Nightmare Neighbours?

I've had them in the past. Girl downstairs up all night long music, TV blaring out. On benefits obviously. Then was replaced by a guy and his girlfriend who were splitting up, she was taking the kids he was being kicked out, only they swapped and that was then trouble started, guy was a loon tried to kick the door in had the police called a couple of times, used to yell "SHUT THE **** UP!!!" at the slightest sound from, didn't help their was only a few planks and a thin strip of carpet between me and downstairs, you could hear a pin drop. Then he started knifing the tyres on my car...

Finaly moved out of town here where the folks around here are professional types who actually have jobs and stick to regular sleeping hours and the purpose built block has nice thick concrete ceilings between me and folks upstairs where I've been for the last 4 or 5 years of peace. Bliss.
 
After reading some of these stories I'm glad I don't have any neighbours, I'm not the most tolerant person if I'm woken up by inconsiderate asshats :o

The cows mooing wake me up occasionally mind :D
 
Mynight said:
Erm wow. I really am spoilt living in the south east :eek:. I've only experienced one bomb in my life and that was terrifying. Even though its safe I've never gone back there. Braver man than me :).
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It's not so bad. They usually work things out amongst themselves. So long as you don't turn up on their radar you're golden.

The latest shooting was on the third of this month. Masked men broke into some guys house and shot at him, but not to hit him, more to scare the **** out of him. He's allegedly a convicted sex offender. So more than likely a sending a message to get out of town. That was also just round the corner.

I suppose it's one of the reasons low level anti-social / street crime is so low in Northern Ireland. Nobody wants their door kicked in and taken off for a punishment beating / shooting.
 
OhEsEcks said:
It's not so bad. They usually work things out amongst themselves. So long as you don't turn up on their radar you're golden.

The latest shooting was on the third of this month. Masked men broke into some guys house and shot at him, but not to hit him, more to scare the **** out of him. He's allegedly a convicted sex offender. So more than likely a sending a message to get out of town. That was also just round the corner.

I suppose it's one of the reasons low level anti-social / street crime is so low in Northern Ireland. Nobody wants their door kicked in and taken off for a punishment beating / shooting.
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You see that I don't have much of an issue with it sounds like they're protecting their neighbourhood.

Is it just gangs? Or we talking remnants of the IRA?
 
meh my neighbours are fine I guess..

kids do start screaming outside at 9ish am during summer tho! but generally I can't hear much from them! they're a Jamaican family, funny thing is.. they keep calling us "white boys" pfth!
 
Mynight said:
You see that I don't have much of an issue with it sounds like they're protecting their neighbourhood.

Is it just gangs? Or we talking remnants of the IRA?
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I live in a majority Protestant / Loyalist town. So it's the other side. UDA / UVF / UFF. Certain areas in Belfast or Derry that are predominantly Catholic / Nationalist or Republican might have Dissident Republican groups carrying out similar things.

For the most part though, the Loyalists are all just drugs / extortionist gangs now. There was a big hoohah a while back in Belfast when a woman was shot several times in her car. Not sure what the details were around it, but it was claimed it was either, she owed local drug dealers money, or she'd spoken out against them and they were sending a message to local residents to keep their mouths shut.

And most people do keep their mouths shut, when you have known loyalist leaders sitting on the policing board...
 
I've always found ireland fascinating.

I didn't realise it was so corrupt (well police level). To be honest I bet it's not much (or at all) different in England.

Thanks for the info :).
 
OhEsEcks said:
I live in a majority Protestant / Loyalist town. So it's the other side. UDA / UVF / UFF. Certain areas in Belfast or Derry that are predominantly Catholic / Nationalist or Republican might have Dissident Republican groups carrying out similar things.

For the most part though, the Loyalists are all just drugs / extortionist gangs now. There was a big hoohah a while back in Belfast when a woman was shot several times in her car. Not sure what the details were around it, but it was claimed it was either, she owed local drug dealers money, or she'd spoken out against them and they were sending a message to local residents to keep their mouths shut.

And most people do keep their mouths shut, when you have known loyalist leaders sitting on the policing board...
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I remember reading something about that and there was a rumour that she was seeing someone in one of the Loyalist group and she ended it. The policing board is a strange one as isn't Gerry Kelly on the board as well?
 
Rabid Wolf said:
I remember reading something about that and there was a rumour that she was seeing someone in one of the Loyalist group and she ended it.
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Might have been that reason. Thing I remember most about it was they put several rounds into her while she was sat in the car. Lucky they weren't aiming higher or she'd be dead.

