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How to get Revenge on your Neighbours - umm legally?
My neighbours are scum. Seriously, that's the nicest thing I can say.
I will share with you a few of the gems we've experienced over the years as proof.
First off, let me paint a picture of our neighbourhood. It is very eclectic here. It's the largest, intact Victorian neighbourhood in North America. The houses were built between 1840 and 1900. Ours is a Victorian Row house built in 1856. We are at the end of a row of three houses. The scum-suckers are in the middle.
We moved in 5 years ago. The previous residents were evicted by the then owner because they were running an illegal rooming house and were of a questionable moral station in life. Over the last five years, we've been renovating and landscaping and routinely have other neighbours stop by to thank us for moving in. The houses in the neighbourhood vary in price from high 6 digit numbers to the millions of dollars. It's an artsy community, a large LGBT population but I would say it's not what I would call a kid-neighbourhood - very few, not a lot of babies.
When we moved in, the SS next door told us that her then 9 year old son asked her if more white trash was moving in. Her response - "Um, the people who are moving in make us the White Trash now." So you can imagine, the line in the sand was actually drawn first by SS.
She's a single mom, Union Organizer with a Chip on her shoulder that resembles that of say the Tectonic Plate that covers most of California and equally as volatile. She has raised a son who not only shows her zero respect, but has zero respect for any other person whether it be child, adult, neighbour, stranger or otherwise. It is not uncommon to hear screaming matches between them, the son blasts his music at all hours of the day or night. ?Last summer, he was seen being taken away from the house in handcuffs. I did a double fist pump, DH was saddened that this had happened. Unfortunately, the kid wasn't sent away to Juvvy or a prolonged visit in jail.
The SS has two dogs. Neither dog is ever taken for a walk. They are cooped up inside all day every day and released into the backyard to do their business. Their business becomes everyone's business because lazy SS never cleans up said backyard. My mid-July, it is positively rancid in the back and we have to light very expensive scented candles to be able to sit in the back. We have spent the last few months filling out court documented noise/bylaw sheets for the Bylaw officer because the dogs howl constantly when they are left alone - which is all day every day for the most part.
The son has now taken to loitering on the front porch with undesirables whilst smoking pot. Mom is in the house, or so I discovered last night when I called her to inform her that her drug-doing, garbage throwing son was disturbing us while we watched a movie with his boisterous swearing and homophobic commentary from the porch ?- which is about 6 feet away from our living room window. She claims we are harassing them.
Today, I have returned home to find her putting her garbage and composting bins in front of our planter/urns that flank either side of our staircase. She's put them in front of one side. These should not be on her front lawn, but in the back - as there is a special area back there designated for them. Did I mention that she's probably a reject for the Biggest Loser because her personality already makes her the Biggest Loser?
Every morning, she buys an iced moccaccino and them leaves the cup/straw on her porch. She now has six months worth of cups piled up on her porch. Her son throws his garbage and one or both of them throw their cigarette butts over on to our porch as well.
That's just the SHORT version.
I'm looking for unique and inventive revenge tactics that are legal of course. Thoughts??
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Re: How to get Revenge on your Neighbours - umm legally?
No suggestions, but this part I loved the best.
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hmm.... you could play a cd of wolves howling really loud while they are at home. it will make their dogs be loud while they are home... but then there's your neighbor on the other side.
let me think some more.
I'm sorry, I'm not creative...I'm an accountant.
That said, is she renting or does she own? Do you have an association? If she's renting I would contact either the owner of the unit or the property manager and have them handle the situation ASAP. I would take pictures of her filth for documentation purposes. If she owns, I think you may be able to petition to get her out of there. I know that I have heard of neighbors getting together to request that a person is removed from the neighborhood but I don't know the details behind it.
I was at the local bakery picking up some fresh croissant one morning and I noticed her massive figure across the street SCREAMING at a police officer up right in his face. I looked across shocked and wondered what was going on. The clerk in the bakery told me that she had also been in the bakery, when the police officer pulled over both a car and a cyclist. She went over to yell at the cop as she felt that he was not in the right pulling the car & bike over.
Remarkable.?
Keep calling the police! You smell pot, call the cops. You hear screaming matches? Call the police. Heck, I would call CPS too. And check with the department of health about the mid-summer backyard issue. Check with animal control about the dogs howling.
I think I am going to have to say, I would go over, ask her ever so delightfully white trash self to clean it up, and if she doesn't, call code enforcement over and over on her. And if that still doesn't work, I would call the cops on them and have the son ticketed at the very least...this one may take me awhile to really think on, but that is the very least I would do. I'll let you know if I come up with anything else though
Best of luck to you!
We put up the max height fence allowable by the city last year in the backyard at totally our expense. It was worth it.
She doesn't own. We've already written and are writing another letter to the owner but eviction is a slow process and with her would totally have to involve the courts.?
Legally? That is hard.. unless you become friends with a cop and can send him over to their house all the time when they're violating noise laws or drug laws. Or perhaps make friends with the people who own the house on the otherside of them and go back and forth calling the cops on them, if possible.
Illegally or devious? If she owns a car, put bologna on the paint. It'll eat the paint away and leave polka dots on it. Juvenile? Yes. Will it give you some sort of satisfaction? Probably.
Animal control won't do anything.
Cops won't do anything if the pot is being smoked on their property. I would have to have reason to think that he is selling it before they would respond unfortch. CPS is on my list of people to call though!?
whenever they are playing their music/ tv too loud, go outside and shut off their breaker box and run like hell to get back inside the house.
That is crap. In that case, I would stretch the truth and tell them you aren't sure if he is selling it. And I could call animal control and tell them you are worried the dogs are being abused.
LMAO! Love it. Only problem would be running fast at 30 weeks! Don't know about you, but there was no way I could do it.
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I laughed so hard I snorted...lol!!!
Sorry to the op...I have no "legal" ideas...
You're neighbor sounds like a blast!
We have one that lives right above us. I throw all the snails I find in my garden into my her yard. It's dumb and immature but that's the extent to getting revenge I take on her.