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Basketball hoops in small gardens

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Myneighboursandtheirfuckingbasketball · 11/05/2024 20:53

We live in a new build. Gardens are actually a decent ish size but still...new build gardens. About 30ft sq, no trees or anything yet. My fucking twatty cunty NDNs have astroturfed the entire garden and basically use it as a sports pitch. Football, hockey, tennis and motherfucking basketball. Not one but two bastarding hoops. And not one member of the family is capable of being in the garden for even 5 minutes without thwacking or thumping some kind of ball around. I hate them.

It's a lovely evening. All the other gardens are fairly quiet, you can hear people chatting, bbqing, eating, some quiet ish music.

Not in our garden oh no, thump thump fuckity thump bash. Scream, shout. Repeat. Repeat. So where am I? In the fucking house fuming because its actually impossible to enjoy being in my garden. Even my high pitched shriek over the fence of 'for fuck sake that fucking basketball' didn't even register. It will go on til about 11pm from experience. There are 4 adults out there plus multiple children. They have absolutely zero self awareness, literally do not give a shit how noisy they are.

We are actually looking to move house just to get away from them and I'm going to sell it to whoever appears to be the loudest, most irritating family.

ARGH.

Anyway. AIBU to think that my neighbours are cunts?

OP posts:
Silverlinning · 11/05/2024 21:28

Sounded like my garden for moment. Then I realised all of my neighbours have basket ball hoops apart from one. Don't play for hours in end either

GoodVibesHere · 11/05/2024 21:10

YANBU at all. I can put up with noises - dogs barking, kids shrieking, music, lawnmowers etc but the repetitive dull thud of a basketball would drive me absolutely loopy. I bet you can't wait to move.

Aquamarine1029 · 11/05/2024 21:00

It honestly sounds like my worst nightmare. Well, one of them.

Mrcrabsleg · 11/05/2024 20:59

Welcome to new build life - its Horrific!

All sound travels so far and there are so many entitled idiots out there who wouldn’t know consideration for others if it bit them on the ass!