Love that Scarecrow sprinkler! Think it would work for cats great but I know raccoons who wouldn’t care a bit.
Hope the on-off switch is easy to operate. Hate to leave it on and have some poor unsuspecting guest of mine stumble upon it.
I love reading this thread because it makes me feel so much saner to realize I’m not the only one with twisted revenge fantasies! Anyone want to spend a nice long weekend at my house plotting ways to take down my nasty passive-aggressive neighbor? I promise you’d be a neighborhood hero!
My fantasy: recording the neighbor’s dog barking (they only bark when he is away, so he does not believe us), and then playing it back for him when he returns. The evil twist? Using a directional speaker aka “sound bazooka” at 1 am. 
Have FB friend who has to keep shoveling neighbor’s dog poop out of her yard.
After umpteenth time…
So on FB–“Here is just what I shoveled up. Again. I’ve spoken to neighbors numerous times about this.
This is going in their driveway. The next shovel-full if it recurs is going on their front stoop.”
I’m afraid to find out the rest of the story.
@BunsenBurner - the scarecrow tip/link is genius!!!
I had a few moments of wanting to be very non-passively aggressive a few months ago. The whole family was at a local festival and decent parking is at a premium. My oldest D knew a good spot by where she used to work and managed to snag it. A street spot that is right behind a fire hydrant, so for her (as a not-great parallel parker) it was perfect and fairly close.
After a fun day at the festival, we were going home in our separate vehicles and I got a call from D, very upset and saying she needs help to get out of her parking spot. We got there and the car behind her (legally parked, though rudely) was a couple of inches away from her back bumper. The car in front of her was not only parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant, but just inches from her front bumper. We called non-emergency police, but they said it could be a few hours. So we elected my niece, the best driver, to attempt an escape. She was able to get out with just a few minor taps to the car in front and maneuvering ever so slightly back and forth time after time!
I should say now that my D’s car is our crappy 13 year old SUV with 200,000 miles on it and the fire hydrant-blocking car was a pretty nice late model SUV. I wanted so bad to jump in our car and just ram that car as hard as possible and then give it a good scrape on the way out of the parking spot. Yes I do have an inner maniac!
I really hope they got a ticket before getting back to their car, but it seems unlikely.
@gouf78, I think you should buy five or six twirly-bird clothes-lines, paint them varying fluorescent colors and stick them as close as possible to your neighbor’s window as possible. Then scour the local thrift shops for the most hideous, garish clothing you can find and hang up different variations each week. Bonus points: attach a wind chime to each twirly-bird. :>
My neighbor’s have the scarecrow sprinkler. Work like a charm at keeping the deer and other animals from eating their flowers. We are too cheap (they bought quite a few) so we planted deer resistant plants and put deer netting over the roses.
There is a person I hate who is a drug addict and lived in a really nice home inherited from a relative. My fantasy was to wait until the house went into tax arrears, buy it up in a fake corporate name and then show up at the eviction. Unfortunately, a couple of months before it was set to go to auction, the person got a buyer. However, by that time the house had deteriorated so much from being used as a drug den that the price was basically the back taxes plus about $20K. All of this stuff is public record. Last I heard, the $20K was gone and the person is living on the streets. I have NEVER hated anyone so much in my life. My new fantasy is to wear a red dress and dance on her grave. Don’t worry, my fantasy doesn’t include doing anything to put her in that grave.
Boy, I am really dark… However, this has really made me feel a lot better…
This is even better than the "Say It Here . . . " thread.
Unfortunately I’m still waiting for karma for my former boss. She really is a terrible person.
I guess I should realize that she had to lie about her home life – she made up a live-in boyfriend and two foster kids – while I have a loving husband and two accomplished children, and enough money that I could leave that job without a single hesitation or regret. She’s still there – not fair!! – but needs to work more years before she can do what I’m doing.
Is that karma? It doesn’t feel like it’s enough.
I feel like I should have come up with something better than tissues in the wind chimes. I feel inadequate…
MOD-- I hate hearing OTHER people’s wind chimes. So what’s better than tissues? Sounds like an opportunity!
VeryHappy–The karma is that you dodged a big bullet and have been given a gift. The karma may not be to punish the former boss but instead to reward you. You seem to think that the job you had was better than whatever you are doing presently or could be doing and that she got the better end of an employment deal.
The universe karma has released you to find better avenues. One door closes and another opens.
snoozn–I’d do florescent but then I’d see it! I’d like to irritate neighbors a tad but not me!
This thread is perfect for what I have been feeling lately. Neighbors put food for cats on their front and back porches and feed hundreds of peanuts to squirrels every day. The result is that my yard and everything in it has become a litter box for all the cats they attract and burial place for the peanuts by the squirrels.
Every flower I plant is dug up. Our front bushes are dying and turning yellow from cat spray. The squirrels have dug a hole in our hot tub cover to try and plant peanuts. There are peanut shells all over our deck, driveway and yard. When I spoke to the neighbors, “he” said the cats weren’t theirs and he did not know why so many cats were coming around to their house. When I pointed out that it was because they left food out, he, standing there at 3:00 in the afternoon in his pajamas because he is retired, just shrugged. Last week we saw two skunks on their back stoop.
I have resorted to throwing the cat poop back in their yard. I also throw the peanut shells on their back stoop. Neighbors in the back have erected a fake owl. But none of this really affects them. They really care about their cars. So I have fantasized about keying them. Only a fantasy!!
I also wish the skunks would go through the cat door they have in the door on their back stoop!
This thread makes me even happier that I live in a semi-rural area. Few of us are close together enough to annoy each other! 
Morrismom–My dad’s neighbor lets her dogs run around the neighborhood–a big boxer and a black lab. Big dogs that have no business being leash free whatsoever. Animal control has been called several times by neighbors.
Now if we could hook up the dogs in dad’s neighborhood with the cat population in your neighborhood…
Send the dogs over! But make sure their poop scooping “parents” are with them!
Suburban life can suck.
Your next door neighbor’s daughter decides she’s the next Pat Benatar… or Courtney Love… or whatever. Her doting dad buys an industrial strength PA, for her and her friends and tells the block to ‘buck up, buttercup.’
Rural life has it’s drawbacks but neighbors aren’t one of them.
I live in an area where each house is on several acres but I still have neighbors whose dogs poop in my yard. X(
@gouf78 My husband does the same thing your friend does. He put it on their driveway.
Urban life can suck as well if your hipster neighbors decide that raising chickens in their penny-sized side yard is a great idea…
^and maybe rats in your insulation so that they can have eggs?
Not me but a friend.