Beat my crazy neighbor story....

[Shamzanne]

I can't believe it took me 5 minutes to think of this . . .

 

I lived in VERY rural KY and only had one house visible from ours but it was right across the street. First, they got fighting cocks. They had barrels all over the yard with a rooster tied to each one and would practice fighting the roosters against one another. The sheriff wouldn't do anything about it unless they were caught in the act.

 

Then a few weeks later my best friend was at a conference in Indiana and drove down for a visit and to meet my daughter. She arrived late at night and couldn't find our house (it was so rural we literally didn't have an address). She called to say she couldn't find us and I went out front to wave her down. She had passed our house by 50 ft but was in front of the neighbors. As soon as I got out there two men started coming at her out of that house with shotguns in a very threatening manner. They were coming across a little creek bed that separated the road from their house. I jumped in the backseat of her car and she flew into reverse and into our driveway. We were just going to jump out and run into the house when I heard the neighbor holler that he was "sorry".

 

Later I found out that the dad had just been sent to prison for dealing meth. The first time he went to prison, when his son was just a kid, his house was invaded by some "associates" and the kid's mom was shot and left paralyzed. So the kid (now in his twenties) was scared out of his mind that something similar would happen.

[Koerarmoca]

Hmmm...I think I was the crazy neighbor lol.

 

One of our first houses as a married couple was a duplex the neighbors constant yelled and screamed at each other. One day I really just wanted to know what they were fighting about and it turned out he was watching porn 24/7 (yes the glass on the wall trick worked well lol) I did call the cops once because she was screaming "get off me" and I heard stuff breaking.

 

Two houses ago we had basically an elevated concrete slab of a porch. No cover or sides to it. People thought it was perfectly ok to sit on the edge of our porch and hang out talking to neighbors. They where loud and swore constantly and my front window was inches away. I got so fed up after millions of times telling them to move on. I got up early one day and squirted mustard all over the side where they sat. One kid had the nerve to tell me I owed him a pair of $60 jeans.

I constantly got into it with a 14 year old girl (who also was a mother) who lived in that house with her Grandma she SCREAMED at me one day for parking in her grandmas "spot" it's off street parking only, and I would not of parked in that spot had someone not been in mine. It was insane. I was so happy when they moved out.

 

 

Living in a new state now I'm kinda glad that most of the population does not speak English lol.

[Amber in SJ]

I have another one- We had a family move in a couple of years ago with a teenage son who used to go around siphoning gas out of the neighbor's cars. Yes, you would get up in the morning to an almost empty gas tank. He stole out of people's garages as well. One day he was arrested right in his driveway. My children were plastered to the window as the police cuffed him and took him away. The dad was a general contractor and even though they were always doing some kind of construction on their house nothing was ever finished. The family moved soon after letting their house go vacant and back to the bank. Word went around the neighborhood that the backyard sheds were open and full of everyone's stuff. In the backyard there were several sheds and you had to search through them all to find your tools or other stolen items. All the sheds were crammed with high end construction materials. We learned later that the dad was buying high end materials, windows, fixtures & appliances with his client's $$, installing junk and then selling the good stuff. Craziness.

 

Amber in SJ

[Chris in VA]

Oh. My.

 

I'm so glad my neighbors are all dead.

 

 

(I live next to a graveyard.)

[melissad2]

Oh. My.

 

I'm so glad my neighbors are all dead.

 

 

(I live next to a graveyard.)

 

 

:lol: :lol:

[Mommyfaithe]

I think my neighbors think we are the wacky neighbors. Homeschooling, pitbull owners, survival of the fittest landscaping, keep to ourselves because we think all of our neighbors are whacko.

 

 

We are the whackos too....but our neighbors love us anyway. Ummmmmmm....they are whackos and we love them too!

