Have you ever got revenge on a neighbour?

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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?

Having good neighbours at home is why we're not moving, even though we'd have liked to. It's too much of a risk. It's not that we're over-friendly with our neighbours, we're not, but they're respectful and never impinge on us. They always pre-warn us if they're having a BBQ and our washing is out for example, always park in their drives or in front of their houses instead of in front of ours, etc. Simple things. But it extends to bigger things too as they always warn us if they're having work done, not asking for approval of course, but polite courtesy in advance. We do the same back to them and it makes for a more harmonious life. Never anything unexpected etc. They're both similar ages to us, and neither are planning to move, so very little risk of getting a neighbour from hell as long as we all stay alive!

Theres a little block of flats opposite our house that is for elderly people. Whenever it snows my husband clears those neighbours paths and clears pavements so they can safely get to the road for the community transport bus. In really bad winters those of us in the houses dig the road out all the way to the main road through the village too. He also used a bit to grit the path of our equally elderly ndn (passed now, sadly)

One of the people in the flats yelled at my husband for using grit from the communal bin. This guy screamed abuse at my husband.

Every year after that we bought rock salt to do our ndn path (until they passed) and used the flats' grit to do every path except the one from his flat.

This was a very small, petty revenge but it did make me laugh at the time...

My neighbour was/is vile, alcoholic, violent, drug dealing..you get the idea. She made our lives truly miserable for a few years until we moved. She used to have some decorative sticks in little pots outside the front of her house, and whenever my DH did a poo that wouldn't flush away, he used to pick up a stick from her pot and help matters along with it. Then he used to return the stick to her pot. I suppose people will say that we're bad but it somehow made life feel temporarily a little better.

@MegMortimer that made me chortle - harmless and v creative

We had a horrible retired couple opposite us who fell out with everyone.
They hated our cat and wouldn't let him walk on the pavement outside their house, once even chasing him away into the road.

They liked to sit on benches outside their house so we'd always planned that when he died, we'd scatter some of his ashes under their benches.
Thankfully they moved away 3 years before he died and have been replaced by a lovely couple.

Does anyone remember the thread with the horrible neighbour that shared an alley with the OP. They tried poisoning the pet I think? I always wondered what happened there.

Yeah, he was racist and verbally abused us all the time. I was inundated with offers and chose carefully. A very strong minded Nigerian gentleman with 6 children, who ran a choir from his home. I gave him ALL the info re the neighbour as a disclosure prior to purchase and he was in on it entirely (brought my misdirected post and updates to my work for ages 😂).

I'll just tell you about one incident. The day they moved in the neighbour had attached his washing line to a hanging basket bracket at my house. The houses were up 20 steps and beneath the washing was a very very muddy garden. The neighbour banged on the new chaps door and started telling him where to park etc and generally being rude. New chap says "one moment sir" goes in the house comes out when a bread knife and CUTS THE WASHING LINE DOWN!!!! Apparently the neighbour was speechless 😂My new BFF said "Keep your line OFF my property and do not tell me where to park again"

They moved within 6 months 😂

Loving the username @faithfultoGeorgeMichael , I still miss George, bless him.

Me indirectly!
we were newly graduated, in a new build flat with neighbours who thought they were very superior. We did have allocated parking, but on moving in day, we hadn’t received our allocation yet. I had a car full of stuff that I needed to get into the apartment. It would take about three goes/10 minutes to complete. It was very obvious I was moving g in.
I temporarily parked at the front of the block. Not illegally, not in anyone’s space but very close to the door which spoiled the aesthetics of the road.
when I got back to the car between the second and third delivery, there was a large a4 sticky label on the window( front window blocking the screen so it was unsafe to drive). The label was a message telling me not to park there. It was really tricky to get it off. Took days to finally sort.

this neighbour, who was witnessed in the act had form for doing this. He spent 90% of his day curtain twitching. He also occasionally parked his own car in the space where I was that first day.
Not me, I swear, but my flatmate sister and friend decided to get revenge.
they mixed flour, water and treacle into a paste and placed it all over the guys car one day. They tried to cover their tracks by placing a flour trail into a neighbouring block, so it looked like the culprit lived elsewhere.
the guy called the police who came out and took photos. I was really nervous in case they came knocking, but nothing ever came of it. The car wasn’t damaged. It just needed a good wash. There were no further sticky noticed placed on windscreens after that

@MegMortimer me too, although I suspect he would have been a NIGHTMARE NEIGHBOUR 😂

In my 20s I lived in a flat and there was a guy in his 40s in the flat below me.
He was unemployed and thought he was a fantastic singer (he absolutely was not) so used to blast music and shriek down a microphone, day and night. Sometimes it would be the middle of the night and my floor would be shaking.
I brought it up with him many times but it never changed so one morning before work, I knew he’d be sleeping in so I put massive speakers face down on the floor over his bedroom and blasted out the loudest, shitty drum and bass music (not my taste at all but he hated it) on full volume.
I did this every morning for days and he stopped playing his music loud 😁

Spreading rumours about someone is far far meaner

I would’ve thought that would be quite obvious. Views can be blocked easily without blocking someone’s light

Not personally to me but my friend I knew from school gates . Single mom. Her older male neighbour moaned for anything. Bit noise from kids. Moaned how she parked car. Basically picked on her. She moved as so stressed ie giving up a housing association flat. Found out a right chav family moved in her flY. Had parties. Smoked weed. 3 kids. Took no crap off him.

