Hobbyist mechanic taunts his duplex neighbor, turning the landlord against a car-vandal Karen by following their rules to a tee: ‘The vehicle runs… there was nothing they could do’

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Sep 13, 2024 7:00 AM EDT

Hobby cars are a lot of work. While you eventually dream of driving that vintage Monte Carlo around town, dazzling your neighbors with a shiny new paint job, stuntin' rims, and a pair of dice on the rearview mirror, the first thing every hobbyist mechanic needs to do is get that ol' bucket of bolts running again. So while they have shimmering dreams of grandeur when they look at the rusting frame of their dream car, all the neighbors see is a steel trap of spider webs and oil stains. 

So if you're an unlucky hobbyist living next to a person who doesn't share your love for cars, they'll likely never understand the time, energy, and money that goes into your passion project. And if you've got a Karen living next door, you can pretty much kiss your dream car goodbye…

…Unless you're the snarky dad in this next story. 

After years of working on a vintage jeep in his front yard, this dad was nearly finished and looking forward to taking his iron baby for a spin. But the Karenish neighbor who shared the duplex with him didn't see the value in his project car and sought only to destroy him for it. So instead of letting her stomp all over him, hitting his car door with hers on her way in, and snitching to the landlord about his 'abandoned' vehicle, he decided to taunt her by toeing the line of the rules. 

Read on to get all the juicy details of this neighborly dispute that came through as a win for a guy who's nearly built his own dream car from scratch. 

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    "Cheryl slammed her car door into my dad's jeep doing absolutely nothing to the jeep, but destroying her car door. She complained to the land lord”
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    Dad revenge on shifty neighbor This is my dads story, I was 13 at the time We rented a duplex with a shared driveway next to a lady named Cheryl. Things were fine for a
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    couple months, but Cheryl started to have an unknown problem with my mom. Now Cheryl got home from work after my mom, like 30min after, and would hit my moms car with her car door while getting out. My mom told my dad this after a couple days and dad told my home he'll take care of it.
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    My Dad had a jeep at the time, a '67 CJ5, it has a steel body. It didnt run, but dad was working on it on the weekends. When I came home from school the next day, the jeep was in my moms usual spot. For about a week Cheryl slammed her car door into
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    my dads jeep doing absolutely nothing to the jeep, but destroying her car door. She complained to the land lord, we had the same land lord, that my parents had parked an abandoned vehicle in the drive way.
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    Land lord serves parents with paper about it, and basically says move it within certain time frame or else. My dad decided he would take a day off work, and spend the day working on the jeep. Dad got it running to where he could drive it around the block. When Cheryl would get home, he would drive the jeep around the block and come home, probably about a 5min drive.
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    Cheryl didn't like this and tried to complain to landlord again, but was told since the vehicle runs and is driven away from the property regularly there was nothing they could do. Dad did that drive everyday for 2 months till we got out of that house.
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    • introspeck 16h ago Gotta love that old iron. Indestructible... aside from rust. A friend has an old original Range Rover. He says "Yes, it does have a crumple zone - it's designed into the other car."
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    schirmyver 14h ago This reminded me of an incident while I was in college. This is going to age me, but I was in college in the early 90s and I had a big old 2-door 1980 Buick Regal as my first car. It was a POS,
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    but I loved it. Well one day I just happened to be looking out my dorm window down at the parking lot and I saw some kid in a much newer car park next to me and just swing his door open slamming into my passenger side.
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    Granted my 10+ old car wasn't anything special, I was still I. So went down and opened my big, heavy passenger door, which had chrome guards on the edge of the door repeatedly with force. I left a big crease in his driver side door. I then moved my car and since I had those chrome guards, no damage to my door and no paint transfer either.
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    Sharp_Coat3797 • 14h ago If Dad could put a license on it, it is not derelict. Because he drove it around the block it probably has a license plate and insurance so he can tell the landlord it's not derelict it just doesn't get driven often because it is a secondary or even a tertiary vehicle that is used only for special occasions. Cheryl can go stuff it
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    ghostkittykat • 13h ago From the time I was 14-15, I wanted either a motorcycle or a CJ5, and in all honesty, I wanted both. I'm 47yo now, and a contributing factor as to why I'm still here is probably because I never acquired either.
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    JaguarOk9693 • 16h ago If your dad was. Working on the Jeep. I don't see how the landlord could say it was abandoned. And I don't get why people will purposely try to dig up somebody's car with their car door when there's no reason for it
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    Interesting_Bake38... . 10h ago Cheryls exhaust pipe would have had a bag of dog pop poked up there. I'd have complained to the landlord
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