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Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 12:54 am

Do your neighbor's fight and yell? Mine do, every weekend. Usually it's something as critical as the color of the grass, or if the fence is white enough. Sometimes they fight about wild birds and rose bushes! This causes me to turn the stereo up as loud as it will go. They just scream louder. State law allows me to but a shotgun, but I don't want one. Should I just pour bleach all over their lawn?

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:07 am

I wouldn't recommend bleach, fertilizer spelling out various words is usually better and so much fun.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:15 am

Find out their email adress, and mass insult lads, with the return address being theirs... Laughing

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:00 am

About once every 2 months or so my neighbours have a party, and there is always a fight, usually loads of threatening and shouting, and always a broken window.
There was this one across the road who must have thrown the boyfriend out at least 10 times in 8 months, which was always fun Rolling Eyes

, she was a taxi driver and had a voice like a fog horn, so there was noise every night. Thank jaysus sje`s gone now

Last Christmas night about 10 tinkers had a huge fight at the top of my road which went on for at least an hour. My sister was over from the states (NH) and didn`t know what was going on,

also one night a few East Europeans had a bit of a rumble, which resulted in a car being completely smashed up by hand! one of them managed to rip off the bonnet/hood.

Believe it or not, my estate is actually quite quiet Laughing

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

Just call the police.

Master Baiter Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 213

nutty people you have around you but i do agree with call the police stuff - and call them when the fighting is at the peak - nothing like catching the thief redhanded or in this case catching the fighters red faced with anger!

hope the police take care of them

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:29 am

pepper wrote:

I wouldn't recommend bleach, fertilizer spelling out various words is usually better and so much fun.

That reminds me of a funny (true) story of some chav hoodies doing community service for robbing cars, shoplifting, etc were told to plant some daffodil bulbs on a large embankment overlooking a busy motorway. Come the spring a few months later the flowers made a magnificent display spelling F&CK OFF in 10ft high letters. Very Happy

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 3:11 am

sheesh... that's usually when I pick up the electric guitar and start playing some of that guttural growling metal and then start belting out random lyrics of love through a distorted mic so I sound like a guy at a monster truck marathon.

Also if they kept it up I'd be liable to cut out bologna in the shape of letters and then sneak over to their car one night and leave it on the hood of the car. What would these letters spell? Something like gay pride or east side or west side (depending on if you live in and what part you claim in your side of the USA).

My worst neighbors would play live mariachi right next to my bedroom window until all hours of the evening. I would ask them to stop around 10 pm and get a "no habla English." So after they started playing on a frequent basis and the cops would do nothing, I would hook up my half stack, roll down the window, and growl out "walk" by pantera to warm things up... then play some other loving music of the insane asylum from hell. Twisted Evil

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:00 am

Keep a detailed diary of their noise. Times, dates, nature of the dispute. After you have enough evidence, report them to the relevant authorities. Here in the UK it is Environmental Health. The police are not really interested in getting involved in domestic disputes, unless somebody gets shot or knifed. Shocked

I don't recommend fighting noise with noise, as this will weaken your case against them.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:07 am

When I lived in England, I had a friend in the police force and I asked him how to cope with the neighbours that had just moved in next door and were making mucho noise.
He checked them out, then said "Sorry to tell you, but you really do have the neighbours from Hell" Rolling Eyes

2 months later, the son broke into my house. Bastard.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:09 am

^^ USA here, it's a bit different. But yeah noise with noise only works if your neighbors think you're already close to snapping and are still wondering how you got out of the dark room with padded walls. Then they kind of shut up and leave you alone. Laughing

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:10 am

What Tommo said, except that now legally the cops in the UK MUST come out to a domestic, whether they want to or not! My neighbours and I just got rid of the anti-social drug-dealing prostitute with the Ned boyfriend who lived upstairs. Get the Environmental Health noisy neighbours team involved early on. Your local council should have a number for them. Record everything. It can be done.

