'My upstairs neighbors moo at each other': 20+ Neighbors who were on their weirdest and silliest behaviors

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 17, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

These people didn't hold back when talking about their neighbors' silliest habits. From keeping the radio on 24/7 to disputes over property lines, there are lots of things you and your neighbors might disagree over. 

It's great to befriend your neighbors if possible. Alongside having a pleasant atmosphere in your neighborhood, it's nice to have someone you can depend on to water your plants or get your mail while you're out of town. That's assuming you have normal neighbors, but a lot of people are really wacky for no real reason. They're just kind of weird, and you have to try and live in peace with them. No two families live exactly the same. So the same people who are driving you crazy by playing loud music at 9AM on a Sunday, are just a family living their normal life by having 15 people over for Sunday breakfast. Live and let live, as they say… and maybe invest in a nice pair of earplugs. 

These 20+ people shared their funniest neighbor stories, and we complied some of the best ones below. After that, this social media manager was replaced by a nepo-hire — so they kept logging into the social accounts even after being let go. 

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  • 01
    Organism - 'The judge ordered him to pay to take down the fence, so trying to avoid paying, he tried to dig the fence up himself... in the process he accidentally severed a $10,000 fiberoptic cable'
    via Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
  • 02
    Hair - What's your best "Idiot neighbor story"?
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  • 03
    Font - So the man tried it, and surprise surprise, the circuit breaker stopped tripping! He was very thankful to my dad for helping him with that annoying electrical issue.
    via u/ElMachoGrande
  • 04
    Font - + [deleted] Neighbor dug a hole in our side yard because she needed dirt. Both of us live on an acre of land.
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  • 05
    Font - 23farendheight Our neighbor is a strange woman with a lot of strange habits. For example, she waters her plants even when it's raining outside, and she complains about ice cream being cold so she microwaves it first.
    via u/23farendheight
  • 06
    Font - TJIC1 I live on a 50+ acre New England farm. About 2/3 of it is wooded. After I'd been here for about a year I was walking the boundary stone wall, about 10' on my side of the land. From a neighbor's yard I hear a bellowing voice. "YOU'D BETTER NOT BE ON MY LAND." I replied "I'm not. I'm on my own land." He yells back, from somewhere in the trees on his side "JUST SO YOU KNOW, NEVER STOP FOOT ON MY LAND." Me: "OK, we've got a deal. And you stay off mine, OK?"
    via u/TJIC1
  • 07
    Font - I hear a grunt. Then I ask "By the way, is this your deer hunting tree stand on my side of the wall?" At which point he exploded "THAT STAND HAS BEEN THERE FOR TEN YEARS!" tldr: dumba picks fight for absolutely no reason and ends up agreeing to not trespass on my land...and had been tresspassing for a decade.
    via u/TJIC1
  • 08
    Font - [deleted] I had a neighbor with a drag racing car. At the time, we didn't have A/C. Like clockwork, at dinner time, he would start the car and revved it so loud my windows rattled. If we had any Windows open (because it was summer), we wouldn't be able to have dinner conversation. One day, I'd had enough. I walked to the fence and got his attention and politely asked if he could maybe not rev the car at dinner time. I said I was cool with it otherwise. His answer was "F YOU!!!" F me? Hehe
    via u/deleted
  • 09
    Font - I went inside and called the police and filed a noise complaint. They came out, heard it live, and wrote him up. He fought it in court, so I had to go. Judge asked me what happened, I told the story above. She asked him and his wife of it was true, they said yes. BOOM $1,000 fine. Judge told me to call the police if it continued. To be clear, I wasn't wasting 911 time. I was calling the non- emergency, ordinance enforcement number. All dumb as had to do was avoid 1 hour a day and we'd hav
    via u/deleted
  • 10
    Font - I never called again, because he didn't Rev during dinner. One day his common law wife gets in my face about calling again. I told her I didn't, but she wouldn't believe me. He got hit with a SECOND $1,000 fine. Turns out it was the neighbor TWO houses away who was a migraine sufferer and had similarly tried the neighborly approach first. Edit: typos about window rattling and revving
    via u/deleted
  • 11
    Font - TheFeshy My dad had a neighbor when he was young that played his radio loudly all day, even when he wasn't home or was gone on vacation. Every time he left the house and his radio was still on, my dad would go and trip the circuit breaker to his condo. One day he sees my dad, who was an electrical engineer, and asked him why his breaker kept tripping - was it faulty wiring? No, my dad explained, the loud radio was probably just putting too much strain on the circuit when left on all the t