 

[Butter]

Some years ago we were convinced that our neighbors were dealing drugs. A car would pull up, someone from the house would run out to the car with something in a paper bag, and the car would leave. At some point these neigbors had their power cut off. They weren't paying their bills. It made it easier for them to sell the paper bag stuff since they were sitting out in the yard in lawn chairs most of the time. Eventually we found out what they were really selling. They were stealing containers of crab meat from the local grocery store and selling it in the paper bags. Because of course buying "hot" crab meat from the house with no electricity makes perfect sense.

[bobbeym]

Sounds like you all would fit in perfectly around here! I'm the crazy lady who walks her horses instead of riding them, has a pitbull and a great dane/mastiff, not to mention the cocker spaniels, and to top it all off I homeschool. People regularly call me from their cars when they come to my place because they won't step out of their vehicles with the dogs looking at them.

 

DH saw a puppy on Craigslist last week that he thought we should get, nevermind that we don't need or have room for another dog right now. They really were the cutest little things though. Then I read the description and realized the puppies were a rottweiler/husky/boxer/st bernard mix. :eek:

[TravelingChris]

We had a few break=ins in our neighborhood and it turned out it was the adult stepson of someone. Other than that, we have nothing going on here.

 

However, in the house that we owned that made me decide I will only live in certain neighborhoods, I had plenty of crazy. From the neighbor down the street who decided to dress his deer by hanging it up in the front yard off of a treee (we lived in a suburb of a city, not a rural area) to the neighbor's behind who had police calls to their house frequently and whose German Sheperd bit my son when he was returning a ball that one of the kids accidentally hit over into our yard (he was in our yard, he just put his hand out with the ball to give to the kid and the dog bit him). But the worse one we worried about was the neighbor opposite. He bought the house and decided to put in an illegal car mechanic yard in the yard. However he had a large tree in the yard. He decided to climb up it and start chainsawing. Branches fell down and destroyed his fence and damaged his garage. Then he didn't chop it all the way down. So he decided since the fence was destroyed, why not pull the remaing tree out and onto our street. The remaining part of the tree was probably 10 feet tall trunk. He couldn't do it well so he made a giant mess of his yard and our street= full of mud. Then he started leaving junky cars around that he was waiting to fix. We were calling the city and they made him take them away or into the yard. Fortunately for us, he obeyed and we were able to sell our house. The whole situation was so stressful I resolved to only live in certain kinds of neighborhoods ever since (unless we were living on base). It has worked well and we don't have crazy neighbor stores- though that has been just fortunate since mental illness,.which seems to be the cause of at least half of your stories, doesn't discriminate on who it affects- all income levels, education levels, etc.

[TravelingChris]

For all of you with pitbulls, that is one of my criteria for not buying a house. If I go and see pitbulls around, I don't buy or rent the house. Though as I was looking for my missing poodle yesterday at the ANimal shelter, I did come across a very friendly pit bull, so I do know that some can be okay.

[PentecostalMom]

From an officers mouth to my ears:

My neighbor called the police to her house and claimed someone had broken into her residence and rearranged the files in her filing cabinet. :huh: This is what I have lived next to for 8 years.

 

 

I confess, it was me. I love to organize other people's stuff, just not my own. J/K! :001_tt2:

[Carrie12345]

Our next door neighbor moved in the same year we did.

 

We never did more than wave across the yard, but she knocked on the door several times that winter to ask if dh could shovel her driveway for her. (Our driveways are LONG.) He did it once and wasn't home the other times.

 

The next winter, she came a knockin' again. Each time, I loaned her a snow shovel.

 

The third winter, she knocked and I handed her the number of a plow guy. She finally stopped knocking after that.

[kewb]

For all of you with pitbulls, that is one of my criteria for not buying a house. If I go and see pitbulls around, I don't buy or rent the house. Though as I was looking for my missing poodle yesterday at the ANimal shelter, I did come across a very friendly pit bull, so I do know that some can be okay.

