craziest thing you have witness your neighbor do?

We have TWO crazy neighbors...and yes, we frequently have talks about buying a shack in the woods to get away from everyone.

The one guy, we'll call Mr. R. After we moved in, we had the cable installed and he came over to yell at the installers that they were breaking the law due to Aerial Trespassing (lol wut?!) because the line crossed his property and connected to the pole on his yard. Just about every thing Hubs does, he'll come over and tell him it's wrong and illegal. Moving the mailbox, building new steps, building a shed? All illegal. Mind you, Hubs checked with the city before doing any of that so we knew it wasn't. And of course Mr. R can do whatever he wants...EVERY winter my husband has to remind him not to direct his snowblower chute at our house or he might break our windows and/or damage our siding.

The newest thing was his obsession with our fence. Hubs caught Mr. R's son tresspassing on our property so he wrote on the fence (our fence on our property but on the side facing their yard) "Take Note, Keep Out". In return, we received a letter from Mr. R's attorney saying this was in violation of the spite fence ordinance and we had to either paint over it or remove the fence. We didn't know at the time that you can pay a lawyer a fee to write a letter for you so we took it seriously and painted the fence. Wish we hadn't in retrospect but Hubs followed up with tasteful No Tresspasing signs and we haven't heard anything else about it.

However, Hubs recently caught Mr. R trying to destroy another neighbors fence (Mr R noticed him watching and stopped). There's no one currently occupying the property but Hubs knows the owner/property manager so he let him know. I told him he should've called the cops... And again, if someone was doing that to his property, he'd be raging like a lunatic. I don't understand people like that...smh

Won't get into the other neighbor - I'll be typing for hours!

And then there was the banshee across the street. It was bad enough listening to her scream at her son for hours, but when she was screaming about wanting to hit him in the face and make his mouth bleed...it was too much. Heartbreaking really. If she's screaming about that I can't imagine what she did in private.

Most of these posts are hysterical, but this one just pissed me off.

Almost every weekend, we used to see a tow truck bring our neighbor & car home (about 3:00 a.m.). The next morning, she'd get up, jump in her car and away she'd go. I think she had a little alcohol problem. But at least she was safe about it!

Were you my neighbor? I totally used to do that when I was in my 20's. I had a friend who was an on-call tow truck driver, so I would regularly have him flatbed my car home after a night of drinking. Easier than trying to find a ride to go pick up your car the next morning!

I had this neighbor who didn't even know me, back when my husband was out to sea in the Navy, gave me a ride from Delaware to the Naval base in Philly, over an hour away. Another neighbor who knew I needed a ride but didn't have a car introduced us. The Navy wouldn't let him on the base when we got there, so I had to walk with my baby in a stroller all the way across the base to my meeting, which was to arrange my move back to Wisconsin (my husband was getting discharged soon), then walk all the way back. This took me most of the day, walking, meeting and walking back. When I got back, the guy, who I had just met that morning, was still waiting for me. I was really surprised that he was still there after the whole day although I had no idea how I would have gotten back to Delaware (I had no driver's license at the time, was 18, 5 months pregnant and had a 7 month-old baby with me). He said he would never leave a young girl alone in Philly without a ride home. He took us home. I never learned anything more than his first name and didn't have any way tor repay him for his gas or time or thank him, other than to just say thank you to him.

Wasn't that crazy of him to do?

Nah. Rare but not crazy. I wouldn't have left you either, I'm a mom so if kids are involved it's different.

Neighbor 1 "watering" their trees with a hose; directly into neighbor 2's open convertible.

Another time neighbor 1 put nails/tacks all around the other neighbor 2's car. They really didn't appreciate people parking in front of their house...

I have witnessed my old next-door neighbors having a lot of arguments -- both with each other and other neighbors -- some of which the cops showed up for. One time the middle daughter was yelling at the dad to "keep popping pills".

These neighbors also have an above-ground pool that many of the neighborhood kids frequent unsupervised. One little girl showed up in a bathng suit top and underwear :-/

I guess I am the crazy neighbor. I've vacuumed the lawn with a shop vac after a water balloon fight. The bits weren't biodegradable, I didn't want kids or animals choking on them.
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That makes sense! I told the kids that if they wanted to do the water balloons they had to hand pick up every single piece, and they did.]

And then there was the banshee across the street. It was bad enough listening to her scream at her son for hours, but when she was screaming about wanting to hit him in the face and make his mouth bleed...it was too much. Heartbreaking really. If she's screaming about that I can't imagine what she did in private.

I sure hope someone called Child Protective Services on her!

Yes.

Well I hope my neighbors aren't on here lol

To one side I have a wife and ex husband that live together and her boyfriend, this is going on 7 years Ive lived there. The ex still calls his ex wife his wife and the kids call them both grandpa. Whats even weirder is they both have the same name so we call them J1 and J2. And not just us, the whole neighborhood. But they are nice people lol. Just a lil weird to explain to the kids lol.

All the other 5 surrounding me don't speak English. So a lot of conversations that I don't understand.

I had someone make a fake bomb out of a battery and put it in my front yard. Woke up to take the kids to school and my whole house was surrounded by Swat team and blocked off. Still pissed they never knocked to tell me to get out of the house, even though it was a dud. My friends actually saw it on the news and called me as I was walking out the door.

But seriously Im prob the one they would have more stories about on my street if you asked my neighbors :drinker:

My neighbors are swingers and party in their hot tub all the time. Not my thing but hey, do you.

OH, I have another one!

One year I was having a Halloween party and our neightbours, who we never met, crashed it. They were in their late 50's and VERY drunk. I mean, easily the drunkest people at the party.

All of a sudden the woman is in my kitchen crying her eyes out. She stays there for about half an hour while we all awkwardly avoid her, then she and her boyfriend leave.

Find out the next morning they had propositioned by flatmates 19 year old brother for a threesome and she was crying in the kitchen because he said no.

Came home one day to find her vacuuming her grass. Guess she is a neat freak, they often wash their driveway and sidewalk as well as the road in front of their house. The vacuuming was a new one, we did take a picture as we were sure that no one would believe us lol.

just edited to add that we will take our neat freak neighbour over those shooting up the neighborhood.

We think it is something about the house. Five families have lived there in the 22 years we have lived here. All progressively stranger. All obsessive about washing their driveways and sidewalks. The vacuuming woman is the most recent. Now we have neighbours who are on the town secret garden tour list because their yards are so beautiful but I have NEVER seen them vacuuming their grass lol.

I realized something today...saw my building maintenance guy and he was jokingly like "omgod...you still live here? I *never* see you!" Ive been doing my walks around the building ever since I got my fitbit a couple weeks ago...someone said hello to me and asked me if I was new, and my neighbor downstairs from me said he hasnt seen me in months and hopes everything is okay. Ive noticed too now that Im out for my walks, neighbors outside talking to each other, they all seem to know each other.

Ive lived here 2 years, and there are maybe 50 apartments here so its not like its so huge...I realize Im a hermit, but oh man...between recent events and this thread, Im feeling like maybe Im the crazy neighbor...the one with Vit D deficiency who never leaves her apartment LoL

Poop on someone's doorstep