'His neighbor [...] started hosting loud parties into the night': Engineer rigs apparatus to sabotage neighbor's incessant pool parties

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    Posted by u/soulslop 18 hours ago Retired Engineer Gets Creative with Loud Neighbors
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    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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    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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    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. The second step was planting a row of Maple trees at the property line with the intention of
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    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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    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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    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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    Cfwydirk +1 17 hr. ago • Love the grass clippings in the pool!
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    SpicyPickle101 17 hr. ago My friends neighbor would always walk the dogs in his yard. After months of picking up their dogs . He started collecting it,
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    freezing a few in a package and sling it into their pool late at night.
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    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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    dogs, he crammed a dog into the AC intake at the base of their windshield. No more dog after that.
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    Agitated_Basket7778 16 hr. ago Your Dad is a hero to lots of people. Esp. the 'I probably shouldn't tell you this...'
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    pinkpineapples007 +3. 14 hr. ago My mom had a saying when I was a kid: "Diaries and journals are called evidence"
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    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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    freerangelibrarian 17 hr. ago My father got a load of chicken manure for his garden. The neighbors were okay with it because they got lots of free veggies.

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