 

 

I have to say, this is a hot button issue for me. I understand your prejudice towards pitbulls but it is just that-prejudice and buying into the stereotype. All dogs have the potential for violent/aggressive/bad temperment. I understand your feelings, I really do but please do not lump an entire breed of dog on the bad list because of the people who are total jerks and should be arrested for animal abuse. It is the people not the dog who are responsible for the bad rep the pitbull has.

 

Rereading that I guess I really am the whacko neighbor.

[TeacherZee]

You guys made me feel much better about yelling at one neighbour and calling the police on another on Saturday. I was beginning to think I was the crazy neighbour but you guys have neighbours crazier than me :)

[Retired]

we use live next to a older couple that would send us "certified letter" from their lawyer every fall because leaves from our yard would blow into theirs and they wanted us to keep our leaves raked. We did keep a clean yard but their is no way you can keep a tree from loosing its leaves and the wind from blowing said leaves where ever.

 

I would just throw the letter away and wonder what stupid lawyer would keep them for clients

 

 

My other favorite current neighbor called the public safety office to report our cat was a "evil" attack cat that was out to get her. She then reported that the cat attacked her anytime she went out on her porch. (fyi I live in the country on a lot of property and their are stray cats) The officer who i'm sure has better stuff to do came to the house and sat on my porch with the attack cat in his lap LOL. We now have a sign on our property that my teen boys put up being funny. BEWARE OF ATTACK CATS

 

I'm guessing people see that sign and think we are crazy LOL

[MedicMom]

I've spoken about my insane cat lady neighbor before.

The latest incident happened last week...I was sitting on my front step while my son played on the sidewalk. He was chasing after something, tripped and fell into our garden fountain pond thing. Not big or deep, but enough that it was over his head. I pulled him out within a few secondary of him falling in, made sure he was okay,and changed his wet clothes. I noticed said neighbor standing in her yard watching the whole thing.

Two hours later, a police officer and CPS caseworker were at my door. There had been a complaint that I was a negligant parent because my son had fallen in the fountain pond. The person making the complaint did state that I was watching the whole thing and pulled him out, but I did not "call 911 and have him evaluated by professionals who would know whether or not the child was injured."

 

Without a word, I reached over to the key chain rack hanging near the door and handed the caseworker my employee ID badge that very clearly states "Critical care Paramedic".

 

They left after thanking me for my time.

[LucyStoner]

Sadly, your crazy neighbor could be my own crazy father. He is convinced that everywhere he lives, the management is getting into his stuff. Everything he accuses people of stealing is always found in his apartment. Without my mother around to point him in the right direction when he is looking for something he goes *****. It's worsening with age. It drives me mad.

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[Dory]

For all of you with pitbulls, that is one of my criteria for not buying a house. If I go and see pitbulls around, I don't buy or rent the house. Though as I was looking for my missing poodle yesterday at the ANimal shelter, I did come across a very friendly pit bull, so I do know that some can be okay.

 

This is a bit of a hot button issue for me too. I have yet to come across a mean pitbull in my rescues and have had to put down numerous other breeds that people call 'good family dogs'. People train pit bulls to be aggressive because of their size and jaw structure, not because of their temperament. Any dog can be aggressive.

[clarkacademy]

This is a bit of a hot button issue for me too. I have yet to come across a mean pitbull in my rescues and have had to put down numerous other breeds that people call 'good family dogs'. People train pit bulls to be aggressive because of their size and jaw structure, not because of their temperament. Any dog can be aggressive.

I hear that! I got a beagle that will chew any mans ankles off :laugh: I wonder if they are all like that or did I just get the pick of the litter? Look back through history pits were once called nanny dogs because of the love and care they showed for children. It really is a shame the way humans treat animals. They blame child abuse on the parent why can't people see blame the owner or the breeders? These dogs have been overbread for years and used in horrible ways.

[mommaduck]

I understand the pitbull thing, but have to say that I've yet to know a non aggressive poodle. I've only known a couple of aggressive pits.

[dbmamaz]

First of all, I once heard a story of a woman coming home from work and swearing that someone broke in to her house and cleaned it. Eventually it turned out a neighbor had hired a new cleaning lady and the cleaning lady got the wrong house!

