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As some of you probably know, im having a tough time with my neighbors here. They call the cops over my old fords because they hate the way they look and sound. They just dont understand us enthusiasts! So, instead of getting all mad and frustrated, I was thinking (my devious lil mind)
if you were my neighbor, what would **** you off?? i want to keep it legal though. i was thinking of something along the lines of making wind chimes out of old budweiser cans and hanging them from all of the trees in my front yard. How about planting flowers in an old toilet?? I need ideas guys. This is a serious problem! NOW its MY time to cause THEM a bunch of grief
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ben
if you were my neighbor, what would **** you off?? i want to keep it legal though. i was thinking of something along the lines of making wind chimes out of old budweiser cans and hanging them from all of the trees in my front yard. How about planting flowers in an old toilet?? I need ideas guys. This is a serious problem! NOW its MY time to cause THEM a bunch of grief regards
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Do you get japanese beetles in your area? If so get some of those sex hormone traps and put them up on your property line next to the offending neighbor. Every beetle from miles around will come in. Course you'll be suffering with them too.
Make a flower pot out of an old 'fridge. Weld up some old parts and call it appalacian lawn art. Make a mailbox out of an engine block. Paint your house to look like a dalmation or zebra. Put down some chalk body outlines and scatter some crap around that door to door salesmen carry (magazine subscriptions, girl scout cookie order forms, issues of the lighthouse).
At Christmas time decorate your house in the classic white trash motife ala the Roseann Show. (Roseann what is Santa DOING to that reindeer?!?!!!)
Put up a 10 foot wall complete with razor wire and guard turrets.
Sit out on your front porch and clean all your guns.
Make a flower pot out of an old 'fridge. Weld up some old parts and call it appalacian lawn art. Make a mailbox out of an engine block. Paint your house to look like a dalmation or zebra. Put down some chalk body outlines and scatter some crap around that door to door salesmen carry (magazine subscriptions, girl scout cookie order forms, issues of the lighthouse).
At Christmas time decorate your house in the classic white trash motife ala the Roseann Show. (Roseann what is Santa DOING to that reindeer?!?!!!)
Put up a 10 foot wall complete with razor wire and guard turrets.
Sit out on your front porch and clean all your guns.
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You can do like this guy did here in my town put up a privacy fence between you and your neighbor and paint their side pink.I also agree with 76supercab clean your guns on the front porch it works for me.
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no they are not, well not to me. If you call headers and dynomax ultraflow mufflers with tips LOUD then yes, i guess they are. It would be one thing is i ran open straights but im not ignorant. The heart of the matter is that he doesnt like the way they look. Being from New Jersey and KNOWING how we have those nasty winters with tons of road salt, it rusts the heck out of the truck. As fast as the rust appears, i fix it. But this guy calls the authorities all the time for trivial crap. We have rigorous emission testing here. If you fail, you have 45 days to fix it then get retested. As an exapmle, i failed once and i went 47 days (i was busy with school so i couldnt get to DMV). Well, wouldnt you know that he called the cops and they came out and issued me a ticket for failure to inspect---which is 130.00 here in jersey. THATS what im talking about....he wants loud...heh dont tick me off because then i WILL run straight duals...(j/k like i said, IM NOT IGNORANT)
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no they are not, well not to me. If you call headers and dynomax ultraflow mufflers with tips LOUD then yes, i guess they are. It would be one thing is i ran open straights but im not ignorant. The heart of the matter is that he doesnt like the way they look. Being from New Jersey and KNOWING how we have those nasty winters with tons of road salt, it rusts the heck out of the truck. As fast as the rust appears, i fix it. But this guy calls the authorities all the time for trivial crap. We have rigorous emission testing here. If you fail, you have 45 days to fix it then get retested. As an exapmle, i failed once and i went 47 days (i was busy with school so i couldnt get to DMV). Well, wouldnt you know that he called the cops and they came out and issued me a ticket for failure to inspect---which is 130.00 here in jersey. THATS what im talking about....he wants loud...heh dont tick me off because then i WILL run straight duals...(j/k like i said, IM NOT IGNORANT)
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I have a fleet of broken trucks in varying states of repair. I personally get ticked when my neighbors do things that infringe on my fun so I make it a point to clean up the work areas when i am done. I also make it a point not to use the compressor and air tools after dark or early in the morning.
I know my neighbors appriciate this as i have been told so.
Just to make it clear, mabey what you are doing is annoying but if the people are just being @#$%^&* then i like the cleaning the guns on the front porch idea. or let your dog take a dump on his lawn.
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I know my neighbors appriciate this as i have been told so.
Just to make it clear, mabey what you are doing is annoying but if the people are just being @#$%^&* then i like the cleaning the guns on the front porch idea. or let your dog take a dump on his lawn.
