People Are Sharing Horrible And Annoying Neighbor Stories, Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones
Despite the knowledge that someone knows exactly where you live, there are people who seem to think that horrible, annoying or just deeply petty behavior is acceptable. Even stranger, in the 21st century, it has never been easier to document insufferable behavior, including legally permissible evidence like videos and pictures.
So despite these considerable risks to being a menace, these neighbors still chose to be a menace to those who lived near and around them, fortunately, in the age of the internet, we can all “enjoy” the examples people have shared. So get comfortable, upvote your favorites as you scroll through and be sure to comment your own experiences.
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Also the fence has to be built on "your" property, so moving from her to neighbour... increased the available garden space somewhat.
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Our Homophobic Neighbor Complained To The City That Our Trash Bins Are On The Side Of Our House. The City Said We Could Put Up Lattice In Front Of The Bins. Hope She Loves Our New Lattice!
Despite the many variations of “be a good neighbor” that range from Jesus Christ to Mr. Rogers, people with antisocial tendencies don’t really see any issues with just being annoying to everyone around them. As a species, this trait should have been evolutionarily weeded out, as social creatures can’t really stand an outright hostile neighbor. Unfortunately, it still exists, propagated by bad families and disagreeable environments.
This is a vicious cycle, as antisocial behavior creates the environments that help it propagate, leaving everyone else worse off. While in some cases, antisocial behavior is partially genetic, more often than not, it is learned, through poor socialization, abuse and just existing in a particularly bad environment. It’s no wonder that in English, a neighborhood doesn’t just refer to an area, but the people in it.
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Not petty, they were constantly causing criminal damage, he stopped it.
All is not lost though, as there are potential treatments for antisocial behavior. The first is preventive, as there are certain, surmountable risk factors, ranging from positive role models to even having good nutrition. Of course, the real issue is that most of the people on this list are already adults, so preventative measures are basically way too late. So instead, a possible solution is Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
Kids Are Having Fun With Friends So A Neighbor Reported To Hoa That They Must Be Running A Childcare
I swear neighbors always seem to jump to the most ridiculous conclusions
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It’s important to preface the fact that no one can just make another adult do CBT, no matter how annoying of a neighbor they are. In certain cases, it could be mandated by a judge, but that would require an actual crime to be committed. For better or worse, being very annoying isn’t a crime in most places. But, hypothetically, a person might decide to improve themselves, maybe after a specific incident or after an intervention from loved ones.
At What Point Do The Officials Step In?
When My Neighbor In The Building Accused Me Of Lying…
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Good rule of thumb: all of your neighbors hate your restoration projects.
In these cases, a person would attend a number of sessions with a therapist to try and work through how they see themselves and how they can more positively relate to the world around them. Unfortunately, CBT is geared more towards children, as in many adults, antisocial behavior is cemented. Still, should an adult choose to attempt to better themselves, it could heighten the possibility of the treatment “sticking,” but this still requires that the person actually thinks they need help and strives for it.
The Way My Neighbor Decided To Move For A Couple Hours
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I Pay $125 A Month To Park In My Parking Spot. I’m 111b. This Jerk Is My Neighbor
This may make it sound impossible to help someone who exhibits antisocial behavior, but in reality, it does happen. It’s also important to differentiate between antisocial behavior and antisocial personality disorder. The latter is more serious and harder to treat. It’s also less common, so in most cases, an annoying neighbor is not likely to become even more of a menace over time. Cold comfort, for those suffering from this issue, but better than nothing.
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He assaulted a roommate, and they *still* didn't kick him out until the end of the lease?
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Someone Came And Cut A Dozen Roses Off My Rose Bushes
I had tomato and pepper and cucumber plants sitting on my driveway once. I hadn't gotten all of them into containers yet. I come home the next day after dropping the kids at school to find some lady I don't know loading them into her car. When I asked what she was doing she said they were just sitting there. Said I wasn't using them, she needed them more. Ran to her car & left. I followed her while calling the cops. She denied taking them, but I had marked them for different areas. Took 3 days to get most of them back (& not in good condition). A month or so later I catch her stealing tomatoes off the plants! So yeah, some people think that they are entitled to your things.
I actually had a situation once where I needed a lot of loose flower petals quickly, and my neighbour has a huge flowering bush in this front garden. But a) I only picked up petals off the ground, and b) I *still asked the guy if I could gather stuff from his garden first*.
Are they sure it is a human someone? Deer can behead roses in a way that looks like they were clipped, I think they just do it to see people eye their neighbours suspiciously.
Yeah cause the petals at the bottom looks like an animal. Could be either really :)
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Had a neighborhood person encourage their daughter to do this to my garden. I put in a camera, then told the police I finally had my proof. Prosecuted the mother (it’s not the child’s fault) for trespassing, theft, and destruction of private property. They left the neighborhood.
