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loli phabay
(5,580 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)loli phabay
(5,580 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Guess who? 
Sociopath, indeed! 
rug
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hunter
(38,304 posts)My wife might have complained too, but she was away on call.
Our current neighbors are more understanding. They've done worse and they own a sweet pit bull and a smaller dog who bark all night.
Why can't they be like us? Our dogs sleep inside with us. They only howl when they hear the police sirens.
peacefreak
(2,939 posts)Talked to a woman who had a weird, long haired guy living next door to her. She liked him OK, because he would give her veggies from his garden. Turns out his name is Rob Zombie.
ithinkmyliverhurts
(1,928 posts)Holy fuck.
rug
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Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin. One shoots off his gun in people's faces and the other shoots off her mouth and makes your brain hurt and your ears bleed. Either way, I would move - fast - like a thief in the night.
Mr.Bill
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davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I gave other suggestions below. Didn't even think about him. Whooee....
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)We know some things about you, but we probably know more about people like Ted Cruz or Pope Francis. I could think of a almost a dozen other people to have on the list (Sara Palin, Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, John McCain, Jon Voight, W., Dick Cheney, Miley Cyrus, etc.).
Given that list it would be a tougher choice.
DFW
(54,302 posts)Our German house is in a slightly upscale, but unostentatious neighborhood where all the houses were pretty much the same size--until about 5 years ago. The old couple next to us decided to move to the south of Germany, and so the put their house on the market. They had a decent-sized house with a nice big lawn adjacent to our house, and the two properties were "separated" by a row of small fir trees that were there when we bought our house.
When the neighbors put their house on the market, they had missed the real estate boom, and were asking too much for the place. It sat vacant for over a year until suddenly a guy showed up in the neighborhood telling everyone he had bought the property, and would be building a "slightly" bigger place on the premises. I don't know how it is in the States, but in Germany, you can go to the city government and ask to see plans for any houses being built near your own. We went, and saw that his "slightly" bigger place meant tearing down the old house, digging up the lawn and cutting down all trees. We protested and even sued the city for allowing the permit. Several suspiciously outsized houses had sprouted up near here, and we all suspected corruption in the city housing office.
To make a long story short, we lost the suit, the whole city building office either had to resign or is now under bribery indictment, but the houses stand. As our neighbor, we now have a super-sized "I have more money than any of you" house with one rich guy living in it all on his own. He saw that one of the neighbors a little father away had a fish pond with koi in it, so he had that built on his property as well. Instead of the trees (he even cut down one on our property "by mistake" when we weren't there, and refused to make restitution), we now have an iron fence. You see, we have a gate to our driveway, but the motor that controlled it kept malfunctioning. We said what the hell do we need a gate for anyway, so we removed the motor and left the gate permanently open. He asked us to keep it closed. We said no way. He then asked us to plant new trees on our property border after he had cut the old ones down. We passed on that one too. So he had an ugly iron fence built. It says more about him than it does about anyone else, and we can't do anything about it anyway.
The only break-in attempt in recent years around here has been at his "Look-at-my-money" house. None at our house yet. Actually, a friend from the German version of the FBI told us that anyone looking to break into a house would case our place and figure we weren't worth the effort. Fine with us.
About two years ago, there was a big soccer game being broadcast on German TV on a night when we had some friends over. The guy had not yet had shades installed in his room with a huge flat screen TV on his wall, and we could see right into it, since he had all the trees cut down that formerly provided both houses with privacy. We stared in disbelief as we saw the guy, all alone on his sofa, legs stretched out on a foot rest, in full uniform of the soccer team he must have been a fan of. We didn't think people whose ages were in two digits did that, but there he was, alone in his immense mansion, watching a soccer game in his team's uniform. I think we were laughing so loud, he must have heard us through the TV and both windows, since the very next day, he had workmen over installing electrically controlled shades for his TV room.
I almost wish we had Ted Cruz instead.
Notice I said "almost."
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)I enjoy my quiet...