Cut them off with an angle grinder and go downstairs with a handful of ones.
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 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
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?
Maybe you never experienced a ‘friend’s’ home with young children and a stripper pole in the living room, and a full fledged liquor bar in their kitchen.
I really don’t need other people to tell what to expect from a stripper pole, as that’s not even the only place I’ve seen such shit.
Anyways, thanks for your inexperienced advice. I’d rather those sort of people be far away from me.
I avoided the Epstein files ya know…
Pole dancing actually requires an incredible level of athleticism, and as such, is a pretty fun way to get in shape. Some people who install a stripper pole in their home will no doubt be the kind of people you describe, but that’s not the only kind of person who might install a pole at home.
I know a couple of people who do pole dancing as a sport and have a pole installed in their home. They’re both people who seem like archetypical examples of people who have their shit together. For these people, installing a pole in their home is analogous to a weightlifter purchasing a squat rack so they can lift at home — basically just a way to practice without having to travel.
I’m not trying to suggest that your caution is unwarranted — if I were the person in the OP, I would feel pretty anxious about knocking on their door about the problem, because it’d feel like a bit of a coin-flip: are they going to be the kind of person who has a full fledged liquor bar in their kitchen, or someone who engages pole-sport as a productive way to stay fit? Because one of those people would likely be much less easy to work through issues with.
I guess my goal in writing this is to convince you that there are at least some people who install a pole in their home who are nothing like the archetype you’re envisioning. I’m not suggesting that they are the majority — I have no idea what the relative prevalence of these different archetypes are. However, they do exist.
Umm, did you miss the pointy screws in the upstairs floor boards?
Escalate immediately and antagonize the hypothetically dangerous neighbors.
You’re right that makes way more sense.
Bruh, I said let the landlord deal with it, with a bloody foot and photo evidence. Don’t confront the neighbors directly, you won’t have to…
And they’re not gonna figure out that it was you that reported them, and justifiably get mad about it? Just write a note man, it’s way easier and better for everyone.
Write a note? Are you stupid or something? Are you looking to see how crazy your neighbors are?
Not everyone is as peaceful as you’d expect, they might as well shoot you for looking at them funny.
I’ve had two such incidents in my life, where I tried to do the ‘right’ thing as you suggested, only to be attacked by drug addicts fucked up on whatever the hell.
I learned its a lot easier to contact authorities and landlord, not contact crazy neighbors directly.
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.
Give their phone number out to spam callers
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
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?
Ugh I want to “well, ackshually” this so badly…
You may as well, now.
Please do. I don’t know what’s wrong with it
Edit: thanks folks! I feel like an idiot because that’s super obvious. :-)
the path of least resistance for the current would be down one connected bolt, then around the top plate, and up the other battery connected bolt, never down the pole, so the ceiling/floor gets heated up, possibly burn
note: those bolts must be supper long to go from ceiling to floor
12v is hardly anything. This is not a joke, go put your hands on both terminals of a car battery. You won’t feel a thing.
12 V is not enough to pass through unbroken skin, yes. But 12V has plenty to pass through some bolts and heat up enough to burn your house down.
You may be interested in StyroPyro’s video where he wired 100 car batteries in parallel. Still 12V, but huge current capacity.
still can spin a big truck and/or turn on incandescent bulbs with temperatures in the thousands of degrees
the internal resistance of lead-acid batteries is in the tens of mili-Ω, the circuit of 2 cables, 2 bolts and one plate/top of the pole would be in the low 100s mili-Ω. lets round up to 200mΩ, power = V•I = V^2/R = 12^2/0.2 = 720W, enough to heat up the top assembly of the pole, and smolder some wood
That’s true but only because the voltage is low a car battery can pull ~2X the amps in of main it won’t kill you because it can’t connect but if it ever did
That’s why you connect it directly to main so it doesn’t require a closed loop to create a chemical reaction,.
If you connect one pole of the battery, it does nothing. If you connect both, it just shorts the battery via a path that doesn’t involve the downstairs neighbor.
12V from a car battery doesn’t do much damage. You’d need, I think, 50V or 52V to get through the skin. Now, of course, if someone were to stick it in their mouth or some other area that doesn’t have skin, it’s a different story, then they’d get heavy burn marks on the path the electricity takes. So for safer electrocution, use AC, as that will also activate your muscles and push you away. While with DC, you’ll stick to it, as you grab onto it with a death grip. For advice on hurting yourself safely, just watch electroboom on yt.
Every reply to your comment is correct. Together they explain everything wrong with the idea in that meme. I have no notes. Bravo @expatriado@lemmy.world @ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world and @markz@suppo.fi .
Maybe if you just connect one side of the life wire to it. And ground the other one. That could work better
Same.
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.
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.
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.
Sir, this community is called “lemmyshitposts”
Constant drip of wd40 or something down it
Cut out the bottom of a plastic container, glue it to the floor, but around the screws, fill it with cheap oil and go on with your day.
Put a cloth iron on top and leave it running.
Yeah at best you’d start a fire at the roof. Wouldn’t do anything to the pole
Connect a tazer and to it and periodically give it a squeeze sit back and laugh
