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ULPT request how can I fuck over my boomer neighbor who loves his lawn,
Home & GardenIt cost me $400 to get a stump ground.
Could also carve a religious symbol on the stump then the HOA cant tell you what to do with it.
Baphomet, preferably.
Cthulu.
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Love his noodly appendages.
$400 is not a large sum of money for a property repair.
Honestly, OP moved into a neighborhood with waterfront property and a strict HOA. He signed up for this kind of perfection and is crying that he has to finish cutting down the tree he willingly chose to cut down?
I'm not defending the neighbours either, fuck the neighbours and the HOA. But I get to say that because I wasn't the dumb shit that moved into the HOA.
Near me I can rent a stump grinder for $180CAD for a half day. Besides, that job looks FUN
OP, I think your mint and dandelion seeds will do just fine to fuck up their day. Throw some chive in there as well. Then ask if you can borrow some herbs next time you're cooking
It’s fun for about 5 minutes. It’s hard work. I had to grind some stumps that had grown around a chain link fence once. The wood by itself was like iron, we couldn’t even chainsaw it. Then there was actual metal. Always rent the biggest grinder they have at the rental place, worth every penny. Don’t undersize.
Have a party and let everyone have fun for 5 minutes with it. If you invite enough people, it will be fun for all.
Hard work is fun!
I will never understand a HOA as an outsider that has lived in the states and rented (briefly) in an HOA before going fuck this I'm only here 3 days a week and some weirdo from 2 streets over is asking what I'm going to do with the flowers in my front yard...(the ones that were already in I the garden when I rented the place) felt like I was in a plot of a spy film about sleeper cell agents 😂
So, I quickly decided to buy run down rickety old turn of the century homes you guys have dotted all over made of beautiful wood normally hand finished and would do them up on those 3 days I was spending at them as I always like to be doing something. You've got so many all over the US and they just need some love to look as good as they ever did.
That’s far cheaper than having it removed and rehabbed to protect the driveway
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You’re paying way too much for stumps, who’s your stump guy?
Bandit Heeler
Good bloke
Whats your favorite v8?
Probably the fruit and veggies ones
I'm partial to the 502 Big Block, not the juice, lol
Hell yeah
I like german v8s lol
Windsor 351
I was driving my dads 88 ford with the 351 in it earlier lol
Yeah I don’t understand the big expense.
This is what I did. I would fill up my giant water cup, a route 44 sonic cup, with VERY VERY salty water and then I would go walk my dog. As I passed by their house, I would fling the salty water into their yard. It caused dead grass in these strange overlapping loops. Due to the patterning in the dead grass caused by the salt, they thought it was some strange bug eating the roots. They hired a “lawn specialist” who basically pulled up all of their grass, “treated” the ground with grass antibiotics, and then re-sodded. It didn’t fix it.
What was great was that she was on the HOA and had to fine herself for not maintaining a healthy lawn.
This is a great idea right up until their Ring camera picks up the culprit and you have to pay thousands in damages
Wear a hoodie and a covid mask, and do it without your dog at night. Cops aren't going to make the effort to track down a salt water splasher.
Cops don’t take the effort to track down people with clearly recognizable faces robbing houses with ring cams so this isn’t as dumb as it might sound. Cops dgaf about this stuff
Cops don’t give a fuck about anything other than beating their wives and trampling on the rights of ordinary Americans.
Pay kids to do it with super soakers or whatever the new water guns are called.
Fill a super soaker with the salt water Sbc do it at night. No camera will pick it up if you get the angle right
I was thinking very salty ice cubes thrown here and there
This is a good idea because salt water freezes at a lower temperature and I'm pretty sure that means they would melt quicker, but depending on how salty you make the water it would become a little more difficult to freeze. Seawater level concentration only lowers the freezing point to -2°C, but at 26% salinity the freezing point drops to -19.2°C, which isn't like that realistic of a difficulty but is kinda cool.
Most frozen products recommend storage below minus 18 Celsius, minus 20 should be quite doable in a home freezer, might have to crank up the freezer, but I'd be willing to do that for this neighbour. I'd be looking forward to reporting his shitty lawn to the hoa
Doesn’t dog piss kill grass? Dog piss i e cubes.
Have we got to the fucking point where we're calling them dog piss disk now?
