20+ Neighbors who are bothering the whole neighborhood: 'My pet goats... ate all the plants and ruined the landscaping'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jan 11, 2025 3:00 PM EST

Just one irritating neighbor can put a damper on the whole neighborhood. 

You can get used to a lot of things when you live somewhere long enough. When you first move into a neighborhood, you suddenly realize that there's a dude who enjoys revving his car engine at 5 AM. At first, it's the most irritating thing in the world. You wonder why the other neighbors haven't reported the dude. He just sits there and revs for a while, or he'll pop the trunk and blare music while he cleans out the car. (Yes, this is from the author's personal experience!). After a few days of this, you throw your hands up and buy some earplugs… and after a few more months go by, eventually you'll barely notice it at all. He'll just become "that guy." He's just "that guy who revs his car all the time, just ignore him." 

A lot of people have neighbors with habits that are even worse than that, though, as you can read all about below. 

Next, read about this guy who looked at his $900 drone and thought it'd be a fantastic idea to fly it over his next-door neighbor's house and tease his husky, leading the husky's owner to say, "[The lawyer] suggested I counter-sue."

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    "Reddit, who's THAT person in your neighborhood, and what does he/she do?"

    dontbthatguy At my parents house I grew up with a man that leaf blows his yard EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Without fail around 3 pm that annoying wail of a leaf blower would start up and not end for at least a half hour.
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    Weekends he would start at 9 in the am. He would start on his roof then blow off his whole yard. One day he couldn't get it started. He threw it in the garage, got into his car and bought a new one an hour later. My neighbor's kids glued leaves on his driveway to mess with him.
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    Rain would only postpone the annoyance. Once it had stopped raining for a few minutes he would be out there. Really stunk in the summer time. I would get home from working construction all day and just want to take a nap and without fail as my head hit the pillow I would hear that dreaded whir of that blower.
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    catmoon Opera man practices opera on his balcony. Not with lyrics, or arpeggios, or any vocal exercises. He just sings one note with a theatric vibrato at the top of his lungs for an hour each afternoon.
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    Some people love their gardens and telling people to stay off the grass

    CheddaCharles My dads been yelling at kids to get out of his yard since he was 11
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    eyesupheelsdown I might have been THAT neighbor growing up... lived on a farm near a suburban neighborhood. Frequently my pet goats would wander into the neighborhood, and I would have to go retrieve them from people's yards. since they ate all the plants.
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    and ruined the landscaping or whatnot. Picture an 8 year old girl come out of the woods on a pony, luring a herd of goats into following her using a bag of Cheetos. Yeah, thats me.
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    IAmTheWalrus We have a woman down the street from us that everyone just calls "the crazy lady". The speed limit is 30mph and if you go over 23mph I can promise you that she'll come running into the street yelling at you to slow down. All times of the day, she's just watching and waiting. She's gone to half of my friends parents to tell them
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    how awful their child is at driving (even when they don't violate any laws) and how they should take away their driving privileges. She'll even follow you home just to yell at you. She'll often call the police and ask them to sh ot radar in the neighborhood, or set up one of those speed signs. So now it's a game, how fast can you drive by her house? I've set the alarm off on the
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    speed sign with remote control cars, my bike, anything other than a car just to her off. Other people just lay on their horn as they drive by and give her the one finger salute.
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    [deleted] This old Asian lady takes morning walks with a parrot on her shoulder. I saw her driving once and she had the parrot on her shoulder in the car with her. It's a real parrot too.
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    We live next door to a family with two daughters who sing acoustic covers of Taylor Swift songs out in their yard on a regular basis. Almost everyday, even. School nights they go at it before dinner. Weekends are the worst.
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    EDIT: I feel like I should elaborate, only because don't want people to think I'm THAT old cat lady next door who hates her neighbors' musical kids. They can get really obnoxious some days. And when I say "weekends are the worst", it's because karaoke is very popular in my country. And my next- door neighbors own a karaoke machine. I kid you not.
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    staygolden17 I live in an apartment complex with assigned spots, and every day this twatwaffle in a white civic encroaches into my parking. spot. So every day I have been parking closer and closer to her car. Like, I'm getting really good at parking close enough to her without hitting her.
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    A few days ago, I'm walking to my car to head out to work and I see her climbing through her passenger side door to get into her car, cursing up a storm. She sees me, we lock eyes as she's climbing over her middle console, starts her car and drives away. Since that incident she has stayed in between the lines of her parking spot.
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    jfm2143 One of my neighbors has a restored Mustang. Nice car and all, but it's loud as f even just at idle, and he's constantly revving it up wile just sitting in his driveway. Now I really don't care- I'm a car guy, except when he does this EVERY SUNDAY at 5 am.
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    monkeyweasels I'm pretty sure my husband is "that guy." We have a tree stump in our yard that is massive and unsightly. He spray painted a target on it and now it is designated as our ax throwing tree. The husband is frequently found in the yard throwing axes, knives, saw blades, etc at the stump. He has ginger hair down to his ass and a fondness for kilts so we get
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    a lot of weird looks in our small town. There has been a rash of break ins and vandalism in our neighborhood but our property is never messed with- I think he scares the kids that are doing it into staying away from our yard.
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    Poorly behaved pets can wreak havoc

