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lil_l
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Topic: Bad Neighbours Posted: 07 February 2011 at 2:45pm |
Just out of interest, who else has problems with their neighbours? What have they done? What have you done in retaliation?
Just having problems with our neighbour, just yesterday she tipped some sticky mess all over my car...she is a 70year old woman, you would expect this level of maturity from a 10 year old!!! The list goes on too!
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rachelsea
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 2:56pm |
Oh my gosh, that's shocking!!! What a weird/horrible thing to do  what did you do/will you do to get back at her?
My neighbours haven't done anything like that, but they are in their 50s and have raging parties every 2nd weekend over summer. But as a special treat they had TWO parties this weekend!! At least on Friday night they stopped at 1am, but on Sat night they STARTED at 1am (when they got home from the Sevens) 
Haven't done anything to retaliate yet, someone suggested taking DD outside at 7am after one of their parties and let her be noisy outside *their* bedroom window
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 3:39pm |
do you have a lawn and lawn mower Rachel? Or does the outside of your house need water blasting? These could be good options for an early morning the night after a neighbour's party
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 3:42pm |
Dunno if I'd retaliate or call the police for vandalism! A visit from the coppers might scare her into better behaviour.
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 4:19pm |
I wouldnt relaliate, that just leads to more stuff happening.... and we all know (well I do), how crazy some old ladies can be. I suppose you have tried talking to her about things? Otherwise if she does any more damage to your property I would call the Police as kiwilaurie suggests, might make her think about things a bit and realise she is being rather immature!
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 4:22pm |
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 4:36pm |
That is shocking!
Our upstairs neighbours a few years ago were throwing rubbish out of their windows onto our garden path. Then one day we noticed used condoms  amongst the litter. Sick! So I told those boys off and to be fair, they looked suitably embarrassed.
Our neighbours at the moment are nice and quiet, but they do pick the most annoying times to run their boat motor (9.30pm when I'm trying to get Chloe into bed - luckily she hasn't noticed yet).  No complaints here.
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 5:07pm |
Urgh one of our neighbours is completely psychotic. We were throwing a ball against the fence that joins our properties. Sure it makes a noise, but we are doing it in the late afternoon at a reasonable hour, and this fence is down the very very back of their really really long back section, miles away from their house. Not to mention they live ten metres away from a main railway line, so it's not like we were disturbing the peace!
The guy that lives there has asked us once before, very rudely, to stop making that noise because it pisses him off. So we used a softer ball to make less noise, and a couple of months later we are doing it again and he comes out and full pelt yells at us, using a swear word for almost every word in his sentences. That guy has serious anger issues and needs to chill out! Asking politely and being civil would get you a much better response.
This from the guy who mows his lawns right outside out bedroom window, once a week, at bloody 7 o'clock in the morning while I'm trying to get DD to sleep in for another hour or two. Grrrrr he makes me so mad, but he's a very, very angry man, so we wont be doing anything to retaliate for fear of our safety
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 6:34pm |
I wouldn't retaliate at all. If they are pooring stuff over your car I would call the police. It will just escalate if you do something back. Otherwise I would go with DH and ask her nicely if there is a problem and that if it happens again you will go to the police. Be sugary nice and take the higher road. It either will fix it or really annoy her that you aren't going to engage in a fight.
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 8:12pm |
Our neighbours play loud bassy music at all hours from their garage. DD's room faces onto the bit closest to the garage so it's really annoying. DH has called noise control on them at 3am some mornings because he has a headache from their music and can't get to sleep.
The police visited them late at night a few nights ago, DH went out to check what the noise was and 1 of the guys jumped over their fence onto our property to hide from the police. DH and our flatmate told him to go jump and get lost back over the fence.
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 8:46pm |
OMG. I must say I am kinda relieved to hear we are not the only people with neighbour problems! We have a rental next door and so far have had a family that were there for 6 weeks then just up and left (apparently after paying no rent). We had repo men and bailiffs visiting for about 3 months! Then the teenage boys in their first flat who eventually got kicked out after one too many midweek parties (never knew you could fit 100 bodies in a 95 sq m house!) Then the arabs who smoked the most noxious recreational tobacco who got raided and I think deported or put in prison. Currently we are enduring some sort of low IQ invasion with people who do not understand what please don't play your base in your car so loud right by our house means. They have not done any gardening so the fence now needs to be replaced (which the owner can not afford) and currently have a large swimming pool in the garage. I get so angry but what can you really do?? Everyone else out there - I feel your frustration!!
