Crazy neighbor opinions, advice or other stories, please :)

[flatlined]

I live in a very rural, low traffic area. If I see 3 cars drive past in an hour, I figure someone is having a party or something. There are some young kids who live across from the crazy neighbor. They do things like run around in their yard, yelling and laughing. They also will get their bikes out and ride up and down the street. They tend to laugh and shout then as well. If they see a car coming, they get to the side of the road as soon as their little legs can move their bikes.

Across the street from me are some teenagers who recently bought their first vehicle. Freedom! They can go anywhere, they can do anything, they have finally made it!!! The loving attention they give to their crewcab, long bed, manual tranny beat up truck makes my eyes water up as I remember how I was then.

I think its hysterical to watch them jump their truck down the road. They do better when they get to second.

My crazy neighbor hates all of the kids. She hates me too. She hates the neighbor on the other side because he put a detached 3 car garage right in the middle of her view of the mountain without asking her opinion.

She likes to scream at everyone. It scares the young kids when she stands across the street and screams at them because they are having fun at 6 pm. I used to roll my Harley out of my driveway and down the street before starting it because I didn't want to wake her up at 9 am. I got screamed at over that in the past. Also got screamed at because I got home at 9 pm on a Thursday. In my quiet car.

My skin has toughened. I've been ignoring her for a couple of years and my friends know to not make eye contact and just come inside when she goes all banshee on them.

Today, she ramped the craziness up. The teenagers backed their truck into my culvert ditch. Again. They are learning. Its my property. I'm uphill from crazy lady so she doesn't need to worry about her culvert backing up. After the kids get the truck out of my ditch, they do their best to fix it.

Crazy lady called the police. She wanted the teenagers arrested because they were blocking the road and she couldn't get out. (she could have just drove the other way down the street like she always does) She wanted me arrested because I'm a whore. She wanted the people with the kids deported because she was sure they were all illegal.

I know this is tl/dr, but has anyone had success with making someone like this ramp down?

[Crafter_Man]

Sounds like a real bitch.

You're not going to change her. You can try ignoring her. If she is harassing you, document it the best you can with a video recorder, and meet with the sheriff's office about it.

[supergoose]

Unfortunately, we just had to wait for our crazy neighbor to move away.

I think your tactic of ignoring her is the best one. I don't see anything else you can do that wouldn't just aggravate the situation. Hopefully this new level of craziness doesn't become a habit, but if it does, I'm afraid it's more an issue for the police, unluckily for them. Good luck!

[Moonlitherial]

My crazy neighbor either died or his kids put him in a home earlier this summer.

We had ZERO luck getting him to leave us alone while he was here. A little ashamed (but not too much) but I'm happy he's gone.

[curlcoat]

In my case, the crazy neighbor was, er, of a minority that includes illegals at times. When she finally crossed the line for me, I went over and threatened her with the CPS and INS.

This was over five years ago and not a peep in our direction since then.

[flatlined]

Sighs. Yeah, you are telling me what I already knew. Crazy Lady isn't going to move away. She was here first and we are all assholes for buying land and building around her.

I'd never met that sheriff before, but he knew me as "the biker slut who is ruining the whole community". He took his sun glasses off before he told me that so I could get the proper effect of his eyes rolling out of his head, down the road and then back.

CL has gotten worse in the last year. She's old and she drinks a lot. Her kids visit a couple of times a year. I'm honestly worried about her. I fully expect her to be standing in her driveway, beer splashing out of her can as she flings her arms around, and stroking out in front of the kids.

[LSLGuy]

You said you live rural. Until she has an unfortunate firearms accident you're stuck with her.

[Mom-of-Andrew]

Originally Posted by LSLGuy

Until she has an unfortunate firearms accident.

An unfortunate firearms accident that can in no way be traced to flatlined.

Seriously, flatlined, if crazy lady calls the police again you may suggest they get her a competency evaluation. And if the stuff she's screaming could be construed as a threat, they can lock her up for a day or three (depending on your jurisdiction) before they get around to doing the evaluation.

