'He liked to floor it, kick up gravel, and go as fast a possible': Neighborhood speed racer gets solidly put in his place

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 9, 2023 3:00 PM EST

Don't mess with this guy and his crafty methods of revenge! As a matter of safety, one dude decided to protect themself and their neighbors. On the r/pettyrevenge subreddit, u/Svirfnil described a dangerous situation taking place near their neighbor's house. 

The OP writes that they used to rent a property with a gravel access road between their house and their neighbor's home. They say that no one really used this road, so their kids liked to ride their bikes and play safely in the street. That all changed when a "guy in a Tahoe" showed up. This jerk began using this unofficial street as his own shortcut. The issue is that he also sped through the area, sending gravel bits flying and endangering any nearby kids. 

OP's neighbor tried to stop the rouge driver first by just putting up a few traffic cones, but this driver sped right through them. Then the OP took over with an exceptionally good plan for petty revenge! 

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    Natural landscape - 'Traffic cones of doom'
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    Font - r/pettyrevenge Posted by u/Svirfnil 20 hours ago n Traffic cones of doom At a previous rental house, there was an old gravel/dirt access road that cut between my house and my neighbors, and the two houses behind us that faced the next street over. I think it was a remnant of the old neighborhood and the city never paved it, it was barely wide enough for a car. No one knew who's property it belonged to, no one really used it except for spare parking during the holidays. It was also a safe
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    Font - At some point a guy in a Tahoe found it and started using it as a shortcut from my street to the next street over instead of going all the way down the street to the stop sign, which saved him all of 45 seconds. Never saw him parked anywhere in my neighborhood, he just came through a few times a week.
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    Font - Wouldn't have been a big deal, but he liked to floor it, kick up gravel, and go as fast a possible right between our houses. My neighbor bought a couple of small traffic cones and placed them halfway up the road so you'd have to do a slow wiggle to get around them in a vehicle. Couple of days go by and she comes over with her traffic cones, which had been obliterated, and says she saw the same guy run them over.
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    Font - I go out and buy a couple of more cones, maybe 18" tall. And an 80lb bag of concrete. Flipped them over, stopped up the tops of the cones with duct tape and filled them to the brim with concrete. Once they dried I put the two 40lb cones in the same places my neighbor had hers, and let the neighbors know what was up.
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    Font - Unfortunately I missed it, but my neighbor didn't. Tahoe boy did his usual gravel spinout and absolutely nailed one of my cones. The orange plastic was burst open and the concrete was in 3 big chunks. She heard the impact and saw him get out, check his vehicle and drive away. I never saw him again after that, but I like to think I left a reminder on his vehicle to not Dukes-of-Hazard a tiny access road inbetween houses.
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    Font - CoderJoe1 +4 17 hr. ago The cone of shame.
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    Font - Almighty_Thokar 13 hr. ago Should have put a sign at the end of the drive that said "ORANGE you glad you slowed down?" Just to add insult to injury.
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    Font - LC6X +1 18 hr. ago He didn't want to drive on the pavement so you brought the pavement to him. Bravo
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    Font - musthaveredditlogin +2 19 hr. ago Bravo! Creative, satisfying, and hopefully costly revenge. It'll be a long time before he trusts a traffic cone again.
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    Font - +2 - 19 hr. ago A concrete solution for that problem, well done 9lobaldude
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    Human body - gallajo 17 hr. ago That was a solid plan you had there.
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    Art - Merry_Piper 19 hr. ago That driver was a real cone-head.
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    Font - Iisszzttadda +2 19 hr. ago They were warned Then they fed around Now they found out
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    Human body - sub3marathonman 2 hr. ago It was a beautiful way to cement a new friendship.
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    Font - Sharp Coat3797 +2.2 hr. ago That probably did some bumper and some undercarriage damage. Nice way to demonstrate the neighbours know some laws of physics
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    Font - Ravio11i +2.44 min. ago Did similar, a hole would drive through the leaf pile. Pile of cinderblocks in the middle stopped that!!
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    Font - marley_1756 +1 13 hr. ago He had to have felt like a d n fool. Well done.
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    Font - i_like_pie92 +1 -12 hr. ago This story is the epitome of petty revenge. Thank you. I hope he second guesses every cone he sees from now on 12 Reply Share eighty-more-or-less +2.9 hr. ago petty? well, except from his point of view....
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    Font - No_Proposal7628 +2.16 hr. ago I laughed way too hard at this one! Well played!
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    Font - 15 hr. ago Blessed be the ingenious, let them be fruitful and multiply Havanesemom43
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    Human body - Muted-Explanation-49 Good job +1
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    Rectangle - gcpuddytat 16 hr. ago i am giving you a standing ovation!
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