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Apr 4 2018, 10:58 AM
Years ago we lived in a nice quiet neighborhood, one day when husband was at home he answered the door to find 30+ police and SWAT teams. They politely asked if they could go into our backyard because the neighbor behind us had a hugh math lab business and they were ready to arrest him. They calmly told husband to stay in the house and away from the windows in case of gunfire.
Those math lab nerds are the worst. :P
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Apr 4 2018, 10:58 AM
Years ago we lived in a nice quiet neighborhood, one day when husband was at home he answered the door to find 30+ police and SWAT teams. They politely asked if they could go into our backyard because the neighbor behind us had a hugh math lab business and they were ready to arrest him. They calmly told husband to stay in the house and away from the windows in case of gunfire.
Those math lab nerds are the worst. :P
And Hugh’s Math Lab - that Hugh is the worst of the worst.
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Apr 4 2018, 11:07 AM
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Apr 4 2018, 10:58 AM
Years ago we lived in a nice quiet neighborhood, one day when husband was at home he answered the door to find 30+ police and SWAT teams. They politely asked if they could go into our backyard because the neighbor behind us had a hugh math lab business and they were ready to arrest him. They calmly told husband to stay in the house and away from the windows in case of gunfire.
Those math lab nerds are the worst. :P
And Hugh’s Math Lab - that Hugh is the worst of the worst.
*lol* :wub:
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Apr 4 2018, 11:07 AM
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Apr 4 2018, 10:58 AM
Years ago we lived in a nice quiet neighborhood, one day when husband was at home he answered the door to find 30+ police and SWAT teams. They politely asked if they could go into our backyard because the neighbor behind us had a hugh math lab business and they were ready to arrest him. They calmly told husband to stay in the house and away from the windows in case of gunfire.
Those math lab nerds are the worst. :P
And Hugh’s Math Lab - that Hugh is the worst of the worst.
Nothing is worse than MyMathLab.
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Apr 4 2018, 11:20 AM
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Apr 4 2018, 10:58 AM
Years ago we lived in a nice quiet neighborhood, one day when husband was at home he answered the door to find 30+ police and SWAT teams. They politely asked if they could go into our backyard because the neighbor behind us had a hugh math lab business and they were ready to arrest him. They calmly told husband to stay in the house and away from the windows in case of gunfire.
Those math lab nerds are the worst. :P
And Hugh’s Math Lab - that Hugh is the worst of the worst.
Nothing is worse than MyMathLab.
TRUTH. (says the math instructor)

Although it's really nice to not have to grade. I have extra time to dick around on the internet instead.
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If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
I currently live next to an elderly man who is mostly homebound and apparently is not in good health. When he first moved in, I saw him outside one afternoon and said hello. He glared at me and did not say a word.

Last year, he started smearing lotion on my car mirrors and repositioning them. One day he must have given the mirror a good push because I could not move the mirror using the controls. Sometimes he would open his door and glare at me as I was leaving my apartment. I of course reported his behavior to the property manager and also filed police reports. Never once did I confront him or acknowledge his behavior, but looked right past him. He never did anything to anyone else's car, just mine.

After the police met with him the last time, he told them he did not like how I parked my car, because it was too close to the building and his daughter could not walk in front of my car when she came to visit once every few months. There is at least two feet between my car and the building. If I park further back, I will be near to encroaching on the sidewalk that goes by the building. The police did not think my car was parked too close, and asked my neighbor to cease and desist. And he has not been a problem since. I have lived there way longer than he has and am a model tenant. My property manager also follows up with me from time to time.

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Last house we had a 'crazy old crabby coot' that owned the land behind us. He tried to intimidate us into moving. All he accomplished is pissing me off.
Once upon a time (in the 50's) He bought a bunch of nursery/farm land with dreams of developing it into a sub division. The gravel drive was designated as a street and our lot (top corner) was sold and a house built on it with the driveway coming off that gravel street with an easement.

Then the state built a freeway at the edge of his property and his land was starting to have drainage issues. Pretty soon it turned into wetlands and then some protected species moved in. For some reason or another the land was never developed. Dude was pretty salty about the land just sitting there and having to pay taxes on it.

