People Share Horror Stories About The Worst Neighbors They Ever Had

Robert Frost said, “Fences make the best neighbors.” And he said it for a reason. Generally speaking, you don’t get to choose who your neighbors are, so you can’t just assume you will get along with them. If you do happen to make friends with your neighbors, perhaps you can consider yourself lucky. You’ll be able to have lots of pleasant chit-chats, neighborly barbeques, watch out for each other’s homes when the other is out of town, and maybe your kids will even play together. The other side of this coin is not so nice. Unfortunately, many neighbors don’t tend to get along quite so well. Whether it is because of differences in living styles with regard to cleanliness, noise, or other random quirks, problems can quickly arise in these areas. And then there are the issues that have to do with property lines, and those disputes can get pretty nasty in the blink of an eye. After all, we all want what rightfully belongs to us. The problem with that is that sometimes what rightfully belongs to us isn’t always clear.

In case you still aren’t convinced that neighbors are not typically on the friendliest of terms, here are lots (and I mean lots!) of neighbor horror stories from around the world to prove it.Some are tamer than others, but many may very well make you cringe, not to mention count your blessings that you don’t have to deal with some of the terrible living conditions that others have to endure day after day.

100. She Faked Cancer So She Wouldn’t Have To Clean

“My mom had this neighbor who pretended to be weak from cancer/chemo so her landlord couldn’t get mad at her for when trash bins were full and the lawn was filthy. She even went as far as shaving her head and faking a limp, cane and everything. Mom baked her some cookies and offered to take care of her bins and lawn.

Then another neighbor spills about her scam. My mom, now enlightened about my neighbor’s ‘The Fault in our Stars’ nonsense and tired of the trash blowing into our yard, called the landlord. Neighbour wasn’t happy and would blast music at ungodly hours of the night/wee morning to get back at my mom. Mom would get frustrated because she worked late and left early, filed noise complaint to the police. Police arrive, neighbor claims my mom (old little Asian lady) punched her in the chest. Neighbour wants her arrested, mom shows cops our security cam footage, no mom punching, instead finds crazy neighbor kicking her 9-year-old daughter out in the middle of the night.

Nine-year-old is banging on her door, my mom comes out to check on the noise, tries to bring hysterical girl inside (it’s like 2 am). The neighbor comes out and sprays her with the hose. Neighbor taken away, daughter sent to live with dad.” walkinginthewind

99. The Neighbor Tried To Kill My Dog

“They tried to kill my dog because it was a ‘death dog.’ She was a white lab and very sweet.

We had a large fenced-in backyard. My dog wasn’t terribly loud. She wasn’t aggressive at all. She was just the size of a lab and my neighbors, specifically, the wife, thought that her larger size made her evil.

They called the cops more than once saying my dog was terrorizing the neighborhood. The cops came, met the dog, and we explained that she was always in her yard. They left saying just make sure she stays in the yard. Well, the neighbor called two more times to complain and eventually, they went and spoke with her about her ludicrous complaints.

Here is when she started taking matters into her own hands. We noticed our dog was getting sick a lot. Like really sick. We took her to the vet and the vet said we needed to stop feeding her human food that could be bad for dogs.

We had NO CLUE what she was talking about. We went back home and decided to keep a closer eye on her. Turns out our neighbor had been dumping all manner of vile things over our fence. Food scraps, mop water, and god knows what else. We went and spoke with her about this and she denied it. Finally, we caught the nasty woman on video and made sure she saw us recording her.

Later that night the husband comes over and apologizes for his wife and begs us not to call the cops. He promises he’ll ensure our dog is left alone.

We agreed but said if anything happened to our dog again, we would press charges.

Thankfully she stopped coming after our dog. She moved on to our landscaping. She climbed over the fence more than once to trim (but really hack and destroy) our hedges and a few saplings. She even went and pulled all the flowers out of our flower bed that we had just planted. We went and spoke with her husband as he was the saner of the two. Same conversation as about our dog.

Eventually, she fell very ill and passed. Her husband was like a different person. Invited us over for barbecues and all.

Eventually even got himself a little dog.” Ireallyjustcanteven

98. The Hoarders Next Door Were Attracting All Kinds Of Vermin

“My neighbors in the awful apartment I moved to after I moved out of my parent’s place were hoarders to the extreme, as well as alcoholics. We started getting roaches in our apartment about 2 months after they moved in. Then came mice. Then came RATS.

About once a month we’d call 911 on them because we’d find one of them passed out in the parking lot, or on the doorstep, or on the stairs. They came over and asked if it was us who kept calling 911.

Then they cussed us out because they didn’t have insurance and had to take out numerous payday loans to cover the ambulance costs.

We broke our lease and moved out after ‘someone’ took a dump on our welcome mat.” Not_A_Good_Gardener

97. The Unbearable Smell Of Cat Pee

“In an apartment. This lady lived on the third floor. She must have let her cat piss everywhere because the entire building reeked like cat piss. The smell entered my apartment frequently. When I passed her in the hallway I would have to hold my breath because she smelled so bad. I dealt with this for 2 years with multiple complaints to the office until I eventually called animal control.

Turns out she had 30 cats in her apartment.” Throwawayca91

96. He Would Steal Our Sheep 

“I live on a farm and we had one guy who was a real jerk. He was known to have definitely stolen sheep from us, in some cases he had shorn the wool off them, sold it and returned the sheep and sometimes eating the sheep we suspect. He demanded that we front the bill to fix the fence despite it being between our two properties and refusing to split the costs. He also had someone else’s bull jump into his property, used it to service his cattle for two years and when the owner tracked it down the guy demanded to be paid the agistment costs or he wouldn’t return it.

He had a house on the property that he rented to his farmhand and the farmhand found him in there one day going through his things and telling him he wasn’t allowed to leave the property under any circumstances while under his employment. The guy quit straight after that and wanted to work for us.” goondalf_the_grey

95. Eavesdropping Neighbors Are The Worst

“I have actually had neighbors walking around my yard up close to the house so they could hear my conversations! Are you kidding me! I caught them and told them to get off my property! GOSH!!” deleted

94. Don’t Let Your Dogs Poop On Our Lawn

“My neighbor has 3 dogs, which they let outside twice a day to poop.

The dogs are friendly and not very loud…except they always pooped on our lawn. My husband and I have actually seen our neighbors encourage their dogs to use our lawn… they physically lead the dogs to our lawn or discourage them from going on their lawn, etc.

I finally had enough so I got my garden trowel and flicked all their dogs’ poop onto their lawn. Today my husband went outside to mow the lawn and caught the neighbor encouraging their dogs to go onto our lawn. The neighbor acted like nothing was wrong, but quickly called the dogs back.” deleted

93. He Was Peeing On My Roses

“In my youth (okay I’m not proud of it), I actually did this.

I had the worst neighbors imaginable. They complained about everything, and the husband would come over and pee on my rose bushes when he thought I wasn’t home (he killed one…these were grafted, they were not cheap to create). He also would let his dogs go crap in my lawn when I confined my dogs to my backyard (as was polite).

When I was putting in a new fridge, the guy even stole it off my back porch (he left his garage open one evening and I peeked inside, he was using it to keep his beer in and it still had the freeze packs my grandmother gave me sitting in the icebox…with her name on them).

Finally, after a year, when he’d reported me to the city for failure to cut my lawn (my mower was broken for a month while I saved up to buy a new one, I told him this beforehand), I decided it was on. I threw every piece of dog crap I could find onto his roof, one Friday when nobody was home. I’d been watching the weather forecast, I knew what was coming. Lots of rain. And yes, the aftermath was glorious…part of me is still smiling.” Rndmtrkpny

92. He Set The Garbage Bin On Fire 

“My first apartment living away from home was in a small complex filled with retirees.

My neighbor across the hallway was a man my ex and I nicknamed Mr. Fire.

He’d glare at me all the time and complain whenever I was sitting outside. He hated my cat and always assumed I was a smoker. ‘Young people and their cigarettes. You better not smoke around here. The lady down the hall from you is on oxygen and she can smell it.’

