A woman has shared how she got revenge on her ‘entitled’ neighbour who kept driving through her garden as a shortcut around the neighbourhood, tearing up the grass and making it look unsightly
A woman has been praised for her ‘petty revenge’ on a neighbour who kept driving through her garden as a shortcut home. She explained how she bought a property with her partner a few years ago but hasn’t moved into it properly yet due to ‘rising building costs’.
Instead, they have been using the space as a dog run and “chill point” as it has ocean and mountain views. Taking to Reddit, she said: “About six months ago, we started to notice tyre tracks running through our property, from one side all the way to the other. Always the same path has taken so, we now have two beautiful, deep tire tracks on our property.
“Awesome. No worries – we popped up a fence to deter the people from driving through. Yep, they drove through the fence. We would put it back up, and the very next time we would go out there the fence was driven through again.”
Annoyed, the couple decided to stop mowing the lawn thinking this would deter the neighbour from driving through the garden – but, unfortunately, it didn’t. She added: “[We hoped] it would make it a bit more challenging for them to drive through. Nope, continues to drive through. No worries, we’ll just keep it growing. I love the look plus bonus points for not having to worry about maintenance.
“The other great thing about long grass is you can hide all kinds of things there, and since it’s our property that we’re just leaving bare we can obviously start storing some goods on there. Like, metal star pickets. They also sit in the ground on just the right angle to puncture your radiator if you try to drive through it without knowing it’s there.”
On her latest visit, she noticed some bent star pickets strewn about the yard – believing they’d been snapped off and thrown in anger. To this, she simply added: “Turns out, tow trucks make big grooves in grass.” Commenting on her post, one user said: “Get a couple of trail cameras and mount them so they are out of the path but can capture the action if it starts up again.”
Another user added: “Tall grass also hides big rocks and cinder blocks. Just sayin’.” A third user said: “I have a neighbour who kept backing out of their driveway onto my property to turn around. It was messing up a section of the yard and I got fed up with it so I put up some metal posts. Those got bent in about a week, so I put them back, again they got bent.
“Finally I got some railroad ties and put them down and for good measure put some cheap T-posts up with ribbon on them so it couldn’t be missed. The problem quickly resolved itself after that. It might have had something to do with the pieces of broken bumper I saw scattered around.”
