Topic: Good riddance

[scottly]

My most recent, and nearest, neighbors-from-hell moved out tonight! Yippee!!! Maybe now I can sleep in 'till 6:30 AM, perhaps even later, without barking dogs, or their owners yelling for them to shut up, or a pickup idling in the alley, ten feet from my bedroom window.

[GammaFlat]

I hope the new neighbors are less "evil".

[scottly]

Man, you just popped my bubble... Seems like every time I get new neighbors, they are worse than the ones before. If I dare to point out that they are not being very neighborly, they tend to get pissed, and sometimes go out of their way to make my life miserable, like a guy that torched off his mufflers, then let his truck warm up for 30 minutes, at 4:00 AM. I was ready to murder a chevy, but then I figured I would have to kill him in self defense, and then his psycho wife. They eventually moved, without violence on my part.

[dave500]

in the 80s i had a 73 mack dump truck,it was a semi rural area,and my neighbours head was about 15 feet away asleep on a pillow every morning when i hit the ingersol rand air starter at 6 am on the dot,we had all sorts of #$%*,cant blame him though,,he never had a job.,i told him if i have to park the truck at a yard itll be the old yamaha DT400 as my commuter at an earlier time in the morning and you cant do anything about it.he was born to lose.,i can understand about noise though,,people have been killed over it!

[6pkrunner]

Not trying to hijack, but a bad tenant is equally or moreso a nightmare. I leased my folks place to a girl I had gone to school with and thought I knew. Nope - a living Hell. But I wasn't getting it 24/7 - so I can feel you pain, only not at your level.

[sangyo soichiro]

I am pretty lucky as far as neighbors goes.  Mine all have been good (which means they stick to themselves and don't have loud animals). 

[Trav-i]

WOW Dave that was just mean.   I worked for a company that had a lot of air start trucks.  Those things were loud enough down the yard let alone from 15 feet away.  Plus I had a guy there that kept taking the muffler off his starter, man that thing was LOUD.

[Steve F]

I had an a$$h-le "neighbor" that used to stand in his back yard and stare at my daughter when she would let the dogs out.  She was only 16 at the time, and when she said something to me about it, I about went nuts.  One time I was in the back yard getting the bike out of the shed to go for a ride. I looked up, and there he was...staring at me.  I fired the bike up (KERKER with no baffle) with the exhaust pointed in his general direction, and revved the piss out of it a couple of times.  He then proceeds to give me the finger...I promptly returned the favor (what a d1ck head)!  I pulled the bike out onto the street and there he was again, giving me the finger.  I shut off the bike and started yelling at this POS asking him what the F*&K was his problem, and to go get F*&C*d.  By this time we were getting attention from my neighbor across the street, a big... no, BIG guy that's a friend and fellow biker.  Even HE was starting to get pissed with this guy, and he paid the D1cKhead a visit with a couple of his friends.  Never saw him staring at us/me again after that.
However, it seemed that whenever he drove past my house he would slow down and lay on the horn as he went by.  Made my dogs bark every time.  One time he did this, my wife got so pissed at this sh1t, she immediately drove my truck around to his house and into his driveway and layed on the horn a good 15 seconds.  Probably didn't do a thing to him but it made my wife happy, and I had a good laugh.
Some people you just can't WAIT to move away.

[dave500]

WOW Dave that was just mean.   I worked for a company that had a lot of air start trucks.  Those things were loud enough down the yard let alone from 15 feet away.  Plus I had a guy there that kept taking the muffler off his starter, man that thing was LOUD.

mine never had a muffler,just a spring loaded plate at the outlet to prevent dust ingress.

[scottly]

Not trying to hijack, but a bad tenant is equally or moreso a nightmare.

That's a lot of the problem here: All my bad neighbors have been someone else's tenants. The neighbors that own their properties are not the problem.
For the time being, I'm enjoying the peace and quiet.... Sigh.... 

[dave500]

gday neighbour,ill be your alarm clock!about 1986.air operated thermo louvre grille,237 maxi dyne,6 speed compound transmission,two sticks,5 reverse gears,no power steering,,i had big arms then!

[Trav-i]

Awesome truck Dave!  I love those old Macks.  Although I may not be very old (yet), some how I'm one of a rare few left that can drive a twin stick Mack.  Those old trucks were such a blast to drive, even with the gear whine from the transmission.

[dave500]

i was about 27 then travi,,turbo howl drowned the gearbox noise out,hey this was hard work!this truck was 35000 bucks,,my house was 38500,at about a 19% interest rate!and this prick next door has the right to sleep because he dosent want to work,(back on topic here),i busted a crankshaft in this engine and 15000 bucks later im back on the road,,boy did my bank love me,,look at the numbers,,this almost broke me,and some lazy arse wants sleep.i got over this because he sold and moved and the new comers didnt care about the truck,,he was jealous maybe?i sold the truck for 35000 again two years later and the house for 84500 so broke even,,thats hard work for you,i did all the servicing on the truck aswell.it was a great truck though.