I worked out that Marilyn Manson and Rammstein scared her, for some reason. So whenever she was enjoying one of her 'let's open all the windows and make some noise' sessions, I treated her to a medley from those two, plus some Korn and Slipknot to round it off. She never lasted longer than an hour and a half. And on the only occasion she came to my door to complain, I greeted her in all my Gothic glory. Twisted Evil

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:54 am

When I was living in the hi-rise in the inner suburbs here, I was sitting out on the balcony one evening with a friend. It was really high-density living and you could look directly into a dozen different apartments from where I was. On this evening, the activities in one third floor living-room caught my eye. The occupant was stripped to the waist & covered in tatts, fully loaded on beer and who knows what else. He had a hockey stick in one hand and would regularly hammer on the floor, the wall or the ceiling with it, shouting obscenities the whole time. Anyway, he started by just throwing his empty beer cans out the window, then as he got more & more intoxicated progressed to a chair, then a table, the couch and eventually the TV, the whole time roaring like a T-rex with tourettes. He just about cleaned the joint out. An entire apartment�s worth of furniture lying in the street. The cops eventually came for him. Amphetamine psychosis they said. Never saw him again. Neighbors.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:58 am

Love the new Avatar Rockaway, now that's the Keef I love! Laughing

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 9:38 am

Yeah that's him. How would you like him for a neighbor, eh? He likes to set fire to his house from time to time, and I don't imagine he'd be all that quiet either. Laughing

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 12:08 pm

If you are in the US, or the UK for that matter, there are discussion forums that will help and offer advice with your problem. If you Google "neigbo(u)rs from hell" I'm sure you will find them.

Here is a British one...

http://www.nfh.org.uk/forums/index.php?&&CODE=autologin&fromreg=1

Don't let the b*stards grind you down.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:31 pm

I just have to deal with neighbors and car owners having music up so f'ing loud that it hurts my ears.. in my apartment... on the other side of the street.

Called the leasing office and the cops and got no love from either of them.

Anyone know a good online place to get a white noise generator?

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:34 pm

Why not just move to a quiet neighborhood?

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:40 pm

I don't have a car. I rely on public transportation and my bike. I rather like it actually, especially with gas prices as they've been lately. The bus stop is right outside my apartment community.

'Sides, I live in Indianapolis (capital city of Indiana for those outside of the US). Been in many different places around town during my time here and have yet to encounter one that was quiet. Plus I have senstive ears unfortunely. I can tend to hear background noises more easily then others.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:42 pm

^^^^

I meant everybody above who was complaining about the neighbors.

Instead of trying to beat the noise, which won't work, just find a nice quiet place to move to. That makes live a whole lot more enjoyable.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:00 pm

JT

Maybe you need to take a softly softly approach. Go round with, say, a nice bottle of wine and explain your delicate health situation and how much you appreciate their co-operation in maintaining your equilibrium.

Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:01 pm

^^^ you're right. Share some wine, dissolve some Rufies in their glasses.

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:28 am

About 12 years ago, I had a neighbor next door to me who loved to throw house parties in their back yard every Friday night with live bands playing until the wee hours of the morning (one time, they even partied until 7am!). And after a while, it was beginning to wear everyone in my house down.

So, what I did was that I decide to take what we had in our back yard and make the most of it. They are the only people that are located adjacent to us (same street, adjacent) as at that time we had no other neighbors either behind us or next to us on the next adjacent property.

In our back yard, we have two outdoor water faucets: one connected directly to the public system and the other connected to a high-pressure water compressor driven by a diesel engine connected to the public system.

I "foolishly" connected the lawn hose to the high-pressure water faucet and connected the other end of the hose to a lawn watering device set to aim the water at angles high enough to propel the water over to their lawn. I also "absent-mindedly" set the water compressor to turn itself on at 11pm and to shut off at 2am". Smile

Not only did that work, but I think we pretty much scared them much like how a dog runs away with it's tail between the leg: they moved out the very next Tuesday, never to be seen again.

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:43 am

I had noisy neighbours on my back boundary - went to complain and the father had to be restrained by his apologetic sons. Then my side boundary neighbour said 'watch this' and the next time, he took his lawn mower as close as possible to the jerk's house, muffler removed and tank full, and let it rip - about 6am when the jerk was trying to sleep one off.
He saw the point shortly after..

Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 9:53 am

When my now-wife and I first moved in together, we lived in this small flat. The people opposite us would often invite over a lot of family (and I mean a lot - about 30-40 at a time) it seemed like every Tuesday or Wednesday night. They'd stay up till about 1 or 2am, then as they were leaving, they'd move the conversation out to the communal hallway, right outside our door. This was quite loud and would always wake us up.
At that time, I was into my Airsoft skirmishing, and one of my "toys" was an Airsoft replica pump shotgun.
One of those nights, I walked to the front door while they were all talking, door still closed and locked, and pumped that shotgun once. It immediately went completely silent, everyone left, and from then on, though they still had their get-togethers, they finished their conversations inside and left very quietly.
Of course, at the time, I never considered any of the possible ramifications of what I'd just done, I was just happy that I'd be getting my sleep, and it isn't something I'd recommend, no matter how effective it was...

Twisted Evil