I really dislike our neighbours

My heart goes out to anyone having problems with noisy, anti-social neighbours - I used to dread going home after work because I knew as soon as I got in the door there would be TV/radio noise or screaming and shouting from next door (our neighbour lived alone!). He used to come round at all hours of the day or night asking for money (we never gave him any). We caught him urinating through the fence into our front garden once. He got arrested for exposing himself in the street, then later he was sectioned. His family eventually got his permission to sell his house while he was in hospital and we didn't have to put up with him anymore. We've since moved, so thankfully it's all just a bad memory. Our new neighbours are lovely.

mazza111 wrote: »

And today I come home to the 2 year old twins shut out in the garden (-3C) so she can do her housework. Unsupervised, with the new dog they have.

"Hello, Social Services? I'd like to make an anonymous report..." :A

When I was growing up we used to have neighbours who stole coal from our cellar and milk from our doorstep (we ended up giving the milkman a key so he could leave it in the vestibule). They also had large drunken parties till all hours whenever it was Orange Marching Season yet when it was my mum and dad's anniversary they sent one of their kids round at 9 o'clock to ask us to keep the noise down.

Unfortunately for the father he made the error of calling my mum a cow, while my dad could not do anything as they both worked for the same employer and it was tied housing, my mum’s dad had no such problem. So my 68 year old granddad decked our 50 year old neighbour on his doorstep with one punch. They moved out soon afterwards though a few years later I caught the father in my local slagging off my brother who has mild to moderate learning difficulties. I soon had the pub in an uproar when I told them about some of his antics, smashing his own window because my brothers and some friends were playing in our garden – he knocked the window hard and forgot he was wearing a ring and the time he fell asleep in our coal cellar while stealing coal.

A more interesting story was when we were all kids, as there was five of us we were forever getting blamed for the things that went wrong in the stair - got to the point where my mum could no longer hold her silence and told my dad - who, as she had imagined went balistic, pulled the neighbour up by his feet and proceeded to strangle him whilst letting him know to lay off his kids - funnily enough that was the end of the blame game.

Buttonmoons wrote: »

The woman who lived upstairs before me was horrid - she flooded me 9 times in 18months, totally ruined my kitchen. When I got it redone, she went and flooded me 3 days later - she had no insurance, council wouldnt fix the damage she caused - no end of a headache.

She abandoned the property, now I have someone who sounds like a drug addict blaring music from 7:30am to all hours - I can actually hear it word for word and turn on ID track on my mobile and it tells me what song it is, she then starts swearing and arguing with her other half who is always there despite it apparently just being her and her child who moved in, she has no carpets down of any description, she thuds around like a hippo, and her and her bf scream and shout all day then have 2 hour long sex sessions that wake my 6yr old up - who then asks if the lady upstairs is being killed, because it IS THAT OVER THE TOP SCREAMING.

Sick.Of.It

I had neighbours like that - they were a complete nightmare!! We have an anti social behaviour team from the council (I'm in Aberdeen, but I think all councils in Scotland have a version) and they aren't too bad at sorting this sort of stuff out - they come out to your flat and take decibel readings and can issue fines and confiscate music equipment if need be. Might be worth speaking to the council and seeing what they can do.

xx