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Oh f***ing hell, it’s starting again...

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AllesAusLiebe · 21/03/2019 18:46

By that I mean the curse of lighter evenings and the feral kids three (yes, THREE) doors away screaming on the fucking trampoline.

I can hear it in my living room, they’re so damn loud. If it’s still going on when I’m trying to put DS to bed, I won’t be responsible for my actions.

Anyone else suffering with this absolute menace already?

Last year this continued all damn summer, often until after 9:30pm. Trying to reason with them and asking politely that they tried to reduce the screaming achieved nothing. I have no problem with kids playing and enjoying the outdoors - that’s a good thing. It’s the fucking incessant screaming.

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Joebloggswazere · 21/03/2019 21:00

Get back on fortnite yer wee feckers!!!

TallAsTara · 21/03/2019 21:03

Children playing is good, children having fun is good, children screaming for no bloody reason for hours on end is not good

^ This. There is no reason to scream constantly. I played out pretty constantly as a child and we didn't scream our heads off like banshees.

Monstermissy36 · 21/03/2019 21:03

There is a trampoline in someone's front garden (oh the horror ha ha) in our road... always about 5 kids on it at all times in summer. It can be annoying but tbh I just zone it out.

What really yanks my chains is the neighbour who stands outside chatting either to a friend or on their phone in the small hours of the night. The sound really carries and for some reason it sends me mad! When it's warm and windows are open all night it's like having him chatting in my room. I hate that!!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 21/03/2019 21:04

You have my sympathy, OP.
There used to be one next door and the screaming nearly drove me mad.

Ordinary noisy play is one thing - that really high pitched, babyish screaming is quite another.

My Gdcs are still only 2 and 3 - they have a trampoline and don't scream like that. If they did my dd would soon sort them out.

Oysterbabe · 21/03/2019 21:08

We're looking at trampolines atm. Our poor neighbours.

AngelsOnHigh · 21/03/2019 21:20

My DN was upset because her neighbours complained about DS and his friends making too much noise.

Secretly I agreed with the neighbour. These DC are 6 years old and they act like maniacs. The noise is incredible. In the pool, the trampoline , playing cricket. It all sounds very nice, but all day? yelling and screaming.

I go home with a headache after 2 hours. I honestly don't know how the neighbours cope.

Dominobeauty · 21/03/2019 21:24

Knock frantically on their door about 5am and the complain, once you have inconvenienced them they will stop. You may have to do it a few times.

YesQueen · 21/03/2019 21:25

The problem is they scream so much that if one was ever hurt or in trouble, nobody would notice.
It happened on my old street and a child fell out a first floor window and broke both her legs. But because she screamed all the bloody time, we didn't realise she needed help until I finally went out to say STFU and it was too late, she had already fallen

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AllesAusLiebe · 21/03/2019 21:28

NCforthis2019
Okay, “feral” was a little harsh. They’re really not nice kids, though.

I actually love the sound of kids having fun. My next door neighbour often has her grandchildren to stay during the summer and they’re lovely. They laugh, run around and play with the dog - it’s pleasant and she’s very conscious about disturbing DH and me when we’re also in the garden, which is totally unnecessary because they’re well-behaved kids.

It’s heartening (although quite sad) that I’m not the only one suffering!

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AllesAusLiebe · 21/03/2019 21:32

Dominobeauty another great idea! I go for my early morning run at dawn in the summer so could easily be done.

We’ll try the adult approach again and speak to them reasonably, but if we get nowhere, it’s war. Wink

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Contraceptionismyfriend · 21/03/2019 21:35

Be grateful. My neighbour doesn't let silly things like night or day, weather, time of night or...bloody anything really deter her from kicking her crotch goblins out the door to scream and shout on their little electric boards up and down the street.

I get kids play. But screaming at each other at 10pm gets a little tedious.

thedisorganisedmum · 21/03/2019 22:27

Poor kids have been stuck inside for four months and you want to begrudge them a mad couple of hours after school.

normal kids haven't been stuck at all for a start, in most areas we have been fairly blizzard-free and kids have been running around as usual.

