‘He chucked it into their pool’: Retired engineer uses skills to get even with neighbors after reaching neighborly limit

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    Organism - "He played [the ultimate] long game."
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    Font - Posted by u/soulslop 18 hours ago Retired Engineer Gets Creative with Loud Neighbors
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    Font - My dad is a retired engineer and over the years his tales of petty revenge on his neighbors have always cracked me up and often amazed me. His approach would always teeter on the brink of some Rube Goldberg type of genius.
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    Font - When his neighbor installed a pool and started hosting loud parties late into the night, his first step was to sink two 5 gallon bucket full of chicken manure near some bushes at the property/pool fence. He then rigged a apparatus that
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    Font - would lift the lids of the bucket discreetly so that when said pool party was down wind they would get a nose full of ammonia from all the chicken poop. The second step was planting a row of Maple trees at the property line with the intention of
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    Font - having all the little helicopter seeds float over to their property and ideally into their pool. While the trees aren't as ridiculous as the chicken manure, I can definitely appreciate the commitment to the long game, pettiness is a war of attrition.
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    Font - When same neighbor kept shooting their lawn clipping into his driveway, he would dutifully scoop them up, place them in several containers filled with water, freeze them, then wait until dark to chuck
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    Font - these large grass filled ice cubes over the fence and into the neighbor's pool. He always prefaces by telling me "I probably shouldn't tell you this so you'll have plausible deniability".
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    Product - Cfwydirk +1 17 hr. ago · Love the grass clippings in the pool! 4 823 Reply Share
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    Font - Spicy Pickle101. 17 hr. ago My friends neighbor would always walk the dogs in his yard. After months of picking up their dogs poop. He started collecting it,
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    Font - freezing a few in a package and sling it into their pool late at night. 390 Reply Share
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    Font - soulslop OP 16 hr. ago He had a way of dealing with this too, different neighbor, after asking them a few times for them pick up after their
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    Font - dogs, he crammed a dog turd into the AC intake at the base of their windshield. No more dog poop after that. 511 Reply
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    Font - Agitated_Basket7778 16 hr. ago Your Dad is a hero to lots of people. Esp. the 'I probably shouldn't tell you this...' 164 Reply Share
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    Font - pinkpineapples007 +3. 14 hr. ago My mom had a saying when I was a kid: "Diaries and journals are called evidence" 119 Reply Share
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    Font - namesmakemenervous 15 hr. ago My dad has a neighbor whose dog never stops barking... so he turns his car alarm on every time.
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    Font - No revenge like boomer revenge ↑ 143 ♡ Reply Share MLiOne +3. 11 hr. ago I recorded the neighbours barking dog. Then I played it on loop back to
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    Font - them full volume when they were having a bbq and we went out. 52 Reply Share
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    Font - freerangelibrarian My father got a load of chicken manure for his 17 hr. ago garden. The neighbors were okay with it because they got lots of free veggies. 474 ↓ Reply Share

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