Entitled neighbor terrorizes new homeowners and vandalizes their niece's car, internet offers their pettiest revenge ideas: ‘I bet you have more rocks than [neighbor] has windows’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Jun 5, 2025 9:00 AM EDT

When you first move to a new neighborhood, you might be nervous about the folks living their lives around you. Sure, you might have some silly quirks that have the potential to annoy one or two people—your windchimes, perhaps—but you don't go out of your way to terrorize people and accuse them of doing illegal activities. Why would you? The whole shtick of humanhood is "innocent until proven guilty," right?

Bad neighbors, however, can get really bad. They refuse to acknowledge that they might be the problem (since they caused the last homeowner to move out expeditiously). It's amazing how well someone can hide from the person they are in the mirror, but it's important that if you become a victim of someone like this, you get revenge on them so they're humbled to the max. If they do you wrong and get away with it, they'll do it again to the next person. The bad neighbor in this next story vandalizes a new homeowner's family member's car, and the internet is offering their best petty revenge ideas. Man, I love the internet. Scroll to read.

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  • As soon as the homeowners realized what they were in for, their niece's car had a missing part and a flat tire. When the homeowners contacted their other neighbor to ask what might be happening, the neighbor immediately responded that this had happened to them, too… It's gotta be the sour man next door, Gary.

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  • "Just moved in to our new home. Neighbor vandalized car and already called the city on us."

    We just bought a house and knew the previous owner. We knew they had problems with neighbor across the street (Gary) like having the city call and complain
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  • about weeds and so on. We dismissed it thinking it was probably valid. We've met all the other neighbors and they're all super nice, and helpful, and agreed Gary is crazy and a big pain in the a
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  • We spent two months renovating the house before moving in and had a Waste Management dumpster bag out front holding miscellaneous debris. We moved
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  • in, and less than a week after moving in, I got a visit from the city inspector citing us for "blight". She was apologetic explaining the single baseboard
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  • that was outside of the bag needed to be put inside it. I was so shook and confused about getting a citation - she just explained "I can't tell you who the neighbor is, but the previous owners would have this neighbor complain a lot.. I've been to this house a lot.. I'm so sorry".
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  • I talked to the other neighbors we know, and they vented about him saying it was ridiculous. Alright, no prob― we can deal with this.
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  • Our niece is staying with us and had a friend stay the night. They parked across the street in front of Gary's house. When they went to leave the next morning, their front passenger tire was flat with the valve stem core missing.
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  • They (stupidly) drove to get air in it, and got the core replaced. My niece called me to tell me what happened and I mentioned it to my next door neighbor Nicole.
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  • She immediately exclaimed "OMG OMG OMG that's GARY!" I went over immediately and she told me this story: A few years ago, Gary's next door neighbor (renters) had their adult daughter
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  • living with them. The daughter parked in front of Gary's house one night. The next morning, Nicole was outside chatting with another neighbor when the daughter, distraught, says her tire
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  • is flat. They look, and the valve stem core is missing. She's panicked, because she's going to be late for work. So the other neighbors help her get her tire
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  • inflated and fixed. Nicole said it was such an odd thing to have happen because these parts don't just fall out- it has to be physically removed with a tool or gizmo.
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  • Fast forward to yesterday. I go to Nicole's house and talk to her and her husband. He had taken a picture of the car parked at Gary's thinking it was a car from a VRBO down the street, and was
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  • worried something would happen ― not knowing it was my niece's friend. In the photo, you can see she's not parked illegally, she's perfectly legal on the street.
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  • We have no proof it was Gary, but obviously suspect it was him. My spouse and I are so mad, and I'm petty as h I. So my current plan is to file a police report to
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  • document it, have the police talk to Nicole and her husband, and set up the next night vision cameras money can buy (and I can afford) to cover all aspects of my yard― plus get some for Nicole's house. What else should we do?
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  • Edit: Wow! This has turned into a largely wildly supportive (and creative) amalgamation of petty revenge and malicious compliance. Thank you everyone for your fabulous next-step contributions and words of support! We will update when there is an update to update!
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  • New_Nobody9492 Sounds like outdoor cameras should be your next investment. I would also look into what citations can be called on Gary's house and flip the script on him. Time to get a neighborhood watch together and have everyone aware of Gary. This people don't get, you need to do onto others as they have done into you.
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  • Don_Vago Get some dashcams for your car, ones that have optical motion sensors or parking mode. Then park outside Gary's house.
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  • apothekryptic This is almost too easy. Park a vehicle in front of his house overnight, set up cameras from multiple angles, and catch him in the act of vandalizing it. For bonus points, once it's done and he's slinking away, hit the panic alarm and watch him dance.
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  • Mattiev-72 Does Gary have a nice lawn?
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  • Fun-Finger7275 I bet you have more rocks than Gary has windows
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  • Upbeat_Challenge_743 Plan a block party. Generally you need only 40% of neighbors to agree and get a city permit. Don't notify or invite Gary. Hire a food truck, have it parked legally in front of Gary's house. This is his FAFO opportunity. Record the event, tires, his yard, etc the entire time.
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