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Eastern Girl · 03-16-2006, 04:46 PM

Has anyone had any really weird or creepy neighbours? I live in an apartment right now and I have been here for two years and my new neighbour moved in about two months ago and he is really creeping me out. I can hear him yelling and screaming in his apartment at all hours, last week he was wandering through the hallway crying and mumbling to himself. But what really worries me is this morning, when I was leaving my apartment, I opened my door to see him standing there. It was as though he was listening at my door. I asked if he wanted something and he just stared at me for a couple seconds and then walked out into the stairwell.

I talked to the people that work in the front office of the building a week ago and they said there isn't much they can do. Should I talk to this guy? I don't want to make for an unbearable living environment because moving, for me, isn't an option. What would you guys do, or have any of you had any experience with weird neighbours?

Calgary Flames · 03-16-2006, 04:48 PM

Slip a note under his door.

"I know where you live!"

GrrlGoalie33 · 03-16-2006, 04:50 PM

If property management isn't willing to do anything about it, and you find the guy lurking outside of your apartment again, call the cops. Tell them that you feel he is following you, and is making you uncomfortable or whatever.

It's a real possibility that the guy is either high beyond recognition, or maybe has a mental disorder and needs some help. Maybe the police can help with that.

rockstar · 03-16-2006, 04:51 PM

Yikes...that's the ultimate in creepy.

I guess all you can do is be careful, that is, if there's no action you can take. But I don't know...I would think that standing outside your door and allegedly listening in would be enough grounds to have something done. In the meantime...I don't know. Be civil, friendly (but not TOO friendly), and avoid the hell out of him.

Or just move to Calgary!

I've never experienced strange neighbours that I can remember. This guy sounds really bad though. Be careful!

transplant99 · 03-16-2006, 04:52 PM

Never allow a guy that makes you uncomfortable to continue on with out doing something about it.

Next time he is wailing at the top of his lungs...call the police.

next time you catch him at your door...call the police.

If he continues on, then you have a documented history to fall back on and can force some changes. Use the tools at your disposal, and the cops are about as effective as anything you have right now.

Also, when leaving, ALWAYS have your keys in your hand and put a mini spray can of mace on it...and have one key pointing out between two fingers (while making a fist), in case you need to drill someone in the yap.

Also, if you havent already, go take a self-defense course. They are usually short, but damn effective.

Just a few suggestions.

Fozzie_DeBear · 03-16-2006, 04:53 PM

I agree with Frankster on this, trust your gut and don't take chances...and while you're at why not take a kung-fu class to two? Then you can get all Shaolin on his gargoyle ass
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ken0042 · 03-16-2006, 04:58 PM

I'd be sure to call the police each time. Get to know you local police "non-emergency" number so you can call and it isn't treated as an emergency. (But please call 911 if you ever feel you are in danger.)

For example if you call because he did something this morning, call the non-emergency line.

Do you have a peep hole in your door? If not, demand that they put one in for you.

Cheese · 03-16-2006, 05:00 PM

yep on the cops...every single time....and no dont start a conversation of any kind....ignore completely.

Hmmmmmmm...weird neighbors....lets see, there was the strippers who lived upstairs in a house I rented, gave a whole new meaning to borrowing a cup of "sugar".
Umm...then there was the guy who lived in another place I was in...he and his Pitbull....both were *******s and I had the cops on his ass on many occasions.

HelloHockeyFans · 03-16-2006, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

Has anyone had any really weird or creepy neighbours? I live in an apartment right now and I have been here for two years and my new neighbour moved in about two months ago and he is really creeping me out. I can hear him yelling and screaming in his apartment at all hours, last week he was wandering through the hallway crying and mumbling to himself. But what really worries me is this morning, when I was leaving my apartment, I opened my door to see him standing there. It was as though he was listening at my door. I asked if he wanted something and he just stared at me for a couple seconds and then walked out into the stairwell.

