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| Sushipunk |
In approximately 12 years of living here in Brisbane, I've never had a single 'normal' neighbour. Not once.
I'll post more as the thread progresses, but I'll start with my very first neighbour experience.
It was 1997, and I'd just moved out of home to go to Uni here. Moved into a share house (actually, in the same suburb I'm living in now), and everything was pretty regular. Got to randomly know the neighbours a bit. 3 brothers bought a house together. They seemed ok. Tradesmen types, fairly chilled out. They smoked a bit of weed, and so did we. Cool.
They liked to party though. And play loud music. Nothing wrong with that?
Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It's like that (and that's the way it is)
It would be played 20+ times a day. Every day. Even 5 or 6 times in a row. And they'd all chant the lyrics and cackle afterwards. What.
They invited us over for a smoke. Ok, why not. We walk in, and there's one of the brothers just finishing up a shot of speed in the arm. He's sitting on a swivel chair, and the rush hits. He starts spinning around wildly (with the needle still in his arm, emitting the drug induced equivalent of "WHEEEEEEEEE!" We just stand there, like :wtf: He then proceeds to grab the chair and smash a hole through the wall with it, making this sort of deep grunting "yeeeeaaaahh" sound. Freaky .
A separate incident (same neighbours):
We're all just chilling out in our little back room/patio area, and we hear this SMASH. Glass or something breaking, and close. We head out and check it out. Neighbour guy is up on his roof, with a whole bunch of tiles. He's chucking them down onto the concrete in their back yard, and laughing his head off. We called out "What are you doing man!?" and he calls back "this is a ing awesome sound, listen!"
SMASH.... SMASH....SMASH
He throws one over onto our roof, and it doesn't break. Now, our houses are quite close together. Maybe 4 or so meters between them. So he takes a running jump and tries to leap across. s it up pretty badly, and ends up grabbing onto our guttering and pretty much ripping it off the house. Falls on his arse just by where we're standing, and starts crying. He's not actually hurt though, just upset :wtf:
Disturbing people.
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| djnitride |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
In approximately 12 years of living here in Brisbane, I've never had a single 'normal' neighbour. Not once.
I'll post more as the thread progresses, but I'll start with my very first neighbour experience.
It was 1997, and I'd just moved out of home to go to Uni here. Moved into a share house (actually, in the same suburb I'm living in now), and everything was pretty regular. Got to randomly know the neighbours a bit. 3 brothers bought a house together. They seemed ok. Tradesmen types, fairly chilled out. They smoked a bit of weed, and so did we. Cool.
They liked to party though. And play loud music. Nothing wrong with that?
Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It's like that (and that's the way it is)
It would be played 20+ times a day. Every day. Even 5 or 6 times in a row. And they'd all chant the lyrics and cackle afterwards. What.
They invited us over for a smoke. Ok, why not. We walk in, and there's one of the brothers just finishing up a shot of speed in the arm. He's sitting on a swivel chair, and the rush hits. He starts spinning around wildly (with the needle still in his arm, emitting the drug induced equivalent of "WHEEEEEEEEE!" We just stand there, like :wtf: He then proceeds to grab the chair and smash a hole through the wall with it, making this sort of deep grunting "yeeeeaaaahh" sound. Freaky .
A separate incident (same neighbours):
We're all just chilling out in our little back room/patio area, and we hear this SMASH. Glass or something breaking, and close. We head out and check it out. Neighbour guy is up on his roof, with a whole bunch of tiles. He's chucking them down onto the concrete in their back yard, and laughing his head off. We called out "What are you doing man!?" and he calls back "this is a ing awesome sound, listen!"
SMASH.... SMASH....SMASH
He throws one over onto our roof, and it doesn't break. Now, our houses are quite close together. Maybe 4 or so meters between them. So he takes a running jump and tries to leap across. s it up pretty badly, and ends up grabbing onto our guttering and pretty much ripping it off the house. Falls on his arse just by where we're standing, and starts crying. He's not actually hurt though, just upset :wtf:
Disturbing people.
Now yours. |
Speed is one hell of a drug.
Never met the dude, but at my old apartment complex there was this guy on the 2nd story looking out over the parking lot, would just stare at every completely butt ass naked... I thought it was hilarious but some of my lady friends thought it was just plain creepy lol. |
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| D-res |
my current neighbor loathes when people park over his imaginary property line in the street because his alcoholic wife's handicapped mother, who never leaves the house, likes to use the walkway in front of the house to get to her car (which is never). Our house has 3 cars and no alley spot so we take up slightly wider a spot than our property lines.
I came out one day in the autumn with my car covered from front to back with leaves. He giggled, pretending it was the neighbor kids. I mentioned how clearly only a child would pull such an immature prank and he piped down. I brushed all the leaves back into his front yard.
Same crazy bastard took all the leaves on our side of the street and moved them, handful by handful, to the curb on the other side. He also meticulously cleared any grime from the cracks in the curb with his fingers. He was ing around with the leaves for about an hour, what should've been a five minute job for anyone obliged to move leaves from one side of the street to the other. |
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| FuzzQi |
You don't live in Wilston do you?
Mine:
Landlords who lived above our flat interviewed us, telling us that they were looking for people to complement their quiet lifestyle. As a studious couple just moving out for the first time we thought this would be fine. First Friday night was the most insane thing I have ever heard. I have no idea what it was but this was the mental picture I got:
A circle of middle-eastern people gathering around someone in the middle who takes a huge puff of a hashish while everyone cheers. The more they smoke it the more everyone else stamps on the floor and claps, and when they vomit everyone cheers!
Then they dance to Madonna
Almost exact same situation 10 years earlier when I lived next to this Egyptian guy who was a journalist for The Arab News. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by FuzzQi
You don't live in Wilston do you?
