I'm so angry! I really want to vent without being arrested. Pelting their house with eggs seems like the best course of action..
A couple of days after we moved into our flat, our next door neighbours had a really loud party in their garden. Our bedrooms are at the back of the house, so all of us (including 3 month old DS and 4yr old DD) were wide awake, the music was making everything shake. Plus there was lots of screaming and shouting in the garden. We left it till the early hours and then DH went round and rang the bell. They then turned the music up. DH held the bell down and started banging on the door and shouting, eventually it was turned down but no one answered.
The neighbours have 3 teenage kids, and 2 smaller ones in primary school. It turns out the parents had gone on holiday and left the teenagers who'd had a party. When the parents got back DH went round and had a very polite chat with them, something along the lines of we were all young once so I don't mind a party, but maybe they could turn it down a bit and go inside before 4am. The parents were nice, but they have ignored us since. In the few hours after DH spoke to them a dent appeared on the top of the boot of his car. It's definitely an act of vandalism, it might not have been the teenagers next door but the timing seems very coincidental.
Anyway, the parents have gone on holiday again this week. This happens every school hol but on Saturday the party was ridiculously loud, at 4am we decided to contact environmental health. They already had 3 complaints from other houses and went round. They banged on the door for 30 mins and eventually one of the teenagers answered the door and was extremely aggressive but did turn the music down.
I don't know why this adds to my annoyance, but the family next door are very well off (the kids have really irritating plummy accents) and it seems like the teenagers have been spoilt in lots of ways and they just can't empathise with anyone. I know this is not a symptom of richness though! But they can afford to go out, so not sure why the insist on parties every night at home. Also, the way they go on in the garden (running about naked, talking utter bollocks) they've got to be on something as well as drinking.
Anyway (nearly done) last night we were being kept up again at 2:30am and were both not looking forward to the prospect of getting less than 3 hours sleep and then doing a full day's work (again) while the kids next door sleep off their party. So we called environmental health again, this time they came round and the kids wouldn't answer the door and turned the music up.
All they can do this stage is serve them with a notice to "desist" within a given timeframe.
Should I buy two dozen eggs and fire away?