Neighbors are a tough thing to gauge before buying a house, and often, people find that they don’t really mesh.

Even if they aren’t thieves.

This person shared a story about their neighbor who uses firewood to heat their house up, and how that wood slowly started to go missing.

They came up with a plan to catch and get back at the neighbors who were stealing their firewood, though.

Check out the full story below!

Neighbors living room exploded for stealing firewood.

This is a story about my neighbors, and was relayed to me by my dad since I was too young to remember any of it.

In the early 90’s, my family lived in a lower middle class neighborhood.

Our neighbors were very poor with about 5 kids, but extremely nice.

They couldn’t afford heating to be installed in their house, so they relied on using firewood the father got from some of his friends at work, during the winter.

Their neighbor’s firewood has slowly gone missing.

Winter came, and their father started using the firewood.

After a few weeks of freezing temperatures, he started to notice that every night, some of his firewood would go missing.

Now, we had these other neighbors who weren’t the greatest, and by that, I mean they were complete jerks.

They had frequent police visits for noise violations, and god knows what else.

They let their kids throw rocks at passing cars, and they were pretty well known for having stolen from other neighbors in the past.

They asked the other neighbors about it, but they denied it.

So back to the family having their firewood stolen.

After about a week of firewood going missing, the father went over to the jerk’s house and asked if they had been taking the firewood.

They denied it, and seeing as there wasn’t anything the father could do about it legally, he came up with a plan.

Here’s their explosive idea to catch the thief.

He found the nicest piece of wood he could find.

Then, he drilled a hole in it, filled it with those quarter stick of dynamite fireworks from earlier that year, glued the hole shut, and placed the piece of wood at the top of his wood pile.

Surely enough, the piece of wood was gone the next day.

And then one day, a loud explosion happened at the neighbor’s house.

About a week later, the neighborhood was woken up by a big bang and the jerk kids came running out of the house exclaiming, “Our fireplace just exploded!”

Luckily, no one was injured.

My dad tells me that when he looked outside, the jerk neighbors had what he describes as a “Loony Toon-ish” hole in their chimney with soot all over their lawn, and presumably their family room.

Whoa! That was intense.

Let’s find out how other people reacted to this story.

This user loves the revenge.

If only they asked, says this one.

Exactly, but in real life.

The neighbor thief deserved it, according to this user.

Finally, the satisfaction!

Steal our firewood, suffer the consequences!

Let that be a lesson for you.

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