Odd things your neighbours do?
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Tango13 said:
vibushjuno said:
My neighbor's war on squirrels has reached new heights of absurdity. He's enlisted a squadron of rubber ducks as their frontline defense. Every morning, he strategically positions the ducks around their yard, convinced that the squirrels will mistake them for fearsome predators. The squirrels seem more puzzled than scared, but at least the neighborhood now has a new source of entertainment. The Duck Division.
Male ducks have been known to indulge in a bit of recreational gang rape so maybe your neighbour is trying to scare the squirrels off with the threat of being bummed half to death?In the eighties, the family two doors along seemed fairly normal: dad, mum, two kids. The dad was a builder, worked hard. The kids were noisy. Normal ended there. The mum modelled herself on Dierdre Barlow. She did look a bit like her. More so when she was wearing all her Dierdre gear. But if Dierdre had a new style, she had to have it. New hairstyle, new glasses, all faithfully copied. He was a bit nonplussed about it and sought to avoid awkwardness by tipping off the neighbours. If he said Dierdre had a new raincoat, you knew his wife would appear with an identical coat. We moved in the early nineties so I don't know how she got on when Dierdre died.
Odd things old neighbour did (terraces, shared ginnel):
- remove the fence between the gardens and reposition 1m onto our garden. Then pick a fight with my then 8 month pregnant wife which required the gardeners who did the fence removal to a) intervene and b) realise the documents the neighbour had shown them 'buying' the additional 1m of space was false/fraudulent.
- threaten to sue repeatedly when we had a new roof on as the roofers had to lift the edge one row of her tiles to install the proper underlay etc.
- create fake letters from the council planning department over windows in the pair of terraces having to match. These were windows already installed before we moved in.
- pick arguments with any neighbours or delivery people who dared to park outside her house - when she did not own a car!
- send her daughter round to out house to continue the fight she picked with a neighbour opposite over parking - reasoning is that I was seen getting in the neighbours car a week earlier so apparently was responsible for their parking a week later. The police were called on that one as she started damaging the door and windows.
- deliberately sweep her side of the ginnel onto our side, in a perfect neat line you could have popped a ruler on.
- threaten our 88 year old neighbour with violence on the other side, as the 88 year old neighbours son had made too much noise with the hedge trimmers.
When I say 'odd', I mean some unresolved mental health issues.
- remove the fence between the gardens and reposition 1m onto our garden. Then pick a fight with my then 8 month pregnant wife which required the gardeners who did the fence removal to a) intervene and b) realise the documents the neighbour had shown them 'buying' the additional 1m of space was false/fraudulent.
- threaten to sue repeatedly when we had a new roof on as the roofers had to lift the edge one row of her tiles to install the proper underlay etc.
- create fake letters from the council planning department over windows in the pair of terraces having to match. These were windows already installed before we moved in.
- pick arguments with any neighbours or delivery people who dared to park outside her house - when she did not own a car!
- send her daughter round to out house to continue the fight she picked with a neighbour opposite over parking - reasoning is that I was seen getting in the neighbours car a week earlier so apparently was responsible for their parking a week later. The police were called on that one as she started damaging the door and windows.
- deliberately sweep her side of the ginnel onto our side, in a perfect neat line you could have popped a ruler on.
- threaten our 88 year old neighbour with violence on the other side, as the 88 year old neighbours son had made too much noise with the hedge trimmers.
When I say 'odd', I mean some unresolved mental health issues.
Edited by POIDH on Thursday 10th August 15:32
Pit Pony said:
And in the dark and rain, when someone removes the Sump from thier car, from the invisible rocks* placed on a verge you don't own, are you happy to accept liability ?
The whole point is not to drive on the grass verge.- invisible perhaps because the paint has faded and the grass grown around them.
