I hate our new neighbors!!!

[Khephra]

Every 15 minutes they're going somewhere in their car, and the only way they know how to close a door--any door--is to slam it. It's the same with their house's front door.

And all they do at night is stand out in the middle of the street yelling at each other. This used to be a calm neighborhood. Sigh....

[Forkboy]

1. Kill them

:evilgrin:

[Khephra]

6. I don't think I'll have to do that

I think they're going to end up doing it themselves. Last night they were fighting and slamming their fists on their car hood. BTW, we're talking 3AM in the morning.

[CatWoman]

22. sic the cops on their asses

one of my neighbors has "auto shop" every fucking weekend in front of his house.

all of his buddies show up, and their music is so loud, the bass makes my pictures on the wall shake.

fucking jerks.

i sleep late on weekends -- now i sleep in the back of the house on fridays and saturdays so i won't hear the idiots.

[BiggJawn]

46. The cops sure fixed the problem, din't they?

Since you sleep in the back of the house, now...
:-)

[Character Assassin]

49. I don't know how it is where you are, but in CA

If we have to come to a public noise disturbance more than once, whatever it is that's making the noise goes bye-bye and makes a trip back to the station with us.

That usually douses whatever enthusiasm the ownwer has for seeing us show up again.

[salinen]

2. Our new neighbors

like to take there cute dog for a drag! We live in the country and the dog gets 18" of freedom. They say he's not socialized! He's only a year old. And he's a good dog. I think they are not socialized.

[BiggJawn]

47. No, they're good, law-abiding citizens.

Having been "assisted" with my cardio workout a few times and severely wrecked once by "good dawgs" I salute their sense of responsibility.

If you can't keep your dog on a leash when I ride by on my bike, don't come whining when Fido gets in the way of my truck later when I come back...

[trumad]

3. When you hear this

http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/cardoorshut.wav

follow it up with this...
http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/shotgun2.wav

[Khephra]

7. I'm afraid they're the type of people who would shoot back

:evilfrown:

[HEyHEY]

4. Clearly the must be rubbed out

capice?

[Khephra]

8. See post #6 above.

[Mika]

5. Hey! Those are my neighbors

Mine have Jeb & Boosh/Cheney campaign signs on their front yard.

They use 9000 gallons of water every week to wash down their Navigators.

Perfect lawn nazis too. :puke:

[graywarrior]

10. LOL, I was gonna post a I Hate My Neighbors yesterday

I live in Florida where every house is exactly the same on our street. My neighbors open all their windows and talk loud all night long. Their kids scream "mommy" til 12 midnight.
The country western queen across the street gets a buzz on every Saturday night and blasts Shania til she has an orgasm. The kids have motorized scooters out a 7 am, a basketball net set up directly across from my bedroom window and recently are playing with giant balloon frizbees.
Every friggin house has a barking dog, and the town thinks nothing of showing up at 1:30 am to repair streetlamps and running deisel trucks for a solid hour. Helicopters fly overhead on random nights looking for god knows what.
I'm in hell.

[Khephra]

18. My sympathy

Bad neighbors suck!

[SammyWinstonJack]

51. Wow! That does sound like hell.

My neighborhood is so quiet, I sometimes wonder if anyone is alive.

[midnight armadillo]

55. i feel your pain

In college I lived on the ground floor with the bedroom window on the alley behind a bar. 4 days a week we would have people puking outside the window, shouting, etc. One time a diesel delivery truck pulled up when I was out and idled outside the open window with its exhaust stack pointed right into the room...when I got home I could barely see across the room due to the fumes! :grr:

[AndyP]

9. I'm sorry

I'll try to be quietter tonight. I'll try not to beat my wife as loud either. Didn't realize it was disturbing to you khephra. my bad


:spank:

[Khephra]

11. I don't think any wife beating is going on

Actually, my guess is that it's the parents that are fighting with their grown-up children. It's one of those mulitgenerational households.

[AndyP]

12. that's good then

I hope they get kicked out soon then so you can have some peace and quiet.

[Khephra]

13. In the past 15 minutes

They've gone and come back twice. Why would someone come and go so often while making such short trips?

[Bertha Venation]

15. maybe they're afraid the milk will go bad within five minutes' time so

they have to keep going to the store to buy half-pints. :shrug:

[CatWoman]

23. drug dealers, maybe?

