Threw an egg at a car in an insomnia fuelled rage. AIBU?

[EggVigilante]

I live in a block of flats with a turning square for cars outside. It’s painted with double yellow lines.

Unfortunately, this space attracts antisocial behaviour, especially during warmer months. We tend to get cars parking up and people congregating there during the night, with people playing music and chatting/shouting away at all hours.

In the past I’ve just turned over and tried to get back to sleep (often being woken up a few more times that night). This was a real blight on our lives last summer, but we’ve had a bit of respite over the winter. Last year I thought seriously about what I could do to try and get the noise dealt with by the council, but from research (and past experience about a noisy neighbour), I don’t think this is likely to be effective. It’s not always the same cars/people. I’ve thought about going out there and asking people to be quiet, but given how inconsiderate they are being, I doubt this would work (and feels potentially dangerous). After thinking about it I decided there was nothing I could really do to solve this, and it was just one of those things, and I’d have to lump it.

Last night I was jolted awake at 3:30 am by loud music booming from a car. I looked out the window and saw it had pulled up just outside.

I had a tough week last week, getting some bad health news, and I have been suffering from a bit of insomnia. My job is always quite full-on, and I was already filled with a fair bit of post-weekend dread about the amount of work I’ve got to get through this week. I thought I’d been coping pretty well, but I do feel a bit stretched thin.

When I saw the car parked there, blaring music so loudly and probably waking at least a hundred people up in the overlooking flats, I was so incensed that I ran into the kitchen, grabbed an egg, and lobbed it from the window.

The egg splatted harmlessly next to the car, which drove away sharpish.

AIBU to become the egg vigilante?

Good advice here.

So now you’re a would-be murderer, @EggVigilante.
Imagine going from egging to murder in one poorly executed toss.

This is hilarious. I did the exact same things many years back when I lived in a block of flats. Every single morning from 5am a taxi would park underneath my bedroom window (I was 3 floors up) and sit with the engine idling with the radio on loud for an hour. After a few weeks of misery I went to the kitchen, picked up a pack of 6 eggs and emptied the lot on top of the car.

it never came back 😊

It's a shame you missed! Think of all the people who must be grateful that you made the car go away. It was the car driver who was unreasonable. Next time, improve your aim!

Bravo ! But seriously you do need to look for other solutions for your own safety.

Get an air purifyer in your room that is quite loud but constant to act as white noise and drown out other noises. Use ear plugs, move bedrooms to the back of the house, get some ultra thick curtains with ultra thick lining to dampen down the sound. Lots more you can do yet.

Call the police every time.

I would say absolutely go for it.

The only thing I'd be worried about is retaliation, if they are able to see which flat the egg was thrown from.

What a ridiculous comment. This egg was outside the car and the driver was inside.

Get a powerful flash and flash them as if you are taking photographs. Or take photographs. That should deter the more than starting a food fight.

I would say you are not unreasonable, but then I’m the woman who dumped a pitcher of ice cold water off my balcony onto some drunken harpies shrieking outside my building about a sports team’s win.

I came here to say this. If you don’t understand the rage you are very privileged to have not experienced this anti social noise.
Very glad all I have now is the screech of amorous foxes at 3 am

Don't blame you, it's something we would all want to do. Is there any way you get the council to do something about this? So sad and horrible they have to meet up in a piece of tarmac and cause problems for residents. Just why? They should go to a playground, arseholes. Xx

😆⬆️

You are being unreasonable, you should have used a brick and aimed more accurately. Being serious, I really hate this sort of behaviour of which there is tons of it around these days as though the UK is competing at a global level for the most thoughtless dystopic population.

I used to live in a rough area of a major city, with lots of antisocial behaviour. I used to open the window and shout at people to tell them to shut up because people were sleeping (but I was on an upper floor). Eggs sound quite reasonable.

No it isn't, stop being so melodramatic. Driving a car can kill someone as well and is MASSIVELY more likely to than an egg, perhaps we should all stop driving.

Oh ffs all of the allergy comments are a bit ridiculous. My 5yo DS has a severe egg allergy, but he generally isn’t acting like a prick blaring music in a car park at 3am, or licking the ground outside, so I’m not particularly concerned by OPs actions.

Good on you, OP.

After getting no sleep due to people making way too much noise over the years from anti social behaviour I think this is quite genius.

Yes, they will def be all that.

What inconsiderate f*ckers! It's awful when noise is keeping you up. Please be careful, though - I'd hate for you to receive repercussions (which you might have if the egg had hit the car). Opening a window and saying firmly, "please keep it down" might have done the trick. I did that when my neighbour blasted his car stereo at 4am (admittedly, not repeatedly). Sometimes, these people are just lost in the moment and are totally oblivious to the fact they're keeping people awake.
Hope you manage to find a way to deal with this in the future - it does sound awful, OP.

Camera-and get the number plates.

So what you're saying is that if OP improves her aim then there's no issue?
Egg hits windscreen = presumably even your kids aren't so allergic that they will die from an egg landing the other side of glass?

Not sure how the people who are making dire warnings of "retaliation" think a car would be able to identify which flat the egg came from?

The proper course of action is report it to the police and before anyone says they won't take notice, they will, you just have to get their attention. Get as many people as you can to phone about the nightime noice etc and to keep doing it everytime there's an incident. Police determine their priorities for neighbourhood policing based on volume crime and numbers reporting. The more people that complain, the higher up the policing priorities the area goes. Once its acknowledged as a persistent nuisance, they will deploy patrols into the area. Also, bend your local councillors ear en mass as he has regular meetings with police officers. Do not throw eggs at anyone, if you hit someone, its assault and you will be arrested. Good luck.

Stop policing everyone’s responses just because YOUR kids have an allergy

I say fair game as long as you can’t be picked out or identified!!!