In the house where I grew up as a youngster we had old fart neighbors on both sides. All the kids in the neighborhood hated these geezers and we'd terrorize them constantly.
The one to our right used to yell at us if our football or softball would accidently fly over his fence into his yard and we had to trample his precious lawn to get it. (This guy was a perfectionist and would be out there with scissors in hand to make sure his lawn was uniformly cut to show you how nutty he was).
One time he saw us playing and ran outside and waited for a ball to land there which it did. He took a saw and cut our football in half. The next night a bunch of kids totally went to town on his fence and bent sections of his wires apart to get back at him. His house was egged constantly, and his windows got nailed with BB's.
The other neighbor to the left was an animal hater and would chase neighborhood dogs and cats crossing his lawn with a shovel and spray them with hoses. The kids also nailed this guy as much as possible. One kid even went so far as to dig a hole through the back of his house when he went on vacation and tossed in a whole box load of mice into his walls.
