Bloody bastarding burglar alarm

[shinyblackgrape]

We live in a generally nice, quiet street and get on well with the neighbours we know.

However, for the last 4 weeks or so, some fucker's burglar alarm has been going off intermittently for hours at a time.

Tonight it's been going off for the last 3 hours. I called the police finally broke and they told me to go out and check if anyone suspicious was in the vicinity as apparently they can't come out just for an alarm.

I declined to do this on the basis that I am 20 weeks pregnant and bloody boiling hot and cross so I'm not going to go poking round the back of the neighbour's house and I don't want DH to either.

I don't actually think that the neighbours are have constant break ins but have a faulty alarm. So I want to put a note through the door telling them to sort the bastarding thing out or I'll come round with a baseball bat and do it for them. I'm already not sleeping well due to the heat and pregnancy so the alarm is the last straw. DH think this is unneighbourly. AIBU?

YANBU. I contacted environmental health about our next door neighbours last year, he'd piss off for weeks at a time and it'd go off all day and then do random short bursts all night. We found out he had been letting his electric meter run dry, which tripped his alarm, but because he wasn't there he couldn't turn it off.

It's the worst sound in the world, actually started driving me crazy at one point I swear!

"this" - exactly. I actually feel like I'm going nuts. Even when it stops (before starting again about 10 mins later), my brain has been tricked in to hearing it. It's like fucking tinnitus.

I walked past one going off today and couldn't believe how loud it was and was thinking how bloody annoying it must be for the neighbours - baseball bat I say.

Well - I've dragged DH round and put a most passive aggressive note through the door:

"please sort out your faulty burglar alarm. It is very disruptive to those of us with small children. Not to mention anti-social generally.

Thank you"

I though the "thank you" at the end was an excellent PA flourish.

If we get a note back saying: "did you mean to be so rude?" then I'll know the neighbour is a mumsnetter!

Oh :( did you not put a :)

NO! NO! I did not! I'm exhausted! No for the noise polluter!

However, I also didn't out our address so neighbour will need to do forensic handwriting analysis.

I am quite at my behaviour however. As is DH. I do feel a bit better though - through the ringing.......

it is really annoying, intrusive, prevents sleep. I pushed a note through the neighbours door too for the same thing. Happened twice afterwards not since .

Police didn't want to know here either.

But it's classic PA - :)

YANBU, IMO it's unneighbourly to not get your bloody faulty alarm fixed!

I used to live opposite a day centre and the alarm was constantly going off - went on for three days solid once! Drove. Me. Insane. [:)] See, traumatised I am. no, really

Oh, that's so annoying! A note was the right thing - they presumably aren't in when it goes off and need to get it sorted.

Our neighbour's used to do this - first they said it was the heat then they said it was the damp, all sorts of excuses. Grrr.

My parents used to live right next door to the primary school and my mum who worked there had the school entrance code in case of any emergencies.

They had the same problem one year. The burglar alarm kept going off and mum would traipse across the road to silence it, until one day when the code didn't work and it just kept going for ages.

Dad went over with a ladder and had just removed the cover and 'sorted it' when the police arrived

I hope your neighbours get it sorted, those alarms are really loud.

Thank you for the unanimous opinion that AINBU. Just shown the thread to DH [smug]

Got home from work and no ringing yet........ Fingers crossed. I like the thought of "sorting" it myself. May invest in a balaclava and some pliers, just in case.