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 9:07pm |
some of you have bad neighbours. the worst thing our neighbours have done is refused to give permission for us to spend 6k to get arborists in to chope down the HUGE bluegum trees that are blocking all our houses from getting sun.
because they dont want the cranes/trucks going over the driveway as it 'might' crush the drain underneath.
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 9:14pm |
worst we had was the neighbours behind us in our old house who used to put their rubbish out the day before collection (in front of our house, since we were in front of them), so the dogs always got at it and spread their manky dirty disposable nappies all over our front lawn.... they never picked them up, and of course neither did the rubbish guys  it was enough to turn me to MCNs!!
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Posted: 07 February 2011 at 9:27pm |
I hate to think about what our neighbours think of us! Well not us, mainly just my grandparents who seem to be day/night confused (so sleep during the day and up all night)...
Anyway, our neighbours all seem to keep to themselves but we do have one weirdo neighbour who literally drives all over the road and cuts you off constantly, esp as we share a drive way. One of these days he is going to cause a crash.
Did she deliberately do it?
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 7:07am |
Some people are just so inconsiderate! I was hesitant in retaliating as I know it would just go around in circles, but thought someone might have a sneaky way for it to stop  .
Yes, it definately was deliberate, she would have had to climb on a chair, reach over a two metre glass wall and tip something! Old people! If it happens again I will definately call the police, I'm not that keen to clean my car every other day!
Keep the stories coming!
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 8:41am |
Do you have a local community constable - its prob better to contact them in the first instance, have chat about your concerns and just see what they would advise. A quiet chat from a "local" police officer rather than "the cops"....will prob work wonders! Even if it doesnt happen again, I would still give them a call - just to let them know that it has happened, that way if anything more serious happens, they have a record of it.
We used to have a "family" of courier drivers next door to our old place, they would go out and start their diesel vans at 4.30am and leave them running to warm up for at least 30mins before tearing out of the street, the driveway was right next to our bedroom window so not a nice wake up each day. They also used to get really trashed and very loud, so one sat night DH leaned over the fence and asked them to keep the noise down....they came over and started banging on our front door and trying to kick it in, threatening us and being really agressive. I was freakin terrified!! They were big big blokes who were very drunk. We rang 111 and they basically said that they couldnt do anything about it. Not a nice experience. We lived in fear of our neighbours for another 3mths before they moved out - thank goodness. Interestingly, after they moved out I was talking to the property manager, who told me I should have contacted him straight away and he would have kicked them out! DOH - didnt think to let him know!
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 9:21am |
Hubby and my first flat after we got married was the end part of a house that had been converted into 3 smaller self contained units. The walls were really thin and our bedroom wall (the main one) obviously backed onto the other person's living room/bedroom. Anyway, they would play their tv really really loud so we could hear everything that was going on, but most annoyingly, they left their Dvd player & TV on for an ENTIRE WEEKEND whilst they went away. The dvd was obviously on it's menu screen and we just had to listen to the music loop over and over and over again. We would lay in bed trying to work out what dvd it was cos it was too loud to sleep! not fun
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 10:20am |
Hmmm where do I start with mine...
The latest incident was last weekend. Neighbours ditched their kids with us and went out without telling us..... 3 hours later they finally came home.. apparently cos they left a note on their front door that was supposed to make it ok. The only reason we found out is cos I told the kids it was time to leave cos we were getting ready to go out ourselves only to be told that no one was home. Makes me wonder how many other times they've done it actually
Its just one more thing in a long line really... they usually blame their odd behaviour on being American - I'm not sure why that matters myself!
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 10:30am |
Wow, I feel really lucky. We have wonderful neighbors on both sides. They have young kids the same sort of age bracket as mine so we get on really well. I'm always over at both of their houses for cups of tea/coffee and playdates.
MummyFreckle, I'm a bit concerned that you called 111 and they wouldn't do anything for you! Could they not send some Police around to tell the boys to leave you alone or anything? Freaky.
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Posted: 08 February 2011 at 12:13pm |
LittleBug wrote:
MummyFreckle, I'm a bit concerned that you called 111 and they wouldn't do anything for you! Could they not send some Police around to tell the boys to leave you alone or anything? Freaky. |
It was ages ago now - but they basically said that unless they actually "did" something they wouldnt be able to send anyone around. Apparently them threatening and screaming at us wasnt enough?!?!?
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