Posted on 04/19/2002 7:32:02 PM PDT by damnlimey
I've seen this posted pretty much everywhere except FR so for your entertainment,meet the"Redneck neighbor".
For the full horrifying story and more of his handy work Click here
She moved in with 5 dogs. Within 2 years she had 25 dogs, 17 cats, and a pot-belly pig! She built 3 - 10 foot chain link kennels, which towered over the 6 foot privacy fence she built after we kept calling the police because of barking and the smell.
I could write an article as long as Red-neck neighbor about all the things she did. Thankfully she's gone now. We later learned she was living here on an expired visa, and the police never did anything about it!!
LOL, I was just 'previewing' this and saw your 'name'!
The worst I have ever experienced is the married couple (only a couple years) that moved in next door. They had a young baby and a german shephard. The marriage was already on the rocks and every so often I could hear the woman screaming at her husband "You are a loser!"
Topped with this, they kept the dog fenced in on the side of their house that my bedroom window overlooks, (even though they have a nice sized big backyard). Problem with that is they never bothered with the dog except to feed it. Poor thing just had no one to play with, no one to interact with. Just barked day and night at anything and everything that moved. A car would go by, it would bark. A strong wind knocks over a trash can across the street, it would bark. Why do people get dogs and then NEVER bother with it?
Thankfully, the couple moved (got a divorce I heard), and took their dog with them.
Then we got new neighbors, and they brought with them two dogs AND penned them up in the same side of the house that the previous neighbors did, right underneath my bedroom window! AND they didn't bother with these dogs either AND these two dogs went on to breed three more dogs! And now I got five dogs all penned up on the side of their house, barking like crazy at anything that moves or doesn't move.
Oh, and these neighbors won the lottery a few years ago to the tune of almost 5 million dollars. They've put in an inground swimming pool, bought themselves a boat, and expanded their house, making that area of the property, where the dogs are kept, quite smaller.
Our neighbors just moved on Friday! YIPPEE. The guy would crank his tunes in his stupid truck while he washed it and rubbed it with a diaper for eight hours. I once asked him three times on a Sunday to turn his music down. I could hear it over the t.v. Our houses are fairly close together, but he just didn't have the brains enough to know I didn't and the neighborhood didn't feel like listening to "Smoke On The Water" on his truck radio. His kids would run wild screaming up and down the sidewalks. I would never have gotten away with that behavior when I was a kid. Not once did I ever see play ball with either of the two little boys. The kids (5 & 3) would be outside in summer until after dark. He would yell at them all the time. We've been here three and a half years and I guess the last year was probably the "best". You can just tell how people were raised as children by how they live they live their lives as adults.
BTW, I wonder if JD8 sold that house.
I came home for lunch last summer and neighbor dude was catching some rays in his front yard IN HIS SPEEDO! (the guy is no Mel Gibson, I'll put it that way.)
This is a nice neighborhood, built originally for families when GE moved to town, so I guess it happens anywhere.
One neighbor had 3 nonstop barking champion Great Danes. Small yard. Big dogs. The dogs were BORED! The neighbor's son threw loud parties, and his buddies egged our cars for fun. This neighbor put in a swimming pool and an 8-foot ugly privacy fence so us low-status types couldn't bother them by looking at it. And his nasty wife was always shrilly berating us kids for *gasp* playing in the street in the daytime in front of their yard. The peasants must remain in their homes!
The other neighbor's hobby was drag racing. He had his own funny car and yes he tested it regularly. In the driveway. 15 feet from my bedroom window. On school nights. He did his own oil changes, and of course dumped the oil behind the garage, where it seeped onto our property. This neighbor also had the charming habit of destroying all bird nests on his property. Not surprisingly, his son was a holy terror. Dennis the Menace and Calvin had nothing on this kid. If he could break it, he did. I've still got the scar where this little hooligan hit my leg with a pruning saw.
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