To wish the teenage girls shrieking outside our house would just fuck off?

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Every bloody weekend (and sometimes weeknights) a gaggle of teenage girls sit on our neighbours driveway wall and just shriek at top volume to each other. I'm fucking sick of it. They wake 11mo DS2 every time - the only other place I can have him sleep is downstairs with us until we go to bed by which time they have usually gone. Confronting them or even politely asking them to stfu makes it worse, as our other neighbour found out when he tried.

Why the hell do they find our street so fascinating (it really isn't and I know most of them don't even live here) and why the hell can't they converse on a level lower than a million decibels? I'm sure I never felt the need to shriek and squeal every 30 seconds when I were a lass, so why the fuck do they????

It's really fucked me off tonight as I have a lovely pizza waiting downstairs, and now DS is awake he's decided he wants another bf.

The high pitched noise will hurt your baby's ears too, so don't try that. Apparently classical music is your best bet.

Let us know which one you try and how you get on.

Good stuff trouble - it works!

Yes I was peed off.... I wanted confrontation but scared of the repercussions too. Told my DH what I'd done (he was away at the time)and he thought I was mad. My thoughts were I wanted to watch the T.V and they were drowning it out.
They've not done it again though so result!

I was going to suggest just silently joining them BUT it's important you wear slippers and smile serenely whilst gazing at nothing..

Trouble is spot on.

Get an air horn, join their circle and everytime they talk or shriek give it a blast then persist to tell them how fucking annoying it is and gently remind them that you live here and can make the commitment to come out every night and join them

troubleinstore legend !

I went out once and told them to go away and never come back

Must have looked like I meant it as they never returned

My neighbour told my husband I was very brave , I was fucking furious and ready to kill them

We've moved since

Someone down the road has one of those 'mosquito' things to keeps cats off his garden. I can hear it and I'm 45.

I like the vegetable oil suggestion. Paint some on the wall where they sit. One set of ruined clothes and they'll not do it again.

If I were your neighbour I would definitely put something on the wall - anti-burglar paint or oil or something.

YouTheCat that is not a mosquito, that is a cat scared which has a lower frequency, same-idea though.

Trouble did you do that ages ago and post about it on MN? Or have I confused you with someone else or I'm imagining it

Could you be taking a bag of flour to your neighbour and trip over and the ripped bags contents accidently spill all over the girls?

I'm a secondary school teacher and I know most of the teens who congregate outside our flat from time to time. Merely observing them does seem to be quite effective way of getting them to move on but tbh with a young baby in the house I'd just speak to 101. They'll send some PCSOs around to have a word and the teens will be none the wiser to who called. 99.9% probably wouldn't do anything if you confronted them but really not worth the risk that you encounter the 0.1% who really aren't very stable.

HowsThe... probably yes.. it was a while ago!

Damn, Cadlecrap, I thought I had superpowers.

Water pistol?

Or I do like trouble's suggestion, brilliant

trouble I salute you! That's genius, wish I'd read it earlier, in in the sort of mood to give that a go

They did bugger off eventually. DH rang 101 and they said they'd send someone round - they've not been yet, the shriekers have descended on the chip shop. I overheard their conversation - someone called Lauren is going to get a slap off one of them for unspecified reasons, and one of them got totally shitfaced last night on their mam's vodka. Next time I might freak them out and ask if they saw Lauren and what happened and yeah vodka makes you proper ill like!

And no, we don't live next to One Direction. Although I'm sure he'd like to think he is that good looking. But no. He really isn't.

Have some pity for me: I live across a girls school and every day from 3:15 to 4pm the shrieking is just piercing. I emailed the school once, didn't even get a reply. Now I just move to the back of my house where I can still hear them but don't fear for my eardrums.

I have really good hearing and at the age of 31 cab hear those speakers they are horrible and worse for babies and young children. Use a hose pipe!

YouTheCat I thought the same thing when I heard the

FFS the cat scarer.

Used to have this sort of shit daily and it was bloody awful. And they used to run through the gardens as well.

Trouble that is brilliant, wish I'd thought of that. I'd sometimes go out ask tell them to move away but they'd always come back.

Maybe the girls do have a well- hidden better nature. Take DS out and introduce them. They might go all googly eyed and soppy, and then you can explain the problem.

Failing that, breastfeed in the garden. Bet the girls leave at speed.

I know you said the neighbours got a mouthful but go out with the baby say look girls can you keep the noise down the baby needs his bed or stand at your window and just watch them they will think you are some weirdy scary lady and move

I had it for a while here. A sprinkler which I could turn on and off from where they couldn't see me meant that they soon found somewhere more to their liking.