Neighbor is an asshole so I caused a potentially catastrophic rift in his marriage

So this happened a couple weeks ago, but I saw the result of it earlier today.

A bit of backstory: I live in a predominantly Mormon area and I am not mormon. I receive quite a bit of criticism from my across the street neighbor because of the religious difference (I’m assuming, we’ve never interacted before he’s started fucking with me.) He currently has ten children. About a month ago, on trash day, he told one of his kids to kick my trash can over into the street. The kid did it, and I witnessed everything. This is not the first time he has kicked my trash over, and I figured it was a lost cause to go over there and ask them for some decency more than I already have.

That same day, I was reminded by a friend about how I used to have a pen pal when I was younger before I moved. Later that night, I was browsing the web looking for a pen pal when I stumbled across a cool sounding site: prisonpelpals.com. I visited the site and, after clicking through a few dodgy links, was brought to an array of different prisoners who were looking for a pen pal. After doing a bit of browsing from there, I stumbled across a fellow who was on death row for 1st degree murder. Feeling bad for this guy, but not wanting to give my address out (you send an email, the guards print it out and give it to the prisoner, who then write you a letter and delivers it to your physical address), I remembered the asshole across the street. More out of curiosity than malice, I proceeded to write a very detailed letter about how I am a trapped, secretly gay Mormon man with ten kids who is looking to start an extramarital affair with a prisoner. I put in his address and SEND! I had my hilarious, petty satisfaction.

I expected nothing to come out of this. I though he would be going through his mail, see the letter, not open it, toss it and think nothing of it after that. But boy, was I wrong.

Of course, with it being a small town, this guy does run a small business here where one of my acquaintances works. I went in just earlier today and chatted with my acquaintance before he told me “Oh my god, did you hear about (neighbor)?” I said no because I hadn’t and he filled me in on all of the details.

Apparently one of the neighbor’s kids had brought in the mail, only for HIS WIFE to find it and read the letter from this prisoner responding to the joke letter that I wrote. I don’t know the specifics of the letter, but I do know that his wife threw a fucking FIT when he arrived home and made him pack his bags. My acquaintance informed me that this was not the first time Neighbor had started or tried to start an affair with another man, and apparently this was the last straw for her. I am still shocked, horrified, and extremely amused by this predicament.

TL;DR: I sent a prisoner looking for a pen pal a letter under my neighbor’s first name and address. When the letter came back, his wife found it and accused him of cheating on her with a man, as he had apparently done before, and kicked him out.

EDIT: Grammar, clarity. Apparently this post is going down and back up randomly? I posted the same thing to r/tifu in post history and several people have screenshotted the story, so it’s relatively easy to find if it appears to be down.

EDIT 2: I’ve seen some comments saying this guy didn’t deserve it just by kicking over a trash can, so here are some more details. I’m the guardian of my younger sister. I got her a cat about a year ago and the neighbor told me that the cat is not allowed on “his” side of the road. Okay, whatever. A couple days later the guy called animal control (???) on the cat because it was wandering on the sidewalk in front of his house. They said they couldn’t do anything since it wasn’t on his property. So neighbor takes the cat and drops it off at the animal shelter, pretending it’s his, and tells them to put it down. They refuse without the papers and she’s chipped. It’s a whole situation. On the day they moved in, my little sister made them brownies and took them over, knocked on the door and waited. They didn’t answer. So little sister wanders back across the road, and, when she gets to our front porch, looks back to watch the father look her dead in the eyes as he’s throwing the treats, plate and all, into the garbage. Other petty bullshit acts besides these,etc.