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

[GardenCFery]

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??

@FrangipaniBlue. We have a couple of those canister air horns. French football supporters kit, years ago. They come in very useful, every now and then

Air rifle and a sniper who can hit the off switch at a distance?

I almost want neighbour to have tv in garden to test some of these ideas out, the universal remote is a favourite

Take your wheelie bins down to the end of your garden and let the odour waft over them all night long

Isn't there a way to cast or mirror what you see on your phone to a smart TV? Make a short video of yourself wearing a V is for vendetta mask telling them if they don't turn it down and fuck off inside then you're coming for them and then play it on their telly. Use a voice changer to make it even scarier

@5foot5

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?

Agricultural use. A flock of migrating geese can bugger winter crops (early wheat? Am not a farmer) so they set bird scarers (which sound like shotguns, may fire blanks) to go off at random times.

I have a bow (recurve, not cross....) in my hallway...... For some reason, I cannot find the arrows. But I also (as posted elsewhere) take a rather passive (not even passive-aggressive) approach, and blow bubbles into the air - with the wind the best direction - straight into next door's garden.
The other side decided to set up three disposable barbecues (one after the other) - and wouldn't you know it, I have been trying to gently get a neighbourhood cat away witha water pistol - which, despite it's small size, has good range. Oops.

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.

Try being tolerant when you're trying to sleep because you've got three days of fifteen hour shifts coming up? Bloody hell when did people become so selfish??

@Nervousdrivingtest

Isn't there a way to cast or mirror what you see on your phone to a smart TV? Make a short video of yourself wearing a V is for vendetta mask telling them if they don't turn it down and fuck off inside then you're coming for them and then play it on their telly. Use a voice changer to make it even scarier

great idea. then rent a giant outdoor tv, turn towards them and watch Purge at full volume, while regularly looking over at them. other nights leafblower, then relax by listening to Nickleback on a huge outdoor speaker - you can be inside with noise cancelling phones. Mix it up every night...that they are watching their action film... or just record and complain to council.

SkiingIsHeaven hahaha brilliant.

You can get a universal TV control app! Keep putting it on mute & really fuck with them!

I am loving the suggestions so far. Universal remote, bag of horse shit and V for Vendetta are ace.
Also get a bubble machine. Bubbles will pop and stain on their tv making annoying circle marks.
My brother once broke a neighbour’s greenhouse several houses away by using a tennis racket to fire a frozen sprout off his frozen ready meal roast dinner. This could work, perhaps with small lumps of frozen bread, fired at the screen to smash it. Then if they say anything blame an errant pigeon that must’ve dropped it.
My lawyers have asked me to point out you should not do any of these things. Recorders anyone?

Do they still make stink bombs?

OP, I have a WW2 hand crank air-raid siren if you need to get serious.

I'd tell them to turn it off and I wouldn't wait until 10:30pm. That is ridiculously inconsiderate.

Hope you got a peaceful night eventually OP

Reminds me of arriving at our caravan to find new neighbours playing very loud music on their veranda. I joined in tunelessly. Then at 6.30 am the next morning I got in my car to go for the paper and had classic fm on very loudly.

It was quiet after that.

You ask nicely once. The second time it is either direct action (sprinkler, loud car horns perhaps) to stop them or the police. I'd suggest the latter if you have any confidence that the police will act.

Very inconsiderate, complain. I can’t believe anyone would actually watch tv in there garden, that’s a new one on me, I am living a sheltered life!

Very inconsiderate, take comfort in our short sunny spells

Omg! My neighbour did this last night. I’ve lived here 7 years & they have never done it before. No idea what they were thinking but I hope it’s not a regular occurrence or I will be praying for rain all summer.

I’d give it a good watering with a hosepipe after they’ve gone to bed.
There are some incredibly selfish ignorant F’s around 🤬

@MotionActivatedDog

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

I have no attic. Think how I feel. But we do have an alphorn which no-one in the house can play properly, which, now I come to think of it, might be a useful deterrent next time our neighbour's musical adult son starts playing the drums late at night.

If it was only on the odd occasion I’d shrug it off but if it was regular I’d be pissed off.
My immediate neighbours, who are really nice, occasionally have an evening gathering and a screen on their patio for the football or a film or what have you. I don’t care. They gamely put up with us noisy, clattery, shouty lot with good grace.

I feel for you OP. Really don't understand neighbours who act like this, do they not care that they make other people's lives a misery? If it gets no better I'd be reporting them as a noise nuisance to the council.

I don’t have an attic either but I do have a DS with an electric guitar and a stadium amplifier who’s currently learning how to play stairway to heaven if you want to borrow him? NB he’s only allowed to play it with his headphones plugged in usually.