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Petty revenge on family from hell next door..

135 replies

Londonlassie12 · 12/10/2021 22:39

We no longer speak to ndn due to a number of awful issues with them during lockdown.. They have now been badmouthing us to anyone who'll listen which has greatly upset us as its all untrue. We are no contact with them but I feel I'm due a little petty revenge act as we've risen above them so far...

OP posts:
hp2 · 13/10/2021 08:57

@BlackeyedSusan

nah recorder. one of those £2 plastic jobbys from tesco...
I have just spat out my tea . Genius!!
Imissmoominmama · 13/10/2021 08:58

I love the postcard idea Grin

BingBongToTheMoon · 13/10/2021 09:01

If they have a dog, lob a couple of beef stock cubes into their garden before it rains. The dogs will go mental and destroy the garden looking for the meat but the rain will have dissolved the cubes.

Level75 · 13/10/2021 09:05

@Londonlassie12 tell us what they've been doing to stop you speaking to them?

samwitwicky · 13/10/2021 09:09

Thank you @HoardingSamphireSaurus

Can't believe the explanation was actually needed Grin

TataMamma · 13/10/2021 09:16

Sign their names up to some manners courses, so they get post through inviting them to pay for various manner related things.

VeronicaBeccabunga · 13/10/2021 09:19

Collect up old keys.
Buy pack of plastic key fobs.
Print labels '£10.00 reward for return of key. Please call [neighbour's phone number] any time'
Drop keys randomly.

BrilloPaddy · 13/10/2021 09:21

Our NDN's came home pissed on Saturday night and let their dog out into the garden at 3am....... who then proceeded to spend 20 minutes barking. They've got some sort of mutant bulldog crossed with a great dane and it barks like something out of a horror film Hmm They often let it out at 6am so we never need an alarm clock. Words cannot describe how much I hate them.

I've just ordered an air horn. And will be blasting on it every time their fecking dog barks.

TheUndeadLovelinessOfDemons · 13/10/2021 09:23

Play the guitar all Saturday and Sunday. My neighbours do this and I want to kill them by 11am on Saturday.

roadwarrior · 13/10/2021 09:25

The best revenge is living well

yellowsubmarines · 13/10/2021 09:27

I don't think people can fully understand the hell of living next door to someone who sets about to make your life miserable every. single. day. unless you have experienced it for yourself.
I have a NDN from hell. He's a sadistic bully who takes great pleasure in causing problems for others. It started the day I bought my house (I wonder why the last family sold the house Hmm) For years I have ignored his actions and ignored the lies he's spread about me and my family. I think most of the other neighbours see him for what he is especially the newer people moving in but some of the older neighbours have believed his lies and treat me like dirt even though they've never met me.
Some people will believe what they want OP and it's usually because they're so bored and unhappy in their own lives that their only pleasure is to cause misery for others. Me ignoring these people and trying to get on with my own life irritates the hell out of them. It seems to wind them up. I am hoping to move as soon as I can because it makes for a pretty awful home life.
The fantasy of pouring weedkiller on his lawn to spell out 'An Arsehole Lives Here' has absolutely never crossed my mind. Promise! Wink

thedancingbear · 13/10/2021 09:27

@Pythonista

Fucking hell do adults really behave like this?
'fraid so, all to often, as this thread demonstrates.
thedancingbear · 13/10/2021 09:28

@roadwarrior

The best revenge is living well
100% this
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HarrietsChariot · 13/10/2021 09:32

Another vote for glitterbombing them through the post. Don't handwrite the address though!

MrsToothyBitch · 13/10/2021 09:33

Helpfully register their interest in scientology and mormonism so that they receive some nice free literature. What's not to love?

Or perhaps, you should suggest a truce with a peace offering ... sugar free gummy bears ought to do it.

LimitIsUp · 13/10/2021 09:33

I am sure that they have been horrendous - but continue to ignore them. If you give them no reaction eventually they will get bored.

LimitIsUp · 13/10/2021 09:35

And if you retaliate I look forward to watching you and your neighbours on Channel 5's "Nightmare neighbour next door"

Hoppinggreen · 13/10/2021 09:35

@roadwarrior

The best revenge is living well
No, the best revenge is imagining all the awful things you could do And then living well
IComeInPeace · 13/10/2021 09:36

I have nightmare neighbours who think they're great neighbours and i always rise above it, so i enjoy these threads.

What is liquid ass though??

wheresmyshoe · 13/10/2021 09:36

We have weirdos who creep behind the hedge to eavesdrop. The mother is apparently elderly and worries so much, she's actually mid sixties and a hard as nails manipulative horror. We talk loudly in the garden about our plans for a rooster sanctuary and how awful it is so many get dumped. We also hammer and saw creating pens for them (actually raised beds for veggies). They've got themselves whipped up into a frenzy about it and bitching to the other neighbours. When I've been asked about it I just say how odd, I'm horribly allergic to birds, I can't even have feathers in the house.
*I ease my conscience by donating to a local animal sanctuary
*I'm not allergic to birds

JingsMahBucket · 13/10/2021 09:38

@Lalliella

Presumably though (as it’s got back to you that they’re badmouthing you) you’re friendly with the rest of the neighbours? Why not invite them all round for a party? Excluding ndn’s of course. Maybe fireworks so you’d be outside and ndn could see you? Then they’d know that the badmouthing wasn’t working, you’ve got lots of friends, and they haven’t! Because the best revenge is to be happy!
I really like this idea and you get to have a party!
thedancingbear · 13/10/2021 09:38

@wheresmyshoe

We have weirdos who creep behind the hedge to eavesdrop. The mother is apparently elderly and worries so much, she's actually mid sixties and a hard as nails manipulative horror. We talk loudly in the garden about our plans for a rooster sanctuary and how awful it is so many get dumped. We also hammer and saw creating pens for them (actually raised beds for veggies). They've got themselves whipped up into a frenzy about it and bitching to the other neighbours. When I've been asked about it I just say how odd, I'm horribly allergic to birds, I can't even have feathers in the house. *I ease my conscience by donating to a local animal sanctuary *I'm not allergic to birds
All the dickheads on this thread advocating harassment and criminal damage make me despair.

However this is quite brilliant.

CounsellorTroi · 13/10/2021 09:40

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Paperyfish · 13/10/2021 09:41

Have their email? I bet they would really appreciate some new reading material. Maybe sign them up for
mailbait.info/index.html
Who doesn’t live a full inbox?
Do you have their mobile number? You can send an alarm text to it! Use a computer somewhere random and set them helpful alarms day and night!
Errr…joking, obviously. Although my neighbours are also knobs and I’m soo tempted! ( not going to, ok?)

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