Page 5 | Petty revenge on family from hell next door..

cricketmum84 · 13/10/2021 09:46

@VeronicaBeccabunga

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.

You are an evil genius 😂

girlmom21 · 13/10/2021 09:48

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

What do you think this is going to do, other than irritate other people in the area?

The dogs still going to bark. You're still going to be awake.

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Gonnagetgoing · 13/10/2021 10:01

@BrilloPaddy

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

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.

Oh god - this reminds me of years ago being in a house share with nightmare neighbours next door who constantly let an aged Rottweiler into the garden (no dog door) and wouldn't let it back in, one or both didn't work and they had loud late night parties, poor dog would spend hours barking at gone midnight etc. I spoke to my landlady about this (she owned and lived in the house) and she was scared to speak to them, yet soon after I moved out, they were evicted anyway.

Gonnagetgoing · 13/10/2021 10:05

@girlmom21

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

What do you think this is going to do, other than irritate other people in the area?

The dogs still going to bark. You're still going to be awake.

when your sleep is disrupted night upon night and you have severe rage you resort to anything...

When old NDN's were practising sleep training with their baby (it didn't work) and I couldn't move bedrooms at the time as rented out a bedroom - I was furious as they had a whole bloody large house to put the baby in, not right next to my wall of my bedroom in the flat. Was one of the reasons I sold up and moved. Their excuse - the DH didn't want to be woken up by being placed nearer to the crying baby - they had a 5 bedroom house FFS.

SnottyLottie · 13/10/2021 10:08

DH’s next door neighbour used to play Kanye’s Bound 2 on repeat ad nauseum when we were dating. And it was only a sample, so just the intro. On repeat. All day. I’d like to say she was the teenage daughter but it was the trashy mum. It used to drive me crazy and I said I would rather us hang out at my parent’s house than come over to his.

I definitely recommend doing this 😆

Theunamedcat · 13/10/2021 10:16

Just play the intro to different songs juuuust the beginning so it's recognised then skip one will become an earworm guarantee it

catpyjamas · 13/10/2021 10:46

When old NDN's were practising sleep training with their baby (it didn't work) and I couldn't move bedrooms at the time as rented out a bedroom - I was furious as they had a whole bloody large house to put the baby in, not right next to my wall of my bedroom in the flat. Was one of the reasons I sold up and moved. Their excuse - the DH didn't want to be woken up by being placed nearer to the crying baby - they had a 5 bedroom house FFS.

Has it always been this way where someone would rather inconvenience another with their problems rather than deal with their own problems themselves?

I had a neighbour who for some reason didn't want to park in his allocated parking space so without a word to me he started parking in mine. When I confronted him he said he didn't like the position of his spot anymore. You don't like your spot so now I need to park elsewhere? Why didn't he sort his own parking situation which was nothing to do with me.

I had another neighbour who felt his garden was too small. He constantly complained about it. One day I came home to find he had installed a new boundary fence within my garden! He had moved the property boundary by half a metre. When I confronted him he said I shouldn't mind because I had the larger garden. He bought a house with a small garden so I should give up some of my garden? Why didn't he buy a house with a bigger garden like I had done.

A friend's neighbour's dog is constantly in the garden barking. When friend approached the neighbour the neighbour said 'We don't want him barking in our house.' So everyone should have to hear neighbour's barking dog all the time? Why not train your dog not to bark.

There are other examples but the selfishness of some people who pass their problems onto others never ceases to amaze me.

girlmom21 · 13/10/2021 10:50

@catpyjamas I hope you got your garden back and though the proper legal channels and didn't just let it go?!

Mamamamasaurus · 13/10/2021 10:54

@FrozenoutofCostco

Bluetooth speaker up against fence playing 'Nothing Compares to you' by Sinead O'Connor on repeat? Not too loudly as to be breaking the law but just enough for them to hear and first of all, begin speculating & spreading rumours that you've split with your husband. By the 20th minute their eyes will begin twitching and by 3 hours they'll be contemplating moving

Or Celine Dion, 'All by Myself'. My old neighbour played this on repeat for months when his wife left him. Nearly sent me over the edge.

catpyjamas · 13/10/2021 11:02

That fence was moved back to the correct position post haste. Neighbour branded me a 'selfish cow' to anyone who would listen. When he started mooing at me every time I came and left from my house I decided it was time to move. The people I sold to were a youngish couple with two very young children. Another neighbour told me my old garden is now 'filled to the brim' with children's toys which I should image has greatly annoyed the NDN

MzHz · 13/10/2021 11:48

@MadameMonk

On threads like these, I sometimes suggest a two-word solution.

