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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Honigmann13 on 2025-01-29 06:49:39+00:00.
I'm not sure if this is the right sub - but it's too good not to share.
A friend of mine told me this episode from his childhood. The house he lived in with his parents was on a curve. It was the main road to a huge disco. (You can imagine how it continues.)
His room faced the street. For a while everything went well, until almost every other weekend a car couldn't make the curve and crashed into the house. So he has stories about how he was woken up by a car in his children's room. Unfortunately most of the cars weren't broken enough, so the drivers fled. Since there were no perpetrators, his parents were left with the costs.
They wrote to the city asking them to do something to make the curve safer. Of course nothing happened.
Then they came up with an idea:
Since the city isn't changing anything about the curve, our problem is that the perpetrators can keep driving.
They laid tree trunks across the lawn in front of the house. The solution to the problem began the very next weekend. Cars continued to drive into the house. But the trees had damaged the axles of all the cars so badly that they were no longer drivable.
This led to two results. All damage was paid for from now on and, strangely enough, the number of accidents on this bend decreased so that only two or three cars got stuck in the tree trunks a year.
Note:
Of course, my friend didn't have his children's room facing the front the whole time. After the accidents started, he had another room in the house.