This actually depends on the soil I think. If the nitrogen content is right piss will help, if not it will hinder. I read about this years ago cause my dogs never caused any yellowing on my lawn but in my dad's place it did. I forget but I think the piss adds nitrogen? And too much is bad but if the soil is low it helps the grass. I could be remembering entirely wrong tho
It’s a balance game and depends on the dogs levels.
My dogs piss helps my shitty no nutrient ground laid Bermuda by my builders. Grows tremendously at first. BUTTTT. dogs like to piss in the same spot. So eventually that spot gets a little too much piss(nitrogen) and it inevitably yellows. If I could teach my dog to piss in a different square foot every time I’d never need to fertilize.
No, this is right. I have a perfectly fine lawn, but the patches where my pooch pees are vibrantly verdantly green and lush.
Can you tell what kind of grass it is. If it is fescue, drop a bunch of Bermuda seed on it. And vice versa. Do you know how to get rid of Bermuda? You Move.
What are the chances it spreads to OP’s lawn?
High
fuck the whole block up including your own lawn.
do it to everyones lawn except like 3 diff people so theyre to be blamed
Forget the lawn bro. Put fertiliser and seeds in a T-shirt cannon and shoot it at the dudes roof
You have a T shirt cannon lying around?
I would very much prefer to neither confirm nor deny the facts of that story
Rice paper makes a great sabot for air pressure operated outdoor launchers. Cut into small squares, then it's like confetti too. Dissolves in rain, and leaves a sticky mess that can kill the existing grass, making room for whatever the seeds are. Keeps them moist for a time as well, siding on germination.
Depending upon the timeframe for revenge, clover and other cover crops are cheap and can usually root through other flora. Bamboo takes forever, but you can never get rid of it. Slow burn on the germination, and will spread like wildfire once rooted. Mint is quick, but can be easily identified.
Rock salt and deicing salt also work well. And can be purchased in the normal course of home ownership. Both work well out of a tshirt cannon. Especially with the aforementioned rice paper sabot.
If you get a tshirt cannon, you should also suddenly develop an airsoft hobby, as the materials overlap for supplies.
You don’t?
That’s the real advice for OP. Hit the neighbors next to him and across
And then they’ll all poison the lake
Sweet baby Jesus, I bought a century home and am trying to replace the tired Bermuda grass lawn with a pretty flower-filled bee-friendly garden, but I've learned that damned Bermuda grass wasn't tired -- it was gathering strength.
It wasn't resting... it was waiting...
"Once you try to remove me, that is when you will learn what a mistake you have made!"
Charging up
A man, truly wise and the ways of everything related to lawn maintenance once told me that, if you surround the Bermuda grass with a chicken wire fence, and throw some chickens in there, eventually, they will get it all. Including the new sprouts as they come out of the ground. Other than that, though, no, it’s forever.
Apparently he never heard of Turflon ester. Cost 30 bucks and three applications one month apart in late summer and fall. I’m actually surprised how well it got rid of Bermuda in Fescue.
The alternative is Plyex but that’s like 200 bucks
Just curious but is Bermuda not a good grass? That’s what my lawn is and it looks pretty good to me or is it just because it would look crazy mixing the two?
Lawn yatzis abhor uneven grass tones. A good crab grass ribbon will have you out twice a week cause its lime green and grows double speed. And as a ribhizone (similar to reeds or fake bamboo) it will return if you dont pull an extra foot of ground down and around.
Whatever you end up getting, don’t buy it off Amazon or with your credit card… I’d go cash only and wear a mask like I’m sick. If the guy is a nut job and sues you, they can get all the proof they need by checking your order history.
This man felonies.
Always solid advice regardless, but odds of somebody that's suing you being able to get your order history or acquire random store's CCTV footage is very slim. Criminal investigation by the police? Absolutely. General litigiousness by a random person? Not really a concern--just don't get caught red handed or by their security cameras.
Collect dandelion heads whenever you go out, release onto his lawn every night.
He probably treats his lawn with chemicals that prevent dandelions from sprouting
Might be a long shot and only temporary, but send out the utility company or whoever “call before you dig”. Say you’re going to be digging and need utilities marked, especially around the property line. Hope that some of the utilities cross over from the street onto your property.
My neighbors had something like that done and the utilities sprayed a yellow dashed line across my lawn where the electric line was buried.
Might temporarily annoy him with paint in his lawn.
