I was living in the dormitory at my University and had a neighbor that liked to play his stereo really loud. It didn't help that he had terrible taste in music. This was in 1990 and he was quite proud of his console system. People just didn't use ear buds back in those days. So one day he had it up too loud and either ignored or couldn't hear me beating on the wall. I had had enough. I went down the hall and gathered up hair dryers from several of my floormates. I had worked as an electrician during the summer and was confident that the shared wall between our rooms would also share a circuit breaker. We plugged in a half dozen or so hair dryers into the outlets on that wall and put them all on High. The hair dryers blasted for a good 20 seconds and nothing happened. Then suddenly the hair dryers all shut off and so did his stereo! My floormates and I rejoiced at the sudden peace and quiet. The noisy neighbor thou...