Worst Neighbors In The World

Sonia Bryce was that neighbor who blasts music all night, except so much worse. In her case, she played "Shape of You" by Ed Sheeran (nothing against Sheeran, he's a lovely singer who never asked for this) not once, not twice, but over and over and over again for 30 minutes straight, during just one incident that would eventually send her to jail. There were multiple noise injunctions against her in the weeks leading up to her arrest, which included not just loudly blaring the music of the smooth-voiced Sheeran, but relentless shouting and swearing, according to her neighbors Clare and Jonathon Tidmarsh.

Bryce used this constant cacophony to harass her neighbors in Howe Crescent, Willenhall, and would go on to violate her noise injunction on ten documented occasions. However, her pettiness didn't end there, because she tried to used an incredibly stupid defense to try prove her innocence: she claimed that she didn't even like Sheeran's music that much. Since that's not really proof that she didn't play his song for thirty minutes straight on high volume, she was given eight weeks in jail, with the judge rightly saying: "Everybody is entitled to live in a degree of peace and quiet with the usual give and take of society, but you do not behave like a civilized person, and you have got to learn that you will." Sadly, because of Bryce's torment, the Tidmarsh's said Sheeran's music has been ruined for them, which is the real crime here.

For Ninth Street in Berkeley, California, the House From Hell belonged to Robeto and Ramona Alcala, who terrorized the neighborhood for over 30 years along with their many acquaintances, who also happened to be gang members. Police reported that there were fifteen people living at the home with criminal records: six of whom belonged to West Side Berkeley, which is kind of like West Side Story except with less catchy show tunes and more violent crime.

It took years for law enforcement to watch the house and the Alcalas seriously, but when they did, it was clear that the neighbors were right the whole time with the Hell-on-Earth thing. During an eighteen month period from mid-2010 to 2012, there were 40 criminal reports related to the house. From 2009 to 2011, police were called for everything from loud music and fireworks to shouting and fighting, both inside and outside of the house.

In 2012, neighbors finally had enough of their nightmare neighbors, and six residents agreed to testify against Roberto and Ramona Alcala. It seems the city had enough of the couple's fear and intimidation, if Berkeley City Councilwoman Linda Maio is to be believed: "I've been dealing with this for over 15 years ... The very first time I got involved, the neighbors refused to have a meeting on the street because they were afraid, so we had to have the meeting at the fire station. So it takes tremendous courage for these people to come forward." A resolution was made declaring the house a nuisance — something that was about 30 years late — and gave the Alcalas a year to clean up their act or move out.

Jason Clark did every horrible thing imaginable to his neighbors in Montgomery, Alabama's Dalraida area. His cruelty wasn't restricted to any one neighbor: just about everyone who lived around him, or knew him, would later have some kind of horror story to tell. When he cut his grass, he wore a Jason hockey mask and all black, which must have been freaky to say the least. Other neighbors said he wore a ghillie suit (the camouflage uniform that snipers wear) around the neighborhood. One neighbor actually donated his house to his local parish just to get away from Clark, after a horrific incident which caused the death of his dog. Apparently, Clark took it upon himself to spray poisonous chemicals on his neighbor's lawn. When the dog went outside, the chemicals caused enough harm to kill the poor thing.

That wasn't all, though. One neighbor had to hire a lawn mowing service, because he said that Clark would terrorize him anytime he attempted any sort of lawn care. Yet another neighbor, this one a few block away, said Clark hit him with his mother's car. Even after getting handed multiple stalking charges, he still didn't stop ... until a search of his house found 40,000 rounds of ammunition, AR-15s and other guns, a cell phone jammer, an infrared illuminater to block his neighbor's security monitors, and strobe lights to blind people driving through the neighborhood at night.

In 2016, he finally faced justice when he plead guilty to two counts of aggravated stalking, although there are even more charges which are still being brought against him. So he'll still be quite busy ruining lives, only this time it's his own.

Kirsty Robertson bullied her retired neighbors in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire for 14 years over the dumbest reason imaginable: the color of their house. Mavis and Alan Ward moved into their retirement bungalow, expecting to be quiet with the grandkids, but it actually became a decade-long war with their insane neighbor.

It all began when Robertson didn't like the sandstone-colored paint on the side of the Wards' house, so she decided to paint it white while they were away. As time went on, she went from being a nuisance to a violent psycho, who would throw objects at the Wards' home, and threaten them with obscenities. The Wards began avoiding their neighbor at all costs — on one occasion, Mavis Ward's life was endangered when she was forced to drive down the wrong side of the road to evade Robertson. Another time, she said she was mowing the lawn, when Robertson approached her and made a gesture pretending to slit her throat — knowing her previous behavior, there was a good chance she would follow through on that threat.

To capture Robertson's crazy, the Wards set up a CCTV camera in 2012, that showed Robertson drunkenly throwing a slate at their house, which broke a window. This was finally enough to get the authorities to step in, and Robertson was issued a restraining order, in addition to a small fine. This obviously didn't stop her — in 2015 she was later caught taking pictures of the Wards' great-granddaughter, which eventually blew up into an angry swear-laden tirade according to Alan Ward: "When she was asked to stop she used the foulest of language — terrible and disgusting words in front of a child." After eight attempts in court, a judge finally issued a warrant for Robertson's arrest for violating her restraining order, so the entire nightmare could finally be put to rest. Hopefully her jail cell will be colored sandstone.

David Constantine was actually a former Hell's Angel. He seems to have taken his old title seriously, since he made life hell for two different neighbors. In both cases, the details are absolutely bizarre, and almost unbelievable, but they are completely true.

Let's start with Stefan Ward and his wife, who lived beside Constantine in Lanchester. Their nightmare started when they couldn't give Constantine a ride to get a bike. This ticked him off so badly, he started tormenting them for two long years. He stated that the Wards were responsible for a number of incidents — in actuality, they were completely made up in Constantine's twisted mind. He claimed that Stefan threw a brick at his window, which the police proved was impossible. In 2006, he accused Ward of attacking him with a frying pan, but an ex-girlfriend later said that Constantine admitted to her that the incident never happened. In 2008, things escalated when the police were called to Constantine's home, where they found that he had been stabbed. Ward was arrested and charged with attempted murder but, after finding axes, airguns, and knives, they looked into Constantine's claim, and concluded that he had actually caused his own injuries (something sane people don't tend to do). For this, he was told to move out of the neighborhood or go to jail.

The next nightmare he caused was in the village of Esh Winning, where he quickly became a double-dirtbag, by picking on a couple with two small children nearby. In their own words, the couple said Constantine made them "prisoners in their own home" by banging on their walls, yelling all manner of foul language at their children, and staring them down on their way to school. The stress became so bad that the wife broke out in eczema, before Constantine was again brought to justice in 2014. He plead guilty to harassment without violence and claimed that, after his sentence was over, he wished to move to remote Scotland to get away from people. Though really, if he hated people so much, why didn't he just leave them behind in the first place?