We moved in and everything seemed well for a while. Until progress and development came to the neighboring community. Grouchy started coming around 'checking on his land'. Grouchy offered to buy our land for half price, I politely declined. Grouchy would bitch at me for using "his land" to get into our driveway. I went down to the title bureau and obtained a copy of the easement and showed it to him.
"That doesn't mean anything! THE LAND IS IN MY NAME!"
We had our land re-surveyed. Sticks with colorful flags at each corner. He still yelled at us to "GET OFF MY LAWN" We just ignored him.

He sent us a registered letter telling us that he would 'call the cops' if we trespassed on his land again. We had my BIL the lawyer send him one back with copies of the land survey, the title, the easement and a cease and desist the harassment letter.

Grouchy wouldn't be deterred. One morning I came out of the house to go to work and there were all kinds of trucks and heavy equipment trailers blocking the driveway. I could not get out. I put on some boots and slogged into the marsh land following the sound of heavy equipment to ask them to move some trailers so I could get out. Grouchy informed me he didn't have to do a thing since it was his land and what am I going to do about it.

I called my SIL and got a ride to work. Where I sat and wondered if there were any truths about the stories I've heard about some of the land in the back being protected wetlands. I did a bit of sleuthing and ended up contacting the Army Corp of Engineers. Turns out it was. "Well, did you know he is doing all kinds of bulldozing and draining back there."
"Thank you mam, we'll look into it."
2 days later all the heavy equipment was gone and Grouchy was throwing me the evil eye. "I know it was you who called."

Evidently Grouchy, getting on in years, decided to try and sell the land to some other developers. Other developers did not seem too keen about it, since the land was mostly in the Township (Township/City line ran a bit behind our property) and they had really good relationship with the folks in the city planning commission.

Well, Grouchy begged, pleaded and probably greased some palms and got his land annexed to the city.

He decided to impress other developers and invited them to a hunting excursion on 'his' land, now annexed to the city. I wake up one morning and there is rifles and shot guns going off in my back yard. I was a bit concerned and called the PD non-emergency number.

Next thing I know the drive way is swarming with police. There were PD, Sheriffs and Highway Patrol. They were grabbing their rifles out of their trunks and heading into the marsh.

It seems that the State of Ohio has a law on the books that prohibits the discharge of firearms within city limits. I don't think he impressed the other developers that much, other than, Yup it's in the city limits.

The next week he was stomping around demanding we sell to him for still only half the value. "NOPE! Now get off MY lawn."

A few days later DD calls me at work. "Mom did you know that Grouchy has cut down all the trees at the edge of the driveway? The trees have pulled down the power lines and there is no electric or phones at the house. I'm at Lauren's." "Good, stay there."

I came home to live wires hanging in my back yard. And Grumpy doing the I told you so dance. I called the police, fire dept (secure the scene) and the electric co.. Turns out he pulled the transformer of the pole and the wires out of my house. The electric meter was half hanging off. It took them over a day to re-mount and hook everything back up. To the tune of around $9000, cause I got that on my bill the next month.

Oh NOES! I presented them with the police report of who exactly did the damage. I presume they got the money from him, I've never heard about it again.

For a few months He still came around to 'check on his land' and tell me "get off my land" And then he disappeared. I heard later through the grapevine that he had a stroke and was in a nursing home.

Eventually his estate sold the land to the other developer and shortly after we sold the house to the other developer for double the value.









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Thankfully at the moment I have good neighbors.

When we first moved in we had group of med students living next door. One of them the parents bought the house and he lived there and rented to the others. Maintenance was not their strong suit which I'd have assumed was because they were busy medical students if it hadn't been for the insane amount of parties they threw and the amount of time the one had to lay and sun himself on their back deck in loose shorts with no underwear. and I know this because my back sliding glass door faces their yard and is lined up perfectly with his deck so everytime I looked out back door I got a splendid view of the family jewels (which just weren't all that impressive.

He finally moved out and a nice family moved in. YAY!!

then they got divorced and wife's mother and brother moved in. they started to believe in maintenance about as much as the med students had and would let their grass and weeds get so tall we started having a snake problem. the grass was so tall under the deck it was literally growing thru the openings between the boards and various critters started living under the deck. It got to the point we couldn't enjoy our back patio because of critters and snakes.

Happily there's been some kind of reunion (7 yrs after the divorce) which has resulted in a new baby and the husband/ex husband moving back in. And once again the grass is cut, the beds are weeded, the deck has no critters and we have no snakes and last summer we again go to make use of our patio.

