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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.

#1

Hope The Dog Wasn’t Punished…

a green lawn near the porch 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.

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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.”

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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.”

#2

300+ Pound Boulder

two big stones on the ground 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.

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Neil Bidle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cutting the corner makes you a terrible driver, either you can't judge your speed, you can't handle the vehicle, or you're deliberately doing it because you think the world is your race track. Well deserved ending to the story!

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Kelly Cook
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

thats not petty or vindictive. That's solving the problem. Kudos to this person.

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Bama Belle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone remember the story last winter from the U.S. about a snowman built over a huge tree stump? Some fool drove right into it, thinking they were just destroying a large snowman.

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Robert T
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually a fairly common way to keep vehicles off the grass in English villages. We usually paint them white to make them easier to see.

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Andrea Purzycki
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same. In New England, sidewalks and curbs are rare in a lot of places, so a lot of people put concrete walls or planters on the corner of their lots to protect their lawns and prevent people from driving into their house. I've seen a house that sat on the corner of a 4 way stop intersection that was destroyed by someone driving into their house.

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Layla Corman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't petty at all. Actually, it's quite subtle. If someone almost hit my dog I would be out there waiting with some nails for them to come through again!

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John Connell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've got one between my drive and my neighbor's. It's been there since before i bought the house 50 years ago.... Even though it's centered and 4 feet between each drive and I've two refection poles along side it, folks still try to cut the corner. I've had to roll it back to it's original position a lot, it's taken out many an oil pan over the years.

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AspieGirl88
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds kinda like the multiple stories I’ve heard of the A-holes who kept destroying the snowmen that the neighbourhood kids would build ... until they decided to build them on top of something solid but small enough to remain hidden beneath their snowmen; like fire hydrants & tree stumps! ⛄️🚘💥😈

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Casey B
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've read about this being done in the fall too, but with piles of fallen leaves

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Charline Jolly
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My daughter lives near a steep hill and a carload of drunken teens blasted into their hedge going way too fast. My son-in-law rented a Bobcat and bought truckloads of boulders to re-landscape the front yard to prevent another car from hitting the house.

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Jeff Diamond
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's not petty or vindictive. That's just protecting your property and family.

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Diane Heck-Thill
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Made me grin..honestly one of our neighbors did exactly the same thing..they have the corner lot and each time a bigger truck came to our road..their yard was messed up..sometimes really badly..now they have that huge boulder just on the edge of their yard and although it is pretty ugly it seems to help ;-)

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James Mills
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that aint petty at all, that's just something that needed to be done.

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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That dog got some much deserved revenge. Bring animals into this and petty meter goes over 9000

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Simly
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someone I knew lived down the street from a bar, and their house was right at a bend and not one, not two, but *three* drunk drivers smashed through their fence. The last one actually hit the house, caused a lot of damage. They got a sturdier fence and lined it with several large boulders. It got some backlash in the neighborhood because "that could kill someone", uh, so could a) drunk driving and b) a car crashing into their actual house or the yard where their kids played. Nuh uh.

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Susanne Bækvig
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The best kind og revenge is, when the offender so to speak punishes himself

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chrissy goodman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

very smart. not only did u save ur lawn but u saved ur dog from possible future accidents. also saves anyone in the neighborhood going for a walk. this is a very intellegent person

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Katherine Boag
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isnt revenge on your neighbours per se, just protecting your own property. I need some boulders for my berm but theyre expensive and our berm is really long.

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Colleen Garland
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe a bunch of really big rocks hidden by plants could persuade them to be more careful.

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Jerry Wong
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will just sitting indoor, next to my fireplace and having unstoppable laugh if that happen to me. Well done!

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Catlady6000
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen similar solutions for a similar issue in many places. Boulders, concrete barriers, my favorite was a neighbor who, after the 2nd car landing in his living room, bought a half dozen 15ft I-beams, and sank them so that only 5ft was above ground, all across his front porch

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Ian Taggart
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The jury finds the defendant not liable for the damage.

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Lorie Shewbridge
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, how I wish I could have seen that! Those are the people who annoy me the most - just rude people.

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Sasha
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I heard about people trying to run over snow-people but kids just build them on stumps or rocks. Snowman kicks your butt

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Kirsti Tuers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why the hell are people be driving through your yard in the first place, doesn't matter that you're on the corner, what rude idiots. They had it coming. And now the dog is safe

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Gail Nicholson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nice fix, but I'm genuinely bewildered why this person had an open yard with no fence on the street?

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H.L.Lewis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This happens fairly often. Someones house is at a T and someone drives through the street into their yard. In the town near me last year someone actually drove all the way into the house. Now there are great big barriers to keep it from happening again. The city should always put up barriers to keep this from happening. IMO.

