Who else has crazy neighbors

[GretaRhiannon]

my neighbors lol, ok on the left of us, their dog non stop barks, you cant walk out in the backyard without this dog running out and barking, I htink it waits by its doggie door until it hears a sound and runs out and barks. Now, everyone else on the block calls their dogs in when they bark but her, either he does it so much that she doesnt hear it, or she doesnt give a crap. Now on the other side of us, there this one girl, who's retarded (i'm serious she is, I'm not calling her that lol), and she has a boyfriend who keeps cheating on her, and she comes to our door telling us that they just went for a STD testing lol. That has happened 7 times in the past year. And then, whenever we walk out of our front door, she comes running out of her's to say hi, she does this to everyone in the neighborhood. Now her mom, she sits out on the porch and talks on the phone so loud, we can hear her whole conversation. Then the sister, who doesnt live there, but visits everyday, is fat lol, im sorry but she has to be 300 + pounds, and she dresses like a ****, not something everyone wants to see, and has platinum blond hair...not pretty. And whenever she comes to visit, they all gather outside and talk and laugh so freakin loud, that when I put my music on full blast, I can still hear them. Well, the retarded girl just broke a leg so nothing funny has happened in a while to say, so yeah lol. Also man lol, when my step dad had to go to the hospital, and the ambulience(?) was wheeling him from the house to the car, of course everyone comes out lol, and the retarded girl came out screaming and went to the gerney and was all "Jose! Jose! are you ok!!!! Wake up!!!" lmao!!! and My mom is at the house P.O.d about this because they wouldnt even let her ride with him. and then we hear the girl's mom scream at her from the porch "*insert name here* Get your @$$ back here!!"

[Sorceress]

Years ago we lived above our landlord. He was from the Czech Republic, had long stringy hair, and wore nothing but a red velvety bathrobe all the time. He told us the day we moved in that his girlfriend had been killed in a murder-suicide. He apparently was very depressed about this--and rightfully so, of course. Sometimes in the middle of the night he would blare opera music and sob and curse so loudly we couldn't sleep.
It was so tragic, yet so bizarre. The apartment was great and we decided he was harmless. I would have stayed there except we had to move out of the area, though our upstairs neighbor was, by all appearances, a drug dealer.

At our next apartment, our neighbor lady had schizophrenia and I'm pretty confident she was not taking any meds. She tried to never leave her apartment, and if she happened to see someone coming in the hallway, she would dart behind things to hide, or would turn around and go right back to her apartment. At night we could sometimes hear her yelling at her voices.

Now, several years removed, I feel guilty that I didn't try to help these people. Give them some phone numbers or something...Geez.

[GardenStateGirlie]

The only annoying thing about my neighborhood is the family across the street and two houses down. The guy that lives there plays (err...more like tries) to play bagpipes and often has his pals over to practice in the backyard. ANNOYING. His at it right now

[GretaRhiannon]

Originally Posted by Lux

My neighbour isn't so much annoying as he is life-threatening. He's threatened my father with a machete. I tend to avoid him as he does me. I'd rather not have that implement waved in front of my face.

Your neighbours sound just like my best friend's. He would always have to keep an eye out and duck outside when their backs were turned because they actually set up chairs and would spend their days sitting and starring at the neighbours, occasionally shouting out to them. They also had bizarre pelican ornaments in their garden. So my other friend went to his house and mooned them. Wait, do you have that expression?

Mooned haha, that's hecka funny, my cousin did that once to this girl who lived across from them, she would use her telescope to spy on them, so one day he saw her looking and he mooned her lol.

[GretaRhiannon]

Originally Posted by Sorceress

Years ago we lived above our landlord. He was from the Czech Republic, had long stringy hair, and wore nothing but a red velvety bathrobe all the time. He told us the day we moved in that his girlfriend had been killed in a murder-suicide. He apparently was very depressed about this--and rightfully so, of course. Sometimes in the middle of the night he would blare opera music and sob and curse so loudly we couldn't sleep.
It was so tragic, yet so bizarre. The apartment was great and we decided he was harmless. I would have stayed there except we had to move out of the area, though our upstairs neighbor was, by all appearances, a drug dealer.

At our next apartment, our neighbor lady had schizophrenia and I'm pretty confident she was not taking any meds. She tried to never leave her apartment, and if she happened to see someone coming in the hallway, she would dart behind things to hide, or would turn around and go right back to her apartment. At night we could sometimes hear her yelling at her voices.

Now, several years removed, I feel guilty that I didn't try to help these people. Give them some phone numbers or something...Geez.

