Let's have a "crazy" neighbor contest!!

[HorseFeathers]

Wow! I was feeling bored yesterday and was just looking around for a long, interesting thread to read... I FINALLY finished it today. I must have spent at least 6 hours reading this altogether!

But first, my mother warned me that when you first move into a new place, that the first neighbor to introduce themselves to you will usually be the most trouble in the long run. As this wasn't the case at our old house, I had my doubts, but it did turn out to be true in our new place.

Uh oh, I'll keep this in mind when we move in a few weeks... Gosh you guys have the wackiest neighbors!​

 

[mrsengeseth]

I could go on and on, but the highlights of one of my neighbors was

*discovered him laying naked one early early morning under our toyota pick up truck (has a lift kit, really easy to get under there)

*screaming at the retaining wall installers he hired for diggin up his yard

*threatening us with a handgun if we cut the branches of his tree that were overgrown and laying on our chimney.

he's moved on since those incidents ( and more, bizarre, ones too, but yeah...)

 

[stacym]

I'm not so sure that is the neighbors or the house. The house east of us sure has had some strange neighbors. When we first moved in the old man that lived there used to take down the back fence and mow half my yard. He was pretty harmless and friendly. He thought he was doing me a big favor since I didn't have a rider mower and he did. I didn't really mind him.
Next guy that bought the house didn't mow his grass for most of the year. When he did mow it he had to use a brush cutter. We had a very good laugh watching him trying to use the thing when he was drunk. He was a strange guy,but he minded his own business.
Next owner-young couple with two cute yappy dogs. I liked the dogs even if they were in our yard all the time. The misses use to like to sunbathe in an tiny yellow bikini whenever my husband was working outside.

The young couple were both deputies and we never had any problems with them.
However, they moved and rented their home. The people that moved in looked normal enough. The first day their dogs got loose and ran around town. The neighbor on the other side of them called the sheriff and he gave the renters a ticket. This kept going for a while with the other neighbor calling every week about the dogs.
I pretty much had a you leave me alone and I'll leave you alone policy. I wave and smile but don't socialize. So far the renters have complained about my garden. They have possibly stolen my first batch of chickens. The little girls yell over hateful things to my daughter. I could understand this behavior if I had a crummy looking yard and my birds were near the fence line. However, I don't. I have never said anything about any of their annoying habits. Yet they seem to have it in for me. All our other neighbors are great !(we've lived near them for 15 years)

 

[debilorrah]

I can't really say this is a problem neighbor, but crazy - yeah. Our neighbor is always watching out for us, in a good way. Sometimes she takes it too far. We find in our back yard, an acre, pulling weeds and watering the fruit trees, picking up trash, playing with the dig, like she lives there. She never comes to the door, just goes on into the yard and starts her chores.

 

[Chickenaddict]

I certainly can't beat some of these peoples neighbors but i have had my fare share of crazy,irritating neighbors. When we lived in the city the houses were so close together you could reach out and touch your neighbor. There was a little old lady named anna who lived on the corner across the street from us, She came to the US from a refugee camp somewhere in the uk. This woman loved birds but HATED people. She walked around outside with either a machetti or a large stick for whoopin people who would try and walk down the sidewalk. She would jump in front of cars speaking little english and demand someone take her to the grocery store. I don't know how many times that woman was pasted by a car but it never stopped her. To this day she is outside goign nuts on passers by only difference now is her pants hang to her ankles and the neighbors driving by stop to pull them back up again.

