Will my neighbour ring the police on me for this

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I know I know i'm terrible and deserve 25 to life, I'm an awful person, morally bankrupt. The heat has forced me to open all windows and all I have heard is people's shitty little dogs yapping all evening on and off. I just lost my temper, couldn't take it anymore and yelled out the window:

'take your dog inside before I take my rifle outside' and sure enough, the little shit stopped immediately.

Spare me the moral rant, I know I'm a bad person and I don't care, just wondering if I should expect a visit from the bobbies. And I have no rifle or any sort of criminal or even traffic background.

That were me. I thought I heard something but thought I imagined it. I can’t make my dog stop. She is a very reactive dog. I’m at my wits end with her. I’m angry at her barking too. Don’t know what to do

Definitely feeding it some trifle would shut it up!

Well that's a relief because they'd have your licence. If swat turn up I'd say yes.

It's a clever riposte though. I giggled. Tomorrow buy some ear plugs. I put an earbuds in and listen to Netflix etc

I think it should be.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah but threatening to shoot a rifle is. Depends if the police think it’s serious and your neighbour may think you have a gun and are going to use it which btw is a crime. You may get a knock on your door. YABU.

Can confirm as someone who owns a number of firearms in the UK, and is member of a US gun club, that the police here do take it a bit more seriously if you threaten someone with one that you actually own 🤣

You, however, OP, simply threatened your NDN with a trifle. Best course of action is to go outside and pelt their house with said item, just to remove all doubt. Maybe bally up and do a drive by triffling from your car, throw up some gang signs etc.

They don’t care that she was going to shoot an annoying dog with an imaginary rifle? Shame 🤣

get a super soaker op

Yappy fuckers do my head in.

Here’s a business idea I cba to do, so go at it Willy Wonka Wannabes - gobstoppers for yappy dogs. Preferably peanut butter to be claggy in their mouths so they can’t yap but aren’t harmed.

ok calm down Carol, I wouldn’t actually condone the providing of gobstoppers to yappy dog, tempting though it is, it isn’t practical, special diets etc etc.

We went to a place for Father’s Day dinner last weekend - it’s kind of a pub but also a ‘venue’
we got towards the end of the meal and there was a child (or a ghoul) shrieking at the other side of the dining room - we likened it to nails crawling down a chalkboard.
it was hideous - of the 6 of us at the table, 3 are Mums, 2 have worked in schools at varying levels their whole career and others. She squealing was horrific for us all, the mum st vocal were the ones who had worked with kids forever though. No excuse.

How delightfully hillbilly, OP.

If course it's not unreasonable to shout out a window for dogs to be quiet but why would you expect to have peace in a city "Noted by your own self the "most expensive city in the UK"? 🤷

It's not "over the odds" it's the cost of the benefits of living in such a location. I do not live in a city and do not have the benefit of it, neither do I want it. I love rurally where I have the annoyance of other things. Rent is rent, London income is London income.

You were going to throw the trifle at the dog ! 😝

I often shout out loud at Things
The dogs next door, The Ring doorbell when partner is outside
Everything. I dont think anyone can hear me but it makes me feel better

Try literally reading the op.

I can't be the only one that gets irrationally angry when people literally don't read the OP before replying?

What are you replying to? 🤣

What difference does it make whether we say yes or no? We can't predict.

Bit harsh unless you were talking about an air rifle which wouldn't likely be lethal.

Do you have neighbours? I bet they don’t complain to you about much if you do.

People who let their dogs bark outside all day are terrible owners and shitty people generally. It’s anti social.
Go train your dog and take responsibility for your impact on others.

id contact the RSPCA OP and they can go round based on anonymous report. That might freak them out enough to take action.

Failing that; id be brandishing that imaginary trifle again.

I once shouted out the window at 3am to a pair of yobs having a loud conversation right outside at the top of their voices like it was broad daylight PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO SLEEP OVER HERE!! .....Cue stunned silence 😂

I feel your pain. I’ve been known to shout “shutuuuuuup!!!!!!!!” out my window late at night when my irritatingly loud voiced neighbor sits out in his back garden drinking wine and blabbing on and on and on at his partner until midnight on a Sunday, so the entire neighbourhood can hear him. Noisy fucker shut up immediately too op. Sometimes it’s got to be done 🤷🏻‍♀️

I get you OP. Through lockdown I had neighbours and their many many kids playing basketball 3 metres from my house, pretty much 12 hours a day (there was always at least one of them out there). For some reason they screamed bloody murder while they were at it. This would also excite their dog, so I'd have to contend with endless yapping also. One day I was ill and feverish, and the bouncing, screaming and yapping stated. I didnt realise my windows were open and I screamed "can you just shut the hell up"! Was met with stunned silence. They didn't shut up long term, but it felt good to let out the frustration all the same 😂

Our friends and relations mostly live in towns and sleep through town noises. Staying in our very rural house they complain about being woken by owls and the dawn chorus.

It’s bizarre isn’t it! I live in central london and can sleep thru modified cars, drunken shanties on the amble home and even foxes shagging, but the second I’m in the countryside a badger’s sniff wakes me up.
The worst is at my aunts on the coast - I could not abide living near screeching seagulls (though maybe I’d eventually get used to it).