You can absolutely agitate someone without actually committing a crime. The goal here isn’t to inflict pain, but to create just enough maddening inconveniences to make them think, “Why is this happening to me?”

Usually, you would save this as payback for a special someone who wronged you in some way. This is why these people are sharing their methods in a recent Threads post, when a user asked , “What’s something you could do to inconvenience a man, but not necessarily get charged/go to jail for?”

Responses included taking labels off canned goods, hiding an opened carton of milk to stink up a place, and taking away TV power cords, to name a few. Yes, most of these were mean-spirited, but they were also funny because they weren’t malicious enough to cause much suffering or torment.

On the WiFi router, on the gaming device, on the tv… then possibilities are endless.

I once dated a guy who wouldn't let me poo at his apartment. One day, he sent me to the store up the street to do it so I took his keys with me and made a copy. Then I'd rush to his house on my lunch break, poo in his toilet and not flush. He never said anything to me but I heard him telling his friend about the phantom pooper.

make a small donation to the church of scientology in his name. perhaps add a note that he’s *really* interested in becoming a member. they will never leave him alone & he’ll never know who did it.

pour a small amount of water in one shoe every morning before work (always the same shoe, just a splash) dab just a little fish sauce on his toothbrush every night put a thumb sized oil stain in the approximate booty hole location of all his pants (over time, not all at once) microwave all his leftovers then put them back in the fridge doesn't matter what he says, find a chance to tell him your grannie used to say the same thing all the time (be dismissive, don't explain).

Just tell him you don’t know where anything is every time he asks.