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to think that unless you can control your volume when drunk..

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Kaloki · 29/12/2009 20:26

..then you should be fitted with a gag when leaving the pub.

Stupid drunks yelling and screaming have kept me awake till 3am every night since Boxing Day. And going by the noise outside already, it'll be the same again tonight.

Anyone got a sniper rifle I can borrow?

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TubbyDuffs · 29/12/2009 20:27

If you can't beat em, join em! Go on get pissed and loud!

annabelcaramel · 29/12/2009 20:28

Report it to your local council. They can monitor it for you and take action if need be.

IMoveTheStarsForChristmas · 29/12/2009 20:28

No sniper rifle, but water pistol with ice cold water might send them running

bucket of water if under your window... will have the added bonus of sobering them up, though there is the possibility that they might freeze to this pavement in this weather

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Kaloki · 29/12/2009 20:29

lol, with the lack of sleep thanks to the drunks I'd fall asleep just looking at alcohol! (Only to be woken by the drunken fools)

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merrycompo · 29/12/2009 20:30

Was the pub there when you moved innthough?

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Kaloki · 29/12/2009 20:32

"Report it to your local council. They can monitor it for you and take action if need be."

Unfortunately they can only take action against the pub, once the pub is shut they can't do anything about the drunks, and it's the drunks who've been kicked out of the pub which are causing the problem. We've already spoken to the council.

Moving in a week though, so just need to survive till then.

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Kaloki · 29/12/2009 20:34

"Was the pub there when you moved innthough?"

Annoyingly, most of the drunks are coming back from the town centre to the housing around ours. So, although there is a pub, the noise from there dies down from about 1am. It's the ones from further away staggering home at 3am who are driving me nuts. And I have a suspicion it's the same ones every night.

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Kaloki · 29/12/2009 20:34

"but water pistol with ice cold water might send them running"

Haha! Now that's a plan!

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annabelcaramel · 29/12/2009 20:35

Aah. At just before kicking-out time, sneak out, stick up a big sign with an arrow saying free booze 500m this way and hope they fall for it! Good luck with the move!

uglymugly · 29/12/2009 20:41

Try the local community police - if they're any good they should already be aware of the situation and the more complaints the easier it is for them to get approval from the higher-ups to be present when the problem occurs.

Alternatively, the local press often likes this kind of story, especially if there's the possibility of a picture of tired-looking parents/cute kiddies (think Daily Mail here, you know how that works).

Seriously, no-one should have to endure such antisocial behaviour. By the sounds of it, your local council isn't fulfilling its responsibilities.

Ivykaty44 · 29/12/2009 20:44

Report it to your local council. They can monitor it for you and take action if need be

That certainly doesn't happen in this town, have a friend who has been to court and the council lost, the brewery barristers won..........

Ivykaty44 · 29/12/2009 20:47

Oh and yes the pub was there when the friend brought the hosue - the licencing laws were changed though wern't they and so did the pub hours. Then the smoking ban came in and everyone drinks outside to smoke so the noise is worse.

So it has been double changes and noone was to know in the street things would take a change like that.

sazzerbear · 29/12/2009 20:48

I just about remember the days of being drunk and loud...[envy), not good when on receiving end though!

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Kaloki · 29/12/2009 20:59

"Alternatively, the local press often likes this kind of story, especially if there's the possibility of a picture of tired-looking parents/cute kiddies (think Daily Mail here, you know how that works)."

Unfortunately we are yet to be parents, and I don't think the Daily Mail would take too much sympathy on a tatooed, pierced and mohawked young couple. Tired or not

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IMoveTheStarsForChristmas · 29/12/2009 21:09

ooh ooh ooh! bags of water in the freezer, launch them when frozen - home-made snowballs!

[we need an evil emoticon]

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Kaloki · 29/12/2009 21:15

We so do! Do you know how tempting that is IMove?

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fernie3 · 29/12/2009 21:34

I think a gag is a great idea, drunk people use our street (well lane really!) as a shortcut to the main road and they are forever shouting, screaming, throwing up in the street etc. As someone who never drinks, has never been drunk and has no intention of ever trying it out (no matter how much people point and laugh at me with my orange juice) I look out the window at some of the staggering down our road and swearing, fighting and pausing to be sick and think "wow what fun that looks!".

gags though would be great!

IMoveTheStarsForChristmas · 29/12/2009 21:47

Kaloki - I'm sure more evil schemes will be forthcoming, i'm only half-way down my vino collapso!

golgi · 29/12/2009 22:09

We had this - our house was on main stumble home between town and big estate. We had a low wall at the front where people would like to sit and argue.
Called the police once as heard a man getting really abusive to a woman.

Don't think there's much you can do - we moved! (not just because of the drunk people).

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Kaloki · 29/12/2009 22:38

I await more evil schemes IMove!

It's a nuisance isn't it golgi? It's been fairly quiet recently, we had a week of it during freshers week, though thankfully just a week.

I have to say I'm dreading New Years Eve, somehow I can't see it stopping at even 3am then.

We made certain with the new place that it is far enough from any pubs (admittedly this puts us further away from shops too) that we shouldn't get so many drunken prats lurching past our flat.

fergie I used to drink, but at least had the self control not to screech and yell at full volume when walking home.

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Kaloki · 29/12/2009 22:43

Ok, frustration has increased, I said there was a pub nearby. For no apparent reason they've just decided that their bass really needs to be loud enough to make our top floor flat's floor vibrate!!! We are across a railway line!! The trains are quieter!!

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IMoveTheStarsForChristmas · 30/12/2009 12:35

oops, forgot about this last night

will attempt to think of traps/schemes for you Kaloki

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Kaloki · 30/12/2009 17:27

Were you out making lots of drunken noise instead of thinking of evil schemes?

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JustAnotherManicMummy · 30/12/2009 17:37

I live in the centre of town so I have the local non-emergency number to hand for when the drunks think it would be funny to brawl/shag/knock on flippin' doors at silly o'clock in the morning.

I've only had to use it once and was very apologetic but the bastards had hammered on our front door at 1am and I'd just got the baby off to sleep. It was really for the protection of the drunks though. From me.

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Kaloki · 30/12/2009 18:56

I can understand that! If I wasn't so knackered last night I'd have been ready to march out of the flat and confront the idiots outside screeching (all terrifying 4'10" of me )

I don't mind people drinking and getting a bit rowdy, but when it's 3am in a residential area and you can be heard clearly in a top floor flat where all the windows are closed, that is just not on.

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