How to deal with noisy neighbours kids
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DAVEVO9 said:
That is completely brilliant. I'd forgotten about them...F
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.
I have a strong feeling there are two sides to this story. 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.
DAVEVO9 said:
Urgh, hate these!When I was a postie I often covered a walk in a certain estate, where a row of houses owned/inhabited by elderly familes. They all had something like that mosquito box, I couldnt even walk on the other side of the road without my head feeling like it was being crushed by that internal buzzing racket.
I'm sorry to say but their mail was always delayed, no way would I go through the pain of walking through their gardens every day.
BUT.. bloody good product, it worked!
Cotty said:
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. ts all of them. Paddling pool. Water a bit on the cold side, a 5 year old and an 8 year old and their cousins of 4 and 9 all in swimming costumes, screaming and yelling as they cool down on a hot summers afternoon. How dare they have so much fun? or Boy on skateboard aged 9, on pavings at the end of cul-de-sac, getting fresh air and going click click as the wheels go over the cracks. How dare he, be out in the fresh air and not on his play station?
Or boy on BMX builds a ramp on grassy verge next to a pedestrian thoroughfare. Lets call the police as it says no ball games.
Mind you a mate lived next door to a woman whose kids were okay, but who would scream from the back door "Wayne you f
king little st" "fking Stop that Wayne" "fking Hell, you fking st, I've fkin told you fkin before Wayne" Pit Pony said:
Yes Indeed annoying little sts all of them. Paddling pool. Water a bit on the cold side, a 5 year old and an 8 year old and their cousins of 4 and 9 all in swimming costumes, screaming and yelling as they cool down on a hot summers afternoon. How dare they have so much fun?
That's it though, the screeching and screaming that goes on and on and on. It cuts through like a knife when you're in your own garden enjoying a beer and some peace. 5 minutes while they get used to it. Fine. All afternoon because they're in a group and have gone turbo but the parents haven't told them to stop screaming at each other. Not fine.ts all of them. Paddling pool. Water a bit on the cold side, a 5 year old and an 8 year old and their cousins of 4 and 9 all in swimming costumes, screaming and yelling as they cool down on a hot summers afternoon. How dare they have so much fun? Kids make noise when they play but the constant screaming that they do now because their parents won't stop them is really grating.
DrDoofenshmirtz said:
hondafanatic said:
Go round with a bottle of wine, Haribos for the kids (although these won't help with the noise) and explain the problem and suggest a solution?
Are you actually mental?
At least he'll be getting some upside from living next door to SWT and her offspring.
LordJammy said:
That's it though, the screeching and screaming that goes on and on and on. It cuts through like a knife when you're in your own garden enjoying a beer and some peace. 5 minutes while they get used to it. Fine. All afternoon because they're in a group and have gone turbo but the parents haven't told them to stop screaming at each other. Not fine.
Kids make noise when they play but the constant screaming that they do now because their parents won't stop them is really grating.
This may seem harsh, BUT if you want a house with a lot of space around it for guaranteed peace and quiet, e.g. a very large garden you'll have to buy somewhere that has that ( and it will cost ) if you don't want to/can't afford that and need to live on an estate all jammed in, tough. They have as much right to use their garden as you do. Buy some ear plugs. It's a bit like taking a date to the local Harvester on a Sunday afternoon and complaining that it's full of kids. Kids make noise when they play but the constant screaming that they do now because their parents won't stop them is really grating.
Don said:
DAVEVO9 said:
That is completely brilliant. I'd forgotten about them...
Pit Pony said:
Yes Indeed annoying little sts all of them. Paddling pool. Water a bit on the cold side, a 5 year old and an 8 year old and their cousins of 4 and 9 all in swimming costumes, screaming and yelling as they cool down on a hot summers afternoon. How dare they have so much fun?
Yep like I say annoying little sts all of them. Paddling pool. Water a bit on the cold side, a 5 year old and an 8 year old and their cousins of 4 and 9 all in swimming costumes, screaming and yelling as they cool down on a hot summers afternoon. How dare they have so much fun? ts.
Pit Pony said:
Yes Indeed annoying little sts all of them. Paddling pool. Water a bit on the cold side, a 5 year old and an 8 year old and their cousins of 4 and 9 all in swimming costumes, screaming and yelling as they cool down on a hot summers afternoon. How dare they have so much fun?
or Boy on skateboard aged 9, on pavings at the end of cul-de-sac, getting fresh air and going click click as the wheels go over the cracks. How dare he, be out in the fresh air and not on his play station?
Or boy on BMX builds a ramp on grassy verge next to a pedestrian thoroughfare. Lets call the police as it says no ball games.