[dave500]

birds eye view,those heaps are 7mm crushed bluestone,boral quarries montrose victoria/australia,bull dogs bum view all day.i had a 40 channel ssb with echo mike aswell/10/4.kodak instamatics were great...well i pulled out of pittsburg rolling down that eastern seaboard,i got my diesel wound up and shes a running like a never before...etc.check out the odd numbers on the tacho.8/12/16/20/24/28,it peaked at 1900 ,and grunted down till 1100.

[Damfino]

Hey Dave!! Your steering wheel is on the wrong side!!!

[wardenerd]

My situation is quite different.  My family is the problem family in our neighborhood.  We live in a country club neighborhood and we have 5 cars and 2 motorcycles with a one car garage.  My 4 kids are college students and of course they are messy and they make too much noise and their friends play their boom box too loud the first time thru the neighborhood and do not get to come back in the neighborhood past security if they do not turn it down and leave it down.  We rescue wire hair fox terriers and no dog barks more shrilly than those sons of #$%*es(literally).  Ocassionally one escapes .  The last time the sweetest girl dog in the world went to a nearby golf course green and the golf game looked like bumper pool.  The foursome was not amused. Somehow my neighbors let me live here.

[72 yellow]

The house I grew up in (and now nearly ready to retire in) had my dad's 2 younger brothers and wife for our neighbors.  When the last of them passed away the about 4 years ago, the house was sold to what we were told was a man and his dog.  Within a few weeks there was about 10 people and 2 large dogs in a 2 bedroom house.  I have fought with these idiots about everything from the dogs taking a dump on my front lawn (finally solved), to people cutting across the front of my house (too lazy to use the sidewalk) still have to remind them every now and then.  And these people are in their 50's.  A bunch of burnouts left over from the early 70's.  I have relatives that lived close to where this bunch grew up and I asked them if there was any chance they would ever move.  The only answer I got was a smirky "No".












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[Duke McDukiedook]

They will invade your house like cockaroaches. 

[scottly]

They are back

[buttcan]

Well I'm the noisy neighbor on my block. I fired up my bike the other day and three car alarms on either side of me, one of which was the third house over went off. Just to be sure it wasn't some kind of coincidence I shut off the bike and let everybody reset thier alarms and fired her up again. VIOLA ! It was my bike that did it ! lol.

[wardenerd]

Dave 500,  I thought you guys spoke English!?

[tortelvis]

Bad neighbours suck! When I bought my 2nd house the neighbour was a deaf old woman that we never saw. She died and a family moved in, 2 adults and 2 older teens and an English Boxer. The daughter got knocked and had twins, so now we had basically five adults and 2 screaming babies. Next they bought a Mastiff and then had another brat. Bear in mind this was an English terraced house consisting of TWO bedrooms! The dogs shat in the back garden all summer and was NEVER once picked up! We couldn't use our own back garden at all. There were nightly screaming matches beyween the adults and all 3 kids wailing as a counterpoint. Nice. Thank God after 4 years they moved...and then a mad Irishman and his wife and kids started the whole noise thing again. I sold up and moved back to the States. Now I live halfway up a mountain off a dirt road and have NO neighbours!!! 

[The_Crippler]

I sold up and moved back to the States.

Oooooh, okay.  Now everything makes more sense.  I could "hear" your accent through that story, but your info said NC.  I was confused.   

[Terry in Australia]

I hate bad neighbours. Like as has been said above, renters are the worst, my parents (in their 80's) have lived in their beautiful old 2 story house for 40-odd years, but the house next door has had maybe 20 different tenants in that time? One neighbour was a truckie who would start his Kenworth tipper at 5 or 6 am every morning right outside their bedroom window, then sit there idling away for a good 10 or 15 minutes while he yelled at his wife or kids.

My dad walked down the stairs and asked him to park it further up the street where there aren't any houses, (or neighbours) and this prick told my dad to get fukked. I walked over to him and he said, "and what are you gonna do about it?" So I punched him in the mouth. He moved out 2 weeks later.

No offence to Dave, but there are noise laws here in Oz, and for good reason. I get on well with my neighbours, because I show them a bit of respect, and in turn, so do they. Some people will be arseholes no matter how nice you are to them, but for most people, a little mutual respect goes a long way. Cheers, Terry.

[scottly]

What really pisses me off is that these people aren't even living in the house, which is on the far side of the lot from me. They backed in their travel trailer parallel to the fence on the other side of the alley, and come and go via the alley along the side, rather than use the street. When I asked him to do so, he refused, and when I mentioned that his dogs barked all day long when he was away, he replied "what dogs?".
These people are gypsy scumbags. I walked out my front door one morning, and this "lady" was squatting, "hiding" behind the trailer, in full view from my porch.
I really hope they go away for good, the sooner the better.