Stupid neighbors!

[DiabeticKripple]

Have any neighbor stories of them being annoying, dumb, or funny?

When I had my old dog she used to bark about once every 30 seconds to get in te house. My neighbor across the back alley kept yelling "shutup!" At my dog. Well now since their son passed away (drunk driving and drove off a bridge) they got a dog and it goes nuts when it wants in. It just barks and barks and barks. So one day I yelled shutup after about 5 mins of this and all I hear back is "don't you ever tell my dog to shutup!" I was astounded because for years she told mine to shutup.

Another day, same neighbor, I was mowing my lawn mid afternoon on a Saturday. While I'm near the back alley I see her looking at me through my fence. So I stopped the mower and asked "can I help you" she ten yelled at me that she was trying to play the piano and the mower was interrupting her. So I said "we'll I've heard you playing an yor not good anyways" and walked away and fired up the mower haha.

Last one, when her son was 18 him and his friends made a potato cannon and launched a potato through our garage door right as we were leaving for dinner. Needless to say my dad ripped him a new *******, and made him fix and paint the door.

[Freedom55]

Ask yourself this young fella. How would your mother react to losing her son?

Just STFU and be a good neighbor.

Free

[sparky660]

Originally Posted by Freedom55

Ask yourself this young fella. How would your mother react to losing her son?

Just STFU and be a good neighbor.

Free

Seriously????? Sure they lost a son, that would be a loss I wouldn't want to experience, but that doesn't give them the right to act as they are. Having the nerve to complain about my dog then get defensive when you do the same about theirs is being hypocritical.

[fishtank]

it take 2 to tangle..... i usually just ignored it like the time she complain about my trees leafs falling on her lawn and flower bed... well it's not even my tree i think it belong to the city lol.
or if you want it done right do it yourself.. ask about replacing the fence between our house's they don't wanna paid for their share. So i paid for it my self and i only painted my side of the fence, they ask me when i was going to paint their side i said ran out of paint

[Okotokian]

Originally Posted by Freedom55

Ask yourself this young fella. How would your mother react to losing her son?

Just STFU and be a good neighbor.

Free

X2

I'd cut them some slack for a while. Not forever, but a while. Complain next year.

[sparky660]

Originally Posted by Okotokian

X2

I'd cut them some slack for a while. Not forever, but a while. Complain next year.

That is assuming it has happened recently. How long ago did it happen?

[DiabeticKripple]

This was over a year ago. The dog one happened this summer, the others before he died.

[DiabeticKripple]

She also called my other neighbors 14 year old daughter a bitch. And she got mad that she had a bonfire with friends. Said they were to loud, when my parents who's window is right there, didn't hear a peep, and te girls mom didn't hear anything either.

All the neighbors around don't like her, but her husband is okay. I kinda feel sorry for him

[just_dave]

Originally Posted by Freedom55

Ask yourself this young fella. How would your mother react to losing her son?

Just STFU and be a good neighbor.

Free

Only because you say so.

[althetrainer]

I hear ya, stupid neighbor!

We also have some stupid people live across the back alley from us. Started from years ago, the two boys were nothing but trouble. When they were teens, they used to go into the hot tub in the middle of a winter night. Their tub is outside their house, facing our backyard. We have two trees in our backyard, one on the left and the other one, right. From their hot tub they could see our kitchen bay window between the two trees. I guess the trees must look like goal posts to them and our bay window, their target zone. So the two boys often stayed up until midnight or 1 in the morning, went into their hot tub and took turns to throw snowballs at our window.

They always waited until we had all gone to sleep and our house was dark. Then the snowballs hit our window "SLAP" and woke us up. But by the time we got out of bed, went to the kitchen, we could only see the wet trails of the snowballs on the window and the boys had already taken cover inside their house. We knew it was them only we couldn't prove it.

For years, they had been doing that and never got caught - until I gave birth to my son. You know when you have an infant, there's no such thing of sleep.

One early morning around 1am, I was in the kitchen warming up a bottle of milk for our son. I saw the two boys in the hot tub and I knew they were just waiting for me to leave. I grabbed the bottle, turned off the light but I didn't leave the kitchen. I stood behind a small wall so they couldn't see me. Sure enough, in a few minutes SLAP - a huge snowball hit our window and sled down the glass leaving the telltale trail. The hot tub lights were turned off but I saw one of the boys picked up his towel and tiptoed back inside their house. Our house was still dark so the boy thought I had gone back to sleep and that it was safe to come out from the dark.

