Entitled neighbor's dog keeps resident up all night, resident records barking and uses it to get even with neighbor: 'Sometimes the best revenge is pressing play'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
May 30, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Some dogs will inevitably bark in the middle of the night. It's inevitable, and neighbors should be understanding of that reality. It's like babies crying on planes. It's going to happen, and nine times out of ten, the parents are trying to do their best. However, every once in a while, you come across a dog owner who simply cannot control their pet in ways so remarkable that one has to wonder why they even got a dog in the first place.

In this instance, we have an entitled neighbor who worked nights and left their dog barking incessantly at 3:00 AM in the middle of the night. It only got worse and worse, and the neighbor was doing nothing to stop it. So this resident, who shared this story online, decided to take matters into their own hands. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from several members of the online community!

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  • We have to hand it to this neighbor for not only thinking of recording the dog's loud barking, but also for thinking of playing it back to the neighbor on a speaker after they got home from their night shift. It's a classic tale of giving someone a taste of their own medicine, but let's be real: What about the other folks in the neighborhood, who have to endure this barking and the recording of said barking throughout the day? It's not like they asked for this either!

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    "My neighbor’s dog ruined my sleep so I used it to ruin his"

    Every night from midnight to 3AM his dog would bark non-stop right outside my bedroom.
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    Deep loud echoing barks like he was announcing the end of the world
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    I asked my neighbor twice to bring the dog in. Both times he brushed it off with a smirk and said "he's just doing his job"
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    Cool. Then I'll do mine I started recording the barking on my phone. The next morning at 6AM
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    right after my neighbor got home from his night shift I played it back full volume through a speaker pointed at his wall
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    I repeated that for two mornings. No yelling. No threats. Just his own dog giving him a taste of what I'd been dealing with
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    On day three the dog was inside before 10PM. Hasn't barked at night since
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    Sometimes the best revenge is pressing play
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    Careful-Blacksmit... Wonderfully petty - and effective - love it!
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    hybridaaroncarroll Reminds me of my dad. Before digital cameras he had lots of SLR's from being a wedding photographer. He got fed up with people who were walking their dogs and
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    letting them sh on our lawn without cleaning it up (the house was a corner lot so lots of foot traffic). Anytime he'd see it start to happen
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    he'd grab one of his cameras with no film and stand on the porch snapping pretend photos of the activity, not saying a word. The problem stopped almost immediately.
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    BuffMan5. We had a old lady that lived behind our house that would leave her dog out and bark around the clock. I work night shift at the time so I got sick and tired of having
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    earplugs jammed in my ears and fans turned on. I got one of those bark Stop boxes and hung it up on her fence. Miraculously cured the dog. from barking.
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    Sufficient_Equal_3... . I had that problem so I'd put my speaker outside on my wall and played "we built this city on rock and roll" on repeat for 3 hours.
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    pu.... I am the only one who thought that OP's revenge was to ruin that dog's sleep after reading the title?
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    TemporaryFun4544. When my neighbor's dog wouldn't stop barking out in their yard I took a flashlight and aimed the beam at the side of the house. and the stupid dog chased the beam of light and jumped all over
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    the house. and they would come out and yell King stop jumping! and I would start all over again when they went back in ...until they finally brought him in..
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