'It was her raccoon... she left a bag of sugar out for it': 15+ Absurd people who became the "crazy neighbor"

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jul 28, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

These people have a story or two they could tell you about their wackiest neighbors. 

You never really know a person until you live with them. The same goes for neighbors: you get to know them the longer you live around them. You start to learn what time they leave for work each day, you hear their parties or squabbles with their spouses, and you'll certainly start to recognize the signs of weird habits. 

Some people seem to love starting drama with their neighbors. There are a lot of folks who will happily let their dogs wander into someone else's yard all the time, or others who just don't care if anyone else in the neighborhood gets to sleep while they want to party. They seem to get a kick out of ruining everyone else's day! Some people just want to watch the world burn, unfortunately. 

Nearly 2,000 people replied to this person's Ask Reddit question: "What is your crazy neighbor story?" We've collected a few of the craziest stories below from people who are ready to share the drama. 

Up next, this person's dad thought that his clever prank "was the funniest thing ever," but his kiddo is not laughing at all. 

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  • 01
    Reddit, what is your crazy neighbor story?
    via u/moaningpilot
  • 02
    [deleted] Neighbour took me to court and tried to sue me for $24,000 because my dog growled at her and caused her emotional distress. Didn't get very far in court.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 03
    sheepinwolfscloth... Next door neighbor sent us a letter through the mail asking us to never park in front of their house after I parked there once. Kicker is a couple of years later they seem to have started some illegal home business with employees and every single day there are at least three cars parked in front of our house.
    via u/sheepinwolfsclothes
  • 04
    [deleted] I lived in a complex of sorts with stacked townhouses and a communal backyard. One night I went out for a smoke and heard a commotion. There is a cracked out middle aged woman who is yelling at her upstairs neighbour for stealing her raccoon. Yes, she yelled that it was her raccoon because she left a bag of sugar out for it which
    via u/[deleted]
  • 05
    is apparently a delicacy to raccoons. The raccoon was on the upstairs neighbours' balcony so to get it back she constructed this ramshackle stairway of garbage (upturned garbage cans, broken chairs, etc) and tried to climb up while wielding a hula hoop. She managed to get to the top of garbage mountain and somehow thought she could trap the raccoon with a hula hoop (????). Other neighbour
    via u/[deleted]
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    came out and a fight ensued with upstairs neighbour biting the crackhead. Police were called. Raccoon was never seen again.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 07
    [deleted] He put his Christmas decorations up at 11 pm on Halloween.
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    Onid8870 When i lived in a high-rise there was a woman who rode the elevator on her scooter day and night and write down "violations" in a notebook. She would read this notebook at the condo board meetings. It was stuff like "2am-Unit 2203-Door to the unit is dirty; 5pm-Unit 605-1 can hear the television through their door"
    via u/Onid8870
  • 09
    One day I came home after a happy hour slightly buzzed and feeling good. I get off the elevator and this woman on a scooter is driving right at me yelling something. I yelped and ran to my condo. Scared the out of me and nuked my buzz.
    via u/Onid8870
  • 10
    VandWW My neighbour came into my back yard when she thought we (university students) had gone home for the summer. I still lived in the house. In fact, I was sitting by the window when she entered or back yard. I thought nothing of it - I chalked it up to her looking for her cat.
    via u/VandWW
  • 11
    I went back to reading my book and completely forgot about her until I saw movement out of the corner of my eye some while later. She was walking out if my backyard with all our plants. She stole our garden. I was so astounded that I just sat there and stared at her. I never even tried to stop her.
    via u/VandWW
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    Bighouse JD My neighbor called the cops on us because our dogs were outside barking in the middle of the day. When the cop showed up we explained to him that our dogs only go outside during the day and for 10-15 minutes at a time tops. He tells us that it's not a problem and he thinks the neighbor has been drinking. Just then the neighbor stumbles by our house on
    via u/Bighouse JD
  • 13
    the side walk wearing what looks like some kind of moomoo style pajama shirt and shouts "NEIGHBOR TIME!", as if she's about to rally the troops against our obvious tyranny. Our neighbor on the other side told us she was trying to get him to complain too. Problem is, he's lived next to us for 10+ years and has dogs too.
    via u/Bighouse JD
  • 14
    [deleted] When I was a kid, maybe 10, my friend was over at my house and we were riding our bikes off of this ramp in my front yard, pretty slow because we were 10. My neighbor across the street starts yelling at us calling us and telling us to go faster. This dude who is in his mid-50s and dresses like he is Amish is yelling at two ten year olds.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 15
    za... I have had my share of really crazy neighbors, but the winners would have to be the "couple" who lived above me in a railroad tenement building in New York. They were a middle aged son and mother who lived together like they were husband and wife, and had every single centimeter of their walls (in a very narrow apartment) covered in
    via u/zazzlekdazzle
  • 16
    paintings they found discarded and then carefully framed. Their apartment felt like a gallery from Alice's Wonderland, but not in a "this is cool" kind of way, more like a "I've got to get out of here and will eat or drink whatever you give me to make it happen" kind of way. However, other than being extremely nosy and gossipy, they were very nice
    via u/zazzlekdazzle
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    neighbors. They even helped me, a very poor student at the time, furnish my apartment with all sorts of fascinating "found" pieces of furniture, including a pair of gorgeous but bizarre carved mahogany lounge chairs that were upholstered in striped orange silk.
    via u/zazzlekdazzle
  • 18