How he got his nickname: Once I was walking to the bus stop before class and X and I saw a garbage can smoldering in front of our building. It wasn’t flaming, but there was a hole burned through it and the plastic around the hole was melting.

It had been a dry spring, so we were worried it might start an actual fire. X ran inside to get the apartment manager (who lived one floor under me). When she came outside with the maintenance guy (who removed the can), she yelled at the neighbor’s window. ‘HEY, YOU! What’s the deal here?’

Apparently, this old man, with the beginning stages of dementia, was cooking a steak in his kitchen. When the meat lit on fire, he didn’t know what to do, so he threw the entire pan in the garbage. But then the can started melting, so he thought it’d be a good idea to throw the whole thing out the window onto a garden full of wood chips.

He was eventually taken away to a retirement home after flushing his diapers down the toilet, bursting a pipe, and flooding the laundry room.” deleted

91. He Set Up Security Cameras To Spy On Us 

“When I was a kid our neighbor built this giant deck on his house that actually went over our fence. We ended up having to go to the city to force him to make it smaller. We went to a family reunion shortly after, and when we came back he had a sign on his fence facing our front door that said: ‘Peekaboo I see you Sborado’s’ and he had set up a bunch of security cameras on his house that all were all aimed at our house.

We pretty much just avoided him from then on until my parents divorced and sold that house.” sborado
90. Why Won’t He Wave Back?

“It’s been over two years, and he hasn’t waved back once.” LordMayorOfCologne

89. A Lawn-Turned-Jungle Brings All The Mosquitos

“Guy next door was a hoarder (junk on front and back porch, a door that won’t open) and never cut his grass. After a couple of years of the city not enforcing lawn care, neighbors on either side started cutting the front lawn for him. But we couldn’t mow the back for him because he always had two large dogs who only understood Polish.

The grass was always 6′ tall in the back yard and that plus trash meant the mosquitos along the fence were horrendous, rendering our otherwise pleasant shade garden unusable after any rain.

Eventually, he died. He was very sick. His house is in probate. Now someone mows every month or so. His son came and tried to clean out the house, but after dozens of truckloads to the dump when the beer cans and fast food bags were still hip-deep I think he finally admitted defeat and quit coming out to clean every weekend. It will take a professional crew to clean it I think.” LitlThisLitlThat

88. Picking On Grandma Leads To Car Windows Getting Smashed

“My grandma who passed away recently lived in not the best part of town.

She worked at my dad’s laundromat there (refused to leave and loved working there for 30+ years). 10 years ago some new neighbors came in and decided to pick on my grandma (the entire family, young to old). They would steal carts, throw stuff at her, steal money when she wasn’t looking, etc. I had no idea what was going on and my grandma was too prideful to tell anyone.

However, one day another neighbor that’s been washing his clothes there for 20+ years saw this. He legit told my grandma to wait inside, picked the littlest one up, hung him on a fence post and exchanged words with the father before picking him up by his neck.

The entire street watched. They moved out the next day after he smashed all their car windows. Till this day not a soul has bothered my grandma. I didn’t hear this story until her funeral last week. It’s amazing how terrible and great people can be.” alansupra94

87. This Family Had Extremely Annoying Kids

“We had one house on my old street growing up which had just changed owners. Seemingly nice couple and their kids move in and they were okay at first.

Kids were kind of annoying, but they were like 6 and 9 so the rest of us on the block ignored it, we were all between the ages of 13 to 16.

The kids began screaming profanities at us and throwing stuff. We just started avoiding them because they were nuts. So they told their mom that we were being mean. We then learned that she was really crazy and would ride her bike up and down the street telling parents what their children had done wrong to their boys (mostly lies, but some truth). None of the parents would take her seriously and she was told to go away many times.

We had an empty lot on the street where we would dig tunnels and build paintball fields. Every single morning we would find everything destroyed on the field.

We find suspicious attempts at traps made and all kinds of stuff. Boards with nails laid behind my neighbors’ tires and stuff. I’m certain the mom was sending her kids out on missions to get back at us and the parents.

The unprovable damage went on for about a year. Peace returned when she finally moved.” Sizzalness

86. Their Dog Would Bark All Day Long

“I live in an apartment. I pay my rent on time, I don’t break a lot of stuff, sometimes I laugh a little loud with my sister or friends, but overall I’m a good neighbor.

This guy and his girlfriend move in.

She gets pregnant. They decide to get a dog. She decides that she doesn’t want to walk or play with the dog so she puts him out on the balcony all day. The dog barks ALL FREAKING DAY. This went on for about 2 months.

The city I live in has a noise ordinance but the cops really don’t enforce it much. The property manager said, ‘We’ve talked to him and the dog isn’t out much during the day.’ I was at my wit’s end when I finally contacted the property owner. Told him I had been here for several years with no incident and that the neighbors had a dog they kept on the balcony so the smell of dog poop and piss was horrible and I couldn’t sit out on my balcony in peace.

He got in contact with my property manager and told them to either evict them or move them away from me. Before they moved out, the male neighbor got inebriated and hit his girlfriend. I called the cops on him. They took him in but she refused to press charges. I’m not sure what happened to them after they got moved to another apartment. Karmas_burning

85. This Neighbor Burned A Six-Year-Old Autistic Boy With A Cigarette

“I used to be good friends with a girl next door from when we were ten till high school started, even though she treated me kind of badly.

Her parents were obviously alcoholics so I felt sorry for her more than anything. My little brother came along with me over to her backyard one day and he accidentally tripped and fell into their back-porch door. Her mom, who had daily naps from all of her drinking, was woken up and stormed outside to scream at my little autistic brother who could barely speak. When he didn’t respond (duh), she burned him with a cigarette on his arm. She knowingly burnt a 6-year-old autistic kid. Wow.” missfulls
84. The Government Saves The Day From A Strangely Noisy Neighbor

“I live across the street from some major jerks.

For some reason where my house ends is also the end of the residential zone. Directly across is zoned for business. The guy who owns that business actually advertises on his website that he’s a Baron and his wife is a Baroness. I like to call him Baron von Jerkstick.

Well, Jerkstick leased some of his property to some people who sell awful low carb food. They’d been there for a couple of years when suddenly this massive food storage unit that looked like a train car appeared on their lot. And it was loud. Very loud. And it ran 24/7. During the day with all the other noises, it wasn’t so bad.

But at night, it was the worst. Just about every 20 minutes this contraption would start up.

I first went directly to Jerkstick and complained. He directed me to the guy who owns the low carb place. This guy couldn’t give a care. I called the city. And the inspector came out and did some testing. His results were that it wasn’t actually loud enough for them to get into trouble. He did say he would check on their permits though. Nothing ever came about that.

So, a long time goes by. Every night I seethe with anger and try to figure out ways to blow up this contraption or their place of business without being caught.

I couldn’t actually come up with anything.

Then, they have the audacity to start marking parking places on the street and putting up signs that said they would tow. Not just during business hours, but all the time. Whether they were there or not. I knew that this was illegal as the signs had no penal codes on them, etc. I asked around to people I knew (including cops) and was told I should contact my local City Councilmember. I had never done this before. Supposedly politicians are there for their constituents, but I didn’t actually believe it.

I called. They were friendly.

I explained the situation and for good measure, I also mentioned the cold storage unit. They looked into it. Suddenly the tow signs were gone. They then let me know that there was going to be a hearing about the cold storage unit. Baron von Jerkstick had already been fined (and hadn’t paid those fines) and if he didn’t remove the awful thing, a lien was to be placed on his property.

I was ecstatic. Could the end be near??? And then one day a large towing type vehicle came and yanked that piece of junk storage unit out of there. I now have peace and quiet again.