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Apr 4 2018, 10:58 AM
Years ago we lived in a nice quiet neighborhood, one day when husband was at home he answered the door to find 30+ police and SWAT teams. They politely asked if they could go into our backyard because the neighbor behind us had a hugh math lab business and they were ready to arrest him. They calmly told husband to stay in the house and away from the windows in case of gunfire.
We had crazy Russian guy barricade himself in his basement apartment next door to us. It was about an hour standoff with the cops, but they evacuated all the houses around the building in case of gunfire.

Most of us were standing outside in PJs - they were just about to send a bus sent over to pick us all up to take everyone to a hotel when he surrendered.
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Our bad neighbors are nowhere near as bad as some of yours. One of our next door houses is a rental and we’ve had some cool folks renting. Not so now. For several years, we’ve had what we call “the Pigs.” They do not care about anything outside the house. At all. There is so much random trash in their yard...and it migrates to ours. Those free newspapers on the driveway? They sit there and slowly (because they’re in plastic bags) deteriorate. I can count 7 currently. We think they work in nightclubs or something because they will come home at 3:30 and sit in their cars, drinking Red Bull and smoking cigarettes. Three guesses as to where the empty cans and butts end up! One day we saw the kid who lives there (maybe 10?) amusing himself throwing a large kitchen butcher knife around the back yard. We also hate them because they park on the street during snowstorms (despite plenty of room off street), which means we don’t get plowed to the curb.
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Apr 3 2018, 11:46 PM
Loud music, barking dogs, drug dealing and drunken parties that started at 2:00 A.M. all different neighborhoods, luckily things are quiet now.
We lived on a very nice street in a very nice part of town; the street was about two blocks long and dead ended. On that street, there was a drug dealer who lived with his grandmother two houses down from us on the left; occasionally clients would knock on our door. Across the street was the JD who tortured animals; parents of daughters in the neighborhood tended to move away because of him. Kitty corner across the street was the lovely elderly mother of a local priest who ministered to the homeless; she was murdered by a homeless man. Up the street on the right the SIL murdered his FIL in the house; probably would have gotten away with it if he hadn't left the dog in the car in the parking lots at the airport when he left town. The wife down the block on the right hand side didn't pay the mortgage for a few months, stockpiled the money then left her husband taking the dogs; he discovered his house was in foreclosure a few days later. The lawyer down the street just past the drug dealer, had an affair with his SIL whom they had offered lodging when she left her husband and was disbarred for trying to bribe a juror and their next door neighbor ran off with her guru.

I have always assumed that every typical street is Peyton Place if you rip off the masks.
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Our former landlord's son, Crazy Carl. He was an acquaintance of my husband that told us he was trying to rent his father's mobile home that was on 3 acres and shared a drive with his dad's place. We agreed to rent it month to month for a price of $500.00 a month cash only plus we would take care of utilities and minor repairs. Crazy Carl was to take care of mowing the grass.

We told him when we moved into the place that my DD would be staying there while she was home from college, he said no problem. A month after she was home, crazy Carl complained that she was living there and was having strange cars parked in the drive way. He did not like it because one of the her friends looked like a lesbian.

When the air broke, he told us he was not going to pay to fix it, to go out and buy window units. My husband mentioned this in passing to his step mom and the air was repaired the next day. He never would mow the grass so my husband decided to mow around the moblie home. My husband was then told he had to trim the bushes around the mobile home and he refused.

He yelled at my husband that we had too many vehicles in the drive way, he yelled at my husband for parking his work vehicle in the drive way, he yelled at my husband when there were no vehicles at the house because it looked like no one lived there.

The final straw was when a pipe burst due to freezing weather. He called me a dumb C*** and refused to fix it. He threatened my husband with an iron pipe and took us to court for eviction for non payment when we were current on rent. When we moved, one of his friends attempted to follow my husband to see where we were moving to.

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Apr 4 2018, 12:45 PM
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Apr 4 2018, 10:58 AM
Years ago we lived in a nice quiet neighborhood, one day when husband was at home he answered the door to find 30+ police and SWAT teams. They politely asked if they could go into our backyard because the neighbor behind us had a hugh math lab business and they were ready to arrest him. They calmly told husband to stay in the house and away from the windows in case of gunfire.
We had crazy Russian guy barricade himself in his basement apartment next door to us. It was about an hour standoff with the cops, but they evacuated all the houses around the building in case of gunfire.

