Its 11:00 P.M. and your neighbor is playing loud music

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OrangeEmpire

OrangeEmpire

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Sorry if this is boring but it occurred to my wife and me last night. Just for the record I have to be at work at 6:00 A.M. so I get up at 4:50 A.M. with good weather and 4:30 A.M. with bad weather.

My wife and I decided to go upstairs around 8:00 P.M. We noticed that our neighbor was playing his stereo considerably loud. By that I mean that we could hear the words to the songs through our walls. In fact you could sing a long if you wanted too. *Our houses are about 15 feet apart.*

Needless to say any thing past 8:30 I start dosing off. This is my weekend on so needless to say I started to get sleepy and fell asleep around 9:00 P.M. last night. My wife was watching TV and I could concentrate on the TV noise and fall asleep.

I woke up a little before 11:00 P.M. and I noticed the music was still going. My wife had not fallen asleep and she was getting very cranky. Mind you she is 8 Months very pregnant.

I tried to go back to sleep but I could not for the bass lines. That is all I could concentrate on. Finally my wife got up and said she could not take it any more. She called our city police and requested that they come by and ask the neighbor to turn down their stereo. The time every thing was over was 11:27 P.M.

Would you have called the Police if you were in the same situation? Or does your city have different codes/statues that would not allow you to do so till midnight?

Our city has very strict ordinances for loud music/loud pets. We got issued a warning in mid-day for our dogs "playing" to loud. The officer stated that our dogs caused "every" dog in the neighborhood to start barking.

Take care and take it easy!
 
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Nothing worse than an a-hole neighbor. You try to tolerate things in the name of keeping the peace, but some people are just too stupid for their own good. I'm assuming that you've had problems before and you're past the point of picking up the phone and just asking him to turn it down?
 
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I tell u whats worse, Punk A-- teenagers that think they can do whatever they want and their parents just let um. I am surrounded by a bunch of them. Thats why i fenced in my entire backyard.
 
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LOL! Whenever I have trouble with a neighbor I will walk over and knock on the door. Going straight to the cops without trying to resolve this on your own will probably only upset your neighbors and make them wonder why you did not give them the courtesy of asking first. Several years ago I had a neighbor call the police on me because I was shooting a shotgun into a tree to scare off a roost of birds. This was a new neighbor who did not know that in previous years we had problems with people getting sick from the spores in bird dung, one man even died after laying a chainsaw into a huge mass of dreid bird dung that was concealed inside a dying tree in his lawn. Also, the neighbor did not know that it was legal to shoot a shotgun in the city limits so long as you were not within 100' of a structure. They made no effort to ask me to cease and desist or explain what I was doing they just called the cops and said someone was shooting. Needless to say the police came out and were all keyed up thinking that they were going to catch a wild lunatic with a gun running through suburbia (this was in Brentwood and I am not sure you can still fire a shotgun there). When I saw the blue lights I acted sensibly and the whole thing was cleared up. One of the officers told me who called-in the complaint and we walked over to the neighbor's house and I listened while he explained to them that what I was doing was perfectly legal, and probably sensible. I also had the pleaasure of seeing them turn pale when the officer told them that they could be taken into custody for filing a false report and that I could probably sue them for harassment. Needless to say those people never spoke to me for the next 2-3 years they lived there and I did everything I could, within the law of course, to make the rest of their time as my neighbor a living hell.

I hope you didn't just buy yourself a big dose of revenge my friend.
 
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Come on Hillbilly, I would have called the cops too if I heard gunfire in my neighborhood. I am not going to look up laws and see if it is legal and then walk over to see what's up myself. Now maybe afterwards I would have come over and apologized after I knew what was going on.

OrangeEmpire, most cities will have a noise ordinance or designated quiet hours. Here at Robins you have 2000hrs to 0600hrs. Personally if I were annoyed with music between those hours, I am not getting out of bed, get dressed and go ask to quiet down. You are only going to blow a gasket if they blow you off. Call the Police, let them handle it. Besides, they might have fun doing it, you never know what you see in plain view at a party.
 
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AFV, I can see the point about being afraid of guns but up until that time I was polite to those people and they had no reason to think I would hurt them. IMO calling the police should be a last resort when deling with neighbors. It's just not neighborly to call the law on the poepl you live next door to. Also, how many people really know their neighbors these days. When I was a kid I could give you the names of the people who lived in every house on my street (19 houses) and I could give you at least a last name for the people who lived in most of the 200+ houses in our neighborhood. I admit that if it were not for neighborhood association meetings and get-togethers I probably would not know any of my neighbors now other than the ones on either side of me. People just don't take the time to get to know their neighbors anymore and so they are chicken-sh** to "confront" them when they have a problem. Not every confrontation ends in violence or feelings being hurt. Remember, if you ask someone for something the worst thing they can do is say "no".
 
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I have had a similar incident happen lately. I went to their house and asked them to quieten it down a little. They did at first, but about a hour later the noise was back too loud again so I called the sheriff's office and let them handle it.
 
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(orange4ever @ Jan 14 said:
I have had a similar incident happen lately. I went to their house and asked them to quieten it down a little. They did at first, but about a hour later the noise was back too loud again so I called the sheriff's office and let them handle it.
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I think that is fair. At least you tried to handle it the right way.
 