 

we live in a really nice neighborhood . . . there is an old guy up the street who has called the cops because he thinks there is a dog in his house. more than once. there is an old guy down the street who has done nude movies but not sold them in the US, so its legal, but he's also exposed himself to neighbors and did get reported for exposing himself to someone responding to a 'room for rent' add.

 

Someone in the neighborhood has turned in people for having cars that dont run and for having garbage in their front lawn too long . . . we've been turned in twice for the weeds getting too long in the flower bed.

 

Oh, we also had a neighbor who said our cat had been hanging out at her house. She said she tried petting his paws, but he swatted at her. So then a few weeks later, she told us she scratched his belly and he bit her and we needed to put him down. Look, he warned you last time and you didnt listen. She was all screaming that she'd NEVER been bit by a cat before . . i've been bitten by neighbors cats before and realized i should just leave them alone . . . get over it.

 

my sister, who was so sick she was mostly bedridden, had a neighbor who sued her for moving furniture in the middle of the night . . .

[LimaMama]

 

 

Sounds like Sheldon Cooper was tidying up her files for her. Maybe her neighbors had a party and needed something for Sheldon to do.

 

:D

 

One of the neighbor kids comes to the door to ask to play with one of my DD's and will say *knock knock* "T.J." *knock *knock* T.J. OVER AND OVER until we answer the door.

[Hen]

I hear that! I got a beagle that will chew any mans ankles off :laugh: I wonder if they are all like that or did I just get the pick of the litter? Look back through history pits were once called nanny dogs because of the love and care they showed for children. It really is a shame the way humans treat animals. They blame child abuse on the parent why can't people see blame the owner or the breeders? These dogs have been overbread for years and used in horrible ways.

 

I didn't know that they were called nanny dogs. Growing up, we had one and he took care of us, like a nanny, I guess. I never thought of it that way. He was a great dog, used to sleep with us and we used to put roller skates on him and dress him up. I do remember that people were afraid of him, though.

 

One time, we were coming back from a vet visit with him in the car, my mom was pulled over by a policeman for going too fast (it was a speed-trap street) when he came to the window, she rolled it down like 1 1/2 inches because our pit bull was going crazy, and he managed to get as much as he could of his snout/teeth through that tiny crack and was going nuts.

 

the police officer let her go.

 

he was a great dog, but I would never have one now, because of the general prejudice and fear of losing our home insurance. He was a red dog, red nose and named Wooky.

[LimaMama]

For all of you with pitbulls, that is one of my criteria for not buying a house. If I go and see pitbulls around, I don't buy or rent the house. Though as I was looking for my missing poodle yesterday at the ANimal shelter, I did come across a very friendly pit bull, so I do know that some can be okay.

 

Really it's about how it was raised.

[Chelle in MO]

Without a word, I reached over to the key chain rack hanging near the door and handed the caseworker my employee ID badge that very clearly states "Critical care Paramedic".

 

They left after thanking me for my time.

 

:lol: That is excellent!

[Flowing Brook]

Another crazy neighbor story is the neighbors that had three pot bellied pigs living IN THE HOUSE!

She had a very small yard and built a six foot fence all around the front yard she dug three deep holes in the front of the yard for ponds for her ducks. She was going to make it a wildlife preserve. They dug the holes so deep that it messed up their septic system.

The daughter invited me in once and they had concrete floors. The pigs had rooted up the carpet. They had pet rabbits and birds on the kitchen counters.. The husband had to wash his work clothes by hand every night because the wife sold their washer and dryer to buy a couple of dogs.

[Liz CA]

From an officers mouth to my ears:

My neighbor called the police to her house and claimed someone had broken into her residence and rearranged the files in her filing cabinet. :huh: This is what I have lived next to for 8 years.

 

 

The question begs: Are they now better organized than before...?

