With a couple of other posts current about neighbourhood relations, I thought a thread where we can outline our experiences with nut-case neighbours might be worth a go.
On my other thread, I briefly mentioned an Irish woman that lived opposite us when I was only seven. We had moved into our new (Housing Commission) house (back in the days when you bought them, not trashed them) two days prior to Christmas, 1959.
My old man was a Pom. As soon as this old witch over the road discovered that, she decided to have here own IRA operate from her loungeroom. She would call the cops for every little thing. ONe day, the police came to the door asking to see my folks younger son. My father asked if they had the right address and were they sure the police wanted the younger son, not me. My brother was just two years of age. He was supposed to have chucked a roof tile onto her front yard. Obvioulsy, he hadn't, and neither had I.
As we grew up, this old hag was less intimidating and more entertaining. I was mowing the front path one day and she came across with a handful of stones. She chucked them on the path in front of me and said "They're not mine". I revved the old Briggs and Stratton up to full bore, lifted the front wheel of the mower off the deck, and chased the old bitch back into her yard. She left me alone after that for many years. One of her drunken sons died in the street one night with a bag full of grog beside him. MY old man walked around him going to work the next morning, thinking he had fallen asleep.
Yep, life in North Balgowlah was interesting in the 60's and 70's. I could go on but this post is long enough already.
So, your experiences?
If I start typing about nutcase neighbours,ill be here till next week.....back tomorrow if the threads still here.....goodnight all!![]()
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I've got a corker we used to live across the road from an absolute nutter was very nice when we first moved in then started to come over and asked to borrow everything finally wife snapped and no. Well then came the big one she accused me of being the father of her 8 year old twins and that i had been cheating on my wife with other women in the street. She had done this to all the other neighbours as well.
theres just strange people everywhere![]()
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I lived in a flat in complex of about 10? once. One day a girl across the car park put her car in her own living room :P while doing makeup in the mirror I beleive (the flats were sunken level kinda thing slightly lower than the car park) the landlord installed treated pine barriers after that. A few weeks later some punk came hooning down the street in a Gemini cliped the rear 1/4 of the neighbours Magna which was parked on the street. This resulted in the front left wheel ripping loose on the Gemini alot of noise and ended with the Gemini running over my bin, crashing into a tree beside the wall of my flat
in the front yard lol I was inside and went out to see what all the action was, the cops arrived within a few seconds and fixed him up
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There used to be some girls next door when I was really small that used to climb over the fence and anoy me, I really didn't like them, one time I was busy shooting star wars figures with my slug gun and she wouldn't leave me alone so I loaded up a seed from some plant that happened to be a perfect fit and I would often use them in it, anyway I shot her in the ass as she ran for her life up the backyard. Looking back this wasn't good considering I'm so placid these days and I was totally unsafe. But I thought she deserved it back then in the more lawless state of Australia that it once was. I got in slight trouble for that since her parents were complaining about the mark it left but I was like hey! it was only a seed not a real slug and I had to get rid of her what more can I do?. I also got shot at by crazy old guys with shotguns a couple times back in the day as a kid, I guess they were missing me on purpose just to scare me, well it worked, I didn't go looking around in those swamps again anytime soon
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Guy across the park from me comes out once in a while, generally after dark and stands in his front garden just yelling random stuff at the top of his voice to no one in particular. Most of what he is yelling is full of foul language, seemingly he is angry at the world. I doubt he is drunk or on drugs, I think he suffers a mental condition, but obviously not bad enough so that he is able to live alone. He can go on for over an hour at times. Police have been called in the past, especially when he starts up late at night, but there is little they can do but tell him to go inside. When they leave he comes back out and starts again. Often during his tirades he screams 'call the f*ng cops why don't you?'
If you go outside to listen and he spots you, he tries to get you to come and fight him yelling 'come on you little f*er, I'm calling it, come take me down.' However if you do start to cross the park towards him, he runs inside. He will come out a few minutes later and start up again.