[ZPG Zealot]

Chances are crazy neighbor choose to live in a rural, low traffic area because she doesn't like to be around people and likes it quiet. The less she has to interact with you the happier she will be. The kids and the teenagers can learn to keep the noise down. Quite honestly, I think their parents should have choosen a family friendly suburb where kid and teenager noise is the norm.

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

Maybe kids and teen family chose rural neighborhood so kids could play outside and whoop it up and use their best outdoor voices in the good fresh air.

[supergoose]

Originally Posted by ZPG Zealot

The kids and the teenagers can learn to keep the noise down. Quite honestly, I think their parents should have choosen a family friendly suburb where kid and teenager noise is the norm.

I think that's absurd. If crazy lady has such a problem with noise that she can't tolerate normal kid, teen, and for that matter adult neighbor noise, she should have chosen to live somewhere (say, for example, a very large piece of land she owns) where she wouldn't encounter them. And if that changes (as it sounds like it did - the op says neighbors moved in and build around her), she needs to move. And if she can't afford to, then that's just too bad. No one should have to tip toe around her just because she can't stand reasonable neighbor behavior.

[pseudotriton ruber ruber]

Originally Posted by flatlined

She wanted me arrested because I'm a whore.

What do you charge?

[Cabin_Fever]

You have a great attitute there flatlined. Hold the moral high-ground.
Kids are kids (and they sound respectful, which is sometimes sorely lacking in this world) and crazy-next-door-ladies are...well...
...best ignored.

I wish you the best.

[aruvqan]

Originally Posted by ZPG Zealot

Chances are crazy neighbor choose to live in a rural, low traffic area because she doesn't like to be around people and likes it quiet. The less she has to interact with you the happier she will be. The kids and the teenagers can learn to keep the noise down. Quite honestly, I think their parents should have chosen a family friendly suburb where kid and teenager noise is the norm.

That advice is about useless, just like me being told not to have sheep because it annoys my neighbor who moved into a 'light industrial/agricultural' zone. Hell, he gets upset at the dairy farm that has been there since the late 1700s for smelling like cow shit. The land our house is on belonged to said same farm family and had cows on it until the previous owner bought and modified the sharecroppers house that was already here.

Unless she owns hundreds of acres, neighbors are going to happen. She needs to freaking deal with it. I am not thrilled with several of my neighbors, especially the one that vrooms his motorcycle early in the morning on weekends, mows his lawn early in the morning and stand-fires various guns at all hours of the day randomly during the week. The jackass who doesn't like livestock is known to have killed not only my dog but several other dogs and cats in the neighborhood because he uses poison bait in his yard on rodents, but not strong enough to kill them immediately, just enough so they gimp around as attractive targets for dogs and cats in the properties surrounding his. [Animal control spoke with him about it, and he refuses to use the proper amount of bait, he buys the cheap shit and puts out a minimal dose. AC said they can't make him use proper bait nor proper dosages.] The guy on the other side kitty corner across the street has several teenagers that are young vandals, and have broken into the barn several times, and throw rocks at my poultry. I got them on video and narked on them to the cops and now I am the evil bitch. [they complain out loud where they are quite audible in the quiet country evenings.]

Ah great, it is 830, dark and the jackass is shooting what sounds like a shotgun. *sigh* Hope there is nobody out in the woods on the other side of him.

[Vinyl Turnip]

What does "jump their truck down the road" mean? And does new driver training commonly including backing your vehicle into a ditch multiple times?

[ZPG Zealot]

Originally Posted by IvoryTowerDenizen

Maybe kids and teen family chose rural neighborhood so kids could play outside and whoop it up and use their best outdoor voices in the good fresh air.

There are plenty of family friendly small towns where kids and teenagers can be whoop it up in the good fresh air. It sounds like this woman was living there first probably because she enjoyed the quiet and serenity of countryside. Being a kid or having kids doesn't give you special rights in the world. They should have moved to where their noise wouldn't be a problem.

[ZipperJJ]

Originally Posted by ZPG Zealot

There are plenty of family friendly small towns where kids and teenagers can be whoop it up in the good fresh air. It sounds like this woman was living there first probably because she enjoyed the quiet and serenity of countryside. Being a kid or having kids doesn't give you special rights in the world. They should have moved to where their noise wouldn't be a problem.