    via u/TheFeshy
  • 12
    Font - SuchANiceGirl I watched my across-the- street neighbor cut his three-quarter acre lawn entirely with an electric weed whacker because he didn't have time to drive a mile to get gas for his lawnmower.
    via u/SuchANiceGirl
  • 13
    Font - TurboVeggie We lived next to this big guy in an apartment building (front doors inside a hallway). Now, he was a nice enough guy, but he was always cleaning a puddle up in front of his apartment every other day. We'd always ask him, if everything was alright, and he'd talk some incoherent c how he hates management. about
    via u/TurboVeggie
  • 14
    Font - So, out of curiosity, I asked management when I happened to be in the rental office, and the lady rolls her eyes and says, "This idiot fills up his tub to the brim, and sits his fat a in the tub. The water, of course floods his entire apartment, and comes out into the hallway, and this idiot has the b s to blame us somehow!" I pretty much said, "geez, sounds rough" and scurried on back to my place. If the tub story is really the truth, this guy must be dumb as rocks..
    via u/TurboVeggie
  • 15
    Font - [deleted] A neighbor messed up when building a home and put his entire home well within my property (large piece of land with two huge clearings connected to two roads but separated by a large isthmus of trees). I didn't notice because I had taken an 8th month vacation right after he started building (huge property, I didn't go around and inspect it often). So I got a real estate lawyer and surveyors to confirm it was in my property. I was going to sell him that clearing for a good price
    via u/deleted
  • 16
    Font - essentially told me that he is going to sue me for "leading him on" despite the fact that I did not know him nor have did I meet him before that day. His wife flipped my girlfriend and I as we were pulling out of their driveway. 4 months later, I file a lawsuit saying he must destroy the property or turn it over to me immediately. It would've cost him more to demolish it and return the site to original condition so he signed the house over to me. He was still out for construction costs. I
    via u/deleted
  • 17
    Font - had brand new, 2600 square ft house with all the hookups for water, electric, and cable for free. Got the land for next to nothing, sold it for almost 50 times the value.
    via u/deleted
  • 18
    Font - manofruber My upstairs neighbors moo at each other. Very loudly. I used to live in the country and it sounds exactly like a cow, and me and my roommate have no idea why they do it. Nobody believes us until they come over and hear it for themselves. We "moo" back at them sometimes now if they get too loud and they usually stop for awhile. They're just weird people though.
    via u/manofruber
  • 19
    Font - My constantly drink neighbor came up with the brilliant idea that he could collect the leaves in the stone parking lot with his snowblower!!! He duct taped a plastic garbage bag over the discharge chute, and off he goes. It actually inflated the bag for a few moments until the stones started flying. He broke three windows on his garage door and splattered a bunch of cars in the lot. Smy britches laughing. I could write a book on all the stupid si saw him do.
    via r/AskReddit
  • 20
    Font - yelrambob619 Neighbor before I bought the house everyday would park but use a wide sweeping arc to get into his spot. Over my lawn. After asking many times for him to stop I put an enormous rock directly in that path on my own property. Lo and behold he smashed into it hard. After threatening to sue very loudly and forcefully I informed him I'm a lawyer and he damaged me rock on my property and is liable for all the damages to my brand new rock.......he stopped driving on my lawn after
    via u/yelrambob619
  • 21
    Font - [deleted] I posted this one recently, so sorry it's a repeat. I'll make it short. I had a prob with a neighbor who drove over my lawn with his ATVS and damaged the grass/shrubs. He said he'd pay for damage but that never happened and he kept doing it. So I put my huge trailer across their tracks to block their path. They went around it. I put up two other barriers that they also drove around.
    via u/deleted
  • 22
    Font - So I found this huge branch that had fallen in the woods between our properties and dragged it across to cover the third path they were making across my yard. But the branch got caught on a cable. What is a cable doing over the lawn instead of properly buried? So I called the cable company to have it buried. They said I was the only registered client on that box and to disconnect it. So I did. After the weekend, my neighbor came by going at me for total apes disconnecting his cable. He ye
    via u/deleted
  • 23
    Font - So I left. I got a call from the cops. Cops asked if I disconnected cable because of the ATV issue. Interesting, I wasn't even going to mention the ATV issue, but my neighbor already did. So long story short, the neighbor got a warning ticket for trespassing and admitted to stealing cable. I took an offer on my house that very day and moved.