[Ravin]

 

 

I confess, it was me. I love to organize other people's stuff, just not my own. J/K! :001_tt2:

 

Will you come over and organize my house, please?

 

we use live next to a older couple that would send us "certified letter" from their lawyer every fall because leaves from our yard would blow into theirs and they wanted us to keep our leaves raked. We did keep a clean yard but their is no way you can keep a tree from loosing its leaves and the wind from plowing said leaves where ever.

 

I would just throw the letter away and wonder what stupid lawyer would keep them for clients

 

 

That's simple: one who likes to make an easy buck.

 

We have next door neighbors who, instead of talking to us (the human beings who have been living next to them for seven years), harassed the management company (who never told us, just talked to the landlord) about the olive trees in our front yard, until one day they sent someone to come chop them down, with no advance notice.

 

i miss having shade.

 

They also once put a note on our van, which was parked on the street curb, telling us to park in front of our own house. Completely idiotic, as they don't own the street and we were nowhere near blocking their driveway.

 

Of course, having the trees cut down reduced our incentive to park on that side...now it's just necessary much of the time because there's a group home on the other side of us and the employees there park many vehicles in our way (and smoke pot and constantly wash their vehicles there...).

[stripe]

From an officers mouth to my ears:

My neighbor called the police to her house and claimed someone had broken into her residence and rearranged the files in her filing cabinet. :huh: This is what I have lived next to for 8 years.

There was a police report of someone breaking in near me a couple of years ago and rearranging the furniture, that I read about in the newspaper.

[QueenCat]

Where is Mariann? You all have some good stories but her's is at the top of the list!!!

[Home'scool]

I guess I have been pretty lucky with having normal neighbors, but one time I did see something happen on my street that I cannot explain to this day.

 

I used to live in a quiet, secluded neighborhood that was in the middle of nowhere. One day I happened to notice a car driving by my house. All of a sudden, the car stops in the middle of the street and the driver leaps out and does 10 push-ups in the middle of the road!

 

Then he jumped back into his car and drove away.

 

Why would someone feel the urge while driving to do a bunch of push-ups in the middle of the street? Still causes me to shake my head in wonderment.

[Jeannie in NJ]

oh Homes'cool, that makes me laugh. I agree that is very strange. Guess the driver just had an urge to do push-ups and saw no reason to wait till he got home lol

[bluemongoose]

We live in the country and when we first bought this place it had a house that was unlivable on it. We lived in an apartment in a nearby town while we got the land cleaned up and planned a house to be built. We gave our neighbors that boarder our property our phone number to call if they needed to for any reason since the land was vacant. One day we received a call asking if we bought horses as they were not penned up very well. Turns out a nearby neighbor liked our land for pasture and put up a very weak temporary enclosure with two horses in it. DH had to leave work and figure out who owned the horses and ask them to get their horses off our property.

[ILiveInFlipFlops]

Heigh Ho has a Neighbor Ho? I can't decide if that makes me think of the 7 dwarves singing, or Tim Taylor's neighbor, Wilson.

I hate to say it, but I read this title wrong the first time, and so I read it wrong in my head every time I see it.

 

"Beat-my-crazy-neighbor story"

 

These two posts nearly made me fall off my chair :lol: :lol::lol:

 

I have to say, this is a hot button issue for me. I understand your prejudice towards pitbulls but it is just that-prejudice and buying into the stereotype. All dogs have the potential for violent/aggressive/bad temperment. I understand your feelings, I really do but please do not lump an entire breed of dog on the bad list because of the people who are total jerks and should be arrested for animal abuse. It is the people not the dog who are responsible for the bad rep the pitbull has.

 

Rereading that I guess I really am the whacko neighbor.

