Inconsiderate Neighbors

[fenway1971]

Anyone else have a story?

I live on the first two floors of a brownstone. The family who lives on the top floor decided to leave their apartment in the evening and run errands while they were emptying the water out of their 100 gallon turtle tank. Their system was to siphon it by running a hose from the tank to their kitchen sink. They have cats.

While they were gone, the cats knocked the hose causing water to run all over their floor. Then gravity took over. Water came gushing down the walls into my basement all over the floor and pouring out my walls. Lord knows the kind of nastiness in that water too.

My other neighbor ended up calling FDNY so we could break into their apartment to stop the madness.

I hope they have good insurance because the repair bill won't be small.

Dumbasses.

PS Thank god it didn't happen the night before when I was pooping my brains out for my colonoscopy prep.

 

[Peaches]

:ylol2: THAT would have been funny Fen! I could just see you running back and forth between the FD guys and the john "eh..excuse me a minute" "ok - I'm back....er...no..wait..be back in a minute..". Hee hee!!

I am SOOOO glad you started this thread. I have this IDIOT teenager at the base of our cul de sac (we are at one of the corners). He has this crappy panzie subaru of a car (no offense to other subaru owner's - I'm just TWEEKED about this). He has one of those obnoxiously LOUD mufflers on it. I ended up writing his parents a looong bitch out letter a little over a year ago because he would leave at 5:45 in the morning every morning (the ass of his car points right at our bedroom windows) and he would come home all hours of the night roaring through the neighborhood. The mom "seemed"mortified and made him pay for a different muffler to be put on (not quiet - but less noisy). Then I guess he wrecked the car or something and had a different car all summer last year. Ahhhh. quiet at last! Well....the little bastard is back with his old car AND old muffler. I could KILL him sometimes. And, of course - he tends to go in and out of the neighborhood multiple times when I'm either sick as mess and napping or crashed out napping my Remi daze off. Needless to say...I get pretty angry. If he sees me in the front yard - he makes a *point* to pull off and make even more noise!

Shew...that felt good. I think it is time to petition the neighbors and see if HOA will *make* him remove the darn thing. The parents are unbelievable IMO. Who is in charge over there?

 

[sam]

anyone ever hear of people replacing their bathroom fan systems at home with super duper pooper odor removers???

M9 is a weak replacement!

 

[xX_LittleMissValentine_Xx]

Ha I live in student Halls of residence! (need I say more?)
x x x x

 

[tamesis]

Yikes, all those stories sound awful! hopefully your place isn't too badly damaged Fen, what the heck were they thinking?!

My upstairs neighbors right now are awful...I'm on the third floor of a four story appt. building. I don't think they have the proper insulation under their hardwood, as we can hear EVERYTHING. I can hear voices quite often, but when they argue i can actually hear word for word what they say. They have a dog and he HATES the dog, and is constantly yelling at it....sometimes he stomps around and hits the floor when he's mad at it. One morning they were bbq'ing at four in the morning....they kept slamming the door open and shut every few minutes, making a heck of a noise. Argh. i can't wait until we can sell and move into a house! I know we'll still have neighbors, but not quite as close.

 

[forum contributor]

Nothing as bad as yours, but still...

Moved into this house in 2005. Have a neighbor on each side of us. On the left is Bud and his dog Checker (awesome) and on the right is mailman Peter (ugh). When we first moved in, we had gotten some of Peter's mail, so I thought I would bring his mail over and introduce myself. I knocked on his door, and when he answered, I smiled, introduced myself, and said that his mail had been mistakenly delivered to my house. He grunted, took it out of my hand, turned around, and shut the door in my face.

Josh has tried saying hi to him when he sees him outside. This jerk looks right through him, not even acknowledging his existence. So yeah, he's great.

I want to slash his tires. Maybe weaken his stupid wooden front steps. Cut the gas line to his dumb motorcycle. Dude, you're like 70 years old - you are NOT born to be wild. Give it up.

 

[forum contributor]

Next set of neighbors that moved in had a new baby (maybe a week old?) and they'd let her cry to where she'd whimper.

