Well, the nieghbors are up again...at 1. Usually its only till two so i got about 4 hours of good sleep left. Inside their house...with loud music. Loud enuff, not that loud though, its just almost every night. Anyone have some advice. We have already talked ot them, and are gonna call the landlord tommorow. Any good stories?
noisy neighbors...again
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Yeah. Get earplugs, and stop belly-aching. Where I live, there is no sound by-law. So you can jack the music till all hours. In the summer months, it happens frequently. Till 4 in the morning. Bands, music, etc. (we live near the beach, so beach parties are the norm). Get ear plugs, and suck it up. UNLESS there is a sound by-law...in which case the law will be on your side. But no by-law? Well they aren't breaking any laws, as is the case here. Grin and bear it, I guess.
Yeah. Get earplugs, and stop belly-aching. Where I live, there is no sound by-law. So you can jack the music till all hours. In the summer months, it happens frequently. Till 4 in the morning. Bands, music, etc. (we live near the beach, so beach parties are the norm). Get ear plugs, and suck it up. UNLESS there is a sound by-law...in which case the law will be on your side. But no by-law? Well they aren't breaking any laws, as is the case here. Grin and bear it, I guess.
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You need to find musician friends with big, preferably bass, amps...
Way back in the day, when I was in college... at least I think that's where I was... I lived in an apt complex with these big ogar jock guys, for next door neighbors. They used to like to play very loud, very bad music all the time.
Well between our two apartments we had a bathroom in my apt that had adjoining walls with their living room. So one night while they were having a party, we moved all of our various and sundry hi-powered musical crap (including Dr. Crankenstein, a 500W bass amp with 2 15" drivers) into the little bathroom, ran cabling all over the apt so that we wouldn't be drawing current from only one area of the apartment, fed the leads into a CD and fired up a little Tom Jones "It's Not Unusual". Of course, we selected single song repeat.
Needless to say, that party ended in short order. Even with the bathroom door closed, we admittedly had to vacate our apartment as well, it was worth having a few drinks on the lawn while we watched car after car after car leave.
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You need to find musician friends with big, preferably bass, amps...
Way back in the day, when I was in college... at least I think that's where I was... I lived in an apt complex with these big ogar jock guys, for next door neighbors. They used to like to play very loud, very bad music all the time.
Well between our two apartments we had a bathroom in my apt that had adjoining walls with their living room. So one night while they were having a party, we moved all of our various and sundry hi-powered musical crap (including Dr. Crankenstein, a 500W bass amp with 2 15" drivers) into the little bathroom, ran cabling all over the apt so that we wouldn't be drawing current from only one area of the apartment, fed the leads into a CD and fired up a little Tom Jones "It's Not Unusual". Of course, we selected single song repeat.
Needless to say, that party ended in short order. Even with the bathroom door closed, we admittedly had to vacate our apartment as well, it was worth having a few drinks on the lawn while we watched car after car after car leave.
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Well between our two apartments we had a bathroom in my apt that had adjoining walls with their living room. So one night while they were having a party, we moved all of our various and sundry hi-powered musical crap (including Dr. Crankenstein, a 500W bass amp with 2 15" drivers) into the little bathroom, ran cabling all over the apt so that we wouldn't be drawing current from only one area of the apartment, fed the leads into a CD and fired up a little Tom Jones "It's Not Unusual". Of course, we selected single song repeat.
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Joe that is the funniest thing I've read in a long time!
Well between our two apartments we had a bathroom in my apt that had adjoining walls with their living room. So one night while they were having a party, we moved all of our various and sundry hi-powered musical crap (including Dr. Crankenstein, a 500W bass amp with 2 15" drivers) into the little bathroom, ran cabling all over the apt so that we wouldn't be drawing current from only one area of the apartment, fed the leads into a CD and fired up a little Tom Jones "It's Not Unusual". Of course, we selected single song repeat.
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Joe that is the funniest thing I've read in a long time!
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> ...any good stories?
In my younger 'nomadic' years, I had rented a trailer once in a smalltown trailer court. Like most my age, my music was loud and I was quiet. Having come home one hot summer day exhausted from working on a rig, I fell asleep on the couch after a couple beers. Of course my 'lullaby' music was playing through my cherished 100-watt per channel four speaker mega-stereo system that cost more than my car(no I don't remember the band, probably Kansas, Boston, BTO or something).
I awoke with quite a thirst and to my astonishment... silence. I bolted from my couch thinking I had blown a speaker fuse or something only to realize the electrical power was out. Oh well, probably just the typical quick summertime thunderstorm, I thought. After a quick change of clothes, I reckoned I'd go out to the local waterin' hole to meet up with some friends. When I stepped outside to leave, I noticed several people gathered by the picnic table in the communal 'yard'. A couple of buddies I worked with, my 'boss' and ... the landlord!