In previous house, one of the neighbours used to leave bags of dog poo on our drive or even on our lawn. I told her to stop doing it. She told me it was Ok because she ‘always’ picked it up at the end of her walk. She often forgot and anyway even if she truly always remembered, I didn’t want her shit on our property for an hour. I started lobbing it over her garden fence.

When I was at secondary school, there was one particular teacher who was roundly disliked by all the students, although I'd been lucky enough never to have been taught by him.

One year, on the very last day of the summer term when most people had already gone home and the caretaker was going round locking the school up for the summer holiday, one enterprising lad slipped into this teacher's classroom and put a kipper into a drawer in his desk.

1976 was a long, hot summer...

Sadly no revenge but he is over 10 yrs older then me and an aggressive alcoholic drug addict so I'm just hoping to outlast him!
Also I'm a nurse and there is a good chance he would be on my ward if admitted to hospital, it has actually already happened once. So my revenge will be both of us just living our lives as normal!😅

We non purposely helped to devalue our next door neighbour's house. She put her house up for sale and needed a certain price. We also had ours up, but were flexible on the price and just wanted to sell. Our house had an extra bedroom, was nicer inside and had nice gardens. Hers wasn't as nice and had no back garden, just dilapidated paving.

We reduced our price significantly and moved. Hers didn't sell and she had to reduce her price to the price we sold at. Hers then sold. She deserved it.

After my vile, vile neighbour moved out, a debt collection company knocked on our door asking if we had a forwarding address for her. We didn't, but we did know where she worked. We told them.

Oh yes, we have an absolutely vile family next door. We own ours, theirs is council. We have no problem at all with that, the lady who lived there before was lovely. She had been there all her life, the house and garden were immaculate. She had to move into a care home and this family moved in. On moving day I said hello and was friendly. I was quite pleased because she had young children and I thought maybe new friend potential.
No such luck, from day one her kids were throwing eggs at our windows, the noise and all night parties was horrific. I was going through cancer treatment at the time and would get home after a day of chemo to lay on the sofa as eggs splatted all over my windows. Tried to talk to her but she didn’t give a damn so police were involved and the egg throwing stopped but all the parties went on.
One incredibly hot day they had a huge pool in the back garden. The adult son had a three year old child. Child was locked in the garden by himself unsupervised around the pool. They had broken the back door so were climbing in and out of the dining room window. The child was at the window crying and asking to go to the toilet. The man climbed out of the window, slapped the child and said “you can piss in the corner you cunt”
I called the police and man was removed from the house.
After that it was all out war towards us, parties, bonfires, a teenager living in a tent in the back garden with his mates round at all hours, they even got a bloody cockerel at one point. All the street were complaining.
We have a beautiful blossom tree in our garden. It is on the border with their fence and some branches were overhanging. One day they started hacking at it. Nothing we could do, they have the right to trim overhanging branches. But they absolutely annihilated it. They were chopping huge branches off and throwing them over into our garden breaking pots while they did it. Eventually we called the police who told them to stop.
Sorry this is so long 😀
Our gardens are quite small and we couldn’t even open our door because of all the tree debris. So the next day dh wrote them a very polite letter pointing out that legally they had to offer the branches back to us but if we declined, removal of said branches was their responsibility. Then he heaved every last twig back into their garden.
Result was they have no transport, so couldn’t get rid of the branches. Meaning that along with all the overgrown brambles and general shit in their garden it is now unusable and we’re not suffering all the screaming, bonfires etc. 😀

Yes, I moved my piano to their side of the house and rediscovered my love of piano playing. Also suggested my son take up the trumpet, which he loves. This is well deserved, believe me.

No but I'd love to. I've been thinking about ordering something horrible anonymously and gett it sent to her, but worry she could trace it back to me somehow. Also can't think what would be horrible enough to send her!!

My thoughts aswell.
That was a vile thing to do to people that didn't actually do anything wrong at all.

Hope the PP DBs got their own comeuppance. 🤨

No, I've never had a bad neighbour in all my almost 67 years. I am astounded at the awful neighbours so many seem to have.

I am the bigger person. Kill her with kindness. Hold my head up high, behave with dignity, never get rattled, live a lovely, happy life.