When you move into a new neighborhood, you always hope that your neighbors will be nice, but that certainly isn’t always the case.

What would you do if your neighbor was always harassing kids at the park and even calling the cops on them and saying that she was going to hire a private investigator to look into them?

That is what happened to the family in this story, so they had someone sit in front of her house to monitor her as a private investigator until she finally gave up and left the kids alone.

Dealing with a nosy/toxic neighbor, using a brother in law and a decommissioned hearse.

We had just moved in to our new house, in a small and nice, but not posh, neighborhood.

Bad neighbors can be a nightmare.

Our neighbor “Betty” was aggravated from the very beginning.

She had a perfect view of the neighborhood playground, (as did we) but she really hated the fact that kids would enjoy themselves on said playground.

What kind of person calls the cops on kids at the playground?

In the first 2 months of us being there, she called the cops on the kids playing 3 times. Needless to say the officers were not very content with her either.

But every time she would say something about drugs, violence etc. IE force the police to take action.

Good for him.

I finally confronted her and told her that the kids had every right to play there, and that she should get her stuff together or move out to the country.

She then went on a toddlers tirade, and said that she would hire a “private investigator” to keep an eye on things as she had “other, more important things to do, anyway”.

She has all the time in the world.

Keep in mind that Betty was a senior citizen – so of course my conscience would not allow me to have her pay for such an inconvenience.

Luckily for her, my brother in law was just out of a job and needed something to pay the bills. And as I had set out to make my neighbor as happy as possible, I thought I could get two birds with one stone.

Wow, they are taking this seriously.

So I rang him up, and within two days we had set up the new company “Tommy’s PI office ”. My BIL is a bit scruffy looking, wearing mostly overalls and crocs, but I figured he would be perfect for the job as no-one would suspect him being a PI.

I then went along and got him a company car, (as he might have to pursue the 10yo’s playing on the swings and dealing heroin in their spare time)

That is quite a car.

Luckily we found a wonderful used hearse that would do the job.

Fortunately for me I got a family discount, so I didn’t have to put down a lot in wages, and the hearse was just over a 1000 bucks.

I bet this drove her nuts.

So we placed Tommy and his new company-hearse in front of Betty’s house (public road). So, she would no longer have to worry about keeping an eye on the small criminals across the street.

Within 2 weeks, she finally got enough of people “checking in on her”, and politely asked Tommy if he would give up his stakeout.

We didn’t get more complaints after that.

That is just too funny. Sometimes you have to beat people at their own game.

Read on to see what the people in the comments have to say about this funny story.

This is what I was thinking as well.

That is funny.

This commenter has an imagination.

No no, she was watching the neighbor.

What is he doing with the hearse?

She wants to spy on people, let’s see how she likes it.

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