To think it should be legal to shoot tranquilliser darts at people

[SuperMuddle]

...who think it's OK to walk down a residential street late at night chatting loudly or singing drunkenly?

It wouldn't create any additional noise, wouldn't cause any lasting damage to the obnoxious twat, and would be highly satisfying.

They could then be cleared off the street early the following morning with the judicious application of a klaxon to the ear.

Not that I'm in any way pissed off with the inconsiderate, antisocial fucknuggets...

I think there is no excuse for making an unreasonable amount of noise in residential areas at night. I think "having fun" is definitely not an excuse - go to a bar!

I have no problem at all with people having fun but I think disturbing other people is extremely rude.

slings shot gun over shoulder and saunters over to position by the window

WMittens, are you OK? Seriously, you appear to be taking this terribly seriously, and I'm genuinely concerned for your blood pressure.

Yikes...

Craig David?!?! Shotgun too good for them

This was a problem when we were on holiday in Devon. Our rented house was on one route from the town centre and lots of groups of people would walk past talking loudly from about midnight to one am. It was lovely and peaceful the night it rained.

SuperMuddle

Haha, obviously a lot is lost in text-only communication.

As I said, I was merely enjoying the irony of someone expressing sociopathic desires judging other to be antisocial.

I think there is no excuse for making an unreasonable amount of noise in residential areas at night. I think "having fun" is definitely not an excuse - go to a bar!

I wonder, once these revellers have finished at their bar or bars of choice, how they would get to the places they reside?

And I'm thinking alcohol tends to impair judgement and reduce inhibitions so although inconsiderate, it's not consciously (or controllably) inconsiderate.

I wonder, once these revellers have finished at their bar or bars of choice, how they would get to the places they reside?

I'm not proposing banning people from the streets. But expecting a level of common decency and social etiquette isnt really asking the world.

Tbh I'm not the most tolerant person in the world [strokes shotgun] but even the nicest most tolerant people have to draw a line somewhere. Screaming in the street at night is probably past that line

Why do people get so angry about other people enjoying themselves? I think it's great hearing people have fun, let them enjoy their lives you miserable bastards.

Do you think it's that great when your sick child, who has taken ages to get to sleep, is woken up? Or indeed when you are woken up in the middle of the night?

Do you think it's that great when your sick child, who has taken ages to get to sleep, is woken up? Or indeed when you are woken up in the middle of the night?

No, but getting irate about it doesn't help me get back to sleep; it causes an increase in adrenaline (or rather, an increase in adrenaline (and noradrenaline) makes you angry) which is only going to bring you to wakefulness.

But expecting a level of common decency and social etiquette isnt really asking the world.

And alcohol has the effect of reducing what?

How on earth does being drunk make it ok?!

Never said it did. It's a reason, I never said it was an excuse. It's the difference between causation and permission.

They can ban alcohol as far as I care, it's not going to affect me.

YANBU Oh I wish it was legal. The road by my house is a popular route for drunks going home. Singing I can almost stand, crying I have a little sympathy for.

Full on arguments from 3am that last half an hour because they walk really slowly and then stop outside my house to have a billion decibel argument followed by fisticuffs is not ok. I've had to call the police quite a few times. I think the police hang near our road now because it's happened so often.

WmMittens OK, I'll bite.

I think this conversation needs to be had.

The OP has not reacted violently to these people. She is not proposing to react violently. She is not inciting others to react violently. She is not even advocating reacting violently. She is, in fact, joking. Much as you were when you made the ripping fingernails off with pliers comment. Humour and jokes often (but not always) rely on violent/emotive imagery. It's to do with the fact that it increases tension, which is then defused by laughter.

The tranquiliser darts thing is just a funny image, and makes for a more interesting thread than "I find it mildly annoying when people walk past my house shouting at 3am, but not enough to actually do anything about it (and certainly not anything illegal; heavens no)"

So it's not really ironic or hypocritical. Hypocrisy would be if she'd said "I hate it when other people do this; only I should be allowed to do it."

Mmmmkay?

Humour and jokes often (but not always) rely on violent/emotive imagery.

So Jimmy Carr's and Frankie Boyle's 'unsavoury' jokes are OK?

*So it's not really ironic or hypocritical. Hypocrisy would be if she'd said "I hate it when other people do this; only I should be allowed to do it."

Mmmmkay?*

Calling people antisocial, then suggesting to perform an antisocial act against them is hypocrisy, OK Mr Garrison?

I'm well aware it's a 'joke' (although a joke requires a set up and a punchline, so really it's whimsy rather than a joke), but I'm not going to blindly agree with someone just because. I'm always going to consider alternative points of view before I agree with or oppose the opening point.

I am aware that AIBU exists for people to gain validation rather than to promote debate so I realise I'm setting myself up on a hiding to nothing.

Where did I say that unsavoury jokes are OK, WmMittens? Show me that bit of my post.

Give up, Jesus. I don't think we're going to win this one. Logic and reason have failed

IAmMiranda I think you're right.

Perhaps, WMittens, you could apply your mind to the thought underlying the joke: i.e. that it is bloody inconsiderate to wander down a residential road after midnight talking loudly and singing? It doesn't matter whether it is sensible or otherwise for people woken up in that manner to feel angry about it, it is, quite simply and objectively, and anti-social thing to do. Perhaps you could think about the possibility that objecting does not amount to putting the local resident's interests above those of the drunkards, it is, quite simply, a reasonable reaction? Do the singers ever stop to think, for instance, that one or more of the people they are waking could be ill? Or maybe an insomniac who has only just managed to drop off to sleep? Or someone who has to get up very early in the morning for work? How happy would they be if they fetched up in A&E only to find that their doctors were drooping with tiredness having only had a couple of hours' sleep because of this type of behaviour?

I'd like to booby trap the road with ice so that the people who are making all the noise, and being jolly,
fall over.

This would make me happy, and make me laugh and join in the entertainment..

Win win

what you need is a noise activated system... instant association... noise=something nasty.

what you need is a noise activated system... instant association... noise=something nasty

Perhaps a trap door leading to a cage drunk tank

sounds good. I was wondeing what could be used that would not immediatley make the noisy ones more noisy and screechy.