Yeah but unless you buy the entire countryside, you have no right to dictate who buys and lives on the land next door.

If you want quiet you buy 15 acres and build a home in the middle.

[ZenBeam]

The one thing you could do, if you haven't, is let the young kids know they're not doing anything wrong, and CL is just nuts. Yeah, their parents probably already talk about her, but someone else saying too wouldn't hurt. Just a thought.

[ZenBeam]

Originally Posted by ZPG Zealot

There are plenty of family friendly small towns where kids and teenagers can be whoop it up in the good fresh air. It sounds like this woman was living there first probably because she enjoyed the quiet and serenity of countryside. Being a kid or having kids doesn't give you special rights in the world. They should have moved to where their noise wouldn't be a problem.

Complete bullshit.

The family with the kids also have the right to enjoyment of their land. If they're not breaking laws, tough shit for Crazy Lady. Living somewhere first "doesn't give you special rights in the world."

[Incubus]

I think ignoring people like this is the best course of action. If you respond, it is giving the complainer attention, and the strife will embolden them to complain further.

How much energy is Old Yeller going to expend screaming at neighbor kids? I'm sure the cops know the whole story with her. If nobody is breaking the law, then its her problem :shrug: . I lived on a street that turned out to be the main street fire engines zipped up and down in San Jose. Did I scramble outside in my bathrobe and scream at every truck that went by? No, I fucking moved

[flatlined]

Originally Posted by Vinyl Turnip

What does "jump their truck down the road" mean? And does new driver training commonly including backing your vehicle into a ditch multiple times?

It means they don't know how to use their clutch right and the trucks grinds and jumps. They are getting better. I know that the problem is that they are kids learning how to drive in a big pick up truck with a manual transmission. Backing into things until they get the hang of it just happens.

Originally Posted by ZipperJJ

Yeah but unless you buy the entire countryside, you have no right to dictate who buys and lives on the land next door.

If you want quiet you buy 15 acres and build a home in the middle.

I am so in agreement with you. Our lots are all an acre each. She had the opportunity to buy the lad around her home a long time ago.

The kids are nice, the teens are a little louder when they have truck problems, but I can't hear them when I'm inside. Until I hear the crunch of the teens finding my culvert. It doesn't bother me. I go out and check to see if they are OK, wave off the OMG, I"M SOOOOO SORRY!! shouts.

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[Sudden Kestrel]

Originally Posted by ZPG Zealot

There are plenty of family friendly small towns where kids and teenagers can be whoop it up in the good fresh air. It sounds like this woman was living there first probably because she enjoyed the quiet and serenity of countryside. Being a kid or having kids doesn't give you special rights in the world. They should have moved to where their noise wouldn't be a problem.

Har! I don't think being able to run and play and shout or learn to drive comes under the heading of "special rights." I think it would fall under the umbrella of "the pursuit of happiness." Being a cranky old lady doesn't give you any special right to silence, either.

BTW, I was the crazy neighbor in a situation sort of like this once, though it was in a suburban neighborhood. I worked nights, had insomnia, and was dealing with a serious illness. The neighbor kids from one end of the block were not allowed to go further than our fence, and their best friends lived on the other end of the block, so they would come down to our fence and scream for their friends multiple times every blasted day, and always in that sing-song cadence calculated to drive adults mad. I finally lost it one day and started shrieking at them like a fishwife. I felt kind of bad about it and later apologized to them and their parents.

Could be your neighbor has some sort of issue like that and an attempt to find out what it is might pay off. Otherwise all of you less crazy neighbors will just have to either wait for her to go to the home or move yourselves to a different neighborhood, I'm afraid.

[flatlined]

Originally Posted by ZenBeam

The one thing you could do, if you haven't, is let the young kids know they're not doing anything wrong, and CL is just nuts. Yeah, their parents probably already talk about her, but someone else saying too wouldn't hurt. Just a thought.

Thank you. I compliment the parents on their child raising skills often. I will have to start telling the kids that as well. The teenagers panic, but that's what teenagers do when they have backed their truck into a ditch.

I think I'll go over and visit their parents right now. The kids are off at a prayer meeting or something. I really didn't pay that much attention about where they were going.

