In the netherlands there was a farmer who got denied the construction of a building by a mayor. He then proceeded to buy the land on the other side of the road of the mayors house (the side with the country view) and piled up a 6 meter high wall of soil and thus taking away the lovely countryside view of the mayor and giving him back a solid bank of dirt to look at. The farmer made sure he always kept the bank free of any weeds so that it stayed black and boring.

Where my parents live, a guy built a fence around his house. His neighbor measured it and reported it to city council because it was slightly too tall. So he had to tear it down, but he rebuilt it, ensuring it was in specs, but he made it just hideous unmatched and odd paints And the neighbor couldn't get the city council to do anything because it wasn't breaking any laws or ordinances XD

A guy down the road from me split up from his wife but he wanted to keep the house. The wife wanted it sold so she got her lawyer to make up a contract forcing him to sell and requiring it to have a fresh coat of paint. He proceeded to paint each board a different colour and then had it valued. Apparently, due to the lack of street appeal, the house sold very cheap, and you guessed it, the husband was the buyer!

My neighbors got complaints about leaving there Christmas decorations out all years so every time they got a complaint, they bought a new one and put it outside. We call it the Christmas house.

My parents built me ugly to prove a point, I'm still trying to figure what the point was...

My dad's friend owns a farm and the neighbors loved to look at the cows from their window. The view was often blocked by his old ugly tracker so they complained to the mayor and he was told he had to park it somewhere else. So out of spite he built a big shed that entirely blocked the neighbors view of his cows and parked his tractor inside it, as was his right.

I know a guy that had a house in Newport Beach, Ca. All the houses on the block were single story. Somehow his neighbor got the ok from the city to build a two story house looking over his fence and invading any visual privacy he had. So in retaliation, he planted bamboo trees blocking the view and practically everything else viewed from the windows. Touché 🤺

I've grown a spite hedge to surround my garden. My neighbour is a thief, a trespasser and a peeping tom, I also discovered he hates Laurel bushes and cut down every one in his own garden when he moved there. So I deliberately planted a double row of Laurel bushes along our shared fence, plus a triple row of Hawthorns, Hollies, Sloes and very thorny Roses around the other fences that he likes to climb over. He likes to make 'jogging' his excuse for nosing about on other people's properties, which means wearing plimsolls. So I am not too particular where I dump the prunings from any of these particular plants :D

Be funny that if the Great Pyramid, after all the head scratching and theorizing about its purpose, it turned out to be a spite house.

Ahhh spite houses, it restores my faith in humanity.

In Belarus, a duke refused to pay his construction workers for the renovation of his estate, so the workers went and built a small copy of the building which was very similar on the outside, but inside it was a public restroom

There are actually two "spite houses" I know of involving my rich sister. One is not exactly a house but a warehouse next to my uncle's house. The two are bitter enemies so when my uncle had his illegally gotten house built beside our family's warehouse, my sister added a second floor to it to block the view on the side. Also, she used the warehouse as a storehouse for expired/expiring goods so that mice, rats and cockroaches lived there in huge numbers and even migrate into my uncle's house. The other spite house was already built between a business rival's house and her property. You see, the rival has a rectangular property next to her corner store. In that lot lives a poor family in their rectangular house. Through some cunning, the bully neighbor was able to buy the other half of the lot (the driveway/parking lot), leaving the rectangular house in between her two properties. She was so confident that no one will be interested in buying the skinny rectangular lot in the middle of her properties that she decided to take her sweet time until the poor family agrees to sell their property at a much lower price. But she crossed paths with my sister and got her mad enough to seek revenge. Upon hearing the predicament of the poor family, she sent an emissary and offered to buy their house and lot for a princely sum. The poor family quickly and gleefully accepted the offer, thankful to be given the chance to give a big eff-you to the neighbor who's been harassing them for years. Before their hated neighbor got wind of it, the deed of sale was already done. My sister quickly devised a business lease for the property and awarded it to a noisy maker of steel and iron grills. The smoke and noise it produces annoy the hell out of its neighboring establishment to this day.

