I think I've posted before about our problem neighbour.
To summarise - we live in a terraced house. Since the summer (apart from a couple of months when he was in prison) every weekend taxi-loads of drunk people turn up at his house and party into the early hours, keeping us awake all night. Recently it seemed to escalate and happened on week nights too - we've called the police a few times in the early hours, one time resulting in neighbour banging on our door threating to shoot us if we called the police again (which of course resulted in us calling the police again!)
DP has had to take days off work as he was too tired to drive on the motorway to get there, let alone function in his job.
He's even booked a B&B for a few nights just to make sure he gets some sleep during a particularly busy patch at work.
Since the last incident - we've spoken to our neighbour. He was very apologetic - he's got a few problems at the moment, his mum doesn't have long left to live and he's broken up with his ex (and mother of his children) and he knows this isn't an excuse for his behaviour. He also has to move by the end of this month as his landlord is moving back into the house with his family.
I DO feel a bit sorry for him, he seems like quite a nice bloke - but is very damaged, and very easily led by the people surrounding him (the taxi-loads of "mates" who turn up all the time! He's admitted he doesn't even invite them, they just seem to get wind of where the party is and he ALWAYS lets them in)
He's actually been quiet during the week since we spoke to him. However a load of them turned up last night - well, more like the early hours of this morning. It woke us up - and we had a bit of a crap day off as we spent most of it catching up on sleep from the night before. It went on all night, into the morning and has carried on all of today and is still going on now.
We know (as previously suspected) that cocaine is involved which explains the fact they never seem to sleep.
We also know that neighbour himself is out on licence until February and is on his final warning before he gets sent back to prison.
DP wants to call the police if it carries on past midnight. I'm not so sure - he's been quiet in the week, and at the very worst we only have until the end of the month having crap weekends (we're moving too - it just looks like he has to go before us).
We don't have children - I think I'd have a very different stance then! What do you lot think?