People shared the stories of the worst things their ‘crazy neighbour’ ever did and these 17 will have you delighted you don’t live anywhere near them
Bad day? Well, it could be worse after Redditor oilpaintroses asked people to share their wildest neighbour stories.
‘What does your crazy neighbour do to be labelled “the crazy neighbour”?’
And we’ve read all the answers – well, quite a lot of them – so you don’t have to, and here are 13 of the very best (absolute worst).
1.
‘She dug up my fancy flowers and replanted them in her own yard, 15 feet away.’
lalalimabean
2.
‘Had a neighbour who wouldn’t let anyone use his driveway because he didn’t want it to get dirty. Anyone including himself. He parked on the street outside. If he thought you were having a party he would drag a bunch of plastic bags full of god knows what to the end of his driveway so no one could turn around it. One time I came home and he was outside hosing it down in the rain. To his credit, I’ve never seen a cleaner driveway.’
StretchDude
3.
‘He eats my flowers.
‘In his defense, he told us that he has been doing it for years when he introduced himself after we bought the house. He also brought over frozen cookies in a plastic bag, as a housewarming gift, but wasn’t sure what was in them. We share a side yard and he is a really great neighbor. Just an older, quiet guy, who keeps to himself and eats my flowers.
‘Comes over to my yard, and eats the lillie’s raw, or brings scissors and clips the heads to ‘boil and make jam’. I thought that his particular foraging was interesting and quirky, so I planted a couple raspberry, blackberry, and blueberry bushes 3 years ago, when we first moved in, on the side yard we share.
‘I told him to help himself to berries anytime, especially before the birds do. The bushes have all gone insane and the entire side of my house is now a summer berry haven for us to share. Having a decent relationship with the guy I share a property line with, is worth some deadheaded flowers.
TraumaSparrow
4.
‘She has a penchant for going around sticking nails in people’s tires at night. This has happened dozens of times to nearly everyone on the street, though she’s slowed down since more people started installing video cams and motion-sensor lights in their driveways.’
Dahhhkness
5.
‘I lived in a neighbourhood with a homeowners association, and a board member sent me a letter saying my neighbor and I had to mow our lawns on the same day, cut the grass to the same height, and mow the same pattern to create uniformity.’
mrsheikh
6.
‘My sister’s neighbour reported my sister to the police because her kids were playing in my sister’s garden. Not for the usual reasons, too much noise etc. Nope, because a volcano in Italy had erupted and the radiation would hurt them. My sister lives in the U.K.’
JimmyHerbertKnockers
7.
‘Pulled us over pretending to be a police officer, saying that we had somehow broken the law whilst pulling out of our driveway and that she was “going to call it in.” She isn’t a cop lol.’
fluffybabypuppies
8.
‘The old lady who lived below me left me multiple cryptic letters blaming me for the birds chirping too loudly in the mornings. Not pet birds. The sparrows and shit outside. This went on for months.’
NarcolepticKnitter