That's just cruel

 

[Jennjenn]

I chose to move because of my past neighbors. It was for the better. I have been in my current apartment for over a year now and I love it here. I wish I saw this apartment years before I would have moved. But my last apartment was a two family house. I had the top floor and a couple and a kid moved in on the first floor. Their child was autistic. The child was not the difficult one to live above it was the parents. When they first moved in my landlord who lived next door and myself noticed that the kid was not in school or any program. He was 8 years old. I didnt want to get involved but my landlord was ouraged. I had to get involved when the kid started to run through the neighborhood naked and people would return him and I would hear the people knocking on the doors of the house because the mother would not answer the door. When I opened her door one day without knocking and with her naked kid holding my hand I screamed into her apartment that her kid was outside again. She yelled back well im sleeping push him in here and close the door. Thanks. She didnt even get up!! My landlord told her that she would call the police if she did not put him in a school. (he escaped 14 times) Then I felt bad because they locked him in his room with a blasting TV that was underneath my bedroom. I started to get sick and got Dx with crohns. Things got worse and like an idiot I still stayed there. I guess I didnt have enough energy to move. The couple would have arguments that you would hear things being thrown around and broken on a wall. My landlord tried to talk with them again and again. When the weather was nice neighbors would complain saying they didnt belong in the neighborhood because they didnt fit in and were disruptive playing blasting music. We lived next to a park and one day when kids were playing right there he had a vulgar comedian blasting on the stereo in the yard. As sick as I was I flew down the stairs and went into their yard and said I had it with them when I turned off their radio and told him off. The last straw was two things when I forgot to lock my door and found their kid in my apartment at 3 in the morning. Scared the Sh*T out of me! He was standing there in the dark. The worsening arguments as time went by between the couple. Once it was so embarassing because I had a date and he picked me up. When he came in the couple started arguing and I said with an embarassed smile ok lets go! He actually said he wanted to wait and listen to it because it was entertaining. The last argument I was online finding numbers to call for another apartment. While I and the whole neighborhood was listinening to the argument of he cheated on her. I was more shocked that anyone would actually have sex with that guy. When I told my landlord that I found a place and I was moving because of them she said please dont they didnt pay their rent and she worked out a deal to get them out quick that she would pay them to leave and they would be out in 3 weeks. I love my new place!! Soooo peacefull!! The other people were just a past nightmare!

 

[imisspopcorn]

I live next store to Jerry Garica from The Grateful Dead.....(yes I know he died)....I'll post a pic of his butt crack that daily assaults me and my children when he is bent over doing yard work.....That's just the tip of the iceburg.....

Soory about your place Fen.

 

[fenway1971]

Survey says...$2,500 in repair work. Nice. That was an expensive turtle.

I now have approximately 15 sq ft of ceiling and wall that needs to be replaced as water soaked through the sheetrock.

On the bright side, my neighbors have claimed full responsibility and are being ever so polite and apologetic about things. It's an inconvenience for a few weeks, but what are you going to do. . .

 

[Rob]

Thank god I don't live in an appartment style place

or hav neighbours lol

 

[Jennjenn]

Thats good that they are taking full responsibility when they should. It was a dumb mistake on their part!

 

[Samantha]

:ylol2: THAT would have been funny Fen! I could just see you running back and forth between the FD guys and the john "eh..excuse me a minute" "ok - I'm back....er...no..wait..be back in a minute..". Hee hee!!

I am SOOOO glad you started this thread. I have this IDIOT teenager at the base of our cul de sac (we are at one of the corners). He has this crappy panzie subaru of a car (no offense to other subaru owner's - I'm just TWEEKED about this). He has one of those obnoxiously LOUD mufflers on it. I ended up writing his parents a looong bitch out letter a little over a year ago because he would leave at 5:45 in the morning every morning (the ass of his car points right at our bedroom windows) and he would come home all hours of the night roaring through the neighborhood. The mom "seemed"mortified and made him pay for a different muffler to be put on (not quiet - but less noisy). Then I guess he wrecked the car or something and had a different car all summer last year. Ahhhh. quiet at last! Well....the little bastard is back with his old car AND old muffler. I could KILL him sometimes. And, of course - he tends to go in and out of the neighborhood multiple times when I'm either sick as mess and napping or crashed out napping my Remi daze off. Needless to say...I get pretty angry. If he sees me in the front yard - he makes a *point* to pull off and make even more noise!

Shew...that felt good. I think it is time to petition the neighbors and see if HOA will *make* him remove the darn thing. The parents are unbelievable IMO. Who is in charge over there?

Potato in the exhaust pipe, works wonders!!