[Khephra]

24. That's what I'm thinking

Maybe I should get to know them better then?

:evilgrin:

[CatWoman]

25. LOL

:D

[NightTrain]

14. I feel your pain!

My upstairs neighbors, who moved in last fall, are total scum. I lost count of how many times I had to call the cops on those maggots because of their goddamned fighting. And of course, the only way they know how to walk is by stomping! :grr: :nuke:

[brainshrub]

16. Kidnap their puppy

It's worked wonders for another DUer.

[Khephra]

17. Heck no!

Out last dog finally died. I don't want another one in this house. The last one was my grandmother's dog, and we were stuck with it when she died. I'm a cat person. I can't stand (most) dogs.

[BlueJazz]

19. I'll have to admit something here that I've kept secret.....

for a long time. (15 years)
I used to have the same problem as you did. Fortunately I also owned a large JBL tweeter horn (about $700.00)
After about a week of the dreaded neighbors yelling out in the street I brought the JBL horn up to the attic and aimed it out where they would congregate. I hooked a sine-wave generator up to it and ran about 250 watts at 15,000 cycles.

To those who don't appreciate what I did.....15,000 cycles is so close to the upper limit of human hearing that it is EXTREMELY irritating and VERY hard to figure out where it's coming from.
At 250 watts....it was absolute torture in the street!!

It didn't take the fuckers long to start staying inside.
They never did figure out what that "God-Damn high pitch sound" was..
(actual quote).

Heh...Heh...Heh....Cackle, Cackle... :)

[brainshrub]

20. You, sir, are a genius.

I tip my hat to you!

[Khephra]

21. Evil! Evil!

I love it! I may have to hire you if things get worse.

:evilgrin:

[Nay]

26. Evil indeed!! I will have to bookmark this for possible future use myself!

[BlueJazz]

34. Thank you!....if you think that's mean I have a friend that

has built a small portable "wizzer" (that's what he calls it)
Anyway, it destroys cell phone frequencies and every time he's in a
grocery store or movie and someone starts hollering on their phone he
zaps the input call with a god-awful buzz. I'll have to admit there have been times when I wanted to get the plans for it!

[Nlighten1]

54. Funny...

I just did the same thing... :)

[JetCityLiberal]

27. What an original way to stop a problem

From now on every time I hear a high pitched noise I am going to think about your post. I am still laughing, imagining these people looking around and wondering. Like a human dog whistle, train the jerk neighbors. Absolutely hilarious.

khephra, I have lived on 'your street' before and was never more happy to get away from some bad neighbors. Best of luck with your plight.

JetCityLiberal

[BiggJawn]

48. Oh, My! You RAWK!

When I read "...15,000cycles..." I KNEW what was going on!

I'm thankful I can't hear that pitch anymore. I work with TV's, and the horizontal oscillator runs at 15,750...

You're cruel....:7

[alcuno]

28. Why has no one suggested asking them firmly but politely to be more quiet?

I know this may seem like a novel idea, but I've always found that direction action works best. Later you can move into covert operations if they are necessary.

First of all, have you introduced yourself and been friendly? If not go do it at a reasonable time of day. People are more likely to respond positively to someone who has been nice to them. Later you can ask them to be more quiet.

We've always dealt politely but firmly with the neighbors. There are times to get tough (we were involved in having a neighbors dog put down) but I would not suggest it as the first course of action.

[Khephra]

33. Well, if they weren't fighting every time they came outside

I might do that. Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to step into the middle of a domestic fight to say "hi". And even when they're not outside, you can hear them fighting with each other.

[mlawson]

29. I have two jocks as neighbors. They make noise all night lifting weights.

I mean, they are very polite, nice guys, on the baseball team here at the university where I teach. But ALL THEY DO is lift wieghts and drop them, and yell GODDAMN!!!! And YEAH!!!! They never go out and enjoy our wonderful city. They never go anywhere except to class and baseball practise. Again, they have NO CLUE as to why this noise is annoying; they were raised as athletes, so apparently other people's rights are nothing to them.

But I don't want to get them kicks out of the complex; I could wind up with something far worse next door -- barking dogs!!!

[NC_Nurse]

30. I used to have that problem

I moved.
I like my new neighborhood much better. The houses are further apart and no nutcases! Yay!:toast:

[Wcross]

31. My sympathy

My nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile away. No trouble or noise from anyone!