I talked to the people that work in the front office of the building a week ago and they said there isn't much they can do. Should I talk to this guy? I don't want to make for an unbearable living environment because moving, for me, isn't an option. What would you guys do, or have any of you had any experience with weird neighbours?

I was waiting for you to say hi!!!

Okay, seriously though... I agree with those who are saying you should call the police. If he's causing a disturbance (which he obviously is) let them know and they'll probably pay him a visit.

It's unfortunate if he has some serious problems, but it's unfair that you should be affected by it.

FireFly · 03-16-2006, 06:06 PM

My neighbours aren't weird, they just like to fight at 11:30 every night. Cam and Trina just need to break up already.

RougeUnderoos · 03-16-2006, 07:02 PM

I had a creepy neighbour once. A big fat guy called Nibsy. He lived on the floor below me and he was a hard drinking heavy equipment operator. A bloated, belligerent, farting, belching, swearing, stinking drunken oaf. He'd be out working for months and then he would come back and go on a bender that you wouldn't believe and he always wanted me to take part.

Being a good neighbour, the first time he asked I took him up on his offer of "come on down for a beer" and it was an eyeopener. He was pounding beers at the rate of probably 6 or 7 an hour and doublefisting doobies and Du Maurier cigarettes. The guy's intake of intoxicants was staggering. And he was one of those guys that won't take no for an answer, seriously I was scared to say no, to his offers of "have another beer and take another toke of this". That didn't help, believe me.

Anyhow, I learned pretty quick to avoid him, and I learned to prance around like a mouse when he was home so he wouldn't hear me and insist that I go to his dungeon and get stinking drunk and high at all hours of the day.

One time he got wise to me and he just came knocking and barged right in with 6 beers in his hand with a sob story that the fascists at Dial-A-Bottle were refusing to deliver liquor to his apartment because he was so rude to all the drivers. He needed me to phone and have the booze delivered to my house and he would cut me in on the deal with a case of beer for myself. Thinking I would get rid of him and land a case of beer in the process, I called them up and the dispatcher said, "that sounds like Nibsy's address, this isn't for Nibsy is it, because we won't deliver anything to that *******" and I said "who is Nibsy"?

So the beer gets delivered but Nibsy decides to stay in my apartment and complain about the world. Eventually he wonders what it is I do and I told him I'm in university studying english and his eyes light up and he hauls himself out of the chair and says "I'll be right back". He lumbers down to his apartment and returns clutching a raggedy ass sheaf of papers and throws them on the table and says "this is the book I'm writing and I want you to tell me what you think".

I tried to read it while he sat there barking at me about his big plans to be an author and drinking beer. It was a spaceman story and the main character's name was "Buck". I told him that there was already a famous spaceman named "Buck" and maybe he'd be better off coming up with a different name. He didn't like that at all and so he began to threaten me with a little violence and "who the hell do you think you are booklearnin' whippersnapper drinking all my beer sonofabitch".

I was pretty spooked to have this guy, who probably outweighed me by 200 pounds, offering this kind of commentary in my tiny apartment so I told him he had to leave because I had somewhere to go. Eventually he calmed down enough to get out the door but not until he told me several stories of the beatings he had laid on people for transgressions not nearly as offensive as mine and I was very lucky to be getting out of there with all my teeth.

I shoulda phoned the cops. He probably would have strangled me with the phone cord and shoved his book down my throat for good measure.

Wow. What a rambling story. I had forgotten all about Nibsy. Thanks for reminding me!

Buff · 03-16-2006, 07:58 PM

Johnny Big Bucks!!!!!!!!!

He wasn't actually my neighbour but he rode his bike around and passed through my neighbourhood at least once per day. He'd go to the bar at noon to get drunk, go riding his bicycle (aimlessly but there probably was a pattern he followed), then go back to the bar later in the evening and get even more drunk or drunk again. I never talked to him at the bars, but apparently he always bragged about how much money he spends and how many people he beat up. (I think my 7 month old could whup Johnny's ass).