The city I live in made me paint my house.. so I picked the loudest green I could. They never said what color it had to be.

You should do a sequel to your book "stick a house here"

Where I live, the county has "Eminent Domain" over any property near the road. I live on a 3.5 acre plot that borders a county road. The property is higher than the road, and thus ends with a 45 degree slope from the yard down to the road. At the bottom of this slope was a nice transition of ground that formed a gutter. I can't use a weed-whacker on that slope as my left leg is messed up so that i can not walk up any kind of hill, no stand on one to swing a weed-whacker. Plus the friggin frontage is like 1/8 mile long and 8 feet high in places! That's a LOT of weed-whacking! But I did modify a lawn tractor that I could mow up & down with to keep the slope mowed. If it is not kept mowed the county will either fine me, or spray it with chemicals to kill the grass, or both. Fast forward a few years and here comes a crew with a road grader. They are cutting a deep groove into the bottom of any slope along that road. Making it essentially a 12 inch drop-off. "For drainage" they said. My land is on top of a small hill. The existing shallow gutter was more than sufficient. I stopped the operator of the grader and asked him to not cut into my slope. He rudely declined. I parked my tractor in the way and found the crew foreman. He was an asshole too. I told the guy "Well if you cut the bank, you can bring your asses out here every 2 weeks and mow it!" I was ignored. They carved an needlessly deep trench resulting an a roughly 2 foot "step" at the bottom of the slope. My tractor could not get over that, and the slope became overgrown. After a call by the county to mow it. I explained why I haven't been doing so. Again, they didn't give a shit. So I got out my bigger tractor with the dozer-blade and knocked down the "step" they carved. I smoothed it back out, filling the trench. Once again, enabling me to mow the slope with my modified lawn tractor. The next fall, Here they come again! I was right behind them filling it right back in! I do this yearly. Right behind them watching them point and shake their heads. No, I will not stop. This is my action of spite. To immediately undo the pointless work they have to pay their crews to do, while the crew watches me do it. Edit for error...

"The actual Baptists don't want anything to do with them." Thanks for throwing that in. Most reports on the Westborough Cult play up the Baptist angle. As a life long Baptist I have had to endure constant comparisons to them.

George Lucas really said "I'll spend $30,000,000+ just to piss off 16 people

You missed the farm in the middle of Narita Airport in Japan. Been a fight since the 1970s. "Narita airport’s second runway was supposed to go through his farm but routes around it instead. He still sells “produce to around 400 local customers.”

In the eighties and nineties, there was a particular house in Lafayette, Alabama that was re painted every few months in garish colors to spite neighborhood. Apparently the house's owner also owned a house painting business and used the leftovers to spite the neighbors. But I thought it was pretty as a kid.

Building a whole ass house just because of a grudge? That's so petty. I love it.

A man was once visited by a fairy who told him she would grant him a wish, any wish, on one condition, his neighbour would received twice as much as he had asked for. The man said he had to think about it and the fairy agreed to come back the next day to fulfill his wish. The next day, when the fairy asked him what he wished for, he replied: gouge one of my eyes out.

If your voice is not an option for Siri what is life???? You would explain everything so well!

I love what George Lucas did. When you buy a house, you buy... a house, that's it. You don't buy the right to tell other people what to do on their land. Will it make housing prices go down? I hope so. Housing prices should go down.

lol, " It's a bypass, you've got to build bypasses." Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy-Douglas Adams.

I never heard the phase “cutting off your nose to spite your face” before. Thanks Thoughty.

I've never heard of spite houses before but they are my new favourite thing! Huge respect to all spite house builders!!

I love how people like to pretend that they own "the view" as if they purchased the entire community of something.

I knew an artist whose neighbors built an 8' spite fence - they didn't want to have to see his art, from their house. He decided to take things up a notch. He mounted dozens of pink flamingos onto poles, and lined the fence with them all looking into the neighbors yard.

I've lived up the street from plum island and, trust me, the regular tap water isn't any less marshy than the marsh water.

