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Location: Ojochal, Costa Rica (Pura Vida!)
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Audi S3
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sydney.
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argh i have pommy neighbours. well HE is pommy. anyway,
i live at the top of a culdesac, and there are always heaps of little kids that play on the road. and they always come FLYING up the street in his big Pajero and slam up the driveway. you can hear it from the back of my house. AND, he is a drunk, late every night around 11 and later he is always out the back yelling and screaming about something. usually something effing stupid like the vaccumming ![]() AND, he as 2 mongrel dogs. a boxer and a doberman. AND they bark for no reason. like when kids might be on the road or i am in the backyard. nothing a steak coverered in ddt cant fix i guess. :| oh and he backed over our street sign the other week. on teh bottom corner of the street, and the sign in on someones property. god knows how he did it :| but he managed too. we have had heaps of fights with them over the years. once was about a little hedge we were putting on the edge of our property to cover the unsighltly concrete from their raised driveway. he wouldnt let us because "it would scratch their cars" which they dont park on the driveway anyway. somehow, his idiot son managed to pull a burnout on the corner of it. :| they are so damn frustrating hahahaha. Apart from those fools, and 2 or 3 other houses out of the 14 in the street. no problems at all. the others aside from those mentioned above are all great... we got a BA XR6T, a BA II XR6, a new Terri, a Terri Ghia, a AU 3 Xr8, a few falcons and our cars... still, they are all Holden fans bar the guy who owns the AU3 ![]()
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Brisbane
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I'm lucky. I've had loud V8's in my driveway for the past 6 or 7 years and never had a complaint. I get home and my neighbour might have washed the Fairmont, mowed the lawn, taken some boxes to the tip..... the list goes on. Another neighbour picks up the dog and gives her a bath every month or two, another couple of neighbours see me get home and are in the driveway with a bundy before i'm out of the car
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1967 XR Falcon
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: South Coast
Posts: 2,231
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You live where now?
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Regular Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Brisbane
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i started this thread out of pure anger for the person who narked on me, its actually turned out to be a good read, i don't feel so bad anymore after reading about some of the neighbors i could have had resideing next to my property........ im preety shure who it was now, not gonna say anything though,, i just can't wait to have the car registered,, than ill show her what hooning really means........lol
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Paint Repairs Spoilers
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 476
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On Behalf of Lakeside raceway (but not authorised to do so) I think the neighbour who built his house next to a international race track and then has spent his efforts trying to close it down just to get his jollies (or maybe land values up) should get the vote as Australia's most annoying neighbour.
Total Driver ran a training day there today and before they even finished the morning session there had been a complaint, I was there and can tell you you, you will here more noise 5 km from the entertainment centre than 500 metres from the track today. 10 out of 10 to Total Driver for running the event and hopefully getting us greater access to the track.
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Burnin Rubber
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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Neighbours who move next to noisy enviroments and then attempt to have the closed down are complete sh1theads.
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What's green is gold
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Shepparton
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i had another run in with my geriatric neighbour today, it was 12 in the arvo, time to get up.... and so i decided to dump the pipes on the XD, straight out of the extractors the noise came, i was enjoying it so much i thought a few laps of the paddock would be fun, move the horse out of said paddock and take the D and me missus for a spin, after about 10 minutes, i see the old coot with a pitchfork screaming at us, so i rumble up to the fenceline and all he says is... u have visitors.... more god damn coppers!!! so after we talked cars and my future plans for it and about the as.shole neighbour they were on their merry way, and so was i, back to the paddock for another rev session, i told the neighbour that the coppers were nice blokes and i'll only be another hour!!... he was pis$ed!!
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: North Brisbane
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i would love to move next to a race track ... be there every weekend
![]() tonko: nice work! me personally never really had too much of a hassle, i was quite annoying at times, but i never had the cops around, most times my neighbours went shopping or something for the time being
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Pakenham, Victoria
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Tonko351 : I had a neighbour like that before I moved here. When I bought my 1st house I had a MKII Escort RS2000 with a sports exhaust and a HZ Kingswood (V8) with sports exhaust. Our 1st meeting was to ask who our land lord was rofl
![]() After a few years the RS and HZ were replaced with a 84 Telstar and 95 S-Coupe both 100% stock. The old bat still compained! Replaced the Telstar with a 97 EL (factory exhaust). She still complained! I eventually bought the XB. Now it was time for a laugh as this woman has no idea what noise was till I got the XB ![]() She complained no matter what time of the day it was. Some of my fondest memories are - one day I had a needle and seat issue I was sorting. After I sorted it I was warming it up. She was ringing us up complaining and all sorts. My Mrs went balistic and told her to get a life. - another time I let my dad (mechanic) have a play. She came out screaming my name and yelling to shut it down. My dad was giving it a rev. To her dismay I wasn't doing anything. It was my 50+yo Dad. She shut up real quick and went inside. My dad asked if she was always like that? Answer = yup. It got to the point in the last two years we lived there we couldn't drive up the gravel driveway without her coming out to whine. We had to speed up the driveway at a great speed. Quickly scramble out of the car and inside to avoid her. We eventually bought my current home. What a relief. We don't have noise nazi's here.
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Grange killer!!!!