GIYess said:
Just in case there hasn't been enough said about the white stones, I'll add my support for them too. (snip)
Agreed. Some idiots will always drive/park on the grass regardless. On our science park we often had UPS drivers cutting corners across the grass and digging huge muddy trenches on well tended grass that would put a golf course to shame. After many warnings the facilities manager had single massive rocks laid at the corners with the farm JCB.The complete knob UPS driver smashed straight into one on his next F1 pitstop. Cue equally massive finger pointing argument.
I gather UPS were told to FRO.
Edited by 5s Alive on Thursday 10th August 19:14
geeks said:
DukeofBork said:
Red9zero said:
A nearby neighbour of ours used to put a bollard or bin out to save their space.
I’ve taken great pleasure in using the Defender to simply push such things out the way a few times when visiting chums with funny neighbours, they look genuinely dumbfounded.
doesn't matter if its 10 foot or not 
DickyC said:
In the eighties, the family two doors along seemed fairly normal: dad, mum, two kids. The dad was a builder, worked hard. The kids were noisy. Normal ended there. The mum modelled herself on Dierdre Barlow. She did look a bit like her. More so when she was wearing all her Dierdre gear. But if Dierdre had a new style, she had to have it. New hairstyle, new glasses, all faithfully copied. He was a bit nonplussed about it and sought to avoid awkwardness by tipping off the neighbours. If he said Dierdre had a new raincoat, you knew his wife would appear with an identical coat. We moved in the early nineties so I don't know how she got on when Dierdre died.
Your neighbours weren’t called Fred and Rose by any chance? If so they quietened the kids down after you left.Our former neighbours used to argue constantly, we kept our distance , the odd thing was they used to copy everything that we did. If I went out and washed the car, or did the garden he would do the same, strange. We lived in a dormer bungalow, getting on the roof was easy, climb out the window and on to the tiles, as long as you had some grippy trainers on you were fine.
The wood on the dormer needed painting so one Saturday morning, I got the paint and brushes ready, put on some trainers, climbed on the roof and started painting, sure enough 10 minutes later he is doing the same thing, but I noticed that he had ordinary leather shoes on, then I hear a clatter on the tiles and he is sliding, shaped like a star down the tiles, his feet stick in the gutter and he falls backwards landing on his back in the garden. Just then his wife arrives in their car
"Have you got lunch ready?"
"I have just fallen off the roof" He was kneeling on the ground, covered in paint.
"We will have to have fish and chips then"
With that, she got back in the car and drove off.
The wood on the dormer needed painting so one Saturday morning, I got the paint and brushes ready, put on some trainers, climbed on the roof and started painting, sure enough 10 minutes later he is doing the same thing, but I noticed that he had ordinary leather shoes on, then I hear a clatter on the tiles and he is sliding, shaped like a star down the tiles, his feet stick in the gutter and he falls backwards landing on his back in the garden. Just then his wife arrives in their car
"Have you got lunch ready?"
"I have just fallen off the roof" He was kneeling on the ground, covered in paint.
"We will have to have fish and chips then"
With that, she got back in the car and drove off.
K87 said:
Our former neighbours used to argue constantly, we kept our distance , the odd thing was they used to copy everything that we did. If I went out and washed the car, or did the garden he would do the same, strange. We lived in a dormer bungalow, getting on the roof was easy, climb out the window and on to the tiles, as long as you had some grippy trainers on you were fine.
The wood on the dormer needed painting so one Saturday morning, I got the paint and brushes ready, put on some trainers, climbed on the roof and started painting, sure enough 10 minutes later he is doing the same thing, but I noticed that he had ordinary leather shoes on, then I hear a clatter on the tiles and he is sliding, shaped like a star down the tiles, his feet stick in the gutter and he falls backwards landing on his back in the garden. Just then his wife arrives in their car
"Have you got lunch ready?"
"I have just fallen off the roof" He was kneeling on the ground, covered in paint.
"We will have to have fish and chips then"
With that, she got back in the car and drove off.
