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<p>Depending on where you live, your neighbors, and the choices they make, can have a major impact on your life. Ideally, you live nextdoor to respectful and considerate people who will happily loan you sugar in the case of a cookie dough emergency (been there!). But unfortunately, not all neighbors are ideal neighbors. And a bad neighbor can really decrease your quality of life in a major way.</p><p>So while I don&#39;t always condone vindictive behavior, when it comes to a chronically rude or disrespectful neighbor, one could argue that revenge is the best (and only) option.</p><p>In a popular Reddit thread, someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/onden9/whats_the_worst_thing_you_have_ever_done_to_an/" target="_blank">asked</a>: &quot;What&rsquo;s the worst thing you have ever done to an annoying neighbor?&quot;</p><h2>These 15 people share how they got revenge on a neighbor who behaved badly:</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/suburbansociopath/">suburbansociopath</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I put a spigot lock on our hose because she kept using my hose and flooding my flower bed in the process. The lady was pissed.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/eatglasslickrust/">eatglasslickrust</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Did you know you can sign up for the Jehovah&rsquo;s Witnesses to come to ANY address to teach you about their religion?</p> <p>YOURE WELCOME.</p> </blockquote><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Kurtandcourtney/">Kurtandcourtney</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Had a neighbor in my apartment complex that kept letting her huge dog take huge sh*ts in my yard space . Literally got to about 20 huge dog sh*ts sitting outside my window and I had enough . Put on a glove and picked up all the sh*t and dumped it on her doorstep, left a note stabbed into the ground telling her to pick up her dog sh*t . She started picking up the sh*t and moved pretty soon after lol</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sump_____erson/">sump_____erson</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Used to live in a jam-packed subdivision, on a curve near the entrance</p> <ul> <li> <p>Certain neighbors were constantly coming home drunk on Fri/Sat nights and trashing our yard in the process</p> </li> </ul> </blockquote><blockquote> <ul> <li> <p>I bought a box of 10&quot; landscaping spikes and made a spike tire-trap which I then embedded in our front garden area pointing outward</p> </li> </ul> </blockquote><blockquote> <ul> <li> <p>That weekend, someone drove through it, took out our mailbox in the process, and it trashed their tire, wheel, fender, and front bumper</p> </li> </ul> </blockquote><blockquote> <ul> <li> <p>I pretended like I knew nothing about it</p> </li> <li> <p>Screw that guy, at least the cops got him</p> </li> </ul> </blockquote><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Pink-grey24/">Pink-grey24</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I was visiting my aunt a couple years ago in Arizona, she lives outside of Phoenix. Their next door neighbors had three or four kids who were super annoying. There was a brick wall dividing their backyards as is common for the area. Upon my arrival I find out that the kids next door throw things over the wall for fun.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Not just like harmless twigs and pebbles but like rocks and toys and garbage and even knives. My aunt&rsquo;s family had to keep their trampoline on the other side of the yard so it wouldn&rsquo;t get crap thrown into it.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I asked my aunt about it and she said she talked to the parents but they kept throwing shit. So that night I go online and file a police report with their address. Couple days later the neighbors left a note at the front door with this long apology &ldquo;it won&rsquo;t happen again&rdquo; blah blah blah. It pretty much stopped after that.</p> </blockquote><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DarkyHelmety/">DarkyHelmety</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Upstairs neighbour was noisy late at night, like 2am, music, loud footsteps. We had repeated conversations about it but he blew us off, bought us earplugs and told us to &#39;deal with it&#39;. Unfortunately for him the breaker box for the building was in our unit. A few tests later with his friendly roommates who hated him just as much, we zeroed in on the breaker to his room and an unoccupied area.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Guess who had strange power issues at night when being disruptive . They would miraculously resolve at 7am. He wasn&#39;t the brightest bulb in the box and never did suspect us.</p> </blockquote><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/gimme3strokes/">gimme3strokes</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>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.</p> </blockquote><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ColdGirl/">ColdGirl</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Switched off her power at the fuse box so I didn&rsquo;t have to listen to her drunk ass blaring love ballads at 4 in the morning. This was after I tried knocking on her door and was ignored for 30 minutes.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/4bangeranger/">4bangeranger</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I had a terrible work schedule and had to wake up at 2:30am to be at work by 4am. 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 down the music, 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 1:30am.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Before I left for work at 3:30, I turned over my amplifier so that 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. Neighbors never blared their music again.