WEDNESDAY'S NEIGHBADS (now with roommads?) !

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Man, these neighbad stories are getting pretty rough and bummery.

I like that people can vent but is this whole thing too like bum-out-ish?

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I got one, this one is just bizarre and I just laugh about it now....
 
Many years ago, I was fortunate to live across the street from a very interesting couple. At the time, I was not thrilled, but now it's hilarious!
Ok, It was a couple, Brian and Patty and thier two sons, Brian and Brian. Not kidding. Patty had a boy from a previous relationship and then when she met Brian, she had another baby and of course Brian wanted to name him Brian.
 
Anyway, Patty had only one leg, didn't work outside the home, she took care of the boys. I don't know what Brian did, but he would be gone all day and sometimes the little Brians used to wonder over to my house, they were only like 2 and 4 or something, so I'd walk them back over to thier house, and then I'd hear from Patty about how hard it is to watch 2 little boys when she only has one leg. She would
put on a fake leg when they'd go out, I dunno maybe it was hard to wear all day.
 
That's not funny. Funny part coming later.
 
Sometimes ( I guess rather frequently, come to think of it ) Brian would leave
the house at night to go drinking ( I presume, as he would come back wasted )
Anyway, he'd leave Patty all alone with 2 little boys, no car and the jerk would
DISCONNECT the phone from the outside!!!! He went to the pole and disconnected it!
So she's home alone at night no phone, no car.
 
One night Patty had a friend over, and at like 2am, her friend comes knocking on
my door,baby in her arms, asking if she could use my phone, as she needed to call
her baby's father to come pick them up, because appartently Brian and Patty are
CRAZY and she needs to get the hell out of there!
 
I let her use my phone, and I hear her boyfriend SCREAMING in the background,
" I ain't picking you up all the way out in ( my town ) F that!!! What the F you callin
me for a 2am???" and this went on. I felt bad her, more so for the baby.
 
I think I was able to convince my husband to drive her home, but it was so long ago,
I don't remember for sure.

Anyway, Then some other night I hear all this yelling and screaming and banging, and before

I could call the cops, they show up and arrest someone outside thier house. Later the
neighbor tells me some guy was banging a gun all over the outside of the house, like
just running around screamin and hitting the house with a gun.
Then I wake up about 5 am on Sunday and Brian is out there on the front porch singing
"Lady" ( by the Styx? ) and I mean he was Belting it out. It was hilarious. Just sitting there in his rocking chair singing "Lady".
Then later in the morning, he's got the radio going full blast, it's the Sunday Sermon. Patty comes hopping out, " Brian turn that
down, the whole neighborhood doesn't need to hear that"
 
Brian says " If I can't GO to Church, then I'm damn well LISTENIN' to it on the radio"
They used to like to sit on the front porch once in awhile and discuss finances, and
they would do this LOUDLY> talking about how they can scam the insurance company this way, and if we rob Peter to pay Paul we'll make it this month....etc....
I didn't get it. Did they WANT us to hear that, and WHY?
 
Every once in a while Brian would get so mad at Patty, the screaming would be
so loud, and slamming, I actually feared for her safety, so if it wasn't me calling the
cops it was another neighbor- anyway, whenever anyone on the block would call the
cops, the cops would go to the house, settle things down, sometimes take Brian away,
and THEN the cops would GO TO THE HOUSE of the person that CALLED!!!
 
Patty would see this and the next day, she's out on the front porch screaming holy
hell at me or whomever had called that time. I wanted to go over there and explain to
her that I was honest to God just worried about her safety, but I had, had enough by
then. Ok, I took up enough space, you get the idea what they were like. I'm so glad
I don't live there anymore. thanks for letting me tell my story.....now I live next door to
people that ignore me, and I realize it could be worse....

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First I'll say it is nice of you to listen!
 
