My neighbour kept chopping down my flowers in bitter row – so I got the ultimate revenge on their privacy fence
A HOMEOWNER has revealed her revenge on a nightmare neighbour who kept hacking down her flowers.
The unnamed Reddit user won praise after showing off her creative vengeance against the garden-spoiling neighbour next door.
The mum posting online as told how she responded to the apparent vandalism of her own garden by painting her neighbour's fence in different colours.
She shared a photo of the wooden fence, accompanied by the caption "Rainbow revenge";.
It showed the yard dappled in shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.
And the renegade painter described why she felt prompted to take such action - while insisting that the fence does belong to her.
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She wrote: "The neighbour cut down the flower garden in front of my fence again so I unscrewed every picket and painted his side."
Many online commenters were on her side, with one responding: "Which side were the flowers on? Your side?
"If so, you can call the cops on him for trespassing and vandalism."
The original poster replied: "Yes, the flowers are in the 3in-wide flower bed in front of the fence. Nothing touched his side or lays over the sidewalk.
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"The fence was half this size in height last year. We replaced it with a 6ft fence after he started harassing us in the front yard.
"We have it set back about 3ft from the sidewalk so the gate doesn't swing open and block the sidewalk, and I have flowers in that space."
She also insisted she had caught her neighbour on camera in the act and filed a report with police in her US home state Texas.
And she declared: "Every year for the past three years he has cut down my flowers."
Among those allegedly hacked back are passion fruit vines, purple heart plants, sunflowers and wildflowers.
Online responses included: "He actually came over to your side of the fence and cut your garden? That's terrible!"
Another posted about her garden: "It looks beautiful. Your neighbour sounds like an unstable bigot - please be careful!"
And an admirer wrote: "Oh, it hurts my heart that your flowers got cut, but the colourful fence is awesome!"
The original poster was also told: "Fighting with rainbows is my new favourite thing that is happening in the world."
Similar fence and flower garden rows have broken out, including a West Midlands mum who reported neighbouring fly-tippers.
A gran has just told of being forced to tear down her daughter's "tiny home" in Chiddingly, East Sussex, after a neighbour reported her to council officials.
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There have also been disputes over parking, including notes left on windscreens - and over tree-trimming, including in Waterthorpe in Sheffield and in Beeston, near Nottingham, in Nottinghamshire.
Experts have offered guidance on which resident of neighbouring properties and gardens actually owns the fence dividing them.