Crazy neighbor stories

[Dawn]

Wow, you guys have had some crazy neighbors!!!!!! I don't think we've ever lived by anyone crazy. Yet.

[ArmCandyLuvr]

I have quite a few crazy neighbor stories. Some I experienced personally, and some happened to my mom. Here goes:

When my mom was a teen, she lived in a very poor neighborhood. The houses were close together you could often see through the neighbors windows. My mom and her sister's bedroom was like that and the guy next door used to spy on them all the time. I guess he was sort of a pervert. Anyway, my aunt got annoyed and said, "I'll give him something to look at!" She stripped down, grabbed a hairbrush, and started brushing her pubic hair in front of the window. The pervy guy was absolutely shocked!

There were also a lot of drunks in the neighbor where my mom lived. One day, this lady who was very promiscious invited all of the local drunks to her upstairs apartment for a drinking/sex party. Apparently she passed out and died. The drunks panicked and got the idea to get rid of her body by tossing it off the fire escape. Instead of falling to the ground, the naked body got hung up on a telephone line. Naturally, the whole neighborhood gathered around to watch the cops remove the body of a naked lady from the telephone line.

We had a lot of nosy people in the neighborhood where I grew up. The guy across the street was notoriously weird and nosy. I often caught him spying on everyone. However, the things he did paled in comparison to anything he could have seen us doing. One day I glanced across the street and he was reclining in a kiddie pool with a flotation device around his waist. Did he think he was going to drown in less than a foot of water? Another time, he was hopping on one foot on the sidewalk and going, "BOOP!" everytime his foot hit the pavement!

Some drug dealers moved in downstairs from me and DBF. That was scary. I knew right away what they were up to. They never shut their apartment door completely and people would come and go as they pleased. I was a kid from the wrong side of the tracks, so I had seen this before. I told my boyfriend (who grew up in the upper class suburbs) what I believed they were doing and he poo-pooed me. They were noisy and they threatened the people who called the cops on them. Junkies were coming in the building banging on the doors begging to use the phone when the guy wasn't home, because they were hurting for a fix. Finally, the cops busted down the door and took them all a way. Thank goodness...

There was a young guy and his girlfriend who moved into that apartment a year or two later. They would fight all the time. It literally sounded like they were killing each other. Plus, they had a cat that as peeing everywhere and the whole building started to stink! They go kicked out and the smell that came from that apartment when it was being cleaned was ungodly! I don't know how they lived like that!

We had an old guy move in below us afterward. He was nice and quiet, but I lived in fear until the day he passed away, because he was on oxygen and he smoked! I was afraid he would blow up the building!

[Vinyl]

Originally Posted by ArmCandyLuvr

My mom and her sister's bedroom was like that and the guy next door used to spy on them all the time. I guess he was sort of a pervert. Anyway, my aunt got annoyed and said, "I'll give him something to look at!" She stripped down, grabbed a hairbrush, and started brushing her pubic hair in front of the window. The pervy guy was absolutely shocked! Apparently she passed out and died. The drunks panicked and got the idea to get rid of her body by tossing it off the fire escape. Instead of falling to the ground, the naked body got hung up on a telephone line. Naturally, the whole neighborhood gathered around to watch the cops remove the body of a naked lady from the telephone line.

...! My goodness!!

[Christine]

My neighbor across the street lives on the porch. The police refuse to do anything about it. Don't get me started.

[reon]

Originally Posted by fashion1sta

Well.. it's nothing as crazy.... but my EX neighbor (they moved away)..... every night she would always sing the TITANIC anthem. I mean literally screaming on the top of her lungs "MY HEART WILL GO ON~~~~~~!!!!" i didn't understand why she had to do it every night at 8:00 p.m. I mean.. at first i thought that she bought a new karaoke system and she was testing it out, but after a month it drove me nuts! But she was only able to sing it 4 times straight- because her voice couldn't take it- and i was relieved~ but i had to listen to that for like 2 years! Also, there's a gap between our houses obviously.... and i couldn't believe that we were able to hear her that loud. But...... i just thought that it was weird- and she was over 50 years old lol.

OMG

This is so weird and it totally cracks me up!
on days when i am feeling pmsy, i stop my fiance from singing anything at all i honestly would have gone crazy if i were you!

[Pursegrrl]

OMG, Bellafiore and the poop thief neighbor...ACL and the lady whose body ended up on a phone wire...Yikes!!!

Well, I've lived in a few interesting places...in my townhouse complex there is a nice but kinda curmudgeon-y lady, who loves to stare. Our mail box is in the front common area and whenever I go to get my mail she mysteriously appears on her front balcony to watch me get my mail. Weird! And whenever she calls me (I'm on the Board) to ask a question she always identifies her self to me as "Hello, pursegrrl, this is [first name, last name] in [her unit number]." Ummm...we only have 10 homes in our complex so it's not like we would forget her, LOL!