[ZPG Zealot]

Originally Posted by ZenBeam

Complete bullshit.

The family with the kids also have the right to enjoyment of their land. If they're not breaking laws, tough shit for Crazy Lady. Living somewhere first "doesn't give you special rights in the world."

There are laws against excessive noise and there's also a concept called common courtesy which it sounds like the kids with their "whooping it up" have probably already broke, so they have no right to complain about the neighbor screaming. Maybe that's just her way of "whooping it up." I like loud rock and roll, particularly Sektor Gaza, but I don't have them blaring out of CD player on my backporch where it would disturb everyone else. I go to a club or a cover band show or I put on a pair of earbuds.

[Elret]

Have you tried the Sally Sunshine approach? Take her some freshly baked muffins or something and see what happens. I know she's a bitch and a bit of a loon but you might be able to shame her into at least shutting up for a while.

[TheChileanBlob]

Originally Posted by ZPG Zealot

There are laws against excessive noise and there's also a concept called common courtesy which it sounds like the kids with their "whooping it up" have probably already broke, so they have no right to complain about the neighbor screaming. Maybe that's just her way of "whooping it up." I like loud rock and roll, particularly Sektor Gaza, but I don't have them blaring out of CD player on my backporch where it would disturb everyone else. I go to a club or a cover band show or I put on a pair of earbuds.

Do you seriously think that kids shouldn't be allowed to play outside IN THE COUNTRY??
Neighbors are less likely to hear other people around them in a rural area than in the suburbs. Should everyone under 18 be confined to some kind of ghetto? It doesn't sound like any of these kids or teenagers are doing anything out of the ordinary.

[Askance]

My neighbour used to call the Police every time we had people around and they could hear our voices over the back fence. They seemed to believe that they were entitled to perfect silence (this in an inner-city suburb of a major city - and under a flight path!) because they'd lived there for decades and we hadn't.

Eventually they took it too far and the Police, having seen that we were having a civilised dinner party and not a wild orgy, went into their place and in essence told them to lay off or they'd be charged.

Everyone talks about the right to not be bothered by excessive noise, but no-one talks about the right to make - some - noise.

[Crafter_Man]

Originally Posted by ZPG Zealot

There are laws against excessive noise and there's also a concept called common courtesy which it sounds like the kids with their "whooping it up" have probably already broke, so they have no right to complain about the neighbor screaming. Maybe that's just her way of "whooping it up." I like loud rock and roll, particularly Sektor Gaza, but I don't have them blaring out of CD player on my backporch where it would disturb everyone else. I go to a club or a cover band show or I put on a pair of earbuds.

Generally speaking, when a known-asshole calls the cops because some kids are playing and making some noise, it's not because they hate the noise. It is because they hate the fact that others are happy and having a good time. The asshole neighbor will not have a problem when someone is cutting their grass, or when someone is busting up their old sidewalk with a jackhammer. But loud kids? Time to call the cops!

[curlcoat]

Originally Posted by TheChileanBlob

Do you seriously think that kids shouldn't be allowed to play outside IN THE COUNTRY??
Neighbors are less likely to hear other people around them in a rural area than in the suburbs. Should everyone under 18 be confined to some kind of ghetto? It doesn't sound like any of these kids or teenagers are doing anything out of the ordinary.

Neighbors are more likely to hear other people in a rural area because there is far less day to day noise out there than in the city or suburbs, as well as no tall buildings to block sound travel. Particularly if the area is flat and/or has few trees, tho when I lived on acreage among trees and hills I could still hear my neighbors' dogs' barking and none were closer than 20 acres away.

I trust that flatlined has reported what the kids are doing honestly, and they are not actually screaming blue murder like they tend to here. However, I can sympathize a little with Crazy Lady - we once had a family move into a house on a hill above us that saw no problem with letting their three kids and two dogs run amok, including on my property. When I complained about their dogs fence fighting with mine, and damaged corn from both dogs and kids, the wife said they'd moved to the country so their kids and dogs could run free and so they were going to! Why they couldn't stay on their own acreage... So I was forced to put up electric fences to keep them away from my dogs and birds, and kind of gave up on the plants.

I never did anything like Crazy Lady tho!

