Who has a Dick Head for a neighbor???

[Monsta-Tone]

:lol: Ok,
I've lived here for about a month and I already want to start lobbing dog **** in the general direction of my neighbor's house.

So far, he's called the dog pound on us twice in the last week. We have a dog that is a bit of an escape artist.

Tonight, he called the cops on me for testing out a Marshall JCM-900 that I repaired.
They showed up and said that they had an anonymous call about annoying loud noises. :lol: I'm about to show him just how poorly I can play at concert volume! :lol:

What a dick. He only lives here 2 months out of the year.



Anyway, I'm not gonna stop playing my guitar or fixing amps, so what do you guys do in this situation?
I'm sure Mr. Mark III will agree with the poop lobbing! :mrgreen:

 

[screamingdaisy]

Check your local noise by-law.

If it's like mine, you can play as loud as you want as long as you turn down before quiet hours (11pm).

If a complaint is made the police are obligated to inform me that a complaint has been made and ask me to play quieter. There's nothing they can actually do provided I turn down prior to 11pm.

Things may be different where you're at, so I'd double check the law so you don't get blind sided.

 

[TTSTWO]

Check your local noise by-law.

If it's like mine, you can play as loud as you want as long as you turn down before quiet hours (11pm).

If a complaint is made the police are obligated to inform me that a complaint has been made and ask me to play quieter. There's nothing they can actually do provided I turn down prior to 11pm.

Things may be different where you're at, so I'd double check the law so you don't get blind sided.

True. I'm usually loud till around 10-10:30p on the weekend. In 9 years I've not had a noise compliant but I also have very cool neighbors. My last place, not so much. I'd get the ocasional cop call 2-3 times every summer,#itch next door. Never got a citation though.

 

[JOEY B.]

Anyway, I'm not gonna stop playing my guitar or fixing amps, so what do you guys do in this situation?

I would make those 2 months a living HELL for that ******** neighbor. I think that 10pm is the cutoff time in my city. Anytime before that is fair game.

 

[MrMarkIII]

I'm sure Mr. Mark III will agree with the poop lobbing! :mrgreen:

Yes, actually, I collect various samples from the neighborhood and keep it all in the freezer in the garage... got 10 or 12 lbs. by now.
(You just never know when the necessity of lobbing might arise.)
The local paper is agog with speculation about the secret identity of the "Poop Bandit". :lol:
I have a Hot Plate on the way. I'll let you know how it works.

 

[Monsta-Tone]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

The cops said it was 10 PM here too.
They said that they had to respond to the complaint though.
I asked what would happen next, and if they would issue a citation.
The cop said that they prefer to hear the noise and that they would issue a citation if they saw it was necessary.

I tried to look the statute up, but it was mostly about noisy dogs, construction, etc. I did not find anything specific about annoying neighbors. I think I need to go down to city hall on my next day off and get a copy of it. Good thing I just installed a projector and some volume controls there last week! :mrgreen:

I had a neighbor like this when I was a kid. We drove her nuts, then made the cops see that she was crazy.
I used to turn all of the knobs of my amp to 10 and make the ugliest cat sex noises possible for about 10 minutes.
Then, I would sneak out the front. The cops would show up and nobody was ever home. It was dead silent. :lol:
They finally stopped showing up.


This guy is about to get the full treatment. :twisted: I'm gonna make it my mission to play my guitar every damn day. :lol: Maybe I'll finally learn how to play the damn thing! :lol:

The cops tripped out on me when I said "I'm not gonna stop playing my guitar just because my neighbor doesn't like me."

 

[Monsta-Tone]

I'm sure Mr. Mark III will agree with the poop lobbing! :mrgreen:

Yes, actually, I collect various samples from the neighborhood and keep it all in the freezer in the garage... got 10 or 12 lbs. by now.
(You just never know when the necessity of lobbing might arise.)
The local paper is agog with speculation about the secret identity of the "Poop Bandit". :lol:
I have a Hot Plate on the way. I'll let you know how it works.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Hell yeah!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Monsta-Tone]

I think this will help!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B003E692KG/ref=asc_df_B003E692KG706012/?tag=dooyoocouk-21&creative=7966&creativeASIN=B003E692KG&linkCode=asn

No muss, no fuss!

 

[YellowJacket]

It sounds like you have some anal retentive idiots living next to you. I'm out in conservative menno-ville for the summer and I've been cranking up a Dual Rectifier almost every day and practicing music for upwards of 5 hours a day. No complaints yet, except constant tinnitus!

The trick to engaging in psychological warfare is to be subtle. Best to seem like you aren't intentionally trying to annoy someone, but that you are simply going about your daily routine. If one person keep calling and complaining, chances are that person is a nightmare. I bet this is the sort that drives cops crazy with the constant whining about this and that. Every city has several bitchy individuals. The situation becomes a problem when ALL your neighbours are calling to complain about you. Then the cops know it isn't 'bitchy neighbour syndrome' but that you are actually being difficult to deal with. This is where discretion comes into play. You are an amp repair man, you have to test your repairs under 'real working conditions'. You can explain this kindly to any police officers and the nincompoop neighbour can suck it up and deal.

