Not really me. A friend of mine is moving out of state. His neighbor has been a total dick the entire time he’s lived there. Constantly commenting on how my friend’s yard isn’t as good as his. Mean to my friend’s wife and kids for no reason. Just an asshole of a person.

What are some ideas for fun pranks my friend can leave behind?

  • @tombruzzo@lemm.ee
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    98 months ago

    I heard of this funny trick where you put a bag of ice over the pilot light of his boiler. The boiler will put out gas until the ice melts and the pilot light comes back on.

    And let’s justr say, that’s when the prank really ‘pops’ off

  • @daddy32@lemmy.world
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    168 months ago

    When I was a kid in a second world country, you would put yeast in his latrine. That would teach him.

    Unfortunately, that is probably no longer applicable.

  • @UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world
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    288 months ago

    Plant a single piece of bamboo in a little used area near his lawn. By the time he notices it. He will never get rid of it

    • tiredofsametab
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      118 months ago

      I live in Japan and I just go over any that pops up with the lawnmower like I would normal grass. Unless you let it get big, you won’t even notice it was there.

      • MaggiWuerze
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        18 months ago

        Doesn’t that leave hard little bamboo blades sticking out at grass level, waiting to stab you into the feet when you walk barefoot?

        • tiredofsametab
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          28 months ago

          I have murder hornets and a number of biting insects and venomous snakes and toads. I’m also allergic to grass. No barefoot walking for me.

          That said, I’ve never noticed any. There are multiple varieties of bamboo with a number of different strengths and properties.

          Edit: forgot venomous spiders.

            • tiredofsametab
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              It’s otherwise fantastic. More specifically, I wanted to farm and move somewhere cooler than Tokyo, particularly in light of global temperatures rising.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    348 months ago

    If his TV is close enough to the window to see what he’s watching, and you can find a remote with enough range to change the channel from your own house, well, you know the rest.

  • @USNWoodwork@lemmy.world
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    Order some joke/fake lottery tickets. One of the ones where every ticket wins $30k. Drop one on his driveway before he heads to work in the AM for him to find. I’ve only done this to two people and they both fell hook, line, and sinker for it. One lady was calling her husband to come pick up the winning ticket to keep it safe.

  • tiredofsametab
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    88 months ago

    If your, erm, “friend” is planning to but has not sold your his house, then this is an even more terrible idea that asks for trouble.

    • WaldowalOP
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      58 months ago

      What, you think I don’t have any friends? Sigh. You are mostly correct. But I have this one.

      He’s been renting for years. He’s definitely moving. All clear.

      • tiredofsametab
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        38 months ago

        I didn’t mean to imply you have no friends, so sorry if you got that impression

  • @CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee
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    Spread dandelion seeds. You can buy them online and literally just toss them everywhere and he will never be rid of them. Or kudzu Vine that shit never goes away

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      118 months ago

      You can get them in pink and white too! As an extra fuck you over the normal yellow which can happen on their own.

      Make seed bombs of pink dandelions and launch them before a storm.

      Side note; I want pink dandelions but I’m sure my neighbors would hate me… but I also have an asshole neighbor and I’ve totally thought about seeding his property with them and letting them spread to mine…. I won’t do it, because cameras, but I want to so much.

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    If you wanna spend money, glitter mail. or if its a house, set up a flood light pointed at their house and set it up on a random timer for only at night and blast them with “security” lighting.

    Attract tons of wild life with the food you need to get rid of.

    Sign up for grindr and start sending people their way.

    Learn the noise ordinance laws and maximize that to the fullest for a short period

    Stand on the property line constantly and try looking through their windows, or watch them, if they approach, quickly leave (don’t enter their property)

    Sign them up for stuff. Especially if you can find their email through LinkedIn etc.

    Or, just move on since they will be out of your life regardless, don’t spend your energy on them,they aren’t worth it

    Edit: Actually rather than grindr, send scalpers, leave good people out of these shenanigans

  • Captain Aggravated
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    You want to ruin someone’s life? Plant some fucking greenbriar on the property. Genus Smilax. Thorny vines that grow from rhizome-like tubers in the ground. Grows a little slower than kudzu but I’d rather be around kudzu. Harder to eradicate than white supremacy. Once it’s got it’s little tumors in your soil, it’s over forever. It’ll sent shoots out just under the grass to spread out like strawberries. If you get both genders of the plant in one place, the females will grow berries that the birds eat and then they’ll shit the seeds everywhere, the complicit little fuckpukes. If you don’t dig up ALL the plant, it’ll just grow back harder. I’ve seen them strangle a dogwood tree to death. They’ll grow 40 feet high if they’ve got something to climb. There is no commercial, medical or craft use for them. The leaves have a waxy coating that protects them from herbicide. I haven’t tried fire yet but it probably won’t work.

  • @Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    328 months ago

    Look up where the property line really is, and if the neighbor is encroaching get it surveyed and enforced the the new owner can reclaim part of the neighbor’s land

    • Flax
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      18 months ago

      I read this as “poverty line” whuch seemed messed up