Aww poor people. Didn't she ever go to the doctor's? Cause they would have at least done something about her not taking her meds...

[DrummerDeanna]

As a matter of fact I have both crazy and annoying neighbors..>BUT I no longer live there...I'm in transition right now, living in a dumb ass dorm building while finishing my internship....and next week I'll look for a place to live in my new town....and will definitely ask about the neighbors..because I don't want to live next to a bunch of crazies or sickies.....

Anyway, I had this neighbor...he's always been weird, but in the months prior to my graduation he was even weirder.

So I was in my local paper a few times in the last few months...they mentioned my major (journalism) and my internship etc...well one day I'm outside cleaning my car out when I hear, "JANELLE...hey Janelle...." I look up, and it's my across the street neighbor....my name isn't Janelle, but I don't correct him because I was kind of amused...well he proceeds to tell me that since I'm a journalism major I really should look into working for O'Reilly (Bill) because he needs good journalists...that was it...

About two weeks later I was outside pulling some weeds when I hear, "Donella!! Hey Donella!!" I Look up, and it's the same guy....he comes over, and asks me if I've applied for a job with O'Reilly's people...I tell him I haven't and he proceeds to try convince me that O'Reilly is the way to go...

About a week before graduation I was outside yet again...and I hear, "DEANNA! Hey Deanna!!" Well, I'm thinking yea for him, he finally got my name right, but he was just coming over to tell me that I made a huge mistake by taking an internship with NPR instead of going with O'Reilly The guys a kook...

The other neighbors are all just loud and obnoxious.....and I'm very thankful that I no longer have to deal with them.

[GretaRhiannon]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

The only annoying thing about my neighborhood is the family across the street and two houses down. The guy that lives there plays (err...more like tries) to play bagpipes and often has his pals over to practice in the backyard. ANNOYING. His at it right now

Bagpipes are the worst thing in the Scottish culture...

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

The only annoying thing about my neighborhood is the family across the street and two houses down. The guy that lives there plays (err...more like tries) to play bagpipes and often has his pals over to practice in the backyard. ANNOYING. His at it right now

That IS horrid.....that reminds me though, my ex-boyfriends neighbor took up tap dance shortly before I left...it was SOOO funny hearing her practice in her kitchen...(he lives in an apartment).

[Gwillaker]

Originally Posted by GretaRhiannon

my neighbors lol, ok on the left of us, their dog non stop barks, you cant walk out in the backyard without this dog running out and barking, I htink it waits by its doggie door until it hears a sound and runs out and barks. Now, everyone else on the block calls their dogs in when they bark but her, either he does it so much that she doesnt hear it, or she doesnt give a crap.

I got the exact same problem! Theres new people next door on the left (or right, depending on which side of the house you're on, front or back) and they have THREE obnoxious terriers who bark their asses off if you step out the back door! And she doesnt give a ****, if you say anything she gets all defensive and acts like you're the one being completely unreasonable! the people on the other side of us are basically OK, but they argue a lot. You cant help but overhear the yelling and doors slamming, sometimes in the middle of the night. And there must be 50,000 nails in their wall! You hear the banging of hammers all the time, for about 5 or 6 years now! What are they building in there???

[sparky]

I have a few neighbors who can be annoying. Well, one and a half. The one group is an extended family - grandma, mother, and 2 or 3 kids. They kids are in high school. I cannot see the house, but it's driveway, which is like mine, is steep and winds arounds for about 200'. For some reason, every time someone drives up, they honk. And these people come and go about a dozen times a day. They also have a dog, which they penned up closer to my house - for three days. It barked non stop. They put up a tasteful blue tarp so the dog would be shielded from the sun and viewing the back of my house. The third day of this, I called them up. In polite, even tones, I ran down why that dog wasn't going to be near my house, and exactly what steps, from police, to animal control, to hiring an attorney that I was going to go through if the dog wasn't moved and kept quiet. It hasn't barked longer than 20 seconds since, and is on the other side of their 2 acre plot. The tarp is still there, but I have planted a rapid growing bamboo grove in the ravine. It'll be out of sight in 6 months. Tragic thing is, the trashy kids and mother are going to inherit the place, which is worth an easy 900k. Million dollar homes full of white trash !