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>Make a flower pot out of an old 'fridge. Weld up some old
>parts and call it appalacian lawn art. Make a mailbox out
>of an engine block. Paint your house to look like a
>dalmation or zebra. Put down some chalk body outlines and
>scatter some crap around that door to door salesmen carry
>(magazine subscriptions, girl scout cookie order forms,
>issues of the lighthouse).
>
>At Christmas time decorate your house in the classic white
>trash motife ala the Roseann Show. (Roseann what is Santa
>DOING to that reindeer?!?!!!)
>
>Put up a 10 foot wall complete with razor wire and guard
>turrets.
>
>Sit out on your front porch and clean all your guns.
"appilacian lawn art" i swear i fell off my chair laughing!
>parts and call it appalacian lawn art. Make a mailbox out
>of an engine block. Paint your house to look like a
>dalmation or zebra. Put down some chalk body outlines and
>scatter some crap around that door to door salesmen carry
>(magazine subscriptions, girl scout cookie order forms,
>issues of the lighthouse).
>
>At Christmas time decorate your house in the classic white
>trash motife ala the Roseann Show. (Roseann what is Santa
>DOING to that reindeer?!?!!!)
>
>Put up a 10 foot wall complete with razor wire and guard
>turrets.
>
>Sit out on your front porch and clean all your guns.
"appilacian lawn art" i swear i fell off my chair laughing!
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Let's see.......do you live in the city limits?
Keeping livestock comes to mind.
Pigs, goats, chickens (that Appalachian lawn-art thing got me too.....lol).
Start a punk rock band.
Join a local Hell's Angels club and have all the meetings at your house.
Drive chevys.
And if you can't keep livestock due to zoning ordinances, I'd bet there is no law against field dressing wild game on the front porch.
These are all just in fun......right?
LOL
Ron
Keeping livestock comes to mind.
Pigs, goats, chickens (that Appalachian lawn-art thing got me too.....lol).
Start a punk rock band.
Join a local Hell's Angels club and have all the meetings at your house.
Drive chevys.
And if you can't keep livestock due to zoning ordinances, I'd bet there is no law against field dressing wild game on the front porch.
These are all just in fun......right?
LOL
Ron
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Start up a Hillbilly Band.
Then set-up your equipment & Play in front of HIS/Their House.
Everyday,Practice is from 5:00 pm till 10:00Pm
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Okay, don't take this the wrong way but....don't be an ##### about it. Invite them over for a BBQ and casually bring up your trucks. Tell them how it's your hobby and how much they mean to you. They should understand that. But you've got to do your part too. Don't be an annoying neighbor. Maybe you two could split the cost of putting up a fence betweeh your yards. Just try to be more conciensious (sp?) about when you run your trucks and how they look. Sorry, I'm not trying to be preachy here, but I've dealt with the same problems before. Above all though, don't go out of your way to be obnoxious. That's just stupid.
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I agree with the post above about talking things over with your neibor, but if that fails....
One thing to really **** someone off is to take a compressor that runs off of gas, pull the muffler off and run a straight pipe, start it up at 3-5 A.M. and then proceed to rotate your tires using an impact wrench. Make sure to keep your finger on the trigger at all times so it will use up the air and make the compressor run at full throttle.
Just think of the look on his face. 
One thing to really **** someone off is to take a compressor that runs off of gas, pull the muffler off and run a straight pipe, start it up at 3-5 A.M. and then proceed to rotate your tires using an impact wrench. Make sure to keep your finger on the trigger at all times so it will use up the air and make the compressor run at full throttle.
Just think of the look on his face. 
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From: Silver Springs
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I also agree with "Fordtruckin". Kill 'em with kindness. Whenever we have a party or cookout, we invite as many neighbors as we can and no matter how rowdy we get, no problem.
I also agree with the privacy fence thing. We had one guy that used to live in our neighborhood that didn't like our dirt car sitting in the driveway (always on it's trailer). We put up a privacy fence 4' high on road side (max height allowed) and 6' high on the sides. I don't think the guy was expecting us to do the fence thing & he didn't like the looks of it, but it was legal and now we could put whatever we want behind it and he couldn't say a thing.
Don't know all the rules where you live, but here there's noise ordinances, if we were to clean our guns on the front porch the cops would be there in no time to check us out and you're not allowed to have barnyard animals.
Carlene
I also agree with the privacy fence thing. We had one guy that used to live in our neighborhood that didn't like our dirt car sitting in the driveway (always on it's trailer). We put up a privacy fence 4' high on road side (max height allowed) and 6' high on the sides. I don't think the guy was expecting us to do the fence thing & he didn't like the looks of it, but it was legal and now we could put whatever we want behind it and he couldn't say a thing.
Don't know all the rules where you live, but here there's noise ordinances, if we were to clean our guns on the front porch the cops would be there in no time to check us out and you're not allowed to have barnyard animals.
Carlene