Cut them off with an angle grinder and go downstairs with a handful of ones.
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Email the landlord, with photos.
Battery bad.... 120v ac good. Just one wire in the hot side touch one screw. Put it on a random timer, too , this way when they say it's shocking it everyone else will think they crazy.
Decent way to end up with a manslaughter charge
I've been popped by 120 volt a few times.
It hurts like a motherfucker, but should throw a breaker or GFI before it kills.
"Should" is a pretty big risk considering the consequences
That's only if it's on a GFI. The resistance to Earth for a typical human is well below the "boy this space heater sure is drawing a lot of power" line that a breaker detects.
A thick rubber mat
I like how none of these comments involve talking to the neighbor and asking them to fix it.
Next step up would be ask the landlord to fix it.
They put a stripper pole in.. awesome.
They just used too big of screws.
5 min convo
Pretty much never should have screwed anything into the subfloor, regardless of screws long enough to go through the flooring. That’s entirely wrong. If it were screwed into the joists, or blocking between joists, this could not have happened
Hello I have problem
Have you considered premeditated murder?
When keepin’ it real goes wrong
When was the last time you ever asked or insisted your neighbors to fix anything? Especially neighbors with a stripper pole?
You have no idea how many drugs those people might be on or how many visitors/pimps might carry guns..
Tell ya what, the proper way would be to just skip that step and report it to the landlord, after you conveniently didn't see it and stepped on one or more of those pointy screws.
They'll have to get that shit fixed real quick, while your downstairs neighbors will not only have to pay for the damages, but also your medical bills, plus also likely face eviction.
Downtown Seattle, I wrote a note asking our upstairs neighbor to please stop pacing all night wearing boots. Put a rug down, take off boots, something.
I got an odd letter back explaining how he had been making "bad life decisions" lately and was trying to stop.
And I'm like, look one meth addict to another, that's not what I asked, put a rug down or take off the boots. I am not looking for a cry for help, just a night's sleep.
Did anything improve after that?
I'll agree that just reporting it to the landlord is the best course of action.
The rest of your comment is ignorant. You talk as if anybody who installs a pole in their house is a drug addict or is pimped out. Then you suggest purposefully injuring yourself over something the installer likely isn't even aware is causing an issue just so they can be financially impacted and evicted.
Maybe people don't talk to their neighbours about living problems because of shitty hostile neighbours with ideas like yours?
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Escalate immediately and antagonize the hypothetically dangerous neighbors.
You’re right that makes way more sense.
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I've asked my neighbor if an arrow I found in the road was theirs (no, but he was happy to take it) and coordinated removal of dead trees on the property line. Those went well.
I was rather stressed and unhappy when a neighbor, after some passive aggressive comments, reported us to the city weed inspector. The weed inspector determined we didn't have any violations, and we made extra sure to leave our "wild patch" in the front yard and take our time cleaning up leaves after that.
Mulch the leaves and spread the mulch back out. It helps keep the dirt fertilized.
It depends on the leaf-to-area ratio. We have a lot of trees that are large. Even mulched, the sheer volume of leaves would kill the grass. We have about a third of an acre and let a majority grow taller stuff, or where the trees are really dense have a leaf mould ground condition. It is nice to have some walkable area, grass is the lowest maintenance option for that, and keeping the grass alive requires leaf removal.
Sounds like you're referring to large trees such as Oak Trees.
This is a natural process, and Oak Trees tend to kill off the grass underneath them anyways, because the trees block much of the sunshine.
Let the oaks be the oaks, rake and mulch the leaves, and spread the mulch over open areas of grass not underneath big trees.
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Car batteries are high ampere, low voltage. They wouldn’t feel a thing …
Actually considering all of those screws are connected together by the same (presumably metal) plate, this would just create a short circuit and heat up or even melt those screws and plate.
It would start a fire from the wood long before the metal melts
And the battery
I was thinking an electric fence energizer.
It wouldn't work because there's no circuit.
I know right? I felt like I must be losing my mind reading some of these comments
Ugh I want to "well, ackshually" this so badly...
You may as well, now.
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Use a Dremel tool to cut the pointy ends flat, then cut a slot in the flattened ends. Now you can simply unscrew the screws with a flat head screwdriver.
Hey, since they already fucked up your floor anyways, what they gonna do, bitch and cuss and then end up having to pay for repairs to the damages?
how are the screws going through the upstairs floor what kind of apartment is that
An American, probably.
Usually the space between floors In a residential house is like 12" minimum. Not sure about highrises and large apartments though.
Looking at the screws' tips, I'd say it's unlikely they would be the kind that go through 12" with something to spare. I thing the floor is decidedly less than the 12" minimum.
Or it's a fake explanation of the picture, or a fake picture (AI or old fashion photoshop).
Inform the landlord, it's their problem. If that's their own property then. I don't know a police report or something and lots of evidence and civil claims court.
Plot twist: OP installed the thing in their ground floor and didn’t measure correctly; now they at least want to cash in on the internet fame.
Police will 100% say it's a civil matter.
Speak to the neighbour in the first instance, if that's no good my home insurance company would be the next people I'd speak to.
Sir, this community is called "lemmyshitposts"
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