He is better than TV![]()
Sashyre I like that guyyou should put him on youtube
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, what a good idea. Probably would only be sound though. There is no lighting over there and he is usually dressed in black. Often we peer into the dark looking for where he actually is. Although he was out in the park a few weeks ago on a Sunday afternoon in his boxers and a t-shirt dancing. What a loony! My son kept yelling at him 'go put your pants on, your making a fool of yourself.' He kept yelling back 'come dance with me you little f*ckr and I will take you out'
Oh there was one day when I first moved in here a few years ago, he was really angry this day and most of the neighbours were out watching the show. He went inside and came back out holding a black mug. Someone yelled 'he has got a gun' and people hit the deck. I nearly died laughing as I could see it was a mug even from my distance.
lmao. I'd like to go outside and scream all night but I can't be bothered, sounds lile fun though
I lived in a nice apartment block on the beach in Wollongong.
Unfortunately, the department of housing stuck a derro single mum in the apartment next door, as it happens sometimes when there is a shortage of housing commission places so they turn to private accomodation.
**** me, my nice life on the beach that I worked hard for was destroyed by this druggo bitch and her brigade of junkie mates that used to come over at 2am and start yelling at the top of their voices. One of them put a brick through her window. Domestics used to happen every week. She used to go off the rails and smash things in her apartment, slamming doors, screaming etc etc. Looked like a typical ice addict with no teeth and sunken eyes. I got a recording of her once going nuts as I was going to take it to the real estate agent that was renting this place out.
Putting that type of shit into private housing should be banned.
nothing serious where i live now, but when i was with my folks the neighbour across the street punched my next door neighbour in the nose, knocking him on his ass.
the reason? my neighbour had put his rubbish in his bin on bin night.
strangely i never had any dramas with the guy tho. really friendly and helped me a couple of times when i was at a dead end with fixing my ride.
Im lucky the druggies/prossies/crazies next door have gone, they have left a vey trashed trust home thou.
2am screaming matches, too many dogs to count. After one screaming match where we heard her yell at her daughter to stop ****ing the mums boyfriend, we nicknamed them Jerry Springers
People coming & going all the time & yelling constantly etc.
House had knee high weeds out the front, 2 stripped cars out front, more out the back, furniture in the yard everywhere. The house has broken windows, most of the doors inside are missing, & every wall has a hole....
Every week saw the cops there or the RSPCA, & she would throw pots at them, screaming they couldnt take her dogs, while her daughter snuck out the side gate with 5-6 dogs....
found out from the cops they had nicknamed her 'the screaming banshee' like Sashyres bloke she would just yell stuff & challange us to call cops, fight etc...
As i mentioned the guy that lives below my dad is a good example.
Hes a big fatass ex bouncer, and he comes up every change he gets and complains about noise, there have been times we have been sitting on the couch and he has come up and complained. he threatened to break my dads legs recently after an argument about noise. then we heard him punding on the wall with a hammer 1 morning at 3am after an argument. nutters.
Touch wood - we have great people living around us - now that the barking dog has passed on to dog heaven.
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My friends 3 houses down from me are copping it from their druggie neighbours.Its landed them i court yet they still hassle them.Sadly they are selling their house to get away from them.My friend is pretty good at counting to 10 but i think there will be some revenge once they have moved.They have tried to intimidate me but it didnt work,we will see if they try again when my mate and his family go.
that's not actually the reason, in many cases. they often do it for 'recovering' drug addicts (that's a term used by welfare agents, regardless of whether the subject is using or not) to take them away from environments where they are likely to relapse (i.e. housing commissions).
their job is to help them recover from addiction, they don't care about your peace and quiet.
We had one neighbor, umm I dont really know how to describe, he was ****ing nuts and really should have been put away, which makes us think there was to it then we knew. When 4 neighbors (total of 17 people from memory) have to go to court all on the same day with separate cases for intervention orders you would think there is a problem lol. Eventually a court order was issued for him to leave town. Violence, abuse, high speed chases, threats, threats with weapons, damage to property, the list goes on lol. he definitly was the Neighbour from hell, I was in grade 6 at the time, and that didnt even stop him from trying to run me over, chase me or threaten me.
