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Original poster

To let rip at my neighbour tomorrow?

83 replies

Tomorrowiscancelled · 09/07/2018 00:15

Very very grumpy right now.

Live in a busy and somewhat noisy street but kind of used to it. However, around 9.45 tonight an alarm of some kind started going off in a nearby house. Its piercingly loud even with the windows shut.

I went out after an hour and tracked it down to an empty house down the street that's being done up. None of its windows are open but it can still be heard even over the TV. Can't see a burglar alarm anywhere and it's not a fire alarm.

I'm knackered, kids finally got to sleep but I'm now raging. I've opened the windows again cos I can still hear it if they're shut and it's too hot anyway.

Bleep Bleep Bleep....Bleep bleep fucking Bleep. He's gonna get a frigging mouthfull when he turns up in morning Angry

OP posts:
MidniteScribbler · 09/07/2018 03:30

I don't know how things work in the UK, but in Australia we have our power boards on the outside of the house. If you have that, just go and turn their power off. I did that once when a neighbour went away on holidays and their alarm kept going off (they had locked their cat inside the house and it kept triggering the alarm).

allthefuckery · 09/07/2018 04:13

I'd call non emergency anyway. Can't hurt. See what they say. Bloody annoying for you.

Coyoacan · 09/07/2018 05:34

All I know is that you have my complete sympathy. I don't know about nowadays but twenty years ago Dublin was full of alarms going off all weekend long. I always reckoned that there was a great career in house-burglary there as there is nothing that says there is no-one at home more than one of those bloody alarms. And whose going to go out to it on the second day.

impostersyndrome · 09/07/2018 05:53

Call environmental health. Number will be on your local authority’s website. In my experience, they’ll come out, and charge them for a locksmith to break in and switch it off.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 09/07/2018 05:59

It wasn't after 11, so YABU.

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 09/07/2018 06:00

Sorry, I thought it went on for an hour. YANBU.

malmi · 09/07/2018 06:00

Power stuff is usually inside the house in the UK. OP needs to get the phone numbers of the owners and ring their mobiles and landlines when this happens.

OnePotato2Potato · 09/07/2018 06:05

Oh goodness i can imagine how horrible that was. Did it get sorted for the night OP?

Ignore the rude people on MN, they will happily support your neighbour on this one!

Notso · 09/07/2018 06:16

I got a right earful when I phoned 101 about next doors alarm.
They had just left for a 6 week holiday and it started going off, it was deafening.
If it's not on fire and there is no sign of an intruder then do not bother ringing the police.

StoorieHoose · 09/07/2018 06:22

I think you have every right to rip into them. If they are setting the alarm they should have updated the alarms Company with a mobile number so they can get a phone call when it goes off surely?

Juells · 09/07/2018 06:56

Those people who are so sniffy about the OP venting must live very repressed lives 😂 Let anger out in the appropriate direction, at the appropriate target, rather than bottling it up inside to appear oh-so-reasonable. Thass my motto in life 😂

Let 'er rip, OP.

HopeAndJoy16 · 09/07/2018 07:00

I'm pretty sure our friends got back from holiday to find the council had had to get into their house to turn off their alarn! Hope you get it sorted! I completely understand the rage... after my last set of night shifts i had a day of drilling and house alarms Angry nothing more annoying when you just want sleep!

PlateOfBiscuits · 09/07/2018 07:08

Call the environmental health at the council as PP have said.

I had to do it over a neighbour’s alarm and they were great at tracking down the owner and sorting it out.

SoupDragon · 09/07/2018 07:15

I had this and called the council. They came out to the property and would have called a locksmith at the expense of the owner to gain entry and disconnect the alarm.

Cismyass · 09/07/2018 07:20

Get his phone number and call him next time? Offer to be a key holder with the alarm code? Make love not war OP Grin.

AJPTaylor · 09/07/2018 07:20

it would send me demented.
what i would actually do though is say to them
"nobody responded to the alarm. if you are going to carry on using it, give me your mobile number so i can let you know when it goes off"

ElMarineroBaila · 09/07/2018 07:26

Sorry just had visions of you bending over and aggressively farting at your neighbour.

londonrach · 09/07/2018 07:27

Hope ok op. Id have phoned police. We had one last night going off somewhere in my town. No idea where it was but thinking other end as it was loud but far away. Only just stopped now since 1am

PolkerrisBeach · 09/07/2018 07:46

OP sounds like our neighbour who complained loudly and rudely to DH when our car alarm developed a fault and kept going off in the middle of the night.

Yes, because we're really enjoying getting woken repeatedly and getting out of bed to switch it off. And no, of course it's not booked into the garage to fix it.

Original poster
Tomorrowiscancelled · 09/07/2018 07:55

It's still going off.
Finally fell asleep at around 4am and ironicly slept through my own alarm so now I'm late for work.

Council round here available to call from 9am-6pm so couldn't have done that.

Still don't know what kind of alarm it is since there is no box on the wall for security alarm and it wasn't a fire alarm sound if you know what I mean. Sounded like an actual alarm clock - could they be using it as a radio and accidently set the alarm?

nobody responded to the alarm. if you are going to carry on using it, give me your mobile number so i can let you know when it goes off

I think that's what I'm going to do if I see one of the blokes working on the house.

Now I'm off to work with children under 5 all day with under 3 hours sleep. Yipee.

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Mummyoflittledragon · 09/07/2018 08:05

Poor you. Getting phone numbers or maybe even an address deffo the way forward. The people putting the alarm on are idiots but pointing that out isn’t useful. If they want an alarm in an empty house it should be monitored eg adt. Alarms are just a nuisance anyway. We didn’t install one when we renovated our house. We did, however, install a monitored one after a burglar came in the house assuming it was empty and headed for the bedroom with me asleep in it and dd in her bedroom. Very frightening.

Zaphodsotherhead · 09/07/2018 08:25

It just goes to show how pointless these bloody alarms are.

They go off and everyone's immediate response is 'frigging alarms going off all the time, keeping everyone awake' annoyance, rather than, 'omg, number 15 must be being burgled/on fire, call for help!'

It's the same with cars. Nobody rushes out to a car alarm going off, they just sigh and go about their business. So really, what's the point? I don't bother with alarms, I just have a really pointy dog to do the job.

SoupDragon · 09/07/2018 08:33

When my neighbours alarm went off I checked over the fence to see if anything was open. I also look out to see what car alarm is going off (or, more accurately, to check it’s notmine)

Gramgram · 09/07/2018 08:58

You have my sympathy OP, we had a neighbour whose car alarm kept going off. She knew about it but claimed she'd taken it to the garage and they'd found nothing wrong. She got really nasty about it. When she moved out we all cheered and felt sorry for her new neighbours too.

FreeofPills · 09/07/2018 10:56

hmm

no sign of a break in

any bricks around? Grin

that was one for the dead of night though!

hope you get home and find it sorted. Stupid numpties.

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