What 15 'Weird Neighbors' Did to Earn Their Title
Every neighborhood has that one resident who makes you reconsider renewing your lease. It starts small: fruit trees that smell like vinegar, lawn ornaments that definitely have eyeballs, or the guy who checks his mail wearing a cape. You nod politely as you calculate escape routes.
Then things escalate. Someone builds a homemade submarine in the driveway, someone else hosts a silent disco at 3 a.m., and the quiet lady from 4B trains a raccoon that responds in English. You start questioning whether reality has a glitch mode.
So here’s a tribute to the neighbors who turned suburbia into its own ecosystem, reshaping community one bizarre hobby at a time.
Leaf Blower War
"I went to a disturbance call where two neighbors were blowing leaves at each other with leaf blowers. They were actually mad while doing this."
Aggressive Trash Docker
"I found a neighbor putting his trash in my cans. Then, when I confronted him about stealing my garbage space, he tried to fight me."
Vengeful Cable
"My neighbor cut the service cable with her garden shears and wouldn't let the cable company in to repair it. My house and about six others had no TV, phone, or Internet for 8 days."
Banshee Screams
"A neighbor screamed obscenities ('You f@#$ing little cunt!') at her kids daily. When my ex tried to help one kid climb down a tree calmly, the woman snapped, shouting, 'What the f@$k do you think you're doing? Don't you fucking talk to my kids!' She then came after me physically."
Sandy Looting
"After Superstorm Sandy, my front door wouldn't close. My neighbors cleaned my house out. They stole everything I own: my oven, my sink, my furnace, my refrigerator, my car, my boat, my sports autograph collection, my guns, my guitars, and my computer. But they never touched my book collection."
Rock Lawsuit
"My parents' neighbor sued them multiple times, including one suit because his adult son allegedly fell over a decorative rock while trying to avoid parking on my parents' lawn."
Fire Pit Relocation
"The same crazy neighbor moved her neatly stacked brick fire pit mostly onto my property. I used the plow blade on my tractor to shove it back over into her yard, leaving it as a sloppy pile of bricks and ash. She, naturally, called the police."
Crazy Plant Lady
"A neighbor complained about the 'wrong' plants in my private area. After I refused her gardener, she sent her grandson, a professional 'private detective,' to try and convince me to change my landscaping."
Church Parking
"Fundamentalist neighbors started a church in their house. Every Sunday, dozens of cars invaded our lawn and driveway. When my dad asked them to move, they called him an 'ungodly minion of the devil.' It took cops, tow trucks, and fire marshals to stop the religious trespassing."
Branch Sawing
"I looked out to see my neighbor leaning over my 6ft fence to saw some of the main branches off my tree, branches that weren't even extending over the fence. She killed the tree. A few months later, all the plants along our boundary fence mysteriously died."
Conifers Removal
"I planted 14 nice evergreens. My crazy neighbor called a tree-cutting business and lied, saying the trees were hers and that her grandson had planted them without permission. They destroyed my yard and removed all 14 trees."
Fence Land Grab
"A neighbor decided their backyard wasn't big enough. They tore down the existing fence, cut down three trees that were NOT on their property, and built the new fence 5 feet onto the neighbor's property, even bolting it to her house."
Tree Night-Assassination
"Our neighbor demanded we cut down a small tree. My husband resolved that we would only do it when her yappy dog, 'Jimmy', shut up, never. A couple of weeks later, we found the tree cut down. The maniac must have snuck into the yard at night and killed it."
Garbage Vengeance
"My neighbor kept putting their extra bags of garbage next to mine, exceeding the two-bag limit. After months of grudgingly storing their stinky surplus in my garage, I finally found a bill, identified the cheapskate, and deposited their six months of fermented garbage in a heap in their driveway."
Suicide Threat
"My crack-addict neighbor asked to borrow Brillo pads (for his pipe). Later that night, he became furious and threatened me. He eventually doused his entire unit in gasoline, called 911, and said he was going to kill himself and 'the family and baby next door'. We had to evacuate for days due to the fumes."