[flatlined]

Originally Posted by ZPG Zealot

There are laws against excessive noise and there's also a concept called common courtesy which it sounds like the kids with their "whooping it up" have probably already broke, so they have no right to complain about the neighbor screaming. Maybe that's just her way of "whooping it up." I like loud rock and roll, particularly Sektor Gaza, but I don't have them blaring out of CD player on my backporch where it would disturb everyone else. I go to a club or a cover band show or I put on a pair of earbuds.

Really? I mean really? A couple of kids pre school kids running around in their front yard is exessive noise? Some shouting and laughter would make you want to do speaker wars?

I'd like to ask where you live that this sort of noise would not be normal. Do you live in one of those age restricted communities? I"m totally flabergasted that you are blaming the nice, polite kids instead of the crazy neighbor.

Are you my neighbor? If so, I will start giving the kids messy ice cream bars while they are playing.

[Sudden Kestrel]

Originally Posted by ZPG Zealot

There are laws against excessive noise and there's also a concept called common courtesy which it sounds like the kids with their "whooping it up" have probably already broke, so they have no right to complain about the neighbor screaming. Maybe that's just her way of "whooping it up." I like loud rock and roll, particularly Sektor Gaza, but I don't have them blaring out of CD player on my backporch where it would disturb everyone else. I go to a club or a cover band show or I put on a pair of earbuds.

How such delicate people manage to survive I'll never know. flatlined didn't say that these kids were starting a band. ("Hey Andy, how about we put on a show in the barn?") They're just doing normal kid things like laughing, shouting, riding their bikes, or driving their cars (badly, apparently). In the daytime, FCOL. If that level of noise is enough to switch on the wacky, it sounds like Crazy Neighbor and her ilk need to find a nice padded room to live in.

I live in what sounds like an even more countrified area than flatlined, and we get a lot of noise that would drown out anything described in the OP. Sometimes we get a motorcycle club riding through, hundreds of rumbling Harleys passing our house in a continuous stream. The grader goes by on the gravel road several times a summer. Our neighbor's boys whip through on their ATVs on their way from their dad's place to their uncle's farm. Tractors towing assorted mysterious contraptions rattle and clang past several times a day. Sometimes the noise interrupts a phone call or even distracts me from my work, but I'm not about to march outside and demand they stop farming (riding, grading, whatever). I just smile and wave, and sometimes they bring me sweet corn .

[Ibanez]

I had a crazy neighbour who wanted everyone else to be quiet at 9PM, becuase that's when he went to bed. Fun times in the summer on a friday night with the pool and BBQ's the guys was a lunatic. He got so pissed one night he slammed his window so hard it shattered.

[Eliahna]

A public service announcement for those who may not have encountered ZPG Zealot before:
If you find yourself in complete disagreement with her stated opinions then congratulations: you don't need medicating/you're on the right dose. If you find yourself thinking "This poster makes sense", take yourself off to the nearest mental health professional with all haste.

In real life, ZPG Zealot is the crazy lady neighbor.

[Czarcasm]

Originally Posted by Cazzle

A public service announcement for those who may not have encountered ZPG Zealot before:
If you find yourself in complete disagreement with her stated opinions then congratulations: you don't need medicating/you're on the right dose. If you find yourself thinking "This poster makes sense", take yourself off to the nearest mental health professional with all haste.

In real life, ZPG Zealot is the crazy lady neighbor.

In real life, this is not The BBQ Pit-do not do this again.

[flatlined]

Czarcasm, would you please move this thread to the pit?

Curlcat, I would have been bothered about that as well. I used to have a neighbor who laughed when her dogs snarled and tried to jump over the fence to bite me. Animal control is pretty worthless out here, so I bought one of those hand held sonic noise things. The dogs stopped rushing at me when I walked outside. A couple of months after I moved out, I learned that she was making meth.

This situation is very different.

I just walked outside and the only noise I heard was Crazy Neighbor's TV, and her shouting at it. I don't know what she was watching, I don't care. I can't hear it when I'm inside and outside noise is just that. Noise that I hear outside.