 

Yep. My uncle has been rescuing pit bulls for years now, and they have been the sweetest dogs. He's only ever had to have one put down for aggressiveness. Broke his heart :( The two most aggressive dogs I've known have both been German Shepherds. One bit me in the middle of the street, unprovoked, with its owners standing right there chatting pleasantly. The other one lives behind me and is not so much aggressive as waiting for its opportunity to catch one of us alone. I've never met a dog in the street that made me back away and fear for my kids, but a week or so ago, I was in the middle of our very quiet side street with youngest DD, who is learning to ride her bike, when that dog appeared out of the driveway. It started walking slowly toward us, making that low, warning growl sound, and I started to back up toward DD, saying "Uh-oh, uh-oh, no, NO" increasingly firmly. The son of the owners was right there loading the car, and he cheerfully said, "Oh, don't worry, he's OK!" Um, no, he's NOT! Get a leash on him and get him out of the street!!!

 

So yeah, based on my own experiences, I'll take a pit over a GSD any day! (Thankfully, though, that's the main crazy neighbor experience I have.)

 

oh Homes'cool, that makes me laugh. I agree that is very strange. Guess the driver just had an urge to do push-ups and saw no reason to wait till he got home lol

 

:lol: Sounds like someone lost a bet to me!

 

Seriously, I've never been so grateful for our dull suburban neighborhood as I am right now. Whew!

[Forget-Me-Not]

First of all, I once heard a story of a woman coming home from work and swearing that someone broke in to her house and cleaned it. Eventually it turned out a neighbor had hired a new cleaning lady and the cleaning lady got the wrong house!

 

 

LOL! My mom came home two different times and found that someone had mowed her front lawn. Turns out the owners of the house next door (who live out of the country and rent out the house) had hired a landscape maintenance company, and the company maintained the wrong yard.

 

My brother and SIL have a front lawn that is conjoined with the neighbor's--no fence or barrier. One day SIL mowed her front lawn and decided to go ahead and hit the neighbor's section as well, just to be nice. The neighbor came out and told her to stop because her husband liked it mowed a certain way and she was "doing it wrong". This same neighbor can't keep her dog contained and it routinely breaks into their yard. My brother got up early one morning to discover their dog had entered his house through their doggie door and spread the contents of the kitchen garbage around.

[Amber in SJ]

And I have another one......

Our neighbor several houses down was not really a neighbor. It was a pot house. People rented the house, spread soil all over the carpets and grew pot. In. The. House. They rigged up an incredible amount of grow lights. One of the red flags to law enforcement is a big surge in electrical use, so these entrepreneurs rigged their wiring straight from the pole outside and burned the house down. None of us us had any idea until the fire trucks arrived. I even brought them muffins when they moved in.

 

Amber in SJ

[TravelingChris]

So Mommaduck, all you have known are aggressive poodles????? I have had two that were non aggressive and have known many, and none were aggressive. THe one I met that was too barky was a toy poodle. My miniatures just didn't bark almost at all- just when I wanted them to- which was to alert once at the door since I am hard of hearing and don't always here the doorbell but do hear a dog bark and later, my last dog, I trained to bark at the deer to scare them away. Otherwise he was completely quiet. He was so non aggressive that the cardiology veterinarian said he could come to her clinic and get a dental done without sedation.

[LMV]

Well, after reading half of this thread, I am so thankful for the wonderful neighbors we have.

[happyhomemaker25]

So that's what happened to my filing cabinet! They've been here, too!

 

 

They took all of my neatly organized stuff out of my filing cabinet and flung it over every flat surface in this house! Glad someone reminded me I need to file a police report. It's going to take the CSI guys forever to photograph this mess!

[happyhomemaker25]

Oh. My.

 

I'm so glad my neighbors are all dead.

 

 

(I live next to a graveyard.)

 

 

Well when the Zombie Apocalypse starts you'll have some great stories to share. :)

 

I'm racking my brain for crazy neighbor stories and I have none. I think it's because we are the crazy neighbors. 6 kids in a 3 bedroom subdivision house with another on the way....

Kids who play outside during most of the day and then do school work in the afternoon (the only way I could get through school during this pregnancy)

Our old minivan was held together with zip ties. Anytime a mirror or light would start to fall off Dh would just zip tie it back on.

