'I'm still proud to this day': Suburban gardener gets back at a corner-cutting neighbor by boobytrapping their front lawn

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Oct 14, 2023 5:00 PM EDT

I can't stand reckless drivers. People drive every day and forget that they're operating a 2 ton hunk of steel on wheels, unaware and unbothered by the fact that going 70mph on a neighborhood street could be the last joyride of their life (or someone else's). Fortunately, us regular folks, have plenty of ways to combat dangerous driving in our own towns. We can learn where the speed traps are, we can petition to have bumps installed on our neighborhood streets, and like the woman in this next story, we can install enormous decorative boulders on our property to thwart reckless drivers in her area.

Although she lived in a sleepy, sidewalk-less town, this woman was an avid gardener and was proud of her newly planted lawn. Unfortunately, her neighbors felt differently about one corner of her property in particular, using it as a shortcut to get to the next street. Perhaps if they weren't ripping down a neighborhood road and pulling Fast and the Furious-style drift turns to speed up their commute, that dangerous driver could have avoided some serious vehicular damage at the hands of a very petty and very vengeful neighbor. Keep scrolling to read all of the juicy details of this suburban dispute that was settled the old fashioned way: With a rock and a hard place.

Next up on the agenda, this parking spot thief got what was coming to him after stealing a college girl's parking spot, getting epically pranked and learning a valuable lesson.

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    Natural environment - "Good luck with your repairs"
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    Font - r/pettyrevenge. u/YoghurtNmayo A rock in the grass Posted by 13 hours ago I lived in a huge community on one of the main roads. Our neighbors were notorious for driving up and down the street at high speeds not paying attention,
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    Font - or making wide turns and hitting my newly planted grass. I was absolutely sick of it. So one day, I got assistance moving a huge rock to the spot that people kept hitting. I couldn't grow grass there
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    Font - anyways due to the traffic it was encountering. Not even 20 minutes later a car (one of my repeat offenders) comes zipping down the street and makes a wide turn right in to my grass and now, my pretty large decorative rock. I
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    Font - watch as this woman rips the bumper off her car on the rock, stops, gets out and has a melt down in the middle of the street. I'm still proud to this day. I hope the new owners kept the rock.
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    Font - Jerking_From_Home. 10 hr. ago The cost of replanting grass and repairing rutted ground gets expensive pretty fast
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    Font - Catacombs39 hr. ago Chesterton's rock 15 Reply Share skelkingur 4 hr. ago That's such a strange argument to make in the first place. Let's move this rock before someone cuts a corner and tries to run their car over our property?!?
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    Font - Advanced_Parsnip 13 hr. ago I put a 120lb rock at the bottom of my driveway when I lived in the city. If you stayed on the road or driveway you would not hit it, if you were not capable of keeping your vehicle where it belongs. Good luck with your repairs.
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    Rectangle - alwaysyardening. 12 hr. ago People hit my rock all the time, better than damaging my yard, or hitting someone on accident
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    Font - Angel_Incognito · 13 hr. ago She didn't feel any type of way when she was ripping up your grass though!
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    Rectangle - FewHuckleberry7012. 10 hr. ago His petty revenge tactics keep getting boulder each time.
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    Font - Fabulous_Stegosaurus 12 hr. ago Sounds like you "rocked" their world. ↑ 28 ↓ Reply Share Pro_Contrarian - 12 hr. ago I see what you did there.
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    Gesture - Elorme 10 hr. ago Get a second one and put a small flower bed in-between them, then it's more than just a rock it's landscaping!
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    Font - TerriblePair3614.9 hr. ago There's a rock in Omaha in a parking lot that people run over all the time. It's a massive rock. It's incredibly famous
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    Rectangle - futurefirestorm 11 hr. ago What a perfect lesson for all the crazy drivers near you; don't drive crazy- you never know where a rock may show up!!
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    Font - Z4-Driver 35 min. ago 'Officer, you won't believe it, but I was driving along, minding my own stuff, when suddenly this rock jumped out and in front of my car...'
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    Facial expression - Manderthal13. 9 hr. ago If anyone complains about the rock, just put a for sale sign on or tell that you had it out for recycling.
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    Font - TAshleyD616 42 min. ago Reminded of when people get using my gravel driveway as a turnaround to the point it developed holes and puddles. So I put cinder blocks in front of the driveway. Heard a few satisfying crunch noises
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