Neighbours’ Daily Dispute, That Has Gone on for 4 Years, Continued Even During Circuit Breaker Period

Lest you’re not aware, complaints about noise and smoking amongst neighbours have gone through the roof during the Circuit Breaker period, and it’s easy to see why.

Unless you stay home 24/7, you might not know that your neighbour likes to knock on the walls for no reason at 2pm every day.

Many of us just bear with it because the Circuit Breaker isn’t going to last forever (or would it?).

Now, how about neighbours who’ve been in dispute for 4 years?

This happens.

Neighbours’ Dispute, That’s Gone on for 4 Years, Continued Even During CB Period

Now, before you sharpen your pitchforks and prepare to make your way to Toa Payoh post Phase One, hold your horses and remember that so far, this is a one-sided story so far.

According to a resident in an HDB block along Toa Payoh Lorong 8, his family has been at the mercy of relentless harassments by his next-door neighbours…for four years.

The man sent his story to STOMP, saying that the neighbours had accused them of these:

• Hacking into their Internet and blocking it
• Hacking into their Facebook account and chatting with their friends
• Shooting lasers at them
• Making a lot of noise day and night
• Killing people (!?!?)

The resident denied these accusations, of course.

However, the neighbours didn’t just stop at complaining; they did these instead:

• Call the police on them
• Hurled vulgarities outside the resident’s door
• Stalk the resident and his family members, and snap images of them
• Shout at them “in the morning, at noon and in the middle of the night without fail”

Neighbours from hell?

Hell yeah.

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Here’s one video filmed by the resident that’s filled with some colourful language:

And here’s another with threatens of lawyer’s letters:

With Circuit Breaker in place, you’d think that the disputes might not occur since going out of your house to practise your Hokkien poetry isn’t considered an essential task, right?

Nope.

The resident said that it still occurred, and they’ve to make a police report.

The police are investigating the case. I can imagine how the conversation would be like:

Cop: Why you come out of the house?

Neighbour: They kill someone!

Cop: Oh, crap, call Special Investigation Section from CID now!

Neighbour: They hack into our Internet!

Cop: Oh man, call Cybercrime Command now!

Neighbour: They hacked into our Facebook and talked to our friends!

Cop: Oh shit, cancel all calls now.

But all jokes aside, the police advised the resident to stay indoors, close their door and avoid their neighbours.

The resident said to STOMP, “We kept in silence in fear hoping it will die off but it is getting worse.

“By keeping quiet they curse and swear at us every day even more especially during the circuit breaker period. They threaten to ‘chop’ and kill us.

“It is really very mentally straining for all of us. We are human beings and are seriously very distressed.”

Nothing Much Can Be Done?

If you’ve downloaded our app and come in daily, you’d have read about other neighbours from hell, and know that the solution to this isn’t so clear-cut.

So if you’ve lived in this world long enough, you’d know that bastards and bitches live amongst us, and if you’re unfortunate enough to live beside them, then here’s what you should do based on HDB’s website:

Talk to Them
I’ll just skip this because if your neighbours accuse you of hacking into their Facebook accounts to talk to their friends, you’ll have high blood pressure from talking to them

Mediation
You can seek help from grassroots leaders or from a Community Mediation Centre, whereby someone (a third party) would help to solve the problem.

Tribunal
Well, the name itself sounds scary enough, because it is: it’s legal recourse, and it should be used as the last resort. You can apply for a court order like injunction (An order for your neighbour to stop doing something) or if you’ve a crazily high ego, an apology (An order for your neighbour to apologise to you).

If you know the basics of how lawsuits work, you’d know that it’s pretty similar to a civil case.

And surprisingly, just early this year, the first court order to temporarily evict a household for a month was issued after a family was too noisy. That dispute lasted for nearly two years.

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