Cut them off with an angle grinder and go downstairs with a handful of ones.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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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.
Hello I have problem
Have you considered premeditated murder?
When keepin’ it real goes wrong
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
Its a simple case of bad carpentry, it doesn’t have to be sinister.
I wasn’t implying sinister, but utter incompetence. Too long of screws is an “oops” but this is like attaching a cabinet to the “wet wall” and blaming too long screws for the leaking pipe
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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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.
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.
"Should" is a pretty big risk considering the consequences
Email the landlord, with photos.
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
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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.
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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?
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.
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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.
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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.
A thick rubber mat
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).
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