 

[Rob]

Potato in the exhaust pipe, works wonders!!

Potato is old hat

go buy a can of industrial expandable foam won't jus fix the muffler but the whole exhaust

 

[misscris]

My current neighbor lives alone, except her 4 parrots and 4 dogs. At one point she had 5 dogs. She leaves the window in the 'parrot' room open all hours of the day and night so all you hear echoing around the cul-de-sac is the squack of her machaw. grrr.... Then 24 hours a day you hear her dogs barking; inside and outside. All they do is bark. Now this is also a night owl that sleeps during the day and is awake alllll hours of the night. So you hear her taking her garbage cans out at 3-4am waking people up. And the birds are squacking at 4am. Yeah, she's a nuisance. She's calmed down some, and her dogs are FINALLY quiet most of the time. However, it took over 2 years of listening to it for it to finally stop.

I think our best neighbor was the pot grower. Yeah, he was a good neighbor. I think I want him back. He was never home, and never caused a noise or a prolem. He'd come around and make sure his lawn was always mowed nice, but nobody really saw him. Yeah, he was quiet alright. When he finally got busted, they found a sleeping bag, a change of clothes, and a lawn mower in the garage. Other then that ... the entire 2 story house was nothing but pot in various stages. hahaha That was a great bust!!

Peaches : I have a neighbor who has always been deemed "the shit kids" by me. Their kids are compeltely out of control with the mom always sayind "boys will be boys" whenever they did anything. Uh huh. pooping and peeing in not only their yards, but others yards too. Yeah thanks kid. And they once got into a guys garage (yeah, former pot grower house, and bird lady house) and got his paint thinner and poured it alllll over the hood of his BEAUTIFULLY restored 1969 Camero. They're lucky he didn't kill them. Thankfully he had just washed and waxed it, only went inside to pee, and the fresh wax saved the paint job! Sidetracked sorry ... so these kids are now in their early 20's and have friends over all the time. Parties over there, and cars all over the street ... their cars and their friends cars are loud and music blaring all hours of the day and night. I get it completely! It's irritating and annoying. Depending on where you live, you could remind them that there is a noise ordinance and that could be included. It might make it stop.

 

[Pirate]

Okay, this is a very gory and sad story that I will tell.

Janis and I had been married for about 5 years. We lived in a low income apartment complex. Our apartment was on the bottom floor. The 2 apartments above us, one directly above and the other next to it, were occupied by druggies that would get together in the apartment above us. The couple in the other apartment had a 5 yr old boy and a baby boy just a few months old.
One night Janis and I were awaken by screaming coming from outside our door so we got up and looked out the peephole. The guy that had the 2 boys was holding a bundle wrapped in a bathtowel and was yelling for someone to get the gf away from him.
They had been over to the other apartment getting high and had left the 2 boys in thier apartment by themselves. They were in bed when they went over. The only problem was that the guy had a "pet" raccoon tied up with binders twine and apparently from what we could figure out was the baby had woke up crying and the coon thinking it was a baby coon chewed through the twine and went into the bedroom. It climbed up into the crib and attacked the baby. It tore it up really bad, peeling the baby's scalp from front to back, chewed up its face and fingers.
When we saw the guy with the bundle I went out the door not knowing what was happening. After about 3 minutes a police officer showed up and grabbed the baby from the dad and asked if there was a place to lay it down. We pointed to our couchand when he asked for more towels both Janis and I ran to the bathroom to and grabbed towels. When we came back to the livingroom he had the towel pulled back and all we could see was this tiny little guy tore to pieces. Janis and another lady ran into the couples apartment and found the older boy buried under the covers wide awake. He had heard the whole thing.
They rushed the baby to the hospital and Janis and I took the couple in our car down to the hospital. They ended up airlifting the baby to Ann Arbor where he died the next day. This piece of shit couple went to court and acted like it was a big joke and stood outside the courtroom laughing and joking with all thier friends and never got charged with anything. They never even lost the other boy
Janis and I spent the next 4 nights and days going without sleep cause every time we tried to close our eyes all we could see was this little tiny baby all tore up. I have a passionate hate for druggies and raccoons that I have never been able to get over after all these years.
Sorry for ranting, but this was our nieghbors from hell.

 

[Jennjenn]

Aww Pirate that is so sad.
How could they not get charged with anything, what kind of a story could have they made up in court when they neglected an infant not to get charged or their other boy taken away.

