ULPT request: Screaming lady making me spiral
Posted by SpeedBurrito@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 16 comments
Hello everyone,
I really love my apartment with its little beach view. There is one big problem, though. My view are neighborhood are being plagued by an unhoused and unhinged lady that wakes up everyday and chooses violence.
She starts her day (and mine) at 4:45am by piping off and yelling directly towards my window in the dead of night. She paces around, yells with a ridiculously obnoxious volume for hours on end.. Her rants are so passion filled. You cannot just “tune it out”. Her outbursts sound like a bunch of raspy gibberish, minus the occasional recognizable racial slur, curse word and lots of “boiiiiii”.
I mostly work from home, so this is an all day mental battle. Maybe this sounds extreme, but I view it as an act of terrorism as she seems to know what she is doing.
There’s so much anger, hate and hostility in her voice. She has the worst voice fry you have ever heard from yelling nonstop for years. It truly makes my blood boil. I’m usually forced out of my own apartment to a cafe so I can catch a mental break. She truly sounds like the Tasmanian Devil with a megaphone.
The woman wears headphones and dances like no one is watching and is definitely in her own little world.
Yes I wear ear plugs, have noise machines and A/C. Her voice permeates all my noise cancelling headphones. I hear her when I’m showering.
This is definitely a me problem, but I don’t want to move yet.
She’s not breaking any laws and doesn’t want help. The cops can’t do anything.
So what are my options here? How can I deter or annoy someone away?
One person suggested dumping a bottle of Liquid Ass in her grass area.
Methods I’ve thought of:
- Using a drone to hover overhead for a long period of time.
- Burying or hanging a wireless bluetooth alarm/speaker to annoy her while she’s sleeping.
- Laser pointer shining on the ground in front of her, but only when she’s looking away.from the source.
- Plant a microphone to record audio, video record her from my apartment and make a YouTube channel.
- Buying a megaphone and regurgitating her every word right back at her. (This is my dream, but I’ll never do it. I would pay someone money to do it, though.)
Thanks for any tips or suggestions!
Disastrous_Essay1230@reddit
I suggested the wireless speaker for someone else, hanging a speaker would make more sense because I’m not sure if burying the speaker is gonna let it be noisy enough. What we need to do is also add a motion activated sprinkler, some sort of potato/spud gun and possibly a randomly bright light you can use to blind her. Or you could contact some sort of cult/church group to save her. Though I really like option 5. That is true artistry.
Odd-Sun7447@reddit
Get a hose and spray her.
Disastrous_Essay1230@reddit
This isn’t the worst idea.
PoolAppropriate4720@reddit
Pot of boiling soup. Tell the police you were offering her food and then she attacked you. Give her something to scream about!
Gimme_Your_Wallet@reddit
I think she wants you to move out mate. Don't let her win.
trustedbyamillion@reddit
Give her a one-way greyhound bus ticket and a $100 gift card to a store that is that far away.
SpeedBurrito@reddit (OP)
People give her things all the time. I wouldn’t be surprised if she scoffed at the offer. She has free beachfront property. It’s her stage and we’re just the audience.
sneksnacc@reddit
I think the YouTube channel is where you start then.
Snoo_85901@reddit
This is a great idea. You have me interested in watching a few clips of her, I already have a mental picture of her drawn up. She sounds like the kind that has nipple rings with a chain hooked to each one.? You might get rich off this if it don’t shut her down.
sneksnacc@reddit
Maybe she’ll take requests. “I did it MYYYYYYY WAAAAAAY!”
Single_Asparagus4793@reddit
Are you in the US? How is she not breaking any laws? Disturbing the peace? Noise ordinance? Harassment (if she’s in your window yelling obscenities)? I would make it law enforcement’s problem by constantly calling on her. They will get annoyed eventually and will make her leave.
All good ideas though. What about scaring her the next time she comes to your window? Dress demonic or something, get creative with it.
thegoodgero@reddit
Happens in my city all the time. 2-3 times each winter the cops sweep homeless encampments, take or destroy all their tents & extra clothing and force them to move somewhere even less safe. Usually several of them die but at least your mornings will be quiet.
SpeedBurrito@reddit (OP)
Unfortunately, she seems sweep resilient. It takes much more than screaming and disturbing the peace to get authorities involved.
AffectionateLow5825@reddit
Call adult protective services. Tell them she is threatening to kill you and then kill herself
Letters_to_Dionysus@reddit
just call in the cops everyday until they deal with her. the pain of dealing with her might have to become less then the pain of listening to you bitch before they are motivated enough. record a video but don't upload it to youtube, send it to the cops. press charges for harassment, whatever you got to. or just wake up at 4:30 and douse the sidewalk with liquid ass and piss discs
ohhellopia@reddit
Check into 5150 in your state since she doesn't seem to be mentally stable. That should get her off the streets for a few days.
I don't think a person that far gone will be affected by liquid ass, tbh.