Guy's entitled neighbor catcalls his wife and litters on his lawn, so he hoses down his car in below freezing weather pinning it to the driveway: 'I watered his car from 10pm to 5am'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Jan 30, 2025 7:00 AM EST

Sometimes you have annoying neighbors and sometimes you have non-neighborly neighbors. But every now and then you have atomically, astronomically, quintessentially horrible neighbors. This is the absolute nightmare. It really ruins the place you are trying to call home. To make a safe space for yourself to relax after a long day. This kinds of neighbors and truly make your life a living heck. So what do you do? There's not much you can do usually, unless you want to start a war. The option most people choose is to either just wait it out until either the bad neighbor moves or they themselves move. It's not ideal…

 

However, every now and then there is a successful story of revenge against these kinds of horrible horrible neighbors. For instance, this Reddit story. Their neighbor was not just non-neighborly, he was an all-around bad person. Like, he literally got arrested eventually, but that was way after this story. During this story, he experience revenge through the watery justice of his neighbor and a garden hose. If you're going to be horrible to the community around you, that you literally live in, you should expect at least a little retaliation against your evil plots… Even storybook villains would!

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    In this case, the neighbor was simply the worst. He had "short guy syndrome," which is when a guy uses his shortness as an excuse to be entitled and mean. You know, you can be short and a wonderful person?? Anyway, he also had a history of rough housing and two annoying cars, a huge truck and loud modified Honda Civic. He used those cars in ways that tortured his neighbors. Not to mention he would leave empty cans on his neighbor's lawn and catcall his wife when the husband wasn't around. How gross!!

     

    So, the neighbor decided to take revenge. One below-freezing night, he took out his garden hose and spent all night watering down this entitled man's beloved car. By the morning there was a thick layer of ice and well… You can imagine what happened next (or read it below)!

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    Years ago, I rented a townhouse while working on a studio contract. The house was nice, 2Bdr that I shared with my girlfriend (now my wife). There was a single attached garage (which is a main part of the story). The next door neighbor, who we'll call Chad, was a real piece of work. He was mid-30s, balding (which he tried to hide with a buzzcut) and one of the
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  • shortest men I've ever met. He compensated for his lack of height by having a giant lifted custom pickup truck that was too tall to park in his garage. His other pride and joy was a heavily modified Honda Civic, which he liked to rev the engine loudly most days. Chad had 4 friends who he would sit with at the end of his driveway and drink beer all day, leaving empty beer cans
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  • everywhere. When I started renting the house in the Spring, Chad was initially friendly, offering to move his car to allow the movers to easier access the house (he parked in both spots, despite a visitor lot right across the street). After the movers left, Chad mentioned that the previous tenants let him use their garage for his car in the
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  • winter, as his was full of exercise equipment and the "sweet" motorcycle he was building. I told him that the landlord hadn't given me the key or the access code yet, and the only way I could open the garage was from the inside. Chad mentioned that neither his keys nor the code he had worked anymore either.
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  • A bit later, when I was talking to the landlord and mentioned Chad (and the garage), he told me to never share the code, the keys or the garage itself with Chad. The previous tenants had been robbed just after Christmas, the reason why they moved away, and the landlord suspected that Chad and his friends had been the ones responsible, despite there being
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  • no evidence. The landlord changed the locks and access code as part of cleaning up the house for a next tenant. A month or so later, I learned from another neighbor that Chad's dad had been a local cop and did when Chad was a teenager, and the police gave him a pass on disturbance calls and the like, something he took advantage of.
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  • Chad kept pressuring me to give him access to my garage, and got really angry when I finally told him no. Maybe his temper stemmed from his lack of height or some other factor, but he was upset enough that his friends had to hold him back from physically attacking me. From that point on, I would find empty beer cans on my lawn, he and his friends would catcall my wife
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  • when they saw her alone, he would park his truck blocking access to my driveway, would blast music at all hours of the day and night, and other ways to make a nuisance of himself. As winter came, things got worse as he was no longer allowed to park his truck on the street and was denied parking in the visitor lot. Later, some kids
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  • vandalized the car cover to his Honda and scratched the paint, which he blamed on me not letting him use my garage. After the New Year, I found all of my exterior Christmas decorations ripped off the house and destroyed on my lawn, I decided to take some revenge.
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  • Starting that night, which was the beginning of a really bad cold snap, I watered his car (using the garden hose to spray down his car) from 10pm to 5am, every 30 minutes or so. By the next morning, a thick layer of ice covered his Fast & Furious- mobile, pinning it to his driveway. I hid the garden hose in my garage before anyone saw it.
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  • When Chad saw the state of his car, his rage was legendary. He screamed, yelled and woke up the entire neighborhood with his antics. The police and fire department came, did nothing and left. Chad's friends tried to use various power tools to free his car, and one of them actually cut into one of the tires and fender using a sawzall. About a week later, the ice had thinned
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  • enough that the car popped free. Chad broke the windshield trying to remove large chunks of ice. That Spring, my work contract ended and I moved away, free of Chad. I decided to share this story as I'm still good friends with my previous landlord, and he told me that Chad and his
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  • friends are now in jail after they got caught robbing a convivence store just after the recent holidays. TL/DR: I watered my neighbor's car in the middle of winter, trapping it to his driveway.
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  • Mybigbithrowa... We did that to a guy we didn't like at the firehouse. We were on a storm standby for a blizzard and were at the firehouse for 3 days. He was assigned to the ambulance and every time the ambulance left the building we grabbed the hose and added another
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  • layer. His car was right outside the rear door but he never noticed. By the time we were cleared to leave there was like a 6 inch thick layer of ice. You couldn't tell where the car ended and the parking lot started. It took almost a week for him to free his car.
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  • Andylanta I would have walked out with a drink in a glass and asked Chad if he had some ice to spare.
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  • Appropriate_G... That is one of the best revenge stories I have ever read. The way you described this guy reminds me of Lord Farquaad of Shrek!!!
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  • AlbanyGuy1973 OP I got the idea from my grandfather. There was a water tower on his property (it belonged to the town), and they had parked a town vehicle almost under it at the start of winter. The tower leaked, and there was such a buildup of ice that you couldn't tell there was a trunk under the ice until it melted a few months later. Truck was flattened by the weight, but the image of it always stuck with me.
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