My nightmare neighbour keeps hammering nails into my fence

A HOMEOWNER found themselves in a prickly situation after telling their neighbour off for hammering nails into their fence.

A strangely petty dispute set these two neighbours off on a collision course.

A homeowner was completely puzzled after a row with her neighbour left her confused as to who was actually in the wrong.

The mystery person explained that they discovered a neighbour hammering nails into their fence to hang a string of solar lights.

The bizarre exchange unfolded after the lady was asked to stop with the DIY activity, which she saw as "ridiculous".

"I asked her politely if she could stop as I was worried about damage to my fence as it is only thin feather edge boards, and was worried they would split.

"An hour later I hear her complaining with the other neighbour about how ridiculous I was being over a few nails."

Baffled, the homeowner decided to take it to the Reddit forum "Am I the a**hole?" to get to the bottom of it.

She wrote: "I asked her to remove them, and she did, but maybe IATA for asking her?

"Maybe it is reasonable to hammer nails into someone else's fence? Happy to hear opinions."

The results are in and it seems almost everyone took the side of the fence-owning, hammer-less person.

One user asked: "Was she hammering on her side of the fence that you both share or was it just a fence that is strictly yours that you paid for? If you paid for it and it's yours, then you are not the a**hole."

The poster dutifully answered by clarifying it was "My fence, paid for and installed by myself."

Another responded: "I had almost the exact thing happen with a neighbour once.

"The wife threw a fit and said we weren't being neighbourly (apparently her damaging our property was neighbourly?).

"Let her complain - it just makes her double the a****** here. You were well within your rights to speak up," they added.

A third offered: "She can find another way to string them and you were polite."

It comes after a woman exposed her new neighbours for building a 12ft fence to get away from her.

And a "petty" neighbour decided to take her own special revenge on the couple next door who complained about her fence - and people are loving her for it.

Donna Yopp Paul was ordered by her "controlling" neighbours to reduce the height of her six-foot fence by two feet to match the others in the area.

Although she had no choice but to obey the county rule, the savvy woman cited another by-law which allowed her paint the fence facing their house in clashing neon colours.