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?

They are the yobs not her!

😂😂😂

Maybe if more of the 100 or so flats being affected also threw eggs the actual yobs would stop their antisocial behaviour.

On the meantime, perhaps earplugs would help you sleep a bit better? Get the comfortable ones off Amazon, not the bog standard ones in boots.

I wouldn't waste eggs, but I'd suggest a powerful super-soaker filled with food colouring.

Harmless (unless someone has a life threatening allergy to either water or food colouring) but inconvenient to the car driver.

If you could perfect your control of the super-soaker, you could write "wanker" or similar, so that the driver's personal status is known to everyone until they clean it off.

If a person is so allergic to eggs that merely touching one could lead to death, then by adulthood they should be more than aware not to touch a car that has just been hit by one. It also might be a good idea if you are extremely vulnerable to being killed by a common food stuff not to make a public nuisance of yourself or hang out with other people who do.

Was about to post the same MrsSunshine.

Live by the sword die by the sword and all that.

Christ on a bike! I feel like I want a super-soaker now, and I live by very quiet neighbours (cemetery residents). I could use it on the squirrels… 🤔

A thrown egg at a car isn't going to kill anyone allergic to the protein in eggs.

A family member is severely allergic to pesto /pine nuts to the point of having to carry an epi-pen everywhere but even he can hold a jar of pesto sauce.

@EggVigilante I know eggsactly how you feel, a loitering spot like that is bad.
Even ''Brown noise'' {more effective than white noise} won't drown out the noise made by deep bass or car /people noise...but retaliation would be my concern.

Noise pollution is awful.

Actually eggs contain something that react badly with car paintwork so if you had hit you may have found yourself open to a claim for criminal damage. I understand your frustration though

This is not behaviour to be applauded.

Idiotic thing to do in my opinion. Nobody should lash out in anger.

Loving the comments about calling the police. So far they have been completely disinterested in stolen cars and drug dealers in our car park, shrugged off an incident of domestic violence and told me off for reporting a fly tipper who called me a racist whore who needs to die for asking him not to dump rubbish in our bin store. They really aren’t bothered about anti social crime.

Cost neighbour £££££££££££££ when he hit our car with eggs.

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Explaining how eggs can permanently damage car paintwork. You could open yourself up to all sorts of issues including criminal as well as civil liability.

I had kids egg my car once on Halloween thinking they were hilarious!

You’re massively unreasonable. Plenty of people live with noise at night. They live on busy roads, next to train lines, next to noisy pubs and stadiums. Under flight paths.

They get earplugs. And get some sleep.

Only if you're caught

I think we have found the Driver ☝️

If you can smash the glass of a car with an egg then it isn’t proper glass. Glass in cars is specifically designed to be shatterproof. The replies on this thread 🤦‍♀️😂

Over a TRILLION pounds?

You should have gone to a cheaper garage.

So just get some earplugs/white noise and put up with it? I often have similar issues with my neighbours in the summer. It makes my life a misery. Just "try to ignore" is a ridiculous suggestion and almost impossible. Once your sleep has been disturbed by idiots and you are upset/anxious about it - "just ignoring" is really hard to do. With my neighbours Im actually anxious on a sunny Saturday morning even before they've lit the BBQ because I know that 12-16 hours of noise is likely to follow. It can be all day as well. Should I just spend all my daytime hours as well as night with earplugs in just because others want all day/night parties?

Im not advocating lobbing an egg though......... a better suggestion (I think) is to keep a record of the issue (dates, times, issues it causes - anxiety, sleeplessness, distress) and then lobby the police (register the issue anonymously via police 101 online - they will come and have a look on a night when they've got not much else on) and the local council. Its a noise disturbance issue so ultimately complaining to the police and the council is your best bet. Potentially maybe a residents only "gate" could be installed? Restricting access to only residents and visitors.

The poster is using false equivalence, their children’s egg allergy has no context in this situation unless they were the ones in the car at 3.30am.

This is indeed an absolute tragedy- This poor young lad should have had an Epi Pen with him at all times.

Anyone with serious life threatening allergies should carry one at all times- as one never knows when it might be needed.

I think you should collect all the bat shit off this thread and chuck that next time.

Yes, I think it could escalate (eggscalate?) things.

I sympathise though . Lack of sleep lowers our defences and can make us do daft things. I think it's an understandable although potentially unwise reaction.

A marble and catapult might be more effective