Nosy resident keeps taking pictures of neighbor's property without their approval, they confront her about it to no avail, leading them to install a privacy fence: ‘Out of sight, out of mind’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jan 29, 2025 11:00 AM EST

If you were wondering what's better - an involved and nosy neighbor or a neighbor you don't even know and never even talk to, the correct answer is always, and we mean always, the latter.

Sure, we all love to imagine how we become best friends with our neighbors–it all starts with a nice 'welcome to the neighborhood' greeting, maybe even a gift basket, then you find yourself in desperate need of two eggs so you knock at your neighbor's doors and they lend you a hand, and then before you know it you are having dinners together and basically become BBFs.

The only problem is, that as long as you don't live inside a literal sitcom show, that lovely scenario is simply never going to happen.

Instead, you can expect two of the following situations; either you see your neighbors once in a week or so, awkwardly nodding to each other from a safe distance, maybe exchanging a comment about the weather; or you constantly find yourself complaining and arguing with them about every small thing, because they are the worst neighbors ever.

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  • The story below falls under the second neighborly situation, and we just know that the resident who wrote it wishes they would never have to speak to their nosy neighbor again. We hope for their sake that after they find a solution to their complicated situation, they will be able to put this whole problem behind them.

    Keep scrolling to read this full cautionary tale, and maybe you will end up thanking the neighbors you have, even if you barely know them.

  • "Good fences make good neighbors"
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  • "My annoying neighbor filming every inch of our property with her cell phone"

    My elderly neighbor clearly has "photo journalist" leanings and has decided to document every aspect of our property and lives at all times. She will slow
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  • drive by out property filming the property trying o see in windows, deliveries, literally anything she can. She has now gone to the point of doing
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  • regular slow drive-by's multiple times a day. We have tried speaking to her about it but she will just storm off or yell ab e.
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  • Anyway we are now building a privacy fence. Out of site out of mind :-)
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  • 'My "documentarian" neighbor'

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  • Luke McCr documentia
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  • platapusdog OP Upvoted. This is Beutifull.
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  • idreaminwords Film her back. See how she likes it when you take your camera out every time she drives by
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  • iDontRememberCorn How do you think they got this photo?
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  • platapusdog OP House security camera
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  • DryStatistician7055 Does she live alone?
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  • platapusdog OP Yes
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  • RobertCentric Good fences make good neighbors.
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  • platapusdog OP It's expensive but that's why we are putting g up a fence. It's not worth the constantagree Atkin of what she is going to come up with next.
    via platapusdog
  • rdditeis4gsfa But you have cameras around your home that can see her and her all the time right? My neighbor has it his set up to where he can see my the whole front of my house, then
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  • he put up one in the back high enough to where he can see my whole backyard he could have placed it lower, from the angle I can see it at, he made it to where it is
    via rdditeis4gsfa
  • immediately in view the second I step outside, very interesting, and this would be difficult to do by accident.
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  • platapusdog OP Yea. I put up the external cameras to start documenting the crazy behavior so it was not just my word against hers.
    via platapusdog
  • steakbread Buy infrared led flood lights
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  • platapusdog OP One the fence is completed she won't be able to do this.
    via platapusdog
  • Crymsm Wow stalker much?? At least you know she doesn't have a life....maybe she is jealous?
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  • platapusdog OP I think more on the stalker front.
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