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Hugh Cookson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My late father had sort of the same problem with vans / delivery vehicles taking lumps out of the hedge at the bottom of the garden when delivering to some of our neighbours ; easy solution, he hammered a scaffolding pole in about 4 ft so that it was just inside the hedge corner so that the top was at about mid door level (oh, and he made sure it was really rough around the top). Funnily enough, he had very few problems after that - I did see one delivery van shortly after he'd put it in, with a gash in the front end that started at the bumper (fender to our colonial cousins) and ended halfway into the 'van' area - the look on the idiots face was priceless !!

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Sean Cleary
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A long time back a couple owned a house. For one reason or another people would not stop at the curb but keep going. One hit the house. They went thru several ideas to blockade and to highlight that the street ends at the curb. They sold it in the end. One was a massive bolder when they were advised against WW2 DDay normady beach tank traps.

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NevadaJo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In my state you would've got sued. Someone here filled their fence post with concrete because they were warned when buying the house that it was wrecked into twice before so they made sure it wouldn't happen again and kill them or their children. Someone wrecked and sued them and won. Disgusting system here in the boot

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V Martinez
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They shouldn't have been allowed to sue. You take preventative measures to protect yourself/family, then some bonehead does something dumb, sues, and wins. Sue the jerk back. The system is backwards half the time.

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WoodenLion
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

farmer dude I knew put a rock where that happened - it would take out your oilpan.

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Madelyn Jeffords
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I won’t lie: I have the suckiest neighbors in the world. I’ve lived in the house I live in for years, and when I was about seven (I’m 14 now), we had two boys aged six and nine move into the house next door. They decided to be friends with us and we played in their yard every day after school (the older boy had a small….ish crush on me). They started to get kind of mean, but my mom wanted me to have more friends (I was homeschooled for a while and my parents worked a lot so I never really got a chance to meet other kids) so I kept on playing with them. When I was nine, the brothers ended up tying me to a tree and squirting my eyes with soap from their nerf guns. My older sister Karlya (who was eleven at the time) ended up smacking them both individually in the face and marching up to their house and telling their mom. She did not believe my sister and proceeded to tell my mother that we were lying to get our friends in trouble. My mom (being sane) didn’t believe her. Thx for reading.

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Marie Goble
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had neighbors who walked their dogs all over the neighborhood and let them poop anywhere they wanted. They NEVER cleaned up after their dogs. It was like they felt the whole world was their dogs’ toilet. A favorite pooping spot was the edge of my lawn. I asked politely several times, for these people to curb their dogs or to please carry poop bags and clean up after their dogs. When these requests fell upon deaf ears and I was sick and tired of cleaning up after their dogs, I began shoveling the poop into a pile at the edge of the woods where they were going all the time. When it became a LARGE pile, I shoveled it into a brown paper bag. One night at about 1:00 AM, I snuck over with that paper bag and poured it all over their porch on their doormat under their door, hoping someone would step out and into it first thing in the morning. (At least it was old fossilized poop and not the fresh stuff they left for me to clean every single day). I did feel guilty, but problem solved!

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LongCoolWomanInABlackDress
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love petty revenge where people just KNOW they can't even do anything about it because you have every right to place boulders on your lawn. Evil on a very legal level

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Amelia Earhart
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad did that when the boys who were courting my little sister wanted to drive across our lawn to show off!

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Kayla Ray
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

my grandfather got tired of people taking out our mailbox either in the winter or just kids with bats. he went out one day and came home with half a telephone pole and then welded a steal mailbox to put on top. many people hit that mailbox but it was never destroyed again!

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elfin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It would be a kindness to set up some kind of marker that would be visible in snow. Having a car destroyed is a high price to pay for cutting a corner, especially if the corner was not clearly visible under snow.

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Todd Hamer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haha, my dad had to do the same thing to his front yard. They lived on a corner where everyone would speed by from both intersecting streets. Needless to say, it's a good thing he had a Bobcat, because he had to reposition that giant boulder every now and then. 🤣

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Lindy Mac
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in a HOA* and we have boulders on many corners. People keep hitting them and I heard 1 car got stuck ON the bolder and required a tow truck. The hilarious part is that people want them moved so their cars don't get damaged. Well, if they stayed off the grass they would be fine. They don't drive up on the sidewalk when turning a corner downtown so why can't they manage to turn a corner properly when there is no sidewalk. ....Sigh.... * Home Owners Association

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Bruce Ferrier
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It seems like the person is doing something bad, but it's not their fault people DRIVE THROUGH THEIR LAWN

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Mel Rupp
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Had Friends back in the 70s whose house was on a bad corner. One brick "retaining wall" and a totalled car later, issues like "it's 2 am on Sunday morning and there's another Buick in the living room" all went bye bye.

