Neighbours

[cupotee]

Has anyone ever felt terrorized by their neighbours?

If so how did you deal with it please.

[anneasquith]

terrorized...................phone the police.

[woofgang]

Not a neighbour but an acquaintance who turned up at the front door one day yelling and shouting and threatening to sue and yes we did phone the police and told him we had done so. He left fast and never tried it again. The police came after he had left but said we had dome the right thing and to do so again if we needed to.

[SlackAlice]

Nope, they daren't, they'd lose! ☺☺☺

[pusskin]

Lickily ----never ever happened to me. Got good neighbours.

[boxtops]

Yes - we had a nutter neighbour a few years back who was often high as a kite and went round threatening people. He was out in the street with a set of chef's knives one way, brandishing them about. The police were constantly around - he went down eventually, thank goodness.

[ClaryS]

The police are useless and trouble-makers know how to work the system. I would deal with it myself, I have some very 'useful' friends. Often with bullies fighting fire with fire actually works. My son had trouble with a loud-mouthed neighbour that threatened to come beat him and his girlfriend up because they were playing their music too loud. it ended up with a restriction order which did no good as the bloke just shouted obscenities over the garden fence. I went round and explained it was possibly a good idea to stop his behaviour as Sons brother was coming down from Newcastle at the weekend where he is a professional cage fighter and he wouldn't want to upset him would he? (total fabrication, ). It worked.

[SlackAlice]

Despite my earlier comment all my immediate neighbours are good and not a problem.

Only had grief with one a lot further down the road when we first moved in some time ago. Tried to be 'Jack the Lad' with me, was firmly disabused of the situation and never caused any further grief, he moved shortly after.

[ClaryS]

boxtops yes I can see in that situation it would not be a good idea to sort it out yourself. It does depend on the neighbour and how they are 'terrorising' you.

[horseshoes]

Yes indeed, and it was horrendous. It would take pages to tell you about it, as it went on for four years. They were neighbours whose fields adjoin our and my parents houses. They started with a couple of trail bikes and quickly went to having 13 or 14 similar vehicles on their fields, sometimes for 8-9 hours a day. The noise was unimaginable, and made me so ill that I lost over 4 stones. You couldn't hear the television over the noise. Our illustrious council's Environmental dept got involved (police couldn't do ANYTHING as its private land). We had to record the noise and write logs. The paperwork would get lost, the recording machine would be unavailable etc etc the list goes on and on. I would stay in work sometimes until about 10 at night to save going home to the noise. I couldn't think straight at all. I also couldn't bear what it was doing to my elderly parents. After this had gone on for what seemed like forever, just as it was about to go to court, the woman dealing with it went off with stress. I could have told her about stress!!! We spoke to another council official, the one who probably should have been involved sooner, and he intimated that she was being threatened. It only stopped because the couple concerned split up and he moved away. He was a really thug. You couldn't talk or reason with him. He told the council it was his effing land and he'd do what he effing wanted on it. I'm actually ring as I'm writing this, even though its 10 years ago. It probably sounds a bit pathetic now, but believe me, to live it was truly horrendous.

[cupotee]

Our problem started 8 weeks ago and the police have been involved....they took statements from us with a view to taking statements from the culprit...8 weeks later the neighbour hasn't even been interviewed. Meanwhile she is still doing things to upset us.

We are "not young" and never had bad neighbours til now. I'm beginning to wish I had prosecuted her rather than ask for assistance from the law to live a peaceful life in our old age.

[woofgang]

if the police have done nothing then chase it, maybe also a call ti your local councillor or MP.

[viv38]

cupotee, don't let the police get away with this apathy. Contact the Chief Super at your local (or nearest) station and put in a complaint and don't give up until they respond, also involve (as woofgang says) your local MP. Any family you can get on side too, just to let this thug see that you are not alone? I feel sorry for you, my parents were once in this predicament, but with the help of me and my brother and us not letting the police take the matter lightly, we got it sorted, thank God.

[cupotee]

Thank you both.

My husband is in his 80's and physically abused by a LADY neighbour 20 years younger than him.

I will talk to our son this weekend when I see him..he does know what happened, but we had hoped it was a simple matter where the person would be told her behavior is unacceptable..seems we were hoping for to much.

[Peter Pedant]

Think Andrew Mitchell and install CCTV.

Having been accused of harassment myself - it was difficult for the tenant in arrears whom I was 'harassing' cd not quite explain how it was that she had come to my door and shouted at me !