AIBU to think hot weather brings out worse antisocial behaviour?

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Driving like idiots
neighbours blasting loud music in their garden I can hear it in my house with doors and windows closed
smell weed everywhere
a lot of drunk anti social behaviour

yes I get some of this happens in normal weather but why does the hot weather cause it to surge or skyrocket?

They race down a few bypasses within a few miles of me. Unsure if it’s the same group or have a group per bypass

It used to be cars and bikes. Now includes the illegal e bikes

Why is the music shite? In a PP, I have mentioned it’s mainly RnB, rap and trance. Is it the type of people that love this music?

If I ever hear 60s, 70s and 80s music esp rock. I will give them a handshake

I agree that it brings more anti-social behaviour. It’s a shame that all it takes is one chavvy family to ruin a street’s peace and quiet on a hot day. My street is generally quiet but when the sun comes out the one chav family go feral. Massive inflatable in the front garden (it can barely fit), kids screaming all day, drinking in the street as they can’t fit in their garden (we have front gardens as the street is pedestrianised), drink all day and night until stumbling about, having loud ‘banter’ with anyone who walks past.

I live at the coast too, fortunately it has a very family friendly reputation so most of the time the seafront is just families having normal days out and dogs are banned from the beach now so you don’t have to put up with them running around.

Bikes around here yesterday were driven recklessly. I can see why there are so many deaths tbh .

It’s because this type of weather is rare in the UK clothes come off as well as manners factor in the extra booze (which is usually consumed inside so we don’t get to see such behaviour) and its usually a disaster waiting to happen! I’m so thankful I live rurally and all I can hear from my garden is the humming of the tractor in the field

Listening to my neighbours music at the moment with heavy bass
asked them to turn it down got ignored

My next door neighbours are out with kids swearing and shouting all the time.the ones at the bottom of the garden play crap music loud all day.i sit here peacefully,that’s a lie,i am quiet and my boys are but i go in with a headache and not from the sun.

Why cant there be some sort of mandatory volume limiter installed in all domestic sound equipment - radio, TV etc?

Yep. Soon as the sun’s out the ball’s out in our Close. Thump, thwack. Kids running about with lumps of wood. Take them up the park for fuck sake. Roll on October

Old blokes in shorts and flip flops in Tesco. Varicose veins like knotted rope. Vile. Tattoos on show everywhere.

Pure scum

I mean we’re about to have a bbq but I cannot recognise any of the anti- social behaviour some of you have - where do you live that this is happening all the time?! The most anti social behaviour I have had this morning in Asda where there was a lady who stood on my foot and didn’t say sorry 🤣

Perhaps it’s because people have been cooped up for months and then they suddenly have the holiday feeling so inhibitions are shed. Unfortunately in the UK this means tops off, being loud and drinking far too much which is the same behaviour that has made some resorts decide that this type of tourist is no longer welcome.

Many retailers especially supermarkets have security by entrances asking customers to put on a shirt before entering. This includes women wearing a bikini top or an actual bra.

Seen them acting rude and self centred.

@SilverGlitterBaubles but this isn't the Arctic Circle, nobody has to be cooped up for months, like Jack Nicholson in the Overlook Hotel ! this last winter I think I can remember 3 frosts and that was it, so mild.

My neighbours had some 80s rock classics going on over the weekend.
I was quietly singing along and thinking I should get to know them better when the youngest whiniest one started yelling and I remembered I'm a grumpy old woman...

If it's the UK, then cannabis is not allowed (unless for medicinal purposes).

I want to sit out in the garden and read my book, not listen to my neighbours' loud music.

Then the hot weather brings out the stupidity of parents:
. Draping a towel or a thin sheet over DC in pushchair. This act increases the temperature underneath the fabric. Use a parasol or the sunshade

Then see a few parents putting their babies in thick coats

Ooh, I'll swap my 80s music playing neighbours for the rnb ones! Their music reminds me of the neglected, mum works in a pub so keep yourself entertained, days. I hated it then and hate it more so now.
I'd even prefer if it was the radio on so it was a mix but no, I get the drunk dad singing Sweet Caroline and the drunk mum singing what otherwise might be tolerable. Don't even get me started on the abuse their Alexa gets, but at least the kids get a break from them shouting at them 🙃

Would love to sometimes have a late evening bath and relax with my audiobook as background noise... but t'isn't meant to be!

We don’t get good weather on bank holidays like this usually and people have little to be happy about lately in this world so if they want to enjoy it I’m all for it. There’s no law people must sit in their gardens quietly reading a book.

Tell you one thing- it’s more than likely that the BH in Aug will be raining and miserable. As only allowed one reasonable/decent per year

I hope so. Have you forgotten last year.? Three months of relentless heat and crops dying from lack of rain hardly 'one day ' was it?

Yes I do recognise this behaviour, and some other behaviours a few posters are describing. Families with big bouncy castle on the front lawn, swing sets, trampoline in the garden with kids screaming as they bounce up and down on it, dogs running about shitting on the lawn and barking their head off, kids screaming blue murder, the parents smoking cannabis, blow up swimming pool in the back (or side lawn!) and balls being booted against fences, and against garage doors!

As a pp said, why can't they just go to the bloody park?! Our village park is 3 minutes walk away from half of the houses, and only 5 to 10 minutes walk away from the other half! Some kids are too young to go alone, and the parents are too lazy to get their arse out of the deckchair they're sitting in drinking their 2 litre bottle of cider. So they just let the kids run feral all day, screaming and fighting and (as I said before) kicking footballs against fences and garage doors. As the pp said, this weather doesn't half bring them out! Oh, and they always have a bloody barbecue too, and music at full blast! 🙄

I live in a nice village, but 4 less than desirable families have come into it in the past 3 years, via 4 private let properties (within about 100 yards of me.) One of the families are behind me unfortunately. First 10 years I was here it was lovely, but since 4 properties went private let, (all in a 3 year timeline,) it's gone a bit downhill. Not knocking ALL private let tenants by the way, but the 4 we have are awful...

As someone said earlier in the thread, why does their right to behave like feral, wild animals, screaming and hollaring, and playing loud music, trump MY right to peace and quiet? They don't need to be silent, just be a bit more bloody considerate of others!

I do. The grass in parks was straw coloured

It's when your party adversely impacts those around you, especially from a noise perspective. We're incredibly lucky where we live now - children playing, people sitting in their gardens chatting quietly, but no loud music, dope smoking, drunken behaviour, screaming or shouting but in the past we've had neighbours who have played loud music 'til 2 and 3am, held noisy parties in their garden every weekend between May and September and generally made our lives miserable.

No-one should behave in a way that causes problems for others. This type of behaviour is getting worse. Nothing seems to be unacceptable to some. My home is my haven, but bad neighbours can easily turn it into a hell hole. Their desire to party noisily for 12 hours straight several nights a week doesn't trump my desire for peace and quiet.