Petty Acts of (Neighbour) Revenge

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Please share some inspiration for petty acts of revenge - bonus points if they are neighbour themed

I’m so sorry. What an evil bitch.

I’d take great pleasure in opening every single packet and tipping it over her driveway.

My neighbour is a whiny pain in the ass who complains about our perfectly normal noises of living. They also complained at great length about bindweed growing under the fence from our side into their garden. I've honestly never heard such a fuss. It turns out it was actually growing from their side. Any time i find bindweed in my garden now, i break it into bits and drop it over their fence. (Bindweed can grow an entirely new plant very quickly from small bits and it's very invasive.)

My neighbours tried to steal my land and when they know.im home.purposefully make a ton of noise because they don't like the fact I wouldn't let them keep the land they tried to take. I have things walls in my semi.

They have form for copying what I do as seen several times, the lady doesnt work. I made sure she heard how it's so great not to always be at home and I love going back to the office (I really do but sometimes id love tonwork from home but if did she would just make tp
o much noise) and having busy weekends as I'm too young to be always be stuck at home...now they have started going out and I can finally enjoy some peace and quiet and even wfh again!

@Blueglazzier

"I would get out my really old loud lawn mower at 9am and I would mow and mow going over stones..."

😂😂

We had a horrible racist old hag as a neighbour in a downstairs flat. Didn't work, was never out of her pyjamas, and rarely had her teeth in.

She would argue with her "boyfriend" who would go out working in his taxi at night before coming home around 3am to a torrent of racial abuse. Screaming some real horrible stuff at the top of her voice.

At one point she had some kind of reconciliation with her daughter who would come round late and blast music until the boyfriend came back and the screaming started.

Both myself and DP would be out at work from 7/8am until early evening so on a morning I would just put a CD on repeat, turn it up as loud as it would go and then go to work.

It didn't really get us anywhere to be honest. She continued to be horrible, we continued to retaliate with loud music, then eventually we moved out. Waste of time.

Margery the petunias are smelling particularly cheesy tonight!

Our old neighbours had two cats that were CONSTANTLY shitting in my garden, killing animals in my garden, generally just being cats I suppose, but there's a reason I don't have cats and it's because I like my garden shit and carcass free 😂
Anyway, a dead mouse right outside my patio door was the last straw and I picked it up with a spade and launched it onto their patio.
I had thought they weren't home, they were, and came round that evening to apologise if the cats were being a nuisance 😆 whoops!

My mum and her neighbour are attached by their double garages, and there's a driveway running the width of the two. So very wide, and although mum's is the furthest away at the end of a narrow lane, because it's an open front, it's easy for her to get to her driveway.

The neighbour's wheelie bins used to sometimes encroach marginally on my mum's side of the driveway on bin day, so my mum had a wall built between the two driveways. She now has to do the most awkward manoeuvring to get her car in and out. But she's very happy that no parts of wheelie bins ever go on her driveway uninvited.

We had lots of issues with our old neighbours- parking across our driveway, loud music etc. We went om holiday and left friends dog and cat sitting (these were young girls, and I had told the neighbour they would be there) Apparently he came round battering the door at 2am, screaming that our dogs were barking (the girls were sleeping in the next room to the dogs and said they only started barking when he started hammering on the door.) The girls were upset, and he was shouting and swearing, threatening to kill the dogs.
When we got back DH went to talk to him and he was all nicey nice, don't worry about it. We blocked off our cat flap, as sometimes the dogs would stick their heads out and bark if kids came into the garden.
One night about a week later the dogs suddenly started barking at 2am. I rushed down to stop them, put all the lights on ,checked the garden , but since they couldn't bark out the cat flap thankfully didn't wake nighbours
NDN was raging next day as his car had been broken into. Pity he didn't hear the dogs trying to alert him. Mine was fine 😁

We moved in to our house with our 3week old DD, moving over 120miles away from friends and family. We were super stressed and tired. Our next door neighbour (we live in a semi) came round to introduce themselves and gave us a card. In the card was a note about how we are expected to throw the grandchildrens football back if it comes in our garden (it never crossed my mind that we wouldn't), they have a deaf dog and that they expect us to be quiet because we are attached. We literally were still in the process of moving in, we had not met them and not made noise. We were still unloading. A few months later the wife turns up on my doorstep and says the old owners used to let gutter cleaning guy in our garden so he can clean the gutters on their plastic awning and could I leave the back gate unlocked. I said ok. The gutter man rocks up and goes into my garden, but so does my male neighbour!! They are both in my garden looking at my plants, talking, then finally they set up the ladders.... But ON my shrubs! No idea why my neighbour had to be in my garden. He wasn't holding the ladders at all, just stood there chatting. No "thank you" for the access. Months pass and the wife knocks on my door again, the gutter man is coming in a few days and I'm told I'll be expected to leave my gate unlocked again. She didn't say please or "could you..." She just said "make sure your gate is unlocked by 9am". So 10mins before the gutter man is due to arrive, I take my DD and go out. I stayed out for at least 2hrs, I didn't think a gutter clean should be longer than that. I drive back home and see the gutter man in their driveway still!! I go inside my house and he starts knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell, then I see my male neighbour go round to the back gate to try and open it. (I was watching the ring camera footage). Then the knocking and ringing the bell on the front door starts up again. I refused to answer. (A bit cowardly, I know). They never asked for access to my garden too clean their gutters again.

