I live in a college town, and we have an old-timer who has been here for 30 years living down the street. He likes to call the cops on us regardless of how loud/how many people we have outside of our house. The idea came up to attach a relay to his air conditioner that lets us turn it off every night so he wakes up sweating his balls off. For someone that doesn't have much experience in this regard, how easy would it be to use something like this to program that?
Or any other ideas for getting back at a senile asshole...
4:45am: finished last bottle of Wild Turkey 5:00am: time to turn off the geezer's a/c! who wants to flip the switch tonight? 9:00am: woken up from an alcohol-induced coma by local cops... old man died in sleep from heat stroke. damn... should have used wireless relay! 9:05am: fuck... out of Tums!
I've been around awhile, Chris (learned *magnetic amplifiers* in the Navy!), so take my word for this: spite and revenge should always be your last resort to an interpersonal problem. If he's a wanker, retaliation won't make him any less so. If you cannot avoid him, then you have to ignore him or deal with him.
I'd suggest inviting him over for pizza, then get him drunk and/or laid. Even if you don't become, you know, *friends*, he'll probably be less inclined to be quite so cranky. (Or not, in which case you're left with plan B). At most it costs you the risk of *one* of your parties sucking for a bit -- but that occasionally happens naturally anyway, hmmm?
I'd normally agree with you on revenge being a last resort, and we've tried talking to him several times. He's somewhat friendly in conversations until he gets on the subject of kids in the neighborhood, and then turns right around. We've offered to have him over for dinner or drinks, which he refuses (usually without a thanks), and when we ask to give him our number so that he can just call us when we're too loud, he informs us that this "never works. Kids don't start running until they see blue and red lights in their front yard."
I didn't think we were being completely unreasonable.
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I live in a college town, and we have an old-timer who has been here for 30 years living down the street. He likes to call the cops on us regardless of how loud/how many people we have outside of our house. The idea came up to attach a relay to his air conditioner that lets us turn it off every night so he wakes up sweating his balls off. For someone that doesn't have much experience in this regard, how easy would it be to use something like this to program that?
Or any other ideas for getting back at a senile asshole...
4:45am: finished last bottle of Wild Turkey
5:00am: time to turn off the geezer's a/c! who wants to flip the switch tonight?
9:00am: woken up from an alcohol-induced coma by local cops... old man died in sleep from heat stroke. damn... should have used wireless relay!
9:05am: fuck... out of Tums!
Oh my gosh! There's an old guy in that guy's house! Call the cops!
I've been around awhile, Chris (learned *magnetic amplifiers* in the Navy!), so take my word for this: spite and revenge should always be your last resort to an interpersonal problem. If he's a wanker, retaliation won't make him any less so. If you cannot avoid him, then you have to ignore him or deal with him.
I'd suggest inviting him over for pizza, then get him drunk and/or laid. Even if you don't become, you know, *friends*, he'll probably be less inclined to be quite so cranky. (Or not, in which case you're left with plan B). At most it costs you the risk of *one* of your parties sucking for a bit -- but that occasionally happens naturally anyway, hmmm?
@OldtechNavNuk
I'd normally agree with you on revenge being a last resort, and we've tried talking to him several times. He's somewhat friendly in conversations until he gets on the subject of kids in the neighborhood, and then turns right around. We've offered to have him over for dinner or drinks, which he refuses (usually without a thanks), and when we ask to give him our number so that he can just call us when we're too loud, he informs us that this "never works. Kids don't start running until they see blue and red lights in their front yard."
I didn't think we were being completely unreasonable.
steal his newspaper and kick his dog
you could always plant mary jane in his backyard...