</p> </blockquote><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/almost_a_person/">almost_a_person</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>My grandmother had a neighbor over her back fence who refused to help her repair the fence between their properties. It was still functional as a boundary line, but it was 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, which was fair.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>She took a fall and was hospitalized for a few weeks. Upon her return, she found 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.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>My grandmother got a surveyor and surprise! The original fence was correct and the neighbor had taken 5 ft of her yard. At this point she was very old, frail, and tired of fighting her asshole neighbor. Instead, she let nature take over. She planted blackberries along the back fence and within 2 years it was covered. Every year, she&rsquo;d walk the fence and throw seeds over because of course, it was still her yard.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>After 5 years of fighting, the blackberries had reclaimed her property. She&rsquo;s been gone for a few years now but the blackberries remain, her way of haunting her neighbor. He&rsquo;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.</p> </blockquote><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shaidyn/">shaidyn</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Our next door neighbour would constantly have friends park in the no parking zone in front of their unit, which made it a nightmare for people to navigate the parking lot.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I started calling the tow truck every time I saw a car there.</p> <p>After a couple weeks, nobody parked in the no parking zone any more.</p> </blockquote><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kutuup1989/">kutuup1989</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>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.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lentra888/">Lentra888</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My great-grandfather was one of the last people in town to get indoor plumbing, and as such, had an outhouse in his back yard. Every year on Halloween, neighborhood kids would come into the yard and knock over the building and expose the cesspit.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>He got tired of it. So one year, the night before Halloween, he moved the building forward, then covered the fess with burlap, disguising it in leaves and grass clippings. In the dark, it was almost impossible to tell it was there.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Halloween night, he sat in the outhouse and waited. It wasn&rsquo;t long after sundown when he heard the wet splat outside as a couple of kids fell into the muck.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>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.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Wind_Yer_Neck_In/">Wind_Yer_Neck_In</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>The neighbors (semi detached house) were constantly fighting and they would get drunk every Friday and Saturday (and most Sundays) and blast loud music til 4AM. Well the girlfriend goes out of town for a week for a work training thing and while she&#39;s gone we see another girl park outside the house and we also hear the BF and the new girl going at it very loudly.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>So at the next party when they are being super loud at 2AM we both go over to ask them to turn down the music, the boyfriend opens the door and starts shouting that we should mind our own business, the girlfriend appears behind him and says the same.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>My wife just casually asks &#39;Oh did you get back together? What about that nice blonde girl who was over all last week? is this a thruple situation now?&#39; Then we just went home and enjoyed listening to them throwing everyone out and having their last fight.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/hank-_-the-_-tank/">hank-_-the-_-tank</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Years ago when you could advertise house sales in the paper without too many pictures, my brother put in an ad for his obnoxious neighbour&rsquo;s house with an exterior picture and priced it about 75K under market as a private sale with the neighbours phone number. He found out the guy was inundated with calls for weeks but never found out who had listed it.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

15 people share stories of getting revenge on an annoying neighbor.

Depending on where you live, your neighbors, and the choices they make, can have a major impact on your life. Ideally, you live nextdoor to respectful and considerate people who will happily loan you sugar in the case of a cookie dough emergency (been there!). But unfortunately, not all neighbors are ideal neighbors. And a bad neighbor can really decrease your quality of life in a major way.So while I don&#39;t always condone vindictive behavior, when it comes to a chronically rude or disrespectful neighbor, one could argue that revenge is the best (and only) option.In a popular Reddit thread, someone asked: &quot;What&rsquo;s the worst thing you have ever done to an annoying neighbor?&quot;These 15 people share how they got revenge on a neighbor who behaved badly:1.) From suburbansociopath: I put a spigot lock on our hose because she kept using my hose and flooding my flower bed in the process. The lady was pissed. 2.) From eatglasslickrust: Did you know you can sign up for the Jehovah&rsquo;s Witnesses to come to ANY address to teach you about their religion? YOURE WELCOME. 