Apparently, several complaints had been made and the landlord had contacted my boss. The door had been locked and no one could pound on the door louder than the thundering bass that was apparently reverberating throughout the park. So the two conferred and decided to 'pull the plug' on my mini-concert. They literally had disconnected the electrical power going to the trailer! They claimed three minutes later I walked out the door.
> ...any good stories?
In my younger 'nomadic' years, I had rented a trailer once in a smalltown trailer court. Like most my age, my music was loud and I was quiet.
Having come home one hot summer day exhausted from working on a rig, I fell asleep on the couch after a couple beers. Of course my 'lullaby' music was playing through my cherished 100-watt per channel four speaker mega-stereo system that cost more than my car(no I don't remember the band, probably Kansas, Boston, BTO or something).I awoke with quite a thirst and to my astonishment... silence. I bolted from my couch thinking I had blown a speaker fuse or something only to realize the electrical power was out. Oh well, probably just the typical quick summertime thunderstorm, I thought. After a quick change of clothes, I reckoned I'd go out to the local waterin' hole to meet up with some friends. When I stepped outside to leave, I noticed several people gathered by the picnic table in the communal 'yard'. A couple of buddies I worked with, my 'boss' and ... the landlord!
Apparently, several complaints had been made and the landlord had contacted my boss. The door had been locked and no one could pound on the door louder than the thundering bass that was apparently reverberating throughout the park. So the two conferred and decided to 'pull the plug' on my mini-concert. They literally had disconnected the electrical power going to the trailer!
They claimed three minutes later I walked out the door.RE: noisy neighbors...again
yea..good stories. This neighbor has had many parties. Underage drinkers...Lots. A week ago they had nine copcars taking all the kids plus the paddywagon. but they have a new tactic. The kids just lock the door, close the windows, blinds, and shut off all the lights and the cops cant do anyhting. But last night...we talked with them...then 15 mins. later the cops came cuz of one of the other neighbors..??? Oh well
yea..good stories. This neighbor has had many parties. Underage drinkers...Lots. A week ago they had nine copcars taking all the kids plus the paddywagon. but they have a new tactic. The kids just lock the door, close the windows, blinds, and shut off all the lights and the cops cant do anyhting. But last night...we talked with them...then 15 mins. later the cops came cuz of one of the other neighbors..??? Oh well
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I am with Jay. If you have already talked to your neighbors and they havent stopped, just call the police.
I dont really have any stories of neighbors being noisy since my nearest neighbor is a half mile up the road. Gotta love country livin! Although last night I was awakened at 3am to the sounds of 2 dirt bikes and a 4stroke four wheeler flying up and down my road. I hope that wont become a nightly occurance.
I am with Jay. If you have already talked to your neighbors and they havent stopped, just call the police.
I dont really have any stories of neighbors being noisy since my nearest neighbor is a half mile up the road. Gotta love country livin! Although last night I was awakened at 3am to the sounds of 2 dirt bikes and a 4stroke four wheeler flying up and down my road. I hope that wont become a nightly occurance.
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I am just south of Tulsa, OK near the city of Mounds.
I am just south of Tulsa, OK near the city of Mounds.
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lol, yeah a lot of the towns around here have some pretty ridiculous names. My favorite is Okay, OK. But we cant forget Flamesville and Turkey Pin Holler. Once you get past the roads, weather, and unemployment rate, its not a bad state.
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lol, yeah a lot of the towns around here have some pretty ridiculous names. My favorite is Okay, OK. But we cant forget Flamesville and Turkey Pin Holler. Once you get past the roads, weather, and unemployment rate, its not a bad state.
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Years ago I owned a corner lot where the house was located the wrong way on the lot, making the back yard 7 feet deep and the side yard 110 feet.
The neighbors driveway was 7 feet from my kitchen window and there was no fence. When we originally looked at the house (twice over a two week period) the only car we ever saw in the driveway was a spotless Olds Cultas Supreme.
After we moved in we learned:
1) An older son owned the Cutlas and he did not live there, Mom and her boyfriend owned a POS rusty '79 Ford that needed a valve job.
2) Younger son, who did live in the house, but had been sent away I guess, had a really hot Mustang which he routinely raced around the neighborhood in the middle of the night.
3) Younger son also had an ear splitting stero, which he loved to blast in the driveway at all hours. He would sit in the car for hours, not moving, just listening to music.
4) Mom's boy freind was a drunk who if he wasn't loading his fishing boat at 2:30 AM was moving one of their cars around, since the driveway was only a single wide and he really like to burn rubber in the Mustang at 3:00 AM while drinking beer.
I tried many things over the years but found the following to be the most fun.
I would get my laptop computer and with WinFax I would fax the neighbors.
This was in the early 1990s, nobody had a fax machine at home and almost no one had an answering machine, the phone would ring until answered.
There was also no *69 to get the number of who was calling.
I would wait until a morning where they had been exceptionally
loud or drunk the night before and start the following process:
I could sit in my kitchen at say 5:00 AM and fax the neighbor, watch one of them stumble to the phone...answer..hear the fax..slam down the phone...mumbble and walk back and get in to bed...I would time how long the process had taken and then added 15 minutes to the auto retry feature of Winfax.