    diegojones4 New dude can't control his dogs. He just calls them lamely as they tear into trash bags and sh in people's yards.
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    Runningleprechaun His name is Maximilian, and insists he be addressed by his full name. He drives his Porsche around our 5k loop of houses at 60 miles an hour at 2am while blasting low quality rap music.
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    NotRelevantQues... We have a neighbor that we call fricken Ed because he's hole. an a h le. He called my house to yell at my mom about my dad because when my dad was shoveling the snow he had his back to ed's house. Apparently this is very disrespectful.
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    Bigger_Than_Pri... They mix white Christmas lights with multicolored ones. You gotta go one or the other.
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    DrA MD I'm pretty sure I'm THAT person in my neighborhood. My family has six cars and a two-car driveway, so I constantly have to be on the lookout to take spots on the street once they open up. Also, we've had our Christmas lights up for about 7 or so years now.
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    pocketboy Incessantly waters his plants. Every time I've ever seen him he is watering his plants. California is in a terrible drought and this man is responsible.
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    d... Her name is Amanda, and she tires to organize huge doggy play dates. She tries to get upwards of twenty dogs together in this 50x50 fenced in area our apartment complex provides. And what happens you don't go? She will if come knock on your door and ask if she can take your
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    dog without you. Um, no. My dog doesn't like being crowded with a bunch of other dogs that are twice his size, Amanda! I don't need you to tell me how to take care of my dog! He's happy and healthy! Quit knocking on my door!! /rant
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    Moosemancer OP Of course i posted this so I could comment on my own post with my own story: there's a woman in my town we call crazy Tammy. She has a house but she lives in her car in the driveway of said house. A car that I'm almost certain doesn't even run. She's seen at least once a week walking around our neighborhood picking up any trash she finds which
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    she then brings back to her house and throws In a huge pile in her back yard that could now probably fill an industrial sized dumpster. It's a miracle she hasn't been fined by the township for it, or maybe she has we
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    don't know. She's never spoken to anybody and to our knowledge she can't even speak, because many have attempted to ask her questions and she just smiles and continues walking. Weird.
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    S... Hi! It's me, I'm that person who knows everyone's schedules and if I notice that it's 9:00 am on tuesday and you always leave by 8:30 on tuesdays but your car is still here, I'll likely knock on your door or send you a quick text to make sure you're ok. I'll also let everyone know that Karl down the block had a raccoon on his deck last
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    week so you should make sure you don't leave any food or cats outside. Oh, and the city is now picking up organics so I'll organize for everyone to get a special little organics bucket to throw out their kitchen trash. I need a job.. oh god, someone please hire me
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    [deleted] They leave their basset hound for hours and hours on end, barking non-stop. Our dog barked for 5 minutes (something p her off, had to carry her ed inside, blah blah) and they wrote to us. off.
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    k... Neighbor on my left. She talks all the time even if you are busy doing yard work. She tells you what she thinks you need to do to YOUR yard. Even told me our fence was an eyesore. I have seen her talking to the other neighbors too.
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    She can dish it, but she can't take it

    BallinBrown23 She constantly parks in my g parking spot and the moment someone parks in hers she goes and complains
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    Aclockworkamber Near my childhood home, there was this a hole, Mrs. Borris, who used to keep every toy that went into her yard. She had no fence or anything, and was right by the safe part of the road. She also would call the cops on us if we were anywhere near her property, even in broad daylight. I hope she's de d.
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