'Short, sweet, and truly petty': Suave gearhead gets neighbor to stop calling zoning on him with one devastating line

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Aug 20, 2023 10:00 AM EDT

Sometimes a story doesn't have to be long to be epic. You'd think after reading The Odyssey or Crime & Punishment in school that any sort of story worth telling would be hundreds and hundreds of pages with text. However, we're here and reddit user u/Electrical-Bacon-81 is here to debunk that kind of thinking. 

He shared his story of how he got his annoying neighbor to stop calling zoning on him. You see, he lived in a trailer park, but he had 4.75 acres of land. He had a few old cars he was working on that he loved and didn't want to get rid of—if he worked on them a bit and fix 'em up, then they could really be worth something. He didn't have a garage or anything like that, so he parked his cars up on his yard. He had enough land to do so, so why not? However, his Karen neighbors didn't like that for some reason. (Where else are you going to park several cars in a trailer park???) Every time they called zoning, the zoning guy would come up, tell him to move his cars, he'd move his cars, and then the zoning guy would leave, and he'd move his cars back. 

It was an annoying repetitive process. One day he was walking by his neighbor's mobile home and noticed they were adding a little side edition. He knew they didn't give permits for that, so with one suave question he had them in the palm of his hands. What did he ask? He simply asked how much the permit for something like that must've cost. That apparently shut them up real quick and they never called zoning on him again. Read the whole, short, sweet, and truly petty story below. 

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    Font - Posted by u/Electrical-Bacon-81 1 day ago How I got my neighbor to stop calling zoning on me.
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    Font - My neighbor repeatedly called planning & zoning on me because I had more cars than they liked. When zoning would show up, i would park the cars on the street, instead of in the yard (legal), until the zoning guy went away, then put them
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    Font - back in the yard after he was gone. Then, my neighbor built an addition on the side of their mobile home. I waited until they were finished & stopped by to talk to them. I said "that addition looks real nice, how much did the permit
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    Font - cost?". At that point, I knew they were screwed, because my county doesnt issue permits for additions on mobile homes, so there was no way they had a permit for the addition. Oddly enough, I stopped getting visits from the zoning guy.
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    Font - I never called them in for the permit violation, I actually just wanted them to leave me alone to live my life.
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    Rectangle - dadudemon +5 - 22 hr. ago Short. Sweet. And truly petty. I love it that you have morals and "you ain't no snitch." That makes it even pettier.
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    Font - Electrical-Bacon-81 OP 21 hr. ago ● I figured it like this, if I called, they would be forced to remove the addition, eliminating their incentive to leave me alone. And, i hate the zoning guy (and all the other bureaucracy a holes), i ain't calling those guys for st.
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    Font - Electrical-Bacon-81 OP. 16 hr. ago This was actually years ago, they havent bothered me since. So, WIN.... So long, that addition probably needs a new coat of paint.
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    Font - johnnymac_19 1 day ago +1. When asking them "How much did the permit cost?" I'd have been on the phone with zoning. Oops.
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    Font - SwearWolf925 22 hr. ago +1. Good call, this was very subtle and satisfying. I may have been more petty but chefs kiss the minimalism involved in getting them to get a life is fantastic
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    Font - spideygene 21 hr. ago +1. Dude! You ended the war with ONE warning shot. Well played, sir. Well played indeed.
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    Font - HansAcht 18 hr. ago ● My neighbours called the township on me for burning leaves in a barrel and the smoke was bothering them since they didn't have A/C. I didn't have a permit so they warned me and told me to get one. I went the same day and got one. I then
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    Font - proceeded to burn everything I could find for 2 weeks straight. I was even going into our forest and raking up leaves and hauling brush out of it to burn. It was satisfying to watch their windows all close every morning when I started my daily burn. They did
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    Font - end up calling the township on me again but they were informed I had my permit. I'm guessing it was a warm 2 weeks for them inside their house and after that they never f d with me again.
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