Horrendously noisy NDN’s, height of the summer and their kids were out screaming in the back garden or they were out playing music really loudly and completely wrecking my annual leave, so with about a month to go before we moved out, I bought an ocarina. Decided I’d like to learn “Michael, row your boat ashore” but obviously I wanted to perfect every single note so spent the entire month just learning that one line and playing it over and over again. Sitting in the garden, making a cup of tea with the windows open, TV advert break whilst the windows were open, running a bath with the window open, I practised hard! Still don’t know any more than that one line.

we had very noisy neighbours lots of late parties they loved a bbq, would find unwanted tomato bits from sandwiches thrown over my fence,4 neighbours were all fed up with the noise, we set our alarms for 8am ,mowed our lawns for an hour, then did loud diy in the garden at 4 houses they were totally fed up they were all hung over,

I'd be taking the cat food and donating it to the pet bank.

Can’t stand my shit stirring shouty alcoholic neighbour so I after another of her drunken shouty evenings will go out and do stuff in the garden. Hedge trimming is my favorite and yes my hedges do look neatly trimmed. Alas she never trims her half so I help by strategically cutting branches and the bastard brambles on her side, after a bit of wind it falls to the ground. I also chuck any slugs or snails I find over the hedge.

Going to be doing a bit of diy soon which will infuriate her lots and lots of drilling!!!

Quite disgusting 🤢

Why is everyone missing the obvious - windchimes?

I've got myself some seaweed fertiliser. My plants are looking forward to it, neighbours won't enjoy it.

The bitch next door ( we've moved out yay,) was doing things like reporting our cat to the RSPCA because he had bald patches and walked funny, both the results of a accident when he was a kitten , he fell out of a tree and broke both hips.
She had a bush in her garden which she spent far too much time on. One day DH made up some brush killer a bent over too "tie his shoelaces up " and poured it under this bush. It was quite fun watching her try to work out what was wrong.

Some of the things on this thread cross from merely being petty to way beyond that.

Mine is a parking one. NDN started parking in front of my house and kept her own drive free which pissed me off.
I was due a new car and have left my old one in front of my house for months now but she still will park as close to it as she can get. Doesn't annoy me any more as she can't park in front of my house.
She had her car hit one night too as she refuses to park in her drive and it's half on the path and half in the road 🤣 and still parks there, so I'm just waiting on it being hit again and have no intentions of moving my old car yet. I'm as petty as her but the entitlement of some people 😬 I'm sure the whole street is laughing at her pettiness.

You sound horrible. The poor plant!

In the 1970s we moved into a semi-detached house in an aspirational housing estate. The people on the other side of the wall took against us from before we moved in because my father had a manual job, my mother also went out to work, and we were a litter of children - more than two. There were various subtle unpleasantnesses. My mother went round to try to resolve the situation and got short shrift. It affected me too because their two daughters were around my age and weren't allowed to walk to school with me, let alone become friends.

My parents owned a wind-up mantel clock which sounds Big Ben chimes on the quarter hour if you flick a switch. It was kept on silent most of the time. One year immediately before going away on holiday I took the clock off the mantelshelf, wound it up fully, set it to chime, and put it on the wall against the neighbours' house.

The soundproofing in the houses was good and I suspect the neighbours didn't actually hear very much, and the clock would have wound down and stopped within a few days, but 12 year old me was a little sod and liked the idea of the neighbours' sleep and at-home socialising being ruined for an entire fortnight by a loud repetitive noise they could do nothing about.

Fifty years on, my mother is triumphant that she and my father have outlived those dreadful neighbours.

I'll preface by saying that I'm a nice, friendly neighbour and not as nasty as this makes me sound.

We live on a very busy road, but luckily all the houses in our row have long drives with room to turn round. New next door neighbours moved in and we went round with wine and a card to introduce ourselves (we are very quiet, private people and NEVER bother neighbours - it's just common sense to introduce yourself so we all know names etc, in case of needing help etc). Got a very off-hand response, and door pretty much slammed in our faces.

They then put up a very pretentious double gate with remote-control, right on the busy road. How this works at busy times on the road is anyone's guess...but their choice. This means that any delivery driver has to park in OUR drive (which we share anyway with our other neighbours on the other side). AND (the capitals express my annoyance...) we are constantly being asked to take their parcels etc.

I now say: I'll take their parcel but I'm not going round with it (I couldn't - the gate would stop me). And sometimes, if it's complicated, I just refuse to help at all. Their choice - putting up a silly gate has consequences.

Our neighbours hated our cat. He wasn't even allowed to walk on the pavement in front of their house. They used to sit on benches out the front and scream at him if he dared to cross over to our side etc.

Our plan was that when he died, we'd get him cremated and scatter some of the ashes in their plant pots and under their benches.

Thankfully they moved away last year and said cat is living a grand life being able to walk where he likes without being shouted at.

My next door neighbour did not supervise her dogs and obnoxious children. She let them wander into my garden and damage my plants. She already thought I was "weird". I donned white coveralls, goggles, a mask and gloves and filled my pressure sprayer with soapy water. Knowing that she and her offspring were home, I set off around the garden with the sprayer, muttering to myself. They didn't wander again!

Plants don't have feelings you know. Or do you?