Entitled woman throws tantrum when neighbor uses her electricity to mow her lawn, faces lockpicking in petty revenge: 'Next time, shut up and take the favor'

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Aug 20, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

Being somebody's neighbor can be a strange relationship to have with someone. One day, you're waving to each other on the street, and the next they're scowling at you all because you couldn't stop your dog from doing its business on the sidewalk outside their house. Sometimes, there is no pleasing the people that you live next to and it can make your home environment unnecessarily stressful. This then makes any opportunity to get your own back welcome. 

This is exactly what happened to one Redditor with one of his old neighbors at a duplex. When this woman kept making unfounded complaints and then blew up at them for mowing her lawn with her electricity supply, they decided to take matters into their own hands. It wasn't long before that annoying neighbor had something legitimate to complain about for once. Petty revenge is rarely so justified, or so artfully done.

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    I can't pick my neighbors, but I can pick their lock.
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    Back in the far off days of '02, I lived in a duplex. The people in the other half of the duplex complained to the landlord all the time for nothing. As in, I was once woken up at 2:00 AM by my landlord calling to say that the neighbors reported me having a crazy loud party and keeping them awake. I was sleeping. I was alone. There were no lights on, there was nothing making noise. (Well, I do snore.) Basically, she complained about both petty and made up things constantly. There's your backgrou
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    So, on the property was a shed with a landlord-supplied electric lawn mower. I mowed my half one day, and thought "what the let's do their half too." However, the cord didn't reach to their whole yard from my outlet, so I plugged into their outlet for the last 10% of their side of the lawn.
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    Next day, she threw a fit at me that I used her electricity. A long fit. A loud fit. I pretty much shook my head, threw my hands up, and walked away from it. I used pennies of your electricity to mow your lawn, I don't even expect gratitude, it's a small unasked favor, but why bite my head off over it? Next day, she's got someone on her side installing those clear boxes over her two outlets, with padlocks on them. Clearly a normal response.... Petty revenge begins here.
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    I take a gander when she's not home, those locks are clearly the cheapest locks they could find at Walmart. I go to Walmart and buy two identical ones. They were like six bucks. One of my hobbies is lockpicking. I'm absolutely not a master. I'm probably not even good. But I sure as heck can open the cheapest padlocks ever made in seconds. I replace the locks with my own. Looks exactly the same. Took a few weeks, but looking out my window one day to see her with an overgrown lawn and hearing her
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    saraphilipp Should've called the landlord and complain about the hammering and say she's tearing up the duplex with it. I'm watching her beat on the electric outlets right now.
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    one_dog_at_a_time If there is a next time, add fertilizer to their half so it grows faster.
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    crash866 Put the fertilizer down in patches or spell out letters with it.
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    Buttercup59129 And bamboo/ mint seeds for when you move out
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    Lay-ZFair Well the grass may be greener on the other side but it's longer too!
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    quiet hobbit Crazy, if you were kind enough to mow my lawn, I'd be happy for you to use my electricity to mow yours too!
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    CatGoose Chook Throw lots of garlic chives seeds on the lawn. Repeat a few times and then eventually it'll smell garlicky everytime it gets mowed. It'll bug her no end.
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    Existing_Proposal 655 You should have called the landlord to make a noise complaint of the "construction" going on with all that hammering....
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    Intelligent-Fuel-641 JFC, what was her problem? The original Karen? Most excellent petty revenge, by the way. She probably returned the covers to Walmart and inflicted her neuroses on the poor person at customer service.
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    puledrotauren Heh that's great. I have extremely nosy neighbors. They're all past 75 so they find all kinds of things to about. I used to grow MJ but I decided to go legit a few years back and got my license to grow hemp for personal use. I make tinctures, salves, and butter, that my friends and relatives swear by. It's a hobby that I enjoy So last spring I did an outside run and those suckers can get 10 to 12 ft tall. As I expected when they got over the top of the fence my nosey neighbor calle
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    Apprehensive-Poet-24 No good deed goes unpunished!
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    LeakySquirrel11 I'm not big on revenge, but that is classic. "Good for you". Joe Dirt style.
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    SnooWords4839 Love it! You should have replaced the covers with another one next. Male her think she is crazy that it's covered and locked again!
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