What to do about teenager next door???

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Next door boy aged 17 plays very loud and v. crap music with his window open [so he can have a fag innit] the lyrics when i got home today were ''i'm a player and i don't give a fuck' it is generally rubbish sweary gangsta [keepin it real in suburbia riight] This has been going on for a couple of years. For a while we did nothing, his younger brother died prior to the loud music starting and well we were all teenagers once so we let it go but I really feel now enough is enough. We have spoken to his mum, who is lovely but doesn't seem to have much influence, when dd was born 6 months ago I wrote him a note, dh has been round and asked him to stop behaving like a twat. Dont know what to do, dont want to upset anyone, know they have had a really rough time but want to be able to live in peace, enjoy garden/having windows open this summer...

I found blasting opera out at 6am in the morning in retaliation worked pretty quickly. Seriously.

get him some earphones as a gift?

How is getting someone who plays loud music some earphones gonna help?

Hmm, not bad idea nametaken, only worry is pissing off other neighbours, dh did once play rage against the machine at 7am after them upstairs kept us up till 1am, they came round next day 'why you play horrid music?'
Ambi sorry wouldn't work as music is on when his m8s is round after college like.. Any more ideas??

lol njm. You don't think CPO too harsh? I know he has a load of those 'please stop being a knob or we will take out an ASBO on you' type warnings for generally hanging around and graffiti and generally being a prat in front of the police.

Also worried about reporting it to officials as don't you have to disclose things like that when you sell your house? Or did I dream that rule?

You didn't dream it, you do have to disclose to potential buyers if you have contacted the authorities with regard to a neighbour dispute.

NJM, brill wording/spelling, made me chortle out loud . (Note to self to remember)

TBH and IMverybitterE, there are only two things you can do - put up with it, or move. The police are not interested in noise pollution, by the way, and I would be very surprised if they came out to have a word, even a CPO.
If you start going down the environmental health route, you have to realise that even if you are successful, you will still have to live beside these people, there will be bad feeling between you forever and there are a thousand ways for them to make your life unbearable if they are of a mind to (and if they were reasonable people they would not be making this noise in the first place). You will have to declare it to potential purchasers, btw.
Is he likely to move out in the near future - to uni, for instance?
Sorry to be so negative. I do know what it is like to live beside unreasonable people who are not willing to address the anti-social behaviour of their children. We moved, and it was the best thing we have ever done.
Good luck.

Turf out your classical collection. 'tis summer, time to open the windows and let the world know that you ain't taking it lying down.

The lovely scrotes individuals next door to me dislike my music intensely. They have yet to make the connection though. They only hear it when they're playing theirs too loud

have you got any heavy metal. if so play it very loud he will hate it

I have spotted a flaw in your, erm, jive, njm.

It's arksing, surely?

Would it be poss to speak again to his mother, arksing her to deal with him effectively and warning her that you are pushed to your limit and will have to contact the authorities if sitch doesn't improve?

although tbh mabelmurple is probably right.

Play either opera or heavy metal (whichever you find most enjoyable). When they come down to complain explain it is to drown out offensive lyrics.

It is a crap situation to be in.