You never know your neighbours.

[Datadogie]

On Sunday afternoon I opened my back door to two policemen in the neighbours drive waiting for them to come home. Was talking to them and they said something about recovering cars from the empty farm a about one hundred yards away. They were still in the drive in the morning. Turns out they are somehow involved in car thefts in Anerdeen area. Man, 24, held over Aberdeen vehicle thefts - Evening Express

 

[KennyN]

Very true , at our old address we had a paedophile living two doors away. He was rumbled as he used his CC to pay for his "entertainment" , you would think a serving police officer would have more sense.

Another neighbour (school bus driver) was placed on the sex offenders register after an "incident" with a schoolgirl.

Worrying especially when we stayed there with our kids from the age of 0 - 12.

Kenny

 

[Dizz]

A man in the next road (8 houses away) was a multiple rapist.
He finally got caught early one morning in the local park when at knife point he tried it on with an off duty police woman who made lots of noise and was spectacularly aggressive and so attracted the attention and help of two men going to the train station, chap ran off and they all gave chase ending at his rented house, less than three minutes away from the attempted assault!
My girls stopped complaining about me being ‘over protective’ and wanting to walk them to/from the train station after that.


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[ash59fifty-uk]

I won’t say where but last year a well known offender was sent down, and his house under the local authority became void

We go in the property to carry out relevant surveys before releasing back for tenancy, and it’s a huge property. Floorboards all taken up and weirdly enough, kids toys scattered throughout in unimaginable places

Some beneath the floorboards, above cupboards, within toilet boxing, sealed voids etc. So it’s already odd as we are carrying on, we finish with the externals and there’s two sheds. One is about to fall over however the other one is kind of hidden at the bottom end of the garden, behind a hedgerow which lead us to believe only the shed towards the front was present

We enter it and there’s all sorts of weird stuff, kids/teen mags, adult mags, all filthy covered in spider webs and such. At the back of this shed there is a small makeshift door with a hatch in the middle... we open the hatch thinking there’s more garden behind- but it backed directly onto a school playing field!

We finished our work and spoke to some council guys who turned up to empty the belongings (wouldn’t really call what was left belongings, mostly tat and dirty/soiled appliances) and asked them about the property, when they said the previous tenant had recently gone down for child abuse and related crimes... makes you sick!

The workers were surprised we didn’t know or hadn’t been told prior, but we weren’t local to the area nor does that sort of info reach us from our managers

 

[Datadogie]

I suppose I am lucky. Only car thiefs. I see the woman is home now. But I'm in no hurry to ask her for her side of the story as it will all come out in the wash.

 

[Londonscottish]

I once rented a nice house on an upmarket street and came out of my front door to see legions of cops swarming around the house opposite. Out came the battering ram and in they went. They did the house next door.

Vietnamese cannabis farms, both of them. None of us had a scooby.

 

[John]

None of us had a scooby.

I see what you did there!

 

[Skd884]

You never now your neighbours ?

 

[Londonscottish]

You never now your neighbours ?

Is that a question or a statement?

In my case I was in a temporary rental and didn't know my neighbours.

Knew everybody at the other end of the street where I was renovating my permanent place.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

I don't know my neighbours at all really, they haven't welcomed me into the neighbourhood over the last 10 years and I don't suppose that they will now.

They are all old grunters so I'm not expecting anything spicy but I'd love it if the retired diplomat had something to hide, he's a miserable old bastard.

 

[markjay]

If your neighbours ring the doorbell carrying a cake, open the door and invite them in.

If they come carrying a bucket of tar and a bag of feathers - well, that's a different story

 

[CJD]

You really are never quite sure who lives next door.

When I was stationed at Lossiemouth, I was on 15 sqn. Tornados, and the chap in the MQ next to us did the same job but was on 208 sqn. Buccaneers.
I never really was that fond of him - slightly strange, but he was well liked and a stalwart on his sqn.

Roll on a few years and I find myself stationed at Cottesmore, reading through the local rag one night and I see a picture of my ex next-door neighbour.
He had just been sentenced to a long stretch inside for kiddie porn, apparently his wife and family knew nothing about it, until she took a load of old VHS's to the charity shop.

It made me shudder that my children used to play with his kids in his back garden.

You really don't know who is next door - even when you think you do !!

 

[Mactech]

The cows in the fields around us don't seem to get into much trouble. We once had to close the windows in the middle of the night when there were some noisy chewing sounds at the front, but that apart that all good.....

 

[Mactech]

Come to think of it, I did have a run in with one of my closest neighbours couple of years ago. She turned out to be a real pig.



Note to self: Pigs on leads don't really go well, but the broom behind works a treat1

 

[Ted]

The cows in the fields around us don't seem to get into much trouble. We once had to close the windows in the middle of the night when there were some noisy chewing sounds at the front, but that apart that all good.....

Lucky you. My neighbours are a bit meh.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/aezyYRFaWiYsa8dw9

 

[219]

You really are never quite sure who lives next door.

When I was stationed at Lossiemouth, I was on 15 sqn. Tornados, and the chap in the MQ next to us did the same job but was on 208 sqn. Buccaneers.
I never really was that fond of him - slightly strange, but he was well liked and a stalwart on his sqn.

Roll on a few years and I find myself stationed at Cottesmore, reading through the local rag one night and I see a picture of my ex next-door neighbour.
He had just been sentenced to a long stretch inside for kiddie porn, apparently his wife and family knew nothing about it, until she took a load of old VHS's to the charity shop.

It made me shudder that my children used to play with his kids in his back garden.

You really don't know who is next door - even when you think you do !!

She’d have got a lot more for the tapes elsewhere

 

[Scott_F]

For a scary neighbour I doubt you could beat John Christie of 10 Rillington Place infamy. Once his crimes were uncovered, the house quickly became the focus of attention for curious ghouls who came from far and wide for a gawp. The actual house featured in the 1971 movie starring Richard Attenborough and was demolished shortly after filming had taken place:

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The location where the street stood has now been redeveloped and is unrecognisable and even the name has been erased from the map but apparently residents still get annoyed by people turning up for a nose around:

 

[poormansporsche]

I live in a leafy village which is home to a fair few Ex South East London "Characters" shall we say

In the last few years we've had a door step execution (within 200m of my house !) , a knee capping and a couple of villagers going down for long stretches on nationally significant crimes.

 

[Yex]

Neighbour at our old house was a nice guy as a neighbour and we had no issues with him or his family at all. He was a Bailiff (as far as everyone else in the village knew) and so worked strange hours and had various cars coming, going and occasionally staying on his property. I saw him one morning dressed in a smart suit and asked what the occasion was and he said he was in court. I thought nothing of it as I just assumed it was part of his job but the next week saw a news article naming him in a drugs bust and getting put down for 10 years, apparently he was caught with blocks of drugs in a car as opposed to a few bags.

 

[markjay]

Tony Robinson leaves bearby... we exchange Good Mornings from time to time. Does this count as 'Know'?