I might have the best City Councilmember in the United States. He’s getting my vote for every election in the future.” Jeremy_Reed

83. These Parents Left Their Kid Behind When They Moved

“A few years back our neighbors were getting kicked out because their mortgage was 8 months behind (how they even got a bank to loan them the money in the first place is still beyond me). The week before they left they ripped out everything to sell; bathroom fixtures, oven, doors, paving stones…if it could be removed it was. When they finally moved out the only things they left behind were the dog, the cat…and the kid.” chosenamewhendrunk
82. A Stalker Neighbor Is A Scary Thing

“He stalked my roommate and me.

From the get-go, day 1, when he first moved in and we met him, both of us had super bad vibes. No reason for it at the time but our gut feeling said he was no good. And then literally for over an entire year almost every time we went out the door he’d come out to our house to try to ‘hang out’. We couldn’t even walk across the road to check our mail in peace. Then he’d walk up the road and stand in front of our house staring, or pace in front of it on the road. Then he started knocking on our door in the middle of the night (we never answered as we in no way wanted him in our house ever but especially not at midnight, and only knew it was him because we confronted him later and he admitted it).

We’d go out together and get home and he’d be sitting in a chair in our yard like it was his house. And then he started showing up at stores and other places we were at in town and try to follow us around there.

It was so ridiculous and we went through this for over a year, got to the point that we hated even going outside and couldn’t hang out in our own yard because we just felt like we were being watched and were just counting down the seconds until he popped up because he always popped up. Complained to our landlord multiple times, he warned our neighbor multiple times, and it still continued and probably would still be continuing even now if the guy hadn’t gotten behind in his rent and been kicked out which happened late last year.” LemonFake

81. She Would Watch Us Sleep

“This apartment my uncles lived in was connected to the neighbors by the bathroom, so they shared the bathroom.

The neighbor lady was crazy and some mornings they would wake up and she would be in their apartment doing some creepy, weird stuff. One morning they recall they woke up and she was standing over them, over their bed, watching them sleep. That was the breaking point. They got out really quickly after that.” themummyonbluray

80. There Were Over 100 Pop Bottles In Their Room

“We lived in what seemed to be a mansion-type of house, rented out to three different families. My family lived on the bottom floor, and a family of 6 lived above us; a mother, father, and 4 daughters aging from 4 to 13.

Every morning they would stomp around the house like little elephants and make as much noise as possible to wake each other up so they could prepare for school. After they were ready, more often than not, they would refuse to actually go out the door to go to school, screeching as loud as they can until the parents decided to let them stay home.
Since we were on the bottom floor of the place, we had free reign of the backyard whereas the other two families barely bothered to use it. They would frequently dump garbage and other random stuff off of a balcony into the yard and never bother cleaning it up, which we’d have to tend to daily since we had two dogs and an outdoor cat at the time.

It was all a nightmare.
When they were eventually kicked out by the landlord, she asked my mother to clean out the rooms/floor they were living in. She told me there were over a hundred two-liter soda bottles scattered throughout their place as well as mold growing in multiple rooms with foul odors everywhere. Though the oldest daughter was the same age as me and I had a huge crush on her (she was a very polite and clean girl, which is saying a lot considering what her family was like), we talked with her family about letting her move in with us while the rest of them left, I feel like it would’ve been better for everyone if she had stayed with us but it never happened.

I really hope she doesn’t live with her disgusting family anymore, I truly felt horrible for her.” wblss
79. He Wouldn’t Turn Down The Subwoofer

“Had this guy next door, our bedrooms shared the same wall. He had this subwoofer that was louder than the Horn of Hammerhand. The guy would listen to strictly heavy beats. I hope he’s in a ditch somewhere, naked with no other earthly possessions except for that subwoofer.” FilthyMcNasty108

78. I Had To Scare The Religious Neighbors With “Witchcraft”

“I have SUPER religious neighbors. They hang signs for the local church camp on their property etc. They kept putting their garbage cans in our driveway.

While it was stupid and annoying, it became more and more aggressive, they would trespass on my property and do damage to my house. But I could never catch them in the act. So I did the only thing a sane person would do. I put on my velvet ritual cloak and made a show of putting a salt circle around my property, chanting and carrying on. Never bothered me again.” amazonkass

 77. They Gave Our Dog Away To A Shelter 

“We have a beautiful pitbull/boxer mix that was stolen out of our back yard by our neighbors and given to a shelter for pit bulls.

We looked for our dog for WEEKS, all day and night. Just as we were about to give up, my mom checked local adoption ads and found our dog. The shelter she was given to was literally a block away from our house and they informed us of the people who brought her there, who turned out to be our neighbors. So we got our dog back and the neighbors continued to try to get our dog taken away from us by calling the police for animal abuse multiple times, even when we were playing with her in our own backyard and very obviously loved her.” thebabyslayer
76. She Hates Her Kids 

“My neighbor across the road at the moment is this typical disgusting trash single mum.

All day long she screams at her kids in this high pitched voice similar to a banshee, telling them they are ‘stupid little kids.’ And speaking of the kids they recently got a motorbike that she lets them race up and down the street all day and literally all night, I have heard them absolutely charging down the road on this thing at eleven at night.

She’s so lazy she drives across the road to her parent’s house which, lucky for me, is right next to my freaking house so I have to listen to her voice through the paper thin walls of the duplex we share.

She lets her kids have parties so there’s always inebriated fifteen-year-olds playing awful music and being little jerks till god knows when.

I’m moving in two weeks simply because I can’t stand to hear her rank voice any longer.” deleted

75. There Was A Zoo Of Animals Living In Her House 

“Pet hoarder next door. Unkept yard. A MONSTROUS amount of feces kept in a garden shed on the edge of their property, amazingly right beside our deck. We always wondered what was going on over there, then a flyer shows up in our mailbox: Lost male iguana. Aggressive and will bite. Do not approach.

Please, yadda yadda number. Wow.

A few days later, animal control arrives with trucks and vans. They get into this house and pull out hundreds of animals. Exotic birds, lizards, cats, dogs, it was insane. All were sick or injured. She had specific rooms for them. Like a blind animal room or pregnant animal room. No word on that aggressive male iguana. Might still be creeping around that neighborhood. Aggressively biting children perhaps.”

Bonbonmelandeau
74. The Best Way To Handle A Party-Hard Neighbor Is With A Note To His Mom

“We had a noisy neighbor for a while. The guy liked having parties. Once or twice a week we could handle, but he started having them more often.

Then one week he decided to have loud parties every night which wouldn’t have been much of an issue, but he liked having them in his bedroom and kept his music blasting and his friends making a racket until 6/7am. I couldn’t sleep through his crap and for a week straight I had no real sleep apart from that hour lull between 7 and 8 am. I was getting in trouble at work for being exhausted when it wasn’t my fault. After a few days of this and getting nowhere with him we wrote a letter and posted it through his door just before the time his mum gets home.

Turns out it all went quiet at 7 because that’s the time she got home. She found the note on the floor and read it. I was happy to be woken up by her screaming at him. If he had been smart and kept his parties downstairs everything would have been fine and we even stated it in the letter we sent them. Parties didn’t happen very often after that and he moved out a few years ago.” Zanki
73. Noise Complaints About No Noise At All

“They called the police on me because I was watching television nearly muted with closed captioning with the windows closed and the blinds shut in my own home at 7:00 on a Friday night.

When we had moved in, my roommate brought the neighbor a plate of cookies and all of our phone numbers and names and said to always feel free to call us any time of day and we’d do what she needed. Our neighbor said, ‘no, we’ll call the police instead.’ And boy, did she ever. We actually started throwing parties because the cops were going to come anyway.” sweetrhymepurereason

72. She Punched Her Window And Shattered It 

“I used to live next to two lesbians. One night, one of them came by lamenting her lost lover. She ended up screaming for her and breaking her window with her fist.

I had to call the cops and they came to arrest her. She then claimed she had PTSD and ran away only to be tased and caught seconds later. The two of them had a few more screaming matches before finally moving out.” evilkneville
71. The Neighbors Lied And Got My Dad Arrested

“When I was a kid we lived next door to an awesome guy and his wife. One day, they moved out due to losing the house to the bank. Next thing we know, a skeezy trucker (I know not all truckers are bad, I was one) who would routinely fight with his wife on the front yard moved in.

