'Neighbors suddenly became silent at night': Entitled neighbors refuse to quiet down their kids at 3:00am, tenant accidentally gets payback

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Sep 28, 2024 2:00 PM EDT

Sometimes, the sweetest revenge is accidental. Sure, perhaps you've been fantasizing about the different ways in which you can get even with your unapologetically noisy next-door neighbor, but the conflict-avoidant part of you has kept you from acting upon those fantasies. All you can do in these situations is to hope for karma to rear its ugly head, and in this case, it didn't even have to.

This tenant tried numerous times to keep both his adjacent and upstairs neighbors quiet. These were a group of entitled parents who refused to stop their kids from running up and down the halls repeatedly at 3:00 in the morning. The tenant tried to shake it off and avoid more drama. However, when his friend got him a soundbar as a gift, he lost track of time and unknowingly gave his neighbors a taste of their own medicine in the middle of the night. Perhaps they interpreted this act is a purposeful form of petty revenge. Regardless, they stopped their kids from making so much noise from that point forward.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from folks in the comments section. For more content like this, check out this post about a flight attendant's petty revenge on her now ex-boyfriend.

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    Neighbors suddenly became silent at nights after unintentionally showing them the taste of their own medicine
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    So I was living in an apartment, having a neigbor on right and one on top. Both neighbors had kids that made a lot of noise during day
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    and night. I didn't really have a problem with noises at day, they were kids and it was understandable. but really, who the runs and screams up to 3 am?
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    So several times I wrote in the building whatsapp group that please keep your children quite at night as I and everyone else needs to sleep and wake up early. I got no answers or if I did, it was their parents telling they are kids and they will try, but cannot promise anything.
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    Fast forward to my brithday. One of my friends gave me this amazing soundbar and when I got home I was too excited to hear some music from it. It was like 12 am and I really wasn't thinking about any revenge or something.
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    Just wanted to try this new soundbar and didn't notice it's too late. I played my rock playlist with a high volume and meanwhile on my PC trying to figure out it's features.
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    At around 2:30 am the same neighbor (top floor) came and knocked my door. It was then, before opening the door that I realized what time is it. I opened
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    the door and saw it's him trying to ask to keep it quite. Before he starts speaking I told sorry I didn't notice the time and turned it off. Didn't mention his kids or anything. He appreciated and went.
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    From that day non of those two neighbors kids made any noise at night. Not a single day. Like their parents had all control over the kids to keep them quite at night
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    but didn't feel necessary until they felt the other neighbors can also make midnight noises. Only if I knew this earlier I would buy the soundbar way earlier
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    Pam_ail 14 hr. ago I live in a duplex and had new neighbors moved in with kids. These kids were loud and super energetic. Constantly
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    stomping up and down their stairs and banging doors that i can literally feel my walls shaking. The worst part? They were constantly banging a basketball against our shared wall. This would go on the whole day til the kids tired out at night.
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    Spoke to their mother about the noise level and ask her if they can at least stop banging the ball against our shared wall. She basically said they're just kids being kids and I should mind my own business.
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    Well, that night I stayed up until 3 am and sat a few feet from our shared wall and started pitching a tennis ball hard against it. I crocheted a little pocket with a rope around it so i wouldnt have to go and fetch the ball in case it
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    bounced too far off. Sat there pitching for about 10-15 minutes and all of a sudden I heard banging from the other side of the wall. I knew I had achieved my goal then so I stopped. The banging stopped. Next day, the kids
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    started playing with their basketball outside. Perfectly fine for me. A week later their dad installed a basketball hoop for them outside. No more banging from either of us.
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    BadWolf7426 12 hr. ago I crocheted a little pocket with a rope around it so i wouldnt have to go and fetch the ball in case it bounced too far off. You used your powers for good. I'm a knitter and I applaud your skills and your petty.
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    ZarquonsFlatTire. 12 hr. ago I'm just picturing the angriest crocheting of a small satchel ever.
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    Mryan7600 15 hr. ago Similar thing happened to me. Upstairs neighbors were in a band and practiced way too late on weeknight(I didn't love it on weekends but I only really cared on work nights.)
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    We sleep with our TV on, so since I'm a corner unit noise in my apartment can only be heard upstairs. I started turning on my TV loud enough to block out the noise he was making. (I can sleep through certain shows almost no matter how loud it is).
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    Eventually one night he came down and said the Tv was too loud, I told him it was only on to block out the noise he was making. He said "man I never realized it was that loud I always just assumed you were trying to hassle me". He never played after 10pm again.
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