What makes for a "Rotten Neighbor" ?

[Hawk]

This video link was on msn. This guy cuts his grass with a riding lawn mower five days a week. It seems he only stops to get more beer. He just rides all day long.

http://www.rottenneighbor.com/story.php ... nmower_man

It seems the link was to a "Rotten Neighbor" site.

Here is a post of someone who has to live next to a .... drummer.

http://www.de.rottenneighbor.com/forum/ ... a4bc881792


I have great neighbors because they let me play drums any time of the day.

Do you have a rotten neighbor ?
OR
Are YOU a rotten neighbor ?

[RFBuck]

I am nor have either. I'm pretty fortunate...most of my neighbors are all senior citizen types and I have the decency to keep my amp at a respectable level, so we all get along.

In fact, I was loading my car for a gig one day when the neighbor across the street said "I didn't know you played...I've never heard you!" I said "Exactly."

[Baceman Spiff]

Shoot your dog with a .22- Had that happen back in January. Never found out who really did it but I have my suspicions. (Dog pulled through ok, it was a long and very expensive ordeal though)

Shoot at your house with a high powered rifle, while your whole family is still inside. Happened when I was a little kid. My dad was just a few years removed from Vietnam and the Marines. He got behind him and beat him senseless with his own gun. True story.

Steal your dogs, drop them back off dead. Or in one case with a rubber band tied around his testicles. True story same neighbors.

[Hawk]

Shoot your dog with a .22- Had that happen back in January. Never found out who really did it but I have my suspicions. (Dog pulled through ok, it was a long and very expensive ordeal though)

Shoot at your house with a high powered rifle, while your whole family is still inside. Happened when I was a little kid. My dad was just a few years removed from Vietnam and the Marines. He got behind him and beat him senseless with his own gun. True story.

Steal your dogs, drop them back off dead. Or in one case with a rubber band tied around his testicles. True story same neighbors.

That sucks man...and you live in Shangri La ? Wow...

[Banned]

Bill, I couldn't take a liberal living next to me.

[tornandfrayed]

You never know Joe, you could have one hiding out right under your nose...

[PanzerFaust]

Steal your dogs, drop them back off dead. Or in one case with a rubber band tied around his testicles. True story same neighbors.

So some dude with rubber bands around his testicles dropped off your dog dead?

[Jim Price]

During most of my childhood, I lived down the street from the literal "neighbors from hell." The primary culprit was a trailer court slumlord. He first got on our radar mere months after we first moved into our house when one day, he and his kids batted baseballs off the side of our house. We had him before a magistrate and he wound up paying fines for that little incident. Afterward, for about the next two decades, he proceeded to rent out his three trailer dwellings to the sewerpits of humanity, from drug dealers to wife/family abusers to Hell's Angels-styled motorcycle gang types to murder suspects and more. Police cars were always constantly up the street visiting his tenants. (I could tell you some stories!) In addition, he let the raw sewage from his trailers drain into another neighbor's backyard, providing breeding grounds for blood-sucking flies (which forced us to bring our German Shepherd dog inside, the flies were biting up her ears so bad) and mosquitoes. The slumlord would every day drive off to the bars in the morning and come home drunk, which led to anything from him yelling obscenities at us, to collapsing in his own driveway, to making lewd comments to our one neighbor's teenage daughters (which prompted their father to punch the slumlord out one day in broad daylight). Eventually, one day, the slumlord sold off his properties to somebody else, and the new landlord has been much more respectable to the neighbors, and we haven't had legal problems since. The slumlord passed away from a heart attack about ten years ago.

[slackin@dabass]

Here is a post of someone who has to live next to a .... drummer.

http://www.de.rottenneighbor.com/forum/ ... a4bc881792


I have great neighbors because they let me play drums any time of the day.

Do you have a rotten neighbor ?
OR
Are YOU a rotten neighbor ?

i've had run ins when i lived in bald eagle. basically, i put a band together, and we were playing. i look out the window, and here come the state cops down my driveway. the officer told us to stop, and i handed him my copy of the noise ordinance and asked him to tell me how he interpreted it. we both interpreted it the same way. any noise that can be heard farther than 500 feet from the source of the sound is considered an offense between the hours of 10:00PM and 7:00AM monday through friday and 11:00PM and 7:00AM saturday and sunday. considering we were jamming around 1 in the afternoon, we were fine. it helped to get the neighbor off of my back by pointing out that my family owned half of his driveway because his property line wasn't where he thought it was. the whole situation was bullcrap anyway, my family owned 3 acres, and we only had one acre cleared to live in. there were 2 acres of woods between my house and his. he just wanted to cause problems. when i told him i had no trouble calling a surveyor to come and check the property line, his first question "well, i mean, if your band ever plays out, let me know, i mean, i love music, i'd love to bring my wife out and dance, so just let me know when you guys are going to play out."

