re: Give Us Your Most Obnoxious Neighbor Story

I grew up next door to a nicer, bigger house owned by a young couple with a little boy.

One weekend the father was getting ready to paint over his 4-foot tall, dark-gray foundation that faced the side of our house.

The father seemed to do everything with the little boy, so on a whim he let the young son paint his first name in big letters on the foundation with the white paint.

The father was proud enough of the boy's work that he left the painted name there for a while, without painting it over as planned.

In the following weeks, the boy suddenly took ill and died of cancer.

So that giant, chicken-scratch "LEE" stared at us through our kitchen window for years to come.

Of course no one could blame the father for leaving the boy's name there.

That was our lesson to tolerate neighbors' unsettling behavior so long as it's harmless.

The renters next door argue all the time - they were arguing in the street yesterday

I was working in the garden a few days ago and they were arguing - whether they started arguing in my driveway - they switched from English to Spanish - so I let them know I spoke Spanish also by telling them to get out of my driveway

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In the following weeks, the boy suddenly took ill and died of cancer. So that giant, chicken-scratch "LEE" stared at us through our kitchen window for years to come.

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Dang. You were reminded daily of little Lee almost as much as his poor parents. That can be pretty depressing looking out your window every morning.

Had neighbors a few houses down who always had sketchy-looking people coming to their house. Knew what was up when the FBI raided their house. The husband was laundering money through his businesses for a Mexican drug cartel.

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i started putting it in plastic bags and placing on his steps

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You should have wrapped your fist in a plastic bag, and put it in his eye.

Guy planted at least 10 bald cypress trees within 10 feet of our property line. Did the same thing to his other neighbor, as well. Every knee I have to cut up with my sawzall goes over the fence.

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Had neighbors a few houses down who always had sketchy-looking people coming to their house. Knew what was up when the FBI raided their house. The husband was laundering money through his businesses for a Mexican drug cartel.

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I got quite a deal when I bought that house.

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I used to pick dog crap out of my yard and put it in the trash, I figured i can't keep the neighborhood dogs from going wherever it hits them. But i came out one night before bed to catch my neighbor walking his dog into our yard to let him shite.

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Maybe I’m the a-hole, but I don’t want people’s dogs pissing and shitting in my yard period. Don’t care if they pick it up. My otherwise great looking Zoysia constantly has 3-4 brown spots in it right where my lawn meets the curb because someone’s flea bag has to piss.

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right off the bushes? that is both sad and hilarious

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Yes. The brother looked like he enjoyed it

Regarding the speeding teen:
My cousin in Lake Charles long years ago got tired of a teen flying down the street after School most days.
He and a friend stood on the sidewalk drinking a few cold ones when they saw teen turn on his street , rev up and flying by. Cuz flipped his almost full beer can right in the windshield.
The kid stopped and started yelling he was going to call the cops, ( pre cell phones), when he got home. Cuz and his buddy asked him WTH he was talking about?
Call the cops and we will tell them some crazy kid was speeding down this street with a cracked windshield. Beer can had disappeared. They told him don’t be driving like an a-hole any more.
Kid just drive off. No cops came.