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I'll have to fess up, I'm a bad person
We make pretty good money, scrounging at flea markets, garage sales, estate auctions, and consignment auctions, for stuff to resell, mostly on Ebay. I was going through a box of misc. items from a sale and picked up a remote of some kind, sort of looks like a garage door opener. I examined it, put in a new battery and was poking buttons to see if it would light up or something. I was in my shop at my workbench that’s in front of a window that looks out toward the road and directly at the neighbor’s gate, the neighbor from HELL. The same overbearing college professor ( an assistant prof actually) that tried to file charges because my chickens crowed, when that got him nowhere the tried to file a complaint because the cows "made mooing noises at night" and the "donkeys screamed and disturbed him". The prosecutor told him to forget it, we lived in an Ag zoned area and I was there first. So he tried another tack complained to the Sheriff that my bull was menacing and dangerous, said my dogs were vicious etc., my dogs do bark but they are inside a tall chain link fence that surrounds the yard. Needless to say we do not get along, his dogs have been over here killed a bunch of pheasants, and chased the Lamas, and his Rott bit me while I was getting it off my female Lama. That was the last straw I called him and told him to get his ***** over here right now or I would dispose of the dog. The jerk showed up and the first thing out of his mouth was "well you are going to have to get rid of your dogs they bark and scare my daughter when she goes to the mailbox". I replied the reason they bark is your daughter is so damned homely she scares them, and everything was downhill from there. By now you must be wonder where I am going with this, well here comes the good part, you can't imagine the delight I felt when I saw this expensive remote controlled gate slowly start to open, yep my old misc. item box remote works his gate, I freely admit I am a bad bad person. I was at the bench next morning without any lights on and the curtain pulled so he couldn't possibly see me when he came down the lane on his way to work. The gate was about 1/2 open when I aimed my remote and clicked and watched the gate stop and slowly start to close, after 3 rounds of this my sides are aching from laughing so hard, he erupts form his fancy SUV cursing and yanks it open, we then went through several rounds of his trying to close it before he yanked it shut, chained it, and blasted off in a cloud of flying rocks and dust. The next day there was someone over there working on it. This may be good for a few more days worth of entertainment this winter, most fun and satisfaction I have had in years.
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I was laughing so hard that I could not even type. That has got to be the best ever neighbor from hell payback story, heck I wish it were mine. GA |
Yeah, but... I'm a bad person too. You use your zip code for a handle and post your dirty deeds on a public message board. What's it worth to you for me not to put an ad in the Sturgeon News, offering my services as a "Mysterious Gate Poltergeist Exorcist"?
All offers considered. ::bare Dba: MGPE Enterprises:: |
Now that is too funny! Just don't get caught!
Carla |
:haha: :haha: That's hilarious. I think I might be a bad, bad person too because I would have just way too much fun with that. :haha: I agree with Carla though, don't get caught.
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That is way too funny! Enjoy!!
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:haha: :haha: This would be too good to pass up! Have a ball. When you tire of this, do it a few more times for me!!! :haha: :haha: :haha:
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And Bare, you are awful too! :haha: |
I'll have to fess up
That is funny! You should wait until he is just starting to drive through and then have the gate close and hit his car! Also when he closes it, have it open right back up again. It might take the repair man a while to figure out that it is a "faulty" remote. Have fun!
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Oh man...the thoughts going through my head right now! You could make him think the gate is haunted....or the gate doesn't like him...omg too much fun...so what if you get caught...it was worth the laugh!!!! |
ROTFL!!!
