Looney and MEAN Neighbor

I live on a very quiet dead end street in a nice neighborhood. I love my house and my town - but I have the WORST NEIGHBOR IN THE HISTORY OF NEIGHBORS. I won't bother with the novella that is the history of insane and horrible things he has done in the year we have lived here - but I would like some advice on his latest foray into kookiness if you would indulge me!

Friday morning (around 9am) my sister came here. As I mentioned, I live on a dead end street. I am the 3rd house from the end and it is a fairly narrow street. Whenever people come down the street they usually wind up doing a 3 point turn to get out. She did her 3 point turn so that she could park in front of my house facing the proper way. While she was turning, she happened to have the nose of her car right at the entrance to my next door neighbors driveway. HE was pulling out. My 21 year old nephew was in the car and said that crazy neighbor man was in his garage and started to back up fast while she was turning. She gave him a courtesy beep and he paused while she completed the turn.

Once she was parked, he pulled up next to her and YELLED at her. Told her she has no right to use his driveway to turn around and that she is NEVER to do it again.

She didn't use his driveway - she used the street in front of his driveway.
The ALTERNATIVE would have been to drive to the next house to make sure that she had enough room - or to drive on his lawn.

Anyway... she brushed him off because he was clearly a cantankerous negative man.

He came to me and shook his finger at ME and told me that I have to keep "MY PEOPLE" from using his driveway. I told him straight out "I have warned everyone I know what an unfriendly, negative and hostile person you are. I have warned them to steer clear of YOU and anything related to you - the same way that I do. If they fail to heed that warning, that's not my fault."

His response? He put a sign - staked into the ground - in front of a giant tree next to his driveway. It says "DO NOT USE".

What a nutball. THIS is a man who goes to church every Sunday?

I want to put my OWN sign in my driveway just to kind of show him what an uncharitable *** he is. I was thinking "Don't worry - you can use ours" or something like that. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Yes - I am aware it is childish. The sign won't stay up long... but I really think it might be the ONLY way to show him what a completely unreasonable whackjob he has been. It probably won't work... but I think it will make me feel a bit better!

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wow that sux. Sorry you have a mean neighbor, and a loony neighbor too.

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We have one of those right next to us too and he doesn't want people parking in front o fhis house if you have a party because he thinks he owns the street--I can understand if my whole house had available parking in front of it and we had everyone parking in front of his. His biggest thing is he doesn't cut his lawn or do anything in relation to making any part of his house nice. We had huge amounts of ivy in the backyard and we ended up clearing it all out. We cleared all the ivy off the fence on his side because I don't want it coming back and cleared up to the fence and cut it all back and left his side alone obviously. He came home and started screaming at the top of his lungs that we touched his fence that technically is on the property line and the ivy was on my side--anyway. HE ended up taking a swing at my husband and hit him on the top of the side of his head. Needless to say we called the cops.

What I would do is just ignore his sign and don't do anything and the next time he screams just say you are calling the cops for harassing you. Thats what the cops told us to do. I think by putting up the sign you are just stooping to his level and he is just crazy. Like my husband says we spent alot of money on our house and we aren't going to let our crazy neighbor (he has schizo or bipolar & doesn't take his meds and how he has a family I am not really sure) ruin what we have accomplished. GOod luck and if you ever want to swamp crazy neighbor stories FM me.

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Yeah, it's so tempting to strike back at his negativity. But he sounds like he sits in his house, watching the street for any infraction, and hatches schemes to make people as miserable as he is.

You can't win with people like that. They put all their thoughts and energy into these perceived slights against them and could probably make your life much harder over time.

As much as I don't like giving people like that what they want, they are their own worst enemy. He'll fester in his crappy attitude and be unhappy for the rest of his life. That's punishment enough.

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Posted by greenfreak

Yeah, it's so tempting to strike back at his negativity. But he sounds like he sits in his house, watching the street for any infraction, and hatches schemes to make people as miserable as he is.

You can't win with people like that. They put all their thoughts and energy into these perceived slights against them and could probably make your life much harder over time.

As much as I don't like giving people like that what they want, they are their own worst enemy. He'll fester in his crappy attitude and be unhappy for the rest of his life. That's punishment enough.

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I think if you put the sign up it would be hysterical. You offically live next door to Oscar the Grouch....what an idiot!

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This is a tough one. I wouldn't put a sign up. BUT I would use his driveway every single day and pull ALL the way up into the driveway and then back all the way out ( make sure you don't have the kids with you though).

Okay sorry, I am sure this isn't helpful - but I had to read it about three times to really "get" that someone could be like that!

If his hostile behavior continues I would ask the police to go talk to him - but unfortunately there is nothing you can really do I guess

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Posted by greenfreak

Yeah, it's so tempting to strike back at his negativity. But he sounds like he sits in his house, watching the street for any infraction, and hatches schemes to make people as miserable as he is.

You can't win with people like that. They put all their thoughts and energy into these perceived slights against them and could probably make your life much harder over time.

As much as I don't like giving people like that what they want, they are their own worst enemy. He'll fester in his crappy attitude and be unhappy for the rest of his life. That's punishment enough.

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wow what a psycho......sorry you have to deal with that

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Posted by baghag

Posted by greenfreak

Yeah, it's so tempting to strike back at his negativity. But he sounds like he sits in his house, watching the street for any infraction, and hatches schemes to make people as miserable as he is.

You can't win with people like that. They put all their thoughts and energy into these perceived slights against them and could probably make your life much harder over time.

As much as I don't like giving people like that what they want, they are their own worst enemy. He'll fester in his crappy attitude and be unhappy for the rest of his life. That's punishment enough.

The mature me agrees.

The immature one will drop by with eggs.

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I have to agree with Greenfreak...it's not goiing to make a difference anyway.
He's just a miserable pudknocker.

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You have to just sit and wonder how people become soo nasty and arrogant, for the silliest of silly reasons!

Ugh! There's just no reason for it.

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I think he has mental problems, seriously. Just ignore him. I would still use the driveway to turn