'I decided to have a little fun': Tenant gets even with difficult, noisy neighbor by playing random "alien" sounds in the middle of the night

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Nov 25, 2025 4:00 PM EST

Every difficult neighbor has an Achilles' heel. 

This tenant had to deal with the lady next door in their apartment complex. She was incessantly causing drama with other tenants in the building, when in reality, she was the person who was making all kinds of noise at night. She was the person who was leaving trash in the hallway, as if there weren't other tenants sharing the floor. She was even the one constantly complaining to building management over minor issues. 

It was only a matter of time before this neighbor was going to get a taste of her own medicine, and well, that time had finally arrived.

This author had had enough of her constant knocking on his door, claiming he was the one being loud, so instead, he decided to disrupt her in a sneakier way. He planted tiny wireless speakers near their shared wall and would suddenly, without warning, play random noises in the middle of the night, but only just for a second. 

It was happening enough to keep this lady awake and drive her insane, but it never happened for long enough that she could source where it was coming from or record the noise for a future complaint. Sometimes, the noises would be alien sounds. Other times, they would be duck quacks. Regardless, she was driven just as crazy as everyone else in the building was from her own hijinks. 

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  • "The Neighbor Who Thought I Was an Easy Target"

    I just moved into a new apartment, and from day one, one of my neighbors decided I was "too quiet" and easy to push around. She'd blast music late at night, leave trash in the hallway, and complain to the building manager about things I hadn't even done.
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  • At first, I tried to ignore it, but it got ridiculous when she started knocking on my door unannounced to "check if I was being too loud," even though I barely had anyone over.
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  • So, I decided to have a little fun. I bought a set of tiny wireless speakers and hid them in the walls near her apartment. Then I started playing the weirdest, most random sounds at random times, duck quacks, alien noises,
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  • someone chanting "I am a pickle," all super faint so she'd hear it but couldn't tell where it was coming from.
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  • She completely freaked out. Asked neighbors if they heard it, paced around her apartment, even bought sound meters trying to prove I was the culprit. Every time she thought she'd caught me, the sounds would stop.
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  • Within a week, she gave up on bothering me. She even moved out a month later, and I never had another problem.
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  • Honestly, it felt amazing to turn the tables without ever confronting her directly. Sometimes, the best revenge is just using your brain and letting her dig her own hole.
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  • OP Aggravating-Slip-243 Thanks! Honestly, it wasn't anything fancy. The speakers were really small, so I just slipped one behind the hallway radiator and tucked another on top of the built-in cabinet near her side of the wall. They were wireless, so I didn't need any cords showing. The trick was just keeping the volume low enough that it sounded like "background weirdness" instead of obvious noise. Super simple setup, but it did the job.
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  • StarryLanguage Brilliant strategy. Glad it worked so well. How did you actually hide the speakers? Let's have a tutorial.
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  • OP Aggravating-Slip-243 Yeah, honestly, I think she just couldn't handle it. The stress probably made her want to leave faster than anything else.
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  • LynnScoot Sounds like a mental illness to me. It would also make sense as to why she moved out so quickly.
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  • OP Aggravating-Slip-243 Yeah, could be a lot of things going on with her. I just focused on keeping my peace and letting her stress herself out.
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  • loudknitter Along with mental health issues, it also sounds like potential drug induced paranoia, along with the other things OP mentioned, potentially stimulant abuse (meth most likely)
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  • OP Aggravating-Slip-243 I didn't actually go into the walls. There were small gaps and open spots around the radiator and the built-in cabinet, so I just slid the tiny speakers in there. No real "wall breaking" or anything like that.
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  • ElectroPurist How did you get in the walls?
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  • OP Aggravating-Slip-243 Nope, they're battery powered. I just made sure to charge them before using and they lasted long enough to do the job.
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  • Quiet-Compote7169 Do the tiny speakers have unlimited power?
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  • OP Aggravating-Slip-243 That's fair. I only turned them on for short bursts at random times, so she never had a chance to find them.
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  • Quiet-Compote7169 I don't buy it. Would have found one or all if they were continuously on.
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  • rocinante_donnager I AM A PICKLE IS SENDING ME
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  • LadyA052 One guy found his loud neighbor's printer on the network. He started printing the "chicken chicken chicken" document on their printer at random times. The husband would yell at the wife asking why she kept printing the stupid chicken pages! Here you go. https://www.google.com/search? client=firefox-b-1- e&q=chicken+chicken+chicken You're welcome. EDIT Here is a presentation of the document. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=yL\-1d90Sdk&t=30s
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  • fastsaf r/pettyrevenge would love this
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  • Flying Nope Some say she still wakes up in the middle of the night screaming "I AM A PICKLE" to this day.
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