Crazy neighbor stories

[dusty paws]

Oooh okay this is a good one.

My first semester in college (I transfered in) I lived alone in a 1bd/1bth. There was a guy downstairs who had a ton of cats - he and I had talked a few times. Well one started hanging out near me so I'd put some blankets and water out for her. One morning the neighbors across from me fed the cat (I'd seen the bowl out) and he got mad thinking it was me. He came upstairs screaming and banging on my doors and windows. I was in bed and crying by myself, my bf lived about 20 mins away on campus.

I called the cops and they came out and warned him.

We also had a couple who had domestic disputes often - this one time he rammed his truck into the side of the building. Crazy.

I didn't stay there long.

[lil_peanut]

1.
When my DH and I lived in a duplex, we had a CRAZY lady living next door. She had this huge Chow that was very mean and she'd let the dog have the full run of the street.
Every time my Dh and I would come home from work, (separately) it would race up to our car and just hover by the drivers side door and growl. I would honk and the woman would take her sweet time, as in probably 15 mins!! She would then proceed to scream at us that he was a sweet dog and didn't need to be on a leash! Yeah right! I've owned rotties, pits, and other large breeds and the Chow is the only dog I don't trust!

Finally one day my DH had had enough and bonked the dog with his car door several times. The dog finally learned his lesson after that.
The local shelter wouldn't do anything because they'd have to catch the dog in the act.

2.
Another neighbor was just a gross pig. He'd put the lights out in his living room so he could potentionally see me and my DH make out! I never forgot to draw the shades after that. (He never saw anything XXX, thank god.)

3.
Another neighbor apparently escaped from a looney bin or something! I was at work, but DH got a knock on the door and it was the SWAT team advising him to keep low and avoid windows until the guy was caught. This was a nice neighborhood, people!

All these freaks lived in the duplex next door, not attached to us. Whew. I'm really glad we don't live there anymore. The house we're at right now has a bunch of screaming kids next door, which I HATE, but I can live with it.

[Jeneen]

They weren't horrible guys, but my old neighbors who lived below me smoke weed alllllll day evvvvvvverrrrry day and the fumes would come up into my place. I'm pretty liberal but all day, every day is excessive... I swear I would have tested positive for use if I had had a drug test when they were living below me.

[ilovepinkhearts]

yikes lil_peanut, you had some great ones!!

and nice jeneen...sounds like they are/were serious stoners.

[k2sealer]

About 12-13 years ago I lived next to a woman who would play the same Backstreet song over and over and over again. She would turn it up so loud that it would rattle a lamp that I had that was on the far side of the room from our adjoining wall. I made the mistake of knocking on her door and asking nicely if she could please turn her music down. She got all huffy with me and asked me, "Whatsa matter? Dontcha like music?" So, I experimented with her love of all music. I would turn on scottish bagpipe music really loud whenever her music got too loud. I learned that not everyone likes bagpipe music. Huh? Go figure.

Where we live now we have had the police bust a pot growing operation in our house kittycorner from us. We have watched the police come screeching up to this same house (different tenants) and pull guns out on the people on the porch and order them to the ground. Same house, yet again different tenants, weird lady would let her toddler play outside in the snow with his older siblings with no shoes on at all. One time I told the older sibling that she HAD TO take the baby in the house and put shoes on it. The kid was pre-verbal and wouldn't have been able to tell anyone that it was getting frostbite.

Another neighbor had a teenage son who dumped his live scorpions in the grass between our two houses when he didn't want them anymore. Same teenage son would have loud parties at the house whenever his parents would go away. Normally I wouldn't care, but the loudest part of the party was the kids in the front of the house smoking. This would be 10-20 feet from the window of my sleeping infant/toddler (at the time, now 7 yrs old) who I had JUST gotten to fall asleep. Sometimes the parties would be in the middle of the week. Very annoying when you have to get up at 4am to go to work the next day.

[ilovepinkhearts]

^^wow!

[frick&frack]

I have 2 drunk neighbors, & they make for some hilarious stories...

1. I have found across the street drunk neighbor sleeping in his driveway on many a morning

2. across the street drunk neighbor goes out into the street & yells about the hockey match after it's over

3. I have heard across the street drunk neighbor yelling (like fighting or challenging) at the train as it goes by

4. next door drunk neighbor is constantly trying to get me to come over & have drinks. he often makes passes at me, but I don't think much of it since he's drunk & old enough to be my grandfather. the last time I reluctantly agreed to go over, he was very insistent that we were going to "hook up." I ended up having to run out of his house. that was about 4 months ago...we haven't spoken since then.