Neighbors Kept Running Over This Family’s Fence, So Dad Replaces It With Concrete And Wrecks 8 Of Their Cars
What do you do with neighbors from hell? You could try reason with them. No dice? Then live side-by-side in awkward enmity, exchanging frosty glances at every encounter. Or, you could just pack up, move away and leave the rude people behind.
This family, from a small country in Central Europe, decided on another, much more entertaining option. Revenge! Reddit user MihaM12, posting on the subreddit r/ProRevenge, shared the story of a neighborly dispute going back generations, with obnoxious and entitled neighbors finally getting what they deserved.
“We live in a small private neighborhood, the neighbors are related to us more or less (distant relatives). Everybody here is a complete nutjob. They were constantly arguing over decades before me or my brother were even born,” Miha explained.
“Our property lines are kinda like a square and it is surrounded by road from two sides. Keep in mind that on one part of the road we let our neighbors use 1 square meter of the land so they could use the dirt road safer and not damage our property. This is crucial information.”
“This road is made of gravel. The neighbors want my parents and only my parents to pay for the entire cost to lay an asphalt road. My dad and my mother are constantly fixing potholes for 90% of the road, so naturally, our neighbors thought that they will pay for the asphalt road. Classic r/choosingbeggars”
“Fast forward 20 years, the road remains gravel -ish. Nobody wanted to pay for the asphalt road. One day my neighbors order a massive truck filled with tons of wood. The truck driver runs over our fence. Nobody wanted to pay for the property damage that was caused. Our fence is made out of multiple bushes, trees and a little bit of metal fence too. These plants were now completely destroyed and a part of a metal fence completely bent. We had to replant these plants and place a new metal fence. My father told me this was not the first time this happened but actually third. I couldn’t believe it when I heard this.”
“So this is where the revenge story begins.”
“My father is a police officer in the department where they mostly handle frauds, drug busts, etc. He knows the law well. He dug up the property line marker and placed plastic barrels filled with rocks on our property. In the next 6 hours, 3 of our neighbors came knocking on the door because they hit our plastic barrels filled with rocks. They were angry and wanted to call the cops. But they never did. Because everybody knew that little part of the land was still our property. One neighbor, in particular, threatened my dad that he will throw a fucking pickax at my father’s back. Over the period of 1 year, these neighbors hit the barrels so much with their cars that the barrels are now worthless.”
“My dad was furious and he changed his petty revenge into a pro-revenge. He cut some wood to use it as a mold. He bought cement, sand and metal poles. One peaceful afternoon my father and I cemented that whole part of the land and placed some lovely flowers on top. So when they hit the concrete they can smell our flowers of victory/defeat.”
“As we expected 5 neighbors in total wrecked their cars on the new fence, nobody came knocking on the door and we were finally getting revenge.”
“We live in a rather small town near the capital,” Miha told Bored Panda. “It depends on the city, but I would say that it is rather common to live close to your relatives as our country is really small. Our neighborhood is really strange, we are not related directly but had the same great great great great parents.”
“The disputes were usually about that gravel road. It is long about 150 meters and most of us live at the end of it. At first, everybody helped to maintain the road but that took a quick turn. 20 years later only my parents were fixing the potholes while others laughed.”
But even then, the neighbors were not satisfied. “They were constantly arguing that we don’t do a good job at maintaining the road,” Miha said. “They would much rather criticize us than help us.” Still, this doesn’t explain why and how they managed to keep hitting the barriers on Miha’s family property. Where they drunk or something? “Some of them are really bad drivers. But they got used to it after a while. There is one neighbor that was drunk most of the time. I wouldn’t say they were drunk driving but merely just turned too soon.”
So what’s next? All-out war in the neighborhood? “Since the passing of that drunk neighbor, things got a little better. We now get along just fine with his kids and grandkids. However, things remained the same with other neighbors. We were once friends, I even played with other kids and helped one neighbor with his garage stuff and the same neighbor even helped us with our car problems. Sadly, that relationship changed.”
Miha says he has a whole bunch of stories from his crazy hometown in the Balkans and has promised to upload more in the future, it could become an ongoing soap opera. Keep an eye on his Reddit for more, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Here’s what people had to say about the story of satisfying revenge
We had the typical idiot kids with bats thinking it was funny to smash rural mailboxes. The USPS has rules on what mailboxes you can get. My dad welded steel re-bar inside a very large new mailbox after number 3 was trashed. We found parts of a wooden bat, a bent pipe, some hate notes, bits of broken car window glass... Kid at school finally asked me what we did to our mailbox. I said, "The priest blessed it," and let 'em ponder that one... Yes, we're rather evil, but hey, those mailboxes cost money.
I did something like this. I had a regular wooden mailbox post that got hit multiple times, so i finally dug a hole about 2 feet diameter x 3 feet deep, placed a 5 inch steel pipeon the middle and filled it with concrete. Then built i nice looking wooden fascia around it and mounted the mailbox. Had 2 cars hit that and dead-stop before i moved.