Someone stole my entire strawberry plant after I posted how nice the strawberries were coming in on Facebook. Never again.
I used to regularly find people in my fenced backyard raiding my lemon tree. They'd look started and say, "Oh! Is it okay?" It is now that you've asked. My guava would always disappear before I could eat them, but I suspect that was the squirrels.
We were clearing an area in our front yard getting ready to do landscaping and the neighbor asked if we were going to plant a community fruit tree. 🤨
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I used to live in the boonies in a cluster of houses. I knew my neighbors were jerks, but stuff would always go oddly missing. Not much, but I worked at home. One night, just as the peaches were coming on, someone(s) stripped all 3 trees of every peach. Grandpa recommended I starting shooting my shotgun out back on the weekends. Nothing was ever stolen again.
Someone cut the one yellow rose that bloomed from my grandmother's rose bush on the anniversary of her passing.
The house next door is semi abandoned, the owner checks on it occasionally and mows but it has set empty for many years and attracts trouble. I saw two teen girls messing around as I was walking out for an evening run, so I gave them the stinkeye and called the police non-emergency number on them, but they left before anyone was sent over. The next day I woke up to all my almost ripe tomatoes smashed. I've told multiple teenagers and people to get off that property, my husband afraid I am going to tell off the wrong person one day
i would put a cam outside to catch who is damaging your flowers and report damage of personal property to the police....and tell them whos doing the damage, providing the police with a copy of the video
I had giant sunflowers growing outside our fence to make people smile and I guess one person really liked them and cut them down and took them.
Sometimes I take a community flower for my counter and feel bad about it, but this lack of ethics...
how would they protect flowers? putting a padlock on the stem wouldn't do much to help.
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Ugh. I Sent A Copy Of This To My Landlord. My Neighbor Just Had To Be This Guy
Upstairs Neighbors Let Their Dogs Urinate On Their Balcony Which Leaks Down To Ours
My Nosey Neighbor Filming Us Again!!!
Too Bad There Isn't A Garbage Chute Nearby......
Sheltered What I Assumed Was A Stray Cat For Two Days, Called My Apartment Complex Asking If Anyone Lost Their Pet, And On Day 2, The Owner Shows Up And I Returned Her Cat. Woke Up To This Note This Morning
Our Neighbors Drag Their Trash Bags Out Their Front Door And Down Our Communal Hallway/Stairway, Creating A Literal Trash Juice Trail
Neighbors Who Have Nothing Better To Do
This Note That My Neighbors Left On My Car...
Today Was Trash Pickup Day. I Committed The Crime Of Moving My Neighbor’s Empty Can Closer To Her Driveway, So I Could Park My Car
Downstairs Neighbors Left Windows Open On Window Cleaning Day, Now I And Everyone Below Them Won’t Get Our Glass Cleaned And The Cleaners Can’t Work
At 3am This Morning My Neighbor Pulled Off His Door And Smashed It In The Street While Screaming Nonsense
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At least half of these are not 'petty' neighbours. Rude, inconsiderate, some real jerks, and some people being unfairly called out for nothing. But definitely not 'petty'.
Oh, I have a good one! Next door neighbor started blasting his music about 2:00 am on a weeknight. I let it ride for about half an hour. Called the cops (as a 20-something female living alone I was not about to go up a dark exterior staircase to pound on a stranger’s door). Cop comes, tells ‘em to turn it down. They comply. Cop leaves. They turn the music up louder. I call again. Cop yells at them, drives around the corner, and waits. Music cranked. Cop goes up the stairs. Cop absolutely books it down the stairs yelling into his radio. Two more cop cars, an ambulance, a fire truck, and the fire marshal roll up with the lights/sirens. Elderly downstairs neighbor is escorted out in her nightie. Upstairs neighbors escorted out in cuffs. Turns out upstairs neighbors had a major gas leak and were peeing on the stove to try to stop the gas smell. Fun times.
When I was younger, my family was camping and there was a burn ban. The a-holes near us had a fire that they refused to turn off. Another guy (not from our family) went over with a pitcher full of water and goes, "do you need help putting that out?" And POURS IT ON THE FIRE
My neighbor is paranoid and delusional. He has for the entire time he's lived there (16 years) complained about the "loud and rumbling noise" at night. There are train tracks half a mile from our houses that have trains running every 2 hours, and that's what he's hearing. But he refuses to believe that. No, the trains are too far away to hear them, and it must be me! That of course, makes more sense to him. This is what he posted on Next Door. I have screenshots of *several* other ranting posts and messages from him. nextdoor0-...0e9c12.png 
Working at a rock quarry on swing shift I would be startled out of my sleep at 4 AM every morning because of someone with their foot to the floor racing down our street. One time I saw that it was a small bread delivery van. I found out where he lived and left a very nice note on his windshield. I wrote the note on a notebook pad that one of the quarries vendors left. The letterhead was EXPLOSIVES TECHNOLOGIES. After that he came through nice and slow.
