‘What’s the best petty revenge you have had on an annoying neighbour?’ – 23 super satisfying tales of neighbourhood payback
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‘Person in shared accommodation had a room next to mine would blast their TV every night while they slept. After knocking on their door for about 10 mins at 2 in the morning I went to the power box and shut off the upstairs power. Absolute bliss.’
–brightdionysianeyes
14.
‘Our upstairs neighbours bought the place in December had ‘just one day emergency works’ on Christmas Eve that finished at the end of March. So my flatmate reported the builders for parking without a permit and repeats the procedure every time they have visitors.’
–HauntingTheVoid
15.
‘Had a neighbour who kept coming home after her shift at a pub and would bring home other people and party till the early hours, we had a few month old baby. So I would Hoover every room connected to hers at 7/8 in the morning and drill into wood very time she would party late.’
-beefboxer84
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‘Best I heard from a friend. A neighbour used to use a plank between too traffic cones to preserve parking on the road outside his house. Whilst he was out friend shortened the plank and watched with amusement as he couldn’t park. Never happened again.’
–CharacterSeat8603
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‘My new neighbour had drugs delivered twice a day, I posted an anonymous letter saying I lived across the road (there is eight houses in a cul-de-sac opposite so they couldn’t know which one) and I have noted every car number plate and if it doesn’t stop I will report to the police, deliveries stopped and she had to walk down the road to meet the dealers.’
–AcanthisittaThink813
18.
‘We had an upstairs neighbour who was just awful — aggressive, entitled, loud, selfish, lazy. Proudly told us that he wouldn’t get out of bed for less than £20/hr (in 2010), but told the job centre he had a bad back and couldn’t work. He drove a very large, heavy motorbike and would leave it on the shared pathway so the rest of us couldn’t put the bins out on bin day.
‘Somehow got himself a girlfriend and they would have extremely loud sex that everyone else in the building could hear. After several days of this, my brother went into the shared hallway and yelled “SHE’S FAKING!” at the top of his voice. Immediate silence.
‘We never heard any more sex noises again, nor did we see the girlfriend after that day.’
–FrogScorn
19.
‘They hated foxes and campaigned for fox hunting to return. Sprayed pheromones on their doorstep.’
–kg_27
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‘Dickhead has a habit of poking his head over the fence in the same place. My side of the fence has Dickhead written with an arrow pointing up to where his stupid face pops up over the fence. Never fails to make me smile.’
–hairlikebrianmay
21.
‘Move their bin up the drive the night before collection day.’
–CommentOne8867
22.
‘My miserable elderly neighbour complained for five years about my dog occasionally barking and my cats going in her garden and staring at her while she did her washing up. When I sold the house I sold it to a couple who had a dog, a cat and newborn.’
–Jimmy-84
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‘A neighbour enjoys late night garden celebrations, I’ve planted some beautiful Dragons Tongue flowers, unfortunately they are fly pollinators so they stink like a rotten corpse.’
–soulsteela
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