They built a fence all the way around the property immediately. Fast forward a few years of antics and shenanigans by these people, we get a knock on the door. My father was arrested for destruction of private property because they said we hit their fence with stuff and broke it.

Now, this is where the story gets good. In court, they presented blatant pictures of a completely different fence as evidence. My father had pictures of their fence, and the judge sent the sheriff out to take his own pictures. They were found in contempt of court for swearing at the judge and falsifying evidence and got arrested on the spot for threatening a judge.

Dad immediately sold the house and we moved out, but he got the last laugh as he sold the house to the bailiff of the court they were in. So, now his next door neighbor is the man who arrested him.” buttermebritches

70. She Called Child Services On The Neighbors 

“This very OCD lady who came out every morning to pick up the fallen leaves and cleaned her garden. It was her compulsion in a sense. Anyway, she ended up calling child services on another neighbor and her son. They ended up just dumping all leaves and garden waste on her garden and started a war between them.” wallsemt

69. She Stole My Daughter’s Tricycle

“When my daughter was five we rented the top floor of a two-family house.

The owner gave the bottom floor to her sister (recovering substance abuse problems, trouble holding down a job, two kids, absentee father).

One day my daughter’s tricycle went missing. Found her kids on it an hour later. Confronted her about it and she said my daughter was spoiled and my family didn’t deserve to have anything her family didn’t have. (My husband was on disability recovering from a life-threatening injury, and I was a school teacher. So…Not exactly the Kardashians!) When the thirty-year-old woman began to taunt my daughter and take her belongings, that’s when we terminated our lease.” ligamentary

68. Too Many Home Invasions In One Night

“One night, my neighbor had a loud argument with herself which turned into a loud argument with the neighbors, which turned into a home invasion of the neighbors, which turned into a home invasion for me and darn near getting hurt by them.” GeebusNZ
67. They Were Looking For A Dog That Wasn’t With Us 

“We moved from the country to the city.

My German Shepherd was used to having 100 acres to run on, a tank (pond for non-Texans) to swim in and other dogs to play with. He wasn’t used to a fenced-in backyard. So he’d run the edge of the fence and call for his friends. We felt bad for him so we put a kiddie pool with a motion detector sprinkler system outside so he had something to play with when we weren’t home.

The neighbor called animal control and complained about the noise. So we brought him inside and basically set up an entire playroom for him in the garage.

He only went outside to potty and then only when he was on a leash. But the neighbor still called animal control.

The animal control officer told us that if he was called out a third time and deemed the call justified we’d have to surrender the dog. Instead of taking that risk, we called up our family back in the country and asked if they would take our shepherd. Then we transitioned him back to his old home.

But animal control came to the house again, after the dog was gone and every adult in the household had used their vacation time to get the shepherd re-situated.

We’d left the doghouse and the dog toys in the backyard and the animal control officer thought we were hiding the dog because he was going to take him from us. But the dog really wasn’t there.

The neighbor kept calling animal control and the animal control officer kept getting nastier and nastier with us because we wouldn’t hand over what he knew was a very expensive pet. So finally my husband got frustrated with it all and pulled out his hunting equipment. He had this set of CDs somebody gave him on how to attract coyotes. One had wounded animal sounds on it while another had female coyotes in heat and a third just had coyote songs on it.

He took a CD player and put it on top of the tree house in the backyard. He hooked it up to a motion detector power supply so the squirrels and the birds would set it off. The first night he turned it on, an owl took up residence in the tree and pretty much kept the CD playing all night. Apparently, the sounds scared the owl’s prey and made the small critters easier to catch.

The neighbor complained about the noise to animal control. The officer came out and checked our backyard. He saw the owl up in the tree and told us that we could not disturb him under any circumstances.

He was a protected animal and we were no longer allowed to use the tree house as long as the owl lived there.

Animal control came out a couple of more times looking for our shepherd but then they were too busy looking for a pack of wild coyotes to look for anything else. The neighbor got mad because they wouldn’t answer his complaints and finally got a ticket for abusing the service.

We had a bad storm that knocked out the power to the tree house and killed the CD player. Our lazy, old owl found himself a better hunting ground. And since we didn’t have any pets, we got along just fine with the neighbor from that point on.” jhn107 

66. Car Soap Is Not Dangerous To Dogs

“I moved into a new housing development a few months ago.

My back yard has a slight slope to it which leads to a neighbor’s house down the hill. I had my car in the back of the driveway washing it one day when I noticed downhill neighbor lady taking pictures of me (and my girlfriend) with her phone through her window.

I thought this was strange, so after I finished washing the car, I knocked on the door and calmly asked why she felt the need to take our picture, and she launched into a yelling, cursing monologue about how we were psychopathic jerks who were trying to poison her dogs with car soap.

So basically: She thought that 3oz of car soap, diluted by ten gallons of water, then diluted again by rain, would wash down into her yard, settle in her grass, and then somehow be toxic enough to prove deadly to her dogs, via fumes.

I tried to reason with her, but she just kept yelling that soap was made of ‘chemicals’ and that I was a horrible person, etc. She called the police while I was standing there and they literally refused to come.” nocaptain11

65. They Tried Taking Over Our Garage

“I live in a very old house with a very old garage.

In fact, the garage was built as one structure, with a dividing wall, and the adjoining section of the garage belongs to the neighbors. Think: one structure, two garages, two properties.

One day, new neighbors move in. Before we get the chance to say hi, we get a letter in the mail from the attorney of our new neighbors. The letter explains that the neighbors will be assuming ownership of our half of the garage. They will be kind enough to pay for maintenance, and we can use it to the extent that they are not. We have our lawyer write them a letter kindly asking them to knock it off, that that’s never going to happen.

That’s that, or so we thought. One day, sport next door decides he’s going to paint a portion of our half of the garage. We went out the next day and painted back over. The neighbors eventually defaulted on their mortgage and had to move out. Kinda surreal experience.” obligarchy1

64. We Had To Pay For Their Falling Trees

“For the past two years, we’ve had to deal with these neighbors’ unkempt trees falling over in storms, landing in our yard and destroying our stuff. (Under the law, it doesn’t matter who owns the tree-the yard it lands in is responsible for the damage).

Last year one of their trees took out our fence and garden. A few weeks ago another of their trees crushed my favorite tree and damaged our chicken coop. That one cost us $850 to clean up. We got a halfhearted ‘sorry’ for that one.

I truly despise them.” jennifer1911

63. Their Harleys Are Just So, So Loud

“Jerky Harley motorcycle people. Need to rev their straight-piped bikes to 10K RPM for long periods of time to ‘tune them.’ Nevermind that they have the idle set so low, and they run so rich (I can smell them from inside my house when they drive by) that if they don’t rev them every few seconds they’ll stall out.

Also if he’s going to ride it, he has to ‘warm it up’ first by sitting in his front yard and revving it up for 10 minutes.

One of them has a bike that is so chopped and low that he has to pedal it down the sidewalk with his feet for about 200ft before he finds a driveway shallow enough to take it off. Mind you, all of this with his hand on the clutch and the engine revved to a constant 5000 or so rpm.

We have some sport bike riders down the other side of the road that like to do much the same things, as well as ride all manner of unlicensed four wheelers and scooters up and down the road at 4 AM.

Why do they have to be so inconsiderate about it?” h00paj00ped 

62. He Wouldn’t Mow His Part Of The Lawn…

“There is a section of sidewalk that connects the sidewalk that runs parallel to the road to the actual road-if that makes sense. This is right by my property line which means that the ~50 foot strip of grass between the sidewalk and road has like 49’10” on my neighbor’s property and 2″ on mine. So naturally, the neighbor never does that last 2″ even though if they haven’t mowed I’ll do the whole 50′.” Henchmanx24x
61. A Neighbor That Watches And Waits

“My neighbor in my apartment complex always tries to stop and talk to me (usually when I’m running late for work) which isn’t awful.

