You don't really get to choose your neighbors. All you can do is try your best to be a good one and hope they will, too. Unless they’re acting like they’re the only residents in the neighborhood. Then, you have probable cause for retaliation.
Redditor u/Robwaudby made a post on the platform, asking, “What’s the worst thing you have ever done to an annoying neighbor?” And people immediately started replying with their stories—as if they were just waiting for someone to confess to.
From destroying lawns with bouillon cubes to filling locks with superglue, here are some of the most memorable stories of revenge on neighbors from the more than 6,000 comments the post has received.
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Hope The Dog Wasn’t Punished…
My wife and I had a neighbor who hated us because their family friends who went through a divorce lived there before us, and we bought the house. They were mean to my wife, parked across our driveway when she was about to go to work, threw pieces of wood over our fence, and let their dog cr*p on our lawn without picking it up. I tried talking to them a couple times and was promptly told to f-off. The husband used to brag about his lawn to everyone, so the next time it rained, I threw an entire box of bouillon cubes into their backyard and let the rain melt them into the grass. Their dog absolutely destroyed their yard looking for the smell, and I would make sure to comment on it every chance I got.
u/Robwaudby usually scrolls through Reddit to see what funny questions people have come up with. This time, however, he was doing the asking. “I was sitting on my sofa watching TV, and like most people, I have an annoying neighbor,” the Redditor told Bored Panda. “She thinks she’s the queen of the street.”
“I thought to myself, ‘I wonder how many stories people have about annoying neighbors?’ That’s when the question came together; I wanted to know how far people go to get back at them.”
u/Robwaudby didn’t expect the post to get 16k upvotes or 6k comments. “Some people are really willing to fight back at an annoying neighbor and really go extreme on them,” the OP said.
“[But I] think most people have good and bad neighbors. Some of the reasons for falling out with them tend to be garden fence-related or simply loud music, something along these lines.”
300+ Pound Boulder
My house is right on the corner of an area where the road turns into a T, I had issues with people cutting the corner and driving through my yard( one day someone damn near hit my dog) I went and bought a Boulder probably 300 or 400 pounds and put right on the corner. Come winter and we had a bad snowstorm. Someone was coming through in a lifted dodge and hit the Boulder going about 20 and totaled the truck. Since then though I’ve had 0 issues with people.
12 Hour Music Festival
I had a terrible work schedule and had to wake up at 2:30 to be at work by 4. My downstairs neighbors would blare loud music at all hours of the night, and I could feel the bass through my mattress. I went downstairs and politely asked them to turn it down, and they seemed to kindly agree. As soon as I got back in bed, they turned it up even louder and kept it going until about 1:30. Before I left for work at 3:30, I turned over my amplifier so the speaker was facing the floor, turned the volume up, and set my guitar on top of it. I left for my 12-hour shift, and the feedback was still screaming when I came home. The neighbors never blared their music again.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESCRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEESEEE
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Love this! When I was in the Army Band, had the same problem. Every jerk in the barracks had a big stereo from those 'Rent To Own' joints. We worked odd hours and always asked if guys would turn down their music- they never would. SO... one day, we brought a giant speaker and amp from the band, put it in my room, hooked up an old 8 track player, stuck in a John Denver tape, cranked it up and left for work for the day. Got back to the barracks and somebody and broken into our room, trashed the speaker and amp and the rest of our room.....Big mistake. The Speaker and amp were US Army equipment. Needless to say, our 1st Sergeant started kicking ass and taking names. Never had a problem with loud music in the barracks ever again....
I had a downstairs neighbor who played her music VERY loudly - one time. I turned my huge speakers to the floor and put on my favorite bagpipe music. I could practically see question marks floating around. "What IS that?!" When her music cut out, I turned off mine. She got the message pretty quickly, lol!
We stayed in a hotel once when I was a kid, and a basketball team stayed on the same floor . They yelled, screamed. laughed, and bounced a basketball against the walls and doors of the hallway until about 2:00 in the morning. Despite complaints to the front desk from my father, they would not stop. To get revenge, he started calling their rooms repeatedly around 5 a.m. and did this for at least an hour.
There was a guy in a St Louis complex a few decades ago with the same problem- young people playing screaming rock at top volume in the middle of the night. He mounted speakers on the ceiling, and waited till he was sure they were in bed. Then he turned on a recording that said "we are the bugs. We are crawling all over your bed. This is our place. We survived the bomb and we'll survive you. Get out get out get out......" The youngsters never played loud music over him again and were very courteous to him when they saw him in the lobby, addressing him as "sir" and "Mr. G...."
Ya think? Not in the age of people needing to be offered money and gifts to get the Covid-19 vaccine, it isn’t!
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I already did this! It worked, but with a 200W bass stack amplifier
Sometimes guitar feedback on an amp can sound like banshees wailing. Pretty loud and piercing
I have never understood people who take it as a war cry when someone politely asks them to keep it down. It only shows what absolute uneducated trash they are
We had a neighbor go through a break up and the guy took it hard. Got incredibly drunk every night and blared Hank Williams all night. We had to be at work at 6am and we were trying to be understanding. Couldn't talk to the guy because he was blackout drunk every night. My husband got all bent out of shape about it after two weeks of it and went over to bang on the door. He sees our neighbor through the sliding door passed out on the living room floor. The sliding door was open and it was St. Patrick's day so my husband grabs a guinness and puts it next to our neighbors head. Talked to our neighbor two days later and he seemed to be in really high spirits as he told everyone about the St. Patrick's day beer fairy. Worked, guess he decided to stop getting black out drunk, wanted to be awake the next time the fairy showed up.
I had a similar situation where the people below me would throw loud parties with loud music all night. Asking them politely to turn it down did not work. So I turned my speakers facedown on the floor, put on one of Beethoven’s louder symphonies, and started blasting into their party. It worked.
Had a loud, stomping, partying upstairs neighbor once but didn't want to bother the person below me, or get in trouble, playing loud music myself. So I found a loop of really grizzly, hacking, productive-sounding coughing and set up my computer with a speaker in my loft area, on a shelf, aiming at the ceiling. They can't call the cops on you for being sick! It didn't stop his noise but I enjoyed playing it early in the morning after he was partying late.
My husband did the same thing to our downstairs neighbor, who was making me weep with his loud, nasty music and drunken parties. When Hubs hooked the speakers to the TV, a commercial with the PERFECT message came on, LOUD AND CLEAR....”I hate you...Hatred...DEEP HATRED!!!” (It was a guy yelling at his overheated car, that had died in the desert.)
An amplifier that withstands a 12-hour feedback without burning up is not an amplifier, it's a friggin' alien tank...
I did a similar thing with upstairs neighbors. I set my speakers on a tall bookshelf facing the ceiling. Then played Inna Gadda Da Vida at top volume, on repeat, while I was at my mom's visiting for two days.
I had a neighbor that I hated. Actually they were a couple.They would go outside to wash their cars and such and play really loud death metal. One day I had enough. Went outside,cranked up my Suburban,put on 2Live Crew and cranked it up a few notches. Oh,I forgot to add the most important art I compete in audio competitions so I have twelve 15" subwoofers that will make your ears bleed. They got the picture.
This reminds me of the scene from Treme where Steve Zahn's character (Davis McAlary) was pissed about the gentrification of his neighborhood, so when a gay couple moved in downstairs from him, he would move his speakers onto the porch, dial the volume up to 11 and blare New Orleans Bounce while he was gone all day. (spoiler alert: he ended up befriending said neighbors in the end.)
that reminds me who always worked at night and slept on the day,, neighbors used to put loud noise and never listened to him. He thus decided to accelerate his noisy motor bike all night!
I have huge problems with bass. I feel it through every fiber of my body and it's agony. I went to a disco once in my life and never again. I spent half of the disco in the toilet crying because I was 100 % convinced that the roof was going to fly off and I had incredible pain in my whole body. Then I apparently fainted and was found by a staff member who took me outside to recover. I lived in a city once and it was a total and utter nightmare. University town, a lot of young students who also love loud parties and I was also just a couple of miles away from a place that held huge concerts. I'd be crying in agony because of the sound. I couldn't hear the music from the concert but I could feel the bass even when lying in bed. Had to move away because it made me suicidal
Similar tale. Neighbors let their dog yap and yap and yap on an early Sunday morning. I finally got up and dragged one 100w Cerwin Vega speaker to one window and the other to another. Put on Led Zepplin II. Cranked it up. just one song. Probably woke up the whole neighbors 10 acres over, but it never happened again.
what they hear because they probably have no job: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Reminds me a good one. Few years ago, I was living with a friend. Her neighbor was non-stop harrassing us because of the noise. I mean, if we walked barefoot on the tiles he would come upstairs and tell us we did too much noise, passive-aggressively proposing slippers. He owned his appartement and we were tenants, SO he should have done something about insulation if he was annoyed by the noise of us just being alive. One day we were so pissed we turned the speakers to face the floor and left a loooooong porn playlist before leaving. We never heard of him again.
