Crazy neighbour - suggestions please

[BritManToo]

2 hours ago, Promula said:

How do you suggest preventing a stray dog from entering a driveway gate when you open it then drive though it?

Look before you open the gate.

[BritManToo]

3 hours ago, Promula said:

Wouldn't that prove her false point though?

As long as she doesn't feel safe, she'll move.

[patman30]

fix a bluetooth speaker with small solar panel to a lampost
play the spanish national anthem on loop (daytime only)
watch the rest of the village sort it out????‍♂️

[kwak250]

Next time where some shorts if children are playing nearby.

 

Nobody wants to see the last chicken in Tesco on full display.

[Jing Joe]

Mmmm  wonder why you house had not been lived in for 3 1/2 years?   Just joking.

[advancebooking]

plant bamboo down there. Block her out. 

 

Or put on your speedos and cover yourself with baby oil. No issues there

[CecilM]

Can’t do anything about the loud conversations. TiT.

Put up a privacy fence. Or a cheap version, with a few poles and netting.

Put up a chainlink fence to keep the dogs out.

If your cats roam, then she has a valid point though. 

[hotchilli]

On 8/11/2023 at 11:18 AM, Promula said:

She clearly has some serious mental health issues. How to proceed?

Build a high fence?

[Scouse123]

On 8/11/2023 at 1:51 PM, Promula said:

It was a steal at 5 million. Could rent for 40,000pm once we've finished doing it up, but that was never our plan. Might be soon though if this matter doesn't end.

If you are having big problems then don't you think your potential renters would too?

 

They won't want to rent for long if its as bad as you say and yoiu have a cuckoo neighbor.

[Scouse123]

6 hours ago, Promula said:

How do you suggest preventing a stray dog from entering a driveway gate when you open it then drive though it?

Buy a Rottweiler!

[Scouse123]

I think the best way is as suggested and that is to buy a speaker and play loud music in her direction every time she starts shouting on the phone.

 

If the Police arrive tell them the problems with her. Don't forget your budgie smugglers and factor 2 when you are sunbathing in the garden.

 

Fight fire with fire.

[Scouse123]

37 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Build a high fence?

and put gun turrets on the top of it with searchlights.

[Toby1947]

On 8/11/2023 at 6:55 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

Dog problem easily solved, but not a good idea with the woman. Try putting large speakers on her side of your house and playing music very loudly every time she is shouting on the phone.

Put up a screen fence so you can't look into her property. I wouldn't like my neighbours looking into mine, even without daughters.

Yes a Des O,Connor album should do the trick ????????????

[RocketDog]

On 8/11/2023 at 11:35 AM, steven100 said:

Crazy neighbour - suggestions please  :

 

You bought ....  she's renting ....    therein lies your problem. 

 

Find out who she's renting from then offer the agent 20k baht to make something up and force her to move.

As bizarre as it sounds, given the way things work here it may be the best solution.

Though I've seen numerous posts about such problems yours is a unique answer. In the end probably the fastest and easiest way to solve the problem.

[RocketDog]

6 hours ago, Promula said:

How do you suggest preventing a stray dog from entering a driveway gate when you open it then drive though it?

Firecrackers are cheap and safe. After a few episodes the dogs will flee when you pull out the lighter.

Additionally it will annoy the dog owner.

You don't have to throw at the dog, just dop a few in your own driveway.

[khunPer]

Next time, record when she shouts that your are a "pervert" and "pedophile", and sue her for defamation.

[JBChiangRai]

4 minutes ago, khunPer said:

Next time, record when she shouts that your are a "pervert" and "pedophile", and sue her for defamation.

You don't need to sue, defamation is a criminal offence, simply document and report it to the police, or with a lawyer you can cut out the police and go straight to the court who will issue an arrest warrant for her. Latter step is useful when you suspect police are cozy with perpetrator.

[Dickie Dee]

On 8/10/2023 at 10:18 PM, Promula said:

Opinions please. 

I recently retired and bought a run down house in Hua Hin that's been empty for 3+ years with a front patio that has great views of the nearby hills and overlooks the garden of the next door house that's further down the hill. I've been cleaning and painting the front of the house and patio area over the past few weeks. The middle aged foreign (seems Spanish) woman renting the house below mine sits out in her garden chain smoking and shouting into her phone for hours at a time which I can hear in every room of my house even with the windows closed, but there's not much I can do about that. She also lets her dog run wild around the neighbourhood and it's come into my garden and chased my cats several times when I've opened my gate to go out. The first time it happened she was walking nearby and I asked her if she could keep the dog in her garden. She said yes but it was back out again shortly after and every day since.

 

To try to cut a long story short, yesterday at 19:30pm she rang my doorbell on my front gate several times. I went outside and she started shouting at me through the gate that her young daughters don't want to go in their garden when there's a man above them on his patio. She then accused me of watching them and being a "pervert" and "pedophile" and that she was scared that I'd rape them. My Thai wife was in the doorway and heard this crazy woman defaming me.

