ULPT Request: Neighbor plays music outside my home office
Posted by PunkRockEtiquettte@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 22 comments
Hey y'all! So as the title says I've got an inconsiderate neighbor who will bring a camp chair (seriously) down the driveway and sit ~20 feet from my bedroom and office window and play music loud enough that I can hear it through my closed, double-paned windows. I have tried multiple times to politely ask her to quiet down, and she will on occasion, but more often than not she ignores me and is right back to the same bullshit a few hours later or at the very most the next day and recently she's taken to not even acknowledging me if I approach, despite the fact I've only ever been polite with a please and thank you. My only relief from this are days the weather is too bad to sit outside. I've considered an inconvenient sprinkler but she has enough space to move just out of its reach and still annoy the fuck out of me (and anyone I'm on a call with).
I don't know where her apartment is, unfortunately, or I'd simply go sit outside her window with an equal amount of noise.
Additional info that might be helpful: she is always screaming about something either at a child she often has with her or down the phone. I can also hear this. She also smokes a lot of weed in her camp chair, next to said child she screams at. I don't mind weed in general, but wondering if I can report her for public use or something just to get her out of my hair. Located in California though so options might be limited.
Mr_Fignutz@reddit
Lots of unknowns here but if the player is using 2.4g wifi you can kick it offline with a flipper zero and marauder board
Apprehensive-Cut2114@reddit
not sure if its a reasonably affordable option, but get a directional speaker, then play the same song on repeat pointed directly at her. for as long as she is there. if she moves, readjust aim.
bonus points if its a song she listens to frequently, because then she will learn to hate it, and you can take satisfaction in not only pissing her off, but ruining something she once loved
LitttleSm45H@reddit
Easy street.
That shit gets old faaast
serraangel826@reddit
Baby shark, the Song that Never Ends, What Does the Fox Say..... there are so many good ones out there!
Apprehensive-Cut2114@reddit
true true, but you see, those songs are already hated. pick one she loves, then play it to death. play it till she hates it. until she refuses to turn on a radio in fear that that song will come on and every time she hears it, or even thinks of hearing it, she will remember you. and she will never, ever forget
YouArentReallyThere@reddit
Those directional speakers are pretty crazy. One of those pointed at her with a few seconds’ worth of delay and playing the same song would have her gone pretty quick.
saraphilipp@reddit
build yourself an LRAD. fight fire with a flamethrower of sound
someone4shore@reddit
I have inconsiderate neighbors that play loud music at all kinds of hours. They smoke weed on the regular and pretty sure they also smoke P.
I have used stinky fish in a bucket placed near the fence and their open garage windows.
Finely aged eggs (at least 6 months out from the expiry date, but 1 year + works better) discreetly cracked at the bottom of the fence on my side (if old enough it's pretty much a dry stink bomb but do glove up).
I have heard them swear, complain about the terrible stink and shut their windows so it's quieter for me! I also added many many bird feeders on that side of my property for extra chances of bird đź’© on their stuff!
I also do karaoke sung loudly and badly but in civilized hours. The neighbors are not fans but I enjoy it!!
someone4shore@reddit
If you enjoy bagpipe music ask your local pipe band if they'd like to practice when she's there, or it's usually cheap to hire them to play for an hour or two.
Or, like me, you could discover a sudden passion to take up playing the recorder. Nice cheap instrument and will Peirce through the loudest of bass notes to ruin her favorite song!! đź’©
GarlicBreath1@reddit
Can’t do anything , jerks are jerks and unfortunately the law and the police are no help. These people lead a selfish existence and get away with it.
No_Mycologist8083@reddit
Set up a mĂcrophone pointed out your window, picks up her music and kicks it right back through your loudspeaker, drive her nuts
Some0neAwesome@reddit
I'm pretty sure that smoking weed outside of an apartment building is considered the same as smoking it in public, as private property accessible by the public is considered public in most places. Next time you see her packing a bowl, call the police and let them know that she is smoking in the presence of a minor under 10 in a public space. Tell the dispatcher that you can't tell what she is smoking, but it looks like a meth pipe. Just having the police arrive and talk to her might be a wake up call for her to knock that shit off.
Or, if there is a water connection close by, hook up a hose and just spray her when she does this.
Or, take the day off and set up a camp chair next to her. Crack a beer and start telling her how much you support Trump and how, if she is a liberal, she needs to change her political opinion. Start talking about the wall. Complain about single moms. Make judgy comments about the way she dresses/piercings/tattoos. Invite her to your church. Talk to her child about the dangers of being a liberal like her mommy. Tell her child that schools are evil and will force her to become a boy/girl and that church school is the only way to avoid going to hell. Invite anyone passing through to join you. Have an extra chair and beer for them. Get some friends to join you.
No_Mycologist8083@reddit
Exactly! Act like a crazy person
Mars_Collective@reddit
Get someone’s child potentially taken away because they play music too loud. And you haven’t even tried to actually speaking to the person like a human. You’re definitely final Reddit mod boss level
QueenMEB120@reddit
Start listening to smutty audio books very loudly with the windows up during your breaks. See how fast she moves when her kid asks her what an orgasm is.
May want to warn your good neighbors to keep their windows closed for a few days first.
Mars_Collective@reddit
Use your words like a big boy and have an actual conversation with someone before calling the cops on them.
PunkRockEtiquettte@reddit (OP)
I did. Multiple times.
ZanzaBarBQ@reddit
Get some bald faced hornets to nest near where sits.
creative_name_idea@reddit
Find a bunch of horrible sounds, screams from horror movies, cows being slaughtered at the slaughterhouse, car crash sounds, clocks going off, mix it all together with the piano music from two girls one cup and play it out the windows louder than her music
IrradiantFuzzy@reddit
Take a chainsaw to her speaker.
Monarc73@reddit
Get involved in the neighborhood boards. I'm betting that she has already been harassed away from her own place. Find out how, and repeat it!
Nice_Ebb5314@reddit
Hack his blue tooth system and play shit that would embarrass them. Or When he’s not home get on the group chat for the neighborhood and say I think so and so left his phone hooked on to his speakers and porn is playing over it.