Or even more ULPT, hire someone to do it with a mixture of paint and grass killer and have them mark fake utility lines. (But not in your lawn). Just show up with a vest and a hardhat. That could be a way to get onto his property. Someone can pretend to be a surveyor or utility company. They can the also spread seeds or whatever. Do it when his isn’t home and keep back to the cameras. This would be a little extreme.
You could also hire someone to go up to his house and put a Chinese menu on the door or something. Have them spread seeds or grass killer. Basically ways to get someone into his property without raising suspicion. Depends how big his lawn is, how good the cameras are and such.
Buy a bag of a thousand medicine capsules on amazon. Also buy a slingshot.
Pack the medicine capsules with invasive seeds.
When you slingshot them onto his lawn, they probably won't dissolve unless there's a lot of water coming. So you're going to want to make sure the grass is a little bit long, and some good rain is coming.
The security cameras won't pick up the capsules falling during rain.
Pro level clandestine procedure right here!
When my dad was a kid 7-9 ish (70s) & they wanted to get back at an old man neighbor or who have you, they’d shoot ice cubes thru their windows when they were at work. Damage was done, the ice cube would melt & the wet spot would dry up by the time the got home, leaving no evidence
What if the ice cubes were filled with a different liquid, could you freeze something else and then send them in that direction?
And why is the carpet all wet, TODD!?!
I DON’T KNOW MARGOT!!
If you do an endangered native plant your neighbor may be legally barred from tearing it up. Plus natives are much better if they make their way through the neighborhood
Why not just use seeds instead of capsules they make seeds ready to drop from airplanes
you need a way to transport the seeds without risking being seen on camera and capsules are more efficient than slinging the seeds one by one
If the neighbour is obsessed with having a perfect lawn, it probably won't be long.
Bamboo preferably
Put some bricks around the stump and say it’s a planter box. Or some nicely stained wood properly installed.
Pour some paint in his driveway and complain to HOA.
I think that Malicious Compliance may be a good route for this feud too. What can be done with the stump that adheres to the letter of the HOA bylaw?
Put a religious symbol on it and claim it is an alter.
Spell out the word asshole in a granular fertilizer like ammonia sulphate in the lawn. First it will burn the lawn so asshole will be brown. Then the asshole will water like crazy and it will come back dark green. It’s the gift that keeps on giving
If you really wanna fuck with somebody's lawn who keeps it really fastidiously maintained, sprinkle a variety of lettuce seeds all over their lawn. The lettuce seeds have a very fast germination time and also grow extremely fast quickly growing faster than the grass making the lawn look pretty weird with all the "weeds" popping up. The best part about is that you can't really kill the lettuce with chemicals because those chemicals will also kill the grass. The only way to really kill the lettuce is to stop watering the lawn and let everything die back.
Anyways, with all the weird uneven growth in the lawn because of the different varieties of lettuce, you can report him to the HOA for having an unkempt yard! And yeah, that mint can really wreak havoc on a yard too!
What was the HOA bylaw you violated? I wonder if there's something in the bylaws that you can weaponize against him.
This is what we did with our neighbor that was being a shithead. We read through the community rule book and started reporting anything and everything. And it worked too, the HOA enforced the rules pretty quickly and now there isn't a problem. The guy even apologized a couple month later.
I dont actually know. I emailed the lady at the hoa asking about the bylaws but the letter they sent me said " garbage, refuse, trash or other similar substances shall not be permitted to accumulate upon the premises but shall be removed at frequent intervals, and all lots at all times shall be kept in a clean , wholesome and sanitary condition."
There is no trash of any kind on my property. Just a fucking tree stump.
I think i would respond with, “your complaint is vague and generic. I honestly have no idea what you are talking about so will be unable to comply with your unclear request”.
This is a great response.
Either way, they're not going to let you "win", but this will piss them off. Don't just comply drag it out as long as you can
The last HOA I was in, they literally have a drama that’s been going on since the 90s. The lady will only respond via certified mail and just drags it out forever and ever. She refuses to talk to anyone at the HOA except back and forth via certified mail with the most asinine questions and arguments. It was pretty impressive, masterclass in wasting time.
