'My neighbours stomp when our baby cries - I have the perfect revenge'

25 September 2023 , 14:04

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'My mind is made up on childish tactics.' (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Mums and dads will know well that when you have a baby it's near-impossible to get a good night's sleep. One loud noise and next thing you know your beloved baby is wailing all night long. You would hope that your neighbours will be understanding of the noise, and in turn try to keep the noise down. Yet not everyone is blessed with considerate neighbours.

One man, enraged by his neighbours from hell, took to Reddit to plot revenge against them for their continuous noisiness. "My wife and I moved to a sleepy town from the city to have a quiet place to raise our baby, who is now 6 months old", he explained. "The setting was perfect and quiet until the new neighbours moved in upstairs a year ago."

These new neighbours seemed completely oblivious of the baby living below them, as they stomp on the floor when the baby cries, vacuum and do laundry at 11pm, and slam the door constantly. "I’m frequently at their front door to talk about the noise level and they’re nice to my face and say 'oh sorry no problem! We’ll stop doing XYZ.'" Except nothing changes. "I even went as far as filing a complaint with the Home Owners Alliance (HOA) a couple weeks ago."

As the neighbours are about to have their own baby in a couple of weeks, the man relishes in the idea of giving them "a taste of their own medicine." Although he realises "being civil and mindful is the best way to approach this my mind is made up on childish tactics." Plotting for revenge, the man asked fellow redditers for ideas on how to get back at his neighbours. One person recommended an "Amazon medicine ball. Six inch diameter, small soft plastic. It feels like a cantaloupe filled with sand. I think I got the 4lb. Weight.

"It will make their place shake and you’re only working out right? at 4am or 2am. Whenever. It’s so easy and costs $13.00. It won’t damage your walls or ceilings. Again if they call management you're only working out. How did you know how it sounds? You will not regret it and they’ll have no leg to stand on as far as complaining. You’re living in your unit minding your own business." The person explained that if you "stand with legs apart and use the old granny basketball shot to launch it to the ceiling and walls, it sounds and feels like a bomb."

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Have you ever got revenge against your neighbours? Let us know in the comments.

Bryony Gooch