[RFBuck]

Some people aren't happy unless they're stirring up trouble or dragging someone into their pit of misery. Then when you bust them and prove them wrong, it's great to watch them squirm.

Hopefully he gets charged double the cover at the door.

[Baceman Spiff]

That sucks man...and you live in Shangri La ? Wow...

I live about seven miles out of Shinglehouse, Pa. The other feuding took place in the West Loop. (on the other side of Hollidaysburg)

[Hawk]

That sucks man...and you live in Shangri La ? Wow...

I live about seven miles out of Shinglehouse, Pa. The other feuding took place in the West Loop. (on the other side of Hollidaysburg)

I was just kidding man. I'm an animal lover and I'm sorry to hear what happened.

Location : Shangri-La is under you avatar. That's why I made a lame attempt at levity.

[Baceman Spiff]

All good Hawk, never thought you were making fun. It was a heavy post. I have a propensity towards density, before the caffeine kicks in.

[songsmith]

I have a propensity towards density, before the caffeine kicks in.

There's a song lyric. ------>JMS

[Drum-Wolf]

An example of a rotten neighbor is a wacko lady who made it a point to become my enemy even before her adams family moved in next door. They like to make people miserable for their own sadistic pleasure by (among other things) making nuisance calls to the cops about petty things & self-policing the neighborhood. They are close, personal friends with a certain cop who visits their house & have a history of giving neighbors problems wheverer they've lived. Now to anyone with common sense, they are the problem, not their neighbors. What bad luck to live next to them. So much for "love thy neighbor as thyself". That's out the window!

[YankeeRose]

After reading some of those tales, my next-door neighbors pounding up and down the stairs, through their house and against their walls all hours of the day and night, or the thumping from their surround sound sometimes being louder than my stereo or tv, so I have to turn mine up (mine isn't that loud, especially at night), doesn't seem all that bad! We could've done without them calling the cops during the Summer, when my daughter and her friends (before 10 on a Friday or Saturday night) were sitting out on my front porch, listening to Music via her computer and drinking soda. Nothing happened! Within the last 2 weeks, someone next door, in the wee, small hours (I don't wish to say someone was underage drinking. ) barfed all over the steps they share with the people on the corner. Later that afternoon, while I was out enjoying the unseasonably warm day and awaiting my son to arrive home from school, the lady on the corner and her daughter were the ones cleaning it up. Such inconsiderate cretins!

[Gallowglass]

... The other feuding took place in the West Loop. (on the other side of Hollidaysburg)

As a fellow Loopian, I can attest that some crazy shit goes on out there. 99% of the folk I grew up with are total "salt of the Earth", hard working, wonderful people (like, 'Spiff); every once in a while though that 1% will get a wild hair and do something nutty. I guess that happens everywhere, but the Loop has a peculiarity that is unique unto itself. Some of it was funny. For some reason it was kind of chic to take potshots at the mail lady for awhile. She actually had bullet holes in her car. Strange.

This might sound weird, but growing up there was awesome.

[DMFJ03]

I am lucky, our neighbor likes the Crow in the Snow stuff, so they bend an ear when we jam. They only thing that drives me nuts is they have two dog that they hardly ever take in and bark at everything all the time. They are yippe, and it sucks.

[DogAlpha]

I have a dog and I got it a shock collar see it would stay out of trouble. Worked out great for about 6 mos. My neighbor(An attorney... The worst kind) gets a dog and puts in a wire underground style shock collar system for his dog. I asked him about it and he said it would cancel my RF system out. Well his dog must have taken thousands of shits on my property since then. So I put up a wire fence. Next thing I know he is taking his dog up in the woods and teaching him how to get around it. You guessed it thousands of more shits on my patio(This dog is a concrete shitter, likes to shit on my patio and driveway.) So next thing you know I am off to Lowes buying 200' of more fence. That bastard has cost me about a grand with his stupid dog.
To top it off we have a hot tub so he installs these Mansion Park type lights. Every time we are out in it on come the lights.. What a prick. So off to Lowes again to by Lattice to build a privacy area around the tub. Ka..Ching, More cash down the drain. Now for past year since putting up the privacy partitions guess what NO LIGHTS. This guy is a real peice of work.
By the way did I mention he is from NJ!