Trees eventually try to regrow....and they do! I would fight their asses about this. Tell them you are growing the tree back! And trees are not refuse or garbage.....they are out of line here, IMO
I'm dealing with this now - trees were overgrown, we cut them back. Got a second notice saying they were not touched. Checked the bylaws and it was something along the lines of "landscape should be kept tidy". I sent pictures of before and after, the one sentence of the bylaws, and said "I think it looks tidy" and I haven't heard back.
THIS is exactly what to do. Guarantee he is in violation of something. Also, if they try to claim tree stump is “litter” or “waste”, send them registered mail telling them it is neither.
Wait for him to get home. Squat on the stump and take a dump as he drives up. Assert dominance.
Eye contact will be key.
Go on line and order about 10,000 ladybugh. Who does not love ladybugs? Some night slip them through his mail slot.
Lol! He doesn't have a mail slot but he does go to Florida for the winter. Maybe I can find a way to make a bug infestation while he's gone.
Dermestid beetles are sold for removing flesh from dead things in order to have nice clean bones for displays. They eat leather and similar things too.
Ooo, like, say leather couches? Or is that too treated?
Cockroaches
Crickets!!!!!! Cheap, noisy, and they're hard to catch in the house
i buy them every year to clear the aphids out of my garden.
Bed bugs
Whoa there Satan
Bed bugs wound be cool but you can not buy them as far as I know, you can buy ladybugs though.
My stump was a good size, so I had some tree guys just use their chainsaws to turn it into a bench. Maybe worth a try?
Creative and useful, but too ethical!
It kind of skirts the rules.
I saw on the news last night that a guy was ordered by his HOA to build a fence in front of his boat so his neighbors couldn’t see the boat. He built the fence and commissioned a mural of his boat parked there, so you had to get right up to it to see it wasn’t the actual boat. But they got their fence.
OMG that's so fucking petty it's hilarious. I'd love to have a beer with that guy.
Draw a giant dick on his lawn with fertilizer. Not too much or you'll kill it. Just enough to make that part really really green.
Urea (Nitrogen) is what you want. If you put it on heavy it will brown the grass but it will come back, all vibrant and green and needing mowed twice a week.
Suggested this to my granddaughter after she got in trouble for drawing a dick on the sidewalk with sunscreen and none of the college educated morons at her school were smart enough to wash it off or smear more sunscreen on it to cover it up. Yes, Grandpa is an evil, vindictive asshole and used this trick years ago.
Milorganite for the win! You can't over apply it and it will green and grow things overnight.
That's a shitty thing to do.
Def fluid would be the cheapest and easiest to get and not to mention the plausible denial
Giant dicks are so last year. Go for the big vagina with a macroclit
I’d just walk by every day and throw out a few handfuls of salt in his lawn
removing the stump might cause my driveway to collapse
LOL - You can rent a stump grinder for under $100. You only need to go down about six inches below grade.
1.) Make a brine 2.) Freeze brine into ice cubes 3.) Throw/shoot then all over front yard
This will cause very small dead spots that will make the neighbor wonder what's going on.
I forget the exact details, but it involves making ice cubes from weed killer. Throw the ice cubes onto their land. This would be more if you don’t have easy access to the lawn or don’t want to risk being seen.
Interesting. He does have security cameras so I can't do anything too obvious.
Slingshot!
Exactly! Slingshot at night from somewhere the cameras can't see.
So many of life's problems can be addressed with a good, strong slingshot.
Chunks of frozen RM43 thrown over the roof in the dead of night will be instant chaos.
That sounds awesome but our houses are lakefront property and I don't want to harm the ecosystem.
Wildflower seeds and a beautiful thing.
Stock cubes crumbled up and tossed on the lawn. Animals will kill the yard trying to get to the delicious smell
Dot these around his yard after he's done mowing
The green patches they'll create will drive him nuts.
Keep up the pressure, every couple weeks, scattering more, in a random pattern.
I love it.
Those dandelions when the bloom all those seeds will blow back on your lawn
Get a pet rooster. No more morning lie in for him.
Morning's here!
Mint for the win. I love the smell when you mow
Op is mad at the neighbor when he should be mad at the HOA. Don't buy into an HOA ever.
Listen I get it it - HOAs can be a pain. But in several areas of the country or for several living arrangements it's literally not an option. It feels like good advice if you have the option, but it's the equivalent to the brain dead advice "just move lol" people get when complaining about bad local policy for a lot of us.
