r/ProRevenge - They Played LOUD. I Got REVENGE

what's up guys welcome to daily dose of Reddit this is your host Zach and today's subredditizarre slash Pro Revenge all right this story is called I unleashed the monster of bureaucracy upon my neighbor and watched it destroy him this is a story of how patience is key and how letting someone else get revenge for you is by far easier than doing it yourself the setup I live in one of those doubled up houses where they build two houses adjacent to each other with a mirrored layout so we share a wall but are otherwise completely separate aren't those called duplexes for years the house next to me belonged to a nice old lady who you never really noticed or had trouble with when she died and the house was resoled the troubles began the target is someone who I'll refer to as Jack Sparrow for reasons that will become clear later Jack owns a sizable construction business does some real estate on the side he buys the house and rents it to a bunch of foreign construction workers that work for his business I say foreign because it is relevant to the story there are rumors Jack is doing some shady stuff to have these work for him Dirt Cheap by claiming that they're National workers in their native country and paying them according to that wage and not the much higher minimum wage of my country not exactly on the up and up possibly unreported labor as well anyway he stops four to six of these in said house for them to live while they work here now I do not have anything against foreign construction workers but these guys living next door have two traits that are very problematic they are extremely loud and they do not give a crap about anyone else we're talking non-stop music and partying starting Thursday evening throughout the entire weekend until they leave at 5am Monday morning to go to work seriously I don't know how or when they sleep it is literally non-stop we're talking I'm wearing my headphones but still cannot hear my own sound over their music loud since it would appear that they've designated the living room adjacent to the shared wall as the party room where the fun happens at first I do the neighborly thing and just suck it up thinking it's just one party just one weekend after the third one in a row I go over to ask them to turn it down since you know night disturbance it's technically illegal to blast music this loud hearable on the street and across the street by my other neighbors who have also complained I met with a half-hearted soul sorry vilfix except nothing changes I go over several more times each time angrier each time met with but it's not loud if I can hear your music in my own house over my own TV and music I would say that it is in fact too loud icon contact Jack since he is their landlord and explain the situation after which I met with an Abrupt sorry not sorry not my freaking problem basically Jack told me to get aft so I involved the police and called him every time things get out of hand after about a dozen calls sometimes even twice in the same night it is clear that even regular police interference doesn't help the situation I should mention that I am a lawyer so I know what the next legal steps are I also know that other than a token paper from a judge saying their music is too loud I'm not really going to get anything things would like they already sometimes had become a cat and mouse game where they would blast their music Extremely Loud to piss me off or wake me up for a few brief moments so that by the time I could get proof or police show up there would be no music I'm deadlocked with my only further option being pretty useless and a waste of time at this point I'm biding my time and just waiting till something changes I'm not saying that I condone people who bludgeon their neighbor to death with a rusty pipe but I do somewhat understand what would drive someone to that point the mistake one day I'm at home and I notice quite a lot of ruckus next door more so than usual suddenly I see through my garden window that a wall is being partially torn down you see sometime over the years the neighbors had built a small adjacent side building adjoining the main house it was right on the border between us and when the gardens were being refined the wall was used as a divider to save on fencing said wall was now in the process of having its topped ripped off by a crane I was not informed of any of this which while not technically needed would have been the nice thing to do I go take a walk so I can take a look at what we're doing and see that they've torn down the entire side building the remaining wall between our Gardens is the only part that has been kept intact and even then not the top part being a lawyer and specifically a construction permit lawyer damn I know two things crap like this is not allowed without a pre-approved permit from the city there's no way in hell they have said permit as I would have seen the application for it I regularly have to check the online public accessible by everyone application to see what permits are being applied for my job and when I do I tend to look over to my own area just so I can keep up with what is being planned in my area this is it the moments I have been waiting for the situation has changed and the time has come to exact Revenge a quick email sent to the municipal authorities lets me do my civic duty of reporting a potential crime the fact that someone is building or demolishing crap without a permit since this is a single reports no response happens since I'm not an official victim or or anything yet since no further construction happens for a few days and everything was removed I assumed that was that and they would only tear down the side structure since it was starting to fall apart due to age neighbors have moved all their stuff that was in said building onto their lawn and haphazardly covered it with a tarp the next week more construction materials are being delivered and construction starts I send a new email to city services with pictures saying that apparently there is more planned and that I hope they undertake the appropriate action instant response less than an hour later they'd called Jack after the first time to inform him that what he was doing required a permit and he had ensured them that he didn't know that BS he's in construction of course he knows and that he would stop construction and request a permit they called him again after my email reprimanded him for not following his earlier promise and he said again he would shut it down I happen to be working from home that day events had to stop myself from waving to the construction crew as they left later that day I get an angry phone call from Jack who accuses me of reporting him and that I would be sorry he would come after me for damages for his delays I respectfully inform him that even if I reported him reports are in my name but not published in anonymized in later files I wouldn't have done anything wrong because from the looks of it he didn't have a permit and should have known that before he started working illegally without one I end the call before I start to sound too happy with things Jack has at this point no idea what I have initiated with this he is Jack Sparrow and I have just rung the Bell that awakens the Kraken that will destroy him he just doesn't know it yet the Kraken you see there's a good reason why most people consult in experts and or a lawyer when they want to apply for a permit the rules involved are so so convoluted and needlessly complex that navigating them as a non-professional is extremely hard and time consuming and a single mistake can torpedo your entire case forcing you to do it all over I have killed entire projects and have seen clients projects killed by pointing out that on page 127 section 35-1-a something was left blank that should have been answered I did some digging and found out that the previous owners of the houses had actually consulted each other about the side building and agreed on making the Wall Part of the divider between their Gardens so much so that they shared the costs of it and the ownership the wall that he