Describe Your Nuttiest Neighbor

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When I rented a room above a tavern in Juneau, Alaska, one afternoon I heard a loud metal racket down the hall. I saw a lady cleaning one of the other rooms on my floor using a wide-blade aluminum snow shovel. This was summertime, no snow to be found on the ground anywhere. I peeked inside to find every square inch of floor space as well as the bathtub was covered in empty beer cans to a height of 2-3 feet. Enough aluminum in there to construct a UFO. Maybe my neighbor was an alien, never saw him again.

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I had a neighbor that was about 50 and she would walk around the neighborhood in the middle of the night in this old white Victorian looking nightgown. She would go outside and take a leak next her house every night and she carried a doll with her. One day she even came over and asked if she could babysit my kids. Several months later the state came and picked her up in the wagon and the house went up for sale.
 
My grandmother's neighbor, the mother of my best friend, used to shuffle about the neighborhood muttering unintelligibly. If she saw any of us kids, the muttering got louder, but not any more understandable. The only "words" any of us ever heard were the names of her kids when she yelled at them.

One day she chased one of the neighborhood kids out of her yard with a butcher knife.

There were a few other stories but that was the big one.
 
Growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, old lady in town, had a house, but looked almost homeless, walking around muttering to herself, harmless. Major holidays, two well dressed men would escort her to the church, next town over. Come to find out, her last name was LaPond, she was the heir to the Ponds cold cream estate.
 
spl440 said:
Growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, old lady in town, had a house, but looked almost homeless, walking around muttering to herself, harmless. Major holidays, two well dressed men would escort her to the church, next town over. Come to find out, her last name was LaPond, she was the heir to the Ponds cold cream estate.
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So basically they were trying to get the money out of her for the Church. Scumbags!!!
 
spl440 said:
Think more like security detail, sent so no one would approach her to take advantage of her.
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Personally I think they were the ones taking advantage of her. Seen that many times when they know someone is old and not 100% with it. They coerce the people into leaving all the money to their church when they die. One church I know of even provided a personal parking spot for her, she was loaded and it worked because she left everything to the church. Her daughter and grand kids got nothing.
 
The men in suites came from out of state, helped with her shopping, clothes, church etc. Sent by either family or people paid to look after her.
 
Brand new truck in garage. Sold his last one to make room for the new one. Last one was like new,10 years old with 32,000 kms on it.
He drives a 96 f150,rotten from end to end. No ac and exhaust falling off.
Traded his 3 year old harley with a couple thousand miles on it,took a massive hit.
He has lost 30 grand in Depreciation on his vehicles in the past few years.why drive a beater when you have a brand new one hidden away?
I understand a winter beater,but he’s beyond ridiculous...
 
My neighbor saves his beer cans for retirement. Because we get $.010 a can in Michigan. His 1000 sq ft basement is full of them. Floor to 7 ft ceiling
 
Not as nutty as some here.

A little while back my neighbor got a moving truck to move, got it all packed, drove three houses down and back in.
Seriously driveway to driveway was 150'


Alan
 
I live on a 7-house cul-de-sac and can't say I've really had any nutty neighbors in the 30+ years I've lived there. But it was fun to watch some of the feuds that have gone on between nextdoor neighbors.
When the houses were originally built, the builder put 6-foot tall block walls around the back and sides of each lot.
About 10 years ago, one of my neighbors ("neighbor #1") across the street wanted to stucco both sides of the common block wall down one side of his property to match his house finish and color. Since the block wall was a common wall straddling the property line he asked his nextdoor neighbor on the other side of the wall ("neighbor #2") if it would be OK. He didn't ask him to share the expense, just for an OK to stucco the wall.
Well, neighbor #2 said, "No".
So neighbor #1 went ahead and did it anyway - stucco'd both sides of the wall to match his house color.
And neighbor #2 goes ballistic demanding the stucco be removed from his side of the wall.
Now, understand that the block wall in question is seen on neighbor #1's side only for about 25-feet - from the sidewalk to the 9-foot wide gate that extends from the side of his house to the property line. The side of the wall on neighbor #2's property is seen for approximately 60' from the sidewalk to the gate separating his back yard from the parking area/driveway in the front of his house.
About two weeks after the block wall was stucco'd I drove into the cul-de-sac after work to find there was now a brand new white vinyl fence on neighbor #2's property - extending the full 60' length and a couple of inches taller than the block wall.
There's about a two-inch space between the block wall and the vinyl fence.
It looks stupid.