The half annoying neighbor consists of a granddaughter and boyfriend who house sit for my other elderly neighbor ( she leaves town about 1 week out of 3 months). They like to have screaming matches in the middle of the night, slam doors, throw things, and yell in the middle of the street. I have called the police on them 4 times. Two weeks ago, I was convinced he had finally killed her. Their car had left with them in it before the LAPD arrived 11 minutes later. Again, it is a beautiful home on a large lot, and this is a great neighborhood. That annoys me the most. I'd expect this if I lived in a trailer park or a slum, but here it is anyway. I sometimes wonder what the threshold is - would I need a 1.5 million dollar home to be away from scummy people ? In LA, perhaps I would. I will wait all these neighbors out - that is my grand scheme.

BTW - anyone with a dog problem...tape it. Report them to animal control. Don't put up with it. LA has the weakest animal control laws and the most understaffed animal control agency in the country - I think they have a dozen trucks and agents for 9 million people. But I have shut down a number of barking dog problems in various neighborhoods for myself and friends. I am sure the dogs are thankful too, not being roped up in the sun, kept outside all year, and abused in general.

[GretaRhiannon]

Originally Posted by Gwillaker

I got the exact same problem! Theres new people next door on the left (or right, depending on which side of the house you're on, front or back) and they have THREE obnoxious terriers who bark their asses off if you step out the back door! And she doesnt give a ****, if you say anything she gets all defensive and acts like you're the one being completely unreasonable! the people on the other side of us are basically OK, but they argue a lot. You cant help but overhear the yelling and doors slamming, sometimes in the middle of the night. And there must be 50,000 nails in their wall! You hear the banging of hammers all the time, for about 5 or 6 years now! What are they building in there???

maybe they are on drugs? Cause a friend of mine, she had a neighbor like that, and you could really tell he was on drugs, and he would jsut build and build, tear down then build again...

[GretaRhiannon]

Originally Posted by sparky

I have a few neighbors who can be annoying. Well, one and a half. The one group is an extended family - grandma, mother, and 2 or 3 kids. They kids are in high school. I cannot see the house, but it's driveway, which is like mine, is steep and winds arounds for about 200'. For some reason, every time someone drives up, they honk. And these people come and go about a dozen times a day. They also have a dog, which they penned up closer to my house - for three days. It barked non stop. They put up a tasteful blue tarp so the dog would be shielded from the sun and viewing the back of my house. The third day of this, I called them up. In polite, even tones, I ran down why that dog wasn't going to be near my house, and exactly what steps, from police, to animal control, to hiring an attorney that I was going to go through if the dog wasn't moved and kept quiet. It hasn't barked longer than 20 seconds since, and is on the other side of their 2 acre plot. The tarp is still there, but I have planted a rapid growing bamboo grove in the ravine. It'll be out of sight in 6 months. Tragic thing is, the trashy kids and mother are going to inherit the place, which is worth an easy 900k. Million dollar homes full of white trash !

The half annoying neighbor consists of a granddaughter and boyfriend who house sit for my other elderly neighbor ( she leaves town about 1 week out of 3 months). They like to have screaming matches in the middle of the night, slam doors, throw things, and yell in the middle of the street. I have called the police on them 4 times. Two weeks ago, I was convinced he had finally killed her. Their car had left with them in it before the LAPD arrived 11 minutes later. Again, it is a beautiful home on a large lot, and this is a great neighborhood. That annoys me the most. I'd expect this if I lived in a trailer park or a slum, but here it is anyway. I sometimes wonder what the threshold is - would I need a 1.5 million dollar home to be away from scummy people ? In LA, perhaps I would. I will wait all these neighbors out - that is my grand scheme.

BTW - anyone with a dog problem...tape it. Report them to animal control. Don't put up with it. LA has the weakest animal control laws and the most understaffed animal control agency in the country - I think they have a dozen trucks and agents for 9 million people. But I have shut down a number of barking dog problems in various neighborhoods for myself and friends. I am sure the dogs are thankful too, not being roped up in the sun, kept outside all year, and abused in general.

Whoa, haha well the millions of bucks these people probably came up with are probably from selling drugs heh, I dont doubt that for a minute... As for animal control, I'll look it up in the phone book tomorrow. Thanks for the tip heh

[darklinensuit]

Marissa's neighbors do.

Actually, on either side I have neighbors who build furniture at all hours of the night. WTF!

- Jake

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Marissa's neighbors do.

Ah! So it's YOU who's been living in our guest room

You would think that if you lived in an apartment complex, people would be sort of respectful of one another. They build furniture all the time?

[77Rumours77]

last night my nieghbors were very drunk and shooting fireworks! What a combination! Its so fun to watch and hear them yell at every loud bang! LOL They only get crazy on holidays tho!