Neighbours fallen out with us

My neighbours but one have a rodent thing. It goes of for about five seconds about three times a minute. I couldn’t hear it but it drive my son mad. Then it malfunctioned and everyone could hear it - and the occupants had died a year ago so house is empty! Fortunately someone contacted the daughter and she came and turned it off. They use these sorts of things in areas where youths gather as a deterrent as they are generally more sensitive to the noise.

You were right to complain, younger people are far more affected by high pitch noise than older. If you have a young child they will have heard it much more than you and than them. If they're older they probably can't hear it as badly.

Just be reassured you did the right thing and ignore them.

I feel your pain OP.

My neighbour opposite has put one in the front garden - the slightest thing sets it off as it’s one of those cheap ones from Amazon. It’s pointed directly at our house, our bedroom is front of the house and I can hear it. Last week with the hot weather and windows open it was driving me fully insane. Today it seems they’ve messed with the pitch and my skin was crawling.

Its also torturing any dogs being walked past it, including both my next door neighbours every time they leave the house.

YANBU at all and your neighbour is a cockend.

Gosh what an unintelligent neighbour. YANBU at all! The previous peaceful relationship you had was based on him being unchallenged. Those noise polluting devices should be illegal.

Your neighbour is a dick to be that selfish and inconsiderate of the rest of the neighbourhood. It is physically PAINFUL for so many people who can hear high pitched sounds, especially younger people.

I'd get some cameras up tbh ... he sounds unreasonable and potentially unhinged if he'll view this as a 'loss' and feel the need to even the score. Whatever that means in his head. Ugh

Have you got a ring doorbell? neighbour opposite reported us having a camera on our cars.. Police (hobby Bobby) came out and it's on our cars and stop at the road. Perfectly legal. To keep an eye after other side batshit ndn came a calling pissed having a go at me.

I would say they are faulty, not a noise normally hear. FIL had some that used to scream but they were old - bought him new ones and they were fine.

Your neighbour, as weird as it can be falling out, left you no choice. You asked and asked. Sometimes people like that you cannot please in any shape or form so don't worry about them anymore.

He sounds like a petty bastard! Just seen if he does anything next and keep a record of it.

Go out under cover of darkness and take the batteries out.

I had a noisy neighbour a few years ago - ran a business in their (tiny) garden during lockdown. Power tools running all day.
I complained to the Council. To give them credit they did stop the racket and moved the business out to somewhere else.
Atmosphere was a bit frosty after that...

That's what happens when you become incapacitated and disorientated with pain. Apparently. Wish I could have treated him to lashings of ginger beer. Those fox/cat scarers should be banned.

yeah ok I agree, the neighbour ship has sailed.

You absolutely did the right thing. Has he taken it down like the council told him too.

A neighbour about 7 doors up from me has one. I avoid walking past his house. It makes me feel physically sick. The noise is awful . They should be banned

I think @User711985 meant there's nothing OP can do about the soured relationship, seeing as the neighbours decided to sour it with their antisocial pigheadedness.

of course

"accidentally" you say 👀

Obviously you were NBU and you had asked them yourselves several times. So doubly NBU.

I can't imagine anyone he chats shit to sympathises with his right to be an inconsiderate arse, so I wouldn't worry.

One of my neighbours opposite couldn't understand how her high pitched fox scarer could possibly be affecting me as she had pointed it at her house not mine. She didn't understand that sound bounces off solid objects 🙄 The pitch actually turned me murderous but the foxes still went down her drive. Luckily her paperboy kept accidentally standing on it, got through three before she gave up.

actually if it is a noise nuisance, there is something that can be done.

A neighbour 2 doors down has something similar in their front garden to stop cats using their wood chips as a loo - fair enough. I can’t hear it but, whenever my kids pass it, they can and they hate it! Luckily it is far enough away that it doesn’t affect them on our property, if it did, I’d be requesting them to move it. You are totally NBU! Sorry they’re not listening to reason.

Agree - I did 'agree' but then only the poster sees it so I thought I would quote this!

First line says it all. With bells, whistles and wind chimes on!