[Cat Whisperer]

We had a crazy lady living next door when I was in high school - there was nothing we could do about her. We called the police on her occasionally when she went too far, but they didn't do anything about her (maybe because she was an older woman - I don't know). We eventually moved away; that's about all you can do, in my opinion. Crazy people always win, because they're so much more willing to amp up the crazy.

[EvilTOJ]

The only way is to out-crazy the crazy. You'll need a Holocaust Cloak and a smoke bomb. Sneak into her house one night and stand at the foot of her bed until she awakens. Set the Holocaust Cloak aflame then scream bloody murder saying "Leave your fucking neighbors alone you horrid bitch!". Then throw the smoke bomb and flee.

[Sierra Indigo]

Originally Posted by EvilTOJ

The only way is to out-crazy the crazy. You'll need a Holocaust Cloak and a smoke bomb. Sneak into her house one night and stand at the foot of her bed until she awakens. Set the Holocaust Cloak aflame then scream bloody murder saying "Leave your fucking neighbors alone you horrid bitch!". Then throw the smoke bomb and flee.

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[bengangmo]

I've got genuine crazy lady living downstairs -

She's (from what I hear) schizophrenic and not on proper meds.

When the police came round for a kinda neighbourhood watch thingy the senior guy knew me from having been to our house before due to her complaints.

We are good friends with the police.

[otternell]

I've got a crazy neighbor too! Mine likes to leave 5 minute + rambling messages on my and the other neighbors answering machines. This last time, she was fretting because someone was stealing the gravel out of her driveway and replacing it with cement dust. This was a problem because she has asthma and cannot dust every day, and its destroying her electronics. I found it interesting that it was clearly cement dust, and not dust from the remodeling project she had going on. I also found it interesting that someone is stealing her gravel, not that the limestone is breaking down into dust, as a result of her and family/friends driving in and out of her driveway at least 10 times a day.

Everything that happens to her is a result of it being someone's fault.

Edit: She isn't willing to actually talk with people, so when she's really pissed, she stands in her driveway and screams obscenities that echo beautifully around the area.

[elbows]

Crazy neighbours are a bitch to be sure.

You seem to have a really good attitude though, and that will always serve you well. I've had a crazy neighbour and it's not fun.

My suggestion is for you and the kids and the teens to, every single time you see her, even if she's ranting and raving, get a giant grin on your face, wave vigorously and say, "Good Morning, Mrs X, always lovely to see you!" Every fucking time, regardless.

It won't change the crazy neighbour, but everybody else will feel a lot better. It's sure to make her upset, everything else seems to, after all. Added bonus; next time she calls the police and lodges a complaint, she's sure to throw in, "And that whore has the whole neighbourhood waving and saying 'Hi' to me!" They'll be dragging her off in no time.

[lindsaybluth]

Originally Posted by flatlined

I know this is tl/dr, but has anyone had success with making someone like this ramp down?

Long story short I recently bought a house in a narrow street that can have two cars pass (one side has parking, the other you can drive down with a few inches on each side. Never a problem if cars are driving on both sides since only 1/2 the street has parking so people will veer off and allow others to pass).

My crazy neighbor asked me.....not to park on the side of the street that allows parking across from him driveway. Uh, no buddy, you do two backups like the other yokels with driveways. Now at first I was very cordial - EVERYONE has been super nice and helpful, from the old Italian couples to the young kids in their first house like myself. So I apologized but showed him the parking sign.

Then he leaves me crazy messages. We speak again -he's taking pictures of my damn car, touching it, etc. I repeat that we had this discussion before and that nothing will change. He threatens to call the cops. I encourage him to do so, so all 3 of us can stare at the sign that allows parking.

But what I did and what will likely work for you is sending her a notarized letter (banks and AAA have them for like $2) CC'd to your attorney (don't even bother sending it to an attorney if you don't have one, just say CC Attorney SoAndSo) with your signature stating that any further harassment, including screaming, yelling, or calling the police will result in a harassment suit.

My crazy neighbor now says hello and asks how I am. He doesn't care if I rot in hell - and I know he'll rot there - but he sure as shit leaves me and everyone else he used to harass on the street alone with the picture taking and the passive aggressive notes.

Bingo, case closed. Cheap, inexpensive and effective. If she's old and crazy she's probably terrified of Teh Law cause she's broke.

