October 31, 2023 at 10:48 am

‘He said that he was going to break into my house.’ This Person Got Revenge On A Bad Neighbor Who Couldn’t Keep His Mouth Shut

by Matthew Gilligan

Source: AITA/Reddit/@Mealwyrm

The person you’re about to meet in this story from Reddit’s “Pro Revenge” page isn’t too bright…

In fact, they sound pretty darn STUPID.

And the person who wrote the story took it upon themself to expose this Grade-A jerk.

It all started when they were renting a house a while back…and things got off to a really bad start.

Why you shouldn’t brag about your illegal activities to people that don’t like you much.

“I started renting a house about 5 years ago. I had always lived in apartments and I was excited to finally have some space and privacy. This was ruined within the first week by my jerk neighbor and he made my 4 years at that house miserable.

This neighbor clearly had some issues and was a nuisance to everyone he met.

He’s in his late 40’s or early 50’s and despite seeming like a fully functional adult, he has never lived outside of his parents home. He spends every possible minute cleaning or admiring his truck, so he practically lives in the driveway. When he isn’t bragging about some jerk move that he just pulled on someone, he is hitting on the wives and daughters of anyone on the street.

I moved in during the winter and started noticing footsteps in my yard in the morning. I found out that he was walking into my yard to look in my windows and see what I was watching/playing at night. I bought a simple security system and put a few cameras up and this stopped.

The guy’s strange behavior continued…

Then he started mowing my side yard. He would mow it the day after I did. I asked my landlord about this and was told that Mike (the creepy neighbor) considered it his property and kept arguing about the property line. It’s just grass, so I let it go.

If I had guests over, he would stare at them and sometimes make comments when I wasn’t around to hear him. If I was in the back yard, he would have a reason to be in his back yard. If I was in the house or the front yard, he was in his driveway where he could see in my living room.

If I was mowing the yard, he would get out a lawn chair and sit and watch, putting it away as soon as I was done. It came to a head when I caught him sending his dog into my front yard one morning, instead of letting it out into his fenced in back yard like he normally would.

And then things escalated…but this person found out an interesting tidbit about the neighbor.

I told him to stay on his side of the property line and he said that he was going to break into my house and smash my cameras and computer. Cops were called and he got off with a warning.

Last fall I told my landlord that I was going to move out. During the conversation I found out that Mike was on worker’s comp for an “injury” that he got at work and that he was now bragging about how he was using his workers comp checks to setup his own under-the-table landscaping business.

My landlord, like most of the neighborhood, doesn’t really like Mike. The landlord’s son and family live across the street and Mike has hit on the wife a few times over the years and has started to trying talk to their 17 year old daughter.

So they decided that this Mike character was in need of a dose of REALITY.

I waited for a day when he had his new work truck and trailer, with his name and number on the door, and I made a video of him working on his yard and carrying 50 bags of mulch and climbing ladders.

I sent videos and pictures to the fraud department of the workers comp office. Today I just found out that he was found guilty of fraud, ordered to pay back every dollar, and may end up in jail. I am happily living in a new place that has a lot of land between me and the neighbors.”

And now we’re gonna see what people had to say about this.

One person said they did a good job handling this guy.

Source: AITA/Reddit

Another individual said this guy sounds like a spoiled little kid.

Source: AITA/Reddit

This Reddit user had to deal with a person like this.

Source: AITA/Reddit

One reader talked about Peeping Tom laws.

Source: AITA/Reddit

And this individual said this was justice, plain and simple.

Source: AITA/Reddit

Just keep your trap shut from now on, okay?

That’s a lesson A WHOLE LOT of people should take to heart!