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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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igelkott2021 · 20/07/2021 13:45

@Yesitsbess

I'm thoroughly enjoying finding out quite how many mumsnetters have some kind of audible arsenal about their houses. It's like a Dads Army Orchestra.
In fact this has given me an idea. If any of my neighbours have the bright idea to start using an outdoor TV I will invite all the infant school children in the vicinity to bring their recorders (bagpipes would be great, but being in the south of England, there probably are not many, I need to move to Northumberland) and start a recorder choir Grin
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GCmiddle · 20/07/2021 13:48

When I had my first baby, one of the other women's partners was listening to a very loud action film on the ward, late at night, with no earphones. I asked them to turn it down and several times asked the staff to deal with the situation, but they seemed reluctant to intervene. I think they were afraid of him. It was a disgrace how one man, who didn't even need to there ( he wasn't exactly any company or comfort to his own partner) was allowed to inconvenience those of us who did need to be there.

BrumCahoots · 20/07/2021 14:51

That's vile .. selfish and really CF .. that would drive me nuts

LakieLady · 20/07/2021 14:55

@Toolchest13

We had a noisy neighbour problem so played “dancing queen” on loop from the shed. Just in case one of them did like the song when it got to the chorus it started from the beginning again.
When I was enraged by my adjoining neighbours, who were very noisy when their children were at home (and had a very aggressive dog that crashed through the hedge and attacked my dog), I put Dido & Aeneas on the stereo and went shopping a couple of tracks in.

I must have inadvertently hit the "repeat" button instead of stop, and when I got back a couple of hours later, the same track was still playing. I fear I may have knocked the volume knob as well, as it was really rather loud.

Good job nice NDN was on holiday, and the next couple of houses were out all day, and nice neighbour opposite was also away for the weekend.

LakieLady · 20/07/2021 14:58

@KatieB55

2nd party in neighbouring garden in 2 weeks. Speaker right next to our fence with heavy bass. We have a tiny garden and all doors & windows open as it was so hot. We were subjected to loud dance music til late with shouting, singing and screaming. Music was louder than our (inside) tv. I feel sorry for other neighbours who were trying to get their small children to sleep. No warning and no consideration.
Utter bastards. They definitely deserve to have the power turned off on them if you can access the meter cupboard.
wallpapering · 20/07/2021 15:16

@Hont1986

In a rougher area I bet someone would go and find a small rock (NOT from their own garden), pick it up with a pair of gloves, and chuck it at the TV in the middle of the night. It would really be awful if someone did that.
In a rougher area you need the only single mum who by 7am has lost her shit and shout out bedroom window if you don’t turn that fucking music off you selfish cunts I’m gana smash it.

I was mortified as the illusion of my quiet shy Ms Bouquet imagine was shattered as didn’t realise until after that fellow tired neighbours across road were standing on there doorsteps in dressing gowns but not as mortified as next door when they found all there guest fag ends I chucked back over in their garden.

I moved not long after as couldn’t stand the new neighbours

Bryonyshcmyony · 20/07/2021 15:19

I'd smash it.

LouLou789 · 20/07/2021 15:33

It must be disturbing all the other neighbours too, you need a joint effort here, with each concerned neighbour deciding on a different hobby: the recorders and petrol mower are brilliant, so would a motorbike be, a family steel band “rehearsal” with dustbin lids, a loud recording of a cock crowing, a particularly annoying tune over and over again. Just fancy if every time they set up the TV in the garden, all the neighbours came out at once to indulge their particular passion, that would be a terrible shame.

Yesitsbess · 20/07/2021 15:37

Ooooh. I have a rooster you can borrow, reliably kicks off at 4.45am

DdraigGoch · 20/07/2021 16:49

@Livelovebehappy

So many threads about crappy neighbours at the moment. What is wrong with people?
It's the hot weather. Always brings the arseholes out.
AdobeWanKenobi · 20/07/2021 17:05

When I was enraged by my adjoining neighbours, who were very noisy when their children were at home (and had a very aggressive dog that crashed through the hedge and attacked my dog), I put Dido & Aeneas on the stereo and went shopping a couple of tracks in

I did similar myself last summer, my neighbours built a party shed on the fence, furthest from their house obviously and right by my patio.
Went out and left a band called Ghost on repeat, with particular attention to the song 'Year Zero' which starts with a church like sound chanting "Belial, Behemoth, Beelzebub, Asmodeus, Satanas, Lucifer" which continues through the song.

Seemed to work, they have been much more considerate this year, but then they probably now think I spend my weekend sacrificing chickens 😂

londonmummy1966 · 20/07/2021 17:23

Any chance your lawn sprinkler could water their TV if it was on?

JudgeJ · 20/07/2021 22:19

@SkiingIsHeaven

Air rifle and a sniper who can hit the off switch at a distance?
Better still, a sniper who can hit the screen from a couple of hundred yards. He was sitting on my sofa all evening Officer.
PerciphonePuma · 20/07/2021 23:14

@QueeniesCroft

For reasons I don't fully understand, I have a foghorn in my attic. It would be coming out for this! See also pressure washer, goose scarer and agricultural-grade sprinkler system (I know why I have the last three things, it's just the foghorn that's a mystery!).
Do you live in a lighthouse?! Within 20 miles of the coast?! You simply must post a photo of it!
PerciphonePuma · 20/07/2021 23:17

@Mumsnut

I have a WWII air raid siren in my attic

Might give it an overhaul.

OMG!!!! Seriously!?! But..... But, why?!
PerciphonePuma · 20/07/2021 23:19

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

  • I've got TWO of the gas canister type foghorns in my kitchen cupboard.

It was not their intended use but they may or may not have been used through the letterbox of a noisy neighbour.........

They were never noisy again*

I LOVE YOU!!!!!

PerciphonePuma · 20/07/2021 23:27

@Iheartmysmart

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.
That is precisely how I lost my hearing Confused
Cryalot2 · 20/07/2021 23:46

Sorry for your night. Most inconsiderate.

The comments are brilliant .so funny. What a sad life I lead.
Log all the incidents.
I love the recorder idea.
Can you get a recording of ir badly played and play mega loud outside their garden.
rWind chimes, as everyone hates them , with a fan on them to make them worse.
Get a v noisy parrot.

WoofWoofMooWoof · 21/07/2021 17:33

Bagpipe music - loud! That does the trick for me.

hamptonmummy · 21/07/2021 17:37

If he has a smart TV go out and cast peppa pig or something equally dreadful via you tube I do this regularly to my neighbour who blasts their TV late at night its absolutely hilarious and they have no idea how it's happening 🤣

masterblaster · 21/07/2021 17:39

We have a small projector screen that we sometimes use in the garden, but very very quietly. Some people are just assholes

ettabea · 21/07/2021 17:47

I had neighbours like this once. In fact, they went on holiday for a week, leaving their TV on full volume. Just because we asked them politely to stop their kids throwing rubbish into our garden. The walls were paper thin so the noise drove us crazy. They were an absolute nightmare to live next door to.

QueeniesCroft · 21/07/2021 17:50

Do you live in a lighthouse?! Within 20 miles of the coast?! You simply must post a photo of it!
Nothing so exciting, I'm afraid. My husband has owned several fishing boats and used to run a supply ship to a lighthouse, before it was all automated. The foghorn is probably a leftover from one of his boats.

ALongHardWinter · 21/07/2021 17:52

This is exactly why I dislike 95% of the human race! Surely your local council environmental department could do something about it?

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