Nicole, if you think you have it bad, check out this story from the Japan Times:
 
Jail muffles neighbor from hell

NARA (Kyodo) A 58-year-old woman was arrested Monday on suspicion of intentionally torturing her 64-year-old neighbor by playing loud pop music almost 24 hours a day between November 2002 and last March.

Miyoko Kawahara apparently made a hole in her back door to ensure that the racket from her portable stereo would reach the neighbor's house in the town of Heguri, Nara Prefecture, police said. The two homes are about 6 meters apart, they said.

The sonic onslaught caused the neighbor to suffer insomnia and headaches. The elderly woman needed a month of medical treatment to recover, prompting police to investigate the case, they said.

Kawahara has refused to discuss any possible motive, they said.

She has been in conflict with her neighbors over noise for about nine years, police said.

The Japan Times: April 12, 2005

Ross Bender

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In a message dated 4/12/2005 8:17:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have an elderly neighbor who has harassed me for several years.

She has interrupted me while I was working on my house to yell at me on
several occasions, once because a metal trash can full of old furnace debris
had been left in front of my house by a plumbing contractor. It was too
heavy to move and they had been promising to come get it for several days.

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