Most of us were standing outside in PJs - they were just about to send a bus sent over to pick us all up to take everyone to a hotel when he surrendered.
This reminds me that we did have a hostage/standoff situation a few years back. Guy's wife was leaving him. He was not happy about it. That was 4 hours.

And the drug dealers next door in the apartments. One is still there but they are relatively quiet about it (prescription drugs). The meth dealer and his clients were obnoxious.
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Apr 4 2018, 02:31 PM
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Apr 4 2018, 12:45 PM
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Apr 4 2018, 10:58 AM
Years ago we lived in a nice quiet neighborhood, one day when husband was at home he answered the door to find 30+ police and SWAT teams. They politely asked if they could go into our backyard because the neighbor behind us had a hugh math lab business and they were ready to arrest him. They calmly told husband to stay in the house and away from the windows in case of gunfire.
We had crazy Russian guy barricade himself in his basement apartment next door to us. It was about an hour standoff with the cops, but they evacuated all the houses around the building in case of gunfire.

Most of us were standing outside in PJs - they were just about to send a bus sent over to pick us all up to take everyone to a hotel when he surrendered.
This reminds me that we did have a hostage/standoff situation a few years back. Guy's wife was leaving him. He was not happy about it. That was 4 hours.

And the drug dealers next door in the apartments. One is still there but they are relatively quiet about it (prescription drugs). The meth dealer and his clients were obnoxious.
Reminds me of old house I looked out front window one day to see multiple police and swat cars and officers hiding behind trees, shrubs and cars surrounding a house. Nice little stand off for over an hour where I kept kids and dogs in basement and out of line of fire.

Turns out 1 neighbor got into a fight with another neighbor (have no idea about what). Second neighbor went into house and came out with gun and threatened 1st neighbor. So 1st neighbor went into his house and got a gun and came out. About that time neighbor 3 called police and told both idiots she'd done it. And they both went into their houses and wouldn't come out when police arrived.

Having 2 dumb ass neighbors who pulled guns on each other in a neighborhood full of kids with lots that were so small there was literally no side yards. It was house, driveway, house, driveway, house etc. was the final straw for DH and I to start house hunting immediately.
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Apr 4 2018, 09:46 AM
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Apr 4 2018, 12:18 AM
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Apr 4 2018, 12:10 AM
We have a neighbor that drives on part of our lawn.

Boulders are always a nice landscaping addition.
With some nice ornamental grasses planted among them.

Check out this YouTube video.

https://youtu.be/L-gAyWTZgC8
I watched the entire playlist. What a jerk. I would have lost it on him a long time ago.

I’m surprised they’ve managed to maintain their composure, I would have lost it when he was ruining the new turf. It seems when cities allow variances on properties there tend to be problems when one or the other of the original people move on. That would be a big no for me in purchasing our next home.
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Apr 4 2018, 05:27 PM
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Apr 4 2018, 09:46 AM
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Apr 4 2018, 02:11 AM
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Apr 4 2018, 12:18 AM
Designing Craft Maven
Apr 4 2018, 12:10 AM
We have a neighbor that drives on part of our lawn.

Boulders are always a nice landscaping addition.
With some nice ornamental grasses planted among them.

Check out this YouTube video.

https://youtu.be/L-gAyWTZgC8
I watched the entire playlist. What a jerk. I would have lost it on him a long time ago.

I’m surprised they’ve managed to maintain their composure, I would have lost it when he was ruining the new turf. It seems when cities allow variances on properties there tend to be problems when one or the other of the original people move on. That would be a big no for me in purchasing our next home.
What is wrong with all of those people?!?
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My neighbor (youngish) called her dad to come with her to knock on my door to threaten to call the cops on my kids for making too much noise outside. On a Tuesday. At 2:00 in the afternoon. They were just playing. Oh, and she's a teacher in the school they attend.
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Apr 4 2018, 10:10 PM
My neighbor (youngish) called her dad to come with her to knock on my door to threaten to call the cops on my kids for making too much noise outside. On a Tuesday. At 2:00 in the afternoon. They were just playing. Oh, and she's a teacher in the school they attend.
Mmmnn, I see a career change in somebody's future.
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This guy was across the street and 2 houses down. The street curved, which meant that his front window faced mine. He was arrested a month after I moved out.
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Federal authorities seized a variety of weapons from an Oregon extremist's home, including a .50 caliber machine gun. The machine gun, powerful enough to shoot down aircraft, was aimed at the street through a window in the extremist's home. Police also confiscated over a hundred marijuana plants.