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: IN THE GARAGE
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My neighbors are pretty cool. One side are car fanatics while the other are really nice portugese. There daughter is HOT and loves cars like me. Everytime i'm washing my car she washing her car aswell. Love it when it summer she washes the car and get wet. :Reverend: Still can't understand why it take my so long to wash my car.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Northside Brisbane
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thats just plain nosey ness.....i hate do gooder neighbors
i was blaring my sound system in the middle of the day one time.....having a smoke on my deck and i see this fired up hippie jumping fences charging towards me.... basically he tried getting into my house and tried kicking my speakers in.....i told him if he didn't leave i would break his face with my cricket bat and that he was tresspassing he followed up with a legal document about this and that and for about the month after when i had my stereo on....he would call the cops.....i basically told them to get stuffed because of the hours i was playin it..... the next issue is my driveway. apparently our driveway is over the councils walkway borders(why don't builders think of this crap)......i come home to find a bloody parking ticket when my car is in the driveway wtf.....geez i wonder who that was |
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Built Ford Tough
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: State of Euphoria Mod: F-Series
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We're on 5 acres, but with LOTS of trees. Hardly see our neighbours. The birds make more noise than anything else. Occasionally we get hoons up the street (it's not a regularly used bit of road), on a good night we can hear the sprint cars at Avalon raceaway, and once in a blue moon the neighbours have a party that we can faintly hear.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Northside Brisbane
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before i moved to brisbane i lived on an 80 acre property
it was heaven....the only neibors i had in a gunshot were kangaroos and cattle |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Christies Beach
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My girlfriend had a silly ИИИИИ for a neighbor before we moved out together. This woman would have been only 30 yo 6"4' tall and not the prettiest thing. She used to wash her car on her front lawn in her bikini which did not do wonders for her looks. Anyways mygf's brother got a datto that he started to do up. Required some body work and such. Most we ever used for sanding was a board and paper. Well somehow this was against the law! She went to the EPA about it, the police, the local council, anything she could do to try and stop it. Everywhere she went the forces that be would just say "are you serious". Not to mention gf's mum was emotionally streesed after recent divorce and worried about getting kicked out of her rental house. After it blew over we were allowed to work on car again, but when we would, the neighbor would go out but leave just her screen door locked with her stereo cranked from the living room! Somehow but i dont know how this was suppose top ИИИИ us off? So our solution to this was to jump her fence and switch her power off at the mains! She ended spending over $1500 bucks getting her switch board checked, checked and then eventually re-wired. But it did not stop there as she thought that tipping gf's rubbish bin over and spreading contents all over gf's driveway would be fantastic. Not until we filled it with dog poop and fish guts!!!! should have seen her face, we could not have been happier with the result as she ended up moving out and last i heard she checked herself into a home that helps.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Adelaide
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I have a lovely neighbour now who works for a local trucking company and occasionally brings his work home. It's a small street and there is a big tipper and dog trailer parked in front of my house. He must get out and check that the back of his trailer is level with the edge of my driveway.....heaven forbid that he actually block his driveway instead of mine. One night I parked out on the street to let the housemate into the driveway. Woke up the next day and he's decided to park in the same area, on the other side of the road. I sized it up and reckoned the average family sedan would have to crawl through... I swear if I got a scratch I would have killed him.
Then there's the time when he couldn't start the truck and his repair truck came out and spend 40 mins trying to start it... but that's ok. I live out the back of the house... didn't hear a thing, heard the story from the housemate. I suppose it's payback. I used to live around a suburb called Norwood. All South Aussies will know it's a little posh and "new age". My old HZ wagon with a 308, twin 2" pipes and hotdogs used to be bloody loud. The easiest way for me to leave at 6am for work/uni was down an alleyway with about a foot eother side. Even at idle I swear the walls would be shaking.... never got a complaint... even when I did boot it down there. |
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Northside Brisbane
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regardless of what you do there will be neighbors that give you greif anyway....they'll find somthing to bicker about
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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One member mentioned consideration, this does work. The first time I started my drag car up at home to put it on a trailer I spoke to the neighbours 2 houses either side of me, on both sides, even if I didn't know them. Told them that I had to start up car to put on trailer (on public road) and that there would be some noise for a few minutes and if they had a problem come and talk to me about it. This car is loud enough that I have to wear earplugs when driving it. After I loaded the car I went and spoke to the neighbours again asking if the noise was too excessive. All were fine with it as I showed some consideration. Now I start the car up and work on it( eg. setting idle, timing etc.) without telling them and still no complaints. One even came over the other day and wished me luck and safety when he saw me loading up to go to the track. Pretty Cool Neighbours.
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Regular Member
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Mornington, Vic
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My neighbours are great, they wave when i wave, and pay me the courtesy not to stop and have endless chats. Good street, everyone would help everyone out, but no one is really beyond a hi and wave as you're driving past.
My old next door neighbours are awesome. Still really good friends with them. They tolerated me doing nudie runs through the house for 5 years when the lights were on and blinds were up, although they do still bag me about being the centre of attention with my bf in every room that was visible through these open blinds. |
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Regular Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Brisbane
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there is a big eucalyptus tree in my front yard, that my neighbor has been complaining about, last time we had a storm she hit the roof, started going off at me, yelling at me and telling me to tell my dad to clean up her yard, cuz all of our leaves were on her precious lawn........ i told her were to go and also said maybe i should clean up the street as well from everyone else's trees that had blown leaves all over the place from the storm that we just had...........i guess you get very cranky when your in your 50's never married and live by yourself..........
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