I love country living!

[tedoll78]

32. This is why I'm moving to the country.

I hate noisy neighbors. Call me un-social; I don't care.

And sometimes, I like to be noisy. Loud music can eminate from my home, but only during the day when most folks are at work. I'd say it's a once-a-month occurrance.

My current neighbors are as noisy as hell. Every Sunday evening - like clockwork - they play loud loud loud music (and bad music to boot) until the morning. I usually end-up calling the po po on them at midnight; they have so many neighbors that they don't know who'd call on 'em..

After school is done, it's the country for me. I'm designing a solar house in the middle of the woods and that'll be it. No more neighbors.

[Arugula Latte]

57. just make sure you don't have to deal with hunters...

BAM!

[Ilsa]

35. My husband is upset with our

neighbors over them having a three day garage sale every chance they get. They are very nice people, but they know we can't stand it, all the cars coming and going, blocking our exit, etc. I manage it okay because I keep telling myself it must be because they need the cash. I figure they'd make out better with declaring current market value and taking a tax deduction for it.

The last neighbors kept throwing condoms over the fence for our kids to find. We always had to go out ahead of my little kids for a "Trojan search" in the backyard.

[spinbaby]

36. You should meet our neighbor

We call him "clueless redneck". Total slob. Collects large machinery and always has assorted boats, tractors, 4 wheelers, SUVs, dump trucks, etc. parked in his yard. Some of them are working. Doesn't mow his lawn until it's at least knee high. Added a porch to the house two years ago and the construction debris is still piled next to the house. Killed a deer a couple of years ago and didn't get around to doing anything with it and left it to rot next to his garage. All his cats have kittens every year but somehow he never has any more cats. I don't want to know what happens to them.

He got married recently and seems to be cleaning up his act some--we can only hope.

[peacebuzzard]

37. I hear shrieks of wild strange animals at night when at home

My house faces a sloping hillside with an acre of woods. Tonight my dogs and all the neighborhood dogs went wild at some wild animal that shrieked blood chilling cries in a diminishing deathly sob. It ended in a whispered painful whimper. Don't know what the hell it was, ...scarry and sad.:scared:

[NJCher]

39. don't worry about that

It's actually a couple owls making love. I heard it at my place, too, and was alarmed and saddened. I learned about it here at DU!


Cher

[peacebuzzard]

43. Wow! that is incredible....it was the most haunting sound I have

ever heard. Sort of equal to when a dove loses his/her mate. A kid in the area killed one of a dove couple, and that bird cried straight through my soul for days and days, it was the end of its world. Thanks for telling me. I do have alot of owls out and about this time of year.

[Interrobang]

38. I have Neighbours from Heck

They're not quite Neighbours from Hell, but close.

I live in the top half of an Edwardian row house. Right under my bedroom window is the basement door for the house next door, and the alley is so narrow, you can stand with your arms outstretched and touch the two houses. My next-door downstairs neighbour likes to invite her bf over for beers, and since they're not allowed to smoke in the house (a common clause in rental agreements around here these days), they hang out in front of her front door (the basement door), right under my bedroom window, and talk loudly all night. Sometimes they don't shut up until 2 or 3AM, especially if they've just come home from cruising the bars. I've asked the landlord (who's also my landlord) to ask them to be quieter, but the problem is, they're drunks, so they never remember to be quiet, because their judgement is screwed up from alcohol!

On the other hand, they're better than the previous tenants, who'd do the exact same thing, except louder, later, and with more swearing. Also, *their* favourite topic of conversation was how they liked to beat people up in bar fights. I *never* talked to them; I was too scared. Same deal with the alcohol-impaired noise judgement, though. Ugh.

[Rabrrrrrr]

40. Just be glad you don't live next to Dominicans

4 am here in my neighborhood, and the Dominicans are still blasting their music. And we're talking Pink Floyd conert level volume, but in apartments and other small spaces.

No respect for anyone.

What I wouldbn't give for only have to deal with the volume of voices.

But no, I have to listen to Dominican filth music.

I would have gone to bed three hours ago, but it's too loud. I've been listen to Phish for the last 5 hours at a volume I find uncomfortable on my headphones because it's the only way to block out the bullshit of the violent, rape-like uber-filth-volume of the Dominican's salsa shit music.

