To want to drop kick my neighbours son?

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My neighbours teenage son currently has some friends round (his parents aren't home) and bloody hell they are being noisy! My son is 15 months and currently napping and they have already woken him up once but luckily he went back to sleep. They were out in the garden earlier swearing frequently and loudly! They were blaring music (the teenage son does this when home alone but only loud enough for it to be annoying if you are in the garden most of the time) but that has calmed down for now. Do I put up with it, knock and talk to the son or wait till his parents come home and talk to them? Or go with my original plan of drop kicking?

I'm assuming the OP was joking when she talked about drop kicking...

I have no idea why people are assuming anyone was intending to "have a go"

My neighbours were lovely when mine were younger and their children were teens.
Now they have a noisy grandchild, and my children are being lovely back.
But we do actually communicate with words rather than telepathy or passive-aggressive fantasies.

Of course she was, teenagers are far too scary to actually have a go at. Well, unless you've got some that is. Then you know that they are as thoughtless and harmless as the majority of the human race.
Otherwise they are the new BoogiePersons; alien, and objects of fear and loathing for many.

I think it's perhaps a bit much too go over about the noise as it's only one day, but if they are in the garden I'd maybe pop my head over and mention the language.
Dp and I don't have children but I always tell him off when he swears in public because children just aren't on his radar so he doesn't think about it, but he wouldn't want to swear in front of children if you see what I mean.

So, three hours later, what did the OP actually decide to do?
My bet is nothing.

Do people who talk about "drop kicking" and the posters who get in a lather about actually know what drop kicking is? Seems a weird thing to want to do to someone who's annoying you. It's akin to saying "AIBU to want to score a goal with my neighbour's son?" i.e completely meaningless.

Er- the OP was joking about the drop kicking- you did see the after it?

The drop kick is a move I learned many years ago in my martial arts sessions.
It's when you leap and kick someone in the chest with both feet at once.
I doubt the OP was thinking of actually doing it, it's why I said she'd probably end up flat on her arse.

Yes I know! I'm not daft or being professionally offended. Drop kicking means scoring a goal in rugby. It seems like a weird phrase to pick rather than something like "AIBU to want to poke him in the eye...?" or something.

Just making conversation, that's all.

Is it? Ah well, every day's a school day. I retract my rugby comment.

As you were.

It'd have to be a mighty kick to get a teenager that high in the air!

How I'd love to see one flying through the air though.

Easier to start with the baby and work your way up, like weight training.
Or are babies off limits?

If my teenager behaved like that, I'd be quite happy if you drop kicked him into the next garden. I would hope you asked him politely to keep the noise down and stop the swearing first though. Despite the language they use when they think no one can hear, I think they would be mortified if they thought a toddler had over heard them.

If they didn't keep it down after asking them, I would go round when the parents are in and say how disappointed I was. Nobody wants anyone to be disappointed in their child.

Maybe babies wouldn't be in Good Taste. Toddlers ought to be fair game and teenagers definitely ok. I imagine Sir Jonny could handle it.

Just ask them, most teenagers are fully human and would keep their language and volume down!
I wouldn't drop kick them, they're generally heavier than they look!

Just ask them nicely to keep it down a bit.

Now I know why the teenagers on the bus use such foul language (it would make a sailor blush). If someone heard mine swearing when they were teenagers I hope they told them to pack it in.

Missing the point of the thread somewhat, but I remember being a noisy teenager once upon a time in the early 90s. Not much swearing but a lot of singing and questionable guitar skills. One night our caterwauling went on late into the night and I was dispatched, shamefaced, to apologise to our elderly neighbours the next day.I fully expected a "what were you thinking, have you no consideration?" but instead was greeted with big smiles. "Of course it kept us awake," they said, "but it was marvellous : far better to hear you all singing than fighting. To be honest it was just like old times, except we all thought we were Artie Shaw instead of that poor chap who shot himself." I never forgot it: the memory still makes me smile.

Asking them to keep the swearing down is nbu. But expecting teens to stay quiet in the middle of the day and fit round your childs naps is a bit pfb.

My son is a lazy sod so I usually have to wake him up at quarter to eight most mornings and it takes a lot to wake him up! Usually after opening his blinds and calling his name progressively louder I resort to nudging him awake so that gives you an idea of how loud next door were being, I had head phones on and still heard them and at first thought someone was having a full on fight.

Of course I expect to hear general noise, all of our neighbours have dogs and the one behind us is barking at 10pm 1am 6am etc and it's not something that bothers me whereas I think it would bother most people so please don't mistake me for someone who is aggravated by every little noise.

I didn't say anything because it's the first time it's happened and we have only lived here a few months so I'm giving the benefit of the doubt that it isn't a regular thing.

The drop kicking reference is probably due to the fact that my dp was a wrestling fan :)