The amount of demonic people doing their evilness are just escalating these days... Good ! That'll teach 'em a lesson or two !!!
We did something similar, our downstairs neighbor used to play Loud music all hours and so on his days off we would flip our 15" fisher speakers facedown on the floor and turn brotha lynch full blast and leave all day 😂🤣
awsome.!! my husband plays guitar, has amps.. this is awsome bc even just our cat jumping on said amp, when left on at night by accident, is enough to startle me out of sleep. i can just imagine these rude neighbors getting thier just deserts
That can destroy your own speaker tho, they're not designed to have the front completely covered over of course. You were probably saved by the fact that the speaker is not enclosed, so the soundwaves had somewhere to escape. Glad it worked for you tho, I know what it's like to have to work shifts and have crappy neighbours!!
Lights Out
Friend had a neighbor who put in a very bright yard light that was pointed at her bedroom window. After a negative interaction when asking neighbor to re aim or dim the light or such, cue theatre stagehands. She put up a parabolic mirror pointed directly at dudes bedroom, used an old projector dowser, and an old lighting board to program a chase sequence that was hours long and repeated. End result was a beam of randomly blinking light that was aimed at neighbors bedroom window. When he complained she let him know that it was his light source and all he had to do was turn off his yard light.
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Might As Well Start Charging Him Rent
When I was really young our neighbor (druggy) demanded we move our septic tank because he claimed it was partially on his property. He was a complete jerk about it and kept at it. My dads a really laid back person, eventually even he got mad and had the property line surveyed. Turns out not only was the septic tank on our property, not his, but the corner of his house and part of his drive way was actually on our land. Dad spent the next few months asking him when he was going to move his house off our land.
What Makes a Good or Bad Neighbor?
A survey by Porch, a site that connects homeowners and professional contractors, discovered that the worst neighbors are nosy ones—those who cross the line of a friendly wave to peeping into other people’s yards, getting too personal when meeting at the mailbox, or just a general invasion of privacy.
The other top four activities of annoying neighbors include being too loud, not picking up after their pets, parking in someone else’s designated spot, and leaving their children unsupervised. A good neighbor wouldn’t engage in such behavior.
While the people that Porch surveyed called out their neighbors, they also admitted their own shortcomings. 1 in 10 said they sometimes play music too loudly or talk loudly enough that it might annoy their neighbors. 2 in 10 said they don't know the names of any of their neighbors, while 6 in 10 said they know the names of only some of their neighbors.
Birds To The Rescue
Not particularly exciting, but amusing.
We briefly had a neighbor who was a complete jackass. My personal pet peeve was when he would yell at our kids to "shut up" while they were playing in the backyard.
Next to his driveway was a big tree and I noticed he'd throw occasional hissy fits over the birds cr*pping on his car.
One week he was out of town but his car was still in the driveway. Each day I put a heaping pile of berries (blueberries, strawberries, etc.) next to the tree. He returned home to a car absolutely COVERED in technicolor bird poop.
Do birds poop different colors when fed berries? I once pet sat a parrot for a week, fed him lots of blueberries, and never noticed anything.
Noisy Neighbors Revenge
Our neighbors were constantly fighting, would get drunk every weekend, and blasted loud music until 4 a.m. Well, the girlfriend went out of town for a week for a work training, and we saw another girl park outside the house while she was gone. We heard the new girl and the BF going at it very loudly too. So the next time they were being super loud at 2 a.m., we went over to ask them to turn down the music. They both yelled at us to mind our own business. My wife just casually asked, 'Oh, did you get back together? What about that nice blonde girl who was over all last week? Is this a thrupple situation now?' Then we went home and enjoyed listening to them throwing everyone out and having their last fight.
Long-Term Revenge On Neighbor
My grandmother had a neighbor who refused to help her repair the fence between their properties. It was still functional, but falling apart. Any conversation about fixing the fence ended with him saying that it was on her property so it was her fence and therefore she was fully responsible.
My grandmother took a fall and was hospitalized for a few weeks, only to return home and find a new fence built an extra 5 feet into her property and a bill in the mail from the neighbor. He argued with her for months that she owed him, that the original fence was on his property, and that where it was now was the boundary line.
My grandmother got a surveyor and, surprise! The original fence was correct, and the neighbor had taken 5 feet off her yard. At this point she was very old, frail, and tired of fighting her a-hole neighbor. Instead, she let nature take over. She planted blackberries along the back fence, and within two years it was covered. Every year, she’d walk the fence and throw seeds over because, of course, it was still her yard. After five years of fighting, the blackberries had reclaimed her property. She’s been gone for a few years now, but the blackberries remain, her way of haunting her neighbor. He’s tried ripping up the ones on his side of the fence on numerous occasions, but the plants reseed themselves and grow back every year from her side.
Guess Who’s Not Having Any More Parties?
The rich brats next door always threw loud, drunken parties when their parents were out of town. One Sunday morning, I went out to find the corner of our lot (which was a school bus stop) littered with used condoms. That night around midnight, I gloved-up and collected a bunch of them, snuck into the neighbors' yard, and scattered them around the pool, the garage, and the back door where mom was sure to see them. There were no more parties.
Very Stinky Prank On Neighbors’ Kids
My great-grandfather was one of the last people in town to get indoor plumbing, so he had an outhouse in his yard. Every Halloween, the neighborhood kids came into the yard and knocked over the building to expose the cesspit. He got tired of it, so one year on the night before Halloween, he moved the building forward and covered the fess with burlap, disguising it in leaves and grass clippings. In the dark, it was almost impossible to tell it was there. On Halloween night, he sat in the outhouse and waited. It wasn’t long after sundown when he heard the wet splat outside as a couple of kids fell into the muck. He lowered a ladder into the cesspit for them to leave after making them promise to never mess with his outhouse again. The kids honored their promise and even spread the word around the neighborhood not to mess with that outhouse any more.
Stone cold. Throw a couple Gamma Globulin shots into their halloween candy.
What Can You Do About a Hostile Neighbor?
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Seeking revenge on neighbors can have both positive and negative results; while it might yield some short-term satisfaction, it can also permanently damage your relationship. Moreover, it doesn't solve the underlying issue. Also, just because you have the opportunity to seek revenge on neighbors doesn’t mean that you should. Often, the best revenge is taking the high road.
Be a bigger person and find ways to address the issue without escalating the situation. Consider having a calm and respectful conversation to express your concerns. Sometimes, not engaging in retaliatory actions can lead to a more peaceful resolution in the long run. That’s what adults do, right?
For example, what’s the best revenge on smoking neighbors? Talk to them, and tell them your concerns about the smoke. They might not be aware that it’s causing you discomfort. See if you can work out a compromise, like finding a designated smoking area. If the problem persists and becomes a health or safety hazard, check local regulations regarding smoking in shared spaces and consider involving authorities.
5:30 A.m. Battle Of Mower And Metal Chains
Neighbor used to insist on mowing his lawn at 5:30 am every Saturday morning. He had to drive on our property to access his back lawn and would buzz right past my window with the mower deck down waking me up. I asked him to stop but was brushed off.
One Friday night after working a late second shift I left my dogs chain in the tall grass on our property between our houses. 5:30am Saturday comes around and I woke up to the sound of the mower sucking the chain up into the mower deck. The next weekend I got to sleep in.
Fence Feud: Neighbor’s Complaint Backfires!
My mom's neighbor called the city to demand my mom repair the fence that divided their yards. This lady had been a crab apple for 10+ years, but this move pissed my mom off. The fence did need mild repairs, but my mom was already in the process of getting quotes to fix it and would have done it if the neighbor had just talked to her. When the city contacted my mom and said she had to maintain the fence, she asked if she legally had to have one. Turns out there are rules about maintaining a fence, but not requiring you have one, so my mom paid a contractor to tear it down entirely. The neighbor asked my mom when the new fence would be built, and she said, 'You want a fence? Build it yourself!' A couple weeks later, my mom had a nice new fence, courtesy of one annoying neighbor.