You're not wrong! I'm not a fan of the hoa but I bought here for sentimental reasons. I grew up on this lake and I love it here. When I found this house for sale it was exactly where I wanted to be and such an insane deal I couldn't pass up. It took a lot of work to make it liveable but now I have a 3 bed 3 bath lakehouse and a mortgage under $500. I'm pretty much the luckiest man alive.
Grind the stupid stump and keep living the good life, my dude.
Salt
Salt his yard
Cabbage his yard. Keep cabbaging it.
Lakefront property, $400 is a problem. Does not compute.
Mint is insanely hard to control once it establishes itself in-ground, it spreads EVERYWHERE. Watermelon/pumpkin seeds would vine out once they get going as well.
Edit: I see you got the mint covered good shit lol
The problem with messing with boomer lawns in suburbia is always, always, always Ring cameras. If you can avoid those you can get away with anything.
Also do they allow sculptures? Cut that stump into something. Chair? Totem pole?
Plant mint. Hell never get rid of it. Throw seeds, in ice cubes, over his fence.
Call 811 and have his lawn marked for the “future” improvement project they are not aware of yet.
Vinegar dropped from drone . In 1 night you could totally ruin his lawn. You could set waypoints and have it all done semi-autonomously cause you’ll have to reload the vinegar. The minimum drone for this is the inspire 2
Over fertilize an image like a penis on the grass. It will keep growing back greener.
bermuda grass and oxalis, plantain... scatter them and slingshot seed balls held together with soil, clay and water. good luck.
Toss water balloons with bleach in them onto his lawn.
Seeds for mint and chives. Then seed his lawn. Enjoy!
There will be mint and chives in that yard long after that old curmudgeon is dead and buried in his forever box. And I? Am spiteful enough that, when that does happen, I might transplant some mint onto his grave too.
Instant mashed potatoes and rain
Frozen hotdogs hammered into his yard. Hundreds of frozen hotdogs hammered into his yard. Use a mallet.
Find a way to get marijuana seed, toss them into the garden and let it grow among the flowers. After a while when they’re identifiable as marijuana, call the authorities on him
I don’t know if this will work, just brain storming so feel free to critic or polish this idea
Be nice. Get the stump removed. Move to a place where there is no hoa.
I had an older neighbor, one of my tree branches fell and cut a cover on his pick up. He got pretty aggressive verbally. I thought about it, I knew that I am not responsible or accountable for this per insurance regs.
But, I've seen neighbor feuds before, I've had awful, meddling neighbors before. This current neighbor is generally very nice and thoughtful towards me. So I said, "Fuck it, I'll just get him a new cover or get it mended." I presented this to him, he looked a bit shocked but said ok. 30 minutes later, he called and said I'm a good neighbor and don't worry about the cover.
A peaceful, comfortable, safe home is worth way more than the stump removal. Good luck.
Different type of grass seed to what he has thrown into his lawn.
I just ordered mint and dandelion seeds on Amazon. But I doubt it will be enough. Old man mows his lawn almost every day.
Don't worry, grow the mint plant IN A CONTAINER on your property. When it starts to spread in the container, throw the tendrils into his lawn after he mows. Bonus points if you can get it under the dirt, but it'll be fine otherwise, just might take a bit for it to take. Plant directly into the ground on your property at your own risk. I made that mistake and will never be rid of it.
Oh Jesus Christ mint is just evil. That shit will SPREAD and never go away. Try tossing some over his fence or into a corner he won't check right away, because once it gets started it's next to impossible to stop. Be warned it may come into your yard too.
Bamboo. Almost impossible to wipe out once it has a foothold.
Add catnip to that mix too!!!!
mint and dandelion is devious
Clover seeds are a good one if your neighbour is really obsessive about their lawn.
Your lawn is going to be a byproduct of both of those. It's taken me 6 years to get rid of my mint. Just when you think it's gone more pops up. Another fun one is lettuce. Plant it in your property and let it over grow and flower and next year you'll find lettuce growing everywhere.
if he uses weed&feed or something similar, you're wasting your money.
If you live in a cooler climate, something like tall fescue can be annoying to eradicate if it establishes in the lawn.
Go big or go home. Spread Kudzu.
Yes you'll be screwing over the whole neighborhood, but you can invest your money in goats and rent them out to fight back against the plague you're about to unleash
Spreading any weeds, invasive species of plants on his lawn is going to spread to everyone’s yards & surrounding area.