We moved out to the sticks 3 years ago and thought ahhhh it's gonna be sooo peaceful out here away from the murders,crackheads, and thieves. Boy was i wrong! The neighbors on the corner never come out of their batcave to be social and have 2 large dogs that are EXTREMELY vicious one rot and one dobie. After 2 years of living here one of my cats escaped from the house and was running around in OUR yard. The neighbor peeks his head over his 6 ft privacy fence and says to me "you know if that cat gets over here my dogs are gonna have him for lunch". I thought nice to meet you too you jerk. I came back with ohhh yeah have you seen what my cat does to large dogs? The cat i am talking about was a wild cat we found as a kitten in the woods while camping, He was downright crazy and i have seen him on several occasions take on boxers, rots, as well as other large dogs and large packs of raccoons. The kill instinct in this cat was nuts! When we moved out here tho he became an "indoor cat" because of the dogs running free around here i didn't want to get into any scuffles with the new neighbors. I have heard his wife screaming and crying inside their house on several occasions. We recently decided to be the better people and greet them with fresh eggs as well as the other surrounding neighbors. They loved the eggs and now want to "hang out" all the time. One weekend we went to their house to sit around the fire and chat a bit. Boy was that a mistake. I have NEVER in my life seen such a nasty house inside and out, After i went in to use their bathroom i opted to run home and crawl out of my skin, I dont know what was growing in their toilet but it was moving!!! That didn't stop us from being civil to them just from us going to their house. We had them over here for a few beers one night and his wife got soo drunk she puked all over my garage, in my house, and all over my bathroom. Realized over the course of the few weeks we were trying to "get to know them" that she was a bigtime drunk and didn't work and he was a perverted control freak! When i am mowing the lawn or doing yard work im out in shorts and a tank top and can almost peel his eyes off of me, He peeks thru the fence as if i cant see him or sense i am being starred at. Their dogs bark non stop moring til night and never shut up. Now they have dug a huge hole in the yard trying to get at the chickens so i piled up a bunch of heavy wood over the hole so they cant make the great escape. Those are just one set of neighbors there are also who we refer to the "domestics across the back yard from us. These people are meth addicts, the gf or wife is always cussing me out when im hanging out with the chickens for no reason whatsoever. Her bf or hubby not sure which came to the door asking about some snow blowers we had on the curb for free with a sign clearly stating they were free. He walked right into my garage and thru the door into my kitchen just standing there acting like he was clearing his throat. Scared the living crud outta me. I asked him wt heck was he doing in my house and he asked to talk to my hubby. Hubby went outside and talked to him and he mentioned something about his wife or gf didn't like my chickens (mind you they rent that house we own ours) So my hubby politely said yeah well they stay in our yard unlike your dog who comes over to take a dump the size of an elephant everyday. The guy shut up and walked away with his tail between his legs. I kno0w they are addicts cause i can smell strange things coming from thier house, they stay up all night and sleep all day. They make frequent "quick trips" over to the local trailer park several times a day. Yesturday afternoon my hubby tells me the cops followed her home and searched her van then took her and the van out of there so im pretty sure they found something in there. Kind of scary living sooo close to drug addicts because you don't know what they are capable of and anything can set them off into a rampage. Sorry this is sooo long lol. Lots of crazy people in the world.

 

[Chicabee19]

This could be a record thread!

The only time I have ever seen our across-the-street married neighbor come across the street to 'visit' was when our next door neighbor was laying outside in her bikini.

Our next door neighbor dries her clothes with some awful, cheap woman's perfume sprinkled into the dryer. It makes me so sick I have to close up our house and stay indoors literally the whole day.

Sometimes it gives me a migraine.

 

[Skyesrocket]

debiraymond

Hey! No fair! I want a neighbor that does my yard chores!

Here, we have what my husband and I refer to as, "The South Park Church". They have a shooting area set up behind the church and on weekends have their youth groups target practicing. :| This has been going on for many years. It concerned us when we first moved in...not knowing if it was a cult or whatever. But, it turns out that the church owns 100+ acreas behind the church that they use for hunting. In fact, they use that as a draw to the church. Only church members can hunt there.
It still feels a little odd to hear the shots coming from the church on Sunday afternoons though.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

Our neighbors have obnoxious, out-of-control middle school kids that cuss and start fights on the basketball court and in the pool in the townhouse community where we live. One time, they were running in and out of their house slamming the door and they broke our porch light. They swept the sidewalk for me because there was glass EVERYWHERE and they didn't want me to call the landlord.

The kid will do annoying stuff like walk across our driveway when I am pulling in with my truck or lead his friends in a big group past our garage door when it's open (instead of using the sidewalk by the street). I just want to tell him to get off our property, but living in a townhouse, it's sort of weird to do something like that. The driveway and my garden are basically the only things that are "ours" outside.

Our landlord told me that she isn't renewing their lease in February because the kids are just so naughty (the family doesn't know it yet and I'm quite good at keeping my mouth shut in real life

). Someone else down the street that was absolutely psycho just got evicted. We also have a guy around the corner from us who smokes a hookah (tobacco, the cops have checked -- no, it wasn't us who called) while sitting in a lawn chair on his front lawn. He also suffers from some sort of narcolepsy... You can probably get the picture (guy asleep in a lawn chair holding a hookah...).

Also, our neighbors put the most garish-looking plastic plants from the dollar store in their garden instead of planting even simple marigolds or something. I'm sorry, but roses don't just pop out of the ground like petunias, and they don't come in that funky shade of blue. They're all covered in mud and faded now. Yikes.

I hate renting because there are just too many people around and the rude ones ruin the community for everyone else.

 

[northcoaster]

I love this thread- great idea!

the neighbor behind me only washes his truck when it's raining- because I guess then he doesn't need the hose- I'm not sure....

he also mows the lawn in the rain and randomly yells at delivery drivers for pulling into his driveway.

not as crazy as some of the others but- definately a strange bird

 

[blossom hen]

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Gee, your neighbors must be related to mine! Last year they had blue roses. But this year, they upgraded to silk flowers, which still don't just pop up out of the ground and look even worse with the mud on them. The difference is, I own my home and so do these particular neighbors. Don't guess either of us will be moving. Sigh.