Question:
SWEET,SWEET REVENGE on upstairs neighbors???
1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
SWEET,SWEET REVENGE on upstairs neighbors???
25 answers:
cjm
2007-07-10 13:48:38 UTC
Take a large plastic or metal (but you don't want scratches) garbage can, not just a broom or something small at the end, and pound on the ceiling with it about 10 times, about every 10 minutes in the morning before you walk out the door. You may need to stand on a chair so you can give it your all. Do it for at least an hour, every 10 minutes. You don't want to blast your stereo or other loud things like that because you ONLY want to irritate that one neighbor above you. I feel for ya. Sorry I just realized you wanted sophisticated and inconspicuous, my solution isn't that, but it'll make you feel better! By the way, the earlier the better - make sure they are asleep when you begin!
2007-07-10 13:49:56 UTC
pull their electric meter or turn off their water meter on a late Friday afternoon so they either cant get it back till a Monday or have to pay outrageous reconnect fees!
skelleton_dance
2007-07-10 13:43:08 UTC
Be loud and obnoxious when it's inconvinient to them. For example I had this issue with my upstairs neighbors being loud most weeknights until about 2-3 AM and I have to be up for work at 5:30 AM. Every night that they were obnoxiously loud and kept me up, I'd return the favor by turning the stereo on just as loud at 5:30 while I was getting dressed for work (which takes me about and hour). I guessed that since they were up all night it would be completely irritating right when they had gone to bed themselves. It seems to have helped because I havn't had the problem much since then.
jennybean7985
2007-07-11 11:38:32 UTC
do what me and my ex bf did to nosy neighbors..they were so much rude but they were always peeking in our windows and he caught them reading our mail (they went in the mailbox and were holding things up to the light to see what they were!!) they lived next to use so we bought the most hardcore porn we could find, put the volume all the way up the tv and moved the extra speaker we had hooked up next to the wall that connects to their house and we went away for the weekend. u cant imagine the smiles on our faces when we got home on sunday and could clearly hear the "movie stars" goin at it like wild monkeys even from the front porch...they will not even look at us if we pass them in the parking lot..its childish i dont deny that but it was hysterical and i still smile when i think about what they must have been thinking that weekend
lazykins
2007-07-10 14:25:33 UTC
Buy one of those glass markers and write something funny on your window (facing out of course) with an arrow pointing up.



I LIVE UNDER THE LOUDEST PEOPLE ON EARTH -or-

FREE CLOGGING LESSONS, ONE FLOOR UP



Be warned - this will make it worse. But it will be funny.

Do it right before you MOVE OUT!
2007-07-10 13:45:11 UTC
go to the bookstore and get all the flyer things out of the magazines. fill them out with the neighbors' info.



send the wife a pair of thong panties with a note to her about her husband.



do WHAT IT TAKES. if it means the neighbors get divorced over the panty deal, then SO BE IT. if you don't have to sleep with either of them it's not your problem. it's theirs! and it's no more childish or 'scum' than making noise on the ceiling.

if you've tried being nice then it's time to get things done.
Purdey EP
2007-07-10 13:44:13 UTC
Direct your stereo speakers toward the ceiling. Get some step ladders so you can get them about a foot away. Figure out what kind of music they like the most. Play the opposite, loudly. For examples, if they're rockers, play country or classical or even better opera.
fat tart
2007-07-10 14:01:15 UTC
A recording of a barking dog and rap music, plus a crying baby all played together could help you all to reach a compromise.
Dragonmistress
2007-07-10 13:44:30 UTC
How about getting some of your friends to knock on their door, ring the doorbell at times when they might be sleeping?

This might work if they do not know your friends so be careful if you choose this.



See how they like being disturbed.
anniebammy
2007-07-10 14:11:41 UTC
Get a recorder and record the noise you are having to live with.

Make copies of it.

Send a copy of it to the owners of the complex you live in along with a note that if they can't get the people to be quieter during the normal "quiet times" - you will be forced to seek help from the courts.

Send a copy to your lawyer and to the police.

Get a copy of your lease and see what recourse you have for this problem and do what it says to do.

You could also play back the noise to them when they are quiet. After all - turn about is fair play????



If you still don't get relief - take them to court.

Be prepared to move though. You may have to - and possibly get the cost of moving in your judgement against the owner of the property.

Perhaps you could win the property and become the owners - then evict them.



Do you have a news program in your area that does investigation and puts it on the news? Have them to come to your home quietly - without the big trucks and cameras - and "visit" you. Let them hear what you are having to deal with and they can put it on the air. They may even go to the neighbor and confront them - and have that on the air too.

Wouldn't that be something to see? Tell your whole city what lousy neighbors they are and what lousy apartment managers you have to deal with.



You can get their address - because you already know it. Do a reverse address look up and get their name. You could get their phone number that way too.

If your city has the requirement of an occupancy permit before you can live there - then you can go to your City Hall and get the names of the people in that apartment.



You could post flyers all over the area then - telling people how noisy they are.
sparki777
2007-07-10 13:43:09 UTC
Revenge is never "sophisticated" and if it's inconspicuous, then they won't know somebody is taking revenge on them and your point will be totally lost.



Tell management that you need a better sound barrier in the ceiling between you apartment and their floor.



And after this, ALWAYS get the apartment on the top floor. Much quieter.
2016-11-14 05:28:19 UTC
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2014-11-29 01:24:46 UTC
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Lex
2007-07-10 13:58:52 UTC
Find out the noise laws in your area. Also, consider talking to their next door neighbors beside them and across the hall from them. If they are that loud, then other people will have noticed it as well.