Use that to your advantage.

[kayaker]

I had a crazy neighbor similar to the OP's once. I ignored her. Then one day she had a minor emergency and waved me down as I was driving by, heading to work.

She told me her problem, and I had the satisfaction of smiling and telling her to fuck off.

[pbbth]

We have one of these. Apparently every 3 months or so our upstairs neighbors get an extended weekend or extra day off and use this time to sit up all night long and play guitar. The first time this happened we banged on the ceiling to let them know we could hear them. The second time this happened my husband went upstairs and advised them that we could hear the music and to please turn it down. The third time we banged on the ceiling again. The fourth time was on Saturday when they started playing the guitar at midnight and put it up at 4 am to set up the drums which they played until about 7 am. This time we didn't say anything to them and are writing a letter to our landlord to address the issue instead since they don't seem to care that we are bothered by the noise. We don't want to call the police since this happens so infrequently (and because the one time my husband went up there the apartment reeked of weed and we don't want them arrested for that) but if we have to we will eventually.

[lieu]

Originally Posted by flatlined

I fully expect her to be standing in her driveway, beer splashing out of her can as she flings her arms around, and stroking out in front of the kids.

"Help, I've stroked out and I can't get up."

[Deegeea]

I had a crazy neighbor who ordered me where to park my car, and yelled obscenities out of her window at me when I had to move her trash bin and recycling bin that she put blocking my car in (when I parked it where she didn't want me to).

She was a nice looking, 30 year old lady who moved in and said she was a substitute school teacher. But she was crazy.

She never parked her car in front of her house and she freaked out if anyone else parked there (I never did). She even freaked out when someone got a flat tire (not a neighbor) and had to leave their car there till the tow truck came. She yelled at them from her window not to dare sit on the curb in front of her house, but to stay locked in their car, on a hot summer day. Also cars parked in front of her house occasionally had their tires slashed. No idea who did it though. According to the screaming out of the window, the area in front of her house had to be left open in case she got a boyfriend who wanted to park there. Maybe that's who did it.

Fortunately she has moved away. A large family now lives in the house where she used to live by herself. (It is two stories and I think three bedrooms.)

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

We had a neighbor who called child services on families she didn't like. We were in a small condo complex and apparently the families she didn't like ended up being all of us. The nice CPS lady who came to our house was so apologetic because it had been the fifth or six house on in our complex she had been to that month, off of the same "anonymous" tipster.

She was truly evil to mess with people's families that way.

[flatlined]

Originally Posted by EvilTOJ

The only way is to out-crazy the crazy. You'll need a Holocaust Cloak and a smoke bomb. Sneak into her house one night and stand at the foot of her bed until she awakens. Set the Holocaust Cloak aflame then scream bloody murder saying "Leave your fucking neighbors alone you horrid bitch!". Then throw the smoke bomb and flee.

While I like your suggestion best, I'm lacking a smoke bomb. So I'm going to go with this one

Originally Posted by elbows

My suggestion is for you and the kids and the teens to, every single time you see her, even if she's ranting and raving, get a giant grin on your face, wave vigorously and say, "Good Morning, Mrs X, always lovely to see you!" Every fucking time, regardless.

It won't change the crazy neighbour, but everybody else will feel a lot better. It's sure to make her upset, everything else seems to, after all. Added bonus; next time she calls the police and lodges a complaint, she's sure to throw in, "And that whore has the whole neighbourhood waving and saying 'Hi' to me!" They'll be dragging her off in no time.

I've already got the teenagers online with this. I haven't seen the kid's grandparents yet, but I'm sure they will buy in. I know my friends will

Evil and twisted and just perfect!!! Thank you so much!!!

[curlcoat]

Originally Posted by flatlined

While I like your suggestion best, I'm lacking a smoke bomb. So I'm going to go with this one



I've already got the teenagers online with this. I haven't seen the kid's grandparents yet, but I'm sure they will buy in. I know my friends will

Evil and twisted and just perfect!!! Thank you so much!!!

For the second time in one day I must say this - pictures!!!

[ZenBeam]

Now I want to visit you, just to say "Hi!" to your neighbor.