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It starts with the parents having control if it's teenagers. Having boys that stay up when I go to bed, I've had to get up in the night and let them and their friends know face to face what was and wasn't tolerated.If someone is disrespecting me that doesn't float.I haven't had any more trouble.I know our neighborhood kids and they respect the neighborhood. A gun shot ringing out at night I would first call the neighbor if I knew them. If I didn't know where it came from I'd definitely call the police. Even though I live in a small town, there have been several murders around and I'm staying out of harms way.I would suggest getting a fan and drowning out the noise when you go to bed if nothing else works.Alot of times if you call the cops they don't tell the people who called just there was a complaint.Good Luck.
 
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(utfantilidie @ Jan 14 said:
It starts with the parents having control if it's teenagers. Having boys that stay up when I go to bed, I've had to get up in the night and let them and their friends know face to face what was and wasn't tolerated.If someone is disrespecting me that doesn't float.I haven't had any more trouble.I know our neighborhood kids and they respect the neighborhood. A gun shot ringing out at night I would first call the neighbor if I knew them. If I didn't know where it came from I'd definitely call the police. Even though I live in a small town, there have been several murders around and I'm staying out of harms way.I would suggest getting a fan and drowning out the noise when you go to bed if nothing else works.Alot of times if you call the cops they don't tell the people who called just there was a complaint.Good Luck.
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What if the parents are as disrespectful as the teenagers. I confronted them a time or two being very polite and then get cursed. Not long after that the fence came up and now all is well
 
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(VolunteerHillbilly @ Jan 14 said:
Needless to say those people never spoke to me for the next 2-3 years they lived there and I did everything I could, within the law of course, to make the rest of their time as my neighbor a living hell.
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:shakehead:
 
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Honky Tonk gets Jimmy Hart to distract his nieghbor while he sneaks up from behind with a guitar to the head.
 
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I recommend running a dog trot line close to your property line where your dog can get right up to the edge of the neighbor's property without going over. Then get yourself a very aggressive doberman or german sheppard who will bark and snarl viciously every time you neighbor comes near your property. Plus they'll be so scared that the dog will somehow get free and come at them that they will give up use of part of there own yard. You could do the same thing with an electric fence but I have known some big dogs to go beyong the perimeter of the electric fence if they are really agitated.
 
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(Lexvol @ Jan 14 said:
Honky Tonk gets Jimmy Hart to distract his nieghbor while he sneaks up from behind with a guitar to the head.
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Works every time.
 
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(VolunteerHillbilly @ Jan 14 said:
I recommend running a dog trot line close to your property line where your dog can get right up to the edge of the neighbor's property without going over. Then get yourself a very aggressive doberman or german sheppard who will bark and snarl viciously every time you neighbor comes near your property. Plus they'll be so scared that the dog will somehow get free and come at them that they will give up use of part of there own yard. You could do the same thing with an electric fence but I have known some big dogs to go beyong the perimeter of the electric fence if they are really agitated.
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One of the reasons we put up a fence was because of stray dogs. Our boys couldnt even go outside and play because of them. Our beagle would get eat up and least once a week fighting over her own food, i finally called animal control and they came out and got one of them and they told me they didnt have any room for any more. It seemed like the fence solved alot of our problems around here. The stray dogs still run wild around here though
 
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Not everyone has Ned Flanders as a neighbor. The rest of us have to deal with uncomfortable situations. Talking solves with some but others there is no talking to. The other neighbors show up on a bad episode of Cops or you get Honky Tonk and Jimmy Hart to solve your problems. Life is full of choices.
 
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yeah you did the right thing, because it used to be you could be civil and social. But this day and time, and your mrs in the family way you should just call the police and let them handle it. Used to be you'd know all your neighbors, speak often...know their kids names and shoo em home when they were playin out in the road or doing somethin dangerous, but people seem weirder as the years go by, you'd be just another name in the paper if you'd knocked on his door and asked him to turn it down for the reasons you stated....and he shot you. Things like that happen every day.
 
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I agree 100% about talking to your neighbor which is what we have done. They are actually one of our good neighbors that do not want to kill our Coonhounds.

This has been going on since we have bought the house. The neighbors in question have 8 kids. We have asked them several times if they could keep it down and they said that they would.

More or less this was a last straw.

The best is during the summer when their relatives come over and there are about 20 of them playing basketball till midnight. The stereo I referred too comes outside by our bedroom.
 
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Gunfire in a neighborhood is an instant call to the police. Not that I am afraid of gunfire, but if it were in a neighborhood (suburban) and not in the woods or rural area, then it is unusual.
 
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(bleedingorange @ Jan 14 said:
What if the parents are as disrespectful as the teenagers. I confronted them a time or two being very polite and then get cursed. Not long after that the fence came up and now all is well
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Well, you tried.
 
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Try going to where the power comes in the house. See if it has a main breaker there and flip it. It'll take them forever to figure it out.
 
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I woulda called the cops too..............eh, wait a minute, nah I woulda gone over there with my 870, kicked the door in and called for back up! Try being in law enforcement you get to hear all the nieghborhood problems!
 
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This story is going to sound like total B.S. but I am going to tell it any ways.

When I was in high school I was staying over at one of my good friend's house. For a little background his father is a Vietnam veteran and one bad mofo when he wants to be.

Needless to say their neighbors were having a party while their parents were out of town. Finally at around 2 in the morning his father had had enough. He grabbed his shotgun and proceeded to go to the neighbors front door and then he kick it down.

He went inside and told them to shut their music off.

After that they never ever had any more problems.
 
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