Raged (never underestimate the power of postpartum hormones) I put on my boots and coat, ran around the block and went to bang on their door. The older boy came out to answer the door. I asked for their mother. He said their mother was asleep and that he was not going to wake her up. I told him if I couldn't talk to his mother I would go to talk to the police. He didn't ask why (because he knew why) and in a few minute his mother was at the door asking "what do you want". I told her what her boys did and she just looked at me like I was not even there. I said to her, "They have been doing this for years and we thought they would grow out of it. But no, they didn't because they have just put a huge snowball on our window!" She didn't look impressed then asked "So did they break anything?" I suddenly realized why her boys behaved the way they did. Their parents didn't give a damn to what their children were doing.

Their dad worked offshore so he was never home. Mom, on the other hand, was a social butterfly who wouldn't bother to stay home. Often the teen boys were left home to take charge of the house for long weekends so they invited their teen friends over for dancing/drinking/trouble making marathons.

Many times they're all getting drunk, building a bonfire in their backyard, sitting on top of their roof throwing bits and pieces of burning stuff from the rooftop. I just didn't know whether I should worry if they were going to burn their house down or one of the drunk kids was going to fall off the roof.

We have called the cops many times for their behaviors. The cops came, told them to stop and the party usually ended an hour after we made the phone call. Yes, it took at least an hour for the cops to show up. Then it would go quiet until their next party and the cops would come again and the same scene recycles on.

The boys are no longer teenagers but the younger son still lives with his parents. And of course, when his parents go on vacation his friends and heavy base music will take over the house. I don't see them climb the rooftop any more but the "BOOM BOOM" come their basement travel across the back alley and into our house. I am in bed but I can feel the vibrations, every beat of it. But usually around 3 or 4 in the morning, they all get drunk and pass out and that's when I can finally get some sleep.

I often wonder why their doings only bother me but not my other neighbors. They never seemed to call the cops or make complaints. Don't they hear their loud music and notice the bonfire? Am I overreacting to the normal behaviors of typical young men?

[grunger]

When I lived in Calgary I had a neighbor (old guy in his late 70’s) who would split wood on top of an old empty beer keg in the back yard for days on end. BONG!
He would also weld and grind metal outside and the sparks would fly over the fence into my yard.

I tried talking to him about it and he told me to come on over and we could talk about it face to face. He had a history of getting in fights with other neighbors across the back lane, so I declined. He then proceeded to take his axe and start slamming the fence between our yards shouting “YOU WANT NOISE? I’LL GIVE YOU F’N NOISE”.

One day my wife is sitting on the deck and hears yelling in the back lane. She stands up and sees the old guy standing over another neighbor from down the lane with a piece of pipe in his hand. She calls 911 and cops come. He claimed that the neighbor (in his 50’s) threw a snowball at him. It might have happened, I don’t know.

Fast forward a year. We’re in the back yard having a bbq with family and a few friends. About as noisy as conversation gets and no music. He fired up this old van he has parked in his yard (he can’t drive) and revs away for about 30 minutes. The thing was parked right beside the fence, exhaust pouring into our yard.

I tried calling bylaw over the years and nothing came of it. Tried talking to him, but he always just wanted to fight. Finally we moved out of the city and no more noise.

That old man was crazy.

[Rumtan]

If you want to get back at someone with a hot tub....try sneaking a packet of green kool-aid in........or try purple......its always a crowd pleaser.

[Elk Chaser]

Originally Posted by Rumtan

If you want to get back at someone with a hot tub....try sneaking a packet of green kool-aid in........or try purple......its always a crowd pleaser.

Right idea - wrong product. Sneak in some of the concentrated food colouring - they jump in fleshy pink and come out blue.

[Toirtis]

A couple of years back, I had a neighbour directly across the street, that, despite having a driveway large enough to easily park two buses in, insisted on parking on the street directly in front of his house. He was so obsessed with this, that on occasion, if he arrived home when someone else had just pulled up in front of his house, he would confront and yell at them until they moved.

So, there was something I did on a couple of occasions, but this once was a good example. I had a friend come over to visit, and when I saw that my neighbour was away at the moment, I insisted that she park in front of his house, and she did. We were up until quite late, around, 1am, and I saw through my front window that he had parked in his driveway, and ostensibly gone to bed, as all his curtains were drawn and the lights all extinguished. I asked my friend for her keys, and told her to watch out the window for the next few minutes. I got in her car and pulled away (drove around the block and parked just down from my house). Sure enough, about 30 seconds after I drove away, the lights came on in my neighbour's house, he can beetling outside in his jammies and slippers, hopped in his car, pulled out of the driveway, and repositioned his car on the street, directly in front of his house.

