r/mildlyinfuriating • u/violet_evergarden8 • 12h ago

Don't hug me I'm scared Neighbor across installed a camera on their railing pointed directly at my bedroom window

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u/Chrono_Convoy 11h ago

Buy a life sized cutout and put it in the window to stare back.

Then move it around

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u/usernameinmail 11h ago

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u/nicholvengian 10h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/dPEJxh06y4OTC

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u/DoubleSteak36 9h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/119yroxmL8L4Iw

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u/HWayFresh44 8h ago

Yea and watch the next post be the view from the camera 🤣

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u/cmcmenamin87 5h ago

Lmao this is amazing

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u/Liberal-Cluck 2h ago

Idk what he sounds like but im pretty sure i read that in his voice

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u/yellowmellowjellow 8h ago

Ha where is this from?

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u/distilledwill 7h ago

Its Ainsley Harriott, UK national treasure, celebrity chef who was big in the 90s.

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u/yellowmellowjellow 6h ago

Thanks. I saw this and laughed so loud.

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u/crako52 4h ago

I love him so much

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u/Klusterphuck67 3h ago

Knowing how this dude has an immaculate British gentleman accent when he talm normally before he whip out the "HE HE BOI" straight from the hood has permanently ruined this gif for me

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u/BitOfBrown 8h ago

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u/Embarrassed-Note-908 14m ago

Can someone tell me who this guy is?

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u/Heavy-Construction90 9h ago

I saw this and immediately thought "yeaahhhh boooaayy"

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u/Silencer306 5h ago

What movie this image from?

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u/TaleOfDash 9h ago

I'm having a sudden urge to give my meat a good rub...

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u/TinktheChi 7h ago

This is absolutely hilarious and the right thing to do.

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u/Open_Inside4190 8h ago

The one in Keith?! First time I seen this I thought it was someone watching me. 😂

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u/My_desolate_sky 10h ago

Hold up. Is that in Keith?

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u/usernameinmail 9h ago

It is

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u/My_desolate_sky 9h ago

Ha, small corner of the internet moment

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u/usernameinmail 8h ago

Like the infamous Ronnie Pickering

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u/My_desolate_sky 7h ago

Steetview was updated in April. You can see him in the window. Pixelated face and all

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u/iwaterboardheathens 8h ago

The Keith?

The one between Maggieknockater, Fochabers, Drumdelgie and Grange?

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u/My_desolate_sky 7h ago

We don't talk about grange

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u/MomoNoHanna1986 9h ago

I need to do this for the creepy drunks up the back

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u/Enverex 7h ago

And here was me thinking *I* was the only person with a life-sized cardboard cutout of Ainsley in my window!

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u/usernameinmail 7h ago

A mate actually has one. He's in his chef gear though

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u/Past_Dare_4918 7h ago

😂😂😂😂

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u/zipperfire 6h ago

This is the way

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u/SasparillaTango 6h ago

Ainsley is a treasure.

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u/Jocko77 5h ago

Sheff??

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u/Saikotsu 1h ago

Do it at night when everything is dark. Then just have it there.

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u/PrawnQueen1 21m ago

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Open__Face 9h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ofT5XSox65KBYjNvO

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u/handsomejack11 9h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUySTVm6YdAxWzpguk

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u/Equal_Canary5695 9h ago

"...little Moe with the gimpy leg..."

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u/tommos 7h ago

"...Cliff..."

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u/Icky_Thump1 7h ago

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u/Headglitch7 2h ago

You was smoochin with everybody

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u/Icky_Thump1 7h ago

"...Cheeks... Boney Bob..."

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u/cakesofthepatty414 8h ago

Thanks for the reaction I somehow NEEDED to see. Why I don't know.... but I feel complete now.

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u/Jay-Breeze 4h ago

The legend!

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u/Icky_Thump1 7h ago

"WE KNOW A CAT WHO CAN REALLY DO THE COOL JERK" 🗣️🎙️

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u/unknown-one 9h ago

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u/FyneBlackKyng 3h ago

i still cant beleive ive yet to do this irl

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 11h ago

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u/Wise4Fools 11h ago

This is perfect.  Cut out a small hole at the end of the phaser to shine a laser at the camera’s lens.

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u/Eldan985 9h ago

Can you burn out a cheap camera by pointing a laser at it for a long time? Because I'd be tempted.

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u/GRAABTHAR 8h ago

Yes. And if you use a class 3 laser, it only takes a short time.

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u/Alienhaslanded 8h ago

Totally Worf it then

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u/kellzone 7h ago

The Data backs it up.

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u/A-Real-Fungai 7h ago

Make it so.

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u/Nings777 7h ago

Engage

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u/BEARSHARKTOPUS167 7h ago

Whatever you do, do NOT wear a red shirt while dealing with the camera, just don't,

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u/Eldan985 7h ago

All power to the phaser banks.

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u/oilsaintolis 8h ago

This is Acceptable

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u/Worried_Guess_8419 6h ago

Assimilate this!