Costly Revenge On Bad Neighbors
Poured salt all over my neighbors lawn after his living s**ts for kids threw bricks at my dogs. Best part is, he owned one of the largest lawn care companies in my hometown. He lost a tremendous amount of business once his prize winning lawn turned into a barren wasteland.
their kids threw BRICKS at your DOG??? WHY IS NO ONE ADRESSING THIS??? that is wrong on SO many levels
Internet Bullying In Real Life
In college I lived across from a frat house that would let people park in our spaces.
Their router password was admin. So I logged into their router, banned all of their MAC Addresses and changed the password.
I had neighbors that were constantly parking in my spaces. The last straw was a truck that parked there. I was expecting company and they had no place to park, so I walked from door to door and, when no one claimed it, I had it towed. 15 minutes later, a knock at my door. They said "Why did you have my truck towed?" I said "How did you know it was me?" They said "Because your apartment number is on it." I said "And now you know why your truck was towed....."
A Sticky Situation
My grandpa's neighbor's septic tank started leaking into my grandpa's backyard. He repeatedly asked his neighbor to fix the tank and clean up the mess, and the neighbor completely brushed him off. So my grandpa took matters into his own hands. He rigged up a 'plumbing system' in his yard — an upright PVC pipe that pointed at the neighbor's backyard. It was set up to spray the neighbor's own septic waste over the fence and into their beautiful and polished yard. Just like that, the neighbor fixed his septic tank.
Septic systems. So unregulated. Now you know one reason why the Puget Sound Orcas are in decline.
Noisy Neighbors Revenge With A Pee-Ceful Surprise
On my last day in my old apartment, I peed on a plate and stuck it in the freezer. I then waited until it froze, then detached the frozen pee disc from the plate and slid it under his front door so that it would eventually melt on his carpet.
Thanks for three years of loud music at 3 AM every night, neighbour.
Lights Out For A Loud Neighbor
I had a noisy neighbor in the apartment above me. The music was SO loud in the hallway that I couldn't tell which unit it was coming from at first. I knocked on his door and politely asked him to turn it down, but he refused, and I knew I wouldn't get anywhere with him. After a few more days of this, I decided to take action. The laundry room on my floor had all of the electrical panels for individual units clearly labelled. Every time he blasted his music, I would go to the laundry room and turn his power off. I started off with a few seconds (to give the illusion that he blew something), but when he STILL wouldn't put his music lower, I would just shut his power off for hours. I could hear him swearing, but I didn't care. My lease was almost up, and as soon as it was, I was out of there.
I've found that landlords would rather do nothing and lose a good tenant rather than take action and confront a bad one over their behavior.
Revenge On Neighbor Who Dislikes Blue
My dad was talking to our neighbor about what color he should paint the house, and as a joke he said, 'Well, I might as well paint the old one (house) blue!' The neighbor became almost angry and started going off about how that was stupid and he couldn't do that. Well, that’s the story of how I grew up in a blue house.
Blue houses are beautiful. I hope the neighbor eventually got over himself.
Poopy Solution (Not The Dogs Fault)
Neighbors dog kept pooping in the front , like they open the front door let him out and he poop in our yard. I asked them like 10x to just clean it up no problem.
They outright refused so for about 2 months I went out picked it up put it in a 5 gallon bucket outside in the back yard when it was full of rain water and poop I walked over and dumped it on the front porch. It actually worked they started cleaning up after the dog. We actually have been cool since then.
A Child Prank On Neighbor
When I was 10 or so, an old lady was nasty to my brother and I for sitting on 'her' curb. So we got the bright idea to have an estate sale for her. We got up at like 4 a.m. on Saturday morning and put up homemade cardboard garage sale signs with her address on them and 'early birds welcome' in bold letters. We then sat on the curb a little down the street across from her house and watched people bang on the door for an hour or so. The best part is we didn't put a date on the signs, so if she didn't find all the signs, presumably people would keep showing up every Saturday.
A Sticky Van Door
They assaulted my dad because he told them to stop yelling at a woman parked in the road, so I bided my time for a few weeks then filled all the locks on their work van with superglue.
Crossing The Dirty Line
We lived in a neighborhood of townhouses. One neighbor let their dogs [poop] all over everyone’s lawn and never picked it up. We tried asking them, we tried picking it up and putting it on their doorstep, but they still refused to do it. My one neighbor decided to get a piece of it and smear it all over the front of the house. After that, they started picking it up.
Pushing The Invisible Limits Of A Man
There was a really quiet, meek guy on our street, and a neighbor would constantly let their dog poo on his front lawn. He tried all the normal things like pepper on the lawn, motion sprinklers, and little signs, but the dog owner didn't care. Well, one day the guy got so mad, he mashed up and liquified his OWN POO and put it into a super soaker. He followed the man home, then returned in the middle of the night and emptied the super soaker through the man's letterbox. The impact splatter hit the walls, hallway, stairs, ceiling and even reached into the kitchen at the end of the hallway. Apparently the stench was HORRENDOUS.
Snails And Slugs For Being Nosey
My parents have an extremely nosey neighbour who would just stand at the fence and watch what we do. I mean with her nose resting on the top of the fence. This woman is 60s with kids and grandkids. I found out the other day my dad was in the garden with a shovel. Turns out he throws the slugs and snails in their trampoline and on their veggie plot for being annoying every time they aren’t there. I couldn’t stop laughing at how petty and hilarious this was. Still makes my day.
If her nose was resting on the fence I'd smear some dog poo on the fence.
Yard Work: What Could Go Wrong?
They would party on weeknights until 3a playing music outside and being loud AF. Cops said there was nothing they could do, so I started doing yard work at 5a. Yard work consisted of me using a chainsaw with a loose muffler to cut up an old tree. It was so loud that I had to wear ear plugs and ear muffs.
So, all your other neighbours who had also been kept up by the parties, then had to deal with your noise too? Better ways to solve this.
Putting Neighbor’s House On Sale
Years ago, when you could advertise house sales in the paper without too many pictures, my brother put in an ad for his obnoxious neighbor’s house. It was just an exterior picture and was priced about 75K under market as a private sale with the neighbor's phone number. He found out the guy was inundated with calls for weeks but never found out who had listed it.
Instant Revenge On Neighbors
I poured a bunch of instant mashed potato powder boxes on their lawn, so when it rained, they had a lawn full of mashed potatoes.
We had a guy who would literally measure our grass and if we didn't mow every week, he'd call the city, even if the grass didn't need it. He also yelled at our kids for being too loud and once reported us for "noxious weeds" for planting mint (in a pot, but set into the ground, I'm not dumb) . So I visited the Monsanto field behind my dad's house and gathered chemically resistant dandelion seeds. I seeded his yard one night, a few weeks later and his precious yard was dotted with yellow. We've moved, but I drive by once in a while. He's still fighting them.
I was fortunate with the party animal next door. I explained that I had missed work twice from lack of sleep. Lucky for me, he didn't want to be known as the building's resident asshole, so he ended party hours at 11pm on weeknights and 1pm on weekends. Not perfect, but tolerable on my end. I try to be considerate on my end and remind my husband to turn down the radio volume so as not to blast the neighbours awake. I don't want to be know as the wife of the asshole.
Wise women! A neighborhood war doesn’t makes anyone happy.
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Ultra-conservative hyper-religious neighbor wouldn't stop criticizing rest of neighborhood. Finally got tired of it, and sent off for catalogs to a *bunch* of porn dealers (magazines, toys, etc) in HIS name. He was on their mailing lists for _years_!
According to your description of him, odds are really good that you either gave him new magazines to read, or doubled all his existing subscriptions. It’s always the ones who advertise their “religious faith” the loudest who turn out to be the worst sinners.
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I had some party animals in my neighborhood. They would park their cars in front of my house and throw their cans and bottles on my lawn. So one early Sunday morning, I picked up all the cans and bottles and banged on their door to deliver the garbage. The hungover boys must have told their guests to stop doing that because I never had another problem.
That's a very reasonable way to handle inconsiderate neighbours.
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A neighbor and I spent a lot of time as kids (around 8-9 probably) cooking up artificial bird poo, which we then shot onto another neighbor's laundry as it was drying outside (using a plastic tube). It all started after she kicked my cat.
When I was kid I lived next to this HORRIBLE old women and her husband. She would scream at us kids just for playing in our own yards and other things that were mean for no reason, like spraying us or my dog with a garden hose. And if her husband was nice to us we would hear her screaming at him. When she finally passed away, her husband would come out and watch us play and he would allow us to pick grapes that they grew whenever we wanted. I would come home with bowls and bowls full of them. He had grown grandchildren and missed them being so little and having them want to be around him a the time. My parents always invited him over to the cook outs we had and he also accepted. He would always apologize for how his wife treated us and he even had a baby orphaned deer we were allowed to pet and feed. I miss that old man a lot sometimes and think about how kind he was to all of us. And he was all sort of our neighborhood grandpa.
