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The HOA Tried To Enforce Ridiculous Rules, So A Teen Staged A Colorful Prank To Make A Point They Couldn’t Ignore

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Source: Pixabay/savannaholson0, Reddit/ProRevenge

Source: Pixabay/savannaholson0, Reddit/ProRevenge

When rules become too rigid, it’s only a matter of time before someone finds a way to break them.

One teen’s colorful act of defiance against a militant HOA intent ended up costing their power-hungry board members thousands of dollars in repairs!

Read on for the full story.

HOA Revenge

My family and I used to live in a fairly upper-middle class neighborhood that had an HOA.

The HOA seemed pretty mellow and dedicated to their original purpose and intent: maintaining property values.

As these things usually happen, a few new people got voted in, things started getting a bit more OCD and militant.

They gave several examples.

  1. We had to throw away our basketball hoop because the backboard was opaque and the new requirement was glass backboards only.
  2. We got a ticket because my dad forgot Monday was Memorial Day and put the trash out. Of course, trash collection had been pushed back to Tuesday, so we got a fine for having the trash can out overnight.
  3. We went on vacation for a week and the grass got a bit longer than usual, but nothing unreasonable. Got threatening letters and a fine.
  4. We weren’t allowed to have cars parked on the street, for any reason.
  5. My biggest pet peeve was that anyone under 18 had to be accompanied to the pool by their parent. My 17 year old self wasn’t too fond of having to get my mom to come bake in the sun any time I wanted to go for a swim. Nor was she.

I was on an Navy JROTC field trip to a Naval base, that I will leave unnamed for anonymity reasons, and stumbled upon what I still regard to be one of my greatest ideas.

I was in the Navy Exchange (basically Walmart for Navy personnel) looking at some of their surplus stuff when I came across an ejection seat dye marker.

So naturally, the teen snatched it up.

These are those very powerful dye markers that are attached to ejection seats so that in the event of a water landing after ejection, the pilot can be found easily, floating in the middle of a huge patch of green-dyed water.

So I bought it for $8 (a bargain at any price) and took it home.

Now for the revenge…

One night, after the HOA instituted (unenforceable) 10PM curfew for adolescents under 18, I took a little stroll over to the pool and tossed that bad-larry on in.

Much to my delight (and nervous horror) it worked exactly as designed.

The whole pool was neon green in a matter of a minute or two.

Of course, I got out of dodge.

The next time the teen passed the pool, they noticed something unusual.

The next day, as I drove past on my way home from school, I noticed that the pool was empty, but still looked very very green.

In the ensuing weeks, I came to find out that the pool had to be drained (660,000 gallons of water) and a professional power-washing company had to be brought in to clean the pool basin concrete, which had absorbed the dye.

Needless to say, their prank had left quite the lasting impression.

Then the pool had to be refilled and re-treated with all of the relevant chemicals.

All told, I think it cost ~$10,000 to the HOA.

Two years later, the HOA President was busted by the IRS and arrested for embezzling $70k worth of HOA funds.

He went to the big house for a couple of years.

And before anyone tears into me for wasting water, this was in the south, not California.

We have more water than we want down here.

The HOA learned that day that all power has its limits.

What did Reddit think?

Unfortunately there may be some collateral damage to the revenge.

Source: Reddit/ProRevenge

Perhaps the revenge could have hit the board members closer to home.

Source: Reddit/ProRevenge

The teen’s defiance may not have helped their case for a later curfew.

Source: Reddit/ProRevenge

This commenter got a kick out of it, though.

Source: Reddit/ProRevenge

This teen’s colorful prank proved a very expensive lesson for this HOA.

A splash of rebellion was all it took to turn the tables.

If you liked that post, check this one about a guy who got revenge on his condo by making his own Christmas light rules.


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