Bad Neighbors: The Truly Horrible, No Good Person Next Door
There was an incident in my neighborhood yesterday evening. A neighbor telephoned because two enormous pigs showed up in her backyard and she was trying to find the owner. After much ado about the future pork chops, the owner was located and the pigs made it home without being barbequed.
Whether your neighbors drive you crazy because their roosters crow in the wee hours of the morning before daylight, their cats leave muddy footprints all over your car, mean dogs roaming in a pack, or their dog barks all night every night, that’s still not as bad as other neighbors.
After more than 10 years of complaining to the police, members of the city council, and the actual noise-maker, neighbors finally called the local television station’s “That’s Messed Up” segment to see if anything could be done. The reporter said on his site,Â
Almost on cue, through jittery camera work, pointing toward the source of his consternation, you hear the cacophonous thunder of a high octane engine. At first it roars, then it consumes more fuel and the accelerator forces open the hungry carburetor. The thunder intensifies into rapid pulses, shrieking sonic booms, like an platoon of M-16’s firing indiscriminately. If there was a DB meter pointed at the tree line, it would have burst.
The neighbor would not back down in order to restore the peace, however the news finally got the attention of the Metro Codes office which issued him a citation for having an unlicensed car in the driveway.
I’m so lucky that our neighbors have been mostly decent, hard-working, respectful people, but if they were bad I’d probably just go talk to them first before doing something more drastic. How do you handle bad neighbors?Â