Very good. Now, lay low. Revenge is best saved for the time when the recipient has absolutely no idea who is perpetrating his misery. And besides that, he may have the repairman change the code if you do it too much! This reminds me of the Christmas about 10 or 15 years ago, when all the kids got those radio control cars. ALL the grandkids were over at my folks' house, and they were ALL playing with their cars, careening them up and down the hall, through the living room and kitchen, just having a grand old time. My father, meanwhile (a stone-deaf t.v. addict who refuses to wear hearing aids)is just sitting in front of the living room idiot box, his arsenal of remote controls at his beck and call, the volume turned up so loud that the neighbors across the street know what show he's watching. My brother, seizing a rare moment of opportunity, has pilfered one of dad's many remotes. Brother slips around the side of the house to the living room window, and waits until one of the kids races a car through the hall to the LR. Brother clicks the remote, and the channel changes! Father's puzzled look, then annoyance and cuss word, are followed by a quick "click" of one his remotes, and Christmas Mud Wrestling continues. Temporarily. Another kid whizzes a car through the kitchen into the LR, and, hey! The channel mysteriously changes again! Father becomes increasingly irritated as his demon-possessed t.v. set changes from Mudwrestling to the Dow Jones Report, to the Women's Network, to cartoons. He is now going through his channel changers like a man possessed, trying to figure out how to get this darned television to listen to its master. Then a light bulb slowly starts to glow. Being unfamiliar with the maxim, "Correlation doesn't prove causation", the old man turns his now wild-eyed gaze upon the innocent children. "Take those &$^#%@! cars out of the house! They're screwing up my t.v. show!" "But Grandpa, it's snowy and cold and it will ruin the cars!" "Then turn the &$#@%! things off!!!" Outside, rolling in the snow, asphyxiated by his attempts to keep his laughter silent, lies my brother. He can be a real something-or-other, but dang! That was one funny Christmas. And no one, to the best of my knowledge, has ever clued the Old Man in yet. |
I must be a bad person, too, as I was thinking "Hmm, rather than let him see the gate continue misbehaving, I would wait until he was not home and let stray cattle in! Or stray animals. Got any loose dog packs around? Religious fanatics with pamphlets?
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Beautiful and essentially harmless. You have nothing to feel guilty about. Now if you were operating a gate to let his dogs run out or something that would be different.
My only advice is not to do it too often or he will have someone come out to fix it, who will probably conclude that there is some kind of radio interferance and then change the frequency. -Jack |
Would it matter if they changed the frequency? I picked up a new tv the other day and had to go through the rigamarole of making the satellite remote work it. None of the codes in the book worked, but it has a search feature.
If they change the code, just pick up a universal remote and play with it until you find the right combination. This could be too much fun. I'm gonna have to take my remote to town next trip and see how many garage doors I can open! |
that sounds like way too much fun.don't do it to often intermittent problems are a real pain
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ROFLOL!!! Thanks for sharing! Sounds just like something I would enjoy doing.
Sallie |
Oh this is GREAT!!! :haha: :haha:
This is the kind of thing you can get from Hayduke!! http://www.paladin-press.com/SearchR...yWords=Hayduke Of course purely for entertainment purposes. No one would EVER EVER actually do the things mentioned here. Nope. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!! :rolleyes: |
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This is a great Payback.....just don't get caught. Thanks for the laugh!
Denise |
I would say it was your lucky day! oh what fun you could have.
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As a teenager I had a tv in my room. We had cable and the remote for my tv worked the living room tv. I'd creep into the hallway and change the channels on my step dad. He'd get so mad at the "freakin remote" I swore he was going to have a heart attack. He eventually figured it out and I nearly lost my tv, LOL. It was good revenge on he who would snore so loud I'd wake up out of a dead sleep at 3 am.
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I have to say that this is the funnyest story i have read in a while...
BUT, you could have even more fun, if you video it and send the video to Americans funniest videos and make 10 grand... lol Belinda |
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I just checked with DH to get the exact quote I could not remember this morning: "Revenge is a dish best served cold... and spicy." I have been a Hayduke fan ever since I read Abbey's The Monkeywrench Gang. In fact, our's and our friends' Jeep CJs are named after the characters in that book: Hayduke, Seldom, Doc, and mine, of course, is Bonnie. I miss Edward Abbey... But Hayduke Lives!!!! |
Oh, so funny, I love it. Sometimes the little guy gets some small revenge. You got some for all of us. Thanks so much. Be sure and tell us again if you have more fun.
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That is absolutely the funniest thing I have heard in a looong time!!!!
What a nice Christmas gift for you...LOL!!!! |
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tomorrow wait till he is halfway thru it then close the gate into his car... screeeeeech.
I envy your fun... a note; most gate and door openers work on a set group of frequencies. if you can get a short range variable transmitter (some nice back ally electrician can make one) and every time he replaces the gate, scan the thing till you find the gates frequency. you can have fun for years. ive seen these things in tool mags for troubleshooting and reparing remote garage doors and gates. on the curciut board as i understand are tiny screws that adjust the frequnecy of the transmitter. a locksmith or repair guy takes a standard replacement remote and programs it if you somehow need a new one. I read this somewhere I dunno how correct it is, but it is information, if I was in your shoes, I would confirm and exploit till the poor sh*t buys a manual gate. then I would inject his locks with super glue, just for kicks. :haha: |
mmm I took a quick search check, that trick only worked on older openers. new ones use a frequency and look for a specific pulse patern.
