Die noisy neighbour DIE

Pixie5740

sniggings wrote: »

and we get told when you ring up the police or council to complain about noise "have you asked them to keep the noise down" imagine knocking on this guys door :rotfl:

I imagine it would end with me slapping him round the chops and being done for assault. Maybe I would get away with it due to diminished capacity caused by sleep deprivation. It is a torture technique after all.

Tancred

sniggings wrote: »

check out the white noise machines too, some people swear by them.

As above, don't rely on them but you might be lucky and have a good team in your area.

When I rang the police once for noise in the street from a lorry with it's engine shaking the house all night, they said ALL they could do was ring and tell them they were causing a disturbance! there always seems to be a law if they want to get you for something but when it's you asking them to help you, they seem to only be able to "ask" them to be quiet.

anyway good luck, I hate noisy people, might be moving myself in a couple of weeks, from a dead quiet place to somewhere similar I pray!

The police can do jack sh*t because the laws are not in place to give them the necessary power. It all has to be done through the local council or the civil courts, which is expensive and very time consuming. The problem is that UK governments of both red and blue have always been so sh*t scared of being labelled as heavy handed that they have never addressed the problem head-on. It's all this politically correct rubbish about not wanting to target chavs or ethnic minorities.

Tancred

Pixie5740 wrote: »

I imagine it would end with me slapping him round the chops and being done for assault. Maybe I would get away with it due to diminished capacity caused by sleep deprivation. It is a torture technique after all.

Maybe the right technique is to fight fire with........fire of a different sort.

Try playing very loud classical music whenever your neighbour kicks off - I bet that will really pi** him off! :rotfl:

sniggings

Tancred wrote: »

The police can do jack sh*t because the laws are not in place to give them the necessary power. It all has to be done through the local council or the civil courts, which is expensive and very time consuming. The problem is that UK governments of both red and blue have always been so sh*t scared of being labelled as heavy handed that they have never addressed the problem head-on. It's all this politically correct rubbish about not wanting to target chavs or ethnic minorities.

I'm amazed as there is a big problem out there but you hit a brick wall trying to deal with the problem.

I remebering watching one of those TV shows about noise teams, where they would go into the bedroom or place in the house you could hear the noise and measure it with a sound meter, think it had to be something daft like 50dB before they could act, 3dB would be enough to keep you awake if it was a constant noise, such as a TV or someone tapping.

I once had my upstairs neighbour sanding the bedroom floor at 6am on a Sunday, went up to complain and he said he was "just doing a bit of light sanding" and blamed me for being too noise sensitive :eek:

Tancred

sniggings wrote: »

I'm amazed as there is a big problem out there but you hit a brick wall trying to deal with the problem.

I remebering watching one of those TV shows about noise teams, where they would go into the bedroom or place in the house you could hear the noise and measure it with a sound meter, think it had to be something daft like 50dB before they could act, 3dB would be enough to keep you awake if it was a constant noise, such as a TV or someone tapping.

I once had my upstairs neighbour sanding the bedroom floor at 6am on a Sunday, went up to complain and he said he was "just doing a bit of light sanding" and blamed me for being too noise sensitive :eek:

The trouble is that here in the UK we don't complain enough - we just sit and suffer. It's in our culture - stiff upper lip and all that. Look at France with all the revolutions, and Germany and Italy with fascism or Russia with communism. The British are just too apathetic to resort to anything remotely radical. This is why there are always loads of committees to discuss and debate endlessly before anything gets done etc. We are just to bl**dy polite to shout when we are suffering! :mad: The trouble is that being 'nice' to horrible people just encourages them to get worse and worse. Now, I'm not advocating violence or dictatorship but the government really does need to sort out this mess of anti-social behaviour once and for all. There are some councils, such as Westminster council, who have specialist 'noise teams' who are out all night to deal with troublemakers, but these are rare. Westminster is a very wealthy local authority and they can afford to employ specialist teams, but many others cannot. What we need is criminal laws to enable the police to fine or even arrest anti-social people on the spot.

