How to deal with noisy neighbours kids
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We had this last year. Wannabe gangsta single mum (a female Ali G, actually said to me "iz it coz I am black?" ... she is white British, privately educated) with two feral kids being put up in the rental place next to us by the mum's wealthy but misguided father. Your friend has my every sympathy.
To cut a very long story short it took 6 months of concerted effort and delicate negotiation with the landlord, the father paying the rent, plus several unfortunate confrontations with the tenant before common sense prevailed and the landlord booted her out. During that 6 months life was pretty awful, not helped by my wife being pregnant and not being able to get proper rest because of the constant noise. We were one of several neighbours complaining, I'm not the over-sensitive type - I was a once a kid with two brothers, but when we made too much noise my old man told us to STFU and we listened.
Such a relief now it's over. Same house is now occupied by another family with two young lads who are nothing short of angelic. The contrast between the two sets of kids couldn't be more opposite.
If you can't get 'em out then the only practical solution is to move, even though you shouldn't have to. Putting up with it and trying to keep a stiff upper lip is incredibly hard when all you want to do is machine gun the f
kers!
To cut a very long story short it took 6 months of concerted effort and delicate negotiation with the landlord, the father paying the rent, plus several unfortunate confrontations with the tenant before common sense prevailed and the landlord booted her out. During that 6 months life was pretty awful, not helped by my wife being pregnant and not being able to get proper rest because of the constant noise. We were one of several neighbours complaining, I'm not the over-sensitive type - I was a once a kid with two brothers, but when we made too much noise my old man told us to STFU and we listened.
Such a relief now it's over. Same house is now occupied by another family with two young lads who are nothing short of angelic. The contrast between the two sets of kids couldn't be more opposite.
If you can't get 'em out then the only practical solution is to move, even though you shouldn't have to. Putting up with it and trying to keep a stiff upper lip is incredibly hard when all you want to do is machine gun the f
kers! Edited by PurpleTurtle on Wednesday 15th April 22:35
OP, invest £100 or so in something like a Zoom H2n + 32gig SD card.
Record the feckers over a series of hours and days while making diary sheets at the same time, and take some sort of video evidence while you're doing it to prove there's no one else in your home at the same time as you're recording (ie so no one can say you had noisy kids in at the same time in another room).
That should be enough for the council to act and maybe for them to put a noise abatement order in place. You could also get noise monitoring equipment from the council, but you have to fill in their diary sheets over a period first, and they'll send a letter out to the 'perps' to give them a chance to sort their noise out - but it may well permanently fix things once they know they're being or about to be monitored.
Hope that's a start.
ps, others have posted about this, do a search, it should chuck some additional stuff up.
Record the feckers over a series of hours and days while making diary sheets at the same time, and take some sort of video evidence while you're doing it to prove there's no one else in your home at the same time as you're recording (ie so no one can say you had noisy kids in at the same time in another room).
That should be enough for the council to act and maybe for them to put a noise abatement order in place. You could also get noise monitoring equipment from the council, but you have to fill in their diary sheets over a period first, and they'll send a letter out to the 'perps' to give them a chance to sort their noise out - but it may well permanently fix things once they know they're being or about to be monitored.
Hope that's a start.
ps, others have posted about this, do a search, it should chuck some additional stuff up.
DAVEVO9 said:
That's exactly what I was going to suggest!Act soon, the LibDem manifesto proposes banning them!
TBH I think it's just me who does the Claymore mine thing.
ReaderScars said:
OP, invest £100 or so in something like a Zoom H2n + 32gig SD card.
Record the feckers over a series of hours and days while making diary sheets at the same time, and take some sort of video evidence while you're doing it to prove there's no one else in your home at the same time as you're recording (ie so no one can say you had noisy kids in at the same time in another room).
That should be enough for the council to act and maybe for them to put a noise abatement order in place. You could also get noise monitoring equipment from the council, but you have to fill in their diary sheets over a period first, and they'll send a letter out to the 'perps' to give them a chance to sort their noise out - but it may well permanently fix things once they know they're being or about to be monitored.
Hope that's a start.
ps, others have posted about this, do a search, it should chuck some additional stuff up.
