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Original poster

To be absolutely raging at this selfish garden CF'ery?!?!

256 replies

GardenCFery · 19/07/2021 21:48

So I live in a street where all the gardens face onto each other. Not a problem usually, most people very considerate.

Tonight one set of neighbours have set up an extension cable to move their TV out of the house onto the decking and are blasting (and i mean blasting!) an action movie out for everyone to hear. Think lots of machine gun fire and everything deafening everyone. No one can have their windows open and beyond that, can't enjoy their own garden because of the noise!!!

I'm staggered by this level of entitlement and given they recently had their garden redone, suspect this is not going to be the last time. AIBU to yell at them to take it indoors once it hits 10:30pm??

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FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop · 19/07/2021 22:31

@Terhou

Has anyone tried knocking on their door and politely asking them to turn it down?
Thing is, people who are that selfish and inconsiderate towards their neighbours aren't likely to be reasonable about something they've forked out a fortune for to enjoy in spite of the neighbours.

When I politely asked my neighbours if they could put the TV back in the house I got told to "fuck off" Hmm

dizzyrabbit · 19/07/2021 22:32

Just let them be. The film will be over soon. The amount of threads on how that go ‘aibu my neighbour is doing x, y and z in their garden’ is unreal. We all need to be a little bit more tolerant of each other imho.

Hugoslavia · 19/07/2021 22:34

@QueeniesCroft

Why on earth would you need both a foghorn AND a goose scarer? Surely one would do the same job?

As an aside, are you in the habit of tiptoeing up behind geese and scaring them? Is it a new lockdown hobby?

whiteroseredrose · 19/07/2021 22:35

If you can't use your garden anyway, large bags of manure propped near your boundary. The smell will make it less pleasant for them sitting in their garden. It worked for my late DGM.

SprayedWithDettol · 19/07/2021 22:35

@dizzyrabbit

Just let them be. The film will be over soon. The amount of threads on how that go ‘aibu my neighbour is doing x, y and z in their garden’ is unreal. We all need to be a little bit more tolerant of each other imho.
How about the noisy bastard being more thoughtful and not making other people’s lives a misery?
HeyDemonsItsYaGirl · 19/07/2021 22:36

@dizzyrabbit

Just let them be. The film will be over soon. The amount of threads on how that go ‘aibu my neighbour is doing x, y and z in their garden’ is unreal. We all need to be a little bit more tolerant of each other imho.
Maybe we should be more considerate to each other instead.
catpyjamas · 19/07/2021 22:36

I understand people are saying 'go speak with them, let them know it's a problem' because yet that would be the normal thing to do but but people who take their television outside and blast it are not normal and they know that others can hear it and they don't care. There is no point in trying to talk to someone this entitled imo because a lot of them will do it more, turn it up even louder, if they know it's bothering you and the rest of the neighbours. I vote for pp's suggestion of all the neighbours going outside and very slowly mow your grass throughout the duration of the film or better yet, everyone go out with a leaf blower OMG those things are loud. If you all do it each and every time the tv neighbour goes out then eventually he'll stop as he won't be able to hear his tv.

dizzyrabbit · 19/07/2021 22:37

I think that’s abit of an overstatement.

Original poster
GardenCFery · 19/07/2021 22:38

So update - I shouted out of my window asking if they could please keep it down (no swearing, nothing like that). Think the whole street could hear me but to no effect!! Feel a bit daft now! Certainly wasn't going to get dressed, walk to next street and knock on their front door while they're blindly in the back garden!

These neighbours are night owls so I wouldn't be surprised if it continues beyond 11pm. Not going to go as far as to make a noise complaint tonight but if it becomes a regular event I may well.

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yellowsubmarines · 19/07/2021 22:39

whiteroseredrose Mon 19-Jul-21 22:35:29 If you can't use your garden anyway, large bags of manure propped near your boundary. The smell will make it less pleasant for them sitting in their garden. It worked for my late DGM.

Grin
oknowimscared · 19/07/2021 22:41

Start keeping a noise diary. Now.

DdraigGoch · 19/07/2021 22:42

@dizzyrabbit

Just let them be. The film will be over soon. The amount of threads on how that go ‘aibu my neighbour is doing x, y and z in their garden’ is unreal. We all need to be a little bit more tolerant of each other imho.
How about people be more considerate. Good neighbours shouldn't have to tiptoe around selfish arseholes.

OP, I'd suggest a chainsaw. Whether for drowning out the sound or more drastic measures.

DdraigGoch · 19/07/2021 22:43

Is their electricity meter accessible? Modern ones have a master switch.

5foot5 · 19/07/2021 22:43

See also pressure washer, goose scarer and agricultural-grade sprinkler system

I know this is going off-topic but I didn't know there was such a thing as a goose scarer. Geese scare me but I didn't know there was an actual device to turn the tables. Under what circumstances is it considered legitimate to use?

MotionActivatedDog · 19/07/2021 22:43

Not going to go as far as to make a noise complaint tonight but if it becomes a regular event I may well.

You really should. Nip it in the bud early on. They will do it again otherwise.

Unrelated: when I was a child you used to be able to buy fart spray. It absolutely stank. Putrid stuff. If someone sprayed that near my garden I would leave my garden. But like I said- unrelated to this thread Wink

dizzyrabbit · 19/07/2021 22:45

I play music in my garden during the day, I burn my garden waste occasionally, we have a hot tub, barbecue and a fire pit. I also have four cats and a dog. Think yourselves lucky your not my neighbours 🤣😂

MereDintofPandiculation · 19/07/2021 22:45

Interesting that this poll is overwhelmingly on the side of the OP, yet when the question is about loud music, the polls are 50-50 with many people arguing that you have a right to play music in your own garden.

SarahBellam · 19/07/2021 22:46

Big speaker near their boundary then:

“Alexa, play Celine Dion’s ‘My Heart Will Go On’ 40 times at volume 10.”

SarahBellam · 19/07/2021 22:47

Though the recorders are inspired 😂

JudgeJ · 19/07/2021 22:47

@PatMustardsBigTool

So inconsiderate! This level of entitlement baffles me. And that craze of "home cinema" in the garden when it's dark, i.e. night, i.e. sleeping time. Cheeky fuckers!
Oh for the old fashioned TVs that could easily interfered with by using an unsurpressed lawn mower or something!
Mumsnut · 19/07/2021 22:47

I have a WWII air raid siren in my attic

Might give it an overhaul.

OnTheBoardwalk · 19/07/2021 22:49

My old boss was telling everyone on FB last night that they were getting ready to watch Die Hard at 9 pm Sunday night in their garden cinema

What a dick

5foot5 · 19/07/2021 22:50

@QueeniesCroft
See also pressure washer, goose scarer and agricultural-grade sprinkler system

Is this thread about you?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4301029-AIBU-Neighbours-watering-our-garden

OP - look at this thread, you need one of these

MotionActivatedDog · 19/07/2021 22:50

I have nothing loud in my attic. I feel so useless. Sad

JudgeJ · 19/07/2021 22:50

@dizzyrabbit

Just let them be. The film will be over soon. The amount of threads on how that go ‘aibu my neighbour is doing x, y and z in their garden’ is unreal. We all need to be a little bit more tolerant of each other imho.
So it's acceptable for one selfish household to disturb the whole neighbourhood? You clearly support the ueber-entitled.