Davesnave

inspace wrote: »

if ever something happens like a power cut Im left rendered speechless on how generations before me lived - I dont have an answer but consider how we the noisy ones feel.
Peace (:D)

Previous generations didn't grow up in homes where there was always noise because of 24/7 TV and video games, and perhaps a fairly chaotic lifestyle too, with no set meal times, bed times etc.

The problem for some people, including children, is that they are scared of quiet or silent moments. Take any group of 30 kids, ask them to sit silently for 5 minutes and a number will almost go into meltdown the first time they try.

What happens is that they become aware of an inner self, with whom they can have a dialogue. They often don't care too much for what they hear either!

Stick with it, and children gradually learn to appreciate a quiet time, when no one tells them what to do or think. I can't say what goes on in their heads, and I'd certainly not label it meditation, but for convenience I might call it 'thinking.'

moneyistooshorttomention

inspace wrote: »

My neighbours have always hated me - how can one live in a silent world or even anything near to it.
Music is the greatest invention known to man from 50s jazz to modern rock how possibly can it be enjoyed at low level - I listen to music 90% of my life either asleep or awake (if im asleep and wake up atleast I know im still alive lol).
Movies are surely enhanced if all the effort that the sound men and producers put into it are used to full effect.
At this point all of us that like to enjoy noise for all that it has to offer should apologise and keel over to make way for the timid amongst us(not).
Im lucky Im going deaf for my misabuse and live on an apartment with no neighbours but if ever something happens like a power cut Im left rendered speechless on how generations before me lived - I dont have an answer but consider how we the noisy ones feel.
Peace (:D)

Not quite sure how to take this post.

Errrm...is it a serious post or an ironic one?

If it's a serious one...then the onus is on you to be the one to buy a detached house (repeat that statement with feeling time....as I am the one who had to buy a detached house in the end....but I'm the quiet one so it shouldn't have been me that had to do so.....). I would have actually preferred a semi-detached one if it wasn't for noisy neighbours (bigger garden and lower heating bills).

moneyistooshorttomention

Very good apt post Dave:T

That's often been the only consoling thought I've had when on the receiving end of the Noisy Neighbour Malarkey (ie "At least I HAVE some thoughts in my head...unlike them:D) and hence not having to fill my head with something/anything to drown out what is (or isn't) going on in my head.

Back to the "white noise" machine thoughts and there are videos on YouTube that are around 8 hours or so long. The beautiful nature scene accompanied by natural sound (eg waves or the like). This is obviously one of the scenarios these hugely long videos are designed to deal with. So, if you have a computer that runs silently, then using one of those videos might be a useful suggestion.

SingleSue

Davesnave wrote: »

Previous generations didn't grow up in homes where there was always noise because of 24/7 TV and video games, and perhaps a fairly chaotic lifestyle too, with no set meal times, bed times etc.

The problem for some people, including children, is that they are scared of quiet or silent moments. Take any group of 30 kids, ask them to sit silently for 5 minutes and a number will almost go into meltdown the first time they try.

What happens is that they become aware of an inner self, with whom they can have a dialogue. They often don't care too much for what they hear either!

Stick with it, and children gradually learn to appreciate a quiet time, when no one tells them what to do or think. I can't say what goes on in their heads, and I'd certainly not label it meditation, but for convenience I might call it 'thinking.'

Some friends of mine once 'bet' eldest son (who was around 11 at the time), that he could not be quiet for 10 minutes, if he managed it, they would give him an ice cream/lolly from each of them. To them, it seemed a safe bet as he had been talking nineteen to the dozen for an entire 4 day trip.

2 hours later, he still hadn't said a word....eldest never did have a great concept of time :rotfl:

Tony_MechEng

If you live in a flat then there will likely be electric meters in the communal corridor cupboard, ask nicely and if they don't turn it down go flick their isolator. If they still don't comply pull the fuse out and throw it out the window!

We complained about ours and within a week or so the council had wrote to the resident with a warning threatening further action if repeated and that worked.