Effing Neighbors

So I've been living on my street for 5 years. It's on the edge of town. There's only 12 condos on my street, the rest of the subdivision is undeveloped. A contractor came in and bought the property and all the empty condos. So slowly the condo's have been filling in and we have some new neighbors.

Well two doors down the daughter seems to have several guy friends that drive lifted pickups with loud obnoxious exhaust systems. It's fine when it's the middle of the day or even early in the evening. But at 10 at night it gets annoying, especially when my one dog has to woof at the slightest noise outside.

What makes it worse is that I live on the end of the curve on my street that T's onto a straight stretch of street with no houses on it that leads back to the subdivision entrance. So naturally, when they turn the corner they have to floor it and it's only about 50 feet from my living room.

This has been going on for a few weeks now. I really am annoyed and there is no proper way to go about this to the neighbors. I just think I'm going to be the shiny happy person neighbor if I say something. My wife already gives me enough E36 M3 about me being curmudgeonly 30 y.o.

I feel for you.. I have some new neighbors who are very passionate.. in both love and hate.. so I either get to hear them going at it (she's a screamer) or yelling at each tother (she's a screamer again) usually at 2am.. when I need to be up at 4am

roofing nails in the street.

Head down there during "party hour" with a case of beer and some "how ya doin'". Explain that you have no problem with the enthusiasm, but would appreciate consideration of the hours. See if it can't be worked out. Sometimes it can, sometimes it can't.

If it can't, get it on video and call the cops. Enough of that and the cops will stake it out for revenue.

And get off my lawn!

Dangerous business giving free beer to people with vehicles.

Agree with Eastcoast, friendliness goes a lot further than hostility.

You could write a nice, polite letter to the parents explaining your position; you have little kids that are asleep at 10 pm.

Add a speed bump about 50 feet past the curve. All it takes is a couple applications of gasoline poured on blacktop to make a bone-rattling hole.

There is almost no situation that cannot be corrected with the proper application of guerrilla tactics.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Add a speed bump about 50 feet past the curve. All it takes is a couple applications of gasoline poured on blacktop to make a bone-rattling hole.

Agree this might work with kids driving BMW's. Not sure it's going to affect the kids with the loud lifted trucks except to make it more fun.

I think ECM has the best answer yet.

I swear my neighbor used to fire up his lawnmower at 7 AM under my window in retaliation for us keeping him up late.

Woody wrote: Dangerous business giving free beer to already out of control kids with vehicles.

FTFY

And I agree.

Aw man it's gotta suck to see your daughter hanging out with flatbillers

MrJoshua wrote: I swear my neighbor used to fire up his lawnmower at 7 AM under my window in retaliation for us keeping him up late.

Josh, is that you?

Other than the beer, I agree with ECM. But be prepared to go shiny happy person if it doesn't work. BUT! don't go off on them during the first chat; hold the shiny happy personry in abeyance until the NEXT time it happens. Then call the Five Oh. Record it if you can.

Camera out the window that can get a good description. Make, model, year, color, tire size would be a huge plus. Sneak up on a vehicle, leave note on windshield.

Your truck is loud. Please don't hammer down after 9 pm. We will leave the authorities out of our private matters for the time being. Thank you for understanding, Neighborhood Watch member 22

Doesn't work? Go to the police station and contact the neighborhood relations officer. Give them the info.

Stay anonymous to the neighbors.

You guys sound like a bunch of miserable old farts. 10 PM, really? If you want to live around people, you have accept that they will make noise, and it's not their fault that your dog likes to bark.

In bed at 9 and slept through 3 earthquakes, multiple jet engine tests in a tunnel down the street, ambulances with sirens passing every couple if hours, and woofers that rattle appliances, but I can feel for a light sleeper.

Zomby Woof wrote: You guys sound like a bunch of miserable old farts. 10 PM, really? If you want to live around people, you have accept that they will make noise, and it's not their fault that your dog likes to bark.

To tell you the truth, I can sleep though Armageddon, but my wife is the light sleeper and she's the one in bed by 9. My dog doesn't bark at everything, just when they decide to floor it down the back street, which at that point I would say the kid is the shiny happy person, because even though part of the subdivision is undeveloped, there are still houses that back up to that street.

Making noise is one thing, but being an shiny happy person and flooring it through a subdivision a 10 pm is another.

N Sperlo wrote: Camera out the window that can get a good description. Make, model, year, color, tire size would be a huge plus. Sneak up on a vehicle, leave note on windshield.

Your truck is loud. Please don't hammer down after 9 pm. We will leave the authorities out of our private matters for the time being. Thank you for understanding, Neighborhood Watch member 22

Doesn't work? Go to the police station and contact the neighborhood relations officer. Give them the info. Stay anonymous to the neighbors.

I think I like this idea the best.

Zomby Woof wrote: You guys sound like a bunch of miserable old farts. 10 PM, really? If you want to live around people, you have accept that they will make noise, and it's not their fault that your dog likes to bark.

I'm sure enough old. That's not an insult, it's a fact. Just wait. You'll eventually understand what sleep means to the elderly. The frisky child who used to come up the street flat out at 3:00 am with completly uncorked headers made me homicidal.

chuckles wrote: I'm sure enough old. That's not an insult, it's a fact. Just wait. You'll eventually understand what sleep means to the elderly. The frisky child who used to come up the street flat out at 3:00 am with completly uncorked headers made me homicidal.

Mike is old as dirt (I mean that in the nicest way possible :p )

I give people the benefit of the doubt until 11. Somedays you just have to be willing to put some ear plugs in, as people suck.

As others also said, the police and guerilla techniques work well. Valve stem remover, or even better, stuff something in their exhausts to quiet them down >:)

MrJoshua wrote: I swear my neighbor used to fire up his lawnmower at 7 AM under my window in retaliation for us keeping him up late.

Did you learn anything from this?

We had neighbors who would call us at 3:00am when our barking dog would wake them up. The dog went bye bye.

Zomby Woof wrote: You guys sound like a bunch of miserable old farts. 10 PM, really? If you want to live around people, you have accept that they will make noise, and it's not their fault that your dog likes to bark.

There's normal around-other-people noise, then there's jackassery. Opening up your loud pipes in the middle of a neighborhood at an hour when folks might reasonably be asleep falls into the latter category.

It's just common courtesy to reserve your loud noises for normal-people business type hours. I don't mow my lawn at 11pm, I don't run my grinder with an open garage door at 7am. Common courtesy.

I have some neighbors down the street who seem to be the gang bosses in the World's Saddest Baker Gang (Los Patéticos, I call them). They ride cruiser bicycles with those Chinese two stroke motors bolted on, uncorked, of course. Up and down the street, up and down, up and down. And it's annoying as hell when I'm trying to enjoy a nice quiet afternoon in the hammock - hell, they're loud enough to drown out the TV on the second floor if the windows are open. They drive me up a wall, but the only reason I haven't said anything to them: they do it during reasonable hours. I've never heard them out past 9pm. They know they're loud, and although that's not going to stop them from having their fun, they have some consideration for their neighbors.

If you think we sound like miserable old farts, you sound like an inconsiderate neighbor.

alex wrote: I have some neighbors down the street who seem to be the gang bosses in the World's Saddest Baker Gang

I hate those baker gangs. Making tasty baked goods and then robbing you with them.