Nothing in todays climate would possibly cast nasturtiums on secretly videoing children at play. Would it?Record the feckers over a series of hours and days while making diary sheets at the same time, and take some sort of video evidence while you're doing it to prove there's no one else in your home at the same time as you're recording (ie so no one can say you had noisy kids in at the same time in another room).
That should be enough for the council to act and maybe for them to put a noise abatement order in place. You could also get noise monitoring equipment from the council, but you have to fill in their diary sheets over a period first, and they'll send a letter out to the 'perps' to give them a chance to sort their noise out - but it may well permanently fix things once they know they're being or about to be monitored.
Hope that's a start.
ps, others have posted about this, do a search, it should chuck some additional stuff up.
vladcjelli said:
ReaderScars said:
OP, invest £100 or so in something like a Zoom H2n + 32gig SD card.
Record the feckers over a series of hours and days while making diary sheets at the same time, and take some sort of video evidence while you're doing it to prove there's no one else in your home at the same time as you're recording (ie so no one can say you had noisy kids in at the same time in another room).
That should be enough for the council to act and maybe for them to put a noise abatement order in place. You could also get noise monitoring equipment from the council, but you have to fill in their diary sheets over a period first, and they'll send a letter out to the 'perps' to give them a chance to sort their noise out - but it may well permanently fix things once they know they're being or about to be monitored.
Hope that's a start.
ps, others have posted about this, do a search, it should chuck some additional stuff up.
Nothing in todays climate would possibly cast nasturtiums on secretly videoing children at play. Would it?Record the feckers over a series of hours and days while making diary sheets at the same time, and take some sort of video evidence while you're doing it to prove there's no one else in your home at the same time as you're recording (ie so no one can say you had noisy kids in at the same time in another room).
That should be enough for the council to act and maybe for them to put a noise abatement order in place. You could also get noise monitoring equipment from the council, but you have to fill in their diary sheets over a period first, and they'll send a letter out to the 'perps' to give them a chance to sort their noise out - but it may well permanently fix things once they know they're being or about to be monitored.
Hope that's a start.
ps, others have posted about this, do a search, it should chuck some additional stuff up.
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Pit Pony said:
Do you even know their names and ages ?
Nothing worse than a grumpy neighbour when you have lively fun loving kids. Our next door neighbour has mellowed as our kids got older, but they hate the old biddy, for the bitter and twisted complaining she did when they were little.
Perhaps if kids were not annoying little sNothing worse than a grumpy neighbour when you have lively fun loving kids. Our next door neighbour has mellowed as our kids got older, but they hate the old biddy, for the bitter and twisted complaining she did when they were little.
ts people wouldn't feel the need to complain about them. hidetheelephants said:
vladcjelli said:
ReaderScars said:
OP, invest £100 or so in something like a Zoom H2n + 32gig SD card.
Record the feckers over a series of hours and days while making diary sheets at the same time, and take some sort of video evidence while you're doing it to prove there's no one else in your home at the same time as you're recording (ie so no one can say you had noisy kids in at the same time in another room).
That should be enough for the council to act and maybe for them to put a noise abatement order in place. You could also get noise monitoring equipment from the council, but you have to fill in their diary sheets over a period first, and they'll send a letter out to the 'perps' to give them a chance to sort their noise out - but it may well permanently fix things once they know they're being or about to be monitored.
Hope that's a start.
ps, others have posted about this, do a search, it should chuck some additional stuff up.
Nothing in todays climate would possibly cast nasturtiums on secretly videoing children at play. Would it?Record the feckers over a series of hours and days while making diary sheets at the same time, and take some sort of video evidence while you're doing it to prove there's no one else in your home at the same time as you're recording (ie so no one can say you had noisy kids in at the same time in another room).
That should be enough for the council to act and maybe for them to put a noise abatement order in place. You could also get noise monitoring equipment from the council, but you have to fill in their diary sheets over a period first, and they'll send a letter out to the 'perps' to give them a chance to sort their noise out - but it may well permanently fix things once they know they're being or about to be monitored.
Hope that's a start.
ps, others have posted about this, do a search, it should chuck some additional stuff up.
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