Legal ways to annoy a CF neighbour.

[rightonthyme]

WIBU to ask for (completely legal) ways you got back at your neighbours? A VERY long story short, ours are CFs of the highest degree (violent towards us, and racist, and police have done diddly squat). Have done all the CCTV/security stuff. I'm not moving as love the area and all the other neighbours but I would like to make their stay as uncomfortable as possible (in a fun way, of course).Am thinking ugly gnomes, windchimes, learning the violin...Please keep it lighthearted!

Giant trampoline - invite all neighbourhood kids round, followed by Karaoke machine session.

Depending on your race, I'd be building the most stereotypical & biggest racist BS construction in the garden. A nice little village of mud huts if you are of African decent for example & let it known your making room for all of your family to move in. Let them look ridiculous by trying to report that etc & watch their blood pressure go through the roof

I can let you have some out of control rhubarb and horseradish plants! Since OH died I have dug out his horseradish three times with enormous roots and it still somes back! I also can do a very nice line in bind weed if they have a garden, just chuck a few bits of root over and they'll never be rid of it.

I have heard ( but not tried) that sprinkling beef oxo cubes on their lawns is infuriating. As soon as it rains and the oxo melts in Every dog, fox and cat locally will be in their garden digging around looking for the source of the lovely beefy smells.
Also, several revenge sites Available on line if you’d like to send them dodgy post or make their pictures in to a calling card.

CherryRipe1
Trap rats and mice in humane traps & put through their letter box in the small hours.

Dye the mice different bright colours with food dye (so the mice are not harmed) and make the neighbours think they have gone mad.

all of these are Light hearted -personally just blank them

Wind chimes -
fence -if the face is yours paint their side a 'lovely colour'
Fence -if it isn't your fence consider ivy on your side
trampoline
hot tub
classical music
borrow a small very yappy dog which you call a big dog name eg BRUTUS

report however ALL racist behaviour and incident

My neighbour blanked me so I filled in the form for reporting a tax evader online. No idea if he's evading tax or not (he's a landlord) but it made me chuckle.

My cf neighbours had a gnome in their kitchen window that was mooning at our house for several months before it was removed when she finally kicked out the reason for being said cf.

Didn't bother us... Just amused us more for the childish and very cowardly actions that he constantly did. All behind closed doors... If he saw you in the street he quickly legged it back in and wouldn't say a word.

(Brief history: lived next door to her and husband for 23 years. All happy and pally no worries. Husband sadly passed. 6months later new boyfriend moves in, hates us before even meeting because "we do f all and spend his money" (aka: visibly disabled parent and me, her carer who can't leave her alone so can't go out to work.) music all hours, insults screamed through the wall, stupid words and noises shouted, stupidly loud fake sex scenes acted out, loud arguments every time he got caught cheating (frequently). He didn't like that we 'dared' report him to the police and council too 🤦🏻‍♀️ all changed back again when she finally kicked him out for the last time. Has completely fractured our neighbourly relationship though.)

IF they have a lawn, sprinkle the letters of a word of your choice in cress seed. The word will show up when the grass is cut. (I;ve never done it but read the idea years ago.)
Scottish dancing in the garden with live bagpiper.

Definitely play up to their racism. Pick a different culture every week. Go out dressed in the most over the top outfits possible - Hawaiian shirts and grass skirts one week, saris the next, kilts another time etc. Cook delicious curries, jambalaya, haggis, paella, etc and share with all the nice neighbours. Get all the nice neighbours involved, and all of you be really smiley and friendly to the arsehole neighbours every time you see them. Then sit back and watch their tiny heads explode with rage.

Oh & if it's homophobia, you just have to have an all singing & dancing rainbow bright Pride party, invite all the neighbours (bar CFers) & include the loudest possible drag karaoke too. Let it be known afterwards that it was just so much fun, you just have to make it a monthly gathering

Cut off overhanging branches exactly in line with the boundary and leave them by their front door with a note saying you are duty bound to offer them back to them.

Oh & our homophobic, bigotted arsehole neighbour just loves Lou Reeds Walk on the wild side 😉

Wind chimes or a rude gnome with a movement sensor, my neighbour had one that wolf whistled when you went near it!

You are legally allowed to erect a flag pole and fly a national or regional flag without any planning permission. And since 2013, the pride flag. So flag pole, big pride flag, somewhere near their house or in their view. They’ll go nuts and have no legal leg to stand on.

Oh and if they are owner occupiers a neighbour with a flagpole really dents values. My ghastly ex-neighbour had to take 20k under asking because I put up a EU flag to wind them up. Taken it down since of course

@DonnaBanana I absolutely love my neighbour's flag pole, think he's ex-navy, and when the bloody great thing went up, I was worried it was going to be a bit jingoistic. He seems to have every bloody flag going... when the local pizza/pasta place reopened after lockdown, he flew the Italian flag for a bit. We've had Ukraine (obviously) too. And special Halloween, Spring, Easter, Christmas ones. DH is Persian and he managed to find a red one for Yalda night, which was brilliant!

So OP might inadvertently make awful neighbours happy! :)

I have neighbours who copy me esp when I am doing something to the house then copy it too. So I've been making sure they hear 'fake holiday plans' and yesterday I heard them booking holidays on the dates I was 'fake going away' over xmas. I now get 2 weeks of a quiet xmas and some relief from their over the top loud bordering on shouting voices.. wohoooooo!

Not sure if that will help with your neighbours though

Play one episode of bing on repeat all day - i can vouch for just how irritating this is

They don't sound like CFs, they sound like full on nasty arseholes!

If they're racist, nothing will annoy them more than 'foreign muck' so lots of curry and other (delicious!) strong smelling world foods, with a just-a-bit-too-loud soundtrack of world music.

I have neighbours that have been rude to me and I just shrug it off and carry on with my life. Karma is a thing and if you go looking for trouble you will find it.

We had annoying neighbours for a while. The most annoying things they did were a)hire a hot tub and have loud, late, sweaty parties in it and b) constantly play Spotify far too loud, but the free version so there were loads of adverts and the kids had control of it so kept switching tracks every few seconds. Grr!

Drums! And dog poo? And poop in general

You think that getting naked to engage in harrassment of next doors children would not be a problem?
It was a nasty suggestion to target the NDN's children.

Haven't read the whole thread but LOVE this suggestion