Anyone got any dirty, sly and underhanded revenge tricks to suit unreasonable neighbours?

Beer bottles behind the tyres??? Especially if they drive a car with more than 17" wheels.




What have they done???

depends on what they've done

Revenge is a dish best served cold, if you believe whatever it is, is worth it. IMHO nothing much deserves retaliation it only makes matters worse. I'm lucky, both my neighbours are pleasant and friendly, doesn't help you though.

pizza and minicabs late at night,parties and anything that annoys them

Starting your engine with no exhaust?

Or using your grinder at 2am?

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Originally posted by Guinness
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Used a grinder outside and they complained about the noise. I spent 4 days clearing out the garage so I didn't disturb them and now they're complaining about me repairing my everyday car on the drive. there's no noise, they just don't like the look of it. Apparently tomorrow they're going complain to the council. Tossers!

Mike, if you wanna bring your car over and start it frequently throughout the course of the bank hol weekend you're more than welcome.

i think a few hours (from 2am to 5am) of LOUD music would quickly persuade them what a bad neighbour really is. Then they should realise that a few bent cars arent actually then end of the world.

I have had to live with loud neighbours in the past, it makes you realise exactly what matters when you are banging on their door at 4am in your jim jams, and getting ignored.

However, i would strongly recommend not breaking the law - no threats, and certainly no mad axeman visits in the early hours.

loud music only gets you a letter from the council, it takes a serious long term disturbance to get in trouble.

get all your friends with loud cars to come round and have a game to see who gets loudest or get the all over to change parts of their cars or just take then off and put them back on that should make them nice and happy while playing music loud so you can here it over the cars

Tri

Write a naughty word in mustard seeds in their lawn.

Apparently it needs a rotovator to get rid of it

if thay are gardeners frees bleach in an ice cube tray chuck a couple of cubes over the hege at night and by morning it will have melted and in a couple of days a patch of grass diyes. however I would recoment the music aproch. or pop round and see if you can setal it.

If it's your car and your drive let them get on with it. There's nothing the council can do about it as long as you're not endangering anybody or making unreasonable amounts of noise at unreasonable times.

Just ignore them that annoys them more than anything. Mine are all great except for one set of a*****. They call the police round all the time but the cops are more interested in the seven!!!! What is it how fast is it ! And will it be going to Crail or Knockhill.

Still the best is Living in the countryside its a fair walk to the shops as well as that we live on top of a hill. Driving past them when its chucking it down with freezing rain/snow/wind/gales ect gives you the best feeling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Oh when they look out of there windows at you my fav one is to wave back and say hello mrs muppet!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cheers me up no end.

[Edited on 23-3-05 by mangogrooveworkshop]

Extend the olive branch and go make amends with them.



Ha! Just wanted to see if I could type that without laughing. Fertilizer used to spell out what you think of them is one they won't notice right away. When they notice it, it's too late. Sign them up for a subscription for "Goat Lover's Digest" or some other disturbing magazine. Find their e-mail addresses and sign them up for just about every spam mail under the sun. I don't know if your mai. system allows it, but send them a bike tire, brick, or other object as postage due.

I can lend you a couple of drum kits if you like!

Mark allonson beat me to the mustard seed one, and I love the frozen bleach idea, as long as you don't have a cat, cos that would only get the blame.

Best thing is just carry on and do what you like while staying within the law, and be really pleasant to them. An opportunity will present itself eventually.

john

Lots of very good suggestions there, but nothing offends more than crapping through the letterbox.

Chris

Just remembered another one...!

Used to know this chap just after I left college that had got on the wrong side of quite a few of my mates. We spent a couple of weeks collecting every 'freepost' coupon we could lay our hands on, filling them in with his address, and sending them off. The careers magazines that get given out to students were a good source as they contain loads of University prospectus request forms (and the returned item is usually quite heavy)

Anyway, to cut a long story short, a month or so later we heard that the postman had refused to deliver his mail any more and insisted he go and pick it up the pile every day from the Post Office of which of course 99% was junkmail.

Not very enviromentally friendly I know...

Chris

That's excellent Chris!!

To be honest though, i'd go round, or pop a letter in the door, apologising for annoying them in the past and explaining that whilst you don't wish to annoy them further, you are within your rights to work on your car, and when you make noise it is not excessive and not at unsociable hours. You hope you can both get on, etc etc.