 

[Pirate]

All thier friends went in and sat on the stand and told of how they were such good parents. The prosocuting attorney never even had us and the other nieghbors take the stand to tell what they were really like. Piss poor justice system at the time. I believe the guy's family knew people and that helpped them out.
They were evicted from the apartments and moved to another little town about 10 miles away and went right back to thier parties. They really needed to be taken out in the woods and shot.
My aunt was on the ambulance team that took the call and she said it was the worse thing she had ever seen. I know it was the worst for Janis and I.

The people they were parting with also told the judge that they had only been over to there apartment for about 5 minutes. Just a pack of low-life liars.

 

[Jennjenn]

Wow how horrible and sad

 

[Fog Ducker]

Pirate that is F'd!!

 

[Jeff D.]

I'll be saying some prayers for those people, they really need some help.

 

[violetcreams]

My neighbour's baby screams all through the night & I have to smother my head in two pillows to muffle the sound

 

[DanM]

Fen. I am sorry to hear about the mess. Have you spoken with their insurance company about the mess? I hope they resolve it soon.

Pirate, that is pretty messed up. I would have grabbed my crowbar from the basement and thumped him upside the head with it!!

We live next to Art the Old Fart. Last spring he put up a black plastic construction debris fence along the edge of our driveway because I did not finish raking the leaves from the previous fall. I was in Texas most of that Fall and it was more than what Allison could handle on her own. This was also when my Crohns came out of remission in a big way, so I was slow to clean up the mess. Instead of being neighborly and asking why, he just up and staked in the fence. He also gives me crap for composting leaves in the back yard.

Our other neighbors just ignore us "stupid white people".

Dan

 

[merrywidow]

Survey says...$2,500 in repair work. Nice. That was an expensive turtle.

I now have approximately 15 sq ft of ceiling and wall that needs to be replaced as water soaked through the sheetrock.

On the bright side, my neighbors have claimed full responsibility and are being ever so polite and apologetic about things. It's an inconvenience for a few weeks, but what are you going to do. . .

i am glad things are working out for you. i have pleasant nieghbours.

 

[kenny]

All thier friends went in and sat on the stand and told of how they were such good parents. The prosocuting attorney never even had us and the other nieghbors take the stand to tell what they were really like. Piss poor justice system at the time. I believe the guy's family knew people and that helpped them out.
They were evicted from the apartments and moved to another little town about 10 miles away and went right back to thier parties. They really needed to be taken out in the woods and shot.
My aunt was on the ambulance team that took the call and she said it was the worse thing she had ever seen. I know it was the worst for Janis and I.

The people they were parting with also told the judge that they had only been over to there apartment for about 5 minutes. Just a pack of low-life liars.

I guess a lot of them end up dieing in a ditch or the gutter at some point but it is too bad they hurt other people on the way. Drug and alcohol addiction is a truly sad thing. It destroys a lot of peoples lives. I saw my share of sad sorry things during my adolescent years in the city.

I moved to the country to get away from the kind of stories you guys are telling. The worst thing I have had happen out here is my only neighbor used my side yard to turn his tractor and hay wagon around in. It made some ruts that I had to bounce over on the lawn tractor for a couple of weeks. Well that and he broke a branch on one of my Pine Trees by piling snow up against it with a front end loader. Darn pesky farmers :voodoo:

 

[fenway1971]

Damn, Pirate. I might have nightmares after reading your story. Whoa. I'll stop complaining about my turtle terd water now.

 

[Guest1]

OMG Pirate, that gave me chills. It never ceases to amaze me how truly disgusting some human beings could be. There's a special place in Hell for people like that.

 

[kenny]

OMG Pirate, that gave me chills. It never ceases to amaze me how truly disgusting some human beings could be. There's a special place in Hell for people like that.

they wake up there every morning and have to run back to the cover of addiction as opposed to throw themselves off the bridge of facing what they have become.

 

[Pirate]

I often wonder what ever became of the older boy. I hate to think of what his life turned out like.

You have to remember that this was a little rural town of about 2500 people. Not your big city. This is one of the biggest reasons we built our house in the country, of course Janis and I both grew up in the country and living in an apartment complex was not where we wanted our boys to grow up.

Now our only problems with our nieghbors is that they live to close. But they aren't bad, he use to take my boys hunting and fishing when I was really sick.