destroyed part of it was also my wall which of course means I'm entitled to damages but that is not the important part the important part is that he needs my permission to do anything to that wall so when he applied for a permit a few weeks later added bonus Rowdy neighbor stuff is still out in the open covered by just a tarp since they expected this to be a quick Smash and replace job that would take a few weeks at most I went to the city center and looked at the application notice that they were planning to do stuff to said wall that I own 50 percent of so I filed a complaint following proper procedure about the permits namely that even if I granted it could never be executed since Jack needed permission from me in regards to the wall and he didn't have it nor was I intending to Grant it this should kill his permit since permits cannot be granted if you know in advance they cannot be realized no sense granting a permit to build a certain kind of house when you know they're never actually gonna build it now Jack was a bit of a smooth talker and as a construction entrepreneur he had his connections and permits are a political decision here just as much as a legal one so despite a one hundred percent event correct legal objection that should have killed his permit it went through he actually called me about it to gloat a little don't worry one can appeal a permit in my country the only requirement is that you pay a 100 euro fee which I gladly paid the appeal instance is a sub-national instance and does not care one bit about Jack's political ties or the half-hearted bull crap that the city officials wrote to justify granting the permit in spite of the concerns I raised they terminate his permit without any hesitation on the aforementioned legal grounds Jack sees his permit blocked until he fixes the issue which he can't because I'm not really inclined to agree with his plans for our wall you see at this point going through two lengthy procedures it has been over seven months the neighbors have had an unfinished construction project in their yard the entire time forced to store their stuff elsewhere something that was always supposed to be a temper everything for a few weeks while we build turned into something that was taking months with no end in sight but wait there's more the above was the administrative part of the matter him getting the permit now doing construction work without a permit is also a criminal offense and of course my report got passed around the appropriate instances so now Jack was also the subject of a criminal procedure for construction offense not only did he risk fines in jail time he was a construction business and used his own construction business for the work he did on the property so his company was also on the hook and one of the sentences that can be given in these types of crimes is to be prohibited to do construction or construction related activity as a business either permanently or temporarily Not only was he personally on the line his entire business was as well during this debacle Jack tried to sell his company this didn't really go too well because of a few reasons one the property was inflicted with an illegal situation the demolished side building was torn down illegally and until said illegal status was resolved it would stick to the property which tends to kill the property value quite a bit since nobody wants to buy something that they'll have to spend time and money on to make legal Again by either rebuilding the torn down building or getting a regularization permit for it made even worse by the fact that he applied for said permit and had it denied so he couldn't even claim that said permit would be super easy to get secondly is Jack never intended to sell the property in its current state what he as I now know has done in the past is buy up cheap old houses like the one next to me he put some of his crew in it who can't complain about the subpar accommodation they thrash the place because they don't care and he lets them then when the place is done he tears it down and sells it to a developer or develops it himself however due to his construction crime and the accompanying status for the property step two was not an option he couldn't renovate it the way it needed to be small Renovations would not be enough because covering the crime was always a requirement in any permit he would request for the building and because of me he couldn't cover it couldn't sell it either because the place was trashed and any developer looking at it would dip out when they realized there was a construction issue and a vocal neighbor who would oppose anything big that they would try to do there lots of easier properties to develop than that one in conclusion anyway that is where we are today Jack is staring down the barrel of a criminal court procedure that is about to happen where he is risking his business and livelihood his existing projects also gather special attention from city services now since he is now outed to them as someone who Cuts corners on permits and regulations he cannot really sell the property unless he cuts a massive loss since in its current state it is absolutely trashed he cannot develop it or sell it to a developer because all development plans involve the adjoining wall which he cannot use in big ways unless he gets my permission the Rowdy neighbors are stuck living in a smaller house than what they had in a place they trashed but that cannot really be renovated or fixed in the major way that it needs to be they have quieted down a lot possibly because Jack blames them for his current situation which isn't wrong I suppose I have awakened the Kraken and set it off on Jack Sparrow and it utterly ruined him and the best part is I had to do very little to do it all I really did was nudge the Abomination that his Municipal bureaucracy and pointed in his Direction and they did the rest I could tell you that he called me to complain and even beg about letting him use the wall the way he needs to so that he can get on with his business and fix the issues and use them to show his good faith in court in the criminal procedure that he was losing money and customers over this and was in danger of losing his entire business and that I then smugly replied with not my fudging problem but he didn't so for now we'll just have to imagine that he did good stuff dude I hate I hate the whole permits and stupid stuff and things I just I uh it's so needlessly complicated as you said obviously it's probably necessary because you know you don't want unqualified people doing construction and you know having unsafe structures and stuff so like I see it's necessity but you definitely used how it how annoying it is to your advantage and for that I applaud you alright this story is called cousin used my earphones without permission yeah I'm someone very protective of my property not in the way you imagine I'd happily lend people my stuff as long as they ask nicely beforehand needless to say I was fuming when I came home after school and found my earphones not being in its original place the culprit could only be my cousin my parents never use earphones so I hid the earphones away then pretended to ask her where she left she was confused and told them she'd left them on my bed took her the whole evening digging for it next morning I took the earphones out of the hiding place and pretended as if I found it in the most disgusting place you could imagine my cousin was guilt trip for the whole day eventually she apologized for using my stuffs stuffs without my consent yes I'm a butthole not gonna lie sorry sis you know I still love you just keep your hands off my things or ask before you touch him honestly I can I can agree with that it's annoying when people use your stuff without asking because they usually don't give a crap about it like you do unless it was like a girlfriend or something or a girl I like then it's like yeah yeah use my stuff I like it don't forget to like subscribe and hit that Bell to never miss an episode [Music]

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Length: 17min 19sec (1039 seconds)

Published: Wed May 31 2023