Not only can you play without screaming, but you will bounce higher and enjoy yourself more if you don't waste your energy screaming for no reason. Most kids manage.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 21/03/2019 22:35

Yeah mine have been out pretty much every day throughout the winter. That what coats are for.

VelvetSpoon · 21/03/2019 22:37

I sympathise, the better weather and lighter eves mean my awful neighbours kids will soon be screaming on their sodding trampoline all fucking day long and probably until 9pm at night.

Their trampoline is positioned right beside my fence, the noise carries horrendously...even with my windows shut and tv on their screaming and shouting disturbs me...I have to turn the tv up loud to try and mask it. They are just a horrible loud ignorant family.

I keep hoping each year that this will be the year they move (4 kids aged 3-10 in a 2 bed / 1 reception house...surely they can't be there for ever) but no sign so far sadly.

pickletickled · 21/03/2019 22:39

I've heard kids called many things but never
crotch goblins
:) :) :)
omfg I've genuinely just almost choked on a haribo strawberry :) :)

Sorry op nothing else to add but do feel your pain it's bastard annoying.
As you were.....

Tatiannatomasina · 21/03/2019 22:45

Op I feel your pain. Next door have three little darlings who scream and wail incessantly. The volume and pitch is such my dogs go bananas at the fence and I have to bring them in. Why should their kids trump your quiet enjoyment of your home. I now yell at the top of my voice SHUT UP when it sets the dogs off. The neighbours think its directed at the dogs but its for their kids benefit. Makes me feel better. Thank god we are moving soon.

Hotterthanahotthing · 21/03/2019 22:53

We have children on either side of us but no trampoline and no screaming.As the days get warmer all the kids on the street gather with their bikes,they don't scream.They all seem to disappear in the evening at a decent time too.
Sadly the adults on the right play loud radio programs in summer,loud enough that they have to shout to hear each other.

Chocolateisfab · 21/03/2019 23:28

I hate my ndn.
Off to buy a trampoline ASAP!!

CurlyhairedAssassin · 21/03/2019 23:36

“They knock on my door and ask for ice pops and sweets”

Did everyone else miss this? Shock

This isn’t the norm, unless you are Mary Poppins, some kind of clown or a confused old dear who thinks it must be Halloween.

Seriously, if any kid knocked on my door asking me to give them sweets or ice cream I would think they were cheeky fuckers. Totally different to me choosing to go out with a tray of them and Offering them to the kids.

Junkmail · 21/03/2019 23:45

Be careful of approaching them. My husband politely asked a group of primary aged children to stop screaming outside our gate at 830pm last summer and it escalated into them littering our yard throwing garbage over the fence, counting down and then screaming at the top of their lungs to purposely antagonise and throwing stones at our windows. This went on for two days despite police being called. I’m dreading it again this year to be honest.

pineapplebryanbrown · 21/03/2019 23:48

I hate the fact i have neighbours at all. The fucking cheery children smiling and waving at me drive me nuts. And the pleasant arsehole who says hello every time I see him. It's 20 fucking years now, how many times do i have to say hello to the same bloke? Twice was one too many for me.

I'd love to live somewhere really isolated but I'm scared of the countryside. It's dark and there are hedges and probably serial killers behind the hedges.

What I'd really like to do is buy an enormous compound and have a lot of armed guards around the perimeter to ensure maximum peace. I want the armed guards to face outwards and never look at me or engage me in conversation.

LoisWilkerson1 · 21/03/2019 23:50

I like to go out and scream in my garden on a summer evening. I'm 39 and a half year old. I don't have trampoline though Sad

pineapplebryanbrown · 21/03/2019 23:56

One of my neighbours plays opera in the garden at full blast, the other has live jazz parties till 2am. Posh noise is worse imo cos they get super offended if you shout "fuck off" whereas commoners just shout back and at least you don't have to be friends anymore.

pineapplebryanbrown · 21/03/2019 23:59

I do know someone who shat on his neighbour's doorstep. I thought it was extreme but you could give that a bash.

JonSnowsCloak · 22/03/2019 00:03

The neighbours behind us have a massive 12ft beast of a trampoline and last summer the whole family seemed to be on it none stop. Imagine my joy when the winds last week snapped all the poles GrinGrinGrin