Winfax would continue to call them at the time interval I had selected and after maybe 6 or so times they usually would leave the phone off the hook. By now it would be 6:30 AM and I would be ready to get on with the day, confident in the fact that I had just
disturbed an hour and a half of their sleep.
I eventually built an eight foot fence on my property line and put it 20 feet past the house parrallel to his driveway, so he would have to shovel snow an extra 20 feet before he pushed into my yard, but that is another story.
Years ago I owned a corner lot where the house was located the wrong way on the lot, making the back yard 7 feet deep and the side yard 110 feet.
The neighbors driveway was 7 feet from my kitchen window and there was no fence. When we originally looked at the house (twice over a two week period) the only car we ever saw in the driveway was a spotless Olds Cultas Supreme.
After we moved in we learned:
1) An older son owned the Cutlas and he did not live there, Mom and her boyfriend owned a POS rusty '79 Ford that needed a valve job.
2) Younger son, who did live in the house, but had been sent away I guess, had a really hot Mustang which he routinely raced around the neighborhood in the middle of the night.
3) Younger son also had an ear splitting stero, which he loved to blast in the driveway at all hours. He would sit in the car for hours, not moving, just listening to music.
4) Mom's boy freind was a drunk who if he wasn't loading his fishing boat at 2:30 AM was moving one of their cars around, since the driveway was only a single wide and he really like to burn rubber in the Mustang at 3:00 AM while drinking beer.
I tried many things over the years but found the following to be the most fun.
I would get my laptop computer and with WinFax I would fax the neighbors.
This was in the early 1990s, nobody had a fax machine at home and almost no one had an answering machine, the phone would ring until answered.
There was also no *69 to get the number of who was calling.
I would wait until a morning where they had been exceptionally
loud or drunk the night before and start the following process:
I could sit in my kitchen at say 5:00 AM and fax the neighbor, watch one of them stumble to the phone...answer..hear the fax..slam down the phone...mumbble and walk back and get in to bed...I would time how long the process had taken and then added 15 minutes to the auto retry feature of Winfax.
Winfax would continue to call them at the time interval I had selected and after maybe 6 or so times they usually would leave the phone off the hook. By now it would be 6:30 AM and I would be ready to get on with the day, confident in the fact that I had just
disturbed an hour and a half of their sleep.
I eventually built an eight foot fence on my property line and put it 20 feet past the house parrallel to his driveway, so he would have to shovel snow an extra 20 feet before he pushed into my yard, but that is another story.
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Call the cops and be on COPS. Looking forward to that episode.
Call the cops and be on COPS. Looking forward to that episode.
RE: noisy neighbors...again
build a potato cannon and buy a case of paper towels. stuff the barrel with paper towel for wadding and light it off. It makes a really loud noise and all you end up with is some burnt/shredded paper towels.
I can't even see my neigbors house, but they used to complain about the hamman exhaust I put on my bimmer. it just worked out that I would shift to third under normal driving acceleration. Our road is only 25 mph so I wasnt buzzing thier yard or anything. Anyways, going into third the car makes this really really low grumble, the kind you can feel in your chest. They would call my house and leave messages about changing my shifting habbits and how it was disurbing them when I left for work at 5:45 in the morning. And the it got worse with them calling me names and stuff like that. So after quite a few of these messages I decided to change it up, I accelerated really fast out of the driveway through 1 and 2 and the popped it into neutral and coasted by their house. Then they called the cops on me for going to fast on the road, and they were waiting in the yard for me when I got home from work. Nothing happened with that. Now, everyday, i come out of my yard and idle in first untill i get to their yard, wind it and drop it into second, sqeak second and stay under the speed limit. HA!
build a potato cannon and buy a case of paper towels. stuff the barrel with paper towel for wadding and light it off. It makes a really loud noise and all you end up with is some burnt/shredded paper towels.
I can't even see my neigbors house, but they used to complain about the hamman exhaust I put on my bimmer. it just worked out that I would shift to third under normal driving acceleration. Our road is only 25 mph so I wasnt buzzing thier yard or anything. Anyways, going into third the car makes this really really low grumble, the kind you can feel in your chest. They would call my house and leave messages about changing my shifting habbits and how it was disurbing them when I left for work at 5:45 in the morning. And the it got worse with them calling me names and stuff like that. So after quite a few of these messages I decided to change it up, I accelerated really fast out of the driveway through 1 and 2 and the popped it into neutral and coasted by their house. Then they called the cops on me for going to fast on the road, and they were waiting in the yard for me when I got home from work. Nothing happened with that. Now, everyday, i come out of my yard and idle in first untill i get to their yard, wind it and drop it into second, sqeak second and stay under the speed limit. HA!
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Hmmmmm You live next door to me?
Hmmmmm You live next door to me?