Dude, 29, of Beaverton, Oregon, was initially charged in federal court with carrying a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime. On October 29, 2004, authorities removed more than two dozen machine guns and automatic weapons, including a second .50 caliber machine gun.

According to Dude's father, Dude was a "Constitutionalist," a term used to refer to members of the sovereign citizen movement and other extreme right-wing anti-government movements. Dude was also involved with the Militia of Montana, helping to man a booth at gun shows. He put anti-United Nations signs up at his home as well.

Authorities say that Dude told an undercover ATF agent that he earned money by growing marijuana and that he had machine guns. A federal grand jury may charge him with additional crimes.

Dude's .50 caliber machine guns, which were registered with the ATF, are legal, but 13 other fully automatic weapons seized from his house are not, according to the ATF.. His arsenal included an AK-47 with armor piercing ammunition, Uzi and MAC-10 submachine guns, a belt-fed machine gun, and five silencers.
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not bad, necessarily but weird . .. One neighbor was gone and the apartment door was left open for like three day. I though they were just running down the car or something . . . finally clicked in my head that something was off, so I peaked my head in. No one was dead i'n there, but I did call the apartment manager and the guy was back in a couple hours. We had an enclosed hallway, so the doors didn't face directly outside.

(I think that might have something to do with his roommate/girlfiend/whatever moving out. We saw her loading a tv in her car around that time.)

Think it was the same people, I came home, and there was a roll of toilet paper hanging on the door knob and two more on the ground by the door. I always wondered about that one.
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Apr 4 2018, 11:25 PM
This guy was across the street and 2 houses down. The street curved, which meant that his front window faced mine. He was arrested a month after I moved out.
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Federal authorities seized a variety of weapons from an Oregon extremist's home, including a .50 caliber machine gun. The machine gun, powerful enough to shoot down aircraft, was aimed at the street through a window in the extremist's home. Police also confiscated over a hundred marijuana plants.

Dude, 29, of Beaverton, Oregon, was initially charged in federal court with carrying a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime. On October 29, 2004, authorities removed more than two dozen machine guns and automatic weapons, including a second .50 caliber machine gun.

According to Dude's father, Dude was a "Constitutionalist," a term used to refer to members of the sovereign citizen movement and other extreme right-wing anti-government movements. Dude was also involved with the Militia of Montana, helping to man a booth at gun shows. He put anti-United Nations signs up at his home as well.

Authorities say that Dude told an undercover ATF agent that he earned money by growing marijuana and that he had machine guns. A federal grand jury may charge him with additional crimes.

Dude's .50 caliber machine guns, which were registered with the ATF, are legal, but 13 other fully automatic weapons seized from his house are not, according to the ATF.. His arsenal included an AK-47 with armor piercing ammunition, Uzi and MAC-10 submachine guns, a belt-fed machine gun, and five silencers.
And some people think it’s perfectly ok to have that many and those sorts of guns.🤬
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Well, there's the charming child at the end of the road who flips us off every once in a while. He's 9, maybe 10.

But really, since the girlfriend beater across the road got arrested and moved out, we have great neighbors.
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Aunt Ellie
Apr 4 2018, 11:25 PM
This guy was across the street and 2 houses down. The street curved, which meant that his front window faced mine. He was arrested a month after I moved out.
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Federal authorities seized a variety of weapons from an Oregon extremist's home, including a .50 caliber machine gun. The machine gun, powerful enough to shoot down aircraft, was aimed at the street through a window in the extremist's home. Police also confiscated over a hundred marijuana plants.

Dude, 29, of Beaverton, Oregon, was initially charged in federal court with carrying a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime. On October 29, 2004, authorities removed more than two dozen machine guns and automatic weapons, including a second .50 caliber machine gun.

According to Dude's father, Dude was a "Constitutionalist," a term used to refer to members of the sovereign citizen movement and other extreme right-wing anti-government movements. Dude was also involved with the Militia of Montana, helping to man a booth at gun shows. He put anti-United Nations signs up at his home as well.

Authorities say that Dude told an undercover ATF agent that he earned money by growing marijuana and that he had machine guns. A federal grand jury may charge him with additional crimes.

