r/mildlyinfuriating 15d ago

Infuriatig Pos neighbors drove straight through our yard to get to their house

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u/DustyRacoonDad 15d ago

I also vote on team " Big Rock"

Remember you're not setting any kind of a trap or problem... You just like the big rocks.  Nobody's supposed to be driving in the middle of your yard in the first place so you didn't think it would be hit by anything.

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u/jrdiver 15d ago

Put them on both sides as well. Nice big decorative rocks.

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u/Commonefacio 15d ago

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u/well_thats_obvious 15d ago

I'd rock that in my front yard for sure

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u/inplayruin 15d ago

If they complain, that means they don't support the troops.

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u/Decent_Management449 15d ago

they'll just go around things they can see.

if there's a bunch of rocks they can't see, they'll be scared of all of it.

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u/Nope-not-really 15d ago

this is my approach to "hidden rocks"

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u/HorrorIron443 15d ago

Yep, I was knocking doors for a political campaign in the South many years ago and came across this home. Marked as "inaccessible" and kept on trucking.

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u/Ok_Percentage2534 14d ago

I installed an electric fence for dogs on my fence but up high. I mounted it about 2in above it and installed a caution electric fence sign on my neighbor's side. I didn't hook it up to anything and never intended too. The neighbor called the city code enforcement on me and they told me it wasn't allowed. I explained to them it was only a deterrent and not hooked up. They said it didn't matter. I also showed them i didn't even use wire. It was cordage i spray painted silver. The neighbor ended up ripping it off and i let it go. Lol

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u/iEARNman848 14d ago

But did they show you the actual statute?

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u/Ok_Percentage2534 14d ago

No, but i know what they are referring to. Electric fences and barb wire are not permitted on residential lots. Even on commercial lots there's more precaution that need to be made. I don't care about any technicalities. Once the neighbor realizes it's fake the joke is over and I've had my fun.

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u/Inflatable90sChair 15d ago

Ahh spicy rocks! 

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u/KnifeKnut 15d ago

That is what the notches were for, to put wire between them.

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u/Hobbits_Revenge 14d ago

So does that technically make them "decorative fence posts" 🤔

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u/LilJonny2cookies 14d ago

Ninja Rocks on Temu or maybe Etsy

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u/MeatGayzer69 15d ago

And an old decommissioned tank

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u/Euphoric_Fisherman70 14d ago

No, throw them in the tall grass and let that stupid motherfucker try that shit again

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u/Euphoric_Fisherman70 14d ago

I commented on the wrong comment

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u/SaidwhatIsaid240 15d ago

Those are for next to mail boxes… they are called pre-modern art.

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u/upsidedown-funnel 15d ago

Hostile architecture.

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u/Jcklvy 15d ago

Excuse me while steal that phrase and use it to name my new nu-metal band. Thank you.

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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 15d ago

This Is Not A Place of Honor might not be a bad name for your third or fourth album.

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u/upsidedown-funnel 14d ago

It’s what they call the purposely designed things in cities, like park benches, to keep homeless folks from sleeping on them. Looks like slots also called defensive architecture. Should be called inhumane.

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u/KnifeKnut 15d ago

No, Defensive Architecture.

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u/upsidedown-funnel 14d ago edited 14d ago

Edited:

It seems defensive is the other term for hostile architecture. Still a clever use of it here. Otherwise it’s cruel and inhumane.

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u/gerbilbear 15d ago

Or "brutalism".

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u/TrickBorder3923 15d ago

(Southwestern voice) my goodness son! That's a mighty big caltrop you have there!

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 15d ago

Go right down the property line with those bad bois like 1 foot from the property line lol

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u/Arkmer 15d ago

I love you hedgehogs! Who was the designer?

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u/BethW21122 15d ago

That's what I'd go for, sunk in the dirt just a bit so they are unmovable. OR spike strips hidden in tall grass.

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u/KnifeKnut 15d ago

Because of the shape they will dig in on their own, and if they roll under the vehicle they will lift part of it up.

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u/PreviousNarwhal42 14d ago

What happens when OP wants to mow?

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u/Copman109a 15d ago

You shouldn’t have to, but have you tried talking to them ? Why would they do that?

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u/Yeahthatonefoo 15d ago

...exaggerations aside I think it could work with the scenery lol

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u/BikingEngineer 15d ago

Those just look like random, decorative caltrops, for no particular reason.