My upstairs neighbor called the cops on my yesterday afternoon bc her laundry bag wasn't on our shared front porch when she looked out her window (she gets laundry service), so she thought I stole it. The reason she thought it was me? She said it was there at 11am, but around 1pm it wasn't there, and she heard the front door open, then heard me laugh, so therefore, I had stolen it and was laughing at her. BTW, side note, she's a size 2 and I'm 300 lbs, size 22. She's absolutely psycho.
There’s a dude in my neighborhood who CONSTANTLY revs their motorcycle at the most inconvenient times, mostly in the middle of the night. There was also a person who just let their tiny shi tzu run around the neighborhood (which is like a really big farm area so everyone has a lot of cows and horses and things like that) They just let their dog run around until eventually we all stopped seeing it and realized it had died 😢
At least I seem to be a pretty good alien neighbor in this panda neighborhood!
Briefly: block of flats, horrendous brats in the one above - offensively loud music at all hours. We left after 8 months but before doing so, had a group of friends over. Everyone, out on the balcony and throw as much leftover food as you can onto the balcony above. And then sneak upstairs and drop some frozen prawns into the electric radiator outside their flat.
At least half of these are not 'petty' neighbours. Rude, inconsiderate, some real jerks, and some people being unfairly called out for nothing. But definitely not 'petty'.
Oh, I have a good one! Next door neighbor started blasting his music about 2:00 am on a weeknight. I let it ride for about half an hour. Called the cops (as a 20-something female living alone I was not about to go up a dark exterior staircase to pound on a stranger’s door). Cop comes, tells ‘em to turn it down. They comply. Cop leaves. They turn the music up louder. I call again. Cop yells at them, drives around the corner, and waits. Music cranked. Cop goes up the stairs. Cop absolutely books it down the stairs yelling into his radio. Two more cop cars, an ambulance, a fire truck, and the fire marshal roll up with the lights/sirens. Elderly downstairs neighbor is escorted out in her nightie. Upstairs neighbors escorted out in cuffs. Turns out upstairs neighbors had a major gas leak and were peeing on the stove to try to stop the gas smell. Fun times.
When I was younger, my family was camping and there was a burn ban. The a-holes near us had a fire that they refused to turn off. Another guy (not from our family) went over with a pitcher full of water and goes, "do you need help putting that out?" And POURS IT ON THE FIRE
My neighbor is paranoid and delusional. He has for the entire time he's lived there (16 years) complained about the "loud and rumbling noise" at night. There are train tracks half a mile from our houses that have trains running every 2 hours, and that's what he's hearing. But he refuses to believe that. No, the trains are too far away to hear them, and it must be me! That of course, makes more sense to him. This is what he posted on Next Door. I have screenshots of *several* other ranting posts and messages from him. nextdoor0-...0e9c12.png
Working at a rock quarry on swing shift I would be startled out of my sleep at 4 AM every morning because of someone with their foot to the floor racing down our street. One time I saw that it was a small bread delivery van. I found out where he lived and left a very nice note on his windshield. I wrote the note on a notebook pad that one of the quarries vendors left. The letterhead was EXPLOSIVES TECHNOLOGIES. After that he came through nice and slow.
My upstairs neighbor called the cops on my yesterday afternoon bc her laundry bag wasn't on our shared front porch when she looked out her window (she gets laundry service), so she thought I stole it. The reason she thought it was me? She said it was there at 11am, but around 1pm it wasn't there, and she heard the front door open, then heard me laugh, so therefore, I had stolen it and was laughing at her. BTW, side note, she's a size 2 and I'm 300 lbs, size 22. She's absolutely psycho.
There’s a dude in my neighborhood who CONSTANTLY revs their motorcycle at the most inconvenient times, mostly in the middle of the night. There was also a person who just let their tiny shi tzu run around the neighborhood (which is like a really big farm area so everyone has a lot of cows and horses and things like that) They just let their dog run around until eventually we all stopped seeing it and realized it had died 😢
At least I seem to be a pretty good alien neighbor in this panda neighborhood!
Briefly: block of flats, horrendous brats in the one above - offensively loud music at all hours. We left after 8 months but before doing so, had a group of friends over. Everyone, out on the balcony and throw as much leftover food as you can onto the balcony above. And then sneak upstairs and drop some frozen prawns into the electric radiator outside their flat.