My grandfather (real estate developer, for context) was denied membership to a country club because they didn't allow Jewish people. So, he bought the biggest house on their golf course and put the biggest Israeli flag he could find out front. That club now allows Jews.

My Dad loved to tell about a neighbor that planted poison ivy in his backyard because another neighbor would let his dogs run around unleash. The second neighbor told the first to put up a fence. This was way back before leash laws in a country area.

Where I live, a man bought a huge property that he wanted to build a car museum on. The neighbor was a judge and didn't want a car museum going up next to his property. He thought he solved the problem when he had his neighbors land declared a Wetland which means you can't build on it. That didn't stop the man, it just made him more determined. He bought 50 goats and let them loose on his property. Within two months, those goats had eaten everything. It was no longer a "wetland" He sold the goats for a profit, and built his antique car museum. If you ever want to see one of the first bat mobiles, and some beautiful cars, check out the car museum on Highway 90 outside of Tallahassee Florida 🤣😂🤣😂

"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message..." 🤣

Back in the 90's, my 5th grade teacher straight up lied & said I threw rocks at the school when in reality I threw a tiny snowball at a friend & it hit the school. Out of spite, I put a password on the classroom PC, and her old ass could not figure out what was wrong. The school was too dumb & cheap to figure out how to fix it on their own, never called help, and was just confounded by the mystery. I left it like that until I graduated to Middle School. Still wonder what happened to that thing.

We have a few acres with livestock. One day two of our sheep found a hole in the face. Our neighbors decided to chase them down the road into the neighboring field, declaring he had no idea how owns them and call the police. Long story short we looked for our sheep for an hour, we came home and the sheep were waiting for us at the fence, police didn't care and we build the ugliest sheet by the neighbors fence to house two pigs all summer. Our pig Fred und Uber loved their neighbors 😂 ...they had the freshest air all summer

My son believes there are people who only feel the day has been worth while if they have made as many other people as miserable as they can.

Imagine spite 100,000 years from now. Two brothers having beef...one finds out the other loves his view of a nebula across the universe. The other brother decides to place an entire planet and several moons in the way.

This all proves how neither perseverance nor stubbornness ever require a high level of intelligence.

The building in the shape of a middle finger is bloody brilliant

I think the story was that Carnegie blamed Frick alone for a massacre of their steel workers who were on strike. Frick said that Carnegie left the country after ordering Frick to do it.

First Title: Meet the People Who Build Ugly Houses Just to Get Revenge

I remember a couple neighbors in the rich part of the city had a falling out. Neighbor one then built two stories on his already big mansion blocking out neighbor two's sunlight. When neighbor one died suddenly, neighbor two bought the house. He knocked off the two added stories and left it with a flat roof and no occupants. Butt ton of money wasted on spite.

I knew some folks who lived one house south of a residential intersection. The family in the corner house wanted to sell, but were told they first had to repaint the exterior, which they did: pale lilac with dark lilac trim. My friends were initially horrified, but soon the repainted property became the local landmark. "Turn right at the purple house..." or "If you come to the purple house, you've overshot our street..." That sort of thing. Lemons to lemonade! 😁

So we use to live next to this typical heavy churchgoing old lady, who dint really have a lot going on in her life any more. The wall dividing our properties was this really low, English countryside looking wall. Our property was fairly large with a fuck tone of wild and bushy trees. Her property was a similar size but well maintained garden. She would come over on Sundays after church to try and convince us to go with her the next week, we never did. It was on one of these occasions that she walked in on us hosting an art lesson...but not just any art lesson...an art lesson featuring a nude model! She kept yelling "Its unsavory! Its unsavory!" and stormed off. Few weeks later she comes over: "Sorry, one of your trees is blocking my lilies, would you mind if I had a few braces trimmed to let the sunlight in?" "No of course not madam!" "Oh excellent!" She says as she pulls out a tape recorder out of her pocket and hits "Stop recording". Sticking her head out the front door she yells as loud as she can "SHE SAID GO AHEAD!" In the distance we hear the screech of a chainsaw and a sudden crack. In awe we watch a half meter wide tree totally topple over "You said you were only cutting a few branches...." "Well how do we know where the base of the tree ends and where the branches begin" "????" "Oh I'm not here to be judged" and she walks off. The revenge: This is probably the most petty thing I've done. As it turns out: the wall dividing our properties is fully on our side of the property line. So while she was on holiday we have it built much much taller. Then we had the ladies from the art class paint a a double nude on it of a man and a woman...enjoying themselves... She was furious, but the wall being a meter on our side of the property there is nothing she could do. Unfortunately the nude was defaced by an anonymous vandal... but its fine, we painted the wall white and made it a legal graphite wall. She is currently trying to sell her house, but no one wants to take it because of the wall. she has threatened to sue. but we know she doesn't have a leg to stand on. no one in the nagbourhood likes her. we have considered removing the wall just to get rid of her faster, but it might cause her to decide to stay.

