not really AIBU but I'm still shaken up and wanted to get it off my chest so I hope it's okay to post here.
I previously posted here about my neighbours having insanely loud music on 24/7 and being unable to do anything about it besides the council sending them useless letters.
The neighbours were having a party again tonight, my dog was barking like crazy so I went to look what at (I was upstairs, dog was in kitchen). The neighbours were hammering on my back door - they were in my garden. I opened the door and asked what they were doing and they invited me around for drinks, it was 2 men speaking broken english. I said no thanks and 1 man still kept asking me to go over there. The other man was trying to pull him away and seemed more sober/sane!
The man saw my dog and was asking to stroke him, I said no he doesn't like strangers, can you please leave cos you're in my garden! The man was saying what's the big deal, come join us. I said I would phone the police if you don't leave and then the man was going like "ooooo". So I did a maybe stupid thing and I stepped outside, in hindsight I should've just closed the door in their face but they were still in my back garden!
I asked them to leave and started shouting at them as they weren't moving (second man still trying to drag the first man away). The first man then shoved me really hard into the wall, my dog saw this and ran out of the house barking and growling at him which made the men back off a few steps, I grabbed my dog back and the main man tried to kick him. Dog went back into the house and the man shoved me again twice, hard, into the wall. I was screaming for them to leave and started crying and was screaming for my housemate to help me.
Eventually the second man managed to convince the other man to go away, but not before the first man spat on me. I then ran into the house to get my housemate who said to call the police. 1 HOUR later the police finally arrived and asked if I wanted to press charges for assault (neighbours were still outside in their garden with loud music but didn't see the police as they came from the front into my house)
I'm going on holiday for 2 weeks in a few days and I am leaving my housemate with my pets, I said no to the police for pressing charges because I am worried the neighbours might try to hurt my pets when I'm gone if they are out in the garden to go to the toilet and my housemate isn't watching them properly etc... so the neighbours don't even know that the police were here.
Anyway, this was a few hours ago now at about 10pm. I'm still really shaken up and can't sleep, my arm is really tender in 2 spots where he shoved me and it feels very surreal like a scene from a movie and I keep thinking "what if X, what if Y, I should have done Z instead" etc. Just needed to vent really :(