Noisy Neighbours Rant
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- 5timuli
Please bear with me, I'll give you a little background info:
I moved to Philly just over a month ago and started work straight away. My wife didn't get a job until two weeks later and spent every day at home with our dog. On our second night there was a 'disturbance' in the apartment downstairs involving one man, one woman, a LOT of noise and the police.
The next two weeks were pretty uneventful, no noise, no disturbances. Then, one night I took the dog out to pee and the downstairs neighbour comes out and tells me my dog had been barking constantly, all day from when I left for work until I came, home for two weeks.
This was bullshit. He couldn't have heard any other apartment because of the layout and our dog was NOT barking. He was being a bit of an arse and saying it was a 'big disturbance' to him. He failed to realise that the dog was not alone all day for these two weeks.
The very next night I got home from work and at about 6:45pm the booming started. He was watching TV through a powerful surround sound system. No matter how loud we put our TV, and even when listening to music through big fucking headphones, we can still hear... no... feel the bass coming through the floor. It was still going on when I went to bed shortly before midnight.
This has continued every single evening and almost all day at weekends for over two weeks and it's really doing my fucking brain in. It's still going on as we speak and it's now after midnight.
What are your suggestions here? Should I go downstairs and talk to him, even though he's already come across as an arrogant, self-involved prick? Should I drop a flaming turd on his doorstep and ring the buzzer?
I just want to pop downstairs and stove his head in with a table leg but my wife won't let me.
- toe_knee0
smart thing to do would be to talk to him.. but do it during the day, and out in the open.
But also train your dog to shit on his property, that way you'll feel a bit better if he doesnt stop
- edd-e0
mg33 has a great story about his neighbors who were robbed by some guy and the apartment this guy was robbing happend to be a UFC Championship Fighter and ..ask mg33 for the story tits great!!!
thats right TITS GREAT!!
:)
- mayo0
until you think of a way to rectify the situation, pee on his door knob daily.
- ETM0
Just call the cops. It's a valid noise complaint. I don't know why any of the other neighbors haven't yet.
- toe_knee0
calling the cops is a spinless way of dealing with it. Approach him first, he'll think better of you
- 5timuli0
It's just stopped. 12 fucking 45 am. He's in his late 50s, not exactly a leary young guy who listens to techno death metal rap greek disco or anything... you'd think he'd have more common sense and respect for other people. Cunt.
Right, I'm off back to bed to try and sleep in peace and quiet.
- ETM0
calling the cops is a spinless way of dealing with it. Approach him first, he'll think better of you
toe_knee
(Oct 3 07, 20:53)And if then the real world calls...
Does this person sound rational and easy to deal with? Not really...
- edd-e0
send him a picture of emokid's fist.
- JackRyan0
I had super noisy neighbors...and one day I just went nuts. Same type of the thing, their bass was so loud it was rattling our windows. Anyways, I hooked up my pa system and put the speakers outside my door. I then turned the pa up to 10 and played through an entire Hatebreed album. I opened the door after the cd stopped and it was dead silence...it really helped.
- sofakingzero0
- Talk to him first. (should have done this right away)
He will most likely tell you to fuck off and bring up the dog thing.
- So then you contact the Apartment manager
- if it continues then call the cops.
The key is not to let him slide once, not even slightly.
- quagmire0
if it doesnt work, theres always dynamite from the black market.
- edd-e0
be careful with purchasing the boom sticks from the black market as some nters my sell you flares or candles.
- ETM0
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be careful with purchasing the boom sticks from the black market as some nters my sell you flares or candles.
edd-e
(Oct 3 07, 21:55)Hey, thems trade secrets you're sharing!
- ianwisia0
Call the cops straight away.
I had this same situation (with screaming and domestic violence thrown in). I called the apartment manager 3 times over months. Then one night I went down and calmly explained we needed our sleep. He attacked me straight away so I defended myself. His Wife called the cops and when they arrived he was covered in blood and I was fine. I was left with his dental bill and a GBH charge.
It took a night in a cell, 3 court visits and year of my life to clear it up (it was eventually thrown out). The cops said there was no evidence there was an on-going problem as I never called them.
Call the cops every time.
- phatlee0
How do 5timuli...
I have an annoying neignbour who always use to park outside my garage so I couldn't get my car in or out. I'm always home after all my neighbours and each night he was parked there. I was alwyas polite and asked him to be more courteous. This carried on for months and one day after work I flipped. I went round to his house and gave him an almighty bollocking. Since then he's not parked there.
Sometimes with people like that, its the only language they know.
- toe_knee0
Call the cops every time.
ianwisia
(Oct 4 07, 01:42)Sad to think this is what the world has come to. Sounds really shitty what happened to you man.. what a dick!.
- emecks0
I've suffered this type of cuntery more than once too.
thankfully each time they've been below me and had a shitty little all-in-one stereo thingy turned up to 10 with either Bon Jovi or whatever flavour of shiteHouse blaring on it.
James Brown's "Papa don't take no mess" turned up to about 7 on my stereo with the speakers laid flat on the floor pointing down ALWAYS solved it, that and me stomping around the room "dancing" to the 13 odd minutes of classicness.
- skt0
I had a crazy lady below me in my last flat that had a full on epi and threatened to call the police every time i walked across my living room floor.
Eventually we decided to show her what real noise was actually like and she shut the fuck up after that.
This of course doesn't help you at all. Unluckyu
- chossy0
CUT HIS TEETH OUT!