And both neighbors have since moved out of state. Neighbor #1 moved about 1 year later. Neighbor #2 moved about 2 years ago.
 
My neighbor, who's name coincidentally was "Dick", was a total character. By character I mean a dick.

Back in California during one of the many droughts we had while growing up, he would walk over to our hose bibb, hook up his hose to it, and water his grass... Always when my Old Man was off deployed somewhere for the military... Pops would give him crap when he came back, but never stopped him from doing it at least once while he was away...

Let's see, what else? Oh, he poisoned our cat because it would piss in his flower beds...

He'd give us **** for our tree branches growing over his side of the fence and guess who would have to cut them? Yeah... Me.

Loved his mini schnauzer more than he did his wife.

He was a salty old sailor and didn't give a **** who knew.

I can't wait to get old and be able to be a "Dick" and get away with it lol
 
Well, there is this one girl, she's 20, maybe 22 and the sound of my duster just makes her purr.
Well, one summer day, I come pulling into my drive and she is on her lawn, sunbathing

Wait, you said nuttiest neighbour?
Sorry, I was thinking naughtiest

Nevermind
 
Since I left my parents home, I've only lived in two apartments and three houses, and twice on corner lots, and never a nutty neighbor to be seen......... I wonder if I may be the nutty neighbor.
 
When I first moved to a small town the people said I was rich and crazy. They were half right.
 
AJ/FormS said:
Since I left my parents home, I've only lived in two apartments and three houses, and twice on corner lots, and never a nutty neighbor to be seen......... I wonder if I may be the nutty neighbor.
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that reminds me...i have never seen any of my neighbours use their lawnmower to pull their boat out to the lake...but they have ALL seen me do it
 
me neighbor mows his lawn at 10:00 at night with a headlamp on and rakes the poop off the cement at about 11PM. he also cleans the gutter with same rake past 10 at night or before 6 in the morning. Skil saws up to 11PM sometimes. Does the guy ever sleep? I know we dont!
Back neighbor moved in and put up a 2 foot redwood lattice on top of our 6 foot block wall so there was no eye to eye contact when we were in our kitchens. I tried for years with the deadbeats before him and didnt even get a chance to ask this guy! :thumbsup:
 
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I always thought neighborhood gentlemen's agreement was no power tools or lawn mowing before 9:00 am on the weekends and 8:00 am through the week, and no such activity after 10:00 pm.
 
I also have a "corporate neighbor" story.

The guy that owns the printing business next to my shop...

We share a culvert which is paved over and becomes both of our parking lots.
About 15-20 feet is on my side and about 35-40 feet is on his.
His parking lot is also twice the size of mine.

The paving was in terrible shape, and the year after I moved in, I was thinking about approaching the printing company to go in on repaving. That guy actually beat me to it and approached me.

While we were discussing it over a period of several weeks, he kept saying things like- "the reason it's all torn up is because of all the heavy truck traffic YOU have in and out".

What? I got ONE tenant that gets deliveries in a single axle straight truck about 2 or 3 times a month, and the garbage dumpster truck 2 times a month. That's it. I pointed out that HE gets several deliveries every day including semi's and reams and reams of paper and cardboard. But it was like he never heard or acknowledged me saying that. He kept making comments like that almost every time we talked.

Almost day one after the paving, I try to pull into the shop, and there's a UPS truck almost blocking my entrance. I look around to see what might be going on as I do have a couple more commercial tenants, but there's no one there. When I finally do see the UPS guy in his truck, I ask him what's going on- "the print shop guy told me I had to park over here from now on".

OH, HELL NO! So I march into the print shop and confront the 2nd in charge guy and leave.

The next week, there's a semi in my parking lot with the driver two-wheeling cases of paper to the print shop. OH, HELL NO! This time it's on camera, and I ***** the owner out on the phone.

Next week another. This time I tell the driver to stop, and he actually tried to tell me there was nothing he could do because the print shop guy told him to do it, and I had to threaten to call the UPS manager. How do you not see that is just wrong?

WTF?

Hasn't been another occurrence that I'm aware of, but what a douche thing to do?
 
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