To get the rage at running man?

[mauvedoor]

Ever since lockdown, so perhaps 5 or so months now, there has been a man who has started running really early in the morning.
Our housing estate is a square shape with smaller cul de sacs inside the square. The total of the outside of the square is around a quarter of a mile.
We live on an outer side of the square.
Around 4 or 5 mornings a week the man will run laps of the square over and over again from 5am until 6am. Some days he starts at 4.45am instead of 5am. No exaggeration, he must run past our house at least 20 times in an hour.
We sleep with our windows open a crack and every time he runs he wakes us up with his feet slapping the tarmac every few minutes as he runs past for an entire hour.
I'm not even sure how his feet make such a loud slapping noise, but I'm sure his form can't be that great as he makes that much noise.
A couple of neighbours have mentioned being woken up by him too, especially when it's hot and windows are open overnight.
Not entirely sure what I can do, I can't call over to him as he wears headphones, and I'm certainly not chasing him down the street at 5am.
Even if he just varied his route a little bit I think it would improve matters.
I'm probably being a right snowflake and I'm sure people will tell me to shut the window, but they're eco friendly houses and absolutely roasting! Tried a fan and didn't really get on with it.
I'm raging at the thought of being woken up at 5am tomorrow by his slapping feet again.

Megaphone £20. Amazon.
We have a regular dog walker, 5AM. I’m going to buy that megaphone.
His dog is off the lead, sounds like it kills rabbits, he shouts.
I could murder him.😂🤣
Megaphone, my next step, if he resumes.
( Hasnt been past for a week or so, although I did hear him in the distance)

Anti social behaviour, report your runner to the council

@LakieLady

YANBU.

Put a tripwire across the pavement outside your house. That'll stop the flappy-footed fucker.

This comment though hahahahaha

@LakieLady

YANBU.

Put a tripwire across the pavement outside your house. That'll stop the flappy-footed fucker.

Just what I was going to say

If you want to do something utterly bastardly work out the length of his stride then go round the entire track with chalk and a stencil, and mark out footprints that are too close or too far apart for his stride length.

Just be the adult you are and go speak to him. Bloody hell it isn't hard and your excuses for not doing it are so childish. Instead you just continue to suffer for 5 months .

An entirely different scenario but local foxes used to ruin my sleep so I've put up the plastic spiky stripa to stop them but they still make noise in the road. I just sleep with ear plugs.

I shouldn't have to do that but if it means I get my sleep that's all that matters.

You could be my neighbour too OP! We have a running man too! There's a path next to our house which no one tends to use. The first few times I was woken up by the 'slap slap slap' I genuinely thought someone was running up my stairs and we don't even keep our window open!

Turns out running man has chosen the long path next to my house to do sprints hence why it's such a loud 'slap slap slap' and repeated every 2 minutes or so!

I took the stance of public pathway, shouldn't say anything blah blah blah but seethed quietly in bed. Thankfully for some reason he seems to have stopped for the moment!

I don't think the problem is the running, t's the noise he's making while running. He needs to change his form, so he is running more quietly. It would probably be better for his joints too. I'd consider putting up a sign asking him to please run more quietly in the morning. Hopefully he will take it on the chin.

Can’t you just use earplugs?!?!

Put a row of cones across the footpath by your house. He may get a hint

I bet he drinks Carling Black Label.

We have a running man. He is known locally as Fred Flintstone as he runs seemingly on his toes like Fred gearing up to bowl. One day DS1 shouted “Wiiiilllmaaaa!” out the window at him but don’t think he heard

Get a set of those hurdles that they have on race tracks, that might slow him down, or put him off, or ask him to run in slippers.He probably doesn't realise that he has slapping flapping noisy running if he wears head phones.

@Nikori

I don't think the problem is the running, t's the noise he's making while running. He needs to change his form, so he is running more quietly. It would probably be better for his joints too. I'd consider putting up a sign asking him to please run more quietly in the morning. Hopefully he will take it on the chin.

It’s because of the headphones, he’s stomping to the beat! OP do you have a Facebook page for your area? you could post a message on there.

Roadrunner

Crossbow

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N'est pas

We have a small park on our road. During lockdown the police made a man stop using it to run laps. He'd be there several times a day running at a pace mo farrah would be proud of. But he was loud, and panting and sweat would be going everywhere.

It was absolutely revolting and his laps would take about 3 minutes so completely ruined the park for everyone there at the time. We kept varying our daily exercise hour but he was always there. I'm not sure if he was reported or if the police just got sick of seeing him too!

Put a large canvas across the pathway and paint a hyper-real representation of the surroundings. Then place a catapult behind it aimed at the sun.

I’ve not read the whole thread, but do you have a local Facebook page? Maybe you and your neighbours could shame him into running elsewhere.

@Polyxena am dying at 'sploshy cunt'

I think you have to take a staged approach. Can you round up a group of houses and arm them with water pistols initially, making sure to employ absolute stealth and pop up and fire quickly, in succession from opposite sides of the road, immediately taking cover so that flappy can’t identify where the wee spits of water are coming from? Stage 2 would be nerf guns, followed by stage 3 super soakers. I’m thinking 2-3 days of each stage, with hopefully a sniper alley effect chain of 5-10 house stretch? Complete silence throughout, obviously. The final stage (one day only) would of course be the ‘way to Amarillo’ finale, preferably with everyone hiding until he passed the house and then immediately opening doors/ jumping up from behind walls and dashing after him.
You’ll know where he lives as the for sale sign will go up the next day.
I think it’s possible to employ the roadrunner approach with visual cues ahead of the physical ambush phase, just to start unsettling him ready for the attack.
Not that I’ve thought about this a lot.
Noises in the night make me murderous. The only reason dh is still alive is ear plugs, and I STILL lost my shit when next door sat outside past midnight having a fecking campfire. They are called silent hours for a reason.

Get up early tomorrow. Wait by the path. Just before he runs by, throw some of these in his path. www.amazon.co.uk/Th3-Party-5-Fart-Bombs/dp/B07C2X2WYC?tag=mumsnetforu03-21. (Be warned - they absolutely reek).

Repeat.

On the third lap, get DH to yell out the window: 'Has that slappy footed fucker stopped farting yet?' Hopefully the cumulative shame will be enough to get Mr FlappySlaps to stop. Get a neighbour or four in on the act too.

Or alternatively, just go out and ask him to keep the noise down. He's being an inconsiderate prick and should be told that he's keeping you and others awake.

I imagined an angry, mob of zombie's (sleep deprived neighbours) in nightwear chasing the flappy-footed fucker down.

I used to have to keep the bedroom window shut in summer, because the neighbours snoring kept me awake & it wasn't even attached houses.

This is one of those many occasions where people need to talk to each other. I guarantee he has no idea his running is disturbing people and would be mortified if he knew.

So has he been disturbing dozens of people on your estate for 5 months and no one has said anything to him? Or is his running only disturbing you? Just seems weird that so many people have done nothing for so long.

I think anything that involves getting other neighbours involved or posting it all over FB is a bit mean. Almost like you're all ganging up. Fair enough if you'd spoken to him and he didn't stop, but you haven't. As far as we know he's totally unaware he is disturbing you and is likely to be mortified that he is.

You just need to suck it up and talk to him.

If you really don't want to do that use earplugs or a white noise machine.

This thread is bloody hilarious 🤣 Sorry that's no help!

I would want to kill running man. Leave him a note asking him to piss off away from sleeping houses.

@LakieLady

YANBU.

Put a tripwire across the pavement outside your house. That'll stop the flappy-footed fucker.

I love this post so much