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u/BriefSpecial420 6h ago

Just remember about eye protection and eyes of others around.

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u/MichiganGeezer 4h ago

By all means. Engage!

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u/pourtide 7h ago

happy cake day

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u/BriefSpecial420 6h ago

Especially the IR/UV ones that won't show up on the video. Reddit was full of reposts of some lidar on car show getting rid of unnecessary pixels in phone's sensor.

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u/EntityLtdCo 5h ago

Class VI is what you really want.

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u/kadagai 2h ago

There is no such thing as a class 6 laser.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 PURPLE 41m ago

Just pointing at the sun with a long focal length lens… POOF

I know a guy… no filter

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u/tommydelgato 32m ago

do you have a good reliable source of class 3 lasers that would work for this, or schematics to make yourown perhaps?

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u/WishboneIll9152 18m ago

Grainger has a nice one for $56

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u/EdgeBeard 8h ago

Get yourself a 1-watt laser. Melt the entire camera

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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 7h ago

And your eyeballs when it reflects back on you 

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u/zed42 1h ago

i want 5 megawatts by mid-may. just make sure the optics are clean

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u/industrialHVACR 8h ago

It either works really fast, or never works depending on laser power.

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u/ZombieBiteOintment 8h ago

Even if it never works, there is a chance the laser overwhelms the camera and all they record is a bright light. Lasers, and actually lots of LEDs in a small area are good for distorting what a camera can see. The camera tends to focus on the lights and this closes the lens and makes it harder to see fine detail.

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u/cykoTom3 5h ago

This is actually the best case scenario. If you do get a camera melting laser you very much need to say this was your intention.

The legality of pointing a camera from your house into another person's house is gonna vary wildly from location to location. The legality of deliberately destroying another person's property, even if that property is being used illegally, is not gonna vary. You aren't allowed. However sympathetic reddit is to your solution.

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 2h ago

Yes I'd have a pen light size bright light pointed right back their way straight at the camera lens, laser even better!

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u/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN 5h ago

I actually have this exact camera that OP shows and use it as a front porch camera (I'm too cheap to get Ring) and can attest I burned one lens simply because I had it in a position initially that faced the sun.

And as we all know, the sun is a deadly lazer.

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u/Popular-Web-3739 3h ago

You can, but if the camera records you doing it the courts consider that vandalism, trespass or criminal mischief. They don't care if your privacy is violated but you can be charged for damaging the neighbor's "security" camera.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 PURPLE 42m ago

OH YES YOU CAN…. Almost instantly….
Street Photographers have had expensive cameras ruined by automated cars and their laser sensors

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u/zed42 1h ago

you can just rig up something to hold the laser on target (stay on target!) while you do other stuff....

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u/dharma_wheel 9h ago

I am not a merry man!

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u/HammyJWill 6h ago

YOU HAVE NO HONOR

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u/Zippyversion1 5h ago

Neighbour escalates by putting a blue barrel and a cardboard cutout of Alexander on his balcony.

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u/Gloomy-Insurance-739 7h ago

"no Worf" "delay that Worf"

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u/Sensitive_Leader_312 7h ago

I was thinking a Waldo cut out

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u/toxcrusadr 6h ago

I’ve got a Captain Janeway OP can borrow.

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u/downsly46 5h ago

Hard to believe that this guy is now a PA senator

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u/myth1cg33k 2h ago

No joke I had the Commander Riker version of this when I was fifteen. It used to terrify my mom when she passed my door because all she'd see s a glimpse of a 6'+ man 😂

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u/ChadamBoii 3h ago

If I whispered in your ear that commander worfs head looks like a fanny, would you join me in a laugh?

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u/focoslow 3h ago

Chris, is that you?

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u/Garlic-Rough 8h ago

Capt Chewbaca from Starwars is always a good choice 😌

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u/0xHustler 9h ago

I was gonna say install a laser aimed straight at their camera but I like your idea better

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u/rachillsexyvibe 9h ago

this or hang a white dress at the window 😂 make him shit himself

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u/StormyNight78 8h ago

and have the cutout using binoculars!

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u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 5h ago

And have the cutout holding a sign saying, “You’re a creepy pedo.”

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u/politzer7 9h ago

Can i interest you in a giant cut out of the gorilla giving the middle finger too?

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u/TheRaccoonReport 6h ago

My buddy bought an old house in town with 3 stories. He has a foam bust of Julius Caesar staring at the street. It was there when he moved in and he left it. For years driving by until he bought it, I thought it was a ghost because it was super hard to see unless you were really looking, and since I only looked up there while driving, I could never really focus long enough to see it, so I always thought the place was haunted. Turns out they were just trolling the street and the cameras.

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u/doloresnthdottedline 6h ago

Oh my GOD. OP PLEASE ACTUALLY DO THIS.

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u/duetsauxin4k 8h ago

what’s the motive of them installing camera directly at his bedroom window?

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u/maxman162 7h ago

"Tommy? How's the peeping going?"

