Have you ever got revenge on a neighbour?

[Projectprincesschaos]

Have you ever got revenge on a neighbour?

Similarly, following on from threads related to neighbours in gardens and CF karm, have you sought revenge on a neighbour?

Maybe small or big
Actual or imagined

I’ve been pondering if revenge is ever appropriate in all its shapes and forms?

The best ‘revenge’ was moving far away into the middle of nowhere.

The best revenge is living well. It’s true. Always and every time.

Areshole of a councillor lived facing our garden and objected to everything we did, also spread rumours about us. We planted a very large tree which blocked his view over the countryside. Affected nobody else and didn’t block his light but year by year it has done its work.

My younger siblings did as teens.
Dp's had bought a new build and the ndn's thought they were far superior to us.
They told my siblings off in the first week just for using our garden, apparently my siblings would ruin our grass ( probably true but not their business). Also my df hated gardening so our garden didn't look the best. It was constant tellings off for anything my db's did.
One day my siblings made up a can of weedkiller and watered all the ndn's flowers growing along the border.
My db also used to get youngest db to pose in the ndn garden and take photos of him sitting in their tree.
Tbf my db's were a bit feral. 😅

This is so mean.

You mean, how did we get rid of our drug-dealing, angry, aggressive, neighbour with several feral children who she screamed at from morning to night on a frequent basis, and whose partner wasn't above threatening people with a knife - that neighbour?

The street clubbed together with our reports to the authorities. ASBOs fell like confetti. Got rid of them in the end, with the help of the police and the council.

NC for this one. Just in case. Not so much revenge but karma after awful neighbour behaviour. The twat next door was constantly playing loud music and smoking strong weed in their garden right next to our kitchen window. At two in the morning on Thursdays and Fridays he would stand in the back garden just screaming at the top of his voice. He aimed fireworks at our pet rabbits one year and we found a crossbow bolt embedded in the top of our shed. Then lots of other people started moving in and out but twat was always there. We reported to the police and council several times and the council asked him to get the noise down a couple of times but ultimately were toothless and the police just fobbed us off. Two years after we moved out, we saw in national news that they’d been caught in a drugs raid. There was a photo of the house and everything - it was the biggest drugs haul in our county. Jail time for everyone!

How could it block his view but not the light?

Because it’s on my land about 200ft from his house

Hmm it seems so but is it a case of you reap what you sow situation given the neighbours behaviour?

Oh well that’s democracy in action
Fair play to you all

The best revenge is to live well - so true.

What a horrible thing to do, using poison. Wildlife will have been painfully killed as well as flowers destroyed.

Oh wow - how absolutely dreadful. The authorities just seem so useless

I feel humbled with respect to my neighbour related grumbles

About 20 years ago now we moved into our first house.
The very first night, our neighbour turned up asking for money, 20 quid for their electricity. It was half eleven at night and no where where you could charge a card was open!
They continued like this, having loud arguments at 3am, which they would put the hoover on to cover up.
They would walk across our back and front lawns, back lawn was because they were getting taxis home from the pub to the street next to ours, then getting out and running away through the woods without paying.

I developed teeth grinding problems from the stress and lack of sleep. We decided after 2 years we had no choice to sell, as the council would not help despite them being council tenants and the whole street having complained about their behaviour.

After we sold, we had family round for Fireworks Night. They opened their kitchen window up completely to watch them for free.
One of the rockets fell sideways in the container and fired directly through the window, exploding in the kitchen. No one was hurt, but the volume of swearing and the amount of smoke which followed made me immensely satisfied that it must have given them the fright of their lives..

I own a small office with it's own driveway to the side. The next door neighbour has "right of passage" along my drive to his back garden gate - his only access to his garden. No problem with that. I knew when I signed up for the office.

Trouble is he is an entitled arsehole about it and acts like he has right to the whole drive rather than the legal one metre width strip to grant him access to his back garden. He'd leave his trailer parked on it when he was clearing his back garden for days and claimed "it was fine" as I could still park my car at the top of the drive when his trailer was at the bottom. Then he had a huge delivery of stones/slabs which he left on pallets for weeks at the bottom of my drive. Then he "told" me (not asked) to move my car as he was having scaffolding put up and they needed to park their van on the drive to unload it. I kept reminding him he only had rights to a one metre strip for access, but he always just batted my comments away with a flighty - "it doesn't stop you parking your car" and his best "you're only here a few hours mon-fri, so it's better use for it if I use it for more of the time" and another was "you could easily park your car on the road anyway and don't need the drive"! Wow!

