WIBU to cut the christmas light wires

[Cordyceps]

The woman who is on the other side of our semi has installed randomly flashing christmas lights around her shrubbery that is approximately as bright as the sun. They are left on all night and it's like a fucking strobe light disco in my bedroom.
Previous attempts to reason with her about parking (to ask that she not park directly in the middle of a space large enough for two cars, so that I, too, could park at the end of the little private road behind our houses) have been met with verbal abuse, and the only reason I haven't called the police is because I don't want to have to register a neighbour dispute when we sell up. So sneaking out at 4 am to snip the wires on her fucking lights is totally reasonable, right?

Buy a free standing spotlight and position it so that it shines in her bedroom

Those lights drive me potty too OP. I'm sorry you have some so close.

I'm currently spending £1200 to put up a 2m high fence to block out my neighbour's super-bright security light.

Could you somehow get water into the power part? This would be less traceable than cutting the wires.

Given her history I wouldn’t ask her first as then she’ll know it’s you.

I would be strategic and compliment her on them to cover your tracks “loving the festive feel on our street this year!” 😂

Absolutely do it!

If you want to do it properly, you need to train a fox to chew through the wires, not your fault then.

There are a few flaws with the plan, but you can work them out

@needmoreshinys

If you want to do it properly, you need to train a fox to chew through the wires, not your fault then.

There are a few flaws with the plan, but you can work them out

If you smeared fish paste on the wires, it might encourage the fox!

@needmoreshinys

If you want to do it properly, you need to train a fox to chew through the wires, not your fault then.

There are a few flaws with the plan, but you can work them out

Wouldn't the fox die? Criminal damage AND murder.

You will get an electric shock if you cut through the electric wire?

Other than that it is a good idea.

The spotlight is a very good idea.

I’m totally with you! I’m going to ninja round to the neighbour tonight and carefully unscrew their prison style searchlight which is actually brighter than the sun. Fuckwits. Their garden is extra secure anyway, no way of getting in. It actually hurt my eyes going to the loo in the middle of the night.

What I don't understand with the type of lights that are so virulently headache inducing, is surely you must be able to see the flashing from inside their house too? Do some people actually like this? We have gentle twinkly ones outside and I can still see the light they give off through our front windows even though it's not that harsh.

Went for a walk earlier and one house on our estate has hundreds of the brightest cold white and blue super flashy lights with a kind of mirror effect massive star in the middle, it actually hurt my eyes to look at it. Luckily there isn't anyone living opposite them!

had this for several years - but the council installIing flashing lights in the trees outside my flat - to make matters worse, they spent two -three hours installing and taking them down, starting at about midnight with a loud truck & generator to avoid disrupting the bloody traffic

I complained every year - disturbance, waste of energy and money - they finally stopped about three years ago

the spotlight is a good idea - van you rig it into her power system for the christmas lights, so that she is paying for it.
Or a strobe light, that would be irritating

You will get an electric shock if you cut through the electric wire
That, children, is why we have insulated cutters

Are they mains or battery/solar?

Mains then it’ll end badly.

I had solar lights in my back garden. Squirrels ate them. Bastards. Do you have any friendly squirrels?

A house a few doors up from us, new neighbours, put up some coloured lights all in their tree yesterday afternoon. Lovely I thought, fading in and out. NO! They are set to flash all night long! Thankfully we have blackout blinds and curtains, but as soon as you go into the landing Flash!Flash!Flash!

@Allsorts1

Could you somehow get water into the power part? This would be less traceable than cutting the wires.

Given her history I wouldn’t ask her first as then she’ll know it’s you.

I would be strategic and compliment her on them to cover your tracks “loving the festive feel on our street this year!” 😂

This made me LOL!

OP you have my sympathies.

Got to make it look like it was an animal, can't be too obvious.

Otherwise is her electrical installation fairly recent? These days the standard is for the meter to be mounted externally and accompanied by a master trip switch. Wouldn't it be unfortunate if that switch tripped?

Definitely buy and install some disco spotlights that just happen to be trained at her windows.

love Christmas lights, but would hate the flashing at random intervals.

I am wondering, what rats like to chew on...

The dickhead in our street (everyone else is lovely / these ones are nightmares) has them on the side of their house.

It seemed sort of random as their house is at an angle to the road so it’s not showing off their twattery display to everyone, but is directly shining on to three other living room windows because of the street shape.

Turns on they’re on that bit because the guy wants them up, but his wife doesn’t want them interrupting her when she’s going about her evening. The flashing drives her batty apparently… but she helped him put them up to annoy everyone else!

@BonesInTheOcean

I'll be your alibi, you were with me, not in a full black tracksuit, sneaking across her garden with shears...

I mean seriously, why not pop a set of windchimes as well??

A neighbour ninja...Like an assassin but no death involved, you just hire yourself out for anonymous acts of petty revenge.

You could make a fortune

It should be banned.

Tv shows and the likes have to put up a warning about flash photography etc yet these idiots can inflicted seizures on people without any hindrance or any warning

You have my sympathy, OP. My neighbours from hell cover their entire house and garden with these vile tacky lights, flashing in random chaser sequences, for about five weeks starting any time now.
I'm autistic, with sensory issues, and the damn things induce rage and meltdown every bloody year.
I would pay good money to hire your ninja wire cutting service!

Report her to the police anonymously. And likewise the council.
If she is annoying others set up a residents group and log things and with a greater number the local authority should be able to deal with us.
As well as epilepsy those awful lights can cause severe migraines, so she is a health risk.