Dude's .50 caliber machine guns, which were registered with the ATF, are legal, but 13 other fully automatic weapons seized from his house are not, according to the ATF.. His arsenal included an AK-47 with armor piercing ammunition, Uzi and MAC-10 submachine guns, a belt-fed machine gun, and five silencers.
I can't get over that his name is Dude.
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Apr 5 2018, 10:01 AM
Aunt Ellie
Apr 4 2018, 11:25 PM
This guy was across the street and 2 houses down. The street curved, which meant that his front window faced mine. He was arrested a month after I moved out.
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Federal authorities seized a variety of weapons from an Oregon extremist's home, including a .50 caliber machine gun. The machine gun, powerful enough to shoot down aircraft, was aimed at the street through a window in the extremist's home. Police also confiscated over a hundred marijuana plants.

Dude, 29, of Beaverton, Oregon, was initially charged in federal court with carrying a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime. On October 29, 2004, authorities removed more than two dozen machine guns and automatic weapons, including a second .50 caliber machine gun.

According to Dude's father, Dude was a "Constitutionalist," a term used to refer to members of the sovereign citizen movement and other extreme right-wing anti-government movements. Dude was also involved with the Militia of Montana, helping to man a booth at gun shows. He put anti-United Nations signs up at his home as well.

Authorities say that Dude told an undercover ATF agent that he earned money by growing marijuana and that he had machine guns. A federal grand jury may charge him with additional crimes.

Dude's .50 caliber machine guns, which were registered with the ATF, are legal, but 13 other fully automatic weapons seized from his house are not, according to the ATF.. His arsenal included an AK-47 with armor piercing ammunition, Uzi and MAC-10 submachine guns, a belt-fed machine gun, and five silencers.
I can't get over that his name is Dude.
It did make reading the story particularly hilarious, though, didn't it?

Really glad he's not anyone's neighbor anymore. Dude is scary!
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I don’t think his name is really Dude. I think she changed it to make it less identifiable.
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We saw the SWAT team run behind our house once. The man across the street behind us didn't take his wife filing for divorce too well and had a stand-off with the police. I really felt sorry for the son, he was about 14 and mildly challenged. My house was the hangout for the neighborhood kids and he needed a little extra attention for awhile.

When I was a teen, we lived in the country. Our neighbors had a young brahma bull, Sunny, who like cows fine but liked people better (I said he was young). When his people went out he would get lonely, knock down his fence and come to our house. We never got too used to an 800 pound bull mooing at the patio door for attention and making wet nose prints on the glass door.
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We had one who convinced everyone that they were Homeland Security operatives & had a very elaborate setup they described to back it up.

All lies. Shock - they were trying to scam government funds.

I still can't believe some of the local officials and Chamber of Commerce types who were fooled by that. I knew immediately they were full of it. Turns out they were wanted in some other state and flew the coop in the dead of night. I've never heard if they were caught.
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bumble
Apr 11 2018, 01:04 PM
We saw the SWAT team run behind our house once. The man across the street behind us didn't take his wife filing for divorce too well and had a stand-off with the police. I really felt sorry for the son, he was about 14 and mildly challenged. My house was the hangout for the neighborhood kids and he needed a little extra attention for awhile.

When I was a teen, we lived in the country. Our neighbors had a young brahma bull, Sunny, who like cows fine but liked people better (I said he was young). When his people went out he would get lonely, knock down his fence and come to our house. We never got too used to an 800 pound bull mooing at the patio door for attention and making wet nose prints on the glass door.
This cracked me up! It reminds me of two stories. Will try to not meander.

Next door neighbor had a horse. And mind you, I LOVE horses, always wished I could've had one. But one HUGE drawback other than the expense, I am petrified of them IF they are not tied/staked down, or behind a fence. Anyway, neighbors horse, Bugs was a lovey dovey. I'd go over and pet/slobber/kiss on him in the barn a lot. So he took that to mean that it was okay to pull up his stake to come look in my window for me. I was mystified when I saw neighbor and her two kids busting ass running across my yard that day. She told the kids..get Bugs before TAZ accidentally comes out and faints from Bugs being loose and playing Peeping Tom.....LOL.

Our last feeder beef we had was puny when little. So we didn't de-nut him. By time we got him well he was too big to de-nut. And since he was going in our freezer, we didn't de-horn him either. This bull got the hots for our male sheep and was continuously trying to mount him if he got in to sheep's area. He ignored the female sheep. He only had eyes for the male. I had never heard of a homosexual bull before!
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I actually had the opposite. My downstairs plays loud music. Fortunately not bad, just loud. I finally had to knock on their door since I'm worried it can be picked up on conference calls.

