Fruitcake Neighbours

pimento

What are the Mags?

aileth

Magistrates Court, sorry

Gigervamp

Magistrates courts?

PenguinJim

Yes, Magistrates Courts.

shireknight

I had an old couple next to me and I thought we got on like a house on fire, the first thing I did when I moved in was put in a pond because this was my first ever garden and I'd always wanted one, I wanted a nature pond with newts but unfortunately made the fatal error of introducing fish not realising that the fish would eat all the tadpoles anyhow I divulge....

Whenever I went out in the garden they would come over and start chatting over the fence asking about my pond and how the fish were etc and we got on well for a good couple of years.

It didn't occur to me for these years that my fish were dying maybe a lot quicker than they probably should be until I finally only had one left and one day I was tidying up around the pond and I found a Pineapple chunk on the paving next to the pond?

I couldn't explain why a Pineapple chunk would be next to the pond however it wouldn't be long until I developed a theory about it.

A month or so later my last fish died and of course the neighbour spotting me in the garden came over to see what I was doing and I explained that my last fish had died and he made a comment about how now that I have no more fish there's not really much point in having a fish pond anymore.

I replied saying that in a way I was glad all the fish were gone and I could now make it into a proper wildlife pond as I had originally planned and then instantly everything changed, this up until now docile OAP exploded in a rage and stormed back indoors.

Over the next couple of weeks whenever I went out in the garden they would come over and complain that the pond needed removing and if I didn't remove it then they would complain to the council and they would make me remove it.

What was the complaint? birds, it turns out that for the last few years birds had been using the roof of their conservatory as a toilet and they believed it was my pond that was attracting them to their garden.

A few days later the man came out and hammered nails halfway in all along the top of the boundary fence between our gardens so that it was a long spiky strip believing that because the birds could no longer sit on the fence they wouldn't bother visiting the pond anymore lol.

They repeated their threats of involving the council and the wife said the state of my garden was also unacceptable (I had placed granit rocks around the pond and allowed the grass to grow long between them to give shelter to the frogs and encourage Dragonflys)

Anyhow I never heard from the council and within a few weeks the husband died (he was well over 90) and the wife has since reverted back to being friendly again and has never mentioned the pond since he died.

The Pineapple chunk I put down to the OAP's, I guess they had been throwing exotic food into the pond in an attempt to slowly kill the fish off.

freeman3030

Haven't read all of the posts but my 70 year old nan had an issue with a neighbour. (She lives in a semi detached house) they'd been neighbours for a few years, sometimes the neighbour would complain when my younger cousins used to play in the garden because of noise they made. It progressive got worse and she complained that my nans washing line was obstructing the sun from her garden and then ultimately there was a spell where the police visited my nans house from her complaining at midnight because my nan was listning to loud music (when in fact she was tucked up in bed). It ended up that in fact she was loosing her marbles a bit and ended up going into a home. Perhaps she's just not all there!

aileth

Omg shireknight that is incredible!!!!

And freeman, sounds very familiar with the noise thing! We think really she's not actually mad but very very odd!

I thought we had bad neighbours with their constant drum and base and throwing beer bottles in our garden, but I think id take those anyway over the ones here!

pinkteapot

aileth wrote: »

She's an owner.

She has said things to her children as well, who can't be older than 11 to 12, as her little girl once said, "Well we actually own our house and you don't, so we can do whatever we want."

Are your parents renting?

If so, at this point I'd just be suggesting they move. It's not fair. Of course they shouldn't have to. But the amount of stress this must cause them simply isn't good for them. From the sounds of it you're never going to reason with her and I don't see how the situation will improve. If it were me living there, I'd move as fast as possible.

We moved house earlier this year. We didn't have problem neighbours but they did play music in their garden all day, every day when the weather was nice. I need my peace and quiet so it ruined my garden for me - I couldn't sit out and enjoy it. Until we moved and I relaxed, I hadn't realised quite how much the situation had been getting to me.

Life's too short to put up with this nonsense.

tunnel

I'd just have another BBQ with a hosepipe at the ready then if she comes out screaming the fence is on fire...say, oh so it is and drown the fence and her. Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.

SerialRenter

My grandparents also have a neighbor similar to freeman3030's story.

The old lady living alone next door started complaining that my grandfather had been sneaking into her garden and watching through the windows.
Over a few weeks the complaints changed to him hopping over the fence to bang on the walls. Considering he's in his 70's, hopping a fence would be quite impressive!
She eventually replaced the fence with a new even taller fence, yet didn't stop complaining about the banging.
After a while she began involving the police, who came and took statements as you would expect.
She then began phoning the police every night to again state he was jumping the fence and banging on the walls throughout the night.

The police installed surveillance equipment to see if he was infact doing these things and over the next couple of weeks built up footage of every time she called to report he was outside banging the wall in the middle of the night.

And of course they found... absolutely nothing, as my grandfather is quite normal and sleeps at night, and doesn't really have a body shape conducive to fence hopping :rotfl:

She still rings the police about it, but my grandparents have been told they'll ignore the complaints.