More sadly (warning this is not for the faint hearted), up around the corner a few blocks from me there was a weird older man who loved to...feed rats. He would feed them peanuts all the time. Gross! He said they were his friends. Neighbors called the health department, the whole bit. Lots of red tape with this. And, sadly, when the authorities weren't able to reach him they called the cops. Turns out he had died in his home and...the rats had partially consumed his body.

I go walking by that house all the time on one of my typical exercise routes and I had to stop doing that for awhile. Thankfully, about a year later, no sign of rats.

[lovinalotofbags]

These are some insane stories about neighbors.

[lovinalotofbags]

Originally Posted by ArmCandyLuvr

I have quite a few crazy neighbor stories. Some I experienced personally, and some happened to my mom. Here goes: When my mom was a teen, she lived in a very poor neighborhood. The houses were close together you could often see through the neighbors windows. My mom and her sister's bedroom was like that and the guy next door used to spy on them all the time. I guess he was sort of a pervert. Anyway, my aunt got annoyed and said, "I'll give him something to look at!" She stripped down, grabbed a hairbrush, and started brushing her pubic hair in front of the window. The pervy guy was absolutely shocked! There were also a lot of drunks in the neighbor where my mom lived. One day, this lady who was very promiscious invited all of the local drunks to her upstairs apartment for a drinking/sex party. Apparently she passed out and died. The drunks panicked and got the idea to get rid of her body by tossing it off the fire escape. Instead of falling to the ground, the naked body got hung up on a telephone line. Naturally, the whole neighborhood gathered around to watch the cops remove the body of a naked lady from the telephone line. We had a lot of nosy people in the neighborhood where I grew up. The guy across the street was notoriously weird and nosy. I often caught him spying on everyone. However, the things he did paled in comparison to anything he could have seen us doing. One day I glanced across the street and he was reclining in a kiddie pool with a flotation device around his waist. Did he think he was going to drown in less than a foot of water? Another time, he was hopping on one foot on the sidewalk and going, "BOOP!" everytime his foot hit the pavement! Some drug dealers moved in downstairs from me and DBF. That was scary. I knew right away what they were up to. They never shut their apartment door completely and people would come and go as they pleased. I was a kid from the wrong side of the tracks, so I had seen this before. I told my boyfriend (who grew up in the upper class suburbs) what I believed they were doing and he poo-pooed me. They were noisy and they threatened the people who called the cops on them. Junkies were coming in the building banging on the doors begging to use the phone when the guy wasn't home, because they were hurting for a fix. Finally, the cops busted down the door and took them all a way. Thank goodness... There was a young guy and his girlfriend who moved into that apartment a year or two later. They would fight all the time. It literally sounded like they were killing each other. Plus, they had a cat that as peeing everywhere and the whole building started to stink! They go kicked out and the smell that came from that apartment when it was being cleaned was ungodly! I don't know how they lived like that! We had an old guy move in below us afterward. He was nice and quiet, but I lived in fear until the day he passed away, because he was on oxygen and he smoked! I was afraid he would blow up the building!

I had to laugh when you talked about the quiet, elderly neighbor on oxygen and smoking.

[k2sealer]

Originally Posted by VuittonsLover

That is sooo strange. This isn't a neighbor.. but my mom and dad had a tenant years ago... and she use to complain of a constant running water sounds..... and my mom heard them.. but couldn't figure out where it was coming from..... This went on for months and months. This woman was in her 70's and was very mean to my mother. One day.. my mom went up into her apt..... unannounced.. and she had the faucets running at full throttle in both the bathroom and kitchen... purposely to make my moms life hell.. and to get the waterbill up.. because she didn't pay for it.

The house kitty corner across the street from us is a rental. We found out that the landlord got a $4800 water bill for 2 months worth of water. He was renting the house out and the landlord was paying the utilities. He had plumbing people in, replaced the line from the meter to the house, replaced the water tank. Basically went through the house plumbing wise with a fine tooth comb looking for the leak. Turns out his tenant was mad at him for some reason and was coming home and running the tub at full blast for hours at a time.

When I was a kid, the neighbors next to us had two purebred show collies. They would let the dogs bark until late at night. My parents have always been early to bed and early risers so they obviously didn't appreciate the dogs barking late at night waking them up. Rather than confronting the neighbors and causing a big stink my Mom came up with a clever solution. She would get up at her regular time around 5am, go outside between the two houses and next to the dogs kennel and rattle the chainlink fence just enough to get the dogs barking. Then she would go inside, get ready, and just before she would leave do it again. It only took 2-3 days of the neighbors being woken up early before they started making the dogs shut up at night. I'm not sure if this particular story demonstrates that the neighbors were crazy, or whether my Mom is the crazy one!

When I moved out I had a neighbor in the apartment next to me that would play the same Backstreet Boys song over and over again so loud that my lamp, that was 10 feet away from the adjoining wall, would rattle. When I went over two different times to ask her to turn her music down she got all snotty with me and ask, "Whatsa matta, you don't like music?" I like music all right. But I found out that apparently she didn't like certain kinds of music played really loudly from my apartment. Like scottish bagpipes. Ahhhh. Sweet memories of music being used as a weapon.

