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.

I'm with flaming toaster -- a CD of Wagner overtures on repeat aimed at his wall, while you go out for the day.

We used to have a deal with the student house next door -- no music or party noise after 11 PM, and we won't do DIY before 8 AM. Worked really well.

D@o his parents know that he was doing this> You should go round today and explain you're not happy and will be telling his parents if it ever happens again, and you will ring the police (he doesnt know they wont do anything!).

Or just tell them when they are back and forget the discussion with the spotty teenager.

'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.'

I have honestly considered leaving the UK because of how noise pollution is dealt with.

Jendaisy... Correction, Bonnie Tyler nutter I heard about was in Hackney

I had awful next door neighbours, drug taking layabouts with only one techno cd, played at horrendous volume four nights of the week for six months. They started at 11 pm and finished at 8.30 am.
I was polit with them, shouted at them, begged them threatened them everything. In the end i played Barry Manilow on a loop during the day on the balcony during their come-down. They didn't care. The police arrested them in the end for shooting fireworks at swans. It was easily the worst, most sleepless six months of my life.

YANBU. As soon as your children are up, put every stereo in the house on very loud.

Where I live we actually have an emergency noise team at our local council and you can call them out and they will send a team round to tell noisy, selfish neighbours to keep it down and warn them what legal actions will be taken against them if they don't ie confiscation of stereos etc. The police can't actually do anything, just refer us to the noise team.

Do you have nothing like that attached to your local council? It is a bit of a pain calling them out because they are so busy that you sometimes have to wait a couple of hours for them to get here but when they do they are extremely effective and will come back as many times as necessary throughout the night.

I didn't realise I had it so good when I read the stories on here, have used them a few times and they are brilliant.

did you?

I couldn't agree more, Riven.

'think yourself lucky it is only once in a while and not every night / weekend as some poor neighbours around britain have to endure.'

It's pathetic they have to.

migsie,abusers arent only from financially deprived areas. social services know this, and if y ou are truly concerned, then speak to someone at the very least.

Snobear - blimey, it must be her sister. The nutjob I lived next door to lived in Yeovil, Somerset, which is the armpit of the universe.

when my neighbours did this to me i made sure i got up nice and early, and played Faithless 'I Cant Get No Sleep' really really loudly
hope you're getting sweet revenge on the thoughtless gits today

Riven, I agree with you if it is every night, but I don't think this is every night, or every weekend. It is one weekend when the parents are away it sounds like. Their darling son is GOing to have a party! It is annoying but part of life. Like I said, it is not a regular menace that is making their lives a misery - it is one night.

Pavlov, did you go round and 'have a word'?

Riven - have you never had a party that went on after 11?

Hi Pavlov, you have my sympathies. I have neighbours who back on to my house just like this. they have BBqs that start about midday and go on until the early hours of the morning. Their bass is so loud I could have a disco in my house (and we are detatched). They have neighbours on one side as they are a semi and they are moving because of the noise. Like you my kids are up at 6am and you don't see these guys before noon.

I posted about my situation last weekend after their party and have done previously I feel powerless tbh!

At the moment another neighbour is doing DIY in his garden and insists on having the radio on for hours. This behaviour is anti social I think. Why do people feel they have to inflict their choice of music on you? Put earphones on or listen to music in the house.

I never let our kids run around screaming in the garden and moderate our behaviour in consideration of others but it infuriates me that others do not do the same.

Sorry for your situation......

Riven for PM.

I've never disturbed my neighbours after 11PM, either. In my whole life.

And I was once an out-of-control alcoholic.

Part of this is that that I've spent most of my life in the US.

You have a big loud party and the police do show up and you stop the noise, or you will be arrested and fined.

It's possible you will be, anyway, particularly if you are underage.

Because it's rude and uncalled for. Always. In society. Unless you live in teh middle of nowhere.

No excuses just because you're young.

Behaving like a twat is just that.

We pick ones that are heavily managed and quite after 11PM as well for the same reasons.

There's just never an excuse for it at all unless you chose to live in a club/bar district or near a pub.

It's rude.