Anybody got any interesting neighbour stories to share??
Oh absolutely. Long story.
So I used have several guinea pigs in my backyard earlier last year. There's a fence but apparently one or two wandered onto one of my neighbors' yard and my neighbor got pissed.
I had no knowledge of this until one day he started banging on my door, screaming loudly about how he was going to "clobber [them] to death on my face" if he saw them again.
Since he was screaming so loudly, I already started covertly recording the audio on my phone before I approached the door. While he kept screaming insults and threats about how he was going to beat my pets to death, beat me up etc, I told him to calm down and that I'd reinforce the fence. His wife then came to complain too.
I stayed calm while he proceeded to scream more threats, so I brought up that I had heard he got kicked out of his last home for being obnoxious. They moved here fairly recently here but I had already heard stories from my landlord and other locals about how he was a complete ******* and a nutjob. According to my landlord, he got evicted from the nearby town.
He got angrier, went on a rant about how this supposedly was out of context, bla bla bla. So I responded by telling him "cool story, you done whining now?", and he proceeded to punch my doorbell and step into my entry hall.
He raised his fist up to my face, yelling about how he was going to "destroy my property" but his wife pulled him back outside.
I laughed at him and told his wife that I'd be fine continuing the conversation with her but that I had no interest in dealing with a lunatic. He again proceeded to yell more threats but his wife desperately urged him to come along with her back to their house. He complied, but on the way back kicked one of my flower pots to pieces.
Afterwards, I went to the police with the audio and asked if they could charge him with anything. I suggested entrapping him by asking him if he made those threats and inducing a false statement, however I forgot that it's not illegal here to lie to police.
They said the neighbor sounds like a lunatic but that they couldn't charge him unless he acted on those threats, and they said "yes" when I asked if it had been better if I egged him on to the point where he'd actually punch me.
Either way they said they'd send an officer over to tell the neighbor to not be a lunatic.
I went back home and went to the neighbor's house, intending to tell them that I had covertly recorded the entire conversation and filed a police report.
Apparently the husband wasn't home anymore, and his wife came to the door. She was weirdly cordial, invited me inside and asked me if I wanted a drink.
I decided to be nice as well and told her I'd get to work on reinforcing the fence and that I had no issue talking to her about this or any other issues they might have.
I added that I filed a police report against her husband, and that I would refuse to speak to her husband because he's not mentally capable of having a reasonable discussion.
She seemed mildly offended but surprisingly calm about it, though she tried to argue he didn't actually say certain threats. I pulled my phone out, played the audio and said "I already told you I have no issue discussing with you, but we're not going to do this nonsense."
I expected her to get angry but she didn't really respond at all and just said "alright well, just make sure that fence is fixed"
I fixed the fence the next day, but over the next few weeks my guinea pigs started disappearing one by one until I had none left. To this day I don't know what happened to them, and there's no chance they would've gotten through the properly reinforced fencing.
A while back he called my landlord and screamed at him through the phone, complaining that he could see a tiny patch of weeds from one of his upstairs windows on my landlord's property behind my home. My landlord told me he proceeded to laugh at him and left the weeds there just to spite him.
He also broke into my backyard at night and ripped off an entire ivy wallplant just as it reached the top of the wall separating our yards. I filed another police report to document the behavior, though obviously nothing could be done about it.
I bought an alarm pistol to shoot on sight if he steps to my door yelling again.
My other neighbors are cool folks. I told them the story, as well as other locals, and they told me they had heard a wild story about him as well.
The lunatic neighbor runs a construction business and apparently some locals had called him to fix something, but when he visited the house he looked at their dog and said "what kind of abomination is that"
They proceeded to kick him out immediately.
I collected some stories from locals and used a VPN, local wifi etc to tank his google reviews as much as possible. I also included a personal review with audio of him yelling the threats and a copy of the police report.