We had a house the was across the street from us, where we live now, busted for growing pot. I didn't get to witness the bust, but my DH did. A couple of days later, the landlord cleaned out the house and tossed dozens of black plastic growing pots out the upstairs window to the front yard below.

My neighbors to the south of me play really bad mexican karaoke. Mind you, I like these neighbors because they have fixed up their house a lot and are really nice. But it still cracks me up to hear them singing because they sing even worse than I do, and I'm not going to win any musical prizes, believe me.

[Compass Rose]

I got up in the middle of the night one night to use the bathroom, and as I did, I looked out our bedroom sliding door on to our deck. We had a huge pine tree growing in our yard which was about 20 feet or so away from our window, and I thought I saw the faint glow of a lit cigarette in the darkness by the tree. So I woke up my husband and he got a flashlight to see what was going on. There in the darkness was my next door neighbor, completely naked, standing outside by our tree, smoking a cigarette with the flashlight beam directed on his a$$. He screamed like a little girl and ran back into his house as fast as his naked feet could carry him. We didn't see the likes of him for a very long time after that.

[ArmCandyLuvr]

I remembered another crazy neighbor story: when I was little, there was a peeping tom roaming the neighborhood. One night, my sister and I were sitting in the kitchen eating spaghetti and my sister said, "There's a man in the window." The peeping tom was watching my sister and I eat. My mom came in and saw him and started screaming. She called the cops and they took a report. The peeping tom struck several more times at other women's apartments that summer. Finally, they caught him. Here's the kicker: the peeping tom was the apartment landlord!

Pursegrrl, as much as I love rats (they make wonderful pets), even I know feeding the wild ones is bad idea. It's a miracle the guy didn't get a rodent disease like Leptospirosis or Hanta Virus.

[Pursegrrl]

^^ ACL, that story made the papers and everything. It was beyond sick. And can you imagine the neighbors complaining in his cul de sac? They actually flipped his house and it's on the market right now and they've cut down all the trees and brush to stop the rats from returning. I would NEVER buy that house...I thought it should have been leveled after what that recluse did!

OK, back in college I lived off campus my senior year with a sorority sister in a total dumpy but cheap apartment complex a couple blocks off campus. Goodwill furniture, the whole works. There was an un-neutered male stray cat who lurked around the complex who we called Balls (LOL). And, there was a drug dealer or someone next door to us b/c in the middle of the night we would hear people pounding on his door yelling his name all the time! And...over by the dumpsters there was another group of weirdos who always had the fireplace going full blast...even in the middle of summer when it was in the mid 90s.

[fabae]

My neighbor once came across my front lawn screaming at my parents (who were inside my house) because they parked in front of his house. He doesn't have a driveway for them to block, there was still room for him to park in front of his house, my parents were only staying for a couple of minutes, and the guy doesn't own the street - the city does.

Another time he was spray painting his house. When I parked in front of MY house, he started screaming at me, "I'm painting! You can't park there!" Wacko.

[Tangerine]

Our next door neighbor is a first class d-bag who is currently embroiled in a legal dispute over what he claims is 10 inches of his property with the NINETY YEAR OLD WOMAN next door. She has lived there for 50 years, and never had any problems with this issue with previous owners of the d-bag' house. He wants her to move the fence, and until she does he wants to charge her RENT for the ten inches!


Ass kicker is, looking at city records, it turns out that on our side of his property, he actually is ten inches into OURS. lolll. Should be enough to get him to shut it, permanently. AHHH, BUT NO. Class act this dude. I'm telling you.

Tell me, what the EFFFF is this asshat gonna do with ten extra inches of property???

[ilovepinkhearts]

seeing as how there are all the other "hell" threads and i was thinking about how awful some of my neighbors have been, and thought we might as well share.

the last house we lived in last had horrible neighbors across the street from us. the grandmother was taking care of her 3 grandchildren. we had just moved in and the youngest boy, about 3 i think was running down the street completely naked and the grandmother just stood in her driveway yelling at him to come back...after he was long gone she finally decided to chase him down and bring him back while he yelled and screamed the whole way.

she also would leave him parked in his stroller, strapped in with the lock on sitting in the driveway for 45 mins. he would be squirming and crying and trying to get out the whole time.

there were times that the kids where locked out of the house and we could hear them screaming at the door "grammaw let us in...PLEASE!!" as they kicked and screamed to get in.

they would also walk into our garage if the door was left open and go through our stuff [the kids would] we would find them later back on their yard playing with my son's toys, we had to get them back numerous time.

also her boyfriend/husband would sit in his garage when he was there and drink all day with his music blaring...it was so loud that i could hear it in the back of my house with all the windows/doors closed and over the tv. the one time that i asked him to turn it down ... it got ugly and i had to threaten to call the cops on him...i was so glad that we moved!!