Now, revenge time. My son moved jobs to London so his car wasn't needed down there and we didn't have room to park it at home. He didn't want to sell it in case his job didn't work out and he came back home. So he parked it at the bottom of my office drive! Careful to leave one metre along the side, careful to keep it well away from neighbour's garden gate so he could turn, say, a wheel barrow or wheelie bin easily in/out of his drive. Now he can't park or leave anything on the driveway! Serves him right for being such an entitled sod in the first place thinking he could just do as he wanted with my drive! Hilarious last week when he had another delivery of a large garden shed/office and they had to carry every piece all the way down the drive rather than what they'd previously done being reverse the lorry down!

If he'd have actually asked beforehand and shown a little respect that it was my drive, I'd have happily accommodated him, but it was his entitled attitude that has now firmly bit him on the arse making things more difficult for him!

They are restricted by the law and budget cuts.

I used to live near a shop. They broke and bent every possible rule in the book, and were an absolute pain in the arse to all their neighbours. They installed, without planning permission, a fan that was incredibly noisy - it was so loud that we could hear it in the bathroom with the window shut and the shower running. It was an absolute blight to at least a dozen flats and houses.

We (and other neighbours) complained to environmental health. I trotted along to the site visit, in my role as an employee of the local council. Environmental health had plenty to say, and the fan had to be replaced.

Some while later there was another site visit about something else, and this time the manager turned up. He moaned loudly about the irritating busybodies who had complained about his fan and how it had cost his company £££ to purchase and install the (in breach of planning) fan in the first place, and £££ to remove it and even more £££££ to purchase and install the quiet one that they should have got in the first place. He seemed unaware that I was one of said busybodies. It was very rewarding to listen to him moaning. Serve the bugger right.

Yeah, everytime they came into the garden I would water my plants and the hose pipe would accidentally go over the fence onto them.

Our old neighbour complained to the council noise team that our cat made his dog bark. He was serious as well, he expected something to be done about our cat sitting on our shed, in our garden, because that made his dog bark…

Anyway, we moved and the new owners have 3 very well trained dogs. This highlighted to all the neighbours just how poorly trained original complainers dog is and he has now been reported to the noise people umpteen times. He properly glares whenever he passes our house now (we only moved one street)

Similar to one in our village. One shop building was literally the border with the house next door. The owner installed air conditioning and the fan/box was on that side of the building so was over the neighbour's garden. All done without any notice/consent. The engineers even broke into the neighbour's garden to put up their scaffolding tower to install it (he kept his garden locked and they broke the lock!). Neighbour obviously objected but the shop owner was having none of it, saying it didn't affect his garden as it was two floors up, blah, blah,blah. Neighbour took legal action and it went to court. Court instructed the shop owner to remove it (at quite a cost) and the shop owner ended up liable to court costs of both parties, the neighbour's legal bill having reaching a whopping £20k!

In my 50's now and would consider myself a good ndn. I have always taught my dc (and ddogs) to keep mindful of those nd...
We moved 2 years ago. Ndn died. House bought my cn (cunty neighbour)..
A year of DIY while they lived elsewhere. Now they are sitting back and enjoying their efforts..
Except we did nothing that year...too stressed from 12 hours a day of noise. 7 days a week.
So now we are doing all our DIY. And ds can let rip on the x box..
No fucks to give.

Wow, some people are really just dreadful I’m so glad you moved.

I think this seems fair we all need to do DIY

Not me personally but I did read on here once about someone getting revenge on a vile neighbour. The neighbour was moving out much to the relief of person posting. Prior to the departure of the neighbour the poster squirted a mixture of milk and cat shit under the bonnet of the vile neighbour’s van She then waved them off in the van on moving day. Has always stuck in my mind. I used to imagine doing it to a truly horrible individual that used to live near me.