New parents move to the country and develop an animosity with ‘redneck’ neighbor, so the dad uses his skills in IT to end it: ‘I went postal’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Mar 6, 2025 9:00 AM EST

So you are starting you family and have decided to move to the country to make things a little easier. To enjoy a slower pace of life. No matter streets full of traffic, no more honking horns, or angry bus drivers. So more grocery stores filled with strangers hoarding all the eggs. Now you have your own chicken coop and can eat your own eggs. You can even bond with your flightless birds and gift your kids the experience of raising chickens themselves and getting them that much closer to learning how to be self sufficient. Sounds pretty nice,  right? Well… No matter what, you're going to have neighbors. Whether they are acres over or right next door, you can't possible be completely alone. Unless, maybe you live in the arctic. 

 

This couple moved to the country to start their family and live a simple kind of beautiful life. Things were going great until an incident with their neighbor. It was when his wife was pregnant and trying to relax, the neighbors dog was barking up a storm. 

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  • She yelled at the dog and it was all downhill from there. The ‘redneck’ neighbor kept messing with their property, and eventually he even messed with their cars and that's when it was time to end this. The new dad had enough of this and he now had a duty to protect his family. So, as a pro IT person, he was able to hack into their wifi to wreck some havoc… 

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    "Revenge on my former neighbor who vandalized my vehicle"

    This happened about 15 years ago. My wife and I purchased a home deep in the country in an effort to 'simplify' our lives. We quickly met our neighbors and everything seemed good.
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    A year or so after we moved into the home, my wife got pregnant with our first child. I traveled periodically for work at the time, and I was out of town. My wife was wanting to take a relaxing soak in the tub, as her feet had swollen due to the pregnancy. As she was trying to relax, the neighbor's dog was barking incessantly. This dog was a large breed and had a big bark. This
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    went on and on for 30 minutes or so. My wife had a 'pregnancy psycho' moment and got out of the tub, put on her bathrobe, and screamed out the door at the neighbor to shut their barking dog up.
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    Well, here is where the story gets pretty fun. The neighbor went full-on redneck on us. They renamed their wifi SSID to "I love barking dogs". We would find random things vandalized on our property. One day I came home from work to see my wife picking stuff up from the driveway. It turns out that this redneck had thrown some poorly-made nail devices in our driveway in an attempt to puncture my truck's tires.
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    The next event was truly diabolical. I left for work the next morning and by the time I got to the interstate, my brakes felt sort of 'squishy'. I pulled into a truck stop to inspect the truck. The petcock valve on my front right brake caliper had been loosened, and my brake fluid had mostly drained out. This tried to kill me!!!
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    I went postal, but with insidious methods. I work in the IT field so technology is my 'thing'. I had an old laptop that I installed an OS on it that is used for security penetration testing, and cracked their wifi. I printed interesting things on their printer, including a convincing 'email' from another woman to the husband. I printed photos. I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when the cow found that!
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    I discovered that I could go online and sign up for a prison 'romance' pen pal. I signed his wife up and wrote a letter that was supposedly from her. I gave their address, and told the inmate enough about their life (how long they'd been married, what the hubby did for a living, how many kids/dogs/etc. they had, stuff like that) to make it convincing. I expect that her husband had a few words for her after that.
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    October1966 Oh, this is going into the "Don't Start None, Won't Be None" file. Absolutely wonderful.
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    ratherBwarm Former IT manager here. It's not bright to screw with us.
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