The more people who complain about them, the better.



However if you don't know their names and telephone numbers, there isn't much that you can do as far as "sophisticated" revenge goes.



Talk to the police about what you can do legally to people who constantly violate noise laws.
jenni
2007-07-10 13:46:17 UTC
You could bang on the ceiling with a broom or have a few loud conversations right outside their door--not really inconspicuous though.



This next idea is kind of crazy, but what if you recorded the noise they make with a tape recorder, invite them over, have it playing when they get there, then when they ask what it is you can say, "It's you!"
2014-08-20 07:09:45 UTC
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2007-07-10 13:50:26 UTC
you could send an anonymous letter, or if you've done all of this and nothing else works i'm afraid you are going to have to drive them out by other means. if calling the cops is the only way to get them...do it. complain to the management until they are that sick of you they move them anyway.one thing i would consider is that the management and powers that could sort this out for you seem to be failing in their duty of care...so maybe you should get what you want off them like they should have sorted for you in the first place...good luck ...
2007-07-10 14:09:03 UTC
I agree with skelleton dance. Be loud right back at them when it is annoying to THEM. The idea is to make them get it.

It's not "sophisticated", but then I suspect most "sophisticated" revenge will hurt them much more than they have hurt you, like the note to the wife with the panties that was suggested. That is cruel, and something only scum would do.



Besides that, as I see it, your only honorable option (I know you specificly asked to not be bothered with honor, but too bad), is to keep calling the cops and the manager, until they stop, or maybe look for another place to live.
Brain Damage
2015-08-21 22:36:21 UTC
-Take up hard shoe Irish step dancing, and schedule your daily practice time for 5am. (Or a time when you know they will be asleep.)



-Wipe your butt with a paper towel, then rub the towel all over the knob of their front, back and car doors.



-If you don't have a dog, make a recording of a dog and play it for long enough to drive someone a little crazy. Then, if they or the landlord asks about it, you can say, "I have no idea what you're talking about, I don't have a dog." But just keep doing it.



-Buy a bird. Then hold it over the person's car and squeeze it.



-Invite a bunch of friends over to run in place for a while every morning at the buttcrack of dawn.

-Sign them up for the San Fransisco Gay Men's Choir newsletter, or for a Mormon Bible.



-Pee in their mailbox.



-Fart in the cracks of their doors.



-Get one of those Muslim call to prayer machines and crank it.



-Cook things that smell like farts.



-Pay a neighborhood kid to come by randomly and ring the person's doorbell and run away.



-Get chickens. And a cock. A big, loud cock. (Attn Yahoo: By cock, I mean a male chicken.)



-Host larping extravaganzas on your lawn every Saturday morning at dawn. Bring your cock.



-Hire a clown to jump out and scare the person every few weeks so as to give them ptsd, then get a job as a birthday clown so they have to relive the trauma every work day when they see you walk to your car and back.



-Set alarm clocks and let them go off for a long time, especially during when the person sleeps. So as not to drive yourself to suicide, you should listen to Salt N Pepa on headphones to drown out the noise.



-Have sex very loudly.



-When you're on the can taking your daily morning poop, pretend the dump hurts really bad and that you have to pound on the walls and yell in tongues to get it out. Very loudly narrate everything that's happening. Sing Spice Girls songs very loudly between pushes.



-Buy a monkey.



-Sublet your house to a screamo band or a sex offender.



-Start feeding the neighborhood strays on their doorstep.



-When you hear them entering the apartment, routinely open your curtains and stick your face in the window, and just hold it there with a weird stroke face and you can even give them the thumbs up while you do it.



-Send them a box of bees.



-Stick a small cactus in the bottom or back of their mailbox. Or a black widow.



-Put butt prints on their car windows at night.



-Pour cans of tuna and the juice in them around the person's car and/or doorstep to attract all the kitties in the neighborhood.



-Take a chili dump in their gas tank, or poop in their outdoor plants and then cover it up.



-Start composting underneath their window.



-Squirt sugar syrup all over their windows with a super soaker so eventually they look out and think they're under attack by a swarm of bees, hopefully.



-When you know they've gone into their apartment, put a sign outside that says "Prostitutes Galore - This way." or "Best Lucky Happi Endings This Side China." Of course, you'll want to have an arrow pointing at their door.



-Cover your entire porch/walkway/parking lot with birdseed. Park your car somewhere else first.



-Draw cocks and balls on their car if it gets dusty or icy. (Attn Yahoo: By cocks, I mean chickens, and by balls I mean baseballs and footballs... In case there are any perverts out there.)
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Burn incense. It would be helpful to have known precisely what they were doing so that we could help more.
Jim
2014-01-06 03:18:11 UTC
I need to Know How to get Back at my upstair Neighbor, they not makeing any noise they just do some kind of trick that wakes me up when I,m asleep they keep wakeing me up. please anybody knows what I can do, email me your answers grimesjim@att.net thanks
2007-07-10 13:43:10 UTC
well you could start by start blasting your music too and banging on the ceiling and have a noise war
slopoke6968
2007-07-10 14:00:50 UTC
i typed up a letter to my neighbor (didnt put my name on it)

asking them to please not vacuum or play piano at 7 in the morning on a saturday.........when im sleeping no less

...........................................it worked!

they probably knew it was from me but never said anything to me--i live below them!
2007-07-10 13:39:43 UTC
And having once got revenge, what will you do with it?
dawnb
2007-07-10 14:15:05 UTC
Rather than revenge which gains nothing, consider relocating and putting the situation behind you. Look for a more sophisticated, more adult place to live.


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