To mow the lawn, maybe do some drilling at 7am

[lastqueenofscotland]

Next door to me are a family of three the parents are away and their teenage daughter has taken advantage. She got a taxi back with lots and lots of shrieking and high pitch teenage laughter in the street before she went inside and has proceeded to put insanely loud music on, I never hear them through the walls but it’s like they in the room with me. I’ve been round to knock on twice and been ignored.
Police near me don’t respond to noise complaints anymore as they have more pressing things to deal with.
I don’t have a day off all the long weekend I need to sleep which I’m not going to get.
I’m a semi but I’m the end of the street and on a bend so a long way from the next house , so if I mowed the lawn or maybe decided to hang all the pictures I’ve been meaning to hang before I need to leave for work would that really be that unreasonable?!

Also, cook something smoky to make your and maybe theirs smoke alarm to go off.

YANBU

Their parents are fairly conservative religious family... wondering how bitchy it would be to text them to tell them, knowing full well she’ll get read the riot act, getting increasingly fuming.

Maybe tape the noise and play it back when the parents get home?

I'd go in make up down my face hair on end and in a state of half dress pointing at the time. Then I'd text her parents.shes obviously not responsible enough to be left home alone. Lay or on thick to mum and dad telling them how much you needed to sleep ad how she was just outrageously behaved.

Giraffe I’ve tried to go round and have been ignored the twice I’ve knocked on.
I am in two minds about texting the parents they are very very very anti alcohol for religious reason so will be fucking livid with her if they know she’s been drunk in their house and out partying. But also I’m livid.

Do text them. As conservative Christians they'll be very concerned about her behaviour & probably be glad that you've let them know what's happening. I often wish that the obscenely loud pub opposite me was a Christian family home that would do more than go "meh" when I object to the eardrum shattering noise.

Record the music on your phone and send the video to her parents. Ring the doorbell at 7am and keep ringing until she answers it.

They aren’t Christian but I see your point.

Go for the Full monty,
put hard rock screams music, gregorian chants, or
use the drill, vacuum cleaner, ring the bell, take video,
do you have a portable speaker, a bose? put some sirens on and start banging , not knocking the door. Give her the warning to stop the party or you will be sending video to her parents

YANBU.
Work away.
Blast them out if it.
Ignorant gits.

I would mention it to the parents, if it were my DC pissing off the neighbours I would want to know.

But before you do that, cut the grass, play loud music against the wall, bang endlessly against the wall with a hammer. Set the vacuum running beside her bedroom and go out for the day.

Of course you should text the parents. You’ve given the girl every chance to be reasonable, and she’s ignored you at her own peril. She’s pretty dim, isn’t she? Time for some education.

Add a recording to your text, if you can. Do it ‘in the moment’ it’s happening, not hours/days after. It’s more powerful. Then set a timer on your phone and track how long it takes them to get in touch with her. That music is going to go off pretty damn sharpish.

It’s not you being mean, it’s a perfectly reasonable outcome of her actions.

Definitely let the parents know.

And also mow the lawn, bang in some wall nails and whatever else you can think of.

Yanbu. Definitely let her parents know. The cheek of her to just ignore you. Let her reap the fury of her parents. And do get some sort of proof when you tell her parents.

Yeah crack on with waking them all up

Yanbu, I hope you’ve got a beautifully stripe lawn now.

100% text the parents. I'd want to know if it was my kids

If you have an smart phone then set the alarm at 20 min intervals and leave next to wall.

The sound is designed to be as annoying as possible.

I would just text the parents. Don’t be aggressive but just let them know that the noise was very loud and very late and whilst you have tried to speak to her directly she isn’t answering the door so you are concerned she is being taken advantage of by her friends. Plus as you have to work all weekend you’d be grateful for less noise.

Depends if there are other neighbours nearby. Mowing the lawn would definitely affect others and might then have a knock on effect with your relationship with other neighbours on your street.

I wouldn't tell the parents. If hey are very strict and conservative she probably needs to cut loose. It's not easy growing up with that. Let's be honest. Yes she's been thoughtless but why cause her more pain.

It's possible to 'cut loose' without pissing off all the neighbours. They've raised a selfish thoughtless kid and are part of the problem. I would definitely text them.

Definitely let the parents know.

A party is one thing, waking up the neighbours in the night with shrieking and music isn't.

Yanbu. Be as loud as you like for as long as you like from as early as you like! I wouldn't have sent a text to the parents in the middle of the night ... but certainly let them know about the problem now.