This was not the kind of story I expected to read in a comment on this article but I'm glad I did. So wholesome. :)
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My other neighbor neglects her dogs and when I said something about it she cussed me out. When her husband was burning leaves in an open pit, dry AF, and left them burning without supervision, I called the fire department. They egged my house later that night. They also have 2 racecars they rev up late into the night. I'm glad to have some ideas on how to deal with them. 🤔😁
Call the ASPCA too. Neglected animals will be taken from the home. I hate people that neglect and abuse animals. No revenge is too much
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Sounds like how m y neighborhood is turning out now. It used to be nice and quiet but there's more karens and petty, pretentious twaddle running around being hateful. We've got two white women here who have christened themselves neighborhood watch, unbeknownst to the rest of us, of course. They went around causing trouble for the only black neighbor on this end of the neighborhood for no reason other than they wanted to get away with being racists. I'm white and there's a bunch of other white people on this end who bother no one. Even the Trump supporters are quiet people that mind their own business. But these two women were so bad that our black neighbor had to file a restraining order against them. It worked. They both tried trolling the neighborhood for white support and got nothing. Plus one of them can't afford another incident or she'll lose her job as a bus driver. So the rest of us neighbors know what to threaten them both with now if they try to get high on themselves again.
We'd heard stories of the person who lived in our house before we moved in. A total d**k. He cut the sunflower of our older neighbor's wife (who had cancer, has passed 😔) for no reason. We have raised garden beds because they poured metal objects/shavings, oil, and random junk like rubber into the dirt of the terrace. They also cut down the pine trees to look like bushes, trimming them in a way they'd never grow tall. When we moved in, we got invited to a party. Our neighbors threw a party because that person before us moved out. There's other stories, but those are the main ones.
If your annoying neighbor owns a swimming pool or hot tub add a giant economy box of Mr. Bubble to the chlorinators. Shouldn't really hurt anything but it makes life interesting for a bit.
So many of these are ridiculous. They're like stories little kids make up to show off.
They seem like the revenge stories you cook up in your head when mad then realize are a bad idea when you cool off. If half of these are true I have very boring neighbors.
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Lived in a townhouse as a kid. Small front yards. My friend and I covered an annoying neighbors yard with wild onion seeds one fall. Guess what his yard looked like next spring.
I don’t like most of this "1st step: tell bored pandas why your neighbor deserved it. 2nd step: show off how you harmed them in self-justice." stories. A little of these stories are really fun.
I had a across the way neighbor who during a huge snowstorm would park in any space that was somewhat clear. We are talking over 30” of snow. So I come home at 1am and he is a spot I had shoveled out by hand and thrown the traffic cone I had left onto my porch. Well, I was beyond pissed since A) I had to shovel out a parking spot and then some full of 30”+ of snow that was also wet. B) he had done this multiple times and would just watch people dig out a spot and laugh out his window. I took the entire parking spot worth of snow and piled it behind his sedan, then banged it with tue shovel to compact it. It was single digits in temperature so I went inside and got several 5 gallon buckets full of water and poured it onto his car so it flash froze and then on the snow so it would be rock hard. He woke up to a frozen ice compacted vehicle with ice coating it and a note on his door that said ‘Dig your own spot out a**hole’.
Yeah of course some of these stories sound far-fetched but others unless you know what they're thinking it's hard to put yourself in their mind-set while they're doing it. In college me and a friend rented a house and rather than pay for garbage we would just take garbage bags set them in the local dumpster at an automatic car wash DIY in the middle of the night. We did it for a few months and one morning we found trash bags littered throughout our front lawn ripped open. I mean of course I was annoyed cuz I had to pick it all up but I also had respect for the people who rented that dumpster for them to go into trash and look for papers with our address and we never did it again. I was 20, stupid, and naive but lesson learned and we never retailated. Some people actually do learn their lesson.The guy could have called the cops on us but I'm glad he did it his way because there was Karma and we deserved it.
I didn't do this one but it was done *for* me by a friend. When I was about 15 we got some real nasty neighbors. Always screaming at each other at all hours, throwing trash in our yard, and their daughters (one the same age as me and one two years older) would call me and my sisters names and throw rocks at us (they were on a hill and overlooked us). I told a close friend and he hated the girls too. One night he took pages out of a p**no magazine and superglued them to the girls' car windows. All of them. We are still friends lol.
Couple times in education/early 20s, I had to live sketchy places to afford the housing. Drug dealer downstairs. Couple across hall would slam doors at 2-3 AM, and always opened the never-open-that-window in the corridor, let dog crap in hallway... Yet not worth the trouble of causing trouble. Other than the cops knocking to ask "You see anything?" about downstairs, it was just ... what you gotta deal with in life sometimes.
I knew someone (lets call them Clara) who’s neighbours set up a pop-up pizza restaurant in their garden. Clara was annoyed about the noise coming from the pizza restaurant late at night, and complained to the council, who shut down the pizza restaurant. The pizza people, who also had a farm, decided to get petty revenge on Clara by placing their pig pen right next to Clara’s garden fence. Clara complained about the smell, but she couldn’t do anything about it
They sound like selfish people and Clara deserves better.
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I see BP changed the title of the post to something a bit more accurate. If they really wanted to be truthful, they'd change it to "29 bullshit stories people posted on Reddit that they fantasized about doing to their annoying neighbors."
My neighbor threw his dog poo over my fence daily. Their neighborhood was gated so I couldn’t knock on the door for a conversation. Whenever I saw them in their yard I would call out a greeting but was always ignored. I finally started gathering the poo and lobbing it over the fence accidentally landing in his boat. He called police on me. Police asked how he knew I did it - his response was that recognized his dogs poo. No police report was taken.
when I was 6 i had this dog named gema, she was wild and playful and absolutly perfect. then some neighbors moved in just for the summer. those a*****e threw out fish with pills in them to kill our dogs. i dont know what happened to them, all i knew was that my dog is dead and it was their fault. i was 6 all i could do was cry.
That’s horrible. I’m so sorry you lost your pupper.
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A friend's landlord lied in court about the biting bugs in the apartment. Judge ruled with them. A few days later the friend moved out of the country. She put a toothpick in their door lock , broke it off and forced it way in so it couldn't be seen. that night when they went home from the office their key did not work.
A woman living in the building across from ours had a very bright lamp on her balcony and would leave it on at night. It would light up my parents' bedroom and my dad often complained he couldn't sleep because of it. One evening my brother took his birdshot rifle, laid on my parents' bed and aimed through our open balcony door. Lamp was destroyed and the neighbour never bought another one.
I'm sorry, did your brother shoot live ammunition at a house? That's stupid and illegal. Yes, light pollution is a problem with how it disrupts the circadian rhythm of wild animals and puts them at greater risk of being spotted by predators. If your neighbours wouldn't be reasonable and just turn off their light, which would save them energy, why didn't your parents just buy a set of black out curtains? Simple peaceful solution where no one is at risk of being injured.
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I don't know why people don't call the cops more on loud neighbors? And if there aren't noise ordinances in towns, why? In my town, you have to shut off loud music at 10pm. I often give it to 11pm if it's on the weekends before calling the cops. But if it's a weekday, my husband has to work the next day, so I call. Cops are usually there in less time than they even estimate on the phone. If people don't comply, they get fined. We had some new neighbors that did this every weekend for a month before they finally stopped. (and we're talking loud bass that made the dishes in our cabinets shake even tho they were 4 houses away) Guess the fines finally added up.
Some of these are blatant fictions and some are just immature people doing stupid property damage. The rest are funny. A triage would have been nice
Jesus Christ who are these neighbours?! Or just people in general? I still chat with my neighbours as soon as possible and bring treats when I move to a new place. It makes me so sad to think that I’m the ‘odd’ one in what feels like a sea of a**holes :-( I’ve thankfully been lucky with my neighbours
Noisy neighbour nightmare. Too long to detail. Suffice to say we left before our rental contract ended. They were in the flat above so whenever we had guests, several drinks later and the evenings entertainment was to see how much leftover food we could throw onto their balcony. And filling the corridor outside they're place with frozen prawns the day we left was hugely satisfying.