The awful thing is I’m pretty sure he looks out the window and waits. He always manages to open the door and come outside as I happen to be walking by, and goes in promptly after I tell him I’m running late for work. The same neighbor came outside at 11:40 one night as I was putting a new window decal on my car, practically climbed in and insisted on helping me. Then proceeded to try to talk to me afterward. Another time I was backing out of my parking spot, and he was pulling out of his in my blind spot.

He honked his horn so obviously, I stopped before I hit him. Instead of him pulling forward and leaving like a normal person, he put his car in park and came over and knocked on my driver side window and asked me if I even looked back before I started backing out. It was really aggressive. He’s also jokingly said to me that he’s seen me bring a lot of men into my apartment. I really don’t like that guy. He’s very creepy.” MadiDontLeave
60. Luckily They Accidentally Cast Their Voodoo Spells On Themselves Instead

“I lived next to neighbors who tried to put a voodoo spell on me.

Luckily it didn’t work but their lives didn’t go so well after they tried it. Divorce, vandalism, spousal abuse. I guess they didn’t do the spell right.” Wh1teCentipede

 59. He Didn’t Remember Robbing His Neighbor, Twice

“My neighbor was out of his mind and tried to break into my apartment. I called the cops on him and he got arrested. Two months later, he did the same thing. I ran into him again about a year later after he’d moved, he didn’t remember either time. He’s actually a pretty nice guy when he isn’t in another plane of existence.” FrostySt

58. They Thought My Parents Would File A Lawsuit

“When I was a kid, my neighbors at the bottom of the hill (this matters) were so paranoid that my brothers and I would get hurt on their property and my parents would sue them for it.

They put up a fence (one they weren’t even allowed to use) on our backyard, despised when we went sledding, and even put sprinklers in their front lawn to deter us from going near them.” F_Deity_Link
57. My Dad Wanted To Teach This Guy A Lesson

“My family was the ‘Worst Neighbor Ever,’ though only in retaliation. I didn’t even realize it until my dad went on and on about the stories.

Had one neighbor when I was like, 5. Used to constantly have loud late-night parties at his house. Dad tried asking him to stop, he essentially told my dad he didn’t care. So my dad did the rational thing, waited for the guy to have his next party, then the following morning had me go around the neighborhood and bring my friends over.

He positioned us between our house and party-guys house, and had me and six other kids go to town, hammering pennies on an inch-thick sheet of metal outside party-guys bedroom window while he and a few other people were sleeping off their hangovers.”  Harhan

56. Sound Pollution Is A Large Part Wind Chimes

“My downstairs neighbors have wind chimes…shudder.” TheDesertMonk

55. She Started Stalking Me

“She liked to knock on my door at all hours to try and get me to hang out with her. I’m talking like 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. I got mad and yelled at her that I was trying to sleep, so she hocked a big loogie in my doorway.

She also kept knocking on my door when I was taking a shower or taking a dump and would get offended when I’d tell her I was busy. Told me lots of personal details about herself. I know more about her ex-husband than I really want to know about anybody. Eventually, she started following me around outside of the building and I had to file for a restraining order. That was fun. I felt bad, though, and I didn’t want her to end up homeless so I had them drop all charges. Later on, she got evicted for punching someone else in our building.

Now she lives somewhere else and I’m happy.” deleted
54. This Woman Would Scream Whenever She Needed Something

“The mom of one of the neighbor kids constantly would sit out in the backyard even on the hottest days and just scream at everyone else in the family when she needed something. The youngest boy would wander around the neighborhood carrying a machete. When their dogs need to go to the bathroom they would just open the door and let the dogs out even though they didn’t have a fence so the dogs felt free to roam in any yard to do their business.

Luckily I had a fence but my other neighbors did not. One day we looked out our window and noticed that they were building something beside their house. Come to find out they were building an apartment complex in their average sized family home lot. As you might imagine they had no permits and had no idea what they were doing. When I moved away from that place they had built a floor and some of the walls and then just covered everything with plastic.” aylandgirl

53. She Wanted Us To Pay For Maintenance Done To Her House

“The old woman that lived one house over and behind us would come over and ask us to pay for random outdoor maintenance she was having someone do.

She wanted us to pay for the new fence that was being put up on ‘our property’ one time.” LandShark93

52. He Had Everyone Thinking I Was Crazy

“The guy in the apartment next to me would whoop and holler all hours of the night. Typically starting at 11:30 pm and ending at 4 am. Because he was in the end apartment, no one else could hear it so everyone thought I was crazy.” 52CardPUA

 51. They Were Taking Every Last Parking Spot

“We lived in a row of terraces and the rear of our house faced the front of someone else’s separated by a road.

The neighbors across the road constantly parked all their SUV’s and 4×4 (they had about 6 for one house) stopping others from being able to park. Things progressed to the point where they would force other cars out of the way (we found my wife’s car in the middle of the road) and it resulted in a major argument in the street. We ended up moving of course.” gRoberts84

50. The Lady With More Than One “Service Animal”

“A lady moved in and LIED that her dog was a ‘service dog’ because these apartments did not allow dogs or cats but can’t deny a service animal.

This dog was no service dog, it didn’t even have basic obedience training and she would turn it loose all day long in the communal gated courtyard, never cleaned up after it and it was annoying because it would (playfully) chase everyone and harass everyone because it was starved for attention. She got tons of complaints, but because she kept claiming it was a service animal, there was nothing to be done. She eventually got evicted after getting a second dog she let run everywhere and pooped everywhere too (which she never cleaned) because obviously, no one has 2 ‘service animals’ that are literally never inside with the person.

The landlord found out when she left she was also one of those hoarder people and left her apartment packed full of all kinds of stuff and filth, including bags of clothes she had been stealing at night from those charity donation bins they set up in parking lots. She was just a vile individual.” bluebirdgirl89
49. The Ridiculous Accusation That These Harmless Parents Would Kill Birds

“My mum called her ‘Tartface.’

She’d been living there my whole life, but only really properly kicked off when I was about 10. She was schizophrenic, on all kinds of meds, had a little boy she’d scream at in the early hours of the morning.

She’d often wake us all up with her loud music and screaming at her kid.

My parents have always been keen birdwatchers and would never dream of harming an animal. But, Tartface would sometimes find dead birds in her garden and accuse us of having killed them and thrown them over her fence (even though she had three cats who were clearly the ones killing the birds). Eventually, we couldn’t go in the garden without her screaming over the fence at us. We stayed in the house a lot, with all the curtains drawn. She still screamed at us through the walls, threatening us with violence.

We hadn’t done anything, she was just crazy.” deleted

48. Robbed By The Neighbor Who Accidentally Rats Herself Out

“They robbed us when we went to the grocery store. About $7,000 in items lost. The cop said if it was them they would tell on themselves (we were kind of friends.) Sure enough, as soon as the policeman left, she came over, sat down, and immediately asked if they had any leads on the theft. We never even told her we had been robbed.” Mianro9
47. At Least Being A Terrible Neighbor Doesn’t Run In The Family

“I have the reverse. My parents growing up were hoarders that never took care of the lawn or house, did all sorts of shady stuff and let all the kids run wild (myself somewhat included).

To make matters worse, my dad was in the habit of pulling in every troubled boy in the neighborhood to ‘help’ them which was noble but pointless since he could not even help himself or his own kids. So, as a teenager, I would mostly watch as these kids and my brother would paintball neighbors cars, explode fireworks in their mailboxes, break in and steal from them plus all sorts of other stuff.

I wanted nothing to do with it all and got a full-time job as soon as I turned 15 and left home. I have my own nice little home and family now with a good job, graduated from a good school, etc and I try to be the best neighbor humanly possible to make up for how they acted.” kingofthesofas

46. Living Beneath An Awful DJ Is Hard

“I have this fool upstairs who thinks he is a ‘DJ.’ So every single day he starts to play some awful one bar melody incredibly loudly and I hear it in every corner of my apartment, like for 3 hours straight one repetitive bar of garbage, then a little stop, and then again.