the fact an older opener is working says he has an old gate opener. new ones you need to know the frequency pulse rate. old ones just sent out a continuous signal... now they pulse to a set patern. Bummer !! dog poop in a spud gun... high angle launch. its raining poop.. |
Yes, I like it too! Now you have me wondering about my garage door opener. Have your fun behind the curtain of giggles. :haha:
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Hey 65284,
Some of my wife's relatives live in Boone County a little west of Centralia. Though none of them are educated enough to be an associate professor in Columbia. You made my morning. I snickered so hard that my wife's dogs came out to the computer room to see what was the matter. Anyway, I don't mean to rain on your parade (I really don't), but if you continue with this wonderful prank, the a__hole neighbor will probably make the repairman's life a living hell. He may not pay him or may even sue him to replace the gate. Not to mention the repeated free service calls the poor guy will have to make all the while losing money because his time could be better spent on content, paying customers. I know these types. Your neighbor projects all his anger and frustration with life on other people. They focus on one person for awhile, then they move on to the next. Now couple that personality type with an insufferable professor who probably looks down on "service people" to begin with and you can she what's going to happen with the gate repairman. Just my 2 cents. BTW, was the repairman from Glenn's Garage Doors in Moberly or Columbia Door Control? |
Just for information purposes.
The section of the FCC rules (Part 15) pertaining to RF operated remote control devices (an intentional radiator). All Part 15 devices should carry the following labelling; "This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation." A Part 15 device does not qualify for protection under the harmful interference rule. You have as much right to use a Part 15 device as any other owner of a Part 15 device. "Sec. 15.3 Definitions. (m) Harmful interference. Any emission, radiation or induction that endangers the functioning of a radio navigation service or of other safety services or seriously degrades, obstructs or repeatedly interrupts a radiocommunications service operating in accordance with this chapter." Further clarification is in Part 15, Section 15.5 (b) "Sec. 15.5 General conditions of operation. (b) Operation of an intentional, unintentional, or incidental radiator is subject to the conditions that no harmful interference is caused and that interference must be accepted that may be caused by the operation of an authorized radio station, by another intentional or unintentional radiator, by industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) equipment, or by an incidental radiator." Even if you were truly evil and closed the gate on his vehicle causing damage, by his continued use of the RF remote control for his gate, he is accepting ultimate responsibility. He would have no civil or criminal legal recourse. Bob |
That's awesome!!
Oh, um, if you want to stop being bad: Romans 12:20 But if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals upon his head. |
That is hilarious!!!!!!!!
I would wait at least a few weeks before I did anything else. You just might get away with this hilarious prank for years, if you play it cool. I bet a little research on the internet will teach you alot about reprogramming the opener. have fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
I think that would be a great one to pull every monday for three weeks then just as most people would catch on to the monday morning thing switch to friday afternoon and I would mess with the sevice tech for an added little bit of fun.
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You are really not a bad person. I think you are more like a Karmic Enforcer.We would get along great as a matter of fact.
The other day I was at the bank and I used the little clicker on my key chain to lock my truck doors. Across the parking lot the alarm system on a Mercury went off and started making all of that god awful noise they do. I hit my clicker again and it went silent. I tried it a couple more times just to verify that I was in fact doing it. I was tempted to leave it on but I resisted. T'wasn't easy. Apparently the owner of that Mercury didn't have too much bad Karma. And I didn't need any bad Karma coming my way. Now your neighbor on the other hand.............go for it Karmic Enforcer! |
:haha: :haha: Sounds like just desserts to me. :dance:
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:haha: :haha: So have you done it again yet :haha: :haha:
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:D You are now talking BIG BUCKS for this item on Ebay......there would be plenty of bids for a "remote bad neighbour avenger" :haha: I just luv your story!
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If your a bad person i must be just plain evil.Like others mentioned i can just see the paint flakes flying,as that gate screeches down the side of his SUV. :o But waiting for a more opportune moment also sounds like fun. Paint flakes flying off his Mil's car sounds like even more long term fun.:D
Enjoy it while it last. ;) |
"his fancy SUV"
how the heck does he get his money? there must be very good pay as assistant proffessors. wish i had money like that. |
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I love your story. :haha: I am glad you got him back. :haha: Here is another idea. I would wait until it snows or gets icy out and hold the gate shut until he gets out of his car and open it, then when he is back safe and sound I would close it again.lol Star |
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