Our current neighbours now are all pretty good, except one who likes to start demolishing a brick wall and concrete at 5am on a Sunday, thank god there reno's are complete, the only other issue with Neighbours Ive had is, I was having some problems to say the least, and I was screaming down the phone telling someone what i thought of them, when the neighbour starts mimicking me over the fence, and adding "leave Britney alone" to it. really wrong time, losing my brother that night was enough i didnt need to hear there opinion, they did cop it though.
Oh neighbours.... Everyone wonders why I hate living in town lol, i try to stay out at the farm as much as I can, no neighbours at all![]()
when i was a kid we had a neighbour that had a shitload of cats and we had a dog that didn't like cats.
one day the dog got out and chased her cats and my brother went over to get the dog back.
she saw him and called the police.
when the police came she demanded that they shoot my brother for setting the dog on her cats
same thing happened to a friend who lived in a block of flats. they ended up with junkies living in the common laundry. it's a bit of a joke
where we live its not too bad but apparently my parents have seen one next door neighbor sunbathing with nothing on, and its an old bloke which is worse lol, the neighbors on the other side have one of those white yapping dogs that barks all the time and gives me the shits. also when my dad getting a new shed built in our backyard they decided to have a whinge cause the gable roof was going to block their water views so my dad reluctantly gave in which he was real pissed off about so he made them pay half of what it was gonna cost to change from gable to flat roof.
Well i got a psychopath neighbour next door at the moment. He's 30 something and moved back in with his parents as he's a drug addict and schizophrenic. Heard him threatening them plenty of times, hear him talking to himself all the time etc. Police are around a fair bit. He hates his parents so he wont stay inside the house, instead he's moved all his crap in the carport and put tarps up to shield from rain. This carport is about 2m from the granny flat im living in. Problem is he lights a chiminea basically every night, and burns anything he finds, wet wood, permapine etc. Of course as my flat is right next to him the smoke comes straight in and reeks out the place. If it isn't smoke from that it reeks of weed instead.
My sister lived in this flat previously, one night at 3am he had his radio cranked up so she went outside and told him to shut up. He tried to jump the fence and grab her. She screamed for my dad and that scared him away. Myself I'm not intimidated by him one bit. He had the audacity to complain my tv was too loud... he lives fkn 2m away from it of course he'll hear it. As a result I now crank everything as loud as I can as long as possible.
This guy really needs psychiatric help but unfortunately the law stipulates unless he says himself that he wants help nothing can be forced upon him. Also police can't do anything when he threatens his parents unless he actually goes through with something. Very sticky situation.
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my neighbour isnt that bad.
what she does is she will often wake up early and collect 1 hubcap from everyone car, and she will put them out the back, we get them back when her dad gets home, it's quite harmless, depending on what mood she is in she might even clean the wheel where she took the hubcap from
if you dont have hubcaps and have mags, she puts alfoil on the wheel, and she will often take the valve caps of the wheels, this girl has down syndrome and i tell ya, she is the life of the street.
she oven comes over and plays on the trampoline, we have one of those ones that is fully enclosed, so we bolted it down to the cement and yeah, she visits and plays, the girl is in her 30s though.
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Had a single mum with 3 kids down the road about 6 months back,housing commission home,junkie,turned her house into a party house/shooting gallery.I had a word to all of them down there a few times,but one night,cops went there to arrest someone,and about 15 young fellas came out and attacked the cops....end result,6 carloads of cops,capsicum spray everywhere etc,so the next day i went down and had a big dummy spit.One of them pulled a knife on my and tryed to stab me....end result(welfare had taken her kids off her a few days before),no windows in their house,damaged front door,and a few sore heads...they moved out 2 days later.....A few months before that,just around the corner from me,and directly oppisite my dads house,2 neighbours had an altercation over the height of a recently built fence....End result...one neighbour got bludgened to death in his own backyard,other neighbour charged with murder....when we were 13/14 years old,saw a bloke get shot in the stomach across the road from a mates house....been sleeping with his wife apparently....never a dull moment around here,but wouldnt live anywhere else.
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