I can’t freaking do anything, it’s like torture. So he did it till I lost my mind and told him to stop. Here’s the deal though; he isn’t doing anything illegal since he stops at a legally allowed hour. So he tells me, ooh I’m a Dj it’s my job (he is unemployed), but let’s not fight I’ll make it quieter. Didn’t help at all. So I try to avoid my apartment as much as possible. To stay sane. After a whole year of this nightmare, I think he found a job. Still hear from him on weekends, the guy is an early bird, playing his garbage DJ music very early in the morning, which he blasts through the speakers, which wakes me on a weekend morning.

I can at least study at home now. When I graduate school I am planning to leave.” deleted
45. Crying Wolf

“He would call the cops if you parked your car on the street in front of his house. When the cops showed up and told him you were legally parked and could not be towed, he would slash the car’s tires. He always called the cops for no reason, so often that when the cops showed up we would have 20 minut*es conversations about h*ow much of a piece of *** this guy was being. The fact was the cops hated this guy as much as us and they began sharing information about him.” Thinkcali

44. If You Throw Cigarette Butts Into Your Own Yard, Expect Your House To Burn Down

“My upstairs neighbors used to throw lit cigarettes out the window.

We called them out on it numerous times because of the obvious fire hazard. They seemed to have stopped since we no longer saw butts in the front yard.

Turns out they just started throwing them out the back window instead. The house burned down.

The fire marshal found a ton of butts behind the house, around the mattress leaned against the house. The cigarette hit the mattress and that’s what started the fire. Everyone got out ok, but the upstairs neighbors lost everything.” katybats

43. If She Had Heeded Her Neighbor’s Advice, Her Dog Would Still Be Alive

“My parent’s next door neighbor is a lady.

She doesn’t have a big backyard, but she has two dogs, a boxer and a rottweiler. She rarely ever walks them so they are usually pent up with energy and are not well socialized. Whenever people or dogs walked by outside, they go nuts and jump/tackle our mutual property wooden fence separating us. Every year, the fence needs to be replaced because of the dogs. Not only is she never willing to pay for the replacement, but she also is never willing to even split the cost. My parents would end up footing the entire bill for a new fence each year with my dad not wanting to make a big deal.

She also has this very tall tree in her backyard that we tried to get her to trim and maintain in case strong winds would bring the cross branches down damaging the surrounding houses and people walking by. But she would ignore us. Eventually one very windy day, a branch snapped from that tree and it crushed and killed the boxer. Ever since then, the problems with the fence destruction and aggression stopped even with the rottweiler still around. So I guess it was the boxer that was causing all of the problems. But to this day, she still seems like a horrible person of a neighbor and a very subpar dog owner.” sackofmangoes
42. Since We Didn’t Want To Move, They Tried To Force Us Out

“One set of neighbors wanted my family to move out so that they could buy the house for their kids.

Well since we didn’t want to move out, they tried to force us out. This included lots of passive-aggressive nonsense, calling the police on us many times for made up reasons, calling the city to complain about our grass length, calling animal services to say we neglected animals, calling child services, you get the idea.

The worst thing is every year they had this outside Christmas decoration that had 2 songs on loop. Well, they stuck that sucker basically right outside my window and played music all night every night for ~3 months.” zepaperclip

41. They Had Smelly Goats Next Door

“They bought the place across from us because they wanted to raise goats and various other animals.

The area wasn’t zoned for it, which they apparently didn’t look into when they bought the property. Their solution was to try to get zoning laws passed to allow them to do it. My mom went to the zoning meetings and mentioned that she’d rather not have to deal with smelling/hearing farm animals, since it was just a small suburban neighborhood and not big rural property lots.

They followed her home that night, running her off the road. Waited across the street for when she came home, and she had to call the police. After that, there were more instances of them trying to intimidate us.

Nasty calls, our mailboxes/fences destroyed, UPS packages suddenly disappearing.

They eventually got the goats anyways, and as expected, they were noisy and smelled disgusting. I don’t recall if my mom reported it, but I don’t believe she ever did, out of fear that they would retaliate. Then one day they just left. Sort of anti-climatic. I got my mom a stuffed goat that now sits in our front room.” lawlessSyntax

40. No Ice Cream For The Brown Kids

“It’s incredibly low level, but I grew up on a mostly white neighborhood in middle England, and myself, my twin sister and my father were the only brown people on our estate.

We were friends with a group of three other kids, and one of their mums would always come out with ice creams. But only three. Never an ice cream for me and my sister.” Badlydressedgirl
39. The Child Abduction Trap Failed

“Next door neighbor was always creepy, he wanted us to always come inside and play with his cats. When he was moving out he offered me an Air Force jacket. I was about 10 at the time. He said if I wanted to get the jacket I had to come with him to get it from some guys house. After I told him I need to ask my mom he disappeared.

To this day I think he wanted to abduct me.” Stiffwindd
38. A Neighbor Who Is Jealous Over Nothing Seeks Retaliation

“My aunt, who was a single mother at the time and ran a daycare service in her house, lived next to a psychopath. After a bad ice storm one day, my aunt had a bunch of tree limbs fall into her backyard. Her neighbor’s husband came over and cleaned it up for her. Ya know, just being a good neighbor. And in turn, my aunt thanked him with a case of beer. Ya know, just being a good neighbor. Well, his wife took that as flirting, and so began a one-sided feud against my aunt.

It was a while ago, so I don’t remember everything. What I remember though was horrifying. She tried to run over my aunt’s dog once. Another time she called child protective services and told them my aunt was a prostitute and working at her house during the daycare hours. Probably the worst one though was when my aunt found a bit of her house and grass near the house burnt. She’s old high school friends with the fire inspector, so he came and confirmed a fire was started using a propellant.

My aunt took her to court over these things, but I don’t remember what came of it.

I’m pretty sure she at least got a restraining order.” shnozdog

37. Shot In The Stomach By A Guy Who Certainly Should Not Own A Weapon

“He came home from the bar with his friend, both inebriated. They were screwing around with a pistol and accidentally shot through their floor -down into my apartment. I got hit in the stomach. Called 911 and when the ambulance was taking me away, my panicked fiancé was getting ready to leave because the EMTs told her to follow instead of riding with. My neighbor came down and was like ‘what happened? We heard a commotion!’

Cops were called and he got arrested.” narcolepsyinc

36. Caught In The Act Of Letting His Dog Use Neighbor’s Yard As A Toilet

“My old neighbor used to walk his dog on a leash to poop in my yard.

My mom had me throw it back in his yard once, he called the police and claimed he never did that. A few months later my family and I were going out of town and after we left our house, my mom had realized she had forgotten something. We turned around only to find our neighbor standing in the middle of our yard with his dog on a leash dropping a nice poop in our front yard. All I remember is my mom winding down her window and yelling ‘I hate you, Don!'” thewikemeston

35. She Would Knock On My Door For Money

“I once had a neighbor in college that would knock on my door and ask for money.

I would just say I’m a broke student and I can’t spare anything. It was weird and a weekly occurrence at least. She was in her 50s and working. One day I got fed up when she knocked on my door (I think I was stressed for exams) and I said yea I got some money for you. I asked her to hold out her hands and gave her maybe 2 dollars worth of nickels that I had in a change jar. She never bothered me again.” ItsOfficiallyME

34. She Lied Through Her Teeth For That GameStop Magazine

“When I was around 10 years old: my neighbor would occasionally watch me open my mailbox to see if my GameStop magazine had arrived.

She would threaten me each time saying she was calling the cops and that it was illegal for me to check my parents’ mail. I actually believed this until I was 15 years old.” mugniftw
33. You Can’t Intentionally Hit Someone’s Car And Expect To Get Away With It

“She intentionally backed into my wife’s car because, she claimed, my wife was parked in her spot. That spot was on a public street. In front of our house. The cops saw it differently than she did.” ericdavis1240214

32. Cutting Down A Neighbor’s Lemon Tree Is Crossing The Line

“I was in the process of selling my townhome, so I abandoned my house for a while and moved to another home.

