‘I got revenge on my petty neighbour and destroyed his prized roses with a devilish trick’
A man decided to get revenge on his neighbour who spent months tormenting him, and the neighbour has “no idea” he was behind the mischievous scheme.
The British man took to Reddit’s ‘Petty Revenge’ forum to brag he destroyed a neighbour’s garden who would not stop harassing him and that the pair had a “long-running feud.”
He wrote: “It all started when his dog came into my backyard, and my dog attacked it. I was nearby, and able to call my dog off before it got serious, but the other dog had a couple of bite wounds.
“The neighbour wanted me to pay the vet bill. When he threatened me with a lawsuit, I offered to pay half, even though I owed him nothing; it was his dog that was off the leash and in my yard, after all.”
However, the neighbour declined the offer and took the man to small claims court for the vet bills and lost. The man wrote: “The trial lasted all of 3 minutes when the judge found in my favour.”
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This resulted in the furious neighbour doing things weekly to “f*** with” the man on a regular basis, and would not stop harassing the man no matter what he did.
The main explained; “My rubbish bins would get knocked over every bin day. He would honk his horn and flip me off if he drove by my house. He tried to get my 10-year-old son arrested for riding another neighbour’s mini bike (never called the cops on their kids, just mine.)
“It was all stupid petty cr**. But it was a lot of stupid petty cr**, and we were growing frustrated and mildly concerned about what he might do.”
After growing tired of his neighbour’s behaviour, and a little fearful the neighbour would escalate, the man filled out a restraining order against the man but he ended up not going through with it.
He wrote: “We dropped the legal case against him when we received a letter from his lawyer stating that he would refrain from any sort of contact with any of my family for a period of two years. Things settled down at that point.”
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After that, the man and neighbour would go out of their way to ignore each other, but the man was still incredibly irritated about how much he had to spend on lawyer fees to get the neighbour to leave him alone.
He wrote: “I had been staying on the high road through all of this, not responding to any of his bu*********y in any way. I had a desire to get revenge but never acted on it. Then one day, I hatched my plan of evil genius.”
At the hardware store, the man noticed there were a lot of Japanese beetle traps and the store was also selling refill scent packs for pest traps.
The wax scent refills were designed so that he beetles would enter the traps after being attracted to the smell.
The man wrote: “My neighbour has a very large rose garden in his front lawn. It is his pride and joy. Japanese beetles love roses. So I bought 4 packages of the refill packs.”
“The next morning, I woke up at 3 am. I popped the wax squares out of their cups and put them in a baggie.
“Then I crept over to my neighbour’s house and spread the wax squares in the mulch under his rose garden, covering them from view with a bit of the hardwood mulch.”
The next day was incredibly hot at over 30 degrees celsius where the man lives, and he decided to spend time washing the car to cool off and watch his revenge plan take place.
He wrote: “By 11AM, the Japanese beetles were starting to arrive at my neighbour’s roses. I went on a bike ride later in the evening and could see a small swarm of them attacking the roses.
“By noon the next day, there was a freaking cloud of them. There had to be hundreds if not thousands. My neighbour noticed. That afternoon, I could see him spraying them and spreading Sevin powder and waving his arms in the air in frustration.”
In the days that followed, there were thousands of beetles not just swarming the neighbour’s garden, but also on his lawn and had completely eaten away at his rose bushes.
The man wrote: “By the end fourth day, there was nothing left of his rose garden, other than a few tattered leaves and the thorny stalks.
“Those damned scent packs must have drawn every Japanese beetle in for miles around. I had never seen so many in a single place.”
He added: “And that was it. The deed was done, and I was satisfied and laughing…quietly to myself, but laughing and laughing. And I never told a soul what I did, not even my wife.”