What's the appriopriate response to neighbours speaking loudly /screaming in their garden at 1:30am? Repeat Offenders

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Sad_Advertising5520@reddit

“Shut the fuck up, it’s 1.30am, I’m trying to sleep, some of us are actually employed.”

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ThanksIHateIt1994@reddit

People still do work on bank holiday weekends. How do you think places are still open if no one was working?
Regardless of whether or not someone is working, being loud at 1:30am is an absolute dick move.

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KatieCampbel1@reddit

Exactly. No one at all works over the bank holiday

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AraedTheSecond@reddit

I've worked 27 days in the last 30.

Let people have fun

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KatieCampbel1@reddit

It’s not about stopping people from having fun. Why does their fun have to be at the expense of their neighbours rest?

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AraedTheSecond@reddit

Because we all happen to live near other people and so we kinda have to put up with them occasionally.

It's a bank holiday weekend, and one night of loud music. If it was every night, then fair enough.

I live in a terraced house. My neighbour likes playing loud music until 2am on weekends, when I'm up at 8 for work.

So I did the sensible thing and left them to it. It's their weekend, not mine, and they've worked hard all week and deserve their time off.

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Alert-Performance199@reddit

They sound like inconsiderate arseholes regardless tbh

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AraedTheSecond@reddit

They're people who pay for a home and are enjoying it. Doesn't have to be how I want them to enjoy it; it's not mine, and I don't get to tell them what to do.

Much like they can't complain when I've got a landrover in bits on my drive and I'm angle grinding bolts off at 10am.

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NecktieNomad@reddit

If you were consistently angle grinding bolts off at 1:30am do you think they’d have grounds to complain? Because that is more comparable to OPs situation.

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doctorgibson@reddit

Didn't OP say they were repeat offenders?

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glasgowgeg@reddit

Many people work jobs that don't take days off for bank holidays.

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AraedTheSecond@reddit

Yes, much like I do and have. In fact, I prefer it. But that doesn't mean other people who work mon-fri 9-5 don't deserve their weekend off.

Fuck, I worked nights for nearly two years in a hospital. Do you think I begrudged my neighbours doing normal people things during the day that woke me up? Like fuck I did.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

But that doesn't mean other people who work mon-fri 9-5 don't deserve their weekend off.

It doesn't mean stand screaming in your garden at 01:30.

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Lean out and comment on their conversation/argument. When the inevitably tell you to mind your own business, infirm them that you would be happy to if only they weren't keeping you awake. Then inform them that the next time they disturb you, lawn mowing will commence at 7 am.

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Medium_Click1145@reddit

Unfortunately this wouldn't work for our noisy outdoors neighbours as I don't understand their language. I just slam the bedroom window shut as hard as I can hoping they get the message. They do a lot of singing but none of them can hold a tune, not that their music has any tune

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Grandmaviolet@reddit

A loud Shut Up is universal.

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klc81@reddit

A 60 second blast of Frank Zappa's Weasels Ripped My Flesh at a random time between 3am and 4:30am, on 3 random nights every week, at bone-shattering volume.

60 seconds is enough to wake them up and leave them completely confused, but not long enough for them to figure out what the well is going on.

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The_Banned_Account@reddit

Hose pipe sprayed at them like they’re a bad dog

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Smooth-Purchase1175@reddit

Talk to them about it... politely, of course.

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BaronVonTrinkzuviel@reddit

"Raking the lawn, raking the lawn!"

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BastCity@reddit

Harvester of Sorrow was right there.

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slintslut@reddit

And they chose the better one!

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Bigtallanddopey@reddit

Top tier

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LemmysCodPiece@reddit

Don't be so crude. Metallica, Priest and Ozzy aren't suitable for situations like this. This is why god gave us Motorhead.

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EmmaInFrance@reddit

And Napalm Death!

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LemmysCodPiece@reddit

I'll see your Napalm Death and raise you LawnMower Death.

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EmmaInFrance@reddit

Good shout!

Although Napalm would certainly get rid of the weeds!

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UnnecessaryRoughness@reddit

Excuse me, this is a Rick Astley situation if ever there were one.

Speakers to the wall, turn Rick up to 11, hit the repeat button, go out for the day.

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Barbarian_daysx@reddit

Buy guitar. Buy loud amp. Play creeping death untill they get the point.