The neighbor took down the fence separating our townhomes and cut down my lemon tree. I was livid.” BreakTheWallsDown95
31. Grilling With Charcoal Indoors Is Neither Smart Nor Safe

“Came home to a smoke-filled apartment. Called the fire department when we couldn’t find the cause. Turns out our downstairs neighbors put a charcoal grill on their stove so they could bbq indoors. My only relief was a friend had walked my dog earlier that day so I know he wasn’t in a smoke-filled apt all afternoon.” Faeriebee99 

30. She Could At Least Be More Considerate With Where She Places The Garbage Cans

“Retired woman on my street follows the garbage truck and moves the garbage cans off the street while the rest of us are at work (because they are an eyesore).

This would be fine except she would leave them in the middle of the driveway and there is no stopping on our street during rush hour (bus route) so you either need to park a block away to move the garbage can then go get the car or risk getting a ticket while you move it. Since the houses are quite close together we found out the first time by turning in and hitting the garbage can because it was just far enough back that you couldn’t see it until you turned.” GrumpyKitten1
29. She Has Usher On Permanent Repeat

“My neighbor loves the song ‘Yeah’ by Usher.

Like, she really, really loves it. I relive the early 2000s club hit almost daily.” lowbornTV

28. An Old Woman Trying To Rid The Neighborhood Of All Pets

“There was an old woman in my neighborhood when we first moved in that would rip down posters of lost pets, even ones handmade by little kids who wrote in crayon about their lost kitty. It doesn’t happen anymore as far as I know, so maybe she moved. Or died.” deleted
27. Determining The Property Line Was The Best Way To Handle This Angry Neighbor

“When I first moved into my house I didn’t know my exact property line yet, so I put wood by a tree I thought was mine.

The neighbor came over saying it was his tree. So I went ahead and got a survey to settle any troubles. He was pissed when I got 10 feet beyond the tree. Problems solved though!” icecreampopncereal
26. Dog Theft By An 11-Year-Old Liar

“Some people moved in a couple of houses down. There was a girl around 11ish who lived there and stole my neighbor’s dog. She claimed she had never seen it before and thought it was a lost dog even though two days before she had been playing with their dog.” Magikarp_UsedSplash

25. Three Bird Feeders Above A Parking Spot Might Be Too Many

“My smart neighbors have put up 3 bird feeders on the trees where my parking spot is.

I’ve literally woken up to quite horrible situations because of this due to the amount of bird poop on my car. I genuinely don’t think they did it to be malicious. I just didn’t think they were thinking of what that would do. And now I don’t know what I should do about it.” MadelineShelby
24. Corrupt Neighbors Block Power In Post-Hurricane Puerto Rico

“So I live in Puerto Rico, where most of the island had been without power for awhile following Hurricane María. Due to our government’s power authority being quite slow in the recuperation process, a lot of neighborhoods in my area had been hiring private contractors to bring the electricity back.

In my case, I found a contractor willing to bring our neighborhood’s power grid back on, but I needed unanimous support from the neighbors to pay and authorize the process. Most were on board for this but two of my next-doors opposed it for some reason. When we asked why they said that they wanted the neighborhood without power so the rest of us would eventually leave and they’d never have to see our ‘annoying and pathetic’ faces again. So it was pretty much a no-go on the contractor. Fast forward a week and we find out that these next-doors had a friend in the power authority who asked them to keep away private contractors from the neighborhood so the authority could take credit when power is eventually restored.” amarilloplatanoPR

23. Their Kid Shot Through My Wall

“My next door neighbor kept pounding on the shared wall when I was ‘loud.’ A couple of months of that and then one day I come home to a shattered mirror in my room.

I can’t figure out what happened and then I see a bullet. Look around and find a hole in my wall. It looks like he shot a gun into my apartment.

I called the police. They pulled him out of his apartment since they thought he might be a threat. When he saw me, he started screaming saying he was going to kill me. He thought I was pulling a prank on him. Didn’t help his case.

Come to find out his son fired the gun and didn’t tell anyone cause he thought it got stuck in the wall and didn’t want to get in trouble.

The next day I was in the apartment manager’s office telling them what happened and the guy had the nerve to come in and complain to them that I called the police when I could have just asked him what happened. They kicked him out after two weeks, bypassing the 30-day eviction notice due to firing a gun in his residence. Had to see him in court one last time. He told me I was a jerk for calling the police.” ammobox

22. College Roommates Seriously Butting Heads Over Unshared Views

“My first college roommate was a hardcore Pentecostal bible beater. I was going not going to make it to heaven in the first place in his eyes because I was gay, Catholic and from New Jersey (this was in Texas).

He was constantly haranguing me about ‘being saved’ and ‘needing’ to read the bible and how he ‘knew a deliverance minister that could drive the demon of homosexuality out’ of me. I told him that was all fine and dandy but I wasn’t interested, I was a happy Catholic and quite secure with my relationship with the Big Guy. Ohhh no…that wasn’t acceptable, he kept it up. So I finally had enough and started doing stuff I knew would freak him out; things like reading Tarot cards, lighting candles and burning incense in front of a statue of the Holy Mother while chanting a litany in Latin.

This went on for about two weeks than I come home one day after classes to find him moving out. I ask him what’s up, acting all concerned about why he’s leaving and I’ll never, ever forget what he said to me: ‘Bestof, I’m sorry but I can’t live with you anymore. Your Satanic lifestyle is too much for me to bear. I can feel the demons dancing around you, the evil is just too strong and it’s affecting my relationship with God.’ I ask him where he’s moving…he’s moving into the room across the hall with this other guy. I silently laugh to myself because the other guy is a devoted fan of Marilyn Manson.

Yea, he didn’t last 5 days with that guy before he moved out of the dorm completely.” deleted

21. They Made A Bowling Alley In Their Home

“Apparently, they created a homemade bowling alley above me, and instead of bowling shoes they wear stilts.” bob-leblaw

20. Fences Make The Best Neighbors

“She wants us to tear out our driveway because of gravity, and water rolls downhill. She’s a loon. When the driveway was put in 25 years ago, it was all done by contractors and up to code. She’s threatened to sue us because her yard is at the bottom of the hill. We’re in Georgia and last year we had a BUNCH of rain.

More than normal. So, of course, she had 3 inches of standing water.

She said she talked to a lawyer and her case was solid. And that she corroborated everything with our builder neighbor across the street. When intimidation didn’t work and hubby basically told her to *** off, we came home to a fence separating our properties. Guess it was supposed to offend us? Anyway, that was the best fence ever! We have not talked to her in a year.” IanandAbby

19. It’s Not Nice To Shoot The Neighbor’s Cats

“My neighbors and my family were absolutely fine for about 7 years. It’s a nice old man that was recently re-married.

They have a 20-year-old student that parties from time to time which is fine.

But then one day out of nowhere we find our 1-year-old cat dead in their garden. Obviously, we cannot be mad. The cat probably died of a heart attack or something. So my family shrugs it off as a coincidence.

Fast forward 2 months we have a new cat, younger, so cute. I come home one day and my cat comes crawling to me giving the loudest meow of his life. Turns out my cat was shot. Our gardener told us that he clearly saw the neighbor with a gun (shooting pigeons or something) minutes before my cat was shot.

So yeah, as you can imagine we haven’t been close to our neighbors since that day.

P.S. Our cat survived with surgery, perfectly fine, but only has 8 lives left.”

JoBusser

18. These People Tried To Connive Their Way Into Sharing Their Neighbor’s Pool

“They insisted that we pay to have a gate installed between our backyard fences so that they may use our above-ground pool as they please, preferably when they invite friends over.

When we denied, they threw a hissy fit and found an excuse to ‘punish’ us. You see, the pool was going through some (expensive) issues with leakage into the yard. They threatened to call the fine-happy Home Owner’s Association because the water was (barely) leaking into their yard they rarely used and their dog was getting sick drinking the water.

