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How can I get revenge on my anti social thoughtless neighbour (lighthearted!)

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PinotAndPlaydough · 08/05/2021 14:59

We live in a small block of flats and my delightful neighbour has been playing loud music with a heavy bass that you can literally feel since about 10am.

It’s just so inconsiderate and selfish, it happens maybe once a month or so, I’ve reported them to the landlord and I know that I could go down the route of keeping a diary etc but it I don’t think it happens often enough for the council to do anything. It is also is just during the day so not antisocial hours. I wouldn’t speak to them as they have been pretty confrontational with others in the past but I’m penning a delightful passive aggressive note.

What I really want is wonderful petty ideas for revenge that I know I’ll never do (well probably) but will make me giggle and feel better. If we didn’t have other neighbours to consider I would stick on some death metal and go out for the day.

The poor old chap opposite them is housebound and can’t even go out to escape their shitty music.

So go on hit me with your best revenge ideas for the morally corrupt.

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lilyboleyn · 08/05/2021 15:07

Glitter penis bomb. Obviously.

KarensChoppyBob · 08/05/2021 15:08

Is this for real?

Once a month (just about) during the day?

You need to unclench OP.

Aprilwasverywet · 08/05/2021 15:10

My entitled neighbours had a cement mixer arrive at 7.50 am today.
Despite council planning hours being 8.30.
Twats.

Justmuddlingalong · 08/05/2021 15:12

I think once a month, during the day is fine.

gerbilfur · 08/05/2021 15:23

It is never OK to do this.

Be it once a month or once a day, it displays thoughtless and selfish behaviour. It's never OK to inflict this on other people.

I like the glitter penis idea

Chatanooga1 · 08/05/2021 15:34

At night go round to his and paint al of the outside of his windows black so that when he wakes up he will always think it’s night time.

Chatanooga1 · 08/05/2021 15:35

^^ or the end of the world.

NotNowPlzz · 08/05/2021 15:37

I think if it's once a month you should get over it. If you dont want to hear other people's noise go and rent a detached house.

PinotAndPlaydough · 08/05/2021 15:37

Once a month during the day isn’t ok when you live in a flat, when you know that the child who lives above you is autistic and the man opposite can’t leave his house.
If you want to play loud music use head phones or play it for an hour then turn it down.
Maybe I have different standards but living so close to other people I think knits important to respect them and not inflict yourself on them for hours on end.

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UhtredRagnarson · 08/05/2021 15:37

@lilyboleyn

Glitter penis bomb. Obviously.
A glitter what now??? Shock
PinotAndPlaydough · 08/05/2021 15:37

Don’t know why penis glitter bombs weren’t my first thought!!

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UhtredRagnarson · 08/05/2021 15:37

@Chatanooga1

At night go round to his and paint al of the outside of his windows black so that when he wakes up he will always think it’s night time.
😂
FelicityPike · 08/05/2021 15:39

Penis glitter bomb!!

PinotAndPlaydough · 08/05/2021 15:39

I can’t afford a detached house, it means I have to consider others in my choices....

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AlmostSummer21 · 08/05/2021 15:42

@KarensChoppyBob

Is this for real?

Once a month (just about) during the day?

You need to unclench OP.

No the neighbour needs to stop being an inconsiderate twat. No one should be subject to neighbours shit music.

That includes your shit music.

AlmostSummer21 · 08/05/2021 15:44

@NotNowPlzz

I think if it's once a month you should get over it. If you dont want to hear other people's noise go and rent a detached house.
No if you want to be noisy, YOU go and rent somewhere away from others!

So inconsiderate.

lilyboleyn · 08/05/2021 15:48

@UhtredRagnarson there was a thread on here a few days ago about someone whose husband received a penis glitter bomb. Google it.

UhtredRagnarson · 08/05/2021 15:49

[quote lilyboleyn]@UhtredRagnarson there was a thread on here a few days ago about someone whose husband received a penis glitter bomb. Google it.[/quote]
I’m not sure I want to... Grin

user1471538283 · 08/05/2021 15:49

If you live close to others it is up to you to be considerate. It is not helpful telling the OP to unclench or live in a detached house.

Loud neighbour noise destroys your mental health. All most people want especially in a pandemic is a bit of peace.

I would play something he really hates very loudly when he likes it quiet. Or you, the housebound gentleman and the child's mother complain together.

PinotAndPlaydough · 08/05/2021 15:50

Can I also make it clear I fully expect and accept noise. The daily 30 minute piano practice, the people who like to Hoover twice a day, the kids playing, washing machines that sound like they are about to take off, the odd shouting match etc all fine. I mean I can hear when my upstairs neighbour is having a piss!!! It’s just when it goes on all day that I think it’s selfish.

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PinotAndPlaydough · 08/05/2021 15:52

Unfortunately I am the child’s mother. She’s spent the day in the garage smashing up wood with a hammer because she couldn’t be inside an more!

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Chatanooga1 · 08/05/2021 15:52

Excessively loud music is anti social and once a month is once too much.

I once lived in an area where a house over the way, so not my actual neighbour had an arrogant couple who had come into money (lottery or criminal means) and when they went out their teenage children would invite their friends round and scream at the top of their voices whilst playing music loud enough to be a nuisance several streets away.

I knocked once and the teenage girl of the house gave me a mouthful of swear words.

I smiled and left.

The next time they had a loud party I waited until the early hours of the morning and threw over their garden fence that was adjacent to a footpath, some condoms that I had filled with an Garnier Skin Active Micellar Milky Cleansing Water that I had bought to take my make up off but was rubbish, but makes an effective looking semen when a small amount is added to a condom!

I knotted the ends and threw them over knowing full well that the mother would be absolutely distraught at finding them and thinking that her precious 14/15 year olds and their friends would be having sex in her garden.

I was right. I got the gossip from one of their neighbours who told me that the mother had gone ballistic and they never went out and left the teenagers again!

Peace resumed to the neighbourhood.

Thankfully I later moved away.

PinotAndPlaydough · 08/05/2021 15:53

@ Chatanooga1 wetting myself at the condoms! That’s pure evil genius.

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AwaAnBileYerHeid · 08/05/2021 16:20

@NotNowPlzz

I think if it's once a month you should get over it. If you dont want to hear other people's noise go and rent a detached house.
Why should someone get a detached house just because others are displaying anti social behaviour? I currently live in a flat, I would love to stick my cheesy 80s tunes on full blast and dance around but I can't because normal decent people consider others. There is a difference between normal living noise and what the OP is describing.

Would you blast death metal and disturb everyone around you with the rationale that if they didn't like it, they should go and live in isolation?

KarensChoppyBob · 09/05/2021 13:31

A few strange assumptions going on here.

I've lived in everything from a tower block flat to a detached house and have yet to blast anything for a long time but if my neighbours did so in the day so infrequently I'd think l myself lucky compared to what can go on.

But ah, of course, different standards.

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