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?

Waste of a good egg. Next time, throw water.

Given that they’re likely to be dealing, carrying or otherwise already known to the authorities there is ZERO chance of them calling the police to claim they’ve been assaulted. That’s even assuming they can work out which flat the egg is from.

@EggVigilante Crack on, I say.

I'm assuming this is a yolk?

Flour and water makes a great mess on cars once you perfect your aim 👀

For what it’s worth, I lived in a multi story and had this issue often. Eventually accidentally on purpose falling flour and water stopped them from being outside our block 🤣

YANBU
But a waste of a nice egg, perhaps a house brick you’ve got lying around 🤣 Stay safe xx

YABU for wasting a birdied brown yes.

In my experience, people who try to help themselves in these situations tend to be honest and say what they've done prior to police intervention without realising the implications. Papers are full of stories about arrests for much less.

@madamweb then don’t let your children out at 3.30 in the morning blasting music and waking neighbours up!
seriously I fully understand allergies, and I know that allergens are life threatening , but in this context, your comment is not appropriate.

*burford damn autocorrect

Hi, I agree the last comment was ridiculous. Maybe from a Woke Yoke!
Bad taste Joke!

I have lived for the past 38 years next to a Park with a car park, licensed club with an extended licence and Athletics Stadium.

So, l know all about knob head drivers and idiots in the car park at all hours of the day or night.

Word of advice based on my own experience. Although an egg may seem reallyi innocuous. Under the law you need to be very careful about throwing anything these days. Even a balloon.

I have a neighbhour with a drink problem who obviously stays somewhere else. Uses the flat as a flop house and drops around once a fortnight for a 24 hour bender

The smell of his alcoholic body odour really stinks the place out. Drunken breath smells teally sweet compared to his stink

Share a very narrow communal stairway and he has a gap under his front door. Supposed to be a fire door. Stink is overwhelming.

First time this happened. l went out and sprayed the communal stairway with Neutradol and opened the downtairs communal front door for 8 hours to let the stink out.

Within a week l had a visit from 2 Housing Association Officers to say l was harrasing my neighbhour.

Sorry this so long winded but just to show who has got the upper hand in these matters

In short TWATS.

Good Luck
🤞🎶💣

Make sure you don’t turn the lights on and that you are one of several flats it could be.

Then crack on.

(also consider a slingshot. I got one for similar reasons but never used it. Did try a potato gun but it didn’t have the range).

...And blasting out music in the early hours when people are just trying to sleep regularly ISN'T ignorant!!
I'm with OP's, ...aim better!
If they are allergic...they won't be so keen to do it again!
Also you can get a doorbell that sounds like a massive guard dog barking... just a thought!
But as previously mentioned they probably couldn't see exactly where it came from! x

@Foreverexhausted1 i think that’s rule 1 in the allergy rule book 😂😂😂 and I say that as mother of a child with serious allergies.

Why does it have to be a masked vigilantly group? There was an issue with anti social behaviour on an estate in my town. The decent people on the estate got together, with the support of the police, and formed an active neighbourhood watch group which would go out and patrol the streets.
There was no violence involved there was just safety in numbers, talking to the youths doing the anti social behaviour, patrolling the streets and making everyone feel safe.
What is tolerated will prevail, decent people will outweigh the yobs. There is strength in numbers and the police cannot be everywhere but neighbourhood patrols can and do work.
Evil triumphs because good men stand by and do nothing.

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By the speed they drove away, they clearly aren't yolkals

Well done! I wish I could have had your courage against these bullies in the past! Ignore the inevitable mumsnetters who will say it’s just kids, etc x

Reaching a bit, but they could retaliate on an innocent person.
See an open window or light on and think it was them.

We hear of mistaken identity attacks, this makes me think how it could happen.

Actions have consequences and people have been killed for less.

I think I’d’ve done the same.

Yes they are, but if they are also tools who wake an entire neighbourhood of people at antisocial hours, they will get whatever is coming to them, be that a super soaker or a visit from the police.

While we’re on that, my DD has an egg allergy and I highly doubt an egg thrown outside that landed nowhere near the car they were inside would have a negative effect on anyone unless they like licking pavements for fun.

Not in my experience. A decade of the psycho neighbour from hell and she was untouchable because she was old. You’re largely on your own in this situation.

🤣🤣🤣...
Visual alert!!

We get similar outside the flats I live in, strangers not residents, and rather than use items which can be expensive and cause damage thereby getting myself into trouble I use water balloons, and have even been known to throw water over people fighting they soon stop.

Aim better.

If you have a deadly allergy don't piss people off in the middle of the night so they may be tempted to throw shit at you. This particular interaction is very easy to avoid for fucks sake.

Anti social people are the worst - especially the noisy variety! I had this when I lived in a bungalow & the person next door had the tv blasting ALL night - EVERY night!!
I ended moving out & thankfully now, I'm in a lovely two bed semi & a relatively noise free environment.
Maybe you could consider doing the same - if that's not possible then maybe a trip down to the local hardware store might help (leave a couple of 'those' things lying about & they'll soon get the message!)...