Have you ever gotten into a fight with your neighbor?

[Salandrin]

As the title says. Be it verbal or physical, have you ever gotten into a scuffle with the person who lives next to you?

[Tradewind]

My neighbour is Mike Tyson, so no.

[Quibble]

As the title says. Be it verbal or physical, have you ever gotten into a scuffle with the person who lives next to you?

We have the worst kind of neighbors, they have no respect for anyone else, they always yell (the parents of each other and of their kids)..
Everyone on our road thinks they are a major pain in the ass, and basically just want them to move the hell away..

We however are so unlucky as to be right next to them.. besides them lying about their building plans, which now results in our yard being flooded when it rains. They also, before we complained to the right instances, always blocked our drive way.
They throw their trash out the window, so it ends up blowing into our yard..
They spit their gum in our drive way..
And you just can't reason with them, as I said, they have no respect for anyone else.

So yes, it has ended in verbal fights more than once, when we just can't stand their crap.

[Salandrin]

we have the worst kind of neighbors, they have no respect for anyone else, they always yell (the parents of each other and of their kids)..
Everyone on our road thinks they are a major pain in the ass, and basically just want them to move the hell away..

We however are so unlucky as to be right next to them.. Besides them lying about their building plans, which now results in our yard being flooded when it rains. They also, before we complained to the right instances, always blocked our drive way.
They throw their trash out the window, so it ends up blowing into our yard..
They spit their gum in our drive way..
And you just can't reason with them, as i said, they have no respect for anyone else.

So yes, it has ended in verbal fights more than once, when we just can't stand their crap.

just beat the shit out of them

[Stelio Kontos]

We have the worst kind of neighbors, they have no respect for anyone else, they always yell (the parents of each other and of their kids)..
Everyone on our road thinks they are a major pain in the ass, and basically just want them to move the hell away..

We however are so unlucky as to be right next to them.. besides them lying about their building plans, which now results in our yard being flooded when it rains. They also, before we complained to the right instances, always blocked our drive way.
They throw their trash out the window, so it ends up blowing into our yard..
They spit their gum in our drive way..
And you just can't reason with them, as I said, they have no respect for anyone else.

So yes, it has ended in verbal fights more than once, when we just can't stand their crap.

The answer to your situation is simple.

The answer starts with 'A', ends with 'n', and has 'rso' inbetween

[Nadiru]

A couple of tenants in the apartment below mine started leaving passive-aggressive notes on my door, telling me to keep quiet after 10 PM because they had to be up at 8 in the morning (I'm already at work for an hour at 8, mind you.) They eventually started to use a broom handle to poke at my floor when they thought I was being loud. I started doing jumping jacks every time they did it. That ended up being the end of it. The tenants in question also yelled at the Dominicans (all 200 of them) having a block party to keep the music down. They left a few months later.

[Deleted]

No, but then again I have never had close neighbors because I never lived in a tightly housed area.

[Raelbo]

When I was about 6 years old we had some idiot neighbours. They were part of some religious cult that didn't believe in any kind of birth control, including for their pets. As a result they had about 15-20 cats living on their property, none of which were spayed/neutered.

For anyone who knows a bit about cats it would be pretty obvious to predict what this will mean - a huge number of un-neutered tomcats living on a small property is a disaster. They end up competing for territory and end up expanding in to all the surrounding areas, and this means spraying all over neighbours' property (It's also illegal to have more than 4 cats on a property that size in our country).

This was a problem for us for a few years. They would get into our house and piss on the carpets, furniture etc. One time, and I can still remember that smell - one of them pissed on the stove and my mom didn't realise until she switched it on to warm up milk for breakfast. It was ghastly.

Anyhow my parents approached our wonderful neighbours and explained the problem - on more than one occasion, and each time the response was the same. They smugly replied that it wasn't their cats and we had no proof and that it must be the work of strays. I still remember the condescending look on the father's face (haha - I just remembered his name was Dick) as he shook his head, smiling at my parents and saying it was our problem, not his.

So my parents cracked. They went to the local SPCA and were advised that once a tomcat starts to spray, that behaviour is impossible to eradicate. If indeed it was stray cats, we could catch them and bring them in to be put down. So they did. We hired a cat trap. Each morning for a week there was a fresh tom in the cage, which we took to the SPCA and reported it as a stray.