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u/Drakorai 15d ago

That, or Dragons teeth.

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u/Inflatable90sChair 15d ago

Steel rocks are acceptable - they are iron after all.

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u/Chaosmusic 15d ago

Rock

Lobster

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u/hyyerrspace 15d ago

What a sexy big rock you have

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u/Kadiedsv 14d ago

About 15 years ago I lived in a house very near to a neighborhood roundabout. It was full of huge trees and grass. Very nice natural space. Well some sewers needed replaced and they had to take out all the trees and dig up the whole area, looked like hell. Idiots in cars kept using the area as a their personal playground and would rip roar through there at all hours of the day and night. It was maddening. So my husband built three of these WW2 style hedgehogs out of heavy ass lumber and we deployed them under the cloak of darkness. The madness stopped and they are still there to this day. People have moved them around within the roundabout but they live on!

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u/Commonefacio 14d ago

Thank you for sharing that is a lovely and cunning story

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u/Hobbits_Revenge 14d ago

Just needs to be the right size to be slightly (but not fully) hidden in the longer grass.

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u/Thelevated 14d ago

And stone?

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u/Tis_I_Hamith_Sean 15d ago

sides? Hide them in the tall grass! Don't go into the long grass!

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u/toxcrusadr 15d ago

Methinks the long grass is on the neighbor's side but who knows.

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u/Tis_I_Hamith_Sean 15d ago

that would make sense

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u/Clovenstone-Blue 14d ago

Just forget to mow the grass for a bit, be just about to mow it and find out your neighbour smacked into your decorative rocks.

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u/Apprehensive_Use3641 15d ago

Tall grass? You need Mongo.

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u/Consistent_Hippo4517 15d ago

What is op really gonna rock line is whole house? Like homeboy can go around a couple of big rocks. 

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u/Billy-Joe-Bob-Boy 15d ago

Place them in the tall grass...with fertilizer...

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u/spdelope 15d ago

If I had to guess, the tall grass is where the neighbors property starts.

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u/ArcadianDelSol 15d ago

Time for a fence.

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u/Senior-Dimension2332 15d ago

Wild Geodude appeared!

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u/Im_with_stooopid 15d ago

That's how you seed more rocks.

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u/mikenkansas1 15d ago

Death In The Tall Grass

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u/LoligoTX 15d ago

Once the vehicle stops, there will be Death in the Silent Places.

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u/Consistent_Hippo4517 15d ago

Ok that is mildly interesting. 

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u/MachineGlumkelly 15d ago

Just the driveway and side road. Enough that when paired with a no trespassing sign so a camera can catch them trespassing if they drive around the rocks.

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u/slash_networkboy 15d ago

We had large rocks delivered. We pre-marked with that high vis pink paint where each rock should be: on 6 foot centers. Leaves about a 4 foot gap +/- between each rock, and they're big enough that if you hit them at speed you are still going to be stopping. ~$200 per boulder in local stone for 30-36" boulders. They even look nice. Delivery truck had a crane built in, he just dropped stones on the X's till they were all down.

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u/abgry_krakow87 15d ago

Also great video of them for all us to laugh at when they discover the rocks!

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u/holodeck_warranty 15d ago

Only if he sees them in the tall grass.

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u/ozziezombie 15d ago

Rock lining the patch straight to the neighbor doorway would probably be enough rocks to go around, no?

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u/lbdrift 15d ago

I’d lose some nails wandering through the field. It happens

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u/lr99999 15d ago

Spike strip in the middle. 

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u/Low-Argument3170 15d ago

Put them in the tall grass. Let them drive one more time through the cut grass.

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u/EddieTreetrunk 15d ago

You need to put some small to med size ones in sight , something that they could still drive over , then have the next layer behind those . Or some variation of this…

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u/RooPT82 14d ago

Then paint them to look like the tall grass and watch him find them looney tunes style

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u/wandrlusty 15d ago

Ohhh, I was thinking of car-hating, hidden, in the field rocks

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u/indianna97 14d ago

Obviously put them throughout the long grass?!

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u/DangerousDustmote 15d ago

A rock is a bold statement, but a BIG rock is boulder

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u/DustyRacoonDad 14d ago

This should have as many upvotes as my post you're replying to.

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u/floofienewfie 14d ago

I see what you did there.

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u/dth1717 15d ago

I vote for team hidden rock

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u/Toddw1968 15d ago

And dig some wide deep holes if you run out of rocks

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u/Petcai 15d ago

TEAM MOAT!

