cuddly toys. One day I put him in a fetching Hawaiian shirt and scarf, moved onto other things and the cat went outside in his outfit. Minutes later the nextdoor but one neighbour came round to ask my dad what the hell we were playing at, because the cat had jumped over the fence into their garden still dressed up, and his wife and children were TRAUMATISED because they thought it was ‘a goblin.’

Clearly quite a low threshold for trauma …

@OnAir you win

Not technically our neighbours, but someone’s neighbours. Had to go on a visit to a house for work.

They had the whole of their downstairs flooring covered in different coloured tarmac. Red, green and black. I am still stunned to this day when I think back to it. There was one of those Chinese style pink rugs on a red tarmac floor. Hallway was black, dining room and kitchen had green tarmac.

That is just horrible!

One of the most spiteful, entitled things I have ever read.

What a pair of bad swears!

Indeed.

<nods>

Everybody knows that.

It reflects them back to Porton Down.

Thank you so much - I laughed out loud at this.

In a fascinating thread which has had a lot of very sad posts (because there are obviously mental health issues involved) and posts about really nasty people (I mean wtf. - stealing a disabled space because you can?), this little snippet has cheered me immensely.

What joy! Wish I'd seen that cat! 😂

I once had to do a flit to another city to escape an abusive relationship. Stayed with a friend for a few weeks and then found a nice terraced house.

About two days into living there I went outside one morning to find what looked like the contents of someone’s bin tipped onto my car. Along with a note saying “You don’t live here, f*ck off”. Turns out the neighbour across the road had a huge issue with me parking outside her house (this was not a street with driveways or allocated parking, nor did she have a car).

I was feeling emotionally fragile so I decided to just avoid parking there. But she upped the ante by randomly banging on my door and screaming “GET OUT” at various times of night. Eventually, I approached the couple next door out of desperation (as well as calling the police), hoping they’d know what was going on/whether I could mediate the situation somehow. They said she was schizophrenic and often felt worried when new people moved in and told me they’d reassure her I wasn’t a troublemaker.

A couple of days after this she came around and apologised and made light of the situation. She acted very nice from there on in, but my mental state wasn’t resilient enough to handle the incidents full stop so I gave up the tenancy and moved in with some relatives just to have people around me. That turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as the country went into lockdown a month later and being alone while I was building myself backup would have been awful!

We went to a Wedding and stayed o ernight in a hotel. Neighbour rang the police because we left our downstairs toilet light on.

I will try and compete with car set on fire,I'm trying to be a winner in something this year.

The setting half a world away where all houses are bungalows on their own piece of land.

The neighbours of another culture who were never a pain previously except wanting to borrow money all the time and I stopped lending when they stopped paying back.

They are another culture than myself and family so had different practices about how they managed death.

First one was a shocker,they do their own catering so the whole back yard was used as an abattoir which meant about 30 cut open cow bodies were on the back yard.

This culture cooks using an umu which is where the cooking is done in the earth in their back yard this process uses wood fire the flames of which causes damage to trees on my land in actuality its amazing that they didn't chop down my trees for wood

Then neighbours needed to go somewhere while this was happening they chose my place and a lot of men on benches were in my back yard no one had asked if this was ok.

Tents were erected in their front yard for church services,eating was done outside which some of the food waste thrown over on my side.

This lasted for days with only about 4 hours quiet in 24,lots of people were visiting over the days many in the evening so they would park anywhere they wanted including my driveway.

A variant of this happened may times over the years,council would do nothing as it was a funeral and I needed to be kind.

if this doesn't get me to first place I have to be a close second.

😂love this!!

Not as bad as I thought-I was visualising patchwork!

Lived in a block of flats (3 downstairs 3up). New couple moved in downstairs made so much rubbish they decided to use our bins. Put bags of waste in our big recycling bin, I moved the bag out and put it on top of theirs. Knew it was thirsty because of seeing them with some of items. Came home one day to find one of the (mainly rotting food) tipped out on our door mat.

Same block, barely saw one of the upstairs neighbours and if passing in the communal hallway would always put his down and not even acknowledge a "morning". But knew he must be fairly sociable as would always hear the sound of woman's heels walking around on his laminate flooring. Anyway hanging out the washing in the communal garden (each flat had its own rotary clothes line thing) smalls all hung on the inside small parts. Come to bring washing in later and all my knickers missing. Cue talking to another neighbour and she's all "oh that would've been Bob (can't remember his actual name), he's a cross dresser and has had form before for stealing women's underwear.

Same flat, bloke downstairs had sustained a head injury years before and didn't always get appropriate behaviour. When selling our flat had to politely ask him to maybe not doing his hula hooping outside in the lawn by the entrance door if was going to carry on doing it in his y fronts. That was the feedback from the estate agent when they had come with viewers.

Adjacent block of flats, bloke had been seeing a woman a few miles away. Turns out her partner wasn't very happy so went over to teach him a bit of a lesson. Beat the living daylights out of him. Cue banging on our door late at night to have police asking if we'd seen/heard anything. Hadn't, but the beating had partly taken place in the car park we all shared. Had to wash the blood splatter off ex's car 🤮.

Can't think why moved. And that was only some of things....

That sounds like it was someone from changing rooms who was responsible.

I don’t think this is crazy but actually really nice of your neighbour I hate putting the bins out! In our old house we had a neighbour who did it and I miss him doing it 😂

According to a friend who did this to his windows, it deflects the rays the secret service beam into people's homes to spy on them and control them.

Tbf, he was having a psychotic episode at the time. This was one of his saner ideas.

I wonder if we have a mutual friend, @MissConductUS ? 🤔

Who knows. Hopefully she'll do it enough to warrant a cop visit and they can ask her