Is homicide justifiable...

[Aggie_Ama]

I feel for you, our last apartment the guy was the mid shift manager at McDonald's so he slept most of the day. He would come home middle of the night and blare music. No amount of complaining to the horrible management did anything. Finally one night I could tell they had underage drinking and called the local cops to report that and the noise. They didn't do it the rest of the 4-5 months we lived there. Justice in my book and I didn't get a ticket or jail!

[Biciclista]

I feel for you, our last apartment the guy was the mid shift manager at McDonald's so he slept most of the day. He would come home middle of the night and blare music. No amount of complaining to the horrible management did anything. Finally one night I could tell they had underage drinking and called the local cops to report that and the noise. They didn't do it the rest of the 4-5 months we lived there. Justice in my book and I didn't get a ticket or jail!

I wanna know how you knew they had underage drinking!

[bmccasland]

I found bag pipe music at 6:00 AM a great recourse. Nothing like the pipes to get one stirring in the morning. I was awake and thought I'd share the joy.

Owlice - have you tried calling the cops? Is there an noise ordance where you live? If it continues after 10 or 12 the cops might be able to do something.

[owlice]

I have the cops on speed dial... they rarely do anything unless it's after 11 PM. Yes, we have a noise ordinance (though noise ordance sounds like a better idea to me!!), but it is rarely enforced during daylight hours, even if the music is coming from the next block (which has/does happen).

I don't do it after dark, but I have been known to put speakers in my window and crank up some of the modern classical music I have (which many people don't even classify as music). Four minutes of that has always done the trick. I hate to resort to that, but have when I just couldn't take it any more!

(You'd think these people would get a clue, wouldn't you, that the entire neighborhood can hear their music and it isn't appreciated? But noooooooo! They need to be reminded over and over and over and over again!)

Trek, polka would be an improvement, believe me!!

[bmccasland]

Maybe they're a tad deaf. Sat too close to concert speakers a few times too many.

[Mr. Bloom]

I found bag pipe music at 6:00 AM a great recourse.

I LOVE BAGPIPES!

[zoom-zoom]

I LOVE BAGPIPES!

Me too...and accordion. Instruments detested by many.

[owlice]

Me too...and accordion. Instruments detested by many.

Me three for bagpipes and accordion, and I'm thrilled to see accordion spelled correctly, as it so often isn't! Wahoo and thanks!

It's apparently a party weekend for them, as they had music playing last night and they have music -- really loud music -- playing now and there are a few balloons about. Sometimes my walking down to the bottom of my driveway to stare up the street at their house inspires them to turn it down, especially if I appear to be taking video and/or making a phone call while I do this.

No such luck today.

Maybe I should get some sidewalk chalk and write on the street in front of their house:

THE PARTY IS HERE -->
NOT INVITED: CVS SELLS EARPLUGS
INVITED: HEARING AIDS ARE AVAILABLE FROM YOUR DOCTOR

[jessmarimba]

I was just thinking about this thread. My other neighbors are having a party today - thankfully this group didn't hire a DJ like last time, but what sort of parent lets their under 10-year-old children scream at the top of their lungs in the front yard at 11 o'clock at night?

*sigh*

time for another beer...

[Jolt]

Me too...and accordion. Instruments detested by many.

Same here.

[jessmarimba]

I volunteer to play recorder. This sounds like an awesome idea.

[Aggie_Ama]

I wanna know how you knew they had underage drinking!

Saw the alcohol unloaded plus the kids entering the apartment had "senior" stickers from the current year and local high school on the cars they got out of. Unless they were 21 year old seniors. It was worth it for a good night's sleep.

[Owlie]

I feel for you. Our upstairs neighbors play loud, mostly terrible music (often the same song over and over) late at night. I've smelled marijuana from their apartment on more than one occasion, and let's not talk about the 4AM drunken party involving running from one end of the building to the other. They also seem incapable of doing anything quietly.

Only one more week of these people...