'The weird things neighbours do' thread

jackieb

princess_loki wrote: »

my neighbour is lovely. he has been known to sweep his lawn and hoover his patio though :rotfl:

i am sure that they all think i am a bit mad though! endless stream of people in and out of the house as i have lodgers!

My husband, taken last summer.

pulliptears

The 3 across the road all vie to park outside their own front doors, nothing unusual there but for the fact all 3 have an ample driveway AND garage! To watch them car shuffling is hilarious! One of the 3 once came and had a moan at us that our builder was parking outside his house. Now don't get me wrong, if this was a big van I'd be angry but builder was in a small car AND this particular neighbour can't see the road due to the 10ft hedge at the front of his property!!

Another of the 3, in an effort to prove a point leaves his car out the front all night regardless (as I said, large drive and garage available). I was most amused one very very windy night to watch their full bin crash into the front wing of their fairly new car.

Jowo_2

I'm aware of someone who had a private parking space in the city centre in the block of apartments where he lived who found a someone was routinely parking in it (thought to be a commuter). So they put up a polite note on the windscreen and this was ignored. So they put up a chain and lock. And the interloper actually used bolt cutters!

pulliptears

Also adding this, one of car shuffling neighbours has no less than 2, two zillion megawatt floodlights which for some reason they think should point squarely at my bedroom window. I have blackout curtains yet there is still enough light to read from. To make things worse, he has these on movement sensor and set to SEVEN minutes. We have had a word, to little effect, but this is basically our view of an evening:

Jowo_2

pulliptears wrote: »

Also adding this, one of car shuffling neighbours has no less than 2, two zillion megawatt floodlights which for some reason they think should point squarely at my bedroom window. I have blackout curtains yet there is still enough light to read from. To make things worse, he has these on movement sensor and set to SEVEN minutes. :

Simples. Buy a similar system with a higher wattage bulb set to come on automatically ever two minutes.

pulliptears

Jowo wrote: »

Simples. Buy a similar system with a higher wattage bulb set to come on automatically ever two minutes.

Air rifle was my preferred option

In all seriousness though, I had thought of that, but it would point in their next door neighbours too so a little unfair. It's an odd setup, if you imagine homes built onto a large hill my house has the garage underneath at the front so is 3 storey, across the road the garages are at the back so they are 3 storey to the rear. This means our home is much higher than the ones across the road (which really brings home the security light issue when you consider they are basically pointing upwards welcoming in 747's!).

If we put a light up it would be so much higher it would be very unfair on the others.

SnowBelle_2

When I bought my first little two bed terrrace my neighbours had a 1970's wrecked vauxhall Viva in their parking space which was full to bursting with rubbish( carpets,bin bags etc,etc)the tyres are totally perished as are all the rubber seals and it's covered in rust.
One day I asked the lady what they were going to do with the car,she told me that one day they were going to put it back on the road!
A couple of months ago I decided to show my husband my first house....You guesssed it the car is still there! it's almost completely sunk into the drive,14 years after I moved.
Funnily enough although it's a decent area no-one seems the least bit bothered about it....like some sort of weird piece of artwork or something.

sarahg1969

jackieb wrote: »

My husband, taken last summer.

My husband does the same.

Caroline_a

About 30 years ago my grandma came to live with my parents. She was looking out of the window one day at the large 7/8 bed Victorian semis that backed on to the side of my parent's garden when there was an almighty noise like a bomb going off. One of the semis had vanished in a pile of dust. When the dust cleared my grandma could see 4 Asian gentlemen emerging from the dust of the semi, totally unhurt. It appeared that they had recently bought the house and thought it was a good idea to take out a wall in the cellar. It was the main supporting wall, and consequently the house just fell down! How on earth they weren't hurt or killed I'll never know - my grandma swore that they were laughing when the dust cleared and they emerged... probably shock I would say.

Sadly the adjacent semi had to be demolished too - there was nothing of the other semi to demolish! I never knew whether they were all insured or not - I do hope so!

poppysarah

pulliptears wrote: »

Also adding this, one of car shuffling neighbours has no less than 2, two zillion megawatt floodlights which for some reason they think should point squarely at my bedroom window. I have blackout curtains yet there is still enough light to read from. To make things worse, he has these on movement sensor and set to SEVEN minutes. We have had a word, to little effect, but this is basically our view of an evening:

You should just smile and think of his electricity bill.

One of our neighbours has a massively bright spot light. It doesn't normally bother me as it lights half the road up if I come back in the evening...
I do think it must cost them a small fortune though.