My parent’s neighbor complained their porch light was too bright. The neighbor lives 400′ away and my parents even tried adjusting the direction, but this morning they came out to this…

We currently have no leads as to who could have done such a thing…

My asshole neighbor has giant spotlights in the back of their house that literally light up my entire back of my house. So I can understand the frustration. This is not the solution unfortunately

I’m looking at how that light is pointed, your parents should’ve done a better job. I don’t agree with the spray painting, but that light was definitely still lighting up your neighbor.

If those lights are only used while your parents are outside at night and need to see, they shouldn’t have been an issue. If they’re on all night or coming on every time a squirrel or possum walks by all night, I can easily see how that could wreck a neighbor’s sleep. What their neighbors did was totally wrong, and the neighbor should catch charges, but if your parents knew they were doing something that disturbed their neighbor’s sleep and continued to do it anyway that’s very inconsiderate. It strikes me as a two wrongs situation. Also, their neighbor is clearly crazy, your parents might be wise to change it out for a regular and dimmer porch light. There’s no telling what the kook next door is capable of doing.

In a related post in this same sub “neighbors light shining right into my room from 400’ away. They refuse to fix it”

I fucking hate those lights.

Neighbors a douche but those are angled in a way that is 100% broadcasting a very wide dispersion pattern and probably still a nuisance.

Edit: not saying they should have done the damage, but clearly the parents don’t care – or are intentionally trying to piss of the neighbors because of thays the angle they chose AFTER ‘fixing it’ they’re just trolling as that’s the angle you would use to throw the furthest distance, not shorten it.

This is a floodlight not a porch light.

Get a porch light.

God I hate people who point their lights at other people’s property. Those lights should be pointed nearly straight down, you should never be able to see the bulb/projector housing from more than a few feet away. The vandalism is wrong, but damn it feels good to see.

So first, flood lights and porch lights are not the same thing. Placing it on a porch doesn’t make it not a flood light, the purpose of which is to literally flood an area with light. Second, are they being left on all night? If so, neighbor has a point…that’s obnoxious.

Not that I condone what he did, but yeah just because you think the light is fine doesn’t mean it is, have you asked to see it from his point of view?

I’m with the neighbor

Gotta love Reddit, I’ve read at least two other posts of people complaining about their asshole neighbors installing flood lights that beam straight into their house.

I even saw some posts showing the amount of light in people’s bedrooms. Some of them from hundreds of feet away.

Funny thing about photons, they don’t care so much about a few hundred feet.

I’m gonna say your parents are the assholes here. Get a chill lighting setup that doesn’t make your neighbors life suck.

LPT: If your neighbor tells you your light is too bright, it is. No really, it just is. “It doesn’t look too bright to me.” It is. “It’s too far away to bother them.” No it’s not. “It’s not even pointing at them.” Doesn’t matter. If you don’t replace it with something less bright, or block it yourself, they have no option other than to suck it up or do something illegal. Not condoning the illegal shit or saying I support what happened here, but be a good neighbor and don’t put them in this situation.