I did this a few times over the years...always amused me how obsessed he was over that spot.

[althetrainer]

Originally Posted by Rumtan

If you want to get back at someone with a hot tub....try sneaking a packet of green kool-aid in........or try purple......its always a crowd pleaser.

Originally Posted by Elk Chaser

Right idea - wrong product. Sneak in some of the concentrated food colouring - they jump in fleshy pink and come out blue.

LOL I will try to remember that.

[score]

Originally Posted by Elk Chaser

Right idea - wrong product. Sneak in some of the concentrated food colouring - they jump in fleshy pink and come out blue.

How about a bottle of dishwashing soap?

[Kokanee9]

Originally Posted by Rumtan

If you want to get back at someone with a hot tub....try sneaking a packet of green kool-aid in........or try purple......its always a crowd pleaser.

Don't you mean yellow kool-aid?

[bukwild]

We used to have a neighbor that was getting on in years and she would complain about any noise at all. One day while my wife was working in the garden with a portable radio she came over and walked right into the backyard while tapping a butcher knife in her hand and told my wife that if she didn't turn off the music she have to do something about it. Scared the bejesus out the wife.

On other occasions if we had guests she would call the police several times a night to come and ask us to keep it down. The fuzz never could find us too noisy so one evening when she called they came and found nothing too noisy so they hung around until her second call and then went straight to her door and warned her that if she called unnecessarily again they would charge her.

That same summer while my wife was watering the garden she spotted the neighbor lady peeking through the fence, so she sprayed the fence down (to wash off the dust, you know). Needless to say there was a loud screech on the other side of the fence.

The odd part is that the lady would bring Christmas treats to the door every year and two years after we moved we ran into her and her husband while shopping and she couldn't tell us enough about how much they missed us as neighbors! I guess some folks just have odd ways of relating!

[Shmag]

I have a run in with my neighbor every time i cut the grass. We have 1.5 acre parcels. I do have to admitt my riding mower is ugly, and although it has a huge muffler on it, i think the baffles are long blown out of it.

Anyways, he usually waits til i'm about half ways done mowing the lawn and then i see him like clock work heading over with 2 cold beers in his hand. So i shut down ol barky...yes sometimes it backfires. And we have a beer, then when he notices i'm about half way done my beer, he phones his house and tells his son to bring over 2 more. Well his son is pretty lazy and thinks he can save a trip or two walking decides to bring a six pack. Then his wife comes home and notices him over at my place and figures since its such a hot day to bring a bucket of beer over on ice. At this point its getting overboard, but think it would probably be rude of me to turn down a generous offer. So after that bucket on that day in question, get thinking my only chore for the day was to get the lawn mowed decide its my 6 yr olds time to learn how to drive a riding mower. So i get him started on it and 2 tomato, 1 potted plant, and a gravel walkway later, i come to the conclusion that might not of been a very good idea.

So as we sit at the front of the yard we hear my wife pull up in the back....at that point my neighbor says he's full and sneaks back into his yard. It took a whole 3.5 seconds for my wife to come unglued...in which i just put up my hands in confusion and said...."DAMN NEIGHBORS"

[score]

The G** D*** cats. Well, actually the cat owners and a few. Some are good but some are ignorant and irresponsible. They crap in the garden and even right on the lawn. They spray the BBQ and everything else. The worst one, was a guy and family that just moved in two doors down. One day while outside, I saw him and walked over to introduce myself and welcome him. Well, a couple weeks later, I noticed it was two of their cats that were coming around doing their business. Next time I saw him, I walked over and very politely told him what was up. His response was I don't give a eff what they do, they're cats. What's the big deal? I just walked away and have not spoken to him since, about 3 years. I called the pound a couple of times and apparently they were fined both times. Can't really blame the cats but would love to get rid of them. The guy is a bow hunter too. So, there you go. Bow hunters are jerks.

[jaylow?]

