Neighbours - Any non-confrontational options?

[SARGE]

non confrontational??..


nope.. not my style sorry..
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but i know a guy...

[MadDuck]

Perhaps you should have a chat to the Mr Plod and give them a 'character' witness

Ohhh I dont think that will be necessary....the guy is still kicking and screaming and refusing to get in to the patrol car. Best entertainment I have had for years

Maybe I shouldnt have stood on the deck and yelled "its about time you losers"

[MadDuck]

I will continue to update this thread as it is a record of the things going on and could be helpful later...bear with me.

Two of the neighbours went and complained to the local police. I got the response "nothing we can do" the other neighbour got "house is known nothing we can do".

So I can watch a house get trashed and do nothing because it is rented out....I can see them smoking dope with a child in the house...and there is nothing I can do.....so when something goes wrong and the NZ public say ...why didnt you do something...do i feel better saying well I tried?

[SARGE]

..I can see them smoking dope with a child in the house...and there is nothing I can do.....

take pics ...call CYPS.. the more agencies that get involved .. the harder the douchbags lives get .. keep noise control on speed dial .. call the council about "weird odors" and trash laying around ..get with the neighbors to call at random about "screams and crashes" in the house ..then mention about noticing a big increase in traffic that stays for about 5 minutes and leaves ..


use your imagination .pull out the 'ole phone book and open it up to the yellow pages. Now, starting from the letter "A" and working all the way to "Z" call up every single business in the book. Set up an appointment with every company in there for (example) Wednesday morning at about 10:00. Give yourself a few days to do it all and get all the appointment as close together as you can.

You can probably see what's going to happen. Wednesday morning at 10:00 his street is going to be totally filled up with a truck from every business in the entire area. From exterminators to furnace repair to roofing estimates, they'll all be there asking for the douchbag. (Try to make sure he's going to be home when they come.)

On Wednesday morning you'll want to make some calls. At 9:30 call up every pizza delivery place in the area and have a couple large pizzas sent to them. After that, call up all the taxi cabs and instruct them to come to thier house to take him shopping.


Call his local locksmith(s). "Yes, I locked myself out of my house, and I am waiting at my neighbors, could you get here as soon as possible?" Each locksmith will charge just for showing up (usually a hefty fee in itself).

[Dooly]

Thats hilarious Sarge.
Be great to witness.

[Naki Rat]

One addition to Sarge's suggestions -

Post adverts in the local newspaper for:

Garage sale at your neighbours' (7.00am start) with a selection of car and bike parts, metal CDs, old leather jackets, and as many other articles to attract Boguns and assorted scumbags as you can think of.

Demolition materials - pick up from.....

Pit bull cross puppies - cheap

Adult services phone .....

Etc

Adverts anonymously placed and paid for in cash (unless you can arrange charge to said neighbours).

That should provide some entertainment

[Mom]

Post adverts in the local newspaper for: lots of really cool annoying stuff

Oh you are naughty, but I like your style!

Yes MD, as many ways as you can think to turn the heat up. I am with SARGE on CYPS. No matter the kids is well fed and clothed, they are not providing good care is they are stoned silly. Smoking dope with snall children around is abuse!

Get that property manager on your speed dial too, an email addy would be helpful too. Just keep sending email and phoning her every time you see something, she will have no choice but to act. Your complaints will form the basis of her case to get them evicted.

[MotoGirl]

This might be of interest to you:

The tenant shall not—

(a) intentionally or carelessly damage, or permit any other person to damage, the premises; or

(b) use the premises, or permit the premises to be used, for any unlawful purpose; or

(c) cause or permit any interference with the reasonable peace, comfort, or privacy of any of the landlord’s other tenants in the use of the premises occupied by those other tenants, or with the reasonable peace, comfort, or
privacy of any other person residing in the neighbourhood.

[MotoGirl]

We're going through a similar thing with one of our neighbours at the moment. We've got a father and his late teens/20-something son living next door. The fathers girlfriend lives in Tairua so he buggers off every weekend leaving his son in charge of the house. The son is the most inconsiderate bastard I've ever encountered and I'd love to use some of Sarge's suggestions on him!

When these people first moved in, the son would park his poxy Honda Civic at the bottom of the drive and leave his stereo going so loud that it drowned out the TV in our lounge. They also partied until early hours of the morning on a Monday and Tuesday night.

Every weekend when the father goes away to his girlfriend's, the son invites his mates around and instead of singing along to music, they YELL the chorus and stomp their feet. We regularly hear revolting language, brawls between wannabe staunch males, and the son and his girlfriend have broken up twice via midnight screaming matches resulting in him throwing her stuff outside. This all happens right below our bedroom window.

