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:

  1. Using a drone to hover overhead for a long period of time.
  2. Burying or hanging a wireless bluetooth alarm/speaker to annoy her while she’s sleeping. 
  3. Laser pointer shining on the ground in front of her, but only when she’s looking away.from the source.
  4. Plant a microphone to record audio, video record her from my apartment and make a YouTube channel.
  5. 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!