Mind you a mate lived next door to a woman whose kids were okay, but who would scream from the back door "Wayne you fking little st" "fking Stop that Wayne" "fking Hell, you fking st, I've fkin told you fkin before Wayne"
Exactly, mine can be out side and get a bit noise at time screaming in the paddling pool etc etc, I do have to tell one to keep it down a bit.ts all of them. Paddling pool. Water a bit on the cold side, a 5 year old and an 8 year old and their cousins of 4 and 9 all in swimming costumes, screaming and yelling as they cool down on a hot summers afternoon. How dare they have so much fun? or Boy on skateboard aged 9, on pavings at the end of cul-de-sac, getting fresh air and going click click as the wheels go over the cracks. How dare he, be out in the fresh air and not on his play station?
Or boy on BMX builds a ramp on grassy verge next to a pedestrian thoroughfare. Lets call the police as it says no ball games.
Mind you a mate lived next door to a woman whose kids were okay, but who would scream from the back door "Wayne you f
king little st" "fking Stop that Wayne" "fking Hell, you fking st, I've fkin told you fkin before Wayne" However.. The actual percentage of a year that they are outside, when they are not as school, its not nighttime, its not raining, and its sunny and we are actually in the house is so so so small I would be raging if someone complained about them.
Fortunately, we live a good neighborhood with a loads of kids that get on well and all the parents and other people also get on really well too. So it will never be an issue. The only minor issue for us is the space out the front, as some of the kids get older and they all get cars its can get a bit crazy (cars everywhere) and 5 car families.. However we have a 3 car drive, so we are ok..
If you have any luck let me know, my next door neighbour has 3 kids, the youngest about 3/4 is a complete monster and screams to get her own way, to make things worse last year she started a nursery/child-minding business, grrrr....... don't even get me started on the piano or recorder practise!
joe_90 said:
I would be raging if someone complained about them.
Therein lies the rub ... you say "complaining", that implies to me that the "complainant" is somehow in the wrong?Kids being kids making a little bit of noise = totally understandable.
All day/all night screaming inside/outside, basically only not being heard when they are asleep = totally unacceptable.
When you get the latter, and the parents are doing nothing to tell them to tone it down at all, it rapidly comes very annoying.
Picture this delightful scene of an English summer's evening:
Me: "I know all kids make a bit of noise but could you please just ask them to keep it down a little bit of an evening"
Idiot: (immediately on the offensive) "I could go to the Police and tell them you've been racist to my kids"
Me: "Have I been racist to your kids?"
Idiot: "blah blah blah"
Me: "Have I been racist to your kids?"
Idiot: "blah blah blah"
Me: (getting bored now) "Have I been racist to your kids?"
Idiot: "No, but I could say that ...."
Idiot: "... not only that, I'll get a black man to come round and tell the Police you've been racist to him too"
Me: "you should know that this iPhone is videoing this entire conversation ...."
Idiot:
This is the kind of s
t I had to put up with last year, all for wanting to lead a quiet life. The point I'm making is that some parents feel that their little darlings have a God-given right to make as much noise as they want, irrespective of how much they annoy anybody else, and will go to any lengths they can to defend this entrenched position, rather than stepping back and saying "Yep, actually, you know what, they are f
king noisy, and instead of sitting on my lazy arse and making it somebody else's problem perhaps I could do something about it". I am not "complaining" about them, I'm asking them, though their parents, to act a bit more reasonably. It's not unreasonable to expect the parents to be a bit neighbourly.
My kid is 8 weeks old tomorrow. If anyone ever tells me he's been too noisy I'll be adult about it, and if he has, I'll apologise and have a word with him, same as my old man did with me. I certainly won't be "raging".
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.
That gets you arrested and eventually murdered http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10420...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.
Telegraph said:
When he attempted to take photographs of youngsters destroying the flowers in his pots and hanging baskets to show the police he was branded a paedophile. He turned to the police for help and phoned them on July 11. But instead Mr Ebrahimi was arrested on suspicion of a breach of the peace in front of a mob of around 20 children and adults who screamed “paedo, paedo” as he was led away.
Edited by petrolsniffer on Friday 17th April 17:16
petrolsniffer said:
That gets you arrested and eventually murdered
ffs - Try reading either of my posts properly. Where did I say point a camera at anyone? I said USE IT IN YOUR HOME, while you're recording the problem sound - IN YOUR HOME - to prove there's no one IN YOUR HOME at the time you record IN YOUR HOME who is making the noise IN YOUR HOME.Council ASB employees like you to use their equipment as it, according to them, has a capability to determine if there's someone else causing nuisance noise on your behalf, in your house at the time the recording is made.
If you don't want to jump through the hoops and restrictions placed by the ASB team, use your own equipment and circumvent their restrictions by proving there's no one IN YOUR HOME at the time you record the noise IN YOUR HOME.
What is it with knee jerk reactions when people read the words 'video' and 'children' in the same paragraph? Maybe you should pay off the petrol.
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