Linda, Randy and Annoying Boy better run out of firecrackers by midnight, or any sense of neighborly loyalty to not call the cops on them will vanish at the witching hour. As loud as whatever it is they are setting off is, I’m surprised the cops a few blocks over haven’t heard them already. It’s making our windows ratttle. The first one went off at about 10 pm … a loud boom, so loud we heard it over a loud movie we were watching and thought something had actually exploded nearby. They also apparently have the longest strings of standard firecrackers ever seen. Every 15 minutes or so, likely to avoid police detection, out they go into the back yard to set off some more of both. It’s pissing me off.
I’m really a live-and-let-live neighbor, but at the point that whatever it is you are doing crosses my property line and begins to disrupt my peaceful existence, I will turn on you. Had they started this right after sunset (or, you know, done this ON July 4th like everyone else), I wouldn’t have cared. It’s the fact they waited until so late to start their little firecracker rampage that really has me annoyed. They know better. They have lived in that house their whole lives, and they know full well that late at night, our street is dead silent … and we LIKE it that way.
One pop, crack, zing or noise of any loud sort makes its way from their back yard to my ears after midnight, and I’m calling our police substation … unless my urge to open my kitchen window and scream at them doesn’t overwhelm me first.
They have not been good neighbors for quite a few months now, and I’m getting sick of the loud noises at odd hours, loud arguments in the driveway, squealing tires as they drive off (pissed off after the fights usually), and the fact they have been throwing trash in our back yard (this is one of the latest aggravations). I don’t even speak to any of them anymore, if I can help it, and Lin makes social chit-chat with them only as long as it takes for him to get from truck door to house door. These people are crazy, stupid, and potentially dangerous. Several of the other nearby neighbors agree, but no one wants to do anything about it. Well, I may be the new kid on the block, but my tolerance level on this kind of crap has just about been reached. I wouldn’t have put up with half as much at the apartment, and there’s no reason I have to do so now that we own a house.
Get with the program and keep your noise (and trash) indoors, or glare at me every time I complain. Makes little difference to me at this point. I love having things to complain about, and they don’t really want to get me started. They are still under the impression I am some mousy, quiet, demure housewife. News Flash: That’s just my secret identity.
UPDATE: well after midnight
Maybe they ran out of firecrackers. Maybe they got bored. Maybe they realized when all the lights in my house came on and I flew out my back door, stood on my back slab and glared at them (hands on hips, of course), their lives were in grave danger. We will never know why, at a mere few minutes to midnight, the firecrackers stopped.
I like to think it was the Evil Eye I was giving them. I have a really evil Evil Eye. :mad:
Same problem here.
A new family just moved in next door and they are so obnoxious! During the day they are nonexistent.. very quiet… but once the sun starts setting they’re out there cursing yelling and drunk. I’ve called the cops on them a few times because I can NOT stand them.
Yesterday they declared they want to build a fence, on our property, to hide our jeep … because it isn’t inspected or registered right now, and if the cops see it, we’ll get a ticket and then the cops will see the TEN cars they have up on blocks in their back yard. All we have to do is register our jeep, then all they need to do is get rid of the junk yard they have. problem freaking solved and no cheap ass fence they might want to build needs be built ON MY PROPERTY.
We also found out that someone called the cops on them, but they lucked out and someone down the road set off a normal firecracker just as they showed up on our street, so they didn’t get busted. They thought maybe we had called the cops. Oh I wanted to, but by the time midnight rolled around, I had determined that one noise after midnight, and I was going to stomp out there and scream at them. I’ve been wanting to scream at them for a while now. THEN I would have called the cops. :D
It’s as if these folks were on good behavior when we first moved in, but now they are testing the limits to see how annoying they can be without us wanting to kill them. Well, they have passed just about all the limits at this point. I now want a tall provacy fence all the way around our property, and then I am going to become the bitchy neighbor I really want to be. I’ve had it with them.