My best prank was played against my neighbor....the kind of guy who would yell at me when my ball happened to roll onto his lawn. He’d confiscate it and tell me I wasn’t getting it back. I was only like 10, so it really bothered me. One day, he left and I swung into action. I had bought a small screw in eye hook, and a small washer. I painted both white, which happened to match the trim of his house. I then ran over to his house with a stepladder and screwed the eye hook into his window trim above his bedroom window. I then tied some mono filament fishing line to the washer, and threaded the fishing line through the eye hook. I then threw my roll of fishing line over the telephone wires and hid the spool some 200 to 300 yards across the road in a wooded area. That night, when he had returned, I started pulling on the fishing line, so that the washer would bounce against his storm window. After a while, he came outside and looked all around his window with a flashlight, but as soon as I had seen him coming, I had pulled the washer up tight against the eye hook. I kept this act up for a half hour or so, until a police cruiser arrived, at which point the prank ended and I snuck home. The next day the fishing line, eye hook and washer were gone, but I sure had fun making his life miserable for an hour or so.
I had a similar neighbor that made my life miserable but what I did was collect all those “blow-in” subscription cards from the newstand and fill them out with his name and address. I then got to watch the mailman bring all these unwanted magazines to the house day after day. Must have been a major pain in the neck to get all those subscriptions cancelled, not to mention all the explaining that had to be done.