All native plants are crucial to your area ecosystem. Invasive species will push those out and ruin an entire area’s habitat.
If you want to spread any seeds research native plants for your area and use those. Spread the seeds before the first snowstorm or when the leaves are falling. They will over winter, and will sprout with the lawn.
Some state’s wildflowers are on the protected or endangered list & it’s a crime to remove. IDK if you have setbacks that are owned or protected government entity. If any of those protected plants or animals were to show up. It’s in many places illegal to remove or harass those species.
It would be difficult if your neighbor had native species suddenly show up and he can’t mow or disturb them.
Definitely overseed his lawn then make sure to soak that mf’r every day!! Screw him
Mint seeds?
Agricultural vinager mixed with salt and dish soap. Then splash it on his lawn, but be sure to not leave an obvious source of it. In about a week he’s going start seeing a problem in his yard
Oil kills grass. Pour it on at 3am in a fun design
Salt
Order a fully grown sandbox tree. Give it to him as a gift. Hide in a bunker.
In addition to the dandelion seeds, get a shit ton of high quality giant pumpkin seeds
Wait... why pumpkin?? Laughing at the thread, but we cut up pumpkins in our driveway last year for Halloween and now have a "volunteer" pumpkin plant at the corner of our yard. Is it like bamboo? Never ending? Have we unleashed the Kraken??
Cheap dry dog food on their lawn. Hard to rake up and if it rains it will turn into a nasty mush.
Marshmallows. Before it rains, throw a few bags of marshmallows as far as you can into his yard.
Salt is the move for sure. It’s extremely effective and extremely hard to fix. The method of deployment will be the most difficult. I would probably load up the end of my leaf blower with a ton of salt, act like I’m gonna do some leaf blowing on my lawn, ya know, clean up the yard and then turn that bitch on and shower his yard with salt. It will just look like dust on camera.
Hollyhock seeds. Just throw them over the fence.
Don't put an invasive species at the fucking lake.
Get several cans of salt. Outline a giant penis in his yard made of salt. It will make the ground unusuable, killing all the grass there and making a giant dirt penis
OP needs to give us an update.
Throw some beef bullion cubes onto his lawn while the sprinklers are on. All the neighborhood dogs will go crazy trying to dig up the smell.
Be careful about seeds. He will probably be willing to kill all the life in the lake in exchange for killing a few dandelion and mint plants.
Instead go with a grass that can't be killed without also killing the lawngrass.
Be a good neighbor, follow the rules of the HOA that YOU agreed to. You've got to live next to this guy, so you really want more of an enemy?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Next time, buy a home outside of an HOA, but then you'll likely be complaining about your neighbor who has a car on blocks in their yard "hurting your property value".
Just saw a tiktok thing about putting mashed potato flakes all over the lawn right before it rains, that sounds fun.
Oh that could be fun!
Salt water from a super soaker after a rain
You live lakefront in an hoa and you’re trying to fuck over your neighbor for $400??? Wut?
Just grind it down and move on with your life. You’ll be happier.
land of the free yet i keep hearing about these "home owner associations" lmao
How do even know boomer made the complaint though?
Lakefront house, but can't afford to have a tree stump removed? Am I missing something here?
Get some golden poppy seeds and put it all over his lawn. Use many packets. It’s the gift that will keep on giving every year. It will also spread everywhere with the wind.
You moved into an HOA. That's on you, bud.
Salt the fuck out of his lawn. It’ll ruin the lawn and the ground will retain the sodium for a long long time. He’ll have to resod his entire shit. You might catch Covid from the air so wear a mask.
Do this preferably @3:30am.
Grubs and chinch bugs will do a number on the lawn, and won't harm much else, will probably migrate over to yours, but pretty easy to take care of when you treat at the proper time of year
Put piss disks on the lawn This will make it smell bad
Pay cash and buy several of the biggest packages of potato flakes you can find in the grocery store. Scatter them over their lawn at night and let the overnight dew take hold of them. Bonus points if you plan it for a night it'll rain a bit.
Heaps of mint plants. Once they get established you can't get rid of them. Might have to let them grow in your garden too though
Do a stump burn.
Brush killer in a water gun. Go out at night and do a few random sprays in his grass.
I would not do the mint, the mint will become an everyone problem.
Maybe stupid question, but you cant just have the stump ground down flat?