SHUT THE F**K UUUUUUUUUUP

[Pavlov]

My next door neighbour's son is having an after club party of some kind. The police have said they can't do anything. I am presuming, given the type of music being played and the time of night and the increasing, not decreasing volume that drugs are involved, and as such I am not going to ask for it to be turned down. DH is unwell and is not able to ask either.

2.5 fucking hours.

I want to go and fucking batter him. Instead, when the baby wakes for the morning (luckily I have been able to settle him and DD is asleep in her loft room) at 6am, if he is no longer up I am going to go and hammer on the fucking door. If he is awake I am going to wait til 9am. And then I am playing disney really fucking loudly, ALL DAY.

And I know I am not being unreasonable.

My children are early risers. 2 hours I have, then they will be up. And stupidly, for some stupid reason I decided to have a life last night, and stayed up with DH to watch some old battlestar galactica episodes. Went to bed at 11pm, fed DS til 11:30pm, so I have had the grand sum of 1.5 hours sleep.

I could go to the loft room and sleep on the spare sofa in DDs room. But DH is unwell and has taken some strong painkillers (stinking earache) and might not hear the bear cub til he is screaming the place down.

The police are so effing useless it's unbelievable.

One of the worst things about the UK is the total failure of the authorities to take noise pollution/bad neighbours etc seriously. They are a massive source of stress to so many people.

My sympathies and go wild with your disney!

Oh dear. May I suggest my fathers remedy for situations such as this?

KARAOKE. LOUDLY. BADLY.

At 7am. On a Sunday morning.

Why can the police not do anything?

I'll be happy to come over and help you batter down his door at 6 am. I figure that's just about when they'll have been asleep for maybe half an hour.

What a bunch of fuckwits. I am so sorry for your wrecked night's sleep. Hope DH feels better soon so you can get a few naps in.

YANBU in the very least, by the way.

Maybe call the police and tell them that not only are they selling drugs there, BUT they are selling them in imperial quantities.

They'll probably send a riot van around to arrest them then

Oh now, NOW, they have decided to turn it down. That is nice of them. at 4:45am. How very decent of them.

The cops won't do anything because cant be assed it is an environmental issue not a police issue apparantly, unless it is spilling onto the street. And of course environmental people are not working because it is a) night time and b) the weekend. When much noise occurs. FFS.

I had considered calling and saying there were drugs there. I am sure there are, or, were. But we get on well with his parents so I am wary, at least this time.

I shall play very loud music, but also, tell his father who must be away. He cannot be there as last time this happened at 11:30pm he went berserk at him for upsetting the neighbours!

shiney i do like the idea of karaoke, especially as I sing really really badly.

I mean it is turned down, but I can still hear it, and it is not calm music. I thought drug users listened to calmer music as they came down? Of course I am presuming. But I cannot possibly imagine they would listen to such loud fast hectic music for such a long time without the aid of some stimulant? So where is the Floyd now?

Right, the boy is awake I am off to see to him/get a gun.

Pavlov, ring the enviro people on Monday. We had this every weekend, not on such a scale...but it was 2 doors down & we could hear clearly what was being played cd wise & what was being shouted. The would also spill onto the street yelling/drinking being stupid with passing traffic etc.

They were warned & toned it down to a less rowdy (but still rowdy) level, but it meant we could get some sleep & peace!

That would really piss me off too.

Although I would really enjoy the revenge factor

Keep us updated on the torture you plan

Def contact the council and speak to enviro health. I feel your pain - my DD was up for her day at 4.50am and some people over the road from us had a party till 2 with very very bad karaoke - I had the choice of listening to it with the windows open, or shutting the windows and baking in a 100 degree bedroom.....GGGRRRRRRRR!!!!!

Disney is too high class and well known. You want to play some godawful cheap and nasty cartoon stuff that the people next door wont recognise. Dont want to get them reminiscing about their favourite disney film that would be to much fun for them!

Never thought i'd ever type the sentence "disney is too high class..."

