To want to call the police about neighbours kids party?

[DollyDayScream]

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They are making a racket. Swearing, screaming, shouting, music, unidentifiable noises.

The parents have gone away/out for the night. Last time, they came home at midnight, turfed everyone out and left the neighbours (us) to deal with anti-social behaviour and bottle smashing.

It's Summer, so the windows are open, this makes the noise more intense.

Should I call the police or suck it up (again).?

I’d think carefully before retaliating because before you know it they then retaliate back and it’s an ongoing vicious circle - that you have a live each day with.

Best thing you can do is speak to the parents rationally.

I’m sure the party was annoying and it was unreasonable for it to go on to 3:30 this morning but I just want to pick up a point you made.

You say you never make noise and anyone that does is selfish and not caring about their neighbours. I think you also say you have children? If so you do realise those children will have cried/screamed at every hour of the night at some point in their lives. This will have affected your neighbours. The crying/screaming will have woken them up and they will have been getting irate they had to work etc the next day.

It’s not unreasonable your kids may have cried and woken people but you need to understand that just because it’s your noise doesn’t mean it’s acceptable and the neighbours having a party, although annoying, is not.

I think you also say you have children? If so you do realise those children will have cried/screamed at every hour of the night at some point in their lives. This will have affected your neighbours

One of those is avoidable noise and another is pretty unavoidable.

You cannot compare children crying with deliberately loud music.

Amplified music in roads where people live is the work of the devil on a particularly malicious day.

I think if you had made yourself a camomile tea. Put some headphones in. Closed the windows you would have been fine.
Instead you got all angry and spent the whole time on here getting more angry.

Honestly. It’s fucking annoying, but it happens and sometimes even when I am annoyed I remember being young and having parties that went on till all hours with my best friends. And I remember being young and carefree and happy and it makes me smile that people still do that now.

If they did it every night that’s another thing.
But get a grip all of you who are holy that you never made a noise having fun.

I don’t get angry at people who’s brat children scream at the top of their lungs. I don’t get annoyed at old people who are up at dawn hoovering. It’s just life.

I remember being young and having parties that went on till all hours with my best friends

Did you think about the neighbours?

What would you have done if the neighbour had asked you to turn down the noise?

OP, come and move to the country where I am.

Then you can be woken at 4.30 am by the lovely sounds of -birdsong- pheasants screeching & magpies chattering.

I'm with you OP. On Friday the neighbours had a bbq in their front garden that went on till 1am and let the kids ( between about 5 and 10) run up and down the street screaming. My next door neighbour was the worst culprit 😡. So, yesterday morning at about 9am she was sat outside on her phone moaning about her hangover, so I started to cut the grass. Her face was a picture!
Then yesterday afternoon I saw the same neighbours bringing in boxes of beer and bottles of wine and my heart sank. I went out at about 10 and asked them to keep the noise down and surprisingly they did.

Sorry to hijack your thread, but it's really miserable lying in bed and feeling helpless. Don't take any notice of pp who dismissed your annoyance. Phone the police next time, it's anti social behaviour, or get a really noisy lawnmower!!

I don’t think your being unreasonable, it’s one thing to be annoyed with the noise but it’s another if there’s always anti social behaviour after. We panic when there’s a very occasional party in our road after the time our cars got vandelised, some Indios carved their initials on the bonnet of our car which cost hundreds to put right, a neighbour has an extremely expensive car and had ‘cunt’ carved into it all the way down the side. Elderly people shouldn’t be waking up to glass outside their house. Noise at 10.30 is one thing, drunk antisocial is another

@kalapattar
Yes we did! We warned them. I’m not sure what else you can do. It wasn’t often
I got more annoyed with my neighbour who left their tumble dryer on all night which was against my bedroom wall. I think that’s much less considerate.

Look we live in a society and we have to put up with things that we wouldn’t do or that annoy us. It’s part of life. There is a difference between a sustained attack and a one off.
Perhaps you should all move to the countryside? We all make our choices about where we live and if we live near people there are consequences good and bad

Look we live in a society and we have to put up with things that we wouldn’t do or that annoy us. It’s part of life

There is a difference between loud noise in the evening (I have a neighbour who is getting deaf and has his TV on loud) and loud noise when people are trying to sleep.

I wouldn't be annoyed if my neighbour had loud noise in the evening (unless it was very loud and everyday) but I would have a word if it was loud at night.

I have had noisy neighbours. And I have been to parties where it has been noisy and have mentioned that we should turn down the noise.

I am teaching DS to be considerate about the noise he makes - with his music and PlayStation. I have told him to think of others.

Good manners costs nothing - and makes for a better society.

Yesterday the house at the back of us decided to host their own 'festival' in their back garden. I kid you not.
They had a singer with a full on concert sound system, he was shit as well so that added salt to the wounds. There sounded like there was about 50 people there, including screaming young kids at midnight.

It was so loud my sil who lives a block away txted and asked if there was a concert on at the park that we were missing! It literally affected the entire area.

It was horrific, we were shattered, it kept the baby awake who in turn then became over tired and shattered. All the doors and windows shut, it was sweltering.

I tried to ring the police at the local station at midnight and nobody answered.

I could quite happily go round and bash them in the face. The whole household is shattered today.

YANBU

I’ve had the festival thing. Neighbours who I think are Brazilian in the summer do this most weekends! Ususally finishes around 10or 11. So it’s no problem. It’s actually quite funny listening to them all singing along to utter shite.

One neighbour goes batshit. But he’s an angry man. Angry about everything. I feel quite sorry for him.

3:30, oh no, that's horrendous. And the broken glass makes it far worse, you should insist that they clear that up, as that's dangerous, and your DC could end up stepping on it.

I do think a better policy than complaining on here would have been to ask them to cut it out. I've found that a polite request can achieve results. You don't know if you don't try anyway.

Do they do this often, or was it a one-off? If the former then you should make a complaint, if the latter, just approach them and say that if this incident is repeated you'll involve the police. It's really not on. If you want to stay up late making that much noise, go to a nightclub or make a party booking.

Your council will have noise control officers - they have the power to break up parties. I would call them, the number will be online

I wish. There is no published number for our council for out-of-hours noise nuisance, but the police have a number that they will give you. On the one occasion I have called it, I got an answerphone message saying that the number was only manned from 12pm to 2am, and to leave a message. It was 1.10 am, I left a message and never got a call back.

The whole thing got completely out of hand, loads of cars were damaged, one of the kids lobbed a can of beer at my NDN and gave him a cut that needed stitches and the police didn't rock up till 9 the next morning.

The teen who had the party wasn't allowed to stay home alone for about 3 years and his lovely parents were mortified. There was a rumour that it wasn't taken seriously because it happened in a "good" area, but we got an apology from the chief constable.

By this time I would have been using my petrol strimmer for at least 3 hours, pressure washed the car, hedge trimmed and mown the lawn.
Lunch would be a garden picnic with as many loud toddlers that I could drum up with postman pat played on speakers through their walls.
FWIW, I can't see how puking, pissing and breaking glass in the street isn't anti-social behaviour?
Next time, Facebook about the great party next door, with no responsible adults and how much alcohol Is available (in an innocent kind of way). Then call the police after the gatecrashers have wrecked the place & stolen anything of value. That might put a stop to future parties

In London, you call the council for noisy parties not the police.

No self respecting teen would use Facebook to attend a party....how 2010.

Well, I would be knocking at the door early, handing over the broom saying "there's glass there there and there"....

YANBU- having a party that then spilled out on the street was annyoing