Apartment living comes with a basic rule: what’s on someone else’s doormat is none of your business.

So when a couple’s new neighbors decided their horror-themed doormat was too scary and started flipping it every chance they got, the Ring camera caught the whole thing.

So when the neighbors resorted to launching it off the 4th floor stairwell, the whole thing had gone way too far.

Keep reading for the full story.

AITA for not removing my doormat because it scares my neighbor’s kid?

My wife and I (both 32) have been living at our apartment for 4 years and are both huge horror fans.

We have had an Art The Clown door mat from Spirit Halloween for 2 years now. It’s not a Halloween decoration, it’s just what we like.

But soon some new neighbors moved in next door.

Last month (around the beginning of April) we had some neighbors move in across from us. They have two kids, one is a baby and one is maybe 3-4 years old.

The first time we met them was a couple days after they moved in, we were all bringing in groceries and I introduced myself, shook hands, all of that.

The dad says “still Halloween huh?” And I just laughed it off.

Then something weirder started happening.

Since then we’ve come home 4 times to them flipping our doormat, and we know it’s them because we have a Ring camera.

We were fine letting them do it and just flipping it back until a couple days ago when we caught them doing it in person.

So when the couple finally confronts the neighbors, the truth comes out.

We asked what the issue was and apparently their son is super afraid of it, even though the kid was right there and was acting completely fine.

Not crying, not anything.

Turns out, it actually bothered one of the parents more.

The only one that seemed agitated at all was the mom, who swore at us and rolled her eyes and was just generally unpleasant. Haven’t interacted with her much before or since.

My wife waited until they were inside and flipped it back over.

I stayed out with the dad and talked it over and he seemed fine. He said he understood it was our space and he’d talk it over with his wife and that his son was old enough to understand it couldn’t hurt him.

Things would have been fine after that, but the neighbors clearly escalated their annoyance.

This morning we walked out and saw our doormat wasn’t even flipped over, it was thrown outside of the stairwell.

We live on the 4th floor so it was a very deliberate thing.

Now the couple doesn’t know what to do next.

My wife wants to report it to management but I’m just about tired enough of this. I kinda wanna throw it away, but I also wanna keep it.

Idk, I’m just confused y’all.

How entitled can these neighbors be?

Redditors weigh in with their thoughts.

Next time this happens, the first call needs to go to the police.

If it were this commenter, they would just get rid of the rug to save face.

Maybe the neighbor’s story isn’t so far fetched after all.

Starting drama with someone you have to see on a weekly basis may not be worth it.

If the neighbors really had that big of a problem with it, they could have handled it reasonably, but instead they chose chaos.

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