What a total inconsiderate twunt. You must be absolutely fuming!!

I agree that the police really don't take noise pollution seriously enough - it's seriously anti-social behaviour. You are just left sitting in your house angry and (sometimes) scared to do anything, feeling helpless and frustrated. Argh - it is a form of torture.

We have a house behind us which is rented(live in a back-to-back, long tall house over 4floors, but with immediate neighbours on eachside and the back!) , and this past year it's been let out to noisy students. They've got better recently (Exams?) but a couple of times they've had 'after-club' things at their house only lasts for about 2-2.5 hours, but it's hideous.

I just lie awake wishing every form of pox on them - or even worse, when they finally grow up and have kids of their own, they have bloody student neighbours who live in their own selfish bubble and do the same to them. It's mainly as residental area we live in as well, not some student ghetto ffs .

I hope your neighbours have horrible hangovers (comedowns?) today. Don't make it easy for them!

Oh lordie lordie. His parents are clearly away. I went in to feed bear cub and settle him, which meant him sleeping on me for the rest of the morning, and they turned the music down to much less although I could still hear it, then, then i heard knocking on my bedroom wall (it his next to his). you get me luckily I heard no noise.

If bear cub had not been feeding, I would have taken my steelies and banged back in time .

But now I know how thin the walls are, I am going to do some DIY in my bedroom when DH gets up, with DD listening to something god awful. I agree disney is too calm.

He is young, into horrid fast music, so he won't like my music taste much. I think perhaps some Queens of the Stone Age would be quite nice to listen to?

I am all for youngsters having a good time, and would not even have objected much it it went on for an hour, for a few hours til 1am even. But 4:45am then still audible til i don't know, 5:30am? unreasonable for sure even for a yoof.

Do you have a garden? get the lawnmower out, even better you have an electric strimmer with an overgrown hedge that needs sorting?

I would complain to the parents but would point out that you wouldn't mind the 1am switch off time (we were all young once) but 4am is taking the mickey.

the father will not be pleased. He gets on well with the neighbours, has lived here for like 25 years. The father would not tolerate past 11pm!

No grass, and we too are tightly packed. While I want to wake the twat up I don't want to wake the other neighbours at the same time/disturb their sunday.

How hideous! I lived for 18 months next to a schizophrenic alcoholic and his weird little friend. They had no electricity and would fight each other and yell at each other all night every night. We rang the council many many times and they just said 'you have to find out who his landlord is'. Turns out they were the tossing landlords, it was a council house (we thought it was a squat, it had no lock and all the windows were boarded up.

The noise plagued us in our tiny Welsh miner's cottage for 18 months, the council and the police were spectacularly unhelpful. It was torture.

I feel your pain. Defo tell his dad!

I am (was) quite capable of listening to Techno until the wee small hours powered only by lager and gin. Drugs were more fun though.

Dreadful, our neighbours are out every sat night drinking and swearing so much I can't let 6 yo DD out in the garden.

They have a child the same age as DD and when they get drunk they start what I can only describe as a human form of bear baiting on the poor lad. This goes on until 11pm at leaqst. No wonder the kid looks washed out most of the time. I thought of calling social services but it's a well off middle class street and the house is immaculately decorated so I guess they'd never believe what they are like when drunk each night.

If you ask them to tone it down you get a mouthful of abuse.

These are people with £100 a roll wallpaper on their walls.

I feel your pain.

Luckily we have a very noisy air conditioner and this drowns them out when we are upstairs.

thecoalition omg did you? how on earth did that work?! I should perhaps have started drinking when I got woken up then, been on a level with them .

I could stay up listening to loud music in a club til the wee hours, but not at someones house, i would be knackered too early and ready for bed! (sad alert)

miggsie oh I think I know them seriously though, I know a couple just like that, poor boy.

The trick is to acheive a level and then maintain it, with occasional shots as 'liveners'. ;)

I think gatecrashing might have worked actually - "OMG that crazy lady from next door has turned up with a bottle of gin. Quick, leg it!"