Thread: Winging Neighbours

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amazing hoss.... and yet if something of yours gets stolen "they can't help"
or if someone breaks into your shop, it'll take them thirty minutes to show up.

B4 I retired and moved to Da Mountians, I lived in a pretty conservative area.
Neighbors were always bitchen about the noise my Hot Rods made.
I tried to be considerate, but ya always got a few jerks.
Anyway, the weekend I moved out, I had a buddy of mine bring over his T/A dragster, we rolled it outta the trailer and stuffed it in my garage.
Ya see where I'm goin with this?
About 7 am on Sunday morning,we rolled it out in the driveway and lit it off for about a minute, then loaded it back in the trailer.
And off I went to the new house in Da Mountians.
Bet sum are still wonddering what happened.

i am sure that woke them up da

I guess the bottom line is that we ALL offend our neighbors in some way from time to time. Our last home had great neighbors and we all tolerated each others little offenses very well. I made a little noise with my car and boat projects, the guy behind me had some loud pool parties, etc, etc, but no one ever said anything to anyone about it.

We did live in one neighborhood years ago, mainly populated by ooooooooooold people () and they hated us because we were younger and had teenage kids. Even the fact that we had 4 daily drivers in the driveway irked them (I had to explain to one guy that "We have 4 licensed drivers, so YES, we have 4 cars!"

The guy next door would call code enforcement on us once a week and finally I got fed up with it, so I went to city hall and got a copy of all the laws so I knew what I was dealing with. One law was that you couldn't have anything out by the street on your property EXCEPT YOUR MAILBOX. I noticed this cranky neighbor had a post stuck in the ground out by the road, so he was technically in violation.........so, I CALLED CODE ENFORCEMENT!

A half hour later I was out cutting my grass and here rolls up a code enforcement car, and the officer starts writing up a ticket for the guy next door. He comes walking out of his house and I watch an animated conversation where he is telling the officer he has that post there to keep people from driving on his lawn. No dice, the officer makes him take it down right then.

As he was dragging the post across the lawn, taking it to his garage, I shut the mower off and walked up to him. I said "How does it feel? Every time I see you break some law I am going to have them back here at your door!" We never had one problem after that!

Don

These are funny stories..My car is locked in a shop about 2 miles from
my home behind my son's house about 1000 ft off blacktop, mostly country
with several houses...I don't get it out too often for a burnout, but when
I do everyone within 3 miles knows who it is and what it is....I know of
two deputy Sheriffs living close by also, but I only do a couple burnouts
and put back in shop..No one has complained, as a matter of fact I have
had people who heard it coming down the lane come out to the road to
watch. Lot of thumbs up, but keep in mind this is not city folk, lot of
rednecks around here including cops.....Guess I am lucky.

I used to have jerk next door that had a little Jap dirt bike with open exhaust, the ones that go ring a ding ding, ring a ding ding and drive you nuts. He'd fire it up after his in-laws left, his wife and brood were living with them, and do donuts in the back yard. I put up with it as long as I could until one day I fired up both the Mustang and 62 1/2 ton with the headers open. That pretty much put a stop to it until the day he sprayed the Mustang with rocks with his dirt bike. I went back into the house and came out with a baseball bat and threatened to knock him into the middle of the next week if he ever got close to my Mustang again. That pretty much solved the problem.

Man I guess I'm the only lucky one here. Guy across the street has a big block 69 Camaro & a 34 Ford, guy diag from us has Harley's, next door neighbor is currently looking for a project (we see him at the cruise ins & the track) & the people behind me have a boat with a small block. Oh the guy 3 houses down has a 9 sec Mustang. We all help each other, swap parts, & don't complain when one of us comes home @ 2:00 in the morning.

i live about 13 clicks from town, most of the people around the street, are
hot rodders, dirt bikers , demo derby racers!
the crybaby whiners live on the other side of town!
what is really neat is that the noisemakers shut down the cars by 10:00pm or so!

Grew up in Seattle. Dad was always working on the Rod - grinding, hammering, welding.....but always during 'normal' hours, and the neighbors were fine. Of course, a college professor moves in directly behind us and all of a sudden, the cops are called all the time for noise complaints. Got to know a few of them on first name basis and they all enjoyed a tour of the Rod as well as a cold Pepsi when they showed up.

After I moved out, I brought over my buddies 2.5 litre inboard hydro to dial the cam in. I estimate it took the prof about 2-sec to make it from his office to the back of the boat to scream at me after we fired it up. I told him to go ahead and call the cops - think Ron was on duty that day and I hadn't seen him for awhile. LOL.....

Seems there is at least one in any given neighborhood; just do not like "car people". What I do that seems totally innocuous, sets someone nearby off, no matter what or where. My daily drivers have always had duals and RRUMBLY pipes, and neighbors have mostly suffered me quietly; mostly, but not always. The guy who lives behind me asked me if I was going to be working on cars and trucks in my yard, when I moved in; the question was couched in a tone of distaste and disgust. I told him "yep", and that sometimes I'd be running them, or banging on things, and would have machinery and equipment around almost all the time, but that I would try to be reasonably considerate; he promptly built a six foot fence at the back of his yard, but he's never complained about running engines or such.