It took about a week for our neighbours to figure out their brood had been diminished a bit and they came and asked us if we might know anything. My parents response was that we had caught a few stray tomcats that had been soiling our house and taken them to the SPCA. Clearly they must have been strays because none had collars, and none were neutered.

Our neighbours hated us - took it to the local newspaper and painted a picture of my parents as being vicious cat-killers. To this day I remain of the firm opinion though that it was justice and our neighbours got exactly what they deserved. I feel sympathy for the cats that died, but I blame their owners 100% for being utterly irresponsible pet owners and disgusting neighbours with zero consideration for those around them and pushing my parents into a corner where they felt this was their only recourse against both the severe financial burden and mental anguish that had been forced on them by the situation.

[Blueobelisk]

A couple of tenants in the apartment below mine started leaving passive-aggressive notes on my door, telling me to keep quiet after 10 PM because they had to be up at 8 in the morning (I'm already at work for an hour at 8, mind you.) They eventually started to use a broom handle to poke at my floor when they thought I was being loud. I started doing jumping jacks every time they did it. That ended up being the end of it. The tenants in question also yelled at the Dominicans (all 200 of them) having a block party to keep the music down. They left a few months later.

That kind of sounds like it was your fault....

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My uncle is a little crazy. Years ago when he was drinking he went outside to get more beer or something and noticed the neighbors (who were having a party) parked in our driveway. So he yelled at people to move the car but nothing happened. So he went to the shed to get a machete and he was gonna cut our neighbors up lol...but my step dad and grandpa stopped him.

I have more stories if you really want to hear.

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their building plans, which now results in our yard being flooded when it rains.

Same uncle, same neighbors as my above story. My uncle cursed my neighbors out once because they concreted the side of their house high and slanted so it would fall onto our side.

[Frozenbeef]

No, my neighbours have been like family to me...

My first neighbours left me and my sister £10k each in their will after they died, the other side babysat for me and my sister for years when i would go to play at my friends house i had to cross a road if i wanted to go back i would stand there yelling for my mum to come and help me cross (no mobile phones back then) my neighbour would usually see me standing there and help me cross :P

[Blueobelisk]

-cat story-

I think you were right.

Another story: Same uncle, but more recently since he lives in Florida now. (Different neighbors of course.) This came to me as a text conversation that would destroy any of those wanna-be-funny fake text conversations you see.

So. Basically conversation is like this.

>Uncle sends me a picture of like a cat in a cage.
>I ask what it is.
>He says he got a cage from animal control to catch animals around the house.
(He maintains the house and mows the huge lawn and foundation of the house and shit so it's not surprising.)
>Days pass, weeks maybe. He sends a few more pics over that time.
>During that time he texted me that he was gonna yell at the neighbors because they let their dog out and it uses the bathroom on our lawn.
>Didn't end up yelling at them.
>Sent me a pic of a cat. No big deal. (He sent me like 3 cats, 2 raccoons or like badgers or something by now.)
>Tells me he thinks its that same neighbor's cat that he wanted to yell at.
>He sends it to animal control as per usual.
You should know that in Florida, since there aren't many sidewalks and people's properties are big, instead of mailmen delivering to every single house, everyone groups their mailboxes together. Like 5+ mailboxes are in the corner of our property since we have the corner lot.
>Next day, when he's getting mail he says he noticed something on telephone pole (next to the mailboxes).
>In kid handwriting (he send me the picture) there's a drawing of a cat saying "help me I'm missing."
>It's ridiculously funny to me. I think I was in class when he texted that and I started laughing.
>He ends up calling neighbors and telling them to keep better care of pets and to stop letting them out.
>They get pet from animal control.

That was so funny to me guys you don't even know.

[derpkitteh]

flat out threatened one of my neighbors once. not them personally, but i told him that if his dog ever came near my animals again i'd blow it's head off.

he was pretty pissed but kept himself under control. other than that, we tend to keep to ourselves and are mostly friendly with our neighbors.

[Mormolyce]

just beat the shit out of them

In the real world that doesn't work out as well as you imagine from inside your zombie survival bunker in your parent's basement, Salandrin.

[Deleted]

When I was about 6 years old we had some idiot neighbours. They were part of some religious cult that didn't believe in any kind of birth control, including for their pets. As a result they had about 15-20 cats living on their property, none of which were spayed/neutered.

For anyone who knows a bit about cats it would be pretty obvious to predict what this will mean - a huge number of un-neutered tomcats living on a small property is a disaster. They end up competing for territory and end up expanding in to all the surrounding areas, and this means spraying all over neighbours' property (It's also illegal to have more than 4 cats on a property that size in our country).