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badgersruse@reddit

You mowing the lawn etc at 7am means that all the other neighbours have 2 arsehole neighbours. So that isn’t really a solution, sadly.

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rmulberryb@reddit

7am? Nah. Do it at 4am for a short burst, then every 20 minutes or so.

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Substantial_Egg_4660@reddit

Make notes of times and dates and report it to the council…if it’s constant phone the police

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sxcpetals@reddit

I would make notes 📝 but sneak them on their front door.

Janie is correct, you are an AH Mark. But Mark on the 8th of May, 1:30AM, you were the correct one, Janie absolutely should not have done XYZ and that is a little bit of a questionable thing so I see the turn of events that led you to becoming the AH. We will continue to stay tuned and update you with further unsolicited opinions given we don’t have a choice but to hear every second of every argument between you two.

Sincerely, Your exhausted sleep deprived neighbours.

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leekpunch@reddit

Start posting transcripts anonymously on your local Facebook group. They'll stop arguing in the garden when they realise the whole neighbourhood is treating them like a soap opera.

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mordac_the_preventer@reddit

The police are not interested in noise complaints and will refer you to the council environmental health department.

The council environmental health department will send you a link to a sound monitoring app, but will ultimately do nothing.

If they’ve woken you at 1.30am, perhaps you could do something useful like watering your hedge?

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Substantial_Egg_4660@reddit

After several phone calls the police will visit and they should pass it onto the council..

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LowProud269@reddit

Can confirm, neighbour over the road from me (has since moved out) but was constantly loud and shouting/music any time from 1-5AM. Police were out multiple times to the address during this time frame. He was later evicted for unrelated reasons but I wouldn't say its true that nothing gets done, guess it depends on luck of the draw.

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smokingbeagle@reddit

Go speak to them about it?

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Haunting_Side_3102@reddit

Ear plugs

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jaBroniest@reddit

Keep a diary of times etc and make sure to record them!

When enough evidence is collected send a letter and email to the council. If the council don't do anything about it, send a letter and email every. Single. Day. They get fed up and send someone (that'd the way I did it, thank god they moved!).

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DuraframeEyebot@reddit

I'd go harder.

Forget Ozzy and that lot, get yourself some Children of Bodom going.

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DevSiarid@reddit

Buy yourself a Aztec death whistle to scare the shit out of your neighbour.

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DuraframeEyebot@reddit

And if that doesn't work, sacrifice them to Xipe Totec for a good harvest, flay them, and wear their skin for twenty days as a warning to the other neighbours.

It's the right thing to do.

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british_grapher@reddit

Shit in their letterbox

Get a few of those bluetooth conduction speakers put them against the wall and play dubstep.

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Ecstatic_Food1982@reddit

Shit in their letterbox

I was going to say that a frozen piss disc is the way ahead.

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CaptainSeitan@reddit

So you are going to piss off your other neighbours because one set were twats?

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CarpeCyprinidae@reddit

Go out and get out the hosepipe? Nothing like a rinse to calm people down

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AveragelyBrilliant@reddit

Stick your head out the window and ask them to speak up cos you can’t quite make out what they’re saying.

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Glad-Introduction833@reddit

Yeah someone have a fight is a bit inconsiderate but probably not internationally sued at upsetting you. This kind of retaliation is immature and won’t achieve anything.

If one of my neighbours engaged in a tit for tat noise war, and played heavy metal at 7am, just to piss off another neighbour, I’d be complaining about you.

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buginarugsnug@reddit

Drilling the shared wall (if you have one) when they’re likely to be asleep. Worked for us and now they never play loud music past 10pm.

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theocrats@reddit

My neighbours during lockdown would have karaoke parties every Friday night. These lasted till 2am most weekends.

We only had a small garden, but getting a petrol strimmer was a great investment

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Flimflamsam@reddit

I’d respond in the moment, but in Dom Joly style (speaking very loudly) so as to (hopefully) make the point.

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BeraRane@reddit (OP)

I'm extremely pleasantly surprised to see a Dom Joly response suggested as on a previous occasion when the neighbor absolutely foookin bellowed "WHO WANTS THE LAST HAMBURGER?!?!?!" 4 hours into a scream-a-thon BBQ I lost it and went full on Dom Joly for 30 minutes.

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