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NatureBoy6284
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It reminds me about another post where kids covered a fire hydrant with a snow man and got their neighbor totaled.

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Heidi Northrop
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you can't see it because of the snow and someone hits it, then you're just being a di*k

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Janet Graham
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had neighbors that did that. They lived on a curve that massy folks missed to end up on their lawn. They put a row of giant boulders around that curve. Several folks have hit them over the years. One drunk man was going so fast that he ricocheted off the rocks and hit the house.

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DeNasha. ReNee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rock crushes dodge.. and anything else flying over it lol love this one .

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E C K
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I believe that legally in the Winter you need to have a flag posted next to the Boulder because the snow would of course hide it. I think your idea is great but I'm also thinking of legal issues.

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Hugh Cookson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My Dad did something similar as he got sick and tired of delivery people destroying his laurel hedge whilst trying to get to houses further down the very narrow lane at the bottom of his property, so he dug in and cemented some 4ft scaffold poles - leaving about 2ft above ground, just inside the hedge - I reckon he managed to total at least 10 vans before they decided to stop at the end of the narrow lane and handball the packages in ...... When one of the companies tried to take him to court, he rightly explained that they were technically trespassing and vandalising his hedges so he had every right to do what he did .....

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Maggie Mykle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would paint a snarky faced rock and a truck on the boulder...Rock 1 Truck 0

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Rona Demmy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A man put a Boulder in his front yard horizontal to a busy street. 2 drunk teens hit it doing about 90 in a Corvette, killed them both :(

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Iva Sativa
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In 3ast Germany where I live,we are up in the hills,everybody has boulders in front if their houses so people wouldn't be parking outside,also in spots where you could see people cutting corners or just parking on the street and making it dangerous for traffic or slowing the traffic down. It's the best for everyone.

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Alicia de Cervantes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't see this as petty. I see it as reasonable risk mitigation. If they cut across your yard, it's reasonable to assume the potential someone could easily run into the house. The boulder stops that. Who knows where the out of control truck could have ended up.

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Corey Wilson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

sounds like something i would do just for spit or i would drive down 2 big long stakes and stretch a cable and let them drive over and yank their motor out

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Jo Choto
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I understand the motivation, but that's a dangerous and potentially life-threatening solution. Better to put up some kind of fence or something clearly visible that prevents corner cutting.

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chrissy goodman
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

my parents had this problem too in their old house. my mom loves gardening and she put beautiful flowers by our mailbox but bc the street was one of those windy and twisty roads ppl would go on everyones lawns at some point. after redoing the flowers 10 times she got annoyed but it wasnt until the 11th time where the mailbox was hit as well she got boulders and had the landscapers place them on both sides of the driveway and around the front of the mailbox got flowers to hang over the boulders and behind them ppl avoided my parents lawn like the plauge after she did that. we even told the ppl who bought the house a few years later that they never have to worry about ppl driving on the lawn as long as they kept the boulders there its been 10 years i went back to my old neighborhood and the boulders r still there and its a different home owner then the one we sold the house to.

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Lesley Shore
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Terrible. That person probably didn't realize it, after being a snowstorm

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I understand your frustration. But this is VERY DUMB of you.. My sister's neighbor did this too. House was on the corner, no sidewalks. Lined her property with rocks. At night impossible to see easily as they're on ground. They were asked by neighbors to not do this. They ignored. My friend was driving us to my sister's home one evening for a party. You guessed it. Damaged his car, badly. He & his atty bro took them to court. Won! Won enough money to cover damage AND go out of town for an expensive weekend Won several thousand dollars. Also VERY STUPID of you b'cuz you leave yourself open to revenge. My friend also told me he was going to " create " IRS problems for years for them. He was def in a position to do so. He didn't tho, but could have. So remove your boulders or your property may suffer or your credit! How'd he win easily? Because in almost no neighborhood in U.S. do you own to the edge of the street. Easements owned by counties. In this case it was 3 feet. Idiot.

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Simly
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your friend drove onto someone else's property at night and his car got damaged and somehow the neighbor is the bad guy? There's also a very big difference between just lining a property with rocks and placing large boulders to protect the safety of those on the property from reckless drivers doing something illegal. Someone I knew did the boulder thing because THREE drunk drivers smashed through their fence, the third hitting the house. That could've killed someone, their kids play in their yard and they, you know, LIVE in their house. If lining the fence with large boulders ensures that their children won't be killed by reckless a-hole drunk drivers, then that's the only actual thing to do. If the driver hits a rock on someone else's property, that's the driver's fault. There is never a reason it's okay to drive off the road and onto someone's property.

