Odd things your neighbours do?

Odd things your neighbours do?

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Adenauer

18,564 posts

235 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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laugh

vx220

2,689 posts

233 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Not yet read this whole thread, but next door got his brother round over the weekend to help trim a hedge...

Seems to have been some lack of communication, as brother at one end trimming and levelling, neighbour at other end with chainsaw cutting down to within inches of the ground!

Sycamore

1,726 posts

117 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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My neighbor keeps pigeons, and has a speaker hooked up inside the pen that periodically plays low volume italian music.

I'm almost scared to question him.

spats

838 posts

154 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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I would kill for some low grade nutty next door neighbours rather than the 2 window licking, helmet wearing fktards we currently have to put up with!

I’d even take the loud shagging ones over these 2 muppets!

Started off well enough, doing up the house after it was left empty for a decade. Kept it friendly and always kept the noise to a minimum. They even let us use their garden waste bin.

Then it all changed when they found out we were moving in ( I think the clue was us working on the place for 2 years before it was habitable). Here’s an extensive but not complete list of their attempts to drive me insane: Verbal abuse, property being damaged, threatened with a knife, talking to the dog about us, letting the dog bark at us constantly, telling tradesmen they were going to damage our house, smashing a small solar panel, letting another trade put a fence post up then hacking it to pieces with drills, saw and fire. Ripping off supports affixed to the to damaged fence post and stealing them. Stealing our bins and reusable bags. Driving over our alleyway in their 4x4 during the winter when they have no actual need to be driving on it ripping it up to the point where we can’t drive over it. Dumping rubbish directly behind our house, throwing dirty water from their back door onto our garden, cutting our rose bush back by putting cutters through the fence to damage it.

So far the police have issued them with warnings to them, fined them, visited them on several occasions, and now we are going court due to trying to attack me for no reason at all.

The best bit is even though the son lives there and parks his car in the garage every night, they both deny he lives there!

And why are they doing it? Who knows! Even the police cant get a decent answer out of them.

Axionknight

8,505 posts

134 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Be the bigger man and burn 'em out.

m3jappa

6,391 posts

217 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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hehe I've thoroughly enjoyed this thread, and the one a couple of posts above about the bloke playing low volume Italian music to his pigeons actually made me laugh out loud.


Anyway, I though pistonheads were the wealthy investor type demographic? You don't get neighbours like some of these in affluent areas hehe

I must live in an affluent area as I don't have any weird neighbours, one is slightly odd, I really made an effort to say hello when we moved in, just to be met with a strange look each time. I eventually gave up when he turned up at my door asking for a quote for his patio.
Anyway, did the job, they were a little off but reasonably pleasant. They seemed happy, paid etc. the next Christmas I get a card off them telling me how happy they are and how they enjoy sitting out there on it.
Still now I just about get a nod of recognition when I see them. I guess they maybe shy perhaps.


NRS

22,079 posts

200 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Council Baby said:
Ketamine, clothing design and listening to repetitive dance music hehe
Your NEIGHBOURS do, not you CB!

Ilikebeaver

2,952 posts

180 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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DougMcC said:
My new neighbour is a really nice bloke. However one strange (but amusing) thing I have seen him do on a regular basis is to run from one end of the garden to the other, about halfway he will jump, pirouette and fart all at the same time in midair. Strange but amusing hehe
Made me chuckle.
Would love to have him as a neighbour

Ki3r

7,806 posts

158 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Morningside said:
snobetter said:
Still no tarp picture...!
Still none. frown

Oakey said:
HorneyMX5 said:
Having the windows open knowing full well the rest of the flats can hear them.
Next time they're at it, when they finish why don't you shout "NO!!! NO!!! Don't stop, I've not finished yet, keep going!"
Our upstairs neighbours used to do that...until when they had finished we started clapping, cheering and shouting 'well done' etc. They we very quiet after that.


One side revs the guts out of the car when driving off the driveway. I hate to think how many clutches he has burnt out.