A few weeks ago hubby went outside in the middle of the night and told him to shut the fuck up because they'd kept us awake the previous weekend. Little C*nt (as he's not so fondly known) came over and rattled our windows to retaliate, knowing that we'd been burgled only a week before and they'd come in through one of the windows. He also had great delight standing on our driveway (which is right beside his, but without any fences separating the two), pointing at the goodies in our garage, telling his mate about what has been stolen from our house, and how our new security measures can easily be bypassed.

We came home today to find our hose fitting lying on the ground. The hose has been cut and a length of it's now gone. Little C*nt is fixing his poxy Civic and I'm guessing he needed a hose for something so decided to steal some of mine. Other than Cajun telling him to shut the fuck up, we've never really spoken to him. Oh except the day I came home early to find his car parked on my driveway, blocking the entrance to my section, so I couldn't even get into my own garage. All I said to him was "Can you move your car off my drive thanks" so I don't understand why he's such a malicious fuckwit.

We've spoken to the father about his behaviour twice and he says "I'll talk to him", but nothing has improved. We're in the same situation as Maduck where we own the house so can't just uproot.

[noobi]

now these are very good ideas, and i have noted them duley
but the noise thing your not taking to the right level
pulse jets are good for lots of noise
we have a neighbour who is similar to motogirls
but they do the massive 100 people parties to 4am aswell
so at 5am after one of these parties, we got our stationary pulse jet and pointed it at there house, left it running for ten minutes
no more problems

not unsimilar to this jet infact
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fr00GjghnU
Its extremely extremely loud, and actually causes the ground to vibrate in quite a large area.

[MadDuck]

Well it has been rather quiet last week or so and I am guessing they had an inspection as they cleaned up all the rubbish....the back section is a lot of bush and it appears we now have our own neighbour tip beginning to take shape where the agent probably wont see it.

They have now decided to light a fire and the smoke would give me just cause to call the fire department just to get at them. Unfortunately our fire service are all volunteers and I would feel bad about dragging them away from their families. There are restrictions due to us being on tank water so tomorrow yet another call to council.

[MadDuck]

Progress report for the weekend.

Friday night the music started at 10pm. The girls 21st so I knew we were in for a long night. I phoned Noise Control so the next call would be actioned quickly. Now I find out that NC actually sit on the street and decide if the noise is a nuisance enough to act. Given we live well off the street...you guessed it! When I rang at 3.30am and the guy said they had been to the property several times and had no problem....umm I think I swore at him

Last night I had cause for concern about the well being of the child in the house and phoned Mr Plod. They arrested 2 of them who had outstanding warrents . Kid was fine. BUT the policeman came up my driveway in full view of those arrested to give me the good news....the blimmin plonker! Now they know it was me made the call and i live alone

I got hold of the owner in Japan and he has tried the police, WINZ and CYFS but is getting no where. He has asked me to place a notice on their door giving them 10 days to pay the rent arrears or face eviction. Now I am no way brave enough to go do this so am not sure what to do next. Maybe get a security firm to do it for me. If they see me or one of the neighbours we may be setting ourselves up for "revenge attacks".

Maybe I shouldnt have threatened to shoot their dogs as well but it felt good at the time. Meanwhile I will take Sarges advise and start at the A's in the Yellow Pages

[MadDuck]

I have to give a huge thanks to a KBer who went and handed the notice to my dope head neighbours.

I guess now we wait.

My boss is going to go up to the local cop shop and have a quiet chat to them. Doubt it will do any good but you never know. Its a situation that has me on edge as I wonder all day what I will come home to face. Lack of sleep is also not doing me any good.

One good outcome is that every one else in the street is now on first name terms and all looking out for each other.

I am in the process of making rather a lot of calls to a lot of services

[Maki]

Apply in their name for an American Express Credit card. They will get the card in the mail but even though they ignore it and bin it they will get billed for the annual fee a year from now and will have to make some very assertive phone calls, probably to India, to get things sorted...

I also recommend taking out a Readers Digest subscription in their name.

[Patrick]

Progress report for the weekend.

Last night I had cause for concern about the well being of the child in the house and phoned Mr Plod. They arrested 2 of them who had outstanding warrents . Kid was fine. BUT the policeman came up my driveway in full view of those arrested to give me the good news....the blimmin plonker! Now they know it was me made the call and i live alone

...My boss is going to go up to the local cop shop and have a quiet chat to them. Doubt it will do any good but you never know....

Get the boss to complain about the cop approaching you - what a dick head! You should complain too. He deserves shit jobs for at least a month. Good on the KBer for serving the notice. (Was that you Sarge????)