“Love thy neighbor” is disastrously difficult to do when your neighbor is driving you insane. Oh, it’s all very good and well to preach about how we should all get along and how communication solves everything… until your next-door neighbor starts digging up the flowers in your garden or sticking nails into people’s car tires at night.
Those are but a taste of the stories that Reddit users shared with redditor Oilpaintroses who asked them to share tales about their ‘crazy’ neighbors. Some of these are a tad quirky. Others could lead to some major arguments in the neighborhood. While a few are simply neighbors from hell and we’re surprised that the redditors living next to them haven’t moved away yet.
Check out some of the best bizarre-o neighbor tales below, upvote the ones that intrigued you the most, and if you’re feeling up to it, share the crazy things that your own neighbors have done, dear Readers.
The author of the thread, redditor Oilpaintroses, told Bored Panda that they’re shocked about how much their post blew up. “My neighbors were yelling at each other as usual and, as a sort of way to vent, I posted the question. I knew there are plenty of bad neighbors in the world, but it still surprised me how it blew up. It ranged from petty drama to straight-up crimes,” they said. Read on for the rest of the interview and for the redditor’s tale about their own neighbors from the ninth circle of hell.
#41
I used to rent the basement apt of the neighborhood crazy lady.
Her car was decorated with thousands of rocks that she glued all over it. The property was incredibly overgrown. She had 5 unlicensed dogs, 2 cats, turtles that lived in her bathtub, pigeons, chickens, a rooster and more animals that I can't specifically remember but I do remember counting them all up she had something like 17 animals upstairs. She'd regularly practice saxaphone while the dogs howled along with her.
She didn't have a job and spent everyday going on craigslist free and picking things up. There was a room in the basement where she kept all of the stuff that was 3-4 feet deep and completely packed. I remember a cardboard stand up of Captain Kirk and one of the statue of liberty sticking out of the horde.
I desperately took a job as a door to door solicitor for a short time and was randomly assigned to my neighborhood. When I introduced myself to the next door neighbor and said what house I lived in they were about ready to wring my neck haha. I told them, "Yeah it probably sucks living next to her but I actually live there so yeah, no sympathy."
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65points
#43
Once dated a girl who lived across from "Frank the Tank". Frank was a large man who didn't much like his wife, so he would spend HOURS on his riding mower basically going over the same 130sqft while sipping coors lights. Always in shorts that may have fit at one point but now made his thighs look like biscuits popping out of a can. Never a shirt. He would jiggle immensely.
He also liked to watch the local younger girls run around...
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62points
#44
My guy was married but lived totally separate from his wife. She would visit every so often and he would travel to her too every now and then. Always wondered about that until I got a chance to be invited into his house. A Horder of garage sale stuff. Dolls and just doll heads skattered around and boxes of toys, and whatever else you can imagine. Only a 2ft path throughout the house. He also had a over grown yard full of all kinds of plants. It was kind of cool looking but seeing an over grown jungle after some years was a bit concerning. Nice guy and we would share a beer all the time. My best neighborhood friend.
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60points
#45
When I first moved in my neighbor walked into the house, unannounced.
When my wife gets home, sometimes she wants to stay in her car having a phone conversation. He will come out and walk down the side of his house, checking his sprinkler controls and looks at my wife.
He has a two huge bushes he refuses to cut. It blocks our view of backing out of our driveway. The fire department came by to clear trees and bushes around the fire hydrants. The neighbor came out and yelled at the fireman. "This bush is older than you!". Needless to say, I hope there are.no house fires.
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59points
#46
My neighbour in the flat upstairs likes to stand outside my open (ground floor) window at 6am and argue with her dog. Like "I know you don't want to go home yet, but if you don't stop being a dick you're not getting your sausage roll". Or "I'm not the one who wanted to go out, so what's your problem?". Happens at least twice a week.
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59points
#47
He thinks the zombie apocalypse is coming. He's set up booby traps in his garden, has some guns, and has been making weapons like throwing stars.
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59points
#48
She has 2 very big persimmon trees that provide a ton of fruit but insists selling them for $2.00 each. All the neighbors scoff at that price and nobody buys any and all that fruit falls to the ground and goes to waste year after year. The lady is in her mid 80’s
58points
#49
We have a neighbor we call "the screamer lady" because when her kids were young she would basically sit at her window and run out and scream at anyone driving by if she felt they were going too fast, ranting about the safety of her children (who may or may not even be home at that point in the day). To this day she still sits and studies traffic and glares at motorcycles. Her kids are grown thankfully so the screaming has ceased
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56points
#50
One of my neighbors regularly goes off to anyone who will listen about how the government is spying on her. She has distributed letters to everyone in the complex with the deranged story full of conflicting claims. It gets really awkward when she starts yelling at trades persons who are just there to do a job. I have to escort anyone working outside my unit because she will tear into them. She tried it once with me when I was doing maintenance on my AC unit, figuring I was one of the trades people who were hired by the government to install spy equipment.
I think she might have gotten new medication, but she still gives me the side eye wherever she walks past.
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52points
#51
Get drunk in the morning, sing like a peacock high on lsd in the afternoon, have a conversation with the other crazy neighbour 3 houses down from her balcony in the evening, than have a screaming contest on the phone after midnight.
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51points
#52
I had a neighbor who once walked into our apartment uninvited because she wanted to complain that we were being too noisy (it was actually a different apartment doing construction) and later gave the whole building bedbugs because she was letting homeless people stay in her apartment
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46points