Mine:
Landlords who lived above our flat interviewed us, telling us that they were looking for people to complement their quiet lifestyle. As a studious couple just moving out for the first time we thought this would be fine. First Friday night was the most insane thing I have ever heard. I have no idea what it was but this was the mental picture I got:
A circle of middle-eastern people gathering around someone in the middle who takes a huge puff of a hashish while everyone cheers. The more they smoke it the more everyone else stamps on the floor and claps, and when they vomit everyone cheers!
Then they dance to Madonna
Almost exact same situation 10 years earlier when I lived next to this Egyptian guy who was a journalist for The Arab News. |
Nah, I'm in Norman Park.
That's hilarious though :stongue: |
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| The17sss |
LOL! This thread has so much potential. I have so many examples of weird neighbors so it's hard to choose. As of right now, I have this single mom living on the left side of me. She has 2 kids who are definitely from 2 different dads (one is white, the other half black it appears). Girl is probably 13, boy 15. She has a different man coming over once a week. Meanwhile, the boy dresses in typical "I hate my parents, you dad-I'll-never-meet" clothes... wears a lot of heavy metal band shirts, skinny jeans, and shreads his electric guitar all day in solitude to the likes of Megadeath, Slayer, etc. He's a ticking timebomb... lol.
But man... the neighbors I grew up next to in Florida... wow. So ing weird. I could write a novel on them, so I don't know how to do a c0r version. Super strict parents, fraternal twin boys the same age... one fat, one skinny, and total opposites. They wanted to kill each other for about 10 years strait. This includes one stabbing the other in the hand with a steak knife one day, the other one chasing his brother up the street swinging an axe at him, exhaustive Dungeons and Dragons sessions, using a baseball bat to hit rocks at each other, putting their dog in the microwave for 5 seconds to see how it would react... I mean, this is just the tip of the ing iceberg. One of them is now a psychologist for prison inmates- the other one a middle school gym teacher who has been arrested for stalking a couple times.
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| DaRoZa |
was going to post this in the social housing thread, as an extreme example for the dregs of society it lets exist, but couldn't be bothered, as they are definitely an outlier..
anyway, growing up i lived in a decent middle class suburb, mostly detached houses. a handful on the block were government subsidized, and we were lucky enough to live next to one of them... 2 of the families that lived there were fairly normal, but here's a summary the one that lived in between those for a year:
- mother was morbidly obese, didn't say or do much, waddled down the street a few times a day with a whole bunch of dollar store/walmart bags.
- father was a really creepy smiley softspoken guy... especially creepy because he was a known sexual offender, diddled kids in the past as a hockey coach.
- oldest brother in his 20s was in/out of jail a few times, once had verbal scuffle with my dad about noise and he threatened to slit his throat (right in front of me, was about 6 at the time)
- 2nd eldest was in his later teens... he befriended me, i thought he was cool and looked up to him at first. he had the early '90s john connor in T2 thing going... avoided my parents advice not to talk to him until he ended up ordering their pitbull to tear apart our neighbour's cat.
- 3rd eldest brother cut off his younger sister's finger before we knew them... a few years ago he murdered an elderly man who was well known and respected for giving historical tours of the city... he was a crackhead at this point and killed him for his spare change - believe "murdered for 9 cents" was the headline the next day.
on top of all this they were just plain dirty, they let trash and junk accumulate at the sides of their house, all of them completely uneducated too. don't want to imagine what actually went on inside either. after the cat incident a petition went around and got well past the needed number of signatures to get them kicked the out. after they moved out every few months RCMP agents in suits would come by ask us if we had any information at all about any of them :nervous: |
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| KilldaDJ |
my neighbours are pretty normal, heavy footed the ones upstairs but relatively normal.
OP provided interesting luls for my morning reads. vgoodthx |
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| The17sss |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaRoZa
on top of all this they were just plain dirty, they let trash and junk accumulate at the sides of their house, all of them completely uneducated too. don't want to imagine what actually went on inside either. after the cat incident a petition went around and got well past the needed number of signatures to get them kicked the out. after they moved out every few months RCMP agents in suits would come by ask us if we had any information at all about any of them :nervous: |
dude... that's some freaky . |
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| Omega_Blue |
my current neighbors are kinda weird. it's some half german/half mexican dude with a lazy eye and his white, semi-attractive girlfriend of 3 years or something. used to be a heroin addict (he's asked me for clean rigs on more than one occasion, even though i don't bang any drugs), now he's a WoW addict. calls me all the time looking for weed. randomly knocks on my door and wants to hang out.
there was one incident where a buddy of mine was crashing at my house; we were both halfway passed out when we heard a ing ridiculous fight going on next door. sounded like either really, really rough sex or a physical confrontation. what's more, there was 3 voices yelling at each other (not just the dude and the chick). we almost called the cops but the fight figured itself out after about a half hour. the next day i knocked just to make sure everything was cool and it ends up that he got in a fight with his buddy or something. i dunno. she didn't have any black eyes so i figured it was all good. heh. |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| One of my neighbors has a young teenager. If we go upstairs to the room adjacent to his, we can hear him attempting to sing along to his rap songs. Sometimes we can see him through the curtains doing his hand gestures with his headphones, but most of the time I can just hear him go "like that......go there.....you know." I don't know whether he doesn't know all the lyrics, or he's just putting emphasis on the rhymes. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by SuspicionVandit
One of my neighbors has a young teenager. If we go upstairs to the room adjacent to his, we can hear him attempting to sing along to his rap songs. Sometimes we can see him through the curtains doing his hand gestures with his headphones, but most of the time I can just hear him go "like that......go there.....you know." I don't know whether he doesn't know all the lyrics, or he's just putting emphasis on the rhymes. |
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