noise control

[MSTRS:Me]

Just wondering who here has had a problem with a dickhead neighbour complaining unreasonably about noise, and what you did in response? My young fella is a drummer and has been for 6 years. In that time we've lived in 2 different areas & never had a complaint. Dickhead next door moved there less than a year ago, and according to him, we are the neighbours from hell. Young fella has a lesson at home for up to an hour on a Saturday morning after 10am. Apparently this is NOT ACCEPTABLE to the dickhead. Council, noise control and police HAVE NO PROBLEM. So - should we ignore the dickhead, arrange the local HOG guys to meet at our place (baffles optional) or blow-up the dickhead's letterbox??

[NC]

Knock him out and piss on his face.

[sAsLEX]

get a noisey old 2 stroke lawn mower and remove the exhaust and mow the lawns early sunday morning, failing that get a shitty old rotary car and sit that on your front lawn making that terrrible noise they make!

[JohnBoy]

i think that you should educate your neighbor on what a loud noise is..... at about 6am on a sunday morning!!
or have a huge street party, invite all the neighbors but them!!

failing that you can always experiment... like what dose an 1100 sound like with no pipes??

[dhunt]

We have one of them old motorised reel mowers (That goes along by itself), and boy does it make some noise at full snot while you are just about running to keep up with the mower, admittly it doesn't do a brillant job at that speed as sort of bounces over bumps. But it sounds exactly what you want for the job, pitty you aren't a bit closer.

[crashe]

where does your young fella practise his drumming?
Is it in a sound proof room?

It could be that your neighbour has sensative hearing and cant cope with the noise of the drumming. Some people just cant cope with certain noises.
Try talking to the neighbour nicely and ask him if this is it.
Maybe arrange to have the drumming practise when you know the neighbour will be out at work or something..... its called compromise.

Not everyone wants to have that kind of noise.

I know that I wouldnt like to have to hear it either.
We had a party going across the way with a full band going and shit it was LOUD. I called noise control....

[Paul in NZ]

Ignore him.... Lifes too short....

If the cops have no problem - not much he can do is there so don't let him get under your skin and provoke you into doing something daft.

If he gets ugly, call the cops.

Alternately

1. Agree with him, comiserate and tell him not to worry as your son has decided to give up the drums and is now going to learn the electric bagpipes.

2. Agree with him, comiserate and tell him not to worry as your son has decided to give up the drums and is now going to learn home taxidermy, so sorry about the strange smells and say thats a really swell looking cat you have there.

3. Get the whole band to practise there and hire Ozzy Osbourne as the lead singer. Naturally since this is a heavy metal band there will be associated occult meetings etc.

4. Tell him drumming is the only thing that calms your son when the voices in his head telling him to kill the neighbours get too much to stand. You do realise what happed to the previous neighbours daughter don't you when they forced him to stop drumming one night when the moon was full? It was a beautiful funeral. Quite touching...

Best just let them wind themselve up, don't let it bother you unless he physically takes some action, then he might need a slap.

Paul N

[MSTRS:Me]

Point of order....this neighbour has made no attempt to make himself known to the rest of us. He is totally unreasonable and refuses to discuss or compromise. My young fella has his lesson at home & practises elsewhere (not practical to have his lesson there). The practice lasts less than an hour and is in a closed room on the far side of the house from this dickhead.

[MSTRS:Me]

Paul - that's brilliant. Point is, I won't let this prick dictate to us, but although I'm tempted to up the noise etc, I don't want to annoy the rest of the neighbourhood

[Motu]

He's lucky he doesn't live next to my wife's family,they are all muso's and can and often do put a band together,everyone can multi instrument.So we were over there one night in the 90s rehearsing for a party the next night...when a woman from next door walks in ''you just can't keep on doing this,night after night,none of us can get any sleep,you keep it up untill 3 or 4 in the morning,we just can't take it anymoe'' She just broke down and cryed,sobbing in front of us,totaly distraut....no one said a word,we just stood watching her crack up.

Then as she staggered out the door....ONE,TWO,THREE,FOUR! and away they went again.Bastards.

We took over the house and had one of the brothers living there,shit,it was different on the otherside I can tell you.He would come home at 3.00am and fire up his guitar or sit down at the drum kit.I'm proud to admit I totaly lost it - I turned the hose into his open car window...I pulled the fuses and he chased me around the house and yard,I was a total prick.Finaly we managed to kick him out and had some peace....(we had a baby at the time)

He has built a studio at his rental house (no permits) and last time my wife went around there for the two of them to have a jam,the noise control were there in seconds...they must of heard the amp come on....

[White trash]

Knock him out and piss on his face.

I love you Ruth. You're so nice.

[Sniper]

You have been there longer, tell the dickhead to piss off or else

[Paul in NZ]

Point of order....this neighbour has made no attempt to make himself known to the rest of us. He is totally unreasonable and refuses to discuss or compromise. My young fella has his lesson at home & practises elsewhere (not practical to have his lesson there). The practice lasts less than an hour and is in a closed room on the far side of the house from this dickhead.

In that case he is an arse hole.

File an intimidation or harassment lawsuit against the prick. Whats more you can tell him that when you son picks up his grammy or first gold record that he is NOT invited to the party with Ringo.

Paul N

[bugjuice]

I go with Paul's option 4..
else tell the dickhead to grow up and get a life.

[ManDownUnder]

I'd get in touch with him and find out the basis of his complaint.

Is he a shift worker - maybe they need to sleep during the day... can you establish if it's the schedule or the noise. If it's the schedule you might be able to help.

If it's the noise it's a shame 'cos he's the only one with the problem.

Make sure drum practice co-incides with open homes too... if it ever comes to that. You'll be able to buy his place cheap (through an anonymous 2rd party of course... so they don't know it's you) then flick it on for a profit.

AAA I love idiots (I'm suffering from them too at the moment...)
MDU