Most Insane True Stories of Neighbours From Hell - What Is Your Worst "neighbour from hell" Story?. (Video)
Huntington
Beach, CA. Common weekly occurrence with this insane neighbor. She throws
things, beats her boyfriend, drives into stuff. All time day and night. When
she backed up the first time in this video she hit my car.
Everyone has at least one horror story about some douchebag neighbor, and if you don't it might mean you were the douchebag.
Charles Hart - The Great Wall Neighbor
Everyone has at least one horror story about some douchebag neighbor, and if you don't it might mean you were the douchebag.
Charles Hart - The Great Wall Neighbor
They say good fences make good neighbors.
Based on that, Dennis Hawes of Fleetwood, England should have described Charles Hart as the greatest neighbor in the history of professional neighboring, instead of as a psychotic bastard who built a 16-foot high wall between their two properties.
The trouble started for Hawes when he decided to build a sun terrace on the roof of his house, which according to Hart was less of a terrace and more of a penis-peeping voyeur deck. So, in order to protect his privacy (and apparent perpetual backyard nudity), Hart took the reasonable step of erecting a two story concrete wall right along their property lines.
Evidently he needed to protect the secret identities of his gas grill and patio furniture.
"Go ahead, complain some more. I can totally make this wall higher."
Hawes is of course partially at fault here. Even if he didn't plan to spy on Hart, he at least could have given Hart some time to express concerns about his privacy, because we've all known some asshole on the block that suddenly started having trucks come in to pour concrete for a new pool without giving anyone else a heads up. Although, it's not like Hawes threw the terrace up overnight, so Hart probably had more than a few occasions to point out his privacy concerns before tossing up the Great Wall of Irrational Paranoia like a suburban Dr. Doom.
Paula Bolli - The Shitty Neighbor
When it comes to neighbor feuds, dropping poop on
each other's property is a time honored tradition, whether it be direct
deposits on the lawn from a pet's buttchute or flaming bags placed on the
doorstep. It's what community is all about, really.
However, there are times when this admittedly
gets out of control, like in the case of Gus and Lucille Midura of Mariners
Harbor, Staten Island. The octogenarian couple's neighbor Paula Bolli took
about 60 cubic yards of horse manure and dropped it on her own front and side yard just to piss
them off, a plan that we argue could have spent more time in the development
process.
"So... so why didn't we put the manure on their yard?"
"So... so why didn't we put the manure on their yard?"
There had been bad blood
between the Miduras' and Bollis for over two decades, which somehow escalated
to the point of two dump trucks full of noxious animal shit. It's natural to
assume that they had to deserve it somehow, like by strangling Bolli's entire
family with a used condom or something, but according to the other neighbors
the mountain of manure gambit literally came out of nowhere, unlike the army of
rats that quickly showed up to feast on it.
Neighborhood spite is a
powerful thing, just ask any guy who leaves the rusty car in his front yard
specifically because he knows
his neighbors hate it. But Bolli is clearly a cut above because she's willing
to live in the center of a metropolis of shit-eating rats just to piss off a
couple of old people.
Paula Ariail and David Anthony Johnson - The
Grave Robbing Neighbors
In Jacksonville, Florida back in 2008, Paul
Douglas was afflicted with an acute case of being dead alone in his apartment.
With no friends or family to speak of, he could have remained undiscovered for
weeks if it weren't for his plucky neighbor Paula Ariail from down the hall,
who noticed his suspicious absence and went to check on him, discovering his
dead body.
The shocked Paula immediately rushed to the phone and presumably put it in her giant loot sack, because why call the police to
"I couldn't help but notice you ignored that stop sign
back there. Also, you smell like a dead man."
David Anthony Johnson from Baltimore was in a
very similar situation when his partner's neighbor, Frederick A. Kessler, Jr.,
died alone in 2004. But instead of just turning Fred's apartment into their own personal Big
Lots like Paula Ariail, the two men decided the better course of action would
be to bring Kessler back to life.
By settling Fred's taxes and mortgage bills,
Johnson and his partner managed to keep Kessler alive in the eyes of the system
for three fucking years. Before being discovered, they
had opened a few credit lines in his name and emptied the man's pension fund
for a grand total of $140,000. Basically, it's like David Leisure exhuming your
corpse and stealing your wallet.
Reddit.com Readers story!
Rough neighborhoods are kinda funny, based on
what I've heard from other people with similar experiences, in that you tend to
have a really polarizing effect. You have your ghost neighbors, people that
never talk to anyone and for all intents and purposes don't exist, you have
your neighbors from hell, and you have your awesome neighbors that you keep as
close to you as possible because in that kind of setting, you need to.
The neighbor on
either side of the house I grew up in was pretty good. On the right was a ghost
neighbor who eventually started talking to us and being pretty cool, and on the
left were my godparents.
Across the street
was a family of meth addicts, two doors down from them on the corner was a guy
who cooked and sold meth. He had a network of users and sellers all down the
street, and damn near one corner house at every intersection was involved with
him.
This guy was a
fucking icon. People in the area called him a number of things, "Tweaker
Dan" was one nick-name, "the White Guy" was another.
He had a make-shift
auto-shop in his garage, and he worked on cars from around 5am until about
midnight every day, loudly, punctuated by people coming and going from his
house to buy meth or shoot the shit or whatever. Sometimes he would have loud
arguments with people outside, and sometimes he would have gunfights with
people he argued with. More often when he went for his gun people left.
Dan rode his bike
everywhere. He had a car, and it worked, but he generally just rode his bike
all over the place.
Now, growing up, I
just saw him as a shitty neighbor, to be feared and avoided.
The thing was,
Tweaker Dan was actually a pretty friendly guy. He would wave to everyone,
neighbors, anyone who lived in the neighborhood, anyone he recognized, really.
It wasn't until I
was older that I learned a little more about Dan and his operation because of
some mutual friends I ended up knowing.
Dan didn't just
supply meth to the neighborhood users and sellers, Dan controlled a large
amount of the local supply chain. There were two major gangs in the area, but
our neighborhood fell directly in a kind of neutral area between their
territories. One gang probably could have taken our neighborhood if they had
wanted to, they were big enough, and powerful enough, but for Dan.
Dan was their
supplier. They knew him as "the White Guy," and part of their
arrangement with him is that he sold to them, but they stayed the fuck out of
the neighborhood. This was his arrangement with anyone "affiliated"
that he sold to. He would sell to pretty much anyone, but if he dealt with you,
you kept your shit out of his neighborhood. "Don't shit where you live"
sort of thing.
Turns out, this is
also why he rode his bike everywhere and waved to everyone. Dan was keeping an
eye on who came and went. He waved because he wanted you to know he was
watching. It wasn't so much that he was being friendly, though he was, but that
he was communicating something very important: he was watching.
To those of us that
weren't involved with him, we didn't know. We didn't know about his rules, who
he said was allowed to come and go, the arrangements he'd made that basically
kept our neighborhood from getting worse as the city around us turned to shit.
We only knew about his erratic and peculiar behavior, that he never slept, that
he dealt drugs, that he did them.
A lot of the clean
houses in the neighborhood vilified him, but it was always peculiar to see
which houses were friendly with him, because it was not always who you'd
expect. For a guy who had so much interaction with the meth heads, he was also
friends with the prison guard, the family who lived a few doors down, my
godfather. People you'd have thought would have avoided him.
But they knew. Fuck
knows how, but they did. I asked my godfather about it after I found out and he
said yeah, he knew, he just didn't see it as something that should be talked
about.
So that's Tweaker
Dan. One of the best and worst neighbors I've ever had.
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