When we lived in Ohio, I worked part-time as a rural mail carrier. One of the best stories I had ever heard was about a gang of kids who thought it was funny to take a golf driver or a baseball bat to peeps' mailboxes and destroy them. They obviously didn't realize (or didn't care) that this is actually a felony. One farmer was sick and tired of having to replace the box (I couldn't deliver the mail by using anything other than a mailbox), he had a brilliant idea...he fabricated a "mailbox" the was solid concrete. Then he painted it up and waited. Didn't take long for the village idiots to drive by at high speed and take the bat to the indestructible version. when he hit it, he was hanging out of the passenger window, and the bat broke in a million pieces and threw him off balance and out the window. The driver lost control of the car, and wrecked into the ditch in front of the box. There was security footage of the entire episode. The kids were lucky they didn't get killed!
Back when I was in school, I had a teacher who told me that he helped build this bridge. They would put down this long line of orange cones, and there was always a Man on a Motorcycle who would ride by, stick his leg out, and knock all the cones down. Eventually everyone got fed up of putting the cones up so... One day, after lining them up again, they cemented the last one to the ground. I never heard the rest of the story.
Angry Man on a Motorcycle in the ER with a broken leg, no doubt.
Load More Replies...In our village, people drove much to fast last the farm my parents had (in North of Sweden). The authorities responsible for road and highway saftey did nothing even though I had lots of sibblings running around. The solution my father had, when he had enough, was to take the tractor and draw plough furrow across the dirt road. Nobody drove fast there more then once that summer. And I dont think that anybody complained either.
Well..now you can understand why I prefer to be surrounded by animals...I wish I could go away from people..they never stop to amaze me with their stupidity...
Honestly, my various menageries over the years have done more property damage than any of these people! Haha, still love the destructive bastards.
Load More Replies...I'm definitely not one for actively taking revenge, but even I can see the concrete fence was justified. It was their property and it broke no laws, they were well within their rights to put up the highly visible concrete to protect their property.
As a caveat, property owners need to verify with the city where their property lines end before installing any sort of barrier. In our locale, the 8' of land on either side of the street belongs to the city, not the property owner. A neighbor was sued after a driver damaged his car on rocks that the neighbor had installed along the curb. He lost on a technicality: the rocks were on city property and he was therefore at fault; had the rocks been 9' from the curb, and the driver drove over them, then that would be the driver's fault.
Load More Replies...We had the typical idiot kids with bats thinking it was funny to smash rural mailboxes. The USPS has rules on what mailboxes you can get. My dad welded steel re-bar inside a very large new mailbox after number 3 was trashed. We found parts of a wooden bat, a bent pipe, some hate notes, bits of broken car window glass... Kid at school finally asked me what we did to our mailbox. I said, "The priest blessed it," and let 'em ponder that one... Yes, we're rather evil, but hey, those mailboxes cost money.
I did something like this. I had a regular wooden mailbox post that got hit multiple times, so i finally dug a hole about 2 feet diameter x 3 feet deep, placed a 5 inch steel pipeon the middle and filled it with concrete. Then built i nice looking wooden fascia around it and mounted the mailbox. Had 2 cars hit that and dead-stop before i moved.
When we lived in Ohio, I worked part-time as a rural mail carrier. One of the best stories I had ever heard was about a gang of kids who thought it was funny to take a golf driver or a baseball bat to peeps' mailboxes and destroy them. They obviously didn't realize (or didn't care) that this is actually a felony. One farmer was sick and tired of having to replace the box (I couldn't deliver the mail by using anything other than a mailbox), he had a brilliant idea...he fabricated a "mailbox" the was solid concrete. Then he painted it up and waited. Didn't take long for the village idiots to drive by at high speed and take the bat to the indestructible version. when he hit it, he was hanging out of the passenger window, and the bat broke in a million pieces and threw him off balance and out the window. The driver lost control of the car, and wrecked into the ditch in front of the box. There was security footage of the entire episode. The kids were lucky they didn't get killed!
Back when I was in school, I had a teacher who told me that he helped build this bridge. They would put down this long line of orange cones, and there was always a Man on a Motorcycle who would ride by, stick his leg out, and knock all the cones down. Eventually everyone got fed up of putting the cones up so... One day, after lining them up again, they cemented the last one to the ground. I never heard the rest of the story.
Angry Man on a Motorcycle in the ER with a broken leg, no doubt.
Load More Replies...In our village, people drove much to fast last the farm my parents had (in North of Sweden). The authorities responsible for road and highway saftey did nothing even though I had lots of sibblings running around. The solution my father had, when he had enough, was to take the tractor and draw plough furrow across the dirt road. Nobody drove fast there more then once that summer. And I dont think that anybody complained either.
Well..now you can understand why I prefer to be surrounded by animals...I wish I could go away from people..they never stop to amaze me with their stupidity...
Honestly, my various menageries over the years have done more property damage than any of these people! Haha, still love the destructive bastards.
Load More Replies...I'm definitely not one for actively taking revenge, but even I can see the concrete fence was justified. It was their property and it broke no laws, they were well within their rights to put up the highly visible concrete to protect their property.
As a caveat, property owners need to verify with the city where their property lines end before installing any sort of barrier. In our locale, the 8' of land on either side of the street belongs to the city, not the property owner. A neighbor was sued after a driver damaged his car on rocks that the neighbor had installed along the curb. He lost on a technicality: the rocks were on city property and he was therefore at fault; had the rocks been 9' from the curb, and the driver drove over them, then that would be the driver's fault.
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