usmcbuckwild
Buck
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When we lived in base housing Beaufort, SC, we had a neighbor who worked on the rifle range at Parris Island. He had to be at work at 0400 everyday, so he drove by the house around 0300-0310. That’s all fine and well except he drove a POS Honda with one of those stupid wet-fart exhausts with a ginormous tip. Every morning it would wake up the neighborhood dogs, which in turn woke up everyone else. One weekend I strolled over and had a conversation with the young lad. I asked politely for him to be neighborly and keep it down while en route to work in the morning. He replied “No, I don’t have to keep it down”. I reminded him that there were noise ordinances on base and that a little respect of the neighbors goes a long way. He laughed and said “I have a couple friends who work PMO, I ain’t worried”. That Monday morning as he drove by he wound up that little Honda and let it bounce off rev-limiter on his way by. I gave him the benefit of the doubt to get a little rebellion out of his system. Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning he did it again. Wednesday afternoon I walked over and told him straight up to knock the schitt off. We were both fully aware that I outranked him, but I didn’t pull rank. He told me straight to my face to “Fuuk off”. Ok, you want to play that game? Works for me.
I picked up a can of expanding foam and utilized some straw like tubing I had at the house. Around mid-night I walked over to his house, shoved as much tubing as I could into the *s-wordty-ass expensive exhaust and emptied the entire can of expanding foam.
He was not only late for work (and most likely written up for it) but he had a nice, quiet, stock exhaust on the car by the weekend and we never had anymore issues.