3.) From Kurtandcourtney: Had a neighbor in my apartment complex that kept letting her huge dog take huge sh*ts in my yard space . Literally got to about 20 huge dog sh*ts sitting outside my window and I had enough . Put on a glove and picked up all the sh*t and dumped it on her doorstep, left a note stabbed into the ground telling her to pick up her dog sh*t . She started picking up the sh*t and moved pretty soon after lol 4.) From sump_____erson: Used to live in a jam-packed subdivision, on a curve near the entrance   Certain neighbors were constantly coming home drunk on Fri/Sat nights and trashing our yard in the process      I bought a box of 10&quot; landscaping spikes and made a spike tire-trap which I then embedded in our front garden area pointing outward      That weekend, someone drove through it, took out our mailbox in the process, and it trashed their tire, wheel, fender, and front bumper      I pretended like I knew nothing about it   Screw that guy, at least the cops got him   5.) From Pink-grey24: I was visiting my aunt a couple years ago in Arizona, she lives outside of Phoenix. Their next door neighbors had three or four kids who were super annoying. There was a brick wall dividing their backyards as is common for the area. Upon my arrival I find out that the kids next door throw things over the wall for fun.  Not just like harmless twigs and pebbles but like rocks and toys and garbage and even knives. My aunt&rsquo;s family had to keep their trampoline on the other side of the yard so it wouldn&rsquo;t get crap thrown into it.  I asked my aunt about it and she said she talked to the parents but they kept throwing shit. So that night I go online and file a police report with their address. Couple days later the neighbors left a note at the front door with this long apology &ldquo;it won&rsquo;t happen again&rdquo; blah blah blah. It pretty much stopped after that. 6.) From DarkyHelmety: Upstairs neighbour was noisy late at night, like 2am, music, loud footsteps. We had repeated conversations about it but he blew us off, bought us earplugs and told us to &#39;deal with it&#39;. Unfortunately for him the breaker box for the building was in our unit. A few tests later with his friendly roommates who hated him just as much, we zeroed in on the breaker to his room and an unoccupied area.  Guess who had strange power issues at night when being disruptive . They would miraculously resolve at 7am. He wasn&#39;t the brightest bulb in the box and never did suspect us. 7.) From gimme3strokes: 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. 8.) From ColdGirl: Switched off her power at the fuse box so I didn&rsquo;t have to listen to her drunk ass blaring love ballads at 4 in the morning. This was after I tried knocking on her door and was ignored for 30 minutes. 9.) From 4bangeranger: I had a terrible work schedule and had to wake up at 2:30am to be at work by 4am. 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 down the music, 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 1:30am.  Before I left for work at 3:30, I turned over my amplifier so that 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. Neighbors never blared their music again. 10.) From almost_a_person: My grandmother had a neighbor over her back fence who refused to help her repair the fence between their properties. It was still functional as a boundary line, but it was 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, which was fair.  She took a fall and was hospitalized for a few weeks. Upon her return, she found 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 ft of her yard. At this point she was very old, frail, and tired of fighting her asshole neighbor. Instead, she let nature take over. She planted blackberries along the back fence and within 2 years it was covered. Every year, she&rsquo;d walk the fence and throw seeds over because of course, it was still her yard.  After 5 years of fighting, the blackberries had reclaimed her property. She&rsquo;s been gone for a few years now but the blackberries remain, her way of haunting her neighbor. He&rsquo;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. 11.) From shaidyn: Our next door neighbour would constantly have friends park in the no parking zone in front of their unit, which made it a nightmare for people to navigate the parking lot.  I started calling the tow truck every time I saw a car there. After a couple weeks, nobody parked in the no parking zone any more. 12.) From kutuup1989: 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. 13.) From Lentra888: My great-grandfather was one of the last people in town to get indoor plumbing, and as such, had an outhouse in his back yard. Every year on Halloween, neighborhood kids would come into the yard and knock over the building and expose the cesspit.  He got tired of it. So one year, the night before Halloween, he moved the building forward, then covered the fess with burlap, disguising it in leaves and grass clippings. In the dark, it was almost impossible to tell it was there.  Halloween night, he sat in the outhouse and waited. It wasn&rsquo;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. 14.) From Wind_Yer_Neck_In: The neighbors (semi detached house) were constantly fighting and they would get drunk every Friday and Saturday (and most Sundays) and blast loud music til 4AM. Well the girlfriend goes out of town for a week for a work training thing and while she&#39;s gone we see another girl park outside the house and we also hear the BF and the new girl going at it very loudly.  So at the next party when they are being super loud at 2AM we both go over to ask them to turn down the music, the boyfriend opens the door and starts shouting that we should mind our own business, the girlfriend appears behind him and says the same.  My wife just casually asks &#39;Oh did you get back together? What about that nice blonde girl who was over all last week? is this a thruple situation now?&#39; Then we just went home and enjoyed listening to them throwing everyone out and having their last fight. 15.) From hank-_-the-_-tank: Years ago when you could advertise house sales in the paper without too many pictures, my brother put in an ad for his obnoxious neighbour&rsquo;s house with an exterior picture and priced it about 75K under market as a private sale with the neighbours phone number. He found out the guy was inundated with calls for weeks but never found out who had listed it. 

Depending on where you live, your neighbors, and the choices they make, can have a major impact on your life. Ideally, you live nextdoor to respectful and considerate people who will happily loan you sugar in the case of a cookie dough...