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What's the best petty revenge for a neighbour that constantly plays loud music but doesn't answer the door when you try asking them to turn it down?

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What's the best petty revenge for a neighbour that constantly plays loud music but doesn't answer the door when you try asking them to turn it down? - Lemmy.world

We’ve tried the usual of calling police (three times), inviting them over to hear how loud it is (they agreed that it was very loud), asking to at least reduce the bass, blasting our own music (not sustainable) and so on. Sometimes it works for a day but inevitably it’s back to the usual. Hoping for some petty revenge ideas to complement the other efforts.

Aug 16, 2023 at 8:42amWeb
Show thread😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈Aug 16, 2023

Research frequency that literally makes people feel ill, nausea… set up. Wear ear plugs and leave for a while.

No idea if this has ever worked.

Show threadTiritibambixAug 16, 2023

I’m a sound engineer and I had awful neighbors. So I tried that to calm the monster of a kid my upstairs neighbors failed to raise.

I tried every frequency from 12 000 kHz to 20 000 kHz with 1000 He steps at absurdly loud volumes.

The problem here was the air in our different apartments acting as an isolant, the material between our apartments, and the fact that this kid and his parents where deaf fucking morons.

In the end, the proper solution was to move. That worked as intended as I don’t hear them anymore.

Show threadchief_chefAug 16, 2023

That is a difficult one. Maybe you can boost the volume when he sleeps? In that case he sees/feels what you’re experiencing. Just make sure your other neighbour doesn’t hear it.

Another thing you can do is create a device with a timer that hits the wall every now and then. I saw someone made it for his neighbour and it hit the wall about every 30 minutes so his neighbours couldn’t sleep…

The best way to get a (petty) revenge is by fucking with someones sleeping pattern. If done correctly you will bother him for the whole day!

Show threadBennyIncAug 16, 2023

xkcd.com/316

Loud Sex

xkcd
Show threadzenharbingerAug 17, 2023
How is there always an xkcd for something?
Show threadRoyal_Bitch_PuddingAug 16, 2023
Apartment or Home?
Show threadlemonlemingtonAug 16, 2023
It’s a typical old European terraced house (tall, thin with neighbours on each side)
Show threadTheDoctorDonnaAug 16, 2023
Like attached row housing or just really close together?
Show threadlemonlemingtonAug 16, 2023

Like this kind of attached where the front door is on the pavement

Show threadHikermickAug 17, 2023
Go on the roof and pour cement down their sewer vent
Show threadChriszzAug 16, 2023
liquid ass
Show threadHousePantherAug 16, 2023
Yup, put a little old stink bomb under their door!
Show threadFARTAug 16, 2023
I use 3-4 bottles of that stuff per month
Show threadBernie EcclestonedAug 16, 2023
Relevant user name
Show threadFARTAug 16, 2023
I’m a fart fetishist
Show thread𝔇𝔦𝔬Aug 16, 2023
😆
Show threadTimeMuncher2Aug 16, 2023
Set up a mic and play back their own music after a delay, loud enough for them to hear. Don't open the door if they come.
Show threadTheVHSWizardAug 16, 2023
This will be super effective, and also give you plausible deniability because it could just be an echo... just make sure that if they do turn it down, you turn down in response.
Show threadHazdazAug 16, 2023
That’s a really good one.
Show threadringworldAug 16, 2023
If you live in the UK you should report the issue to your local council. You can use this link with your postcode (for anyone in the UK with a similar issue) https://www.gov.uk/report-noise-pollution-to-council
Report a noise nuisance to your council

Report a noise problem like loud music, noisy pubs, neighbour's parties or barking dogs to your local council

GOV.UK
Show threadsplixAug 16, 2023

solutions

The real fun option is using the cb option above to have ‘god’ tell them to turn down their music by setting the frequency to a high enough level that you can speak through the cb every time they play music right into their speakers. You can also speak through their speakers when they’re off!

Or blow them all up.

How To Destroy Speakers From A Distance | Nucoustics

How to destroy speakers from a distance? In this article, we talk about how to break speakers without leaving a trace and disrupt neighbors speakers.

Nucoustics
Show threadCADmonkeyAug 16, 2023
What an interesting article. From a purely academic standpoint, of course.
Show threadDrChickenbeerAug 16, 2023
Now this is the content I come to the Internet for.
Show threadlemonlemingtonAug 16, 2023
This is great! I think all three have some potential
Show threadokmkoAug 17, 2023

Wait… Am I missing something here. I don’t understand why a 10kHz wave would do anything to a pair of speakers at a distance.

Unless the speakers are actively playing the output of a radio themselves, it’s not like 10kHz waves will randomly affect the membrane of an electrostatic speaker. Even then, I feel like radios don’t just play whatever waves they pick up raw, but are tuned to specific frequency bands and decode the underlying signal via FM or AM.

Show threadcman6Aug 17, 2023
I didn’t study the article but it sounds like the idea is that the AM amplifier will cause an induced current in the speaker. No idea if that’s true or not though
Show threadokmkoAug 17, 2023

I was afraid that’s what it meant. I haven’t done Emag calculations since college but I feel like induction would only work at extremely close distances (as in centimeters) if at all, right?

All those induction experiments have multiple loops, tightly around the passing magnet for a reason since changes in the current is directly proportional to changes in the magnetic flux density (and only the ones normal to the surface area created by a closed loop).

And the closed loop created by the speaker and its source is a really irregular shape, designed to have a small cross-sectional area anyway. It all sounds kind of fishy.