Apparently it's the caretaker of a disabled man. She was very sweet and said she would turn it down and asked me to let her know any time it's too loud.
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Apr 11 2018, 03:11 PM
I actually had the opposite. My downstairs plays loud music. Fortunately not bad, just loud. I finally had to knock on their door since I'm worried it can be picked up on conference calls.

Apparently it's the caretaker of a disabled man. She was very sweet and said she would turn it down and asked me to let her know any time it's too loud.
That is awful. I can't imagine that.

Our bad neighbors "party" every night. Our bedroom is right outside their front door. RV Park, so we are sandwiched in like sardines! I don't even know what to do anymore.
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Apr 11 2018, 01:04 PM

When I was a teen, we lived in the country. Our neighbors had a young brahma bull, Sunny, who like cows fine but liked people better (I said he was young). When his people went out he would get lonely, knock down his fence and come to our house. We never got too used to an 800 pound bull mooing at the patio door for attention and making wet nose prints on the glass door.
My BIL who lived across the fence from us had a young bull I called Sambo (don't know what BIL called him). Anyway, I would always hand feed his cows when we came down (we didn't lived down here then). Sambo would come up to be fed and after I gave him some cubes, I would say "Sambo, give me a love" and he would lower his head and touch his forehead to mine. He was the sweetest thing.
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Apr 11 2018, 04:26 PM
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Apr 11 2018, 03:11 PM
I actually had the opposite. My downstairs plays loud music. Fortunately not bad, just loud. I finally had to knock on their door since I'm worried it can be picked up on conference calls.

Apparently it's the caretaker of a disabled man. She was very sweet and said she would turn it down and asked me to let her know any time it's too loud.
That is awful. I can't imagine that.

Our bad neighbors "party" every night. Our bedroom is right outside their front door. RV Park, so we are sandwiched in like sardines! I don't even know what to do anymore.
Oh, that's horrible. Management won't help?
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My next door neighbors played loud music all last summer. There were weeks when they partied every night. My friends on the other side even thought it was ridiculously loud. It didn’t usually go on terribly late but damn it was unbearable. They also had daylong birthday parties on several weekends that were even louder.
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I live in a nice neighborhood. Next door they brought in a tiny little RV and some old man is living in it. Random women with hardly any clothes are in and out of it daily. I also believe they are selling drugs out of the house next door. They have a scary looking guy that sits outside sometimes too. He looks like a really skinny Santa.
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For the neighbors who party late into the night try either of these things...start your very loud party when you get up so they can’t sleep and keep it going as long as they did the night before or set a radio in a window pointed in their direction and set it to a religious station (on loud of course) and then leave for the day. My husband said I was being an asshole and I told him I didn’t care anymore.
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Google "10,000 cycle tone". It's a really annoying noise. I'm used to hearing that noise because it's all over the place in television stations. At one point in my life I lived above a really noisy person. I won't tell you how I did it (ancient engineering secret), but I used that tone to get her to be quiet. Now that I think about it, that probably was why she moved. A quiet person moved in after that.

One of my engineering friends had upstairs neighbors who liked to blast their stereo. He had a device that disrupted the radio signal in their stereo. He would fire up this device when he was home.
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My noisy neighbors have a car with an enormous speaker in the trunk. They pull the car out of the garage, open the trunk, and blast their crappy music. Any ideas on how to stop that noise?
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Apr 12 2018, 07:56 AM
My noisy neighbors have a car with an enormous speaker in the trunk. They pull the car out of the garage, open the trunk, and blast their crappy music. Any ideas on how to stop that noise?
Shotgun. Quick and effective, but you'll probably get arrested.
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Apr 11 2018, 11:46 PM
For the neighbors who party late into the night try either of these things...start your very loud party when you get up so they can’t sleep and keep it going as long as they did the night before or set a radio in a window pointed in their direction and set it to a religious station (on loud of course) and then leave for the day. My husband said I was being an asshole and I told him I didn’t care anymore.
Many years ago before the days of caller ID and answering machines the neighbors across the street would go out of town for two weeks and their college aged sons would stay home alone. They would throw parties that were loud and went on till all hours of the night into early am. Both sis and my rooms were in front of house so my mother would have to deal with us not being able to sleep.

so the next morning when we woke up very early (cause we were little kids and that's what the do) my mother would call the neighbors house and let it ring until they answered. then she'd hang up. She's wait 15 minutes or so just to let them start to get back to sleep and she'd do it again. She kept it up until she saw them up and moving.