Some neighbors kids shot my dogs with water guns so I decided to approach the parents about what their children were doing to my pets. When the mom called me a gringo for saying such lies about her perfect children and told me how they (as a family) had fought so hard to be American. I then proceeded to mention my last name being Rivera all in Spanish. I saw her lift the sandal off of her foot and the kids never sprayed my dogs again. Sorry if its repetitive, but yeah.
Annoying neighbor complained to the neighborhood developer about my colored Christmas lights. He told her that while we have some covenants (only wood fences, no metal storage buildings) there is no restriction on holiday decor and reminded her we don’t have an HOA. He did tell me about her call because I caught her slipping religious anti-Halloween tracts in my mailbox. I bought pink plastic flamingos and draped them with green blinking lights.
Live in the country. Guy down the street owns multiple properties but only lives in and maintains one. Leaves the others to rot. Me and neighbors have taken to dragging road kill from out street (deer possum raccoon etc) to the front yard of the worst house and leaving them in a pile. Looks like the house where things go to die.
I like a tree to fall on a person who logged one area of Boulder Creek Ca then came to my beautiful oasis in Ben lomond and logged 300 feet around 6 structures. Basically destroyed a whole ecosystem for his little organic farm to sell a tomato or two, going on for months now, even sat and sun, the destruction continues, and I like to do something but not sure what, except rake him over the coals for claiming to pose as someone into Mother Earth and sustainability and eating in the seasons, reverence is the word they used. One sees the website and propaganda and they have all manner of images, all close ups, of flowers, and fruits and all the stuff they plan to see, as its a homestead but not one peep about all year round logging. I just saw he did this to his land in Boulder Creek, logged then came here to destroy the top of Roberts Road in Ben Lomond.
When I was in college living at home, the neighbour's house sold and the new owner rented it to bratty college kids who had loud-ass parties every other night. My dad, who was the nicest, most polite man I've ever known, went over multiple times to ask them to turn the music down and they basically told him to f**k off every time. Other neighbours talked to them with the same results. Cops were called multiple times and only ever gave them warnings that were never heeded. One night after a rager when the music had died down and I knew they were passed out, I went over with a valve stem remover and took them out of all the tires. I kept the stems and the valve caps and threw them away. Saw them the next morning standing around looking baffled/annoyed at the car. I guess the message was recieved cause it was the last loud party they had. Best part of that prank is if you take out the stems you don't have to sit there holding the valve for the air to come out, and if they don't realize the stems are gone, they'll waste a bunch of time trying to fill them up before realizing they have to buy and install new ones.
My parents bought me a studio appartment when I was in college. The elderly couple living downstairs from me, hated me with a passion, cause it had woken them up the one single time, I had a birthday party at home. So they started complaining about literally everything. One afternoon my dad was helping me moving some furniture and they rushed up to my appartment and without knocking, just opened the door and let themselves in. Woman already yelling at me. They stopped dead in their tracks, when they saw my parents, and they hurried out and down to their own appartment. But apparently they’d seen, I had a cat. So from that day, they started complaining about the cat. Claiming they could smell my cat cause it was hot summer. I was travelling and my cat was at my parents. My mom had enough. She knew they spent the summer in their summerhouse. So she bought a fish. Went to the appartment building and slipped the fish into their appartment through the letterbox. They moved.
More old reddit scrapings....this site has really gine downhill. 😔
I used to deliver the mail on foot. A woman on my route, let's call her Karen, told me to stop talking to her dog. I cried all afternoon because I loved her dog and couldn't understand why in the world she didn't want me to talk to him. Long story short I accidentally stepped in a huge pile of dog s**t one day while on my route. I purposely kept it on my shoe for two blocks just so I could smear it all over her front walk and porch. Ahh, sweet revenge!
We had an asshole neighbor down the street who tried to run me off the road when I was driving my pony. I just got those magazine subscription cards and filled them all out. He got porn, gay porn and good housekeeping. He left me alone after that. I still hate his guts, he called us white trash when we moved in and because of him no neighbors would talk to us. I didn't care. He has cancer and will die soon. Good riddance!
I despise this entire article. All I needed to read was the first one about the bullion cubes and the dog - and the probability that someones childish and stupid behaviour resulted in the abuse of an animal. Adults acting like children - can't see any further than what makes them feel better and not how it affects anyone or anything else.
It was raining. The cubes weren't still cubes, they'd have melted into the soil.
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My cousin had the best idea to get even with someone. Send a letter with a donation of one dollar to several TV evangelists. They will be flooded with solicitations for money and more for months.
There are many ways to get the point across to someone who continues to do those little pesky things that neighbors who offend think they have a right to do, even when they are in the wrong. Two wrongs do not make a right. So...if you want to do something petty as a "get back"
Ans con't: DON'T. It only makes you look childish. Just drop it, smile nicely when you see that person, let bygones be bygones, life is too short.
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Some years ago,several of us rented a boat slip for a Saturday evening. The slips are pretty close together, but everyone was BBQ ing and having a nice quiet evening of fun, eve n though none of the peopl÷ on the different boats knew each other, except that the couple next to us came back about 2 am drunk and had one of those awful drunken quarrels - 'you did too" "you're a b***h""i hate you" etc. At the top of their lungs. People kept asking them to yarn it few, but they just got louder and louder. Finally, the guy said well, I'm leaving you, you b***h and walked off the edge of the deck. There was this big AAAHs a nd a splash and everyone started applauding. Then we all went back, to sleep. It was sweet.
When I was about 12, I had a morning paper route. I saved my earnings to buy a shiny silver ten-speed bike, which I was proud of. One morning when I got off my bike to walk the paper to my customers front door, he pulled out of his driveway and turned sharply, running over my bike (it was well away from his driveway) and ruining the front sprocket. He said, "That's what you get for parking it behind me" and he drove off to work. He knew it wasn't true. But I didn't have the power to force him to pay. I bought replacement parts and fixed it myself. My first response to stop delivering his paper. But that wasn't enough. One morning I rode past his house on my way home. I noticed his garage window was left open. I don't know what I meant to do, but I crawled in, found some emergency road flares, which I lit and put under each of his tires, a couple inches from the treads. Then I crawled out the window and quietly road my bike home.
So you potentially burned down someone's house?
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We moved onto a nice private road with estate properties and we had an a hole neighbor who didn’t like that that we were a bit weird and artsy. He even took out my mailbox twice on his mower, my mailbox was 2 acres from his property line so not sure how that was accidental. So we had the land surveyed and turns out his front yard was my property and his giant windows looked out on that area. We put up a hideous livestock fence and then started putting out pink flamingos in that area. Every time he was a jerk, we added a flamingo. We ended up with quite a flock. When he took out the mailbox the second time, we got a 5ft hot pink metal flamingo sculpture and started adding spot lights so he could enjoy them at night. The new mailbox was giant sized and painted neon orange and we put glitter flamingos on it. Our friends and family even got in on it and started giving us random flamingos to add to the collection. Best part was, we couldn’t see any of it from our house.
My very elderly parents haven a a*****e neighbour who did not cut town tall, dead pinetrees for decades. they fell and destroyed the fence. Not only does he refuse to do anything about the fence, he also let his dog lose on me, when I asked him what he was going to do. It's a harmless, but huge.rottweiler and I'm not afraid of dogs, but I am mad as fire. So far I collected: the boulliion idea and the blackberries seeds. I need to be subtle about this, so it can't be traced back to us. But I will bide my time. I WILL get you, you fcker!
If you've ever used bullion cubes you know they take forever to dissolve when using boiling water. I doubt the rain did anything and that story was likely false, as many probably are.
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I have 2 pink plastic flamingos named Rico and Sonny. They migrate from my backyard pond to my front yard when Miss Priss across the street annoys me. She hates colored Christmas lights & tried to get them banned even tho we have no HOA. Rico & Sonny wore green blinky lights all season. She leaves religious tracts in my box about devil worship every Halloween. I just add more decorations.
I don't have a fence on the side of my house leading into my backyard which is fenced. On this particular day, I go on the side of my house only to step in a huge pile of dog 💩. I thought it was from a random stray, so I cleaned it up, cleaned my shoe and didn't think anymore of it. A few days later, I come home to see my next door neighbor with his dog (Pitbull mix), coming from the side of my house. I check later and find several more piles of 💩. So rather than him walking his big ass dog, he just takes it outside, and has it go on the side of my house. He has a window on that side (not sure if it's a bedroom or living room). I go out and loudly say, "Who the f#@k has been letting their dog 💩 on the side of my house? Anybody with a dog around here (he was the only one), please be warned that the next f#@king pile of 💩 I have to clean up, is going to be scooped up and left on their porch!! Needless to say, I had my shovel ready and it wasn't going to be put in a bag either.