Then carry on and be pleasant to them - even facetiously so. If they are just genuinely miserable horrible people there will be nothing that annoys them more than you refusing to stoop to their level. An ongoing neighbourly feud is NOT a good idea if it can be avoided, trust me! Not unless you and your family are the sort of people that can rise above it, laugh it off and generally not let it bother you.

If that's the case, and they really are bas**rds and wont be reasonable, er, then let battle commence!

I like the physical attacks - bleach, mustard, junk mail, noisy visitors, but be prepared for retalliation. Could be amusing. IMO though you cant beat the phychological effects of ignoring them and rising above them.

Have fun!

Liam

[Edited on 24/3/05 by Liam]

I must say that Liam is largely right be nice to them act with in the law . all this talk of retaliation will in the end do you no good all it will do is crank up the intensity of conflict and believe me in the end no one wins . I had a disagreement with my neibour because I live at the end of a dirt road and the comings and goings of my wifes Piano students created a dust problem for them . They took to bailing up our visitors . I was nice and polite and wrote them a nice letter reminding them of the fact that they were breaking the law and that I would not hesitate to make a complaint and uphold my rights .
In the end they may not have become my best friends but they had to show me the respect as some one who won't take that kind of bullshit.
My point is that disputes between neibiours are ALWAYS bad for both parties . Write them a letter apologising for any inconvenience your actions may cause them but reminding them that you are acting with in the law and will continue to do so . As Liam has sugested be nice invite them in for a cuppa and explain what you are doing perhaps your enthuasiam for the project will rub off , at the very least they will discover that you are not some faceless toe rag but some one who is trying to be a GOOD neibiour
best wishes
Iain

i think i go with liam and np on this, the last time we moved to a 60s built house. the neighbours did not give us a chance they judged us before knowing us and soon the council was questionong about the caravan on our drive and my so called part time buisness as a mechanic!!!!. Which was just my family,s vehicles. One fine saturday morning a asked a good friend if he would call round in his very old plaxton 40 seater coach complete with chimney and attempt to park it on the front garden, before hed knocked on the door the curtains were twiching by the time we finally positioned it our immediate neighbours were outside shaking heads in dissbelief. At this point i invited them all over and explained it would renmain there untill they all stopped acting so selfish and childish, i must admit it looked horendous, they all denied making complaints , however i never received any more problems infact within 18 months some of them were advising me about gardening and i was fixing there cars as and when i could. martin

be careful feuds can escalate very quickly to surprisingly unpleasant levels!

one of the best pranks i heard, not sure if its true, is to put expanding foam through their letter box/in letterbox. Possibly the best way to sabotage a car, is to put expanding foam in the cylinder of an engine, if you get the chance


I love expanding foam

On the lawn damaging ideaqs, don't forget round up or other indescriminant weed killers. I don't supose a garden centre will sell the weed killers that can stay in the ground for a year or so.

Fish under the car bonnet
If they park on the side of the road, get a wheel clamp and stick it on thier car.

A neighbour of ours has a habit of dumping his grass mowings in our hedge bottom. At one time we (family business) had half a ton of wet concrete surplus, and I reconed we should dump it in his hedge bottom.

Brick up their front door.

Old old school had an in one end out the other driveway, and one day there was an accident just outside, so they diverted all the traffic through. That gave a few guys who were 3 years ahead of me an idea, so one night right at the end of their last term they went out with a load of cones stolen from the sports shed and diverted all the traffic through the school When the groundsman found out ( @ 5am!!) he wasn't too pleased.

Anyway, your neighbour probably doesn't have a driveway of that sort, but i just thought i would mention it.

Adam

Pair of breeding mice through the letterbox when they are on holiday

Feed regularly, job done!!

Cheers

Mark

If there is anyone out there who is looking for the weedkiller that you dissolve in water and when it hits the ground will stay there for up to a year give me a shout as i bein a gardener can supply to order!

Cheers

Brian

Cheers guys, you're all mad and it's great, but I'm just gonna shoot them whilst they're asleep (only joking). Love the junk mail idea, think that's first on the list. I will however give them one more chance not to be a***holes before I persecute them. Prolly crap on their bonnets after that.

Put a birds nest on their car!! The birds poo is so acidic the paint fades!! We found this out when a bird decided to make its nest on our house and kept excreting on our car!!

Get your free local weekly paper and send him some of those hookers that advertise in the back pages.


