Rude Neighbors!

[Mr.MouseFan]

The time is 3:32am. It's hot in my house so I have my windows open. As I type this, I am listening to my neighbors blasting their music...at 3:32am! What would you do? And does anyone else have neighbors this ignorant?

 

[zurgswife]

I'd call the police....We had a bar nextdoor until recently and when they woke me up with loud music or voices outside I called the police...

 

[Desiree]

I second that... Call the cops.


Here, we've got a noise ordance. As soon as midnight hits and there is loud music to be heard, I'm on the phone with the police.

 

[Mr.MouseFan]

Thanks for the advice. It seems like every time I get ready to call, they stop. It's not constant...they'll play it for ten minutes, wait like 30 minutes and then play another 10 minutes. This has happened two nights in a row now. I just can't fathom how some people can be so rude....especially when our houses are so close together!

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

Oh man! I hope you slept well after that. I live in a row home and feel your pain. It sounds like the music was an alarm clock, but why it would be THAT loud who knows.

 

[Grog]

I've just never understood why some people need it that loud. I'm sure that there are hearing impaired people that need it turned up, but there can't be so many that there is one in every apartment complex, townhouse row, or neighborhood. I lived in a townhouse once and the person two houses away from me played theirs so loud that it vibrated the pictures on my wall.

 

[Cindy B]

Somehow I knew you were talking about music or loud talking..

At 4:00 am three girls were walking down the street SHOUTING to one another, and probably woke up the whole block..

"I'm NOT FOLLOWING YOU"

"YES, YOU ARE"

"HEY, WAIT UP!"

"YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME"

"NO, YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME"


This is what I woke up to this morning

Hello... sound travels! Didn't you learn that in science class!

 

[Serena]

It sounds like an alarm clock to me too, my daughters. It still doesn't wake her up, although I'm awake upstairs. Her bedroom is in the basement so her music wouldn't desturb anyone but those in the house though.

I hope you got some sleep this morning.

 

[FOJMO]

That's why I have my A/C on 24/7/365 and almost NEVER open the windows! Although our neighbors are very quiet (used to have one next door whose kids had "parties" when the parents went on vacation), so we usually only hear things like owls and frogs at night.

I feel for you...

 

[LarryE]

sounds like fun


party over here woo woo party over there woo woo

 

[CathyCanada]

I would go over and ask them nicely to turn it down (you know them best and whether or not this is possible), if that didn't work, definitely call the police.

I sleep with earplugs to block out hubby's snoring, but it blocks out this kind of stuff too.
CC

 

[nativetxn]

I keep earplugs too, CC. I travel with them, too and they sure come in handy.

I hope you got some rest, Mr.MouseFan. Don't you like to listen to music when you get up in the morning? I think I would be listening to some very loud music when I got up. Perhaps, seeing what it feels like to be awakened by loud music would help your neighbors understand that 3am isn't the best time for loud partying.

They have to sleep sometime, right? Actually, I would wait until I was no longer angry and have a talk with them. If that didn't work, I would be playing loud music in the morning after they have finally gone to bed

The earplugs are the best idea, though. You will be able to rest and there won't be any feuding with neighbors

 

[Pat_Elliott]

My initial reaction was "call the cops." However...

We're moved in our new house three years ago. The people across the street have problems. The husband (actually, he's a former cop, poetic justice), has a neuroligical disease. From what neighbors tell me, he was the task master. Mom has a "it's not problem if it's not bugging me" attitude. And she has a 15 year old son with very little male-influence at the moment. God Bless her, she's working 60 hours a week to make ends meet and has to take her husband to Hershey (2.5 hours a way) once a week for experimental treatment.

She and I have enjoyed several discussions about why I don't own a dog yet still do a lot of poop scooping, how sending their son to a driving range (for which I offered to pay) would avoid my running over golf balls with the mower, and how the fact that she's not home doesn't make it any less annoying when Josh has everyone in the county with a four-wheeler come to their house and rev their engines at 10 PM.

But I found one I can combat! When the rap music started, I'd tried to be patient. I was young once and liked loud music. But when it went until 1 AM and I got attitude from ten teenage punks when I went over to deal with it (neighbor lady works a few nights shifts, a problem), I got a little tight. But with rap music, we're not talking just loud music, we're talking language I don't want to hear, and I refuse having my wife hear. I was inches from calling the cops. Neighbor lady's opinion: I've got to work, you'll just have to deal with it how you see fit.

I decided to show her why that was a bad attitude. After warning the rest of the neighbors (who found the idea hilarious), I woke up at 6 AM one Saturday, set my stereo up in the garage, got out some tools to make shelving, and at 6:30 AM turned on Frank Sinatra. Loud. Halfway through New York, NY, neighbor lady walked out the door, steaming. She asked "will you turn that stuff off?" Told her, with a smile, I would, but every time I heard rap music or anything else after 10 PM, which I think is fair, she was getting a memory lane wakeup call the following Saturday. And I pointed out I'd been kind and left the Led Zepplin in the house for the opening volley.

Urban warfare: creativity at its finest.

Pat

 

[antnee]

whats would you do if the noise was coming form your landlord???

For four years I hav listened to them scream at their kids at 6am and every once in awhile they throw a paryt or the kids blast music past 10

I get so tired of it when they kept me up till 2am that I had to call them twice on 2 different nights to turn it down and the scoffed at me

 

[Pat_Elliott]

Originally posted by antnee
whats would you do if the noise was coming form your landlord???

Coleman fuel and a cocked match. Shut's 'em up every time!

 

[Hnymoon@Dixie]

Why don't you throw ham, bread and fruit over the fence like the Osbournes??

 

[Pat_Elliott]

Originally posted by Hnymoon@Dixie
Why don't you throw ham, bread and fruit over the fence like the Osbournes??

Hmmmm. Thanks for the tip. Personally, though, I'll not throw the ham. Not at three bucks a pound.

 

[Desiree]

Hope you were able to get some rest Mr. Mouse Fan.