to be an equally shit neighbour?

[SkyeB86]

In 2019 a new family moved in next door and immediately they started acting a problem. Then lockdown happened and it escalated. Big heavy basketballs thud constantly from morning till night, kids (6 of them) scream at each other (and I mean blood-curdling screams at times) they think it's fine to jump into my garden whenever they fancy. I had a word with the dad, his response was that other than them jumping in my garden, they're not breaking any laws so he wouldn't be telling the kids to quiet down. Fair enough, they're not.

So I've bought some Bluetooth speakers. Whenever they get too noisy, I play music in my garden which effectively drowns them out, and can only be really be heard from NDNs garden. The dad has this weekend asked me to keep it down.

AIBU to think that if they can have the 'fuck everyone else' attitude, then so can I?

As soon as I saw the word basketball I thought I. Am. With. You.

I just knew someone would say 'but it's just kids playing' 🙄

People who havent experienced the constant thudding of a basketball over and over and over and over again for years just cannot imagine what it's like.

I’m unsure how you could strategically place speakers so only that one neighbour can hear this music but anyway…. I would be careful with this - playing loud music can be reported to the council where as noise from 6 children can’t. He could also retaliate, especially if you say they are “asbo” kind of people. Living at war with your next door neighbour is not fun.

I'm at the very corner of an estate. My house is on the corner with a big garden that goes round the corner on the outside both sides, if that makes sense? So my other neighbour is round the other corner and quite far away. The other houses are too far away to hear much other than maybe very faint noise.

This is just it. It's the constant, repetitive thud and screeching. I dont mind kids playing. But the summer of 2020 was just horrendous for me, and my tolerance for their shit was significantly lowered!

I hear my neighbours' kids playing all the time and it's lovely, lots of giggling, asking what people want at the McDonald's drive through and "mummy mummy watch me on the trampoline/slide/bike", but no screaming!
Carry on as you are OP

Your sister doesn't live down the street from me, does she?

Joking...Two of our neighbours complained about the noise coming from a terraced house next door to my pal's. This was in the afternoon, but you could hear the music a couple of blocks away. Police came out.

My pal was out at the time. After she got home, there was a loud banging on her door. The woman from next door threatening her "for calling the police". This time, she did call the police.

I vote for Lohengrin.

I'll add what I added on another thread recently.

"I know a song that'll get on your nerves" on repeat might be quite effective...!

You both sound petty tbh

Do you mean this?
https://mosquitoloiteringsolutions.com/

And you sound so helpful ☺️ thank you for the really useful and helpful comment, I cant express just how much this will help me 😀

No wonder your neighbours hate you. You have come across very sarcastic and rude in this thread

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Thank you again for your message. I apologise unreservedly that my sarcasm wasn't appreciated. Noted that neighbours who barely know me must hate my sarcasm via the boundaries. Making notes 📝 😄

I actually saw a video once of a guy that made a device, that recorded neighbour's noise, and as soon as they reached a certain volume it would play it back to them through the walls, amplified 😂😂

Gregorian Chants and then go out for the day, leaving them chanting.

This is the most pathetic thing I've read on hear for a while. You aren't even funny, it's just sad.

I'd be planting something prickly along that fence line.

Keep on playing your music, may I suggest "Shuddup Ah Ya Face" by Joe Dolce 😈😈

Also, windchimes are a wonderful idea 😌👌

Oh great! Now I've got an earworm!

has a thought

I have a piano accordion...I could come down and serenade the neighbours from the back garden.

I can't sing for toffee, but my dad always told me that I was good, so....

Sod decent music I’d be playing “My Heart Will Go On” on repeat!

Some of you are very easily wound up, considering no insults came from me... Maybe find something to control thine temper, or do I need to call the grumpy police? 👀

I have two boys who enjoy using their garden to play football from time to time. They don’t scream, but they do chat to each other in the garden (how very dare they). My twat of a neighbour plays loud music via a speaker sited in her garden to punish my children for enjoying their childhood. The music is awful and is turned up loud. I think she’s a total c&£t. Hth.

Also I’ve spoken to the police about said neighbours harassing my children out of their garden and they are totally on my side and have offered for me to press charges. I haven’t, cause I’m not a twat unlike my neighbour who is a twat.