    via u/deleted
  • 24
    Font - 40 SaturdayBaconThief. My grandmother had a neighbor who would water her flowers everyday, rain or shine. My grandmother liked to watch and cackle gleefully because the woman was convinced that her careful watering was the reason her flowers were so much better than everyone else's. She would brag at the club house how her flowers were always in bloom, even in winter. My grandmother never told her that they were always in bloom was because they were fake flowers.
    via u/SaturdayBaconThief
  • 25
    Font - Mattsoup I was out planting grass over some holes I had filled in, and I heard my neighbor yelling. He's an older guy, but big and threatening looking. Anyway, I look over and there's a groundhog lumbering around his yard. He's yelling at the groundhog to go away, but it doesn't give a shot and just keeps walking toward the garage. The guy grabs his hose from the garage and gets ready to spray the groundhog, but it starts running toward his garage because the noises scared it and it could
    via u/Mattsoup
  • 26
    Font - seen a grown man run like he did that day. He got inside his house faster than I would have thought possible. I went over and scared the groundhog out of his garage, but never told my neighbor I did it. I think he hid in his house for a solid 3 hours.
    via u/Mattsoup
  • 27
    Font - Kat75018 Our neighbors have a second kitchen in the basement that they use for everything, so the actual kitchen won't look used or dirty.
    via u/Kat75018
  • 28
    Font - Sithis1415 When i ordered my PC components they were delivered to my neighbor for some reason and he decided to not give them to me because they added up to 2500 dollars. I proceeded to call the police and got my stuff back. He was not a smart guy.
    via u/Sithis1415
  • 29
    Font - 84th_legislature My older neighbors across the street are very sweet and like to help out, but one morning when my windshield was frozen and I was dealing with it (it was just frost, not solid ice, so I was diligently scraping and had the heat on in my car) the man of the couple pops out his front door with a pitcher of steaming water. It was like something out of a movie, where he's just happily trotting towards me and I'm trying to get around my door around the hood to get between him a
    via u/84th_legislature
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    Font - Miraculously it didn't crack, but it was still cold as f outside so instead of a little frost here and there I now had a solid half inch of ice on my entire windshield. understand how an I still don't older fellow like him who has clearly lived around here for a while still thought that was a legit solution.
    via u/84th_legislature
  • 31
    Font - Back2Bach The neighbor who places his yard sprinkler right on the property line adjacent to our driveway so that it soaks our cars.
    via u/Back2Bach
  • 32
    Font - forever_gaijin This happened a couple of days ago, so I am still rather annoyed. We live in a small block of flats, 6 floors (+parking garage), 39 flats. We had just returned from a big shopping trip and were waiting in the garage for the lift. Waited a few minutes, hear it move, hear lots of giggling and banging. 5 minutes more, still no lift. My partner went to see what was going on. The awful kids had jammed the lift open, using a screwdriver and were running around like crazy. No pare
    via u/forever_gaijin
  • 33
    Font - the parents take any responsibility? No... They just keep saying that there must've been an automatic problem with the lift. Even though we caught them! The joke is on them, I'm on the ground floor, the annoying families now have to drag prams etc up 6 floors just because they are unable to discipline their kids.
    via u/forever_gaijin
  • 34
    Font - PartyCrasher44 My neighbour and my Dad never got along. Long story short, grumpy old man hates kids (my sister and I). One morning after weeks of bickering over various issues, my Dad suspects the neighbour might be throwing some gravel on his car every morning. This car was my Dads first car he ever bought, it is older than I am. My Dads a terrifying man, hence my p's and q's are on point. I expected him to do something irrational and full of spite.
    via u/PartyCrasher44
  • 35
    Font - He simply woke up a little early, lied down in the back seat with a camera and filmed him throwing gravel on the hood. I'll never forget the smirk he had as he got out and just said, "Thanks"
    via u/PartyCrasher44
  • 36
    Font - Blue-eyed-lightning My law teacher's story. His neighbors had a fence built on his property, he normally wouldn't care but since they where always a s to his wife he decided to pursue it in court. The judge ordered him to pay to take down the fence, so trying to avoid paying, he tried to dig the fence up himself. So the guy avoided paying to take down the fence, but in the process he accidentally severed a $10,000 fiberoptic cable which he had to pay to replace. Moral of the story, don't
    via u/Blue-eyed-lightning

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