That could go on the Classic from the Mrs thread!The wood on the dormer needed painting so one Saturday morning, I got the paint and brushes ready, put on some trainers, climbed on the roof and started painting, sure enough 10 minutes later he is doing the same thing, but I noticed that he had ordinary leather shoes on, then I hear a clatter on the tiles and he is sliding, shaped like a star down the tiles, his feet stick in the gutter and he falls backwards landing on his back in the garden. Just then his wife arrives in their car
"Have you got lunch ready?"
"I have just fallen off the roof" He was kneeling on the ground, covered in paint.
"We will have to have fish and chips then"
With that, she got back in the car and drove off.
K87 said:
Our former neighbours used to argue constantly, we kept our distance , the odd thing was they used to copy everything that we did. If I went out and washed the car, or did the garden he would do the same, strange. We lived in a dormer bungalow, getting on the roof was easy, climb out the window and on to the tiles, as long as you had some grippy trainers on you were fine.
The wood on the dormer needed painting so one Saturday morning, I got the paint and brushes ready, put on some trainers, climbed on the roof and started painting, sure enough 10 minutes later he is doing the same thing, but I noticed that he had ordinary leather shoes on, then I hear a clatter on the tiles and he is sliding, shaped like a star down the tiles, his feet stick in the gutter and he falls backwards landing on his back in the garden. Just then his wife arrives in their car
"Have you got lunch ready?"
"I have just fallen off the roof" He was kneeling on the ground, covered in paint.
"We will have to have fish and chips then"
With that, she got back in the car and drove off.
Wow that’s cold, I mean it’s funny but wow The wood on the dormer needed painting so one Saturday morning, I got the paint and brushes ready, put on some trainers, climbed on the roof and started painting, sure enough 10 minutes later he is doing the same thing, but I noticed that he had ordinary leather shoes on, then I hear a clatter on the tiles and he is sliding, shaped like a star down the tiles, his feet stick in the gutter and he falls backwards landing on his back in the garden. Just then his wife arrives in their car
"Have you got lunch ready?"
"I have just fallen off the roof" He was kneeling on the ground, covered in paint.
"We will have to have fish and chips then"
With that, she got back in the car and drove off.
geeks said:
K87 said:
Our former neighbours used to argue constantly, we kept our distance , the odd thing was they used to copy everything that we did. If I went out and washed the car, or did the garden he would do the same, strange. We lived in a dormer bungalow, getting on the roof was easy, climb out the window and on to the tiles, as long as you had some grippy trainers on you were fine.
The wood on the dormer needed painting so one Saturday morning, I got the paint and brushes ready, put on some trainers, climbed on the roof and started painting, sure enough 10 minutes later he is doing the same thing, but I noticed that he had ordinary leather shoes on, then I hear a clatter on the tiles and he is sliding, shaped like a star down the tiles, his feet stick in the gutter and he falls backwards landing on his back in the garden. Just then his wife arrives in their car
"Have you got lunch ready?"
"I have just fallen off the roof" He was kneeling on the ground, covered in paint.
"We will have to have fish and chips then"
With that, she got back in the car and drove off.
Wow that’s cold, I mean it’s funny but wow The wood on the dormer needed painting so one Saturday morning, I got the paint and brushes ready, put on some trainers, climbed on the roof and started painting, sure enough 10 minutes later he is doing the same thing, but I noticed that he had ordinary leather shoes on, then I hear a clatter on the tiles and he is sliding, shaped like a star down the tiles, his feet stick in the gutter and he falls backwards landing on his back in the garden. Just then his wife arrives in their car
"Have you got lunch ready?"
"I have just fallen off the roof" He was kneeling on the ground, covered in paint.
"We will have to have fish and chips then"
With that, she got back in the car and drove off.
BlackBelt Barrister on Youtube discussed the use of rocks a while back - and interesting watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow2Cia4Rjys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow2Cia4Rjys
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