Here's my scenario:  Boyfriend's son (18) and girlfriend (19) are now living with us. I was under the impression this was just for a few weeks; it has been 2 months with no end in sight! Both young adults have clothes, but are using everything of mine like it is theirs' and is disposable. My Boyfriend is not charging them any rent, but now we are behind on the bills. They are eating us out of house and home, ruining my furniture and come and go as they please. She even has taken my shampoo, curling iron and hairspray. I can't even use my washer and dryer because she is using them constantly!  I should mention that the 18 year old boy is making $14/hr. but only goes to work half the time and is about to be fired. The girl is making $8.40/hr. part time. 
 
Any ideas would be appreciated!!

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We have neighbors across the street from us who are just awful!!  They have
about 8 children ranging in age from 5 or 6 on up to around 12 or so.  A
couple of Christamases ago, they bought each child a pit bull puppy. Yes,
each child got one. That's 8 dogs you say? No, that's 9 because they already
had a full grown male pit bull.  These dogs kept getting out. When they did
they would go to everyone elses's fenced in yards and fight through the
fence with everyone else's dogs. I had to call Animal Control 3 times
because people would jog/walk through the neighborhood and either get almost
attacked or attack the dog the person had with them. Finally, they got rid
of them. Now if only they could get rid of their 8 brats as well.  These
children have absolutely NO supervision. We don't let our daughter even play
with them anymore. When she does, they try to start a fight with her (she's
8) or they steal her toys.

Just the other night on a Sunday night they were all running around in their
front yard jumping on and off of the 3 or so dumpy vehicles they have,
blaring rap music and yelling and screaming. This was at 1:45 AM. Yes, 1:45
AM on a Sunday night, or should I say Monday morning? What about school the
next day? Where are their parents? Who the F**K knows!!  We called the
police and they said they already had officers in route because 3 other
people had already called. I hate them so bad, I can't wait to move. I know
hate is a strong word, however, it's been 3 years now and it only gets
worse.

Michelle

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Hi Todd,

I live in a pretty nice middle class neighborhood in California…my hubby and I bought our first house five years go for a good deal and we intend to stay there awhile.  Anyway we had these really nice next door neighbors who were perfect, then they put the house up for sale and the woman from hell moved in.  She has five kids and her boyfriend who isn’t their dad owns the house but doesn’t live there.  The kids are monsters or at least the older ones are and the younger ones are getting there.  There are 4 boys and 1 girl.  The boys are little skater punks and they attract all the wannabe skater punks from around the neighborhood who congregate on my driveway just to annoy me all day long.  The lady is totally crazy and she treats her kids like shit.  Her kids are always playing on our yard and all we want is for them to stay the hell off our property.  Anyway we came home one night after work and this enormous fire truck was parked right in front our house with a huge floodlight…then the arson investigator showed up!  Turns out the oldest idiot kid had set his skateboard ramp on fire to impress his friends or whatever and things got a bit out of control (luckily nothing happened to my house).  Before this we used to see this kid walkin’ round the neighborhood with an ax.  What the hell is up with that?  Now he’s gone….I assume he went to live with his dad or something.  One day we called the police because the lady was screaming at us uncontrollably and then when the police got there she told them that we assaulted her kids.  The police didn’t believe her.  I don’t think she will ever leave.  What I told you is only a little bit of what it is like living next door to her.

Oh yeah we have this other neighbor who tried to run over her dog in the middle of the street right in front of our house.   We ran out and said what the hell are you doing?  Then she grabbed the dog, put him in the car and left.  We haven’t seen the dog since. L 

A.R.

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Think you have NeighBads?  This neighBad is full of neighBads and their kids!  This is just the latest!  Here are more fun and neat things.

- attempted break in
- food thrown at the house
- hot sausages thrown at a living, moving, breathing person --- hot off the grill!
- a death threat --- such a pleasant girl, yep, it was a female and in front of her mother who is even less pleasant
- antifreeze on the front lawn
- general garbage thrown on and around the property including but not limited to: Xmas ribbon, styrofoam, water bottle, broken beer bottles, full soda cans, scooters, balls, bb gun pellets, dolls, juice boxes, assorted candy wrappers, tangerines to just name a few items.

It's so much fun it's being memorialized in a blog starting today with the ugly couch incident:

http://tigard-oregon.blogspot.com/

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