Unfortunately in today's world all these horrible neighbors could sue and win
This guy kept threatening our dogs, yet his dogs were out ALL day yipping outside. We had a chain fence so he could put stuff through it, which he didn't realize. After years of him doing it, we built a wood fence so that he wouldn't be so annoying and threatening. He can't look over the fence, but his dogs still yip all day.
We lived in a neighborhood FULL of dogs. Every house in a six block radius had at least two dogs. The people behind us had 5 big dogs in a tiny yard. Constantly barking. They would go camping for 3 days and leave the dogs. One dog would start barking and the whole neighborhood would join in. One time I was trying to recover from surgery and the dogs had been barking continuously since 4am. It was now 11pm. So I went out and took a stick and beat on the fence and got ALL THE DOGS barking on my side of town. Then I called animal control. By the time the officer called me back, he told me he had counted upwards of 40 dogs barking. And he gave a written warning to everyone in the neighborhood that had a barking dog. I slept good from then on🤣
When I was in high school, we lived in a popular Chicago suburb. A couple of neighbors down the street had issues with each other. It went on for about a year, so one put his house up for sale to get away from the other. The other guy painted his house a horrendous mixture of striped colors. It took 3-4 years for him to sell his house and he had to take a beating on the sale price. As soon as it was sold, the other guy painted his house a normal color!
Released dozens of crickets in the basement garage and storage areas of the apartment building. Jerk neighbours in the basement who threw loud parties that disturbed EVERYONE on that side of the building, and jerk landlord who never took care of repairs, and jerk concierge who hid behind jerk landlord.
when I was 12 and my brother was 10, we had this mean old lady that lived across the street. She called the cops because my brother fell off his bike onto her lawn and she said he was trespassing. So she stapled a bunch of papers basically saying 'dont come on my lawn' to trees in/around her house and sidewalk. I tore all of them down, shredded them, and sprinkled them aaaalllllll over her front & backyard. Had another neighbor that kicked my dogs through our fence & I popped all their pool toys & their smaller pool.
I threw a bag of cat s**t into my neighbours pool. They had a party until 2am on a weeknight. I asked them to quiet down around 11.30pm. And they told be to eff off. So the next day I was taking the cat poop/litter downstairs to clean it. I put it in a bag and then, when I was about to pop it in the bin, I just decided to throw it over the fence. Now I thought it would land in the garden and make a bit of a smell. But I heard this huge KaaaaaPLOP! It landed in the pool. 24 hours later she was screaming at me. Saying I know it was you cause we wouldn’t stop our party. She even called the cops and I offered them a fecal sample. They laughed so hard. And the neighbour? Never had a mid week party again. And because it was clumping litter. They had to pay a fortune to fix the pool filter. Result.
My nosy neighbor Karen called the sheriff on me because I was kicking over my motorcycle not starting it so I went on Google maps and let everyone know that she loves bikes come on by and rev it up now think I'll do the Jehovah's witnesses thing I think she need God in her life.. 😂
Not an airport. you don't need to announce your departure
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We had a guy who would literally measure our grass and if we didn't mow every week, he'd call the city, even if the grass didn't need it. He also yelled at our kids for being too loud and once reported us for "noxious weeds" for planting mint (in a pot, but set into the ground, I'm not dumb) . So I visited the Monsanto field behind my dad's house and gathered chemically resistant dandelion seeds. I seeded his yard one night, a few weeks later and his precious yard was dotted with yellow. We've moved, but I drive by once in a while. He's still fighting them.
I was fortunate with the party animal next door. I explained that I had missed work twice from lack of sleep. Lucky for me, he didn't want to be known as the building's resident asshole, so he ended party hours at 11pm on weeknights and 1pm on weekends. Not perfect, but tolerable on my end. I try to be considerate on my end and remind my husband to turn down the radio volume so as not to blast the neighbours awake. I don't want to be know as the wife of the asshole.
Wise women! A neighborhood war doesn’t makes anyone happy.
Load More Replies... Ultra-conservative hyper-religious neighbor wouldn't stop criticizing rest of neighborhood. Finally got tired of it, and sent off for catalogs to a *bunch* of porn dealers (magazines, toys, etc) in HIS name. He was on their mailing lists for _years_!
According to your description of him, odds are really good that you either gave him new magazines to read, or doubled all his existing subscriptions. It’s always the ones who advertise their “religious faith” the loudest who turn out to be the worst sinners.
Load More Replies... I had some party animals in my neighborhood. They would park their cars in front of my house and throw their cans and bottles on my lawn. So one early Sunday morning, I picked up all the cans and bottles and banged on their door to deliver the garbage. The hungover boys must have told their guests to stop doing that because I never had another problem.
That's a very reasonable way to handle inconsiderate neighbours.
Load More Replies... A neighbor and I spent a lot of time as kids (around 8-9 probably) cooking up artificial bird poo, which we then shot onto another neighbor's laundry as it was drying outside (using a plastic tube). It all started after she kicked my cat.
When I was kid I lived next to this HORRIBLE old women and her husband. She would scream at us kids just for playing in our own yards and other things that were mean for no reason, like spraying us or my dog with a garden hose. And if her husband was nice to us we would hear her screaming at him. When she finally passed away, her husband would come out and watch us play and he would allow us to pick grapes that they grew whenever we wanted. I would come home with bowls and bowls full of them. He had grown grandchildren and missed them being so little and having them want to be around him a the time. My parents always invited him over to the cook outs we had and he also accepted. He would always apologize for how his wife treated us and he even had a baby orphaned deer we were allowed to pet and feed. I miss that old man a lot sometimes and think about how kind he was to all of us. And he was all sort of our neighborhood grandpa.
This was not the kind of story I expected to read in a comment on this article but I'm glad I did. So wholesome. :)
Load More Replies... My other neighbor neglects her dogs and when I said something about it she cussed me out. When her husband was burning leaves in an open pit, dry AF, and left them burning without supervision, I called the fire department. They egged my house later that night. They also have 2 racecars they rev up late into the night. I'm glad to have some ideas on how to deal with them. 🤔😁
Call the ASPCA too. Neglected animals will be taken from the home. I hate people that neglect and abuse animals. No revenge is too much
Load More Replies... Sounds like how m y neighborhood is turning out now. It used to be nice and quiet but there's more karens and petty, pretentious twaddle running around being hateful. We've got two white women here who have christened themselves neighborhood watch, unbeknownst to the rest of us, of course. They went around causing trouble for the only black neighbor on this end of the neighborhood for no reason other than they wanted to get away with being racists. I'm white and there's a bunch of other white people on this end who bother no one. Even the Trump supporters are quiet people that mind their own business. But these two women were so bad that our black neighbor had to file a restraining order against them. It worked. They both tried trolling the neighborhood for white support and got nothing. Plus one of them can't afford another incident or she'll lose her job as a bus driver. So the rest of us neighbors know what to threaten them both with now if they try to get high on themselves again.
We'd heard stories of the person who lived in our house before we moved in. A total d**k. He cut the sunflower of our older neighbor's wife (who had cancer, has passed 😔) for no reason. We have raised garden beds because they poured metal objects/shavings, oil, and random junk like rubber into the dirt of the terrace. They also cut down the pine trees to look like bushes, trimming them in a way they'd never grow tall. When we moved in, we got invited to a party. Our neighbors threw a party because that person before us moved out. There's other stories, but those are the main ones.
If your annoying neighbor owns a swimming pool or hot tub add a giant economy box of Mr. Bubble to the chlorinators. Shouldn't really hurt anything but it makes life interesting for a bit.
So many of these are ridiculous. They're like stories little kids make up to show off.
They seem like the revenge stories you cook up in your head when mad then realize are a bad idea when you cool off. If half of these are true I have very boring neighbors.
Load More Replies... Lived in a townhouse as a kid. Small front yards. My friend and I covered an annoying neighbors yard with wild onion seeds one fall. Guess what his yard looked like next spring.
I don’t like most of this "1st step: tell bored pandas why your neighbor deserved it. 2nd step: show off how you harmed them in self-justice." stories. A little of these stories are really fun.
I had a across the way neighbor who during a huge snowstorm would park in any space that was somewhat clear. We are talking over 30” of snow. So I come home at 1am and he is a spot I had shoveled out by hand and thrown the traffic cone I had left onto my porch. Well, I was beyond pissed since A) I had to shovel out a parking spot and then some full of 30”+ of snow that was also wet. B) he had done this multiple times and would just watch people dig out a spot and laugh out his window. I took the entire parking spot worth of snow and piled it behind his sedan, then banged it with tue shovel to compact it. It was single digits in temperature so I went inside and got several 5 gallon buckets full of water and poured it onto his car so it flash froze and then on the snow so it would be rock hard. He woke up to a frozen ice compacted vehicle with ice coating it and a note on his door that said ‘Dig your own spot out a**hole’.