Your timing is perfect! I needed more inspirational ideas for a "disagreeable" new neighbor.

Apparently, the real scoop on the "Skinny" house in Boston is that is was built to stop the constant passage of horse drawn carts that used it, and the exposed wall between the house and the next building still has gouge marks from that era attesting to the problem. Saw this on an episode of some tiny house / apartment series on Netfilx several years back...

On the road to Hay-on-Wye, a cabdriver pointed out to me a small house in the middle of a field. He said two elderly brothers lived in the house, but they hadn't spoken to each other in 40 years because of spite. But thanks for the mention of Connie Mack's spite fence. My relatives lived in a flat behind the bleachers in Wrigley Field in Chicago, and they said they and others could watch the Cubs play baseball from the roof.

The Skinny House in Boston was just put up for sale. It sold in less than 24 hours for $1.3Million less than 2 weeks ago. There were video tours of the interior online and the house is beautiful and fascinating!

🌸😹I have to say of all the avenues towards revenge that exist in this world, this has got to be amongst one of the most satisfying!😹🌸

No joke, a spite house was always my dream house, and I didn't even know the name of it, but instead of building a house for the needing, I wanted to build a house for the mentally ill, in a well localized area. I also planned a house with a grotesque architeture and as long it is much less expensive than my first project, I'll probably get it done sooner. Thank you for the info, Sir.

I need to start overstocking on tea. A Thoughty2 video doesn't feel British enough if there's no cup of tea beside me. Perhaps, I shall have my tea with crumpets.

I was stationed for the Us Army at Fort Riley Kansas, which is the nearest major military base to the headquarters of the Westboro baptist church (WBC) (Topeka, Kansas). We had to deal with those people coming to soldier funerals regularly. Thankfully the bikers always did a good job getting in between the WBC and the funeral and would rev their engines anytime the WBC tried to say anything.

I don't even care what the video is, he still manages to make it amazing!

in Charlotte North Carolina downtown area. a developer building a sky scraper wanted to clad it in Gold tinted Glass. upon sending his proposal into the town council they rejected the gold glass. to resolve the issue the developer made a decision to cover the Building in Pink Tinted Glass as a Vendetta

My neighbor who I cannot stand had a garden. I went and built a fence up to the legally allowed limit in my town, and planted some trees on my side of the property. Now nothing will grow in their backyard. Moral of the story? Don't tick me off or you will regret it. Why did I do this you may ask? They insulted my wifes heritage she was Japanese-American.

Funny you mention our LEAP from apes we never did find that missing link.

I had a neighbor that built a 8.6ft wall like that. I looked at him and said how come not 10ft. Than I wouldn't have to see you at all? Two years later he put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. Guess we know who had the bigger problem.

There is a revenge house in my town. Sometime around 1900, a man built a luxury home complete with a bay window. His rival bought the land next door to the bay window side and built his luxury home as close as he could get, to block the view and sunshine, with nothing but a brick wall to look at. There is enough room to walk between the houses, and that is it. Except for high noon, it is in shade.

I have just stumbled across this video (and this channel) and all I can say is that the amount of research about a different topic in every video and the way the information is put together is absolutely great!

Just wanted to say I’ve been watching your channel since you began years ago. Congratulations on so many subscribers! I remember the days without the mustache and suspenders but they add to your character. Good luck and I look forward to your future videos!