I do though like the mice through the letterbox trick,and probably cheaper than a gallon of petrolwhich also works well.

maggots in thier house is also a possibility. Or any other suitable fishing bate. Roaches are hard to come by.


If thier 'online' and you know thier e-mail address then you could send loads of hardcore porn to it.

[Edited on 24/3/05 by clbarclay]

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If thier 'online' and you know thier e-mail address then you could send loads of hardcore porn to it.
[Edited on 24/3/05 by clbarclay]

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Probably a step to far for me aswell, but the revenge is not for me.

Chris W's slow-gathering mail bomb is a good one Any time you see a 'request more information' card.

I suggest nursing homes, incontinence supplies, burial plots, home improvements, etc., etc., etc.!

An invite to an ann summers party at steve gustersons

Brasso in the oil filler of their car

god i hope i never wee you lot off...

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An invite to an ann summers party at steve gustersons

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If it's vehicular sabotage you're after:

Remove Oil filter, remove guts of oil filter, top up with oil that was removed mixed with coarse valve lapping paste, re-fit filter. Wipe off finger prints. Let that engine grind itself to pieces.

or.

Take a large sponge, soak it in brake fluid, write: PAEDOPHILE across every panel of their car with the sponge.
Let nature take it's course. Everyone in the neighbourhood will be on your side and you won't be the one up in court for giving them a kicking.

I am lauging in my current location: My neighbours water supply runs through my land. He had an overflow leaking down around the edge of my property, he refused to sort the problem out because he is a clueless b******, so I sorted it and turned off his water.

We've got one neighboring family which has pretty much alienated themselves through their actions from the rest of the surrounding families. Although it's not come to calling the police on them (yet?), a few neighbors and I get a lot of fun out of being very friendly with each other, waiving as people come and go, etc, but not giving this group the time of day. No talking to them, no waives, nothing. The family next to them had a large outdoor party last summer, with a large tent, bar, catered food, etc. There was only one family not invited, and they had a great view of the party from their house. We're hoping they take the hint and move, but they're not really that bright....

Well All,

I was just thinking that it coming to the start of the month when i and i suppose many others will be taxing their cars! you could invite all us locosters down for a BBQ on perhaps a Sat afternoon! i am sure that the qty of noisey "road legal" locosts parked up and then leaving might just do the trick? Te he he

Cheers

Brian

These aren't your neighbors are they? If they are, better be nice, sounds like they don't work and play well with others! It doesn't say what they've done, but they don't look very friendly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/4379929.stm



A family of five have been banned from harassing anyone in England and Wales and also banned from their home borough of Wirral.

A court was told the Bridge family's neighbours in Grosvenor Road, New Brighton, had "lived in fear" of them.

District Judge Nick Sanders issued the anti-social behaviour order on Thursday at Birkenhead Magistrates Court.

It affects John Bridge, 40, his wife Karen, 37, and their sons John Jnr, 20, Alan, 18, and Luke, 16.

The family were alleged to have been involved in threatening and violent behaviour, verbal abuse, intimidation and criminal behaviour, including dangerous driving and organised vehicle crime.

John Jnr and Alan are currently serving prison sentences and, along with their parents, are banned until September 2012, while Luke has been banned from returning to Wirral until March 2009.

Wirral Council said it believed the family had left the borough, but did not know where they were now living.

Merseyside Police considered the family such a problem they created a special unit to target them named Operation Nashville.

Ch Supt Alan Jones said outside court that the family's behaviour had been "intolerable".

'Intolerable behaviour'

He said: "By standing up against the intimidation and intolerable behaviour of this family, members of the community have helped us reclaim their neighbourhood.

"I would strongly encourage anyone who is suffering from anti-social behaviour to do the same."

Caroline Laing, Wirral Anti-Social Behaviour Team manager, said: "It has been incredibly difficult to deal with.

"The reputation of the family is very strong and residents were incredibly frightened of reprisals."

Wirral Council said it believed it was the biggest ever Asbo application against a single family.

In October 2004, it applied for an interim Asbo without telling the family or informing them of the hearing, saying it was necessary because it feared the family's neighbours would otherwise be at risk.

On Tuesday, the orders were issued against the family and a temporary order banning them from being identified was lifted on Thursday.

id chuck them in here:

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=7273



still a good idea after all this time.

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Originally posted by ChrisW
Lots of very good suggestions there, but nothing offends more than crapping through the letterbox.

Chris

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