Strange Neighbors
In many of the houses we've lived in, there have usually been a few 'odd people'.
In the first house I remember growing up in, there was a mental guy just next door who used to run and swing his golf stick at us (after provocation of course, usually from beating up his nephew). We could easily run faster than him, but boy he was scary. And my youngest brother at the time used to get butt naked on the road in our court to the consternation of all the old women. Actually, we were probably the bad neighbors there...
A few moves later, and we were living next door to a guy who was drunk all the time, had a son who he would fight with whenever his son was dumb enough to come home, and played his radio full blast all day, so much so that we could hear it all over our house. There were also a few times when there was a lot of loud shooting noises on the road outside our house - I still have no idea whether they were real bullets or just caps. Also I found a (used?? i can't remember) condom in our letterbox. Needless to say my mother took it off my younger brother's hands with a pair of tongs.
Another neighbor found an old .22 bullet in his backyard. Just to see if it was still live, he bashed it with a hammer, and narrowly escaped getting shot by it. Fool.
Yet another neighbor kept a huge scary ridgeback that he used to let free to run in the park behind our house whenever we were out there. I think he did it on purpose.

Edit: Just remembered a neighbor at another place where we lived. He would go mental if we sat on tree branches and let them hit or touch his fence. We learned from the previous tenants that since he got so stinking mad because of it they pruned them back every year!

Fast-forward 9 years, and out in the country here we haven't met morons anywhere near as bad. Makes you think doesn't it?
(satellite blows, Thu 1 Sep 2005, 1:23, Reply)