He was harmless but a few people were freaked out by him.

KootenayFlamesFan · 03-16-2006, 10:26 PM

Elle.........take other people's advice and call the cops. Like tranny said, it's more for history records than anything else. They can't do a heck of a lot the first time, but if behavior like that continues the police will at least have background info on your incidents with him.

Seriously........just standing there and staring at your doorway as you're leaving? Something is not right there at all.

Stormchaser · 03-16-2006, 10:53 PM

Bear mace!!! Tell him you have some and kick em in the junk. Wear those pointy toed shoes as well.

I had a bad neighbour who used to come over to my place at 6:00 in the morning asking if I had any alcohol.

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shoestring · 03-17-2006, 02:31 AM

Ask your neighbours if they are having the same problems with this fellar.? Then I would think your landlord could do something.If not,...

Then complain to the cops ,then the fire department.
A mental health organization? I don't know.

It seems to me that security of tenants is ultraimportant to the owner of the building. Go over the managers head to the leaseholder or whatever.

Indi · 03-17-2006, 06:34 AM

I used to live beside this monster of a black dude....he used to have all these friends of his with big gold chains and such. There was these two girls that lived there, and everyday around 3 pm, the girls would be sitting at the bus stop waiting to grab the bus. They always had some sort of various bruise or scrape. A police friend of mine drove me home from the garage I worked at at the time when he spotted this fellar.....he looked at me and told me I lived beside 'Dragon', one of the bigger drug dealers/pimps in calgary at the time.......the guy was actually pretty nice, I even drove him to his mothers house to drop off a kitchen table (cause I had a truck)

return to the red · 03-17-2006, 10:07 AM

Yup on the call the cops advice

a few years back I lived next to a guy that would listen to Johnny Cash till 4 in the morning just wasted and having an argument with himself. The one night he was really ****ed and decided to wander over with a block of wood in his hand after I pounded on the wall to tell him to shut up. this is where it gets secretive so shhh...I happened to have an UNLOADED shotgun in my place so I politely opened the door with it and asked him if I could be of assistance, didn't hear anything after that

Fast forward to now. I live across the street from some concrete workers who seem to find it appropriate to rev their piece of ****, backfiring, wanna be Harley's at 3 in the morning and then sit in their vehicle, drinking and pumping the music. The thing that really ****es me off is that after I call the cops (already wandered over many times) they always seem to shut it down right before the cops get there, so it continues on and on

Eastern Girl · 03-17-2006, 10:39 AM

Well thanks for the advice everyone. I talked it over with some friends and they were all pretty torn on what I should do, so I figured I would throw this one to the CP crowd.

I have talked to my other neighbours and a few have already spoken to him about the yelling and such at all hours. I seem to be the only one that has mentioned anything thing to the building owners though. I am going to talk to the building security and see what they say. If it happens again, I will call the cops, although I really don't want to resort to that. I imagine them laughing at me or lecturing me about calling because my neighbour was outside my door.

KGB33 · 03-17-2006, 10:39 AM

My first place my friend and I lived in when we were eighteen had this really heavy woman living next to us. In the middle of the day, almost every day we would hear slapping noises and moan and groans. We would almost pee ourselves laughing so hard. Freaky thing was I think she was the only one there!

HelloHockeyFans · 03-17-2006, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

Well thanks for the advice everyone. I talked it over with some friends and they were all pretty torn on what I should do, so I figured I would throw this one to the CP crowd.

I have talked to my other neighbours and a few have already spoken to him about the yelling and such at all hours. I seem to be the only one that has mentioned anything thing to the building owners though. I am going to talk to the building security and see what they say. If it happens again, I will call the cops, although I really don't want to resort to that. I imagine them laughing at me or lecturing me about calling because my neighbour was outside my door.

The cops won't laugh at you.

But if they do, make sure you file a formal complaint against them for doing so.