'You reap what you sow': Resident trashes neighbor's garden, neighbor returns the favor with an upgrade, planting bamboo to overrun their property

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Sienna Varady
Feb 6, 2024 1:00 PM EST

We look forward to the time when we can afford to live alone. At last, we have space, privacy, and a plethora of other wonderful amenities that we wouldn't have believed possible in our twenties. But as we usually emphasize here, maintaining a cordial relationship with your neighbors is crucial. Lousy neighbors have the power to either make or break an apartment complex experience.  However, what would happen if your neighbor considered your garden to be their own private dump? Is it possible to move past the issue and keep the relationship going well?

In the story below, OP is pushed to the brink by a neighbor who uses his garden as a dumpster. As they say, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me'. Are you following? Okay, nothing to worry about. Following a harsh conversation with his condescending neighbor and futile attempts to work out a solution, OP devises a devious plan to exact revenge.

That being said, be sure to scroll down and read the story below if you're interested in learning the ins and outs of what took place as well as how OP got revenge! Once you're done, make sure to read this story of the client who left the catering company with $2000 of expenses here!

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    "After I planted the bamboo, all I had to do was wait...”
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    Neighbors wouldn't quit dumping their trash in my backyard, so I returned it to them with some upgrades
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    I live in a house, but there's an apartment complex directly behind the back fence in my yard. The entire time I've lived here, I've always found random trash tossed. over the fence that has gotten progressively worse. The most annoying thing is all the glass beer
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    bottles as some of them hit concrete and shatter, which makes it unsafe to let my dog run in the yard. It's such trashy and inconsiderate behavior from people I've never even met, and I finally started trying to push back. First I tried the legal route. I reported the illegal dumping to 311
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    as I couldn't figure out how to contact the building manager and it was to the point of entire full trashbags ending up in my yard. They said they couldn't do anything and I would be responsible for cleaning it up since it was in my yard. Annoying, but basically also gave me the greenlight to throw
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    s t back over the fence as 311 pretty plainly told me it only came down to whose yard the trash was in. So I went out with gloves and threw every single piece of trash back over the fence. Full trashbags, dirty shoes, beer bottles, used diapers, etc. These people think my
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    yard is their personal dump, and it's not even one neighbor doing it. I caught multiple residents of this apartment complex on camera casually tossing trash over the fence. Not even a full day later and these losers had thrown it all back over.
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    The f king audacity. It's not even just laziness at that point as it would be significantly easier to just take it to the apartment's dumpsters, but they somehow feel entitled to throw trash into my yard enough that they'd literally return it when I threw it back.
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    Fair enough, two can play at that game. First, I threw all the full trashbags back over, but not just onto the ground. I tossed them all the way up to the roof of the apartment complex, which isn't easily accessible and is far from ideal given we're in a tropical
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    climate that will make it smell quickly up there. Next, I took all the dirty shoes, tied their laces together, and used a long pole to hang them from pretty much any projection off the side of the building that couldn't be reached. Also stuffed them with expired meat and dog s t. I wanted to shatter
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    the beer bottles as well, but I decided to just recycle them because I didn't want anyone to actually get hurt. You'd think that would be enough to prove my point, but I also went behind the fence that night and
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    planted a bunch of running bamboo. There's a sort of alley between the apartments and my fence that's all grass, so the idea is for it to grow enough to block them from even walking through there to
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    begin with. Bamboo is very hard to remove once it starts growing. This is what you get when you act like trash. I do not feel bad about my retaliation even a little bit.
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    - II-leto 9 hr. ago The bamboo will take a few years before it will do what you want. And if you don't put in a 26 inch barrier with some extra above the ground it's going to take over your yard. Good luck, I hate people like you've described.
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    Glimmerofinsight 9 hr. ago I would put up a high fence, to prevent them from dumping in my yard.
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    HighAltitude88008. 9 hr. ago Or a high tight mesh screen so the garbage bounces right back on them when they toss it.
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    Other-Mess6887 · 8 hr. ago My father had people having parties on his back pasture. He let this go until one group had a large fire and left lots of trash. Dad found an envelope with an address while picking up.
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    He took trash to that address, scattered it and lit a fire in their back yard. He told the home owner that he was just returning what his children left.
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    O Suitable Eggplant639 · 9 hr. ago I can only upvote once, but you deserve two for the shoes filled with dog s t and the bamboo.
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    Mortal4789- 8 hr. ago if you want something really rank, buy a frozen chicken that comes in a vaccum sealed bag. has to be melted shut, nothing that it tied or fastened. leave it in the sun untill it swellss up and becomes
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    runny. the small that comes out of that bag alone is like nothing you will ever have experianced, and a single drop of liquid chicken carcass will carry the smell for days. use with extreme care
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    Bigtowelie 8 hr. ago U should install a camera before gets more heated cuz I feel the s t show just starting now
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    Monsoon710 - 8 hr. ago There's a plant called a Hakea that are literally like flexible barbed needles. They go right through most fabrics unless you have somethig leather like a blacksmith's apron. Plant that if you want to block people from walking on that piece of property.
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    TwinBoomr50 - 9 hr. ago I have a broken rib and reading this really hurt because paragraphs 4&5 are hilarious, especially your shoe hanging escapades! Well done!
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    SandBarLakers • 8 hr. ago · But did they STOP is the real question !?
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    Ariadne_Kenmore - 9 hr. ago Oh Gods, Bamboo, you're evil. That's going to be a total nightmare in a few years. Hopefully there is something that will keep it from growing back on you.
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    Levity YogaGirl. 8 hr. ago There are two types of bamboo, one of them spreads like crazy by sending Runners out from it. And believe me your yard will be overtaken if you have planted the wrong kind and you will never get rid of it. I live in
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    Florida and had a yard that someone had planted bamboo on one side and I remember laughing with a landlord and told him that the only thing that was going to work was agent orange! They grow out from the plant's roots and
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    then start growing up into your yard and they really really hurt when you step on them if they haven't gotten higher than the grass. They get out of control very quickly.
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