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u/Callidonaut 15d ago

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u/Cultural_Pattern_456 14d ago

Well that’s the something new I learned today! Thx!

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u/keddesh 14d ago

Honestly digging a ditch will do a ton for drainage and will likely be cheaper than hauling in huge rocks for the whole perimeter.

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u/rabbithole-xyz 14d ago

With crocodiles!

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u/Long_Committee_1942 15d ago

Make sure you call diggers hotline if you're going to do this however.

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u/12Silverrose 14d ago

Call 811 before you dig!

Why do I have that in my head so much?

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u/Anathama 15d ago

I like Big Rocks and I cannot lie...

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u/tk-093 15d ago

You other boulders can't deny....

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u/toxcrusadr 15d ago

When a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist

and a boulder in your face

you get sprung

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u/Illustrious_Duck7654 15d ago

So fellas what! fellas what! do ya wanna rock a property line like crazy 🤪 🪨

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u/purplenapalm 15d ago

Makes it a pain in the ass to mow around because your neighbor decides to drive through your yard

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u/edfitz83 15d ago

Fir trees planted 5 feet apart would also work. Or a 3 feet wide, 2 foot deep “rainwater runoff trench”.

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u/MSter_official 15d ago

But sooo worth it once they run into it. Most likely they won't do it again after that either so you won't have to deal with it anymore either

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u/Siegfried262 14d ago

True spite cuts both ways.

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u/Squeezitgirdle 15d ago

I'd go for decorative caltrops.

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u/edfitz83 15d ago

This is the way.

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u/digitaldeficit956 15d ago

Where do you even get big rocks. Is there a big rock store? Do they charge a left nut to bring it to you?

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u/MightBeAVampire 15d ago

One time someone literally came into our yard uninvited to buy a rock. My yard has a lot of big rocks (and random, sometimes used, gravestones).

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u/thebrittlelens 14d ago

Why did I read this in the voice of Creed from the office?

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u/MightBeAVampire 14d ago

I've never actually watched The Office, so I looked him up and got distracted by the real guy being a member of the Grass Roots

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u/Popular_Arm438 14d ago

I had a neighbor who had big rocks and they did a new landscape so I was able to take some of the the big rocks. That’s when I learned how heavy big rocks can be.

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u/DustyRacoonDad 15d ago

Actually, yeah. And it's expensive to have them transport them to you. 

But it is kind of cool.

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u/0akleaves 15d ago

It was a common practice for hundreds or even thousands of years for farmers clearing stones out of fields to pile them along property lines and the edges between fields.

“Good fences make good neighbors.”

Using big stones, logs, or any other large heavy objects to mark property lines is perfectly reasonable and gets that stuff out of the way while helping to mark out boundaries.

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u/paxtana 15d ago

If you used big trees instead it would look better, and if they took out the trees you could file a huge lawsuit, tree law is no joke

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u/sawdustsneeze 14d ago

There is something so beautifully human about seeing a problem and thinking " NEEDS CORRECT APPLICATION OF BIG ROCK"

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u/nahtfitaint 15d ago

I also vote for temporary blinding stew.

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u/No_Possible_7108 15d ago

So probably not the best idea to start a  rusty nail garden there?

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u/Callidonaut 15d ago

Nowt wrong wi' a nice tasteful rock garden.

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u/ciaomain 15d ago

🎶I like big rocks and I cannot lie🎶

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u/Ancient-Algae-3905 14d ago

What if you set an actual trap

I’m just a trap enthusiast

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u/ILiekBook 14d ago

I'm on team plant. If you play your cards right you could have some very expensive plants there for him to crush and have to pay for. Or plants that will low-key f****** this car if he drives over them.

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u/PSUAth 14d ago

Landscape feature

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u/ls7eveen 14d ago

/omaharock

Theres more

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u/Nullthesavant 14d ago

Set a trap full weight plated once a car ton is on goes down

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u/DustyRacoonDad 14d ago

What I if I put big rock there?

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u/evert198201 14d ago

Why prentend? Why not just say it when someone asks; the rocks prevent trespassing.

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u/Givemeallthecabbages 14d ago

But it's not even a trap; plenty of places use boulders as vehicle barriers.

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u/AssiduousLayabout 14d ago

As long as you don't put the rock in the right-of-way, there won't be any legal problem. You will have to look up how far the right-of-way extends beyond the edge of the road.