Yeah of course some of these stories sound far-fetched but others unless you know what they're thinking it's hard to put yourself in their mind-set while they're doing it. In college me and a friend rented a house and rather than pay for garbage we would just take garbage bags set them in the local dumpster at an automatic car wash DIY in the middle of the night. We did it for a few months and one morning we found trash bags littered throughout our front lawn ripped open. I mean of course I was annoyed cuz I had to pick it all up but I also had respect for the people who rented that dumpster for them to go into trash and look for papers with our address and we never did it again. I was 20, stupid, and naive but lesson learned and we never retailated. Some people actually do learn their lesson.The guy could have called the cops on us but I'm glad he did it his way because there was Karma and we deserved it.
I didn't do this one but it was done *for* me by a friend. When I was about 15 we got some real nasty neighbors. Always screaming at each other at all hours, throwing trash in our yard, and their daughters (one the same age as me and one two years older) would call me and my sisters names and throw rocks at us (they were on a hill and overlooked us). I told a close friend and he hated the girls too. One night he took pages out of a p**no magazine and superglued them to the girls' car windows. All of them. We are still friends lol.
Couple times in education/early 20s, I had to live sketchy places to afford the housing. Drug dealer downstairs. Couple across hall would slam doors at 2-3 AM, and always opened the never-open-that-window in the corridor, let dog crap in hallway... Yet not worth the trouble of causing trouble. Other than the cops knocking to ask "You see anything?" about downstairs, it was just ... what you gotta deal with in life sometimes.
I knew someone (lets call them Clara) who’s neighbours set up a pop-up pizza restaurant in their garden. Clara was annoyed about the noise coming from the pizza restaurant late at night, and complained to the council, who shut down the pizza restaurant. The pizza people, who also had a farm, decided to get petty revenge on Clara by placing their pig pen right next to Clara’s garden fence. Clara complained about the smell, but she couldn’t do anything about it
They sound like selfish people and Clara deserves better.
Load More Replies... I see BP changed the title of the post to something a bit more accurate. If they really wanted to be truthful, they'd change it to "29 bullshit stories people posted on Reddit that they fantasized about doing to their annoying neighbors."
My neighbor threw his dog poo over my fence daily. Their neighborhood was gated so I couldn’t knock on the door for a conversation. Whenever I saw them in their yard I would call out a greeting but was always ignored. I finally started gathering the poo and lobbing it over the fence accidentally landing in his boat. He called police on me. Police asked how he knew I did it - his response was that recognized his dogs poo. No police report was taken.
when I was 6 i had this dog named gema, she was wild and playful and absolutly perfect. then some neighbors moved in just for the summer. those a*****e threw out fish with pills in them to kill our dogs. i dont know what happened to them, all i knew was that my dog is dead and it was their fault. i was 6 all i could do was cry.
That’s horrible. I’m so sorry you lost your pupper.
Load More Replies... A friend's landlord lied in court about the biting bugs in the apartment. Judge ruled with them. A few days later the friend moved out of the country. She put a toothpick in their door lock , broke it off and forced it way in so it couldn't be seen. that night when they went home from the office their key did not work.
A woman living in the building across from ours had a very bright lamp on her balcony and would leave it on at night. It would light up my parents' bedroom and my dad often complained he couldn't sleep because of it. One evening my brother took his birdshot rifle, laid on my parents' bed and aimed through our open balcony door. Lamp was destroyed and the neighbour never bought another one.
I'm sorry, did your brother shoot live ammunition at a house? That's stupid and illegal. Yes, light pollution is a problem with how it disrupts the circadian rhythm of wild animals and puts them at greater risk of being spotted by predators. If your neighbours wouldn't be reasonable and just turn off their light, which would save them energy, why didn't your parents just buy a set of black out curtains? Simple peaceful solution where no one is at risk of being injured.
Load More Replies... I don't know why people don't call the cops more on loud neighbors? And if there aren't noise ordinances in towns, why? In my town, you have to shut off loud music at 10pm. I often give it to 11pm if it's on the weekends before calling the cops. But if it's a weekday, my husband has to work the next day, so I call. Cops are usually there in less time than they even estimate on the phone. If people don't comply, they get fined. We had some new neighbors that did this every weekend for a month before they finally stopped. (and we're talking loud bass that made the dishes in our cabinets shake even tho they were 4 houses away) Guess the fines finally added up.
Some of these are blatant fictions and some are just immature people doing stupid property damage. The rest are funny. A triage would have been nice
Jesus Christ who are these neighbours?! Or just people in general? I still chat with my neighbours as soon as possible and bring treats when I move to a new place. It makes me so sad to think that I’m the ‘odd’ one in what feels like a sea of a**holes :-( I’ve thankfully been lucky with my neighbours
Noisy neighbour nightmare. Too long to detail. Suffice to say we left before our rental contract ended. They were in the flat above so whenever we had guests, several drinks later and the evenings entertainment was to see how much leftover food we could throw onto their balcony. And filling the corridor outside they're place with frozen prawns the day we left was hugely satisfying.
Some neighbors kids shot my dogs with water guns so I decided to approach the parents about what their children were doing to my pets. When the mom called me a gringo for saying such lies about her perfect children and told me how they (as a family) had fought so hard to be American. I then proceeded to mention my last name being Rivera all in Spanish. I saw her lift the sandal off of her foot and the kids never sprayed my dogs again. Sorry if its repetitive, but yeah.
Annoying neighbor complained to the neighborhood developer about my colored Christmas lights. He told her that while we have some covenants (only wood fences, no metal storage buildings) there is no restriction on holiday decor and reminded her we don’t have an HOA. He did tell me about her call because I caught her slipping religious anti-Halloween tracts in my mailbox. I bought pink plastic flamingos and draped them with green blinking lights.
Live in the country. Guy down the street owns multiple properties but only lives in and maintains one. Leaves the others to rot. Me and neighbors have taken to dragging road kill from out street (deer possum raccoon etc) to the front yard of the worst house and leaving them in a pile. Looks like the house where things go to die.
I like a tree to fall on a person who logged one area of Boulder Creek Ca then came to my beautiful oasis in Ben lomond and logged 300 feet around 6 structures. Basically destroyed a whole ecosystem for his little organic farm to sell a tomato or two, going on for months now, even sat and sun, the destruction continues, and I like to do something but not sure what, except rake him over the coals for claiming to pose as someone into Mother Earth and sustainability and eating in the seasons, reverence is the word they used. One sees the website and propaganda and they have all manner of images, all close ups, of flowers, and fruits and all the stuff they plan to see, as its a homestead but not one peep about all year round logging. I just saw he did this to his land in Boulder Creek, logged then came here to destroy the top of Roberts Road in Ben Lomond.
When I was in college living at home, the neighbour's house sold and the new owner rented it to bratty college kids who had loud-ass parties every other night. My dad, who was the nicest, most polite man I've ever known, went over multiple times to ask them to turn the music down and they basically told him to f**k off every time. Other neighbours talked to them with the same results. Cops were called multiple times and only ever gave them warnings that were never heeded. One night after a rager when the music had died down and I knew they were passed out, I went over with a valve stem remover and took them out of all the tires. I kept the stems and the valve caps and threw them away. Saw them the next morning standing around looking baffled/annoyed at the car. I guess the message was recieved cause it was the last loud party they had. Best part of that prank is if you take out the stems you don't have to sit there holding the valve for the air to come out, and if they don't realize the stems are gone, they'll waste a bunch of time trying to fill them up before realizing they have to buy and install new ones.
My parents bought me a studio appartment when I was in college. The elderly couple living downstairs from me, hated me with a passion, cause it had woken them up the one single time, I had a birthday party at home. So they started complaining about literally everything. One afternoon my dad was helping me moving some furniture and they rushed up to my appartment and without knocking, just opened the door and let themselves in. Woman already yelling at me. They stopped dead in their tracks, when they saw my parents, and they hurried out and down to their own appartment. But apparently they’d seen, I had a cat. So from that day, they started complaining about the cat. Claiming they could smell my cat cause it was hot summer. I was travelling and my cat was at my parents. My mom had enough. She knew they spent the summer in their summerhouse. So she bought a fish. Went to the appartment building and slipped the fish into their appartment through the letterbox. They moved.