She was so happy when they finally graduated, got jobs and moved out.
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Apr 12 2018, 08:30 AM
Figment
Apr 11 2018, 11:46 PM
For the neighbors who party late into the night try either of these things...start your very loud party when you get up so they can’t sleep and keep it going as long as they did the night before or set a radio in a window pointed in their direction and set it to a religious station (on loud of course) and then leave for the day. My husband said I was being an asshole and I told him I didn’t care anymore.
Many years ago before the days of caller ID and answering machines the neighbors across the street would go out of town for two weeks and their college aged sons would stay home alone. They would throw parties that were loud and went on till all hours of the night into early am. Both sis and my rooms were in front of house so my mother would have to deal with us not being able to sleep.

so the next morning when we woke up very early (cause we were little kids and that's what the do) my mother would call the neighbors house and let it ring until they answered. then she'd hang up. She's wait 15 minutes or so just to let them start to get back to sleep and she'd do it again. She kept it up until she saw them up and moving.

She was so happy when they finally graduated, got jobs and moved out.
Haha! High five to your mom!

My neighbours have just gone. They had three young girls and the youngest had a scream that would go right through you. She screamed (6 years old, btw), in the morning and in the evening. Dad! Dad! Dad! Mum! Mum! Mum! The more they ignored her, the worse she got, obviously, then you’d hear them thunder up the stairs and get in a screaming match with said kid. EVERY FUCKING DAY.

Now they have moved and it’s blissful. Dreading who moves in next though.
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I have two stories to share.
The first was when I was growing up and we lived on the farm. On the other side of the hill was the state school for boys (and my parents had 4 girls LOL!). Anyway it was not uncommon to hear over the radio or have the sheriff come to inform us that there were runaways from the state school. A couple showed up at our door asking for food and a ride. My parents just talked to them and took them back. Then one day we came home to find both the front and back doors wide open and our dogs outside. When we left, they were inside. We later heard that there was a rumor going around the state school not to enter our house because we had two wild dogs inside (one was an Australian shepherd and the other was a small mixed). Apparently the dogs were hiding behind the kitchen counter when a couple of the boys entered the kitchen door and chased them out the living room door. We never had any more show up at our door after that to the delight of my parents as I and one of my sisters were entering the dreaded teenage years.

The second story is from when hubby and I was first married. He was stationed at an Army base and had rented us a third floor apartment. It was fine and the downstairs neighbors when we moved in were great. Then they moved out and a young couple moved in. They partied like it was going out of style and for hours. It was so loud in our apartment and the apartments around them, you could not hear anything other than their music especially the bass. Needless to say, the cops and the management were called several times on them. The most memorable one was the night I went down and pounded on their door. I heard the music be lowered and someone commenting that there was a really angry looking lady at the door (I was trying to sleep as I had to work in the morning). Within 10 minutes of me sternly and angrily telling them to turn it way down or even better off, it was back up to blasting level. Called the cops and when they came, heard the young woman say to them that she was partying because she had just had a baby. Never saw her with a baby. She told the cops that the baby (just a few days old apparently) was with her mother. They moved shortly after that. I am not sure if they were evicted or what.
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I live in a townhome. Today, right side neighbor brought me two loaves of bread he baked at his church. He is not a bad neighbor. He is a great neighbor!

My left side neighbors aren’t bad, exactly. The woman is a smoker and we are on the same outdoor schedule. So every morning at 6am when I’m out with my dogs, she’s out with her morning cigarette. She hocks loogies while she smokes. It is so gross. But given what I could be dealing with shared living....I guess I will deal. It could be so much worse!
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My apartment has NO sound proofing.

Every morning, EVERY FUCKING MORNING, my neighbors let their little one RUN through the house at 6:00am. Even the weekend, that kid is up running at 6am.

They had the balls to complain to the landlord that our TV was on too loud after 8pm when they put their kids to bed. Bitch, if keeping my TV loud until noise curfew @ 10:00 keeps your kids awake long enough to actually let me sleep in on the fucking weekends, I'm gonna keep the fucking TV on high volume until 10:00pm EXACTLY.
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