Show threadBluesFAug 17, 2023
Powerful radio signals will cause interference in anything aerial-like that they pass through. Speaker cables would serve perfectly. For FM signals this would just sound like static or horrible nosie, but AM the interference will sound like a distorted version of the sound signal. Interference in the speaker cables will pass to the speakers… I guess this is the idea, but you’d need a very powerful radio transmitter which would almost certainly be illegal.
Show threadCall me Lenny/LeniAug 16, 2023
Spam their phone. They won’t hear it.
Show threadThcgrasscityAug 16, 2023
If its a house and its summer tonnes of birdseed in their yard, handfuls upon hand fulls. Then let the birds do the work.
Show threadAlpacaChariotAug 16, 2023
What would this achieve? Lots of birds? A bit of bird poo? I don’t think I’d even notice if someone did that to me
Show threadFlashMobOfOneAug 16, 2023
Most homeowners I know would be very bothered having their entire house, yard, deck, and driveway covered in bird shit. It’s less effective if you live somewhere that gets regular rain, though.
Show threadAlpacaChariotAug 17, 2023

Birds shit on everything anyway, no?

I’m in the UK so yeah, pretty much constant rain lol.

Show threadFlashMobOfOneAug 17, 2023

It makes sense that the impact of this wouldn’t register as much with you, in that case.

Its effectiveness is very much relegated to specific geographical areas. :D

Show threadintensely_humanSep 12, 2023
The bird seed affects the position of the birds see
Show threadThcgrasscityAug 17, 2023
The neighbor i did it to his fence on the one side luckily not mine, the tree, the swing off the tree and the entire roof of his house was just covered in bird shit by the end of summer. I did have some friendly fire on my house but not to the point i had to get it professionally cleaned. Seen alot of beautiful birds around that summer, and i dont even remember what the sumbitch did to piss me off just enough.
Show threadDelphiaAug 16, 2023

Id theres a lot of feral cats in the neighbourhood a d they have a garden buy a shitload of catnip seeds and absolutely saturate their yard.

Come spring time its a nightly cat gangbang in their yard.

Show threadSokathHisEyesOpenAug 16, 2023
It’s really the rats that would be the nuisance. Wherever bird seed is, rats aren’t far behind.
Show threadsurewhynotlemAug 17, 2023
Spell something on the lawn in birdseed. Sure, birds this year. But next year the extra fertilizer will cause the grass to grow greener in that word.
Show threadestutwehAug 16, 2023
Cricket balls/bricks/Molotov cocktails through the windows
Show threadDelphiaAug 16, 2023
Thats just regular revenge.
Show threadHonoraryMancunianAug 16, 2023
Piss disc.
Show threadEvolushanAug 17, 2023
DdP
Show threadintensely_humanSep 12, 2023
foorp
Show threadFlashMobOfOneAug 16, 2023
My favorite petty revenge for a lot of things is putting gel deodorant on people’s car door handles.
Show threadSokathHisEyesOpenAug 16, 2023
What does that do? I mean besides getting gel deodorant on their hands?
Show threadFlashMobOfOneAug 17, 2023

Nothing, just makes their hands gross.

That’s why it’s petty revenge.

Show threadSokathHisEyesOpenAug 17, 2023
Okay then, I like this idea.
Show threadFlashMobOfOneAug 17, 2023
There is some upside based on context though. For example, if I’m in a parking lot and I gel the door handles of some asshole with a truck that took up four parking spaces, chances are they understand why it happened, so there’s that.
Show threadSokathHisEyesOpenAug 16, 2023
I knew someone once who salted insults into someone’s lawn. That shit never grows back either.
Show threadjoxese3341Aug 16, 2023
I like to tape packages of rotting meat on the underside of their vehicle.
Show threadohlaphAug 17, 2023
Start mowing your grass, leaf blowing, etc. first thing in the morning, as early as legally allowed, for hours. If he asks you to stop, just ignore him.
Show threadmeseek #2982Aug 17, 2023
Pleas don’t bring innocent people around you into with that nonsense.
Show threadGreasyTenguAug 17, 2023
You blast music right back, but not just any music. Blast Wannabe by the Spice Girls, but make it just a loop of the intro, like 10 hours of “So tell me what you want, what you really, really want I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want”
Show threadliu_sassoAug 17, 2023
My sister had this problem. I’m not a tough guy but I parked my car outside their house and blasted Hooker with a Penis so loud it blew out my speakers. And stared at them uncomfortably. They ended up moving
Show threadShittyRedditWasBetterAug 17, 2023

Sure you did Buddy 🤣

I bet you that old ocular pat down scared the shit out of them!

Show threadsome_guyAug 17, 2023
The sunglasses prevented them from knowing. Also, they couldn’t tell how scared OP was. Oh, I’m not supposed to tell them that part?
Show threadFringeTheory999Aug 17, 2023
You should try going in your house and watching TV. It’s a subtle revenge, but it’s the only one that will yield a result that doesn’t end with you red faced and embarrassed, Karen. if the cops didn’t step in it was probably during the day, and thus not a violation… The neighbor doesn’t have to answer his door just because you knock on it, and you can get fucked. take home lessons: 1. get fucked Karen. 2. don’t point cops at anything you don’t want to die you cretin. It’s dangerous dipshit.
Show threadlemonlemingtonAug 17, 2023
  • The police spoke with them regularly and it was always after midnight. 2. Not everyone lives in N America where you have the freedom to be killed by your police or a small child.
    • Show threadImFresh3xAug 17, 2023
    You’re the guy that talks in the theater, leaves popcorn and soda all over the seat, etc. We know who the dipshit is here.