(It wasn’t.) Not wanting to deal with that and also wanting to clean our own backyard of the pond that begun housing frogs, my father spent his birthday day off from work in the Texas heat digging a trench and installing a pipe so that the water could drain.

The neighbors came outside and harassed dad the entire time he was digging the trench, telling him it would’ve just been easier to install the gate.” Vinyl-Bread

17. Throwing Paint On Their Neighbor’s Door Backfired

“New neighbors had a party. Around 2 am, another set of neighbors asked them to try to keep it down.

Party guests came around and threw paint on my door thinking I had asked. Not a fun clean up process. Particularly for the hungover hosts who I made help.” barnescommatro

16. You Can’t Sue Someone For The Shadow Their House Creates

“My neighbor once tried to sue me because my house was creating a shadow on her property. She said it was killing her grass.” PotatoSenp4i

15. What Kind Of Neighbor Hates A Perfectly Nice Fence?

“My neighbor HATES our fence. She paraded half the neighborhood into her backyard and said: ‘Look at this horrible monstrosity they put up.’ That horrible monstrosity is an all cedar horizontal 8ft fence.

She’s gonna be pissed when they approve the variance to make it 10ft!” Frykitty

14. A Friendly Walnut Agreement Between Neighbors Gone Sour

“I’m elderly, so this was a long time ago. My Grandfather, who had immigrated from Scotland, shared a walnut tree on his property line with his neighbor. The agreement was the walnuts on his side were his, the ones on the other side were the neighbor’s. The neighbor started cheating, using a rake to get Grandfather’s. Solved by Grandad. Whenever neighbor cheated, Grandad started bagpipe practice on the porch.” BobT21

13. When Neighbors Get Petty About Inches Of Property Lines

“Our neighbor wanted to put up a fence and had the property line surveyed.

Turns out our driveway extended about 6 inches over her property line. We found out when we came home one day and she had a jackhammer taking off 6 inches of our driveway. There wasn’t anything we could really do despite that being incredibly annoying.

She built her fence directly on the property line against our driveway. We bang car doors on her fence all the time because we have kids and they have almost no space to get out. She gets mad if something of ours touches her fence because she ‘wants to keep it nice since it was expensive.’ She yelled at my husband a few weeks ago about having a pile of rocks too close to her fence.

He told her that her tree overhangs our driveway and drops leaves and branches all the time. He started gathering them up and dropping them in her yard. He has considered taking a chainsaw and just cutting down the limbs that cross our property line.” London568

12. The Lengths Some People Will Go To For Beloved Street Parking Spots

“Neighbor across the street thinks he can claim parking spaces on the street. His adjacent neighbor teaches piano from home, so parents are coming and going for a few hours in the afternoons. If anyone is parked on the curb between their houses (large enough for two cars, easy), he’ll go out of his way to back his car AS CLOSE TO THE BUMPER as possible.

Even if he obstructs his own driveway. Puts a lot of work into it too.
His Subaru B9 Tribeca doesn’t have a backup camera, so this pasty older man in a shirt and tie backs up, gets out, looks at the distance to the car, gets back in, backs up, gets out, checks the distance, gets back in, backs up, and on and on until he’s a hair from the other car.

I had to park near his house once while I worked on another car. He pulled this nonsense while I was staring at him. For minutes. Was just waiting for him to make contact.

Of course, his wife parked in front of my house all the time. He denies it. Now his wife’s car is permanently parked in front of their house. I’ve half a mind to report it and get it ticketed.” K24Z3

11. Good Ol’ Band Practice In The Garage

“My old neighbors consisted of three guys in their 20s and one guy in his 40s. They had a ‘rock band’ and would have jam sessions every Friday and Saturday night in their detached garage. My bedroom was on the back corner of the house and was almost all windows so I could hear EVERYTHING.

Their friends would come over and play various instruments with them all night long. On a few occasions, a guy with a TROMBONE would join them and drive me crazy!” Moose1194

10. There Are Better Ways To Handle A Barky Dog Than To Terrorize Your Neighbors

“We had a neighbor of our’s-a retired police officer in his 50’s-doorbell ditch us for around a month. The crazy thing is we never knew it was him. Apparently, he was mad at us because we had a dog that would bark and disturb. He never told us about this, so I don’t feel too bad. He also keyed the car to one of my houseguests at the time.

Finally, one day before we were moving out, he doorbell ditched us. My wife and I looked at each dead in the eye and without a word, I sprinted out the front door and she took off out the back. We had this unspoken thing where we were like, ‘Let’s trap this loser!’ I’m impressed that we did this and were so tight that we didn’t need to say anything to one another.

I caught up with our shirtless neighbor and he put his hands up and said, ‘Okay, you got me.’ I said, ‘Man, why are you doing this?’ He was inebriated and then proceeded to tell me about my barking dog.

He apologized and said he should’ve told us about it.” Anastik

9. The Fence Is For The Dogs, Not For Spite

“I had a problem when putting up a fence. The neighbor lost it on the installers. We had a survey done and he had to shut up about it though. He is a piece of trash who still likes to claim his yard is bigger than it is. The whole thing is just petty and stupid. He claims I only put the fence up to spite him. I said that ‘the fence was going up so my dogs could be let out and have room to run.’ The fact that he hates it is just an added bonus.” deleted

8. Never Leave Rave Music On In Your House While You’re Out Of Town

“My neighbor was listening to hardcore rave tape that was only recorded on one side.

Every 45 minutes we had 45 minutes of hardcore music then, 45 minutes of silence. Then, while he had the silent side on, he left and went on holiday for a week. That got old real quick. He was very apologetic when he got home though. I ended up being very English: ‘It’s fine.’ I grimaced through gritted teeth, ‘just make sure it never happens again.’ DeusExPir8Pete

7. She Copied Our Holiday Decor 

“My neighbor was always super crazy. whenever my mom bought anything to decorate the house with outside she would go buy the same thing then hang it up too. Our houses literally looked the same during every holiday.” 7. Twin Houses For Holidays“>layursx

6. Rude Man Throws Away Neighbor’s Delicious Gift Right In His Face

“Took Biryani (amazing Arab rice, fully loaded with shredded chicken) to a patriotic neighbor just to say hi, and he said thanks with a fake smile and threw it away in front of me.” UniqueUserName2017
5. Unexpected Bouts Of Reggae Thanks To Bluetooth

“Can’t figure out which one of my neighbors, but one of them loves to connect to a Bluetooth speaker in my room.

So guess who wakes up to Reggae at the worst times!? I’m not sure whether I want to be mad, or super chill because of the good vibes.” MrStealyourJuice

4. Some Neighbors Would Rather Call The Cops Than Eat Christmas Cookies

“A few years ago, my then-five-year-old daughter and I went to deliver Christmas cookies to our neighbors. They threatened to call the cops, among other things.” dheckler_95678

3. Scaring A Baby Only Makes Their Crying Worse

“When my daughter (a baby at the time) used to cry he’d bang on the wall. She was actually a really ‘good’ baby too and I’d never leave her crying.

One time she was ill, woke up and started coughing and crying. I jumped out of bed straight away but hadn’t even made it to her room next door before the banging started. On one hand, I understand how downright annoying it must be, but on the other hand…what a nob. He made it worse though because he’d bang on her bedroom wall which scared her, which made her inconsolable.” emmmaroid
2. “The Mean Man” Was An Accurate Nickname For This Neighbor

“Me and my brother used to play football/soccer in my backyard when I was in grade school. Occasionally, we’d kick the ball over the fence and we’d watch our neighbor take the ball and hide it in his shed.

We named him ‘The Mean Man.'” alex878

1. Keep Your Lawn Poison On Your Own Lawn

“Them spraying lawn poison into our yard. We have two dogs, a cat, and a garden in our yard. And the police department didn’t do anything about it. And he did this on more than one occasion.” ctilvolover23

Now, don’t these sound like some crazy bad neighbor stories. Do you have a tale that can top any of the ones above?