Originally Posted by score

The G** D*** cats. Well, actually the cat owners and a few. Some are good but some are ignorant and irresponsible. They crap in the garden and even right on the lawn. They spray the BBQ and everything else. The worst one, was a guy and family that just moved in two doors down. One day while outside, I saw him and walked over to introduce myself and welcome him. Well, a couple weeks later, I noticed it was two of their cats that were coming around doing their business. Next time I saw him, I walked over and very politely told him what was up. His response was I don't give a eff what they do, they're cats. What's the big deal? I just walked away and have not spoken to him since, about 3 years. I called the pound a couple of times and apparently they were fined both times. Can't really blame the cats but would love to get rid of them. The guy is a bow hunter too. So, there you go. Bow hunters are jerks.

i was asking if he was a bow hunter in my head and sure enough!

[kmacisaac]

Originally Posted by score

The G** D*** cats. Well, actually the cat owners and a few. Some are good but some are ignorant and irresponsible. They crap in the garden and even right on the lawn. They spray the BBQ and everything else. The worst one, was a guy and family that just moved in two doors down. One day while outside, I saw him and walked over to introduce myself and welcome him. Well, a couple weeks later, I noticed it was two of their cats that were coming around doing their business. Next time I saw him, I walked over and very politely told him what was up. His response was I don't give a eff what they do, they're cats. What's the big deal? I just walked away and have not spoken to him since, about 3 years. I called the pound a couple of times and apparently they were fined both times. Can't really blame the cats but would love to get rid of them. The guy is a bow hunter too. So, there you go. Bow hunters are jerks.

I had the same problem a few years back. I put out soft mulch in the flower beds and the neighbor's cat seemed to feel it was a great place to leave a daily turd. I get along with the neighbor quite well, and he seemed to think it wasn't his cat since it is an indoor cat for the most part. I had scared it a few times over the fence when I cracked open the patio slider so I was certain it was the culprit
I eventually ended up with a handful of soft rocks that were buried while I was doing a bit of a spring cleanup. Irate as I was I decided to deal with this myself. I cracked a can of tuna, and left it out in the flower bed for the night. The next day, tuna was gone, juice licked clean and never had a problem again. If the cat is outside now, it seems to be on a leash that goes no further than the owner's yard.

[colin455]

Hey Score. You can get motion activated sprinklers that keep pets out of the yard. If that doesn't work a can of tuna(distraction) and a squirtgun full of skunk or doe in hear urine will do the trick.

[score]

Originally Posted by colin455

Hey Score. You can get motion activated sprinklers that keep pets out of the yard. If that doesn't work a can of tuna(distraction) and a squirtgun full of skunk or doe in hear urine will do the trick.

Thanks. I've tried lots of things but soon as they hear the door open they are gone in a flash. I can't get close to them. I think maybe if it gets a mouse trap on it's face it may help but I kind of doubt it. I have used rocks for mulch and they don't like to go there as much. It's mostly the spraying now and that stuff stains and stinks. Tried to whack em with a soft air gun, but kept missing. I don't know. Maybe they'll move or a coyote will get them one day. We live on the outskirts, but I still can't shoot here. STUPID NEIGHBORS!!!

[7mm08]

A 220 Conibear trap goes hand in hand with a can of tuna for solving cat problems...so I hear. My arguement is, "what would you do if my pet was crapping in your yard?" ...or what if I crapped in your yard?

[Tundra Monkey]

Originally Posted by 7mm08

...or what if I crapped in your yard?

A bigger conibear

[calgarychef]

I have a buddy who feuds like hell with his neighbours and his life is hell. I get along with mine, drink beer with them and do them favours, my life isn't hell. To have good neighbours you have to be a good neighbour.

[helluvahunter]

Originally Posted by 7mm08

A 220 Conibear trap goes hand in hand with a can of tuna for solving cat problems...so I hear. My arguement is, "what would you do if my pet was crapping in your yard?" ...or what if I crapped in your yard?

Culprit would be caught and have there nose rubbed in it.

Our Neighbours are good no problems. I think the blood on my tailgate from hunting scares them a little.

[score]

Originally Posted by 7mm08

A 220 Conibear trap goes hand in hand with a can of tuna for solving cat problems...so I hear. My arguement is, "what would you do if my pet was crapping in your yard?" ...or what if I crapped in your yard?

Yeah, other neighbors are po'd too. Maybe I'll collect the crap and go dump it on his door step with a note saying; "I think this belongs to you".

[slivers86]

my neighbour just planted a large apple tree RIGHT ON THE PROPERTY LINE... the tree well is only 2 ft wide, and the edge is on my property line... This is a canopy style apple which will grow large.

I told him it wasn't a good idea as I had already planted my apple 5ft off the line, and it would 'bush up' in the next 3-5 years.

Obviously he ignored this, so I will be buying some nice pruning equitment to help him with his decisions