More old reddit scrapings....this site has really gine downhill. 😔
I used to deliver the mail on foot. A woman on my route, let's call her Karen, told me to stop talking to her dog. I cried all afternoon because I loved her dog and couldn't understand why in the world she didn't want me to talk to him. Long story short I accidentally stepped in a huge pile of dog s**t one day while on my route. I purposely kept it on my shoe for two blocks just so I could smear it all over her front walk and porch. Ahh, sweet revenge!
We had an asshole neighbor down the street who tried to run me off the road when I was driving my pony. I just got those magazine subscription cards and filled them all out. He got porn, gay porn and good housekeeping. He left me alone after that. I still hate his guts, he called us white trash when we moved in and because of him no neighbors would talk to us. I didn't care. He has cancer and will die soon. Good riddance!
I despise this entire article. All I needed to read was the first one about the bullion cubes and the dog - and the probability that someones childish and stupid behaviour resulted in the abuse of an animal. Adults acting like children - can't see any further than what makes them feel better and not how it affects anyone or anything else.
It was raining. The cubes weren't still cubes, they'd have melted into the soil.
Load More Replies... My cousin had the best idea to get even with someone. Send a letter with a donation of one dollar to several TV evangelists. They will be flooded with solicitations for money and more for months.
There are many ways to get the point across to someone who continues to do those little pesky things that neighbors who offend think they have a right to do, even when they are in the wrong. Two wrongs do not make a right. So...if you want to do something petty as a "get back"
Ans con't: DON'T. It only makes you look childish. Just drop it, smile nicely when you see that person, let bygones be bygones, life is too short.
Load More Replies... Some years ago,several of us rented a boat slip for a Saturday evening. The slips are pretty close together, but everyone was BBQ ing and having a nice quiet evening of fun, eve n though none of the peopl÷ on the different boats knew each other, except that the couple next to us came back about 2 am drunk and had one of those awful drunken quarrels - 'you did too" "you're a b***h""i hate you" etc. At the top of their lungs. People kept asking them to yarn it few, but they just got louder and louder. Finally, the guy said well, I'm leaving you, you b***h and walked off the edge of the deck. There was this big AAAHs a nd a splash and everyone started applauding. Then we all went back, to sleep. It was sweet.
When I was about 12, I had a morning paper route. I saved my earnings to buy a shiny silver ten-speed bike, which I was proud of. One morning when I got off my bike to walk the paper to my customers front door, he pulled out of his driveway and turned sharply, running over my bike (it was well away from his driveway) and ruining the front sprocket. He said, "That's what you get for parking it behind me" and he drove off to work. He knew it wasn't true. But I didn't have the power to force him to pay. I bought replacement parts and fixed it myself. My first response to stop delivering his paper. But that wasn't enough. One morning I rode past his house on my way home. I noticed his garage window was left open. I don't know what I meant to do, but I crawled in, found some emergency road flares, which I lit and put under each of his tires, a couple inches from the treads. Then I crawled out the window and quietly road my bike home.
So you potentially burned down someone's house?
Load More Replies... We moved onto a nice private road with estate properties and we had an a hole neighbor who didn’t like that that we were a bit weird and artsy. He even took out my mailbox twice on his mower, my mailbox was 2 acres from his property line so not sure how that was accidental. So we had the land surveyed and turns out his front yard was my property and his giant windows looked out on that area. We put up a hideous livestock fence and then started putting out pink flamingos in that area. Every time he was a jerk, we added a flamingo. We ended up with quite a flock. When he took out the mailbox the second time, we got a 5ft hot pink metal flamingo sculpture and started adding spot lights so he could enjoy them at night. The new mailbox was giant sized and painted neon orange and we put glitter flamingos on it. Our friends and family even got in on it and started giving us random flamingos to add to the collection. Best part was, we couldn’t see any of it from our house.
My very elderly parents haven a a*****e neighbour who did not cut town tall, dead pinetrees for decades. they fell and destroyed the fence. Not only does he refuse to do anything about the fence, he also let his dog lose on me, when I asked him what he was going to do. It's a harmless, but huge.rottweiler and I'm not afraid of dogs, but I am mad as fire. So far I collected: the boulliion idea and the blackberries seeds. I need to be subtle about this, so it can't be traced back to us. But I will bide my time. I WILL get you, you fcker!
If you've ever used bullion cubes you know they take forever to dissolve when using boiling water. I doubt the rain did anything and that story was likely false, as many probably are.
Load More Replies... I have 2 pink plastic flamingos named Rico and Sonny. They migrate from my backyard pond to my front yard when Miss Priss across the street annoys me. She hates colored Christmas lights & tried to get them banned even tho we have no HOA. Rico & Sonny wore green blinky lights all season. She leaves religious tracts in my box about devil worship every Halloween. I just add more decorations.
I don't have a fence on the side of my house leading into my backyard which is fenced. On this particular day, I go on the side of my house only to step in a huge pile of dog 💩. I thought it was from a random stray, so I cleaned it up, cleaned my shoe and didn't think anymore of it. A few days later, I come home to see my next door neighbor with his dog (Pitbull mix), coming from the side of my house. I check later and find several more piles of 💩. So rather than him walking his big ass dog, he just takes it outside, and has it go on the side of my house. He has a window on that side (not sure if it's a bedroom or living room). I go out and loudly say, "Who the f#@k has been letting their dog 💩 on the side of my house? Anybody with a dog around here (he was the only one), please be warned that the next f#@king pile of 💩 I have to clean up, is going to be scooped up and left on their porch!! Needless to say, I had my shovel ready and it wasn't going to be put in a bag either.
Unfortunately in today's world all these horrible neighbors could sue and win
This guy kept threatening our dogs, yet his dogs were out ALL day yipping outside. We had a chain fence so he could put stuff through it, which he didn't realize. After years of him doing it, we built a wood fence so that he wouldn't be so annoying and threatening. He can't look over the fence, but his dogs still yip all day.
We lived in a neighborhood FULL of dogs. Every house in a six block radius had at least two dogs. The people behind us had 5 big dogs in a tiny yard. Constantly barking. They would go camping for 3 days and leave the dogs. One dog would start barking and the whole neighborhood would join in. One time I was trying to recover from surgery and the dogs had been barking continuously since 4am. It was now 11pm. So I went out and took a stick and beat on the fence and got ALL THE DOGS barking on my side of town. Then I called animal control. By the time the officer called me back, he told me he had counted upwards of 40 dogs barking. And he gave a written warning to everyone in the neighborhood that had a barking dog. I slept good from then on🤣
When I was in high school, we lived in a popular Chicago suburb. A couple of neighbors down the street had issues with each other. It went on for about a year, so one put his house up for sale to get away from the other. The other guy painted his house a horrendous mixture of striped colors. It took 3-4 years for him to sell his house and he had to take a beating on the sale price. As soon as it was sold, the other guy painted his house a normal color!
Released dozens of crickets in the basement garage and storage areas of the apartment building. Jerk neighbours in the basement who threw loud parties that disturbed EVERYONE on that side of the building, and jerk landlord who never took care of repairs, and jerk concierge who hid behind jerk landlord.
when I was 12 and my brother was 10, we had this mean old lady that lived across the street. She called the cops because my brother fell off his bike onto her lawn and she said he was trespassing. So she stapled a bunch of papers basically saying 'dont come on my lawn' to trees in/around her house and sidewalk. I tore all of them down, shredded them, and sprinkled them aaaalllllll over her front & backyard. Had another neighbor that kicked my dogs through our fence & I popped all their pool toys & their smaller pool.
I threw a bag of cat s**t into my neighbours pool. They had a party until 2am on a weeknight. I asked them to quiet down around 11.30pm. And they told be to eff off. So the next day I was taking the cat poop/litter downstairs to clean it. I put it in a bag and then, when I was about to pop it in the bin, I just decided to throw it over the fence. Now I thought it would land in the garden and make a bit of a smell. But I heard this huge KaaaaaPLOP! It landed in the pool. 24 hours later she was screaming at me. Saying I know it was you cause we wouldn’t stop our party. She even called the cops and I offered them a fecal sample. They laughed so hard. And the neighbour? Never had a mid week party again. And because it was clumping litter. They had to pay a fortune to fix the pool filter. Result.
My nosy neighbor Karen called the sheriff on me because I was kicking over my motorcycle not starting it so I went on Google maps and let everyone know that she loves bikes come on by and rev it up now think I'll do the Jehovah's witnesses thing I think she need God in her life.. 😂
Not an airport. you don't need to announce your departure
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