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u/Diekjung 8h ago

And maybe put red LEDs in his eyes.

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u/One_Vision_ 8h ago

Exactly.... of something creepy or disturbing. Or a two way mirror

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u/honcooge 7h ago

Of OJ Simpson

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u/SMODomite 7h ago

Better yet, make it of Sophie Cunningham pointing at the camera

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u/ChronicBuzz187 7h ago

"Looking for me, bro?"

https://giphy.com/gifs/10wgT5PDnOwMQE

Go big or go home :P

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u/Winteraine78 7h ago

Or buy 20 and put on a little puppet show for him.

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u/ChaosDaemon9 7h ago

This is a great idea that needs something that moves often. The arm waves every 15m or something like that so their motion notifications are constantly going off.

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u/Artix96 6h ago

Or a laser and point it at the cam maybe it will burn the matrix.

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u/Farmerstubble 6h ago

On a train

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u/jaBroniest 6h ago

My loud neighbours had a wifi/wireless printer and when they were extra noisy I'd send prints of ainsley harriott in different poses/facial expressions. They were so fucking dumb. "THE PRINTERS DOING IT AGAIN SARAH!". DUMB FUCKS.

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u/Acceptable-Net-154 6h ago

Budget version is to cut eyes into toilet paper rolls, link them up with string in window and add glow sticks to toilet rolls

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u/Tropicsenshi 6h ago

This is the best answer

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u/New-Bowler-8915 6h ago

Does that cost less than a BB gun?

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u/Electronic-Fix-4655 6h ago

Do some sleuthing and find a picture of their mom for this life sized cutout.

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u/whittlingcanbefatal 6h ago

Cut out one of the eyes and shine a laser pointer through it at the camera and bye bye camera. 

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u/r1verw1ld 6h ago

This is the way

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u/DarlingHades 6h ago

This is the answer.

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u/alwrit 5h ago

I was gonna say buy a pellet gun and shoot that fucking thing.

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u/siparthegreat 5h ago

Rasterbate.com use to do that

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u/tab_tab_tabby 5h ago

dont even buy it. just print it and tape on the window

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u/Soft-Guitar1129 5h ago

Maybe a few different cutouts? Different person in the window each day? Godzilla cutout?

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u/ScaryDirection1981 5h ago

Buy one of those very realistic child dolls and than call the police and tip them off he’s a pedo they will go and check his camera and bam problem solved

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u/januaryemberr 5h ago

My grandma got a life sized one of shaq after her house was burglarized.

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u/c10bbersaurus 5h ago

Better if it's made of those dots that are on the signs on windows of buses, so you can still see out, but their view in is obscured, unless at night and the shades are open.

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u/4isyellowTakeit5 4h ago

Tell your neighbors about it too. Im sure their windows are in view too.

Make a group chat together.

Buy multiple cutout characters from your groups favorite TV show. Buy some poster board and markers.

Spend the next few months playing out the pilot one line at a time with each unit having their designated character and line(s)

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u/Big_Wave9732 4h ago

Like dynamite, the neighbor wants to watch OP go bang!

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u/yourbrokenoven 4h ago

I love this idea

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u/Tee1upToday 4h ago

Or:

An official Red Ryder carbine-action, two-hundred-shot range model air rifle, with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ofT5GZBY1b0WPur8A

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u/Fake_Gamer_Cat 4h ago

When I was in college, one of my roommates had a life sized Loki cutout. She didn't tell anyone she put it up and put it by the door. Imagine my shock when I walked in and saw a human shaped shadow. Damn near peed my pants.

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u/Independent-Tennis57 4h ago

You get a picture of the neighbour, then put it on a life size cut out.

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u/RabidWolverine2021 3h ago

Put a picture of someone’s bare ass cheeks in your window.

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u/XenEntity 3h ago

Better yet have it peeking behind a curtain. Drive them nuts

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u/octo2195 2h ago

Cut out one of the eyes and install your own camera to watch them back.

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u/Commercial_Bird8467 2h ago

Id absolutely stage a fake murder and wait for the cops then let them know they are peeping.

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u/MonkeyInProgress 2h ago

Or better yet, get a projector and play a endless loop of Austin Powers' shadow scene.

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u/LucyJordan614 2h ago

My immediate thought

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u/crochetprozac 2h ago

I was gonna suggest 'buy a catapult ' but your idea is way better! Lol

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u/Outrageous_Camel8901 2h ago

Use a zoom lens to get a photo of your neighbors face, then print that out and put it on the cutout

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u/kycolonel 1h ago

The move is to point a Webcam at their house and live stream 24/7

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u/meatbeatmonkey 1h ago

Naw I’d put up a massive goatse cutout.

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u/DANleDINOSAUR 55m ago

Home Alone that shit and put it on a toy train and have it circle around the room.

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u/alex61821 17m ago

Take a picture of them. Photoshop it naked, put on cutout. Profit.

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u/Ramsesthrowaway 1m ago

Honestly a motion activated one that changes poses would really send it home

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