Rabid Wolf said:
The policing board is a strange one as isn't Gerry Kelly on the board as well?
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He is. But he's former IRA. Done his bird, went all political and all that. Winston Irvine is allegedly a Belfast UVF commander. And he would have been the commander at the time that woman was shot. So he would have been the one that gave the OK for the shooting if it was in his yard. And yet he's sitting on the policing board and talking about how communities deal with anti-social disorder and crime in a post-paramilitary punishment shooting / beating society.

Pretty ****ed up for those that live in his stomping ground.
 
I have neighbours on 3 sides as we live in cluster housing. Not had too much of a problem, but had the odd freak incidence on 2 sides.

Last year, friends and I had a final BBQ of the year on Hallowe'en. Just for a laugh, we put our empty plastic coke bottles on the BBQ with lids on, so that the air expanded and the bottles went *boom* and shot across the garden. Unfortunately, one shot upwards and landed in the neighbour's garden. She thought that we were trick-or-treating, so she doused our BBQ with a hose. We weren't that bothered though because we have already eaten, except that she drenched our clothes as well. 3 hours later, after dark, we heard something upstairs and it was my bedroom being flooded due to the same female neighbour aiming her hose through an open window and permanently shorted out 2 lights (and of course the fuse box). Anyway, no repercussions after that, but obviously she's a bit of a nutcase. Kinda like a Dennis the Menace comic strip when you look back at it :p

Neighbour on another side of me, also female, bit of an alcie, downed a litre of vodka in one sitting last month. She then proceeded to break into the neighbour's house (on the remaining side that I've not mentioned) by kicking in a window. It was pot luck that it wasn't my house! Two cops came and took her away. That was about 6 weeks ago now and we haven't seen her since :D
 
just bought a new house not moved in yet but I know its going to be a nightmare

after going back to view the house the old man next door has trimmed all the bushes out the front too be perfectly square and inline and painted all my fences so they don't rot. :)
 
Yeah I once had some bird move in down the road with christ knows how many kids, judging by the range of hair colours and ethnicity I can only say all by different fathers.

She basically let them run riot out in the street every night until the small hours drinking cider in her front garden while her boyfriend sat in his chavmobile smoking weed.

I said to her "Look, if you want to be a ****** mother to them kids you go ahead but don't go letting them scream around the street at all hours because I've got a job and funnily enough I need sleep"

She starts f-ing and blinding and all this "Don't tell me how to raise my kids blah blah blah"

All the neighbours were getting annoyed with her so in the end I basically reported her to social services saying she wasn't fit to be a mother as well as to the benefit cheat line because I had no doubts she was fiddling the system in some way (boyfriend living there was a red flag), also made a noise complaint.

She was gone within a few weeks.

Also had some knob keep coming home drunk and singing at 3am in the week. I leaned out the window and informed him if he didn't stop it he'd meet my displeasure in the form of a shovel.

Neighbours now are alright, the bloke next door I'm pretty sure he's a serial killer or something but he keeps to himself, the other lot don't speak English very well but say good morning and what have you. Never been one for suburbia :D
 
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Nix said:
Why anyone chooses to live in NI is beyond me.

Crazy Irish.
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Thing is though unless you move in those circles you will almost certainly never encounter any trouble whatsoever from the paramilitaries / gangs / whatever.

I've lived here for 8 years now so all 'post-troubles' and the biggest inconvenience I've had was a series of hoax alerts that closed one of the main routes into Belfast.
 
Cosimo said:
All our neighbours are nice, friendly and quiet. Issues, what issues.... no issues...
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Yeah same here. I live in a really nice area now with a good community spirit.

Although, I used to live up in Newcastle in new build flat. There were three floors and we were on the first. Above us were a nice semi-retired couple who only really came to stay at weekends and the below flat was empty.

One day I cam back from work to find a young lass moving in, replete with bump. I am somewhat worried about this because so far we really haven't had neighbours so we couldn't tell how loud a newborn would be (or, whether we would get complaints ourselves for keeping up the baby if we were watching TV or whatever).

Anyway time goes by and the baby drops, we sometimes hear a cry or two but it seems the build quality of this flat is actually pretty good. Then the 'trouble' starts. A chap, who I can only assume was the baby's father moves in and proceeds to start ragging her absolutely senseless at all hours of the night. And she was a screamer! Bearing in mind their master bedroom was directly below ours, you can imagine the disgust/embarrassment/hilarity this brought the Mrs & I.

On one occasion I'd ordered a new case from OC and on coming back from work had found the delivery chap had left the package with this neighbour. I was rather embarrassed because the night before had seen a particularly rambunctious performance which has almost had us knocking on the door at 3AM. When I went to collect the box, I was greeted by the young mother and we made polite conversation. She made a round-about apology saying "I hope the new baby hasn't been keeping you up all night". I do not recall whether she smirked or not but my face was like this :o
 
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