Sidewalk chalk drawings... everywhere.

A back yard garden that looks like a jungle right now because I could not get to it this year at all (and my two boys have had a lot of fun exploring all the new flora and fauna popping up out there LOL )

Yeah... we are the crazy neighbors. Shoot.

[mommaduck]

transientChris, yes, aggressive toy poodles. The bloodline had been in the family for three or four human generations. Maybe there was inbreeding. All I know is that that bloodline was aggressive and it coloured my view of toy poodles. I've been bit by a pit, but once it raised who I was it showed remorse and cowered in a submissive position (it was late at night and I came around thecorner of the house just as they got home and he was let loose y the daughter). I've never seen a poodls show remorse.

[Aubrey]

I don't know if I can beat your stories, but I've got one I've been saving for you all. Remember the "perfect" homeschooling neighbor who lived across the street from us after our move a year ago? With a baby in tow, would make meals for people, drive them to the dr, etc? I joked that we had so much in common, she must have been stalking me.

 

Her dh had a "job opening." Mine took his res over, & that night, the 2 of them googled me, found the boards, & printed 300 pp of conversations here. Delivered them to my mom.

 

Isn't that cozy?

 

So anyway, that's why I wasn't here for the following 18mos or so.

[delaney]

 

I have to say, this is a hot button issue for me. I understand your prejudice towards pitbulls but it is just that-prejudice and buying into the stereotype. All dogs have the potential for violent/aggressive/bad temperment. I understand your feelings, I really do but please do not lump an entire breed of dog on the bad list because of the people who are total jerks and should be arrested for animal abuse. It is the people not the dog who are responsible for the bad rep the pitbull has.

 

Rereading that I guess I really am the whacko neighbor.

Here is what I hate about the whole dog issue. These neighbors have 5 dogs. 4 dachshunds and 1 german shepard. One of the dachshunds has bitten both a kid and a police officer. Do they still have the dogs? You bet. If it had been a pitbull that bit it would have been destroyed. Those little dogs are the most aggressive and nasty things I have ever seen and yet they are allowed to keep them.

[kewb]

 

Yep. My uncle has been rescuing pit bulls for years now, and they have been the sweetest dogs. He's only ever had to have one put down for aggressiveness. Broke his heart :( The two most aggressive dogs I've known have both been German Shepherds. One bit me in the middle of the street, unprovoked, with its owners standing right there chatting pleasantly. The other one lives behind me and is not so much aggressive as waiting for its opportunity to catch one of us alone. I've never met a dog in the street that made me back away and fear for my kids, but a week or so ago, I was in the middle of our very quiet side street with youngest DD, who is learning to ride her bike, when that dog appeared out of the driveway. It started walking slowly toward us, making that low, warning growl sound, and I started to back up toward DD, saying "Uh-oh, uh-oh, no, NO" increasingly firmly. The son of the owners was right there loading the car, and he cheerfully said, "Oh, don't worry, he's OK!" Um, no, he's NOT! Get a leash on him and get him out of the street!!!

 

So yeah, based on my own experiences, I'll take a pit over a GSD any day! (Thankfully, though, that's the main crazy neighbor experience I have.)

 

 

Ok, raising my freak whacko neighbor flag again. Growing up I had a few German Shepard Dogs and they were as great as the pitbulls. When I was a baby our GSD would lay in front of the stairs and nudge me away when I got too close. My mom also told me when I would drop my cookie he would pick it up and let me take it right out of his mouth. It is a shame you have had the experiences you have because a GSD is a great companion. Except for the shedding. They shed something awful.

 

And before anyone tells a "yes, gsd are great but Dobernmans are nutso" story, I had one of those too and he was a great dog. I had him when I met my dh and I told him if my dog didn't like him when he came to pick me up the date was off since the dog was a great judge of character.

 

The only dog we ever had that we had to find a new home for was our Golden Lab. We were not active enough for him and he was destructive. I can't even begin to tell you how many of my friends shoes that dog chewed up. He was a love but he needed to be on a farm so we found one for him.