Walmart wanted to buy my great grandfather's farm. This is in Scottsdale right out of Scottsdale Pa, actually. Well you turn to the right to go to Scottsdale turn to the left I think it's called owensdale. The big Walmart. That was all his land and also completely right the fields everything where all the stores are. That was all his as well. Well well the stipulation. Walmart had to move my grandfather's farm and farm house. As it stands to the new land he purchased. Walmart excitedly agreed. His payment for the land, 2.2 million. Here's the thing it cost Walmart over 17 million dollars to move my grandfather's farm. They tried to back out they tried to offer him money they tried to build him a beautiful new farm. My grandfather stood his ground. And forced them to move everything as it was as it was stated. They went to court a few times they lost every time. I no longer go to this area because my grandparents are no longer with us. But when I would what pride I would feel in my heart of what my grandfather pulled over on Walmart. Bam!!! Hahaha Sad thing about my grandfather's money. Or actually my great-grandfather. He believed no woman should ever, receive anything from the family in a death. My grandmother never saw a lick of help or any money from my grandfather. His old mindset, kept the money with the males. So sad. Because they utterly destroyed, everything my grandfather works so hard for. I guess it's kind of a touche in the universe. Interesting how things work out. My great-grandfather was an incredible Craftsman of wood. He made many cuckoo clocks. And beautiful grandmother mother grandfather clocks. Very intricate very beautiful. He was well known for weaving braiding wood out of one solid piece of wood. When I was around 3 years old I'll never forget sitting on his lap. Old man white beard down to his stomach. He was one foot out of the Amish. More like the Mennonite type. Although on my uncle's farm and my grandfather's farm. There was never allowed any petrol on the land. They actually bought land the base of their land and poured a big parking lot. Not a tractor not a car whatever pull on their land. But they did use vehicles. I sat on his lap that day and I said my goodness you have bony legs. And he said will you have a bony butt. I looked at him and said no sir I think that's just your legs. I hopped up got a pillow and sat back down I said that should be better for the both of us. Where I proceeded to braid his beard. Such a lovely man, even though that he didn't see women as equals. He was always very kind and loving. But the expectations that man had. Were from a complete different era. And you can't blame someone for who they are and what they grew up in. Once there are a few years from death. There's no way you can change that heart. Pretty cool story. I love how he got over on Walmart. 17 million. God that makes me laugh. 🤣

I think there will be in 10/15 years a scientist or a historian that will say I'm here because thoughty2 and riddle etc...

My mother lives in Lucas Valley where Lucas wanted to build. I have been to Lucas' studios there. Lucas' property is isolated and his projects would not have bothered anybody.

I didn’t think of this before now, but my brother in law did this. We have a lot of Nimby’s around us, my sister and brother in law bought a Victorian house with the idea of extensively renovating it and living there forever, incorporating a swimming pool, media room etc. The neighbours instituted a letter writing campaign saying that having a pool could lead to parking problems from people using the pool (like it was going to be open to the public). The property had outline planning for two houses in the grounds, eventually they got bored with refuting all the neighbours ridiculous claims so before they moved he built a house on one of the plots - had the locals not complained, my sister and her family would still be living there and the extra house would not have been built.

Well I never thought I'd see the day, Thoughty2 talking about my home town Mullingar. Class ha ha.

I learn about spite stores from Larry David, and I learn about spite homes from Thoughty42.

The most spiteful thing I've done... I salted a vegetable garden. I was struggling with trying to find a new place to live and the person who I was flartng with at the time was an asshole who would tell at me and even tried to control who I hung out with. (He wasn't my dad or my boyfriend) One day I packed all my things up and moved out, but I had to return to clean up and double check, prior to my return he expected me to pay a final weeks rent when I had paid the day I moved in. After I cleaned the room He then tried to take fridge saying I hadn't paid the final week, and that I hadn't cleaned. So again I returned and instead of cleaning I use my bag of salt and tipped it on the vegetable garden I had worked so hard on for the both of us.