    PM_ME_UR_BDS... Had a really great, old couple for neighbors. I went over there so much during my childhood and really thought of them as my grandparents in everything but name and blood. Years of smoking wasn't very kind on them and eventually the wife passed on.
    via u/PM_ME_UR_****_*****
  • 19
    In comes the husband's family member and their family to "take care" of him. I'm not sure whether the mom or the dad was related to him, but neither of them acted like it. One day shortly after their arrival, while walking the same way he did for decades for a smoke, he suffered a fall. I know old people fall a lot, and obviously accidents happen, but I still call foul play.
    via u/PM_ME_UR_****_*****
  • 20
    Everything after that was quick. Everything they could sell was sold, everything else left on the curb, and then they sold the house. and left. I can't exactly claim to not hold onto grudges, but I will never forgive those heartless husks of humans as long as I live.
    via u/PM_ME_UR_****_*****
  • 21
    SC... There is a family on my street, which consists of a single Dad and two autistic children. And on the street, one side have driveways, and the other does not, so general consensus is of you have a driveway, park in it, if you don't, the area outside of the house is YOUR parking space. Should your space be unnavailable you can park across the road,
    via u/scottishdr***ard
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    next to the houses with driveways, as more cars can be parked on that side of the road. Generally, nobody parks outside the house with the two autistic children. Y'know, throw the guy a bone. Not everyone likes him, but they do it anyway. Then a new family moved in. They had 3 cars, and instead of parking two of them across the road where spaces where available, they
    via u/scottishdr***ard
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    parked them side by side onto the other houses. The Dad says "Ay, could you not park outside my house. please?" The new family . . . would repay them by not only continuing to park outside, but the father received a death threat outside of a pub, reporting them to the council for a health and safety violation because they let the dog. outside to (which was cleaned regularly) and,
    via u/scottishdr***ard
  • 24
    here's the worst part, would park inbetween both houses so nobody could park with how little space there was, and when the husband got home they moved the car forward, so they park outside the house. Literally going out of their way to become to the family, and everyone else.
    via u/scottishdr***ard
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    Best bit: the husband works as a prison guard and has very irregular shifts, even lasting days, which is not normal for a prison guard. Hopefully, he is having an affair so he'll get found out, and kicked out.
    via u/scottishdr***ard
  • 26
    edorchukzeek96 Oh boy! Thought no one would ever ask. I live in a cleveland suburb. So it's not very rural or country nor redneck. But these neighbors.... Most of the block is pretty much from the south. So everyone has bon fires. We held one one time. And it was decently big. Neighbors called the fire department. And demanded that they put it
    via u/edorchukzeek96
  • 27
    out. So firefighters came and put it out with one bucket of water. And then said sorry. There's another neighbor who whistles really loudly. And I have to say it is very very good! No one minds. It's fun to have a guy down your street walking around whistling like in a cartoon. But some old cranky lady called in a noise complaint every day. And now there's
    via u/edorchukzeek96
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    no more whistling.... That same neighbor would sit on his front porch watching football games on Sunday. And he would talk (yell) about the game to some other neighbor that lived about 10 houses down. You basically got the best commentary on games ever! Same old lady called in a noise complaint. And cops got so used to it that they just drove up saying hey
    via u/edorchukzeek96
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    what's up [neighbors name]? How's the game? Who's winning. And then old cranky lady got even more I could go on with more stories. But if bore half of reddit with them. So that's it
    via u/edorchukzeek96
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    7hrOw_4w4y_ I used to work a lot from home, and in the place I was staying back then, my neighbour used to go out for a run, take a shower and get dressed at her window right across from me every week day at exactly the same time. I started opening my window to make it more obvious I was sitting there, working. She responded by having her window open, too.
    via u/7hrOw_4w4y_
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    AstroApliiq I woke up to the noise of a car starting at 3am. It was my neighbors van. They were revving the out of it and they were speaking Spanish loudly (they're Hispanic btw and so am I). I went outside to ask them what was going on. I only speak English, I don't speak Spanish. One neighbor said
    via u/AstroApliiq
  • 32
    "Theeee Carrrr" And then the other neighbor looked at me and said the same thing. I didn't know how to respond to that, so I just turned around and went back inside.
    via u/AstroApliiq
  • 33
    MemeLord I have a neighbor who gets irrationally I off when he sees people with dogs simply WALK by his house, since he is overly protective of his lawn and garden. I learned this because I made the mistake of walking my dog by his house once, as he caught me, stormed out and gave me a 5 minute speech about how I
    via u/MemeLord____
  • 34
    shouldn't let my dog walk by his house. He has done this to several people, including a 9 year old girl, who he made cry. Yeah, he's a real pleasant guy.
    via u/MemeLord____
  • 35
    m00tles Oh man, my time to shine. My neighbour is an unemployed hoarder who built a recording studio in his house, which looks like a shanty because instead of siding he uses plywood, old road and such as siding. He currently has people living in a camper in his backyard.
    via u/m00tles
  • 36
    He used to have yard sales everyday until we put and end to it. One time, I heard him yelling at his child's principal on the phone for a half hour because they won't teach his 12 year old how to play instruments. His logic was that kids should make music and he would teach for free, "like school of rock"
    via u/m00tles
  • 37
    banjohusky95 My friend has a key to his neighbors house. When she goes to work, he goes in and watches her tv and uses her toilet, then leaves. He leaves everything else untouched. Other than this, the guy is a normal dude. He does it just because he can.
    via u/banjohusky95

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