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Original poster

To think our street has been taken over with chavs

37 replies

Empusa · 21/08/2011 16:16

There is a loud party going on over the road, I know this as my PC is vibrating with the bass of it.

There are also halfwits doing wheelies on souped up motorbikes up and down the road - somehow managing to drown out the sound of the party with their irritating machines.

Grrrrrr.

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LadyThumb · 21/08/2011 16:21

That's horrible. Hope it stops soon.

smoggii · 21/08/2011 16:22

what's a chav?

GwendolenHarleth · 21/08/2011 16:22

It doesn't sound nice. Any chance of you moving?

fifitrixibellesmith · 21/08/2011 16:23

even naice areas are becoming contaminated :(

Nagoo · 21/08/2011 16:23
GwendolenHarleth · 21/08/2011 16:23

Chav means someone who behaves in an anti social manner i think. Empusa's neighbours sound v anti social.

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Empusa · 21/08/2011 16:24

Nah, it's normally lovely here. Don't know what's going on today!

smoggii The kind of idiot who thinks everyone wants to feel their music from 5 or so houses away. And who thinks anti social behaviour is good fun.

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lachesis · 21/08/2011 16:24

I hate behaviour like this! Are you renting? Other peoples' music bugs the living hell out of me. And the motorbikes might not be street legal.

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Empusa · 21/08/2011 16:25

I'd bet on them being not street legal, I'm sure they aren't meant to sound like these do Confused

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lachesis · 21/08/2011 16:30

Then I'd ring the police non-emergency number. Those things are not street legal for a reason. They are dangerous on roads. That's why they also piss me off to no end.

smoggii · 21/08/2011 16:32

It's the middle of a Sunday afternoon, people have party's/ bbqs etc on a Sunday afternoon, when they start disturbing your sleep start moaning.

Souns like a few kids having a fun - if they are causing a danger call the police.

Those pesky proletarians!

LadyOfTheManor · 21/08/2011 16:33

Paintball gun?

Original poster
Empusa · 21/08/2011 16:34

Party = great
Making my house shake from across the road and a few houses away = not so good

ps. pesky proletarians? What do you think I am? A baroness??

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Original poster
Empusa · 21/08/2011 16:34

"Paintball gun?"

I like your thinking Grin

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Ephiny · 21/08/2011 16:34

I'd report to the police about the motorbikes. Had to do this myself once, as the idiots were not only tearing up and down the street doing wheelies etc all afternoon, but one decided it would be a good idea to go up and down with a child of about 2 perched in front of him Hmm.

Fortunately in our street the majority of the trouble was caused by one 'family' and when they moved, it was like a different place!

SuePurblybilt · 21/08/2011 16:35

I would be grrrrrrr too. I don't care if it's not night-time, I don't think it's on to play music so loudly that someone half a street away can feel the bass.

lachesis · 21/08/2011 16:36

Can you imagine being their nextdoor neighbour? I just don't get how someone can ever find having music on that loud acceptable. And as for the wheelies on the road, there's a reason that's illegal, because it is dangerous. Call the non-emergency number, the cops can't abide people who use the road as a playpark for non-street legal (and therefore uninsured) vehicles.

RainboweBrite · 21/08/2011 16:36

I know it's frustrating, but it is the middle of the afternoon, so in this case, I'm afraid YABU. However, if it's still going on past 10 p.m., that's another story...

SuePurblybilt · 21/08/2011 16:36

That shaving gel for wimmin - the Gilette one I think -will fire across a street not that I've ever done that from a balcony,oh no

lachesis · 21/08/2011 16:40

Excessive noise is actually considered noise pollution by most councils no matter if it's in the day. Check your council's website for what actually constitues excessive noise.

smoggii · 21/08/2011 17:19

Well chavs do serve a purpose...you can't have a middle class without a lower class Grin

So no chavs=no Boden and then where would we be!

Just kidding Empusa. If they are causing a problem call the police. I just hate the word chav and the sneering/cat bum that tends to accompany use of the word.

DontGoCurly · 21/08/2011 17:22

Are they drinking and riding the motorbikes at the same time?

ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 21/08/2011 17:23

I have shit hop being blasted at me from over the back. But I care not. Because I have ten chickens in my garden squawking back at it. They obviously think the singer is a cock, too.

AdelaofBlois · 21/08/2011 17:28

My neighbours presumably think I'm a shitty little poshyboots trying to take over their street.

Get a grip: some people are having a loud party on a SUNDAY AFTERNOON and riding their bikes about. This is annoying, but it is hardly beyond the grounds of reasonable behaviour.

InstantAtom · 21/08/2011 17:56

Is it the Tory party conference?

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