This reminds me of a story a few years back. Some guy found out his wife cheated on him. After the divorce she moved in with the man she cheated with. So the ex husband bought the house next to them. Then he built a giant statue of a hand in the garden. With the middle finger up, right in their view. Another story, not really a spite house but more the opposite. The story was told by an uncle of mine and supposed to have happened in the late 70s. A couple in the street where he lived back then got a divorce and it was decided the man could keep the house. The ex wife had to move out and so she did. And took everything with her. The furniture, kitchen cabinets, doors, water pipes, toilet and everything else she could take. Not sure if the house had windows left. And my uncle was not sure if the staircase was left behind or not.

Just by reading the title I can tell this is going to be a fun video. :)

Anybody else have a smile when they see a new thoughty2 upload 👌

a local couple refused to sell their house when my local community college was being built so nows theres just a random small house in the middle of the college parking lot lmao

Holy crap, I drive by that plum island pink house (Massachusetts) all the time when I go fishing and I’ve always wondered what the hell it’s doing there. Pretty cool you talked about it!

Good fences make good neighbors. ~Robert Frost

This was such an on point subject today how ridiculously timely

6:47 - "The house was built in the twenties..." This video was made in 2021 so currently, we are also in the twenties, therefore you'd have to specify it was built in "the nineteen twenties".

Your videos are so good, and the way u pontificate the points of interest is so well portrayed.

So an old neighbor refused to sell his house to the college unless they paid an absurd amount of money after they bought every other house on the block so now his house is surrounded by parking lots on both sides

reminds me of that arc of curb your enthusiasm where larry david starts a spite business due to an argument over scones.

I own a rather large "L" shaped property. Love all my neighbors except the one on the inside of the L... After years of conflicts and problems I built a beautiful 5 meter (16 feet) tall block and concrete wall the length of their property. Problem solved and I have peace now. My side is beautifully landscaped has natural stone accents and even a water feature that makes a marvelous trickling water sounds. Their side is an unfinished ugly concrete wall. Peace is all I wanted. Wasn't about building a fence. Just peace...

Great video! Thanks!🌞🌞🌞

I ❤️ how a guy build his ex a replica of their home on a salt marsh. Genius. I’d of loved to be him 🤘

how can someone make a video about one of the most disgusting human emotions and still make me smile and laugh you ask? i say thoughty2! You sir, got yourself a ticket to me, reading your book town.

The "chartered accountants " line delivery had me roolling! Thanx 😊 for the giggles!

With the divorce one there have been people who physically cut all their processions in half to give to their ex, so it was all worthless, even though the half they kept was also worthless.

Been watching for so long and I'll never get tired.

It's all fun and games until someone is this spiteful to you, but until that happens this kind of stuff is hilarious

This is seriously one of the best channels on KZfaq. Well done, mate.

My man, I always dig your game, but that one that really really hit me!!!. Thank you.

17:18 Me when Henry builds another spite house blocking the ocean veiw:

I used to drive by 2 houses in the middle of nowhere with a giant board fence between them, and on one side the words F U were painted on it.

Very interesting subject and well presented

7:55 What a weird synchronicity. This is the 2nd video I watched this morning. Last thing I read before sleeping last night was about Kevin Spacey in the film Gore as Gore Vidal. So strange.

After all these years, my ex wife still refuses to forgive me for proposing to her.

ugly houses are just theft deterrents, homie

That was a very nice touch to use a line from one of George Lucas’s movies in your animations. “I’ve got the high ground” said Obi-wan Kenobi to Anikan Skywalker on Musafar.👍

Your definition of 'spite/revenge' seems to be rather flexible. Defending your business or your basic rights as a landowner, in order not to be cheated, coerced or bullied by others, is not 'spite', it's self defence. Fun video, all the same. 👍

I wasn't ready for the ending story 😅😂😂

This is possibly the greatest video I've ever seen

Ten thumbs up! This has to be one of your best yet, Thoughty2. (And were the numerous subtle hints trying to tell another story?)

Just purchased your book, audible and hardcover. I really cannot wait to hear it and read it. Love your channel.