AIBU to cry with frustration that my neighbour won’t shut up

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We’ve had issues with him before but after a reasonable chat with my OH we thought we’d turned a corner. Evidently not. His front room is next to our bedroom and we’re currently experiencing Queens back catalogue and him and his friends singing. Occasional shouts. We’ve banged on the wall a couple of times and he shouted, ‘I’ll smash your fucking face in’ and ‘I’ll fucking kill you’ and ‘I’ll smash your fucking car in tomorrow’ so now at a loss. Tried to ring non-emergency police but no answer after half an hour on hold. Can imagine they’re busy tonight in the area we live in.

Not sure what to do and just feel like crying at the thought of our early alarms going off for work 😭

Yeah our guy definitely doesn’t seem to think reasonably. Like things will blatantly happen and he’ll just completely deny it ever happened. He seems a bit delusional at times - today he said he was home alone with his cat and it must have been downstairs. No one lives downstairs.

Thanks for all the advice. Will keep pursuing it in the appropriate avenues.

Ear plugs are a good shout. I use them when I go on hol with a friend who snores and they bloke out everything. I only buy the cheap ones too.

Op you might be able to report to the police online for non-emergencies. We can and it saves staying on hold.

CoffeeToffeeFudge Oh do you mean earbuds as in music headphone/easrphones?

My mistake, I was talking earplugs! Winter I use Moldex disposables

I had issues with the woman next door playing Cliff bloody Richard and slamming doors all night.
The council gave us noise recording equipment and on analysing it agreed with us, but said it wasn't bad enough to do anything about.

In the end I waited until she'd finished a night shift and treated her to Metallicas entire back catalogue followed by a bit of Megadeth. Great fun, speakers all pointed at her bedroom wall. The whole house shook.

Never had a problem after that.

Just to update people, the party carried on through last night as well. We rang non emergency police who responded due to the threats, the fact that drug taking behaviour was suspected and they were shouting about hiding out certain people from the police. Also found out that the police attended early hours on Monday AM as a woman was locked into the flat, they wouldn’t let her leave and so she rang the police. Police have now told us to ring every time. Not heard anything from the council as of yet. Landlord being great. Fingers crossed for a quiet night.

I hate earplugs as you can hear your own breathing and swallowing more clearly :(.

We had awful neighbours next to our first flat, parties all night every night, shouting, screaming, banging, unsavoury folk hanging about the door to their fault which was side by side with our door. Drug taking, shouting and singing outside at 3-4am. All the while their little baby cried and was ignored. We called police several times and got by on an hours sleep now and again. DH went to his parents to sleep when I was away with work. I used to wait until the noise stopped then half an hour later...,,why look at the carpet next to the bedroom wall it needs a good hoover, particularly the skirting board, I also need to use the hairdryer and scream at my DH over the top of the noise of it....and I do need to hammer to wall every half hour.

We contacted the landlord as we knew her quite well and she evicted them after 6 months but we sold up and left by then. I once called the letting agent and she said ‘oh she’s just a young girl enjoying her first flat!’ I told her I didn’t care who she was she was partying 4 nights a week until 5-6am and I was sick of going to work with no sleep and worrying about my husband driving 30 miles on no sleep. I told her i’d contact the landlord direct as I knew her well. The attitude changed when I said i’d bypass them direct to the landlord but ffs!