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View Poll Results: Which of the following activities would bother you, if your next-door neighbor was to do them?
Rent out a bedroom / bedrooms to tenants 7 17.07%
Pave over their front lawn to accomodate more parking 18 43.90%
Regularly get in loud arguments 30 73.17%
Pass out on their front lawn, during daytime hours 32 78.05%
Pass out on their front lawn, after dark 24 58.54%
Pass out on their back lawn at any time 11 26.83%
Place unused "junk" furniture / appliances near the street for whoever wants them to take them 19 46.34%
Use "unconventional" lawn furniture in plain display of the street (e.g. car seats on the deck, etc.) 26 63.41%
Use "unconventional" lawn furniture not in display of the street, but within your view 16 39.02%
Tap into your wireless connection to send E-mails / low bandwidth usage 28 68.29%
Tap into your wireless connection and use a lot of bandwidth 32 78.05%
Tap into your wireless connection and look at porn or do illegal activities 33 80.49%
Install a single-wide trailer or RV in their side / back yard as a "guest home" 27 65.85%
Use their front yard to place junk (old appliances, etc.) permanently 35 85.37%
Use their back yard to place junk permanently 27 65.85%
Ask for you use of your bathroom 20 48.78%
Enter your home unannounced 37 90.24%
Paint their fence a silly color, or use non-wooden material for it 15 36.59%
Keep a commercial vehicle (i.e. truck) parked in their driveway after work 4 9.76%
Put a swimming pool in their yard 0 0%
Have pets 0 0%
Have pets who defecate in their yard, and they don't clean it up in a timely fashion 9 21.95%
Have pets who defecate in your yard 35 85.37%
Have a large satellite dish 9 21.95%
Keep a wood pile in their back yard 1 2.44%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 41. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-30-2008, 12:15 AM
 
Location: Duluth, Minnesota, USA
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With over 50 responses in the first poll, I think we're ready for another. So, do what you do best...vote!
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Old 08-30-2008, 03:52 PM
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I live in ME...we put things on the side of the road WANTING people to come and take them.

Other than that...even the passing out parts, I don't see my neighbors from my land. When I lived in the city, I'm sure someone would have called the police, thinking they were dead. When I lived in the city, my house was locked, so no one could come in "unannouced"
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Old 08-30-2008, 06:56 PM
 
Location: State of Being
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This was hilarious! I have never really thought about most of these things . . . but frankly, any of them would be at least mildly annoying - and some of them would be downright heinous!!!
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Old 08-30-2008, 08:04 PM
 
Location: Nothing could be finer... I'm in S. Carolina!!
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i think most of these are pretty bad! i checked more than 75% of them!
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Old 08-31-2008, 06:06 AM
 
Location: In the Pearl of the Purchase, Ky
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I live in ME...we put things on the side of the road WANTING people to come and take them.
I can't think who it was but some comedian said he had a washer and dryer to give away. They put it out in the front yard with a sign, "free! take me!"
Nobody would even stop and look at them for over a week. So he got smart, took that sign down, and put up another one "for sale". They were stolen the first night!
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Old 08-31-2008, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Floribama
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I can't think who it was but some comedian said he had a washer and dryer to give away. They put it out in the front yard with a sign, "free! take me!"
Nobody would even stop and look at them for over a week. So he got smart, took that sign down, and put up another one "for sale". They were stolen the first night!
LOL. I once put a toilet out by the road. It was ugly too, avacado green from the 70's. The next day I looked outside and saw a man putting it into his trunk. Why in the world would someone want a used green toilet?
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Old 08-31-2008, 10:14 PM
 
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LOL. I once put a toilet out by the road. It was ugly too, avacado green from the 70's. The next day I looked outside and saw a man putting it into his trunk. Why in the world would someone want a used green toilet?
I had an uncle who put an old toilet in front of their summer cottage, and he potted flowers in it. He eponymously called it the 'Schmidt House'!
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Old 09-01-2008, 08:27 AM
 
Location: Greenville County, SC
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In a neighborhood I left in 2003 (sold my home), my neighbors:

-Rented out a bedroom / bedrooms to tenants (actually added on to the house and rented out everything they could including the garage)

-Paved over their front lawn to accomodate more parking

-Regularly got in loud arguments

Additionally they hung laundry to dry over the fence between our properties, parked in front of my driveway, parked in my driveway, had a party end up as a huge brawl in my front yard, and had drunk friends mistake my home for theirs and try to break-in during the night. The last almost got someone killed. My wife was pregnant at the time and I was in a "take no prisoners" mood!
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Old 09-01-2008, 09:44 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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I've seriously considered paving my yard. My reason though, is because I'm allergic to grass and am getting tired of being sick all the time. I figured I should concrete the yard and paint it green.

I have a neighbor that used to complain because we didn't mow our yard the same time he did and he was sick of the uneven line marking the property. I told him that I was allergic to grass and was planning on paving over my yard and he had a fit, although he never complained about the different mowing times again.
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