DH trying to piss the neighbour off.

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Our new neighbour had a party on Thursday night. I went to bed earlier than DH so all I heard was a few drunken fights in the street and one hysterical woman threatening to burn down the entire street if her boyfriend did not apologise to her for calling her fat. That went on for about 10 minutes before he came and said sorry.

DH was downstairs and has better hearing than me and said they had rave songs on full blast until 4:30am Friday morning. He didn't come to bed because he knew he wouldn't sleep. To be fair I was still partly awake when he came up because the fighting kept waking me.

DH is not happy about this. He also thinks it's terribly inconsiderate when the neighbour knows we have two school aged children and he would not have known it is half term (afaik he has a son, so he would have known, or at least there is a little boy who seems to stop over a couple of times a week) He's also lived there three weeks and this is first party, so it's not like it's every night.

Last night DH wanted to put his surround system on and YouTube or my ipod until at least 4am I wanted to go to bed, so he refrained. Tonight the dc are sleeping out. He's bought me Vodka, he wants to play his surround system all night tonight instead [sigh]

This is a bit childish and unnecessary, no? Plus it will achieve nothing expect to have the neighbour think we also like partying into the wee hours, so his parties are fine. The neighbour does not work. I've chatted to him for a while, even before we moved in, he's a fellow whippet owner who walks in our park and seems to be a reasonable person. I'm sure if DH had spoken to him, he'd have turned the music down.

WIBU to ban the all night party? Not least because we are terraced and have neighbours both sides.

my (now x) fella tried the"my sound system is superior " to the extent of purchasing additional speakers to put up against the dividing wall ! tough titty on him ,the neighbour was a doobie smoking ,free loving long haired hippy(man) and simply (as he told us later) "dug" the groove! my bloke had to eventually invite him into our flat and point out the intrusion re his sounds ,bloke could not have been sweeter , much apologies and beer later ,all was made good and my bloke had a new " great" friend ! great in "" cos prior to him bonding with hippy neighbour he was promising to rip his head off !

I live in a unit block and some of the neighbour's used to regularly play loud Punjabi bhangra music until the early hours of the morning ( have a nice bunch of families in there now though). When I say regularly, I mean every second weekend or so, so not unbearable. When that happened, I put up with it for a while, asked them a couple of times to turn it down and then we started doing what a PP suggested - wake up at a normal time and start playing our music loud enough to disturb them from 8am or so or do flamenco practice on the MDF boards with my DD.

Give them some time and if they do it again, just make sure they don't get any sleep the next morning. Don't do anything which would give them an excuse to call the police on you.