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this seems like an american problem? it turns up a lot, and i've not come across it

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Vicky Zar
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure it is just an US problem but I've seen it a lot of times coming from US Americans. It can't come up in most of Europe, because our roads are different. We have sidewalks everywhere. You would have to really put some effort in, if you want to drive on the corner of a property.

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Okay, I'll be the wet blanket here. Generally, homeowners are free to landscape their property as they see fit, if it is indeed their property and they aren't introducing a safety hazard. This guy put 400 pound rocks in his yard with the *intent* of destroying a vehicle that failed negotiate the corner. That is introducing a safety hazard. Further, he states he put the boulder right on the corner. In most areas, the easement is about 8'-10' along the roads and belongs to the municipal government, not the landowner. That means his boulders were NOT on his property, but public property. He's lucky he did not get sued by the victim and fined by the city. Maybe one day, his boulders destroy a $600,000 fire truck because it cannot negotiate that corner. I say, good luck convincing the authorities that those 400 pound boulders are "merely decorative."

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the guitar on the background of fender twin reverb 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.

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Lights Out

three lanterns on the brick wall 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

two houses built closely to each other 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.

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Birds To The Rescue

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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.

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Andy Acceber
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#8

Noisy Neighbors Revenge

the multi-story building 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.

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#9

Long-Term Revenge On Neighbor

a wooden fence 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.

almost_a_person , marc falardeauFollow Report

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#10

Guess Who’s Not Having Any More Parties?

people dancing 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.

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#11

Very Stinky Prank On Neighbors’ Kids

an old wooden outhouse in the yard 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.

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Grumble O'Pug
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stone cold. Throw a couple Gamma Globulin shots into their halloween candy.

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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.

#12

5:30 A.m. Battle Of Mower And Metal Chains

a green lawn on the background of a white fence 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.

mdw825 , Sean Hobson Report

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SCamp
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Geez, local council laws in Australia mean you can’t be mowing your lawn before 9am on weekends. Nice.

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#13

Fence Feud: Neighbor’s Complaint Backfires!

close-up white and grey wooden fence 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.

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John C
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And sounds like she got something like 1-2' of additional yard too! (since code requires fences to be built something like 6-12" off the property line).

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#14

Costly Revenge On Bad Neighbors

salt jar on a bamboo napkin 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.

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Bisexual Tiger
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

their kids threw BRICKS at your DOG??? WHY IS NO ONE ADRESSING THIS??? that is wrong on SO many levels

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#15

Internet Bullying In Real Life

a white router on the table 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.

bobbingforburners , Sean MacEntee Report

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Carol Emory
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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....."

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#16

A Sticky Situation

septic tank in the ground 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.

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Grumble O'Pug
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Septic systems. So unregulated. Now you know one reason why the Puget Sound Orcas are in decline.

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#17

Noisy Neighbors Revenge With A Pee-Ceful Surprise

two big loudspeakers 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.

AussieJimboLives , Aaron Report

#18

Lights Out For A Loud Neighbor

an electrical panel 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.

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RatherLoopy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#19

Revenge On Neighbor Who Dislikes Blue

a light blue house with a white wooden porch 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.

Stokbakko , Megan Report

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Andy Acceber
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Blue houses are beautiful. I hope the neighbor eventually got over himself.

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#20

Poopy Solution (Not The Dogs Fault)

black and white dog lying on the grass 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.

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#21

A Child Prank On Neighbor

a pink arrow with inscription taped on the pole 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.

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#22

A Sticky Van Door

the tube of glue on the table 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.

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#23

Crossing The Dirty Line

a brown dog standing on the grass near the path 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.

CrabPplCrabPpl , Mitch Barrie Report

#24

Pushing The Invisible Limits Of A Man

black dog sitting on the grass 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.

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#25

Snails And Slugs For Being Nosey

very high wooden fence 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.

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WilvanderHeijden
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If her nose was resting on the fence I'd smear some dog poo on the fence.

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#26

Yard Work: What Could Go Wrong?

a chainsaw on a snowy ground 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.

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Neil Bidle
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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#27

Putting Neighbor’s House On Sale

red and white sign with words for 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.

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#28

Instant Revenge On Neighbors

a box of an instant mashed potato powder 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.

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#29

Oof!

a person whispering something to another person through the wall I told his wife everything that I knew.

mjiolnor , cottonbro Report

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