Apartment Dwellers of Reddit, what secrets have you learned about your neighbors through your paper-thin walls? NSFW

I lived in a two story building with 3 apartments. One large apartment on the ground floor and two small ones upstairs. I lived in the downstairs apartment and a man lived upstairs in one and a woman in the other.

At first, nothing was out of the ordinary. They came and went, as did I, but eventually the man and woman upstairs started dating.

I don't know how long they were involved before the beatings started.... I could hear it anywhere in my apartment on a near constant basis. When they were both home, he was drunk and beating the shit out of her.

I called the police once and they didn't do anything about it. He, of course, denied it, and so did she.

Well, one night after listening to a particular bad beating, he went to the front porch to sit in a chair and continue to drink. I went outside after a few minutes and kind of loitered around for a few minutes before he started muttering under his breath, making lewd comments about me. I took a step toward him and asked him what he said and he stood up, stumbled toward me with his fist in the air and told me that someone should put me in my place.

My neighbor owned two massive Chow Chows that only liked two people. Me and her... They were aggressive toward pretty much everyone else and defensive of both of us. At this point in time, they were both in her back yard.

I smiled at him, took out my phone to snap a picture of him withhis fist raised to me, as I yelled "Jada, Chewie, help!"

Both of those massive dogs, which had been at the fence snarling the entire time, suddenly jumped over the fence and and had him pinned to the ground before he could even blink.

Their owner came running out as I got the dogs under control, pepper sprayed the guy while holding a gun in her other hand, and we called the police.

Turns out that the loud crash that I'd heard minutes before he went outside had been him slamming the woman into a table. Police found her and EMS took her to the hospital. She was in really bad shape and I was told that if she had been left there any longer, she wouldn't have survived.

/r/AskReddit Thread