Liquid Ass.

If you want more words, I add ‘+ some imagination’. It isn’t illegal, dangerous or immoral. It is (in the right hands) diabolically annoying. Just the act of buying it can be enormously therapeutic. Having a retaliation in your back pocket can sometimes be enough. It’s the horrible sense of being constantly a potential victim that messes with your head.

Warning: don’t tell anyone, especially not kids. Consider it a campaign, not a one-off. Make sure somehow it is deployed occasionally when you are (plausible deniability) far away from home. And don’t, for the love of Goddess, get it on yourself. Or be downwind. While you’re shopping online, get a swimming mask & snorkel just in case. Buy more than you think.

You’re welcome.

And anyone who slams this approach really needs to check their privilege. Unless you’ve had truly dreadful, surreptitiously nasty neighbours over a long time, you just don’t know.

I can vouch for this

And reiterate the Keep away from kids thing

NOBODY fully appreciates the physical pain a mother goes through when you get a call from the Head Teacher who uses the words Liquid and Arse in a sentence and you can’t laugh…

MzHz · 13/10/2021 11:50

Oh and when Trey ask you if you want to collect the contraband or have them dispose of it.. the answer is yes of course disposing of it is the best message to send our fiendishly devious child

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Londonlassie12 · 13/10/2021 14:12

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WeatherwaxLives · 13/10/2021 16:50

Under cover of darkness, plant daffodils in their lawn spelling TWATS. Carefully replace the turf and wait for spring.

BringPizza · 13/10/2021 16:52

@expat101

People might ''listen'' to bad-mouthing but they make their own judgement as to who is right or wrong.

In saying that, consider how you plan to react. It might actually prove your neighbours right!

Absolutely this. Try to rise above it OP, they’re not worth your peace of mind. They’d love that you were thinking about them so much.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 13/10/2021 16:54

@FrozenoutofCostco

Bluetooth speaker up against fence playing 'Nothing Compares to you' by Sinead O'Connor on repeat? Not too loudly as to be breaking the law but just enough for them to hear and first of all, begin speculating & spreading rumours that you've split with your husband. By the 20th minute their eyes will begin twitching and by 3 hours they'll be contemplating moving

Or “Baby Shark”, on a loop.

Ihopeyourcakeisshit · 13/10/2021 16:57

Intrigued at liquid ass, but it's not something I feel I can safely Google

MzHz · 13/10/2021 18:31

@Ihopeyourcakeisshit

Intrigued at liquid ass, but it's not something I feel I can safely Google

You can safely Amazon… prime delivery and everything…

thenumberseven · 13/10/2021 18:46

They play music against your fence.
Perhaps your sprinkler or hose could "drown" their music player ?

PumpkinsandTea · 13/10/2021 21:45

@IDontDrinkTea Do they actually get sent though? Looks like a scam site to me.

ISeeTheLight · 13/10/2021 21:59

I'm surprised no-one has suggested geese. Preferably the Canadian type. Eggs are a bonus. They are LOUD.

takenforgrantednana · 13/10/2021 22:13

@Londonlassie12

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...

when we had problems with next door to us over loud music played just after i came home with my new baby, what we did was book a holiday for 2 weeks, and then set up the portable cd player at the top of the stairs, it was plugged in via a time controlled socket for 2.30am for 10 mins at a time and then go off for 15 mins and then on again and so on until 5.30am! the speakers where turned to be facing the wall between our houses and the volume loud enough to penetrate that wall but not enough to be heard outside the house.

it worked! as when we returned not a thing was said but their music stopped. if only i could work out now how to stop their bonfires every night!!!! as the wind blows that smoke into my bedroom and has made me very ill

bogoffmda · 13/10/2021 22:36

Oh god I need these ideas - my not so new now ndns have no clue how to live in a terrace house.

Can not list their crimes as too many of them. My sanctuary is now purgatory every evening and again at 0100 when they go to bed, drilling music, singing, I hear them sneeze, conversations at full blare - he is an emotional robot!Have had 3 previous neighbours before them - rarely heard them.

I am salivating at my options!

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Londonlassie12 · 13/10/2021 23:28

@bogoffmda

Oh god I need these ideas - my not so new now ndns have no clue how to live in a terrace house.

Can not list their crimes as too many of them. My sanctuary is now purgatory every evening and again at 0100 when they go to bed, drilling music, singing, I hear them sneeze, conversations at full blare - he is an emotional robot!Have had 3 previous neighbours before them - rarely heard them.

I am salivating at my options!

Mumsnet is so good in these type of situations😁

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