 

I called her an idiot and asked her to stay away from my house. I could then hear her shouting on her phone for the next two hours telling numerous people that she had a pervert and pedophile living next door and was also asking them why her dog didn't have the right to roam around the neighbourhood when cats could do that.

 

She clearly has some serious mental health issues. How to proceed?

 

On 8/11/2023 at 2:18 AM, Sigmund said:

The OP should take the spanish lady to bed perhaps ? ....that should release the excess pressure on all sides ? 

 

On 8/11/2023 at 2:18 AM, Sigmund said:

The OP should take the spanish lady to bed perhaps ? ....that should release the excess pressure on all sides ? 

Yes! There is no escape even move to Antarctica. Make Friends somehow people are funny. Learn a new dance. Speak with forked tongue. 

[Sandboxer]

If your wife is Thai, just have her lodge all sorts of complaints with the police. Basically drown the woman in legal difficulties (pay cops a bit too of course).

 

Dog - leave a bowl of antifreeze in your garden.

Edited August 12, 2023 by Sandboxer

[chuang]

Get yourself a bigger dog a rottweiler or pit bull..

[Pdavies99]

The Spanish lady clearly has some "mental" issues, a pity but impossible to resolve....unless you play to them?  The next time she comes around, say to her calmly you are going to put a curse on her....she will stop immediately.

 

A row of seven Cactuses at the fence line, with some hats and brooms leaning on them, a few glass eyes attached. (All Spanish warnings!)

[Hummin]

3 minutes ago, chuang said:

Get yourself a bigger dog a rottweiler or pit bull..

Not for everybody to have any of those two breads. Takes alot of work to make them good family dogs. 

[Promula]

2 hours ago, CecilM said:

Can’t do anything about the loud conversations. TiT.

Put up a privacy fence. Or a cheap version, with a few poles and netting.

Put up a chainlink fence to keep the dogs out.

If your cats roam, then she has a valid point though. 

My cats don't roam but there are plenty of others that do in the neighborhood. But even if they did, cats and dogs are very different

 

- cats aren't aggressive

- cats don't bark

- cats don't leave faeces in the middle of the driveway or lawn

 

Most people generally tolerate seeing other people's cats in their garden. It's normal. Very few people would want other people's dogs coming into their garden.

[scottiejohn]

5 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Not for everybody to have any of those two breads. Takes alot of work to make them good family dogs. 

If not those loafing dogs will become toast!

????

PS; My highlight in the quote!

Edited August 12, 2023 by scottiejohn

[Hummin]

6 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

If not those loafing dogs will become toast!

????

PS; My highlight in the quote!

Im sure you understood my norwglish

[scottiejohn]

1 minute ago, Hummin said:

Im sure you understood my norwglish

My Paw said to let you off with a tail wagging!

[CecilM]

13 minutes ago, Promula said:

My cats don't roam but there are plenty of others that do in the neighborhood. But even if they did, cats and dogs are very different

 

- cats aren't aggressive

- cats don't bark

- cats don't leave faeces in the middle of the driveway or lawn

 

Most people generally tolerate seeing other people's cats in their garden. It's normal. Very few people would want other people's dogs coming into their garden.

Well, as a homeowner I can say that cats doing their business on my property is very unpleasant and stinky.

I don’t want to argue, I’m just saying that if your cats do as she claims, then it’s a good idea to stop them from going to the neighbour’s garden. (Not only to make her claim untrue but also to avoid craziness like people who put up traps/poison/etc.)

[Promula]

9 minutes ago, CecilM said:

Well, as a homeowner I can say that cats doing their business on my property is very unpleasant and stinky.

I don’t want to argue, I’m just saying that if your cats do as she claims, then it’s a good idea to stop them from going to the neighbour’s garden. (Not only to make her claim untrue but also to avoid craziness like people who put up traps/poison/etc.)

The dispute was nothing to do with my cats. She was simply arguing with people on the phone about why her dog isn't allowed to roam around the neighbourhood when cats (in general) can.

[CecilM]

33 minutes ago, Promula said:

The dispute was nothing to do with my cats. She was simply arguing with people on the phone about why her dog isn't allowed to roam around the neighbourhood when cats (in general) can.

I don’t know how else to say it, trying to be helpful. If your cats roam, stop them. If they don’t, then end of story.

Then go to your village headman and complain about the lady (knowing that you’ve done nothing wrong that can come back at you).

[Promula]

1 hour ago, Sandboxer said:

If your wife is Thai, just have her lodge all sorts of complaints with the police. Basically drown the woman in legal difficulties (pay cops a bit too of course).

 

Dog - leave a bowl of antifreeze in your garden.

Good ideas thanks. But I don't want to harm the dog. Not it's fault that it's stray (and I've never noticed her taking it for a walk - presumably she expects it to do that itself).

Edited August 12, 2023 by Promula