The other ones are really odd. They lock the door every time someone goes out, even if they are just getting something from the car on the drive or speaking to someone on the doorstep.
Then they have to knock and acknowledge who they are before someone inside unlocks and allows re-entry. Maybe they work for the KGB?

I just imagine this "Halt! Who goes there, friend of foe?"
Best friend does this, first thing she does it lock the front door once we are inside. Pain in the arse when I'm getting things out of the car!

Ki3r

7,806 posts

158 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Morningside said:
snobetter said:
Still no tarp picture...!
Still none. frown

Oakey said:
HorneyMX5 said:
Having the windows open knowing full well the rest of the flats can hear them.
Next time they're at it, when they finish why don't you shout "NO!!! NO!!! Don't stop, I've not finished yet, keep going!"
Our upstairs neighbours used to do that...until when they had finished we started clapping, cheering and shouting 'well done' etc. They we very quiet after that.


One side revs the guts out of the car when driving off the driveway. I hate to think how many clutches he has burnt out.

The other ones are really odd. They lock the door every time someone goes out, even if they are just getting something from the car on the drive or speaking to someone on the doorstep.
Then they have to knock and acknowledge who they are before someone inside unlocks and allows re-entry. Maybe they work for the KGB?

I just imagine this "Halt! Who goes there, friend of foe?"
Best friend does this, first thing she does it lock the front door once we are inside. Pain in the arse when I'm getting things out of the car!

simoid

19,772 posts

157 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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m3jappa said:
hehe I've thoroughly enjoyed this thread, and the one a couple of posts above about the bloke playing low volume Italian music to his pigeons actually made me laugh out loud.


Anyway, I though pistonheads were the wealthy investor type demographic? You don't get neighbours like some of these in affluent areas hehe

I must live in an affluent area as I don't have any weird neighbours, one is slightly odd, I really made an effort to say hello when we moved in, just to be met with a strange look each time. I eventually gave up when he turned up at my door asking for a quote for his patio.
Anyway, did the job, they were a little off but reasonably pleasant. They seemed happy, paid etc. the next Christmas I get a card off them telling me how happy they are and how they enjoy sitting out there on it.
Still now I just about get a nod of recognition when I see them. I guess they maybe shy perhaps.
I thought the "asking for a quote for his patio" was entirely random and the weird neighbour thing... rather disappointed this it your line of work silly

MercuryRises

516 posts

162 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Wow, some of you guys live next to some "interesting" people.

My current Neighbour doesn't do anything particularly strange, apart from being a Geordie, and he can't help that

Wacky Racer

38,099 posts

246 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Scuba_steve

573 posts

179 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Wacky Racer said:
There's some detail missing here...

Backstory? smile

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Wacky Racer said:
hehe That's brilliant!

prand

5,910 posts

195 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Scuba_steve said:
There's some detail missing here...

Backstory? smile
Enuff said surely?

Steve vRS

4,836 posts

240 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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lufbramatt said:
There's a bloke in my road that wanders round his back garden about 10:30pm in shorts and sandals, with a torch, putting all the slugs and snails in a bucket. I'm pretty sure his neighbours think he's weird*.




  • The bloke may or may not be me.
This made me laugh biggrin

Steve

JohnSW20

886 posts

236 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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There is a bloke who walks around Raynes Park, South West London holding very elaborate signs calling for world peace, stop Global Warming etc. The only other time you see him is helping his 100+ year mum walk around on a walking frame. See him all the time and would love to know his story but I'm afraid to ask!!!

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

232 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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Morningside said:
Wacky Racer said:
hehe That's brilliant!
Reminds me of the drivers breifings you used to get at Mallory many years ago which was along the lines of "Don't hit anyone, don't drive like an idiot and remember that the black bit is for you to race on not the green bit. Forget any of these things and I'll be seeing you after the meeting and you should bring your paperwork and chequebook."

Council Baby

19,741 posts

189 months

Wednesday 23rd July 2014
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NRS said:
Council Baby said:
Ketamine, clothing design and listening to repetitive dance music hehe
Your NEIGHBOURS do, not you CB!
Ok, you got me.