Neighbors, you don’t really live with them, but it’s costly to live without them.

How would you handle your initially great neighbor morphing into a walking noise complaint? One person recently shared their petty but effective tactic to solving this on Reddit.

Here’s what happened.

Why me lord…..

Years ago, we leased half a duplex in a college town.

Neighbors varied.

As they tend to in college towns.

At one point, our neighbor was a recently hired night manager for Waffle House.

We worked days, he worked nights, it worked well.

It works well until it doesn’t.

Until the night we discovered he’d hung speakers on the shared wall between us.

For some reason he cranked on and up Kris Kristofferson’s “WHY ME LORD”.

At 3AM.

How apropos.

First time it played I did nothing.

The second time it played I knocked on his door and politely asked that the music be turned down.

He mumbled something about being sorry and it wouldn’t happen again.

Now that doesn’t seem likely.

I returned to my bed to go back to sleep.

Until it happened again, this time it seemed louder.

I went into our living room and located where his speakers were wall mounted on the other side of the wall.

Those speakers have it coming for them.

Waiting for the downbeat, I slammed my fist against the wall.

It wasn’t hard enough to break the wall but it was hard enough to dislodge the speaker from the wall.

This poster could be an expert marksman.

It was quiet for the rest of the night.

He never said anything to us or the landlord, but we did have a new neighbor by the weekend.

Sounds like this guy may have had quite a bit going on behind closed doors…literally. Let’s see how Reddit weighed in on this one.

Most congratulated the original poster on getting their way.

Others tried to sort out the logistics.

Though some doubted the story’s truth.

Some suspected there was more than just this incident at play.

Good walls make the best neighbors.

If you liked that post, check this one about a guy who got revenge on his condo by making his own Christmas light rules.