Some neighborly annoyances are easy to overlook — until they leave a dent.

When one neighbor’s carelessness led to a dropped AC unit on one renter’s car, they found themselves debating whether to report the damage or stay silent.

Read on for the full story.

AITA for filing a police report on my neighbor

My upstairs neighbors are very careless.

Today, they dropped a window screen on my first newer car (one that wasn’t a total junkbox ready to fail).

I keep it clean and nice because I worked for a while to get to this point.

The renter retells the harrowing situation.

Anyway, my upstairs neighbor’s kid was putting in their air conditioner today. He pushed the screen forward and out instead of sliding it up. He was clearly fighting with it and got angry and pushed it.

Well, my car is right under their window.

It missed my hood and slid down the side. I was standing outside and saw it happen and was just baffled.

The neighbor tried to play it off like nothing happened, but this renter was rightfully upset.

He came down with a big goofy smile on his face, grabbed the screen from me, and just started to walk away.

I said, “You damaged my car,” and he just kept walking.

Granted, my upstairs neighbors don’t speak much English, but it’s also frustrating because you need to stay here and have a conversation with me.

This isn’t the first time stuff like this has happened, but today it’s my car and I’m very annoyed.

But when the renter tries to approach the perpetrator’s family about the issue, it was clear they had no intention of coming clean.

The dad was working on his car in the driveway as well, and he didn’t do anything.

I said, “Your son dropped a screen on my car.”

And he shrugged and pointed to his tire he was working on.

I am about to call the local police station to report it, but I don’t want to be a jerk. But also, my “new” black car is scraped to the metal.

AITA?

Forget being nice! This is just plain wrong.

What did Reddit have to say?

Their English may not have been excellent, but this commenter reckons they still knew full well that what they did was wrong.

Simply put, the neighbors can’t just get away with this.

This user thinks the car owner should go all out in taking these bad neighbors down.

It’s time to start getting serious.

Some things can be overlooked, but property damage isn’t one of them.

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