'My daddy is the landlord, so he'll always take my side': Tenant gets back at entitled neighbor, cuts their Wi-Fi access

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Aug 2, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Sometimes, the only way to get back at an annoying nuisance of a neighbor is to be petty.

In this case, we have a neighboring family upstairs who refused to quiet their kids down after hours and who seemed to be absent parents most of the time. Despite various attempts at diplomacy on the part of the Redditor and his partner, the wife upstairs decided that the best way to shut down their noise complaints was to threaten to have her landlord father evict them from the building.

The good news, at least, is that the Redditor was already on the hunt for a new place, but he decided not to go quietly. See, the family was ultra-dependent on the Redditor for internet and tech help, so he made sure to sell them his spare routers while maintaining control over their Wi-Fi access. You can see where this is probably going next…

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