A man has been praised for his five-year revenge on a neighbour who used his garden as a dumping ground for bones. He explained how, over the years, he would occasionally find small dog bones scattered across his fenced back garden, usually while mowing the lawn.
They appeared only once every couple of months, leading him to believe his next door neighbour's dog was responsible for throwing them over the fence. Rather than confront the issue at the time, he simply picked the bones up and threw them away, not thinking much about it.
Then one day, he came home from work to see something that changed everything: his neighbour allegedly tossing another bone over the fence rather than disposing of it properly. That moment, he said, was the final straw.
Instead of starting a confrontation, he decided on a different approach: patience. Over the next five years, every bone he found was carefully saved, and when the time finally came, he returned them all at once.
He said on Reddit: "Now, I pride myself on being a reasonable person, but I can also be a petty, vindictive little a***hole under the right circumstances. I could call him out on it and he might stop, or he might do it more just to be a p****. So I decided to just return his bones, and if he wanted to have a conversation about it afterwards, we could absolutely do that."
"Fast forward to sundown, I go outside and proceed to throw probably 100 bone chunks over the fence over the course of a half hour. There was something deeply satisfying about it. Cathartic, even."
A few weeks later, he saw his neighbour when leaving for work and says he had a "disgruntled" expression on his face while he couldn't stop smiling. He added: "I'd only laid eyes on the guy two or three times in the five years I lived there (night shift hours). He didn't say a word about it. How could he? He'd have to acknowledge what he'd been doing for years. Haven't seen a bone since."
Commenting on his post, one user said: "So satisfying!" Another user added: "Man. Keeping it for five years is some level of long term planning."
A third user said: "If you want to be extremely petty, buy a bunch of beef bouillon cubes - the type in foil - open them all up and throw them all over the lawn just before it rains or before he turns his sprinklers on. The dogs will go mad for the smell of beef and dig holes all over his lawn..."