And yes, for all your knee-jerk liberals who think I'm being racist, I'm not - music that loud, in a confined area, forcing me to listen to it since 6:30 pm (that is, 9.5 continuous hours) ***is*** an act of violence, plain and simple. Screw your knee-jerk liberalism, I don't give a rat's ass about a culture's "norms" and other bullshit. When a group of asshole filth force me to listen to their music, or play music on my headphone painfully loud to drown it out, and force me to stay up for hours and hours past my chosen bedtime, that is an act of violence, as surely as if they had raped me or robbed me at gunpoint.

[Bundbuster]

42. H e y R a b r r r r r r

Can you hear my 50 cent comin' from Denver (3:20 a.m.), or should I TURN IT UP?

[SOteric]

44. You wouldn't think nuns would play music so loud.

:shrug:

[MisterP]

45. I'm assuming you mean people from the Dominican Rep., not monks

[allalone]

50. you know

it's the constant kyrie the makes you crazy.

[Logansquare]

58. I used to get the shakes every time I heard a Mexican nortena

but it was really just because I was living next to la familia Flores, who liked to "share" their music 18 hours a day by putting their speakers out in the back yard. They also played soccer by using my wall as a backboard, started up a charcoal grill at 10 pm on a weeknight, usually with a lot of lighter fluid, and usually right under my bedroom window, and refused to use the doorbell, preferring a system of whistles and ear-piercing yells. After they were evicted (one of the kids was caught jimmying a washing machine coin box), I was able to get over the trauma and actually enjoy going to a Mexican restaurant with a jukebox again. I would also like to say that I also had really nice Mexican neighbors, so this is in no way meant to imply anything about an entire nationality, just that trash is trash, the world over.

[Rabrrrrrr]

59. I'm with ya on that one

I, too, get the shakes when I shit music now. This is fuive yeaqs of constant harassment from these evil clowns and their out of control behavior. My super - nice guy, good family - invited me to his apartment one night for a drink, and the stereo was so goddamn loud (and it's not a big apartment) I could feel it, and after about ten minutes, I had to leave - couldn't stand having to shout, and my ears were hurting.

Oh, and his stereo?

For that little apartment, he had quite a rack, and he was using those industrial PA-style speakers - the big gray ones.

My COMPUTER speakers, which are crap, I sometimes wonder if "am I being to loud?"

My apartment faces the street, on a street that's all 5-6 story apartment buildings, and I also get to hear the whoops, hollers, catcalls, and whistles (though that doesn't bother me); also get the assholes who come in their cars to pick someone up, and instead of ringing the buzzer lean on the horn for 15-20 second burts every minute until the person realizes his ride is here (and the dude in the car likely has his stereo blasting so loud I can feel it, and probably the dude being picked up has HIS stereo blasting so loud he can't hear the car horn). I've sat through 5-10 minutes of car horn occasionally.

Ridiculous.

I can't wait to move from this neighborhood. What a relief it will be!

I don't understand the fascination with noise, especially at such damaging and painful levels. They do it on the subway with the walkmans, and some walk around with boomboxes (which now have incredible bass response in those little boxes).

I really truly don't understand it all. And the fact they do it with babies and small children present.

[Piperay]

41. I have awful neighbors on one side of me

they are repuklicons and during the last election had the biggest damn bush sign I have ever seen on the front of their house, it must have been six feet. Their son is a drunk who throws his empty liquor bottles into my backyard (I throw them right back over again), this 'kid' has wrecked about 3 cars within six months cause of drinking. I am hoping that since he graduated about three years ago from high school they will eventually kick him out, I keep hoping. They also have a confederate flag hanging up and this is in California, so it must be purely some kind of statement. :argh:

[shanti]

52. geez, where in cali?

i can think of a few places like that, but very few.

[Piperay]

53. A burb in Los Angeles

along the coast, lots of repukes here because the once booming defense industries attracted them.

[Arugula Latte]

56. I feel guilty posting this, but

my neighborhood is quiet, tree-filled, serene -- yet great access to downtown, close to "cool" places, great for our kids, and no barking dogs (whew), just a beautiful, beautiful kitty who graces us with her presence and her magnificent swoooshy plume-like tail. Every month all the neighbors get together to hold hands and start in with "I'd like to teach the world to sing..." (Okay, made that last part up).

[ChoralScholar]

60. do you live on my street?

I have new neighbors that fit that description.