This was a problem for us for a few years. They would get into our house and piss on the carpets, furniture etc. One time, and I can still remember that smell - one of them pissed on the stove and my mom didn't realise until she switched it on to warm up milk for breakfast. It was ghastly.

Anyhow my parents approached our wonderful neighbours and explained the problem - on more than one occasion, and each time the response was the same. They smugly replied that it wasn't their cats and we had no proof and that it must be the work of strays. I still remember the condescending look on the father's face (haha - I just remembered his name was Dick) as he shook his head, smiling at my parents and saying it was our problem, not his.

So my parents cracked. They went to the local SPCA and were advised that once a tomcat starts to spray, that behaviour is impossible to eradicate. If indeed it was stray cats, we could catch them and bring them in to be put down. So they did. We hired a cat trap. Each morning for a week there was a fresh tom in the cage, which we took to the SPCA and reported it as a stray.

It took about a week for our neighbours to figure out their brood had been diminished a bit and they came and asked us if we might know anything. My parents response was that we had caught a few stray tomcats that had been soiling our house and taken them to the SPCA. Clearly they must have been strays because none had collars, and none were neutered.

Our neighbours hated us - took it to the local newspaper and painted a picture of my parents as being vicious cat-killers. To this day I remain of the firm opinion though that it was justice and our neighbours got exactly what they deserved. I feel sympathy for the cats that died, but I blame their owners 100% for being utterly irresponsible pet owners and disgusting neighbours with zero consideration for those around them and pushing my parents into a corner where they felt this was their only recourse against both the severe financial burden and mental anguish that had been forced on them by the situation.

Instead of killing loads of cats, couldn't you have just reported them if it is illegal to own more than 4? That way the cats had the possibility of being rehomed and the likelyhood is the remaining would have been neutered (if not taken away for rehoming themselves). Taking cats in just to die is just horrible. Also, your local SPCA is talking bull. My old tomcat sprayed before he was old enough to be neutered. Once neutered, he never sprayed. Another thing you could have done is added certain smells to your garden / house that cats don't like, or installed motion sprinklers in your garden. Your parents were rightly vilified... Your neighbours were arseholes, the cats were just cats.

[Stelio Kontos]

Your parents were rightly vilified... Your neighbours were arseholes, the cats were just cats.

"Rightfully" villified for capturing strays and taking them to the SPCA?

Are you daft?

[theostrichsays]

My neighbour is Mike Tyson, so no.

For some reason, having read so many of your posts... I'm not inclined to call shenanigans.

[Deleted]

"Rightfully" villified for capturing strays and taking them to the SPCA?

Are you daft?

Knowing they're capturing pets and taking them to be put down, instead of reporting the cause of the issue? Yes, rightly vilified. They solved nothing except seeding hate and killing cats.

[Graeham]

"Rightfully" villified for capturing strays and taking them to the SPCA?

Are you daft?

It's a needlessly spiteful and cruel approach. Why should innocent animals suffer just so a pair of selfish parents can 'one up' their neighbours? It'd make much more sense to approach local pet charities and see if they could be re-homed. Anyone who can pick up a cat and take it to be put down with no good reason is a terrible person as far as I'm concerned.

As for the main subject of the thread I've had poor luck when it comes to neighbours. I've lived in a variety of places over the years and aside from a handful of lovely neighbours the majority have, unfortunately, been aggressive or very withdrawn and awkward.

[Thelxi]

We have called the cops on each other plenty of times if that counts. Once they called the fire department because we had a party and lit a bonfire, a whole fire truck showed up at the gate lol.

[Stelio Kontos]

It's a needlessly spiteful and cruel approach. Why should innocent animals suffer just so a pair of selfish parents can 'one up' their neighbours? It'd make much more sense to approach local pet charities and see if they could be re-homed. Anyone who can pick up a cat and take it to be put down with no good reason is a terrible person as far as I'm concerned.

As for the main subject of the thread I've had poor luck when it comes to neighbours. I've lived in a variety of places over the years and aside from a handful of lovely neighbours the majority have, unfortunately, been aggressive or very withdrawn and awkward.

If they are on your property you are entitled to use any means allowed under the law to get rid of them. One of which is trapping and taking it to the SPCA. Not all SPCA shelters are kill shelters, it depends on the area.

I guess villains take uncared for animals to animal shelters...what a weird world.