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To be pissed off at neighbours noise cause they're baby free for a night?

14 replies

fiftyandfab · 20/04/2014 00:05

So, every bank holiday, my usually quiet neighbours seem to offload the baby and party all night. I have to live with thuddy bass noise and, on the occasions I've challenged them, have been treated like some crazy killjoy. I've knocked on door and reasonably asked them to turn it down, they care not, I back off....it's getting so I'm wanting to bloody shoot them! Advice please?

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YouTheCat · 20/04/2014 00:14

It's after 12. Call 101.

fiftyandfab · 20/04/2014 00:15

what's 101?

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fiftyandfab · 20/04/2014 00:16

and thaks for the response Cat, but what is it?

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fiftyandfab · 20/04/2014 00:18

thanks*

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TheCatThatSmiled · 20/04/2014 00:18

it the non emergency police helpline

YouTheCat · 20/04/2014 00:18

It's the non-emergency police number.

fiftyandfab · 20/04/2014 00:29

ok, but is it necessary for annoying neighbour's noise
?

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squoosh · 20/04/2014 00:33

Earplugs.

Some noise on a bank holiday weekend doesn't sound too excessive to me if they're generally otherwise quiet.

CustardFromATin · 20/04/2014 00:34

If you really want them to turn it down, and aren't having any luck by approaching them directly, it might be your best bet. The police won't charge them, just caution them, and they won't give names of who complained (although they may of course guess!). If you prefer a medium way and it's a major problem, could you chat with them and let them know that next time you'll be calling 101 after a given time, as you and the family need sleep?

Or if all that sounds too terrible, it might be a price to pay for neighbourly harmony. Are they nice otherwise?

tara49 · 20/04/2014 00:57

If it's only letting off steam two or three times a year then i can't see the problem - that's reasonable enough I think. Get some earplugs or get a babysitter and join them - sounds fun.

NoodleOodle · 20/04/2014 02:55

I think you are being unreasonable. They're quite most of the time, but have parties at bank holidays? Leave them to it.

WhereHas1999DissappearedToo · 20/04/2014 03:16

I think you could let it go, if it's only a few times a year and it's not worth falling out over if you get on with them generally. I second earplugs

Canthisonebeused · 20/04/2014 04:23

Live and let live. It's not a regular enough occurrence to be complaining about

madwomanbackintheattic · 20/04/2014 04:45

Join the party? Go away for the weekend?

Other people's parties make me stabby, too, though. I know I'm being unreasonable but I strop for hours and do lots of moaning, whining and sighing, and checking the clock to prove just how late it is and unreasonable they are etc etc. By the next lunchtime I'm over it.

A few nights in a year isn't unreasonable, although every time I'm googling the phone number for the council and the noise abatement folk and working myself up into a frenzy...

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