 

Thinking about my neighbors some more, the guy across the street moves his cars at 2 in the morning. And by moves I mean he starts one up, drives around the block a couple of times and then does the same with the other car. I usually sleep through this and dh told me he did this. I thought dh was a bit nuts but one night I was up and heard it. So bizarre.

[*********]

I don't know if I can beat your stories, but I've got one I've been saving for you all. Remember the "perfect" homeschooling neighbor who lived across the street from us after our move a year ago? With a baby in tow, would make meals for people, drive them to the dr, etc? I joked that we had so much in common, she must have been stalking me.

 

Her dh had a "job opening." Mine took his res over, & that night, the 2 of them googled me, found the boards, & printed 300 pp of conversations here. Delivered them to my mom.

 

Isn't that cozy?

 

So anyway, that's why I wasn't here for the following 18mos or so.

 

 

Aubrey, I want to know *why* they did that to you.

[T'smom]

I don't know if I can beat your stories, but I've got one I've been saving for you all. Remember the "perfect" homeschooling neighbor who lived across the street from us after our move a year ago? With a baby in tow, would make meals for people, drive them to the dr, etc? I joked that we had so much in common, she must have been stalking me.

 

Her dh had a "job opening." Mine took his res over, & that night, the 2 of them googled me, found the boards, & printed 300 pp of conversations here. Delivered them to my mom.

 

Isn't that cozy?

 

So anyway, that's why I wasn't here for the following 18mos or so.

 

That is insane. I am so sorry that happened to you.

[happyhomemaker25]

I don't know if I can beat your stories, but I've got one I've been saving for you all. Remember the "perfect" homeschooling neighbor who lived across the street from us after our move a year ago? With a baby in tow, would make meals for people, drive them to the dr, etc? I joked that we had so much in common, she must have been stalking me.

 

Her dh had a "job opening." Mine took his res over, & that night, the 2 of them googled me, found the boards, & printed 300 pp of conversations here. Delivered them to my mom.

 

Isn't that cozy?

 

So anyway, that's why I wasn't here for the following 18mos or so.

 

 

That is crazy! Now I'm mad that, this is what kept you from the boards for so long! Who does that?

[Cinder]

I don't know if I can beat your stories, but I've got one I've been saving for you all.

 

. . .

 

So anyway, that's why I wasn't here for the following 18mos or so.

 

 

:blink: :ohmy: What is with some people?

[clarkacademy]

Aubrey, I want to know *why* they did that to you.

 

Me too! I am so sorry though that it happened I would wanna kill my husband

[Aubrey]

Me too! I am so sorry though that it happened I would wanna kill my husband

 

I'm not sure why I'd blame dh--at that point they seemed like really nice people, it looked like a great job opportunity, etc.

 

My best guess would have been an ins policy on mom or something like that--but there was no such ins policy, mom wasn't rich. But the neighbor had been really close to mom before I came, so...I guess she didn't want to take 2nd place to me once I was there?

 

Or...that's not what happened at all. My mom DID have the printed pages from here, & the neighbor DIDN'T ever speak to me again. That's all I know for sure. The details were provided by my mom. So. Who knows? She also told me that they both said I'd been saying bad things about her, which was particularly funny since I hadn't even met the dh.

 

A few months later, when I'd calmed down enough to be slightly rational, it occurred to me that they had seemed really nice. I prefer to think that...um...well, no, the alternatives don't make a lot of sense, either. If mom lied about them or "misunderstood" something...that doesn't explain them ceasing contact. Unless she said something about me to them, too? But she started complaining that we ought to be friends & was upset when I indicated that I was satisfied with the friends I already had, lol, so...well, I don't know.

 

But as long as there was nowhere else to go, I couldn't risk posting anything here. I did try changing my name, but gosh, that was even worse. If I hadn't known a couple of you guys irl here, it would have been an incredibly lonely year.