re: Next door neighbor horror stories

We moved into our current house almost 5 years ago. The lady that owned it before us lived here for 20+ years. One week after we moved in, the neighbor starts talking to my husband and tells him that one of our trees is a threat to his property and he may have to call the cops if we don't do something about it. Meanwhile, his house looks like it's abandoned. His wife is a shut-in and she lives in it full-time. He lives in his deceased father's house a few miles away, but he comes and stays with his wife a few days a week. He is also a raging alcoholic that looks like the the Loony Tunes version of Dr. Jekyl.



He's been arrested at least one for domestic violence and assaulting a cop. There was one time we got home from being out on the river and were backing the boat down the street and he's outside, barefoot with a bloody knee, with a grocery bag of clothes asking for a ride to his other house. His wife was pissed because it was 3pm, he was hammered and had been at a bar hitting on women. I told him to call a cab.

He also smokes and has heart problems, so I'd say there are emergency responders at his house every 8 - 12 weeks. We live at the end of a dead end street, so when they're here we're pretty much blocked in until they go. They always cart him off to the hospital and he's always back home the next day.

They've also cut ties with her adult kids from her previous marriage. Her kids will occaisonally call the cops to do a wellness check on her and sometimes they come to my door asking if I've seen her lately. She won't answer the door for anyone. She is incredibly nice, but weird AF. I think she'll leave with him occaisonally to go to the grocery store, but other than that she does not drive or go anywhere. It's a strange situation.

We had a divorcee living a couple of houses to our right in our cul de sac. Her husband got tired of her drinking and left her. She weighs maybe 90 lbs but would have two cases of Bud Light delivered to her house every 2-3 days. She had joint custody of their youngest son who was around 11 or 12. Evidently when he was staying with his Dad, drunk mother would call him every night. She loses her phone and then starts coming to our house to borrow my phone to call the kid. I felt sorry for the kid so I kept letting her do it.

Finally, she knocks on my door while I am working from home during the day and says she needs to call her ex-husband because she is having a heart attack. I dial the number for her but no answer. I tell her if she is having a heart attack I am calling an ambulance which hauled her off. She was not having a heart attack but just suffering from alcoholism. She sold her house a couple of months ago so that problem is gone.

Best I've got but nothing wild...


A small family moved next door to us at one point.

Fast forward a couple years and the wife leaves the husband and takes the kid. He was a nice guy but it was pretty clear he wasn't taking the divorce very well, no visible issues with drinking or anything like that, but you could tell he was down.

Next thing you know his truck stops showing up at the house and this goes on for months and months. Another neighbor started collecting/holding his mail but no one ever came around. I'd even cut the grass occasionally so that it didn't look completely abandoned, I legit started to wonder if he'd offed himself.

I had remembered him once telling me he managed a restaurant so one day I decided to go by and see if anyone there knew anything. Turned out he had stolen ~$25,000 from the restaurant and was arrested and put in jail. The house went into foreclosure a short time later.

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2nd floor neighbor in an apartment was an old Mexican grandma who dumped her cooking oil down the drain all the time...which in turn caused a HUGE backup in the main drain/sewer pipe that flooded all the first floor apartments with you know what.

Luckily for us, it was confined to the bathroom and hallway. Some had sewage covering every square inch of their floor.

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Thats funny considering some Mexicans wont even put used toliet paper in the toliet, instead they use a garbage can.

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What a POS you are for leaving a dog with that person

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I didn't leave her with one person. I left her with the family. I had to be at work in Atlanta in 3 weeks.

You know what the easy part of escaping New Orleans was? Absolutely fricking nothing.

You know what the easy part of hard-legging about some dog on a message board is? All of it. You get your cheap Doggo McUpdoots and your virtuous little dopamine high for free.

I have a family of human beings to look out for and I wanted them out of that place. I'd have run over your dog to do it.

I have a neighbor that can't control her dogs for shite and I hate her for it. She's got one little fruffy dog that escape her yard and shits and pisses in mine about weekly and no amount of me asking her nicley to please keep it contained does shite. She's also got a massive dog that barks louder than any dog I've seen. She never walks it cause she's a lazy fatass so the thing is crazy pent up and territorial. It got to where if I so much as opened my patio door it would start losing it's mind. I got a bark box which worked for awhile then it acclimated cause it barked so much...eventually it took months of me yelling back at it through the fence and I guess asserting dominance for it to fricking chill and let me live. None of this has clued this idiot woman into who rude it is to not control her dogs for shite.

Next door neighbor post here so I will have to hold out, at last till he croaks.

This is a sort of reverse next door neighbor horror story. In college I lived in a duplex with the 2nd apartment occupied by a med student. Somehow our apartment turned into the party house; it was so bad that I often found other places to sleep. Now that I’m a responsible grown-up, I feel so sorry for that guy. I can’t imagine being dog arse tired from school, rounds etc and trying to study with our sorry asses living on the other side of a paper thin wall.

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This was 1994 when the schools were still playing every year and LSU had one 12 in a row.

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I guess the joke is on him right