That's nasty. I know from experience;

A few years back I went to see a film(movie) at the local cinema(theater) with one of my best mates(buddy). While we were waiting we noticed the free postcard stand - basically adverts that could be used as postcards. Well, amongst those cards were also military recruitment cards that could be used to request information packs about joining the military. So we sent in three cards, one for each of the services, in the name of a mutual friend, and promptly forgot about it.
A few weeks later, the mutual friend starts receiving his two inch thick recruitment packets and mentions this to the first friend, who denies all involvement and offers up my neck for the chop.
I then discovered that the mutual friend had a tendancy to take things a bit too far, ie beyond a joke, when he spent most of a Sunday filling in every coupon he could find in every Sunday newspaper in my name. For the next year I was plagued with junk mail. If had lived in my own place I wouldn't have cared too much about it, but I lived with my parents at the time and they were none too amused. It really didn't help that several packages were things like commemorative plates and junky framed artwork that the companies thought that I had ordered, and needed to be dealt with.
My parents still haven't forgiven him.

Wow, great story!

Although I think about it, and even though it would be sweet revenge for PCA to do that to his nosy neighbor, it's not really "responding in kind", is it?

What he needs to do is figure out some way to get people to actually come out to her house and poke around, like she had done to him. Like, maybe somehow reporting an emergency gas leak under the floorboards in the exact center of her living room...

One good idea from The Simpsons is to "borrow" some cordon tape and cordon off her house while she is out. I thought "CRIME SCENE" would be good, but "TransCo - GAS LEAK - KEEP OUT" would be even better because there wouldn't be any "wasting police time" issues and TransCo are so inefficient it would take several hours just to get through on the phone! (obviously she would have to use somebody else's phone too!)

Gareth

I'm not on bad terms with any of my neighbors but I bet after 4 volunteer fire companies spent a few hours at my home a few weekends ago they'd probably figure it was my fault somehow.

Sounds like a perfect opportunity to find out if video games promote or discourage certain behavior.

http://www.neighbours-from-hell.com/

Personally, I'd vote for a seizure inducing strobe light mounted on a 30 foot pole on the property line triggered via a motion sensor pointed at their house. Either that or God's Flash Cube II: The second stunning.

Actually, from personal experience I just wouldn't worry about it and be cordial to her anyway...afterall, you *really* don't know if it was her or not.

Feuding with a next door neighbor could be a most unpleasant and counterproductive experience.

Besides, why waste your time and stoop to her level when you can be working on the boat!?

That's kind of what I was thinking, but simply for the reason that if you think the husband is pretty cool, you have to remember that everything you do to her, you do to him + even more since he has to deal with her.

Really, about the worst thing you can do is be extra nice to her at this point. It will still eat at her, which is fun, and may actually turn out to eventually get her to just forget about you.

I did something similar to that, but on a smaller scale. I had a couple friends sharing an apartment, and they both shaved their heads. I sent away for a wig catalog in their name. They were going to buy one and wear it to school, but they were a bit put out by the fact that the cheapest wig was $300, which is a bit pricey for a starving student.

We have what's called the preference service, by which marketing organisations are meant to screen you out on their database from mail, fax and telephone calls, in theory, you can be fined £4,000 for abusing the system, but it's far from effective.
We get calls that say "I'm conducting a survey", before launching into the big sell - the other week, I suggested to one that if her sales manager discounted the double glazing by £4,000, I wouldn't report her to the preference service and nobody would be out of pocket, but I don't think that she could grasp the concept!
Hang on! - The penny's dropped, this is Patrick, couldn't you load some fiendish explosive concoction on to that radio controlled buggy of yours and send it round to the neighbours!

Imagine how they'd have felt if he sent you bondage supply catalogs.

LOL. I think they understood that I didn't need or want any of the products or services being offered. Thank God. (I received information from several different Harley Street clinics specialising in the more discreet areas of medicine.)

this is Patrick, couldn't you load some fiendish explosive concoction on to that radio controlled buggy of yours and send it round to the neighbours!

And this is Patrick, who is (I gather from my conversations with him) a man of peace who abhors violence. Besides, revenge is only fun if the victim is around to taste it.