My crazy neighbor...

Ok, my neighbor is starting to scare me.

He used to just annoy me, and occasionally worry me, but I think he has finally flipped out.

Ok, here's my situation; I live in an apartment building in Lakewood Colorado (part of the Denver metroplex), and my next door neighbor is an older man, he claims he has cancer and he likes to yell at people. He is totally unpredictable, some days he'll be just as nice as can be, then other days he yells all day, he'll yell at neighbors, people on the street, and he even calls people up to yell at them. He always leaves his windows open and it isn't uncommon for me to hear him yelling at someone over the phone when I walk by.

Yesterday, he went a little further than anyone expected.

Some guy was riding a bike on the sidewalk by our place, and my crazy neighbor comes out to yell at him. At this point I was in my apartment trying to ignore the commotion because, well, this sort of thing is fairly common. What I did hear was him yelling about riding on the sidewalk and calling the cops and this went on for a while, I assume the guy on the bike was trying to reason with him but I couldn't hear him because he wasn't yelling at the top of his lungs. The next thing I hear is "Get off the sidewalk you goddamned Mexican!" from my crazy neighbor and a loud smashing noise. I look out my window and crazy neighbor is waving around a baseball bat, brandishing it at bike guy and smacking the stairs with it. "You want some of this homey?" he yells, bat in hand. Bike guy is getting worried and backs off, he turns around and starts riding away. "You're still riding your fucking bike!" yells crazy neigbor, and he throws the bat at bikeguy, it misses and skids acrost the concrete. Bike guy rides off and crazy neighbor goes inside.

Well, fast forward about an hour, I let my dog out to go to the bathroom. The cops are parked in the lot talking to a couple of witnesses to the incident, who just happen to be a couple of tweakers who live upstairs and are kinda buddy-buddy with crazy neighbor. I'm smoking a cigarette and sitting in my chair when crazy neighbor comes up to me. "You heard that guy threaten me, didn't you?" he says.

"Hey, I was inside, I didn't hear much." I reply.

"Well, if the cops ask say you heard him threaten me."

I don't say anything.

"I mean, you can't just ride your bike on the sidewalk. What if you hit somebody?"

I just nod and try not to make eye contact.

"So if the cops ask, just say you heard him threaten me, ok?"

"Look," I say, "I'm not going to lie to the cops."

"You just need to say you heard him threaten me."

I don't respond.

"C'mon man, I would stick up for you man." he starts getting angry "The landlord came by and complained about you'r dog's shit, I said it wasn't your dog." (I clean up after my dog, by the way. In fact, that's what I was doing when he came over to talk to me.)

"Hey," I say, "I don't want to lie to the cops. Besides, they probably won't even talk to me."

"Well fuck you man! See if I stick up for you."

Before he starts yelling again I get my dog and go inside. "Fucking pig." he mutters at me as I go in.

Anyways, it was a pretty uneventful night after that, unfortunately, the cops didn't arrest him, and they didn't come talk to me. I go to bed and go to school the next morning.

Today, when I got home from school, crazy neighbor was outside. He starts yelling at me about dogshit, of which there is none because I pick it all up. After a few loud words I just ignore him and walk away, as I'm walking into my apartment he yells that he's going to call the cops on me.

Well, I'm usually one to mind my own business, but this guy is starting to scare me, so I called the landlord and told her about the situation. She said she would look into it and that is that.

Now, I'm kinda nervous to take my dog out because crazy neighbor is out there and I just don't want to have to deal with him right now.

Anyways, that's my crazy neighbor situation, I'm sure some of you have crazy neighbors, feel free to share.

 

People that type in green font are CrAzY.

 

hey, yeah, I didn't read that. Fuck you.

 

What a nut! If he does have cancer then he has nothing to lose. Stay in his good books or move out!

 

That guy sounds like he's from some kind of movie or book or something. Esh, neighbours like that really are that scary.

 

Fuck that. I'm not going to pander to a psychopath, and if I violate my lease I will be out a lot of money, not to mention the general pain-in-the-ass of moving.

The man is a fucking nuisance. I'm not the only one here who is tired of putting up with him and hopefully he will be evicted. But what really gets me is that no matter how many complaints the cops and landlords get, they never even attempt to do anything about him. Grrr.

 

I had a guy who used to pound on his ceiling (my floor) and yell, told me "you have s studio aprtment, you don't need to walk around that much," and came up to apologize by giving me an open bag of granola cereal and a pack of cigs when i didn't smoke...

but yours sounds like he's in a whole 'nother league!

 

WTF did your landlord have to say about this? Tell them your not going to pay full rent under these conditions. Speak to other neighbours that share the same problem and harass your landlord. Theres strength in numbers...

 

That sounds exactly like my neighbor Kenny. Except he lives in the house across the street.

 

dude this guy definately sounds schitzo.....or maybe if he is an older gentlemen he is not only going senile but maybe some pre althizmers(sorry about the spelling)if thats the case it explains the angry out bursts.... I use to live beside a drug dealer and dont get me wrong i love drug dealers for the most part but not when they are cooking meth 24/7.....anyways he was fucking nuts but only when he was tweaked from baking.......so maybe its a side affect from the meds of his sopposed cancer.............i dunno man but good luck and i hope everything works out well

 

shoot him

 

i say you shoulda have lied for him. getting hit by a person on a bike would be not cool.

 

haha thats crazy..

my neighbors are pretty crazy... my neighbor has her dog piss on my door..

 

Sounds like an old guy who used to live near me. Lied non-stop about anything at all. Said he had cancer, said he had all kinds of money and contacts, would call and threaten us because he used his chainsaw to cut a tree that feel on our car during the ice storm of '98. He wanted $900 or else he would sue.

My hubby is too nice and doesn't believe me, but this guy would growl at me from his yard (3 doors down, so really loud) and call me a bitch when I was alone.

 

omg, what a freakin loon..bark at you, wow what a winner.. and to call you a bitch, what a loser...

 

Yes, he is a tall, fat alcoholic in his 60's........the kind that never dies.

 

old drunk men are very harsh and seem to live forever..

 

Louis Black once said...the good die young and pricks live forever.

If that's not true...then I don't know what is.

Dude sounds like he's senile or something...definitely talk to your landlord and tell him/her that you're withholding rent until the problem is solved...that should get a fire under his/her ass.

 

Witholding rent just gets you evicted, he has signed a lease. What he should do is call the police and tell them that he knows something about that incident and was threatened if he told.

 

Wow he is crazy......You should just let your dog shit inside on newspapers