 

[Monsta-Tone]

:lol: That's exactly what I told my wife! :lol:
I'm buying a Weber Mass 150 this morning. I figure, I'll crank it for about 5-10 minutes and play as poorly as I possibly can.
Then, I'll dial down the volume and simply jam out at a reasonable level until the cops get here.

I am buying my kids a bull horn this afternoon though! :mrgreen: His grandkids are always making noise. Let's see him call the cops on my kids. :mrgreen:

 

[ryjan]

The best thing I think you can do is just know what is legal and have a hard copy of the ordinences handy for when the cops show up. Hand it to them and ask if these laws are still valid. Then ask them what exactly it is that you are doing that is illegal. Ask them if you could call in a complaint about your neighbor if you just didn't like the smell of the hamburgers that he grills or the color of his car. Maybe buy a cheap decibel meter so you can show the popo you know exactly how loud you're being.

 

[talltxguy]

Another option to consider is to mess with his lawn. If he's got a nice lawn, then you can get some stuff at Home Depot or Lowe's that will kill weeds AND GRASS.

If he has a crappy lawn, then there's always the juvenile response: lots of toilet paper & eggs. :lol:

Anyway, he should have talked to you and been a man about things instead of just calling the police. So I feel like you have the right to be a dick right back to him. Go get him!

 

[kiff]

you should do the feedback test while you take a short trip to the corner store.

 

[RectoStudioGuy]

I am buying my kids a bull horn this afternoon though! :mrgreen: His grandkids are always making noise. Let's see him call the cops on my kids. :mrgreen:

Love that idea!!!!
In my younger days, living in so-cal, my band would practice 5hrs a day 4-6 days a week...neighbors hated me. They didn't think much of the potato cannon full of dog do either :twisted:

 

[rocksalt7]

I feel bad for you Monsta...being a new citizen and all in a new town. Sucks having neighbors like that :evil: I found a couple of interesting things revenge wise on the net a few years back, theres probably more now. Some were extremely clever and some were just brutally mean...YMMV!! I sprang a couple on the %itch across the street right before I moved away!!! I definitely had the last laugh!!!! Her whole family deserved it....they were simply the ugliest, rudest people I've EVER come across in my life! Good luck to you, Monsta; you definitely deserve better.

 

[dmcguitar]

I would like to offer the other side, My inlaws have neighboors that have alot of kids, and now that its summer many of their friends come over, they have a jump house (the blow up thing) as well. needless to say, for hours on end they scream, and as of late its way past the appropriate times. This impedes on our confort level. Lately, the neighbours have been blasting their rap music out into the back yard, and the bass is so loud, its audible in their house with the windows closed, and the tv on. you can't sleep cause everything is shaking. Sure its 3pm, 4,5,6,7 ,8pm at night, before the "noise law" but should i have to suffer for hours on end, because they wanna dance inside, and let the whole block hear their music.. every day?

I'm all for enjoying your space and toys, but there needs to be some limit. I'm always concerned that i'm playing to loud, but never get any complaints. if they did i'd just talk to them and find a teim when i could play loud, and when they need less volume.

My band practices at my drummers house, and we were always quite loud, most people usually enjoyed it... but if you don't have a full band there why do you need to be soooo loud? (i understand its fun)

.. in your sitch, i'd say if his grandkids constantly are loud and annoying, you have a right to be equally annoying. but you two should talk it out and figure out if there is some means to an end.... if after talking the guy is an ass.... well, diplomacy only works sometime :wink:

 

[lesterpaul]

sucks!!I have a 90 yr old fossil living next to me-retired military contractor....I was getting the paper out of my mailbox at 6am one day and this fossil fires a gun..in the air,no less...and proceeds with flaming eyes balls to explain how he will not let his neighborhood "go to hell" because of another neighbor's dog....and I really wanted to explain to him how firing a pistol,in the air, at 6 am, was faaaar worse than my neighbor's hyper pooch ever could be...AND, if the shot woke up my wife and kid, I was gonna stomp a mudhole in his ass...BUT he was holding a gun, and I was only armed with the Huntsville Times....
...needless to say, I am prepared each morning now..my gun is bigger than his, and my aim is far better

good luck with your *******

 

[Monsta-Tone]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

You guys are ******* funny!

I met one of the guys on the other side. He has basically had bad experiences with this guy and his advice was....."**** him, don't let him get under your skin."

I can see the thing with the dogs, now that I know his daughter that lives there was almost killed when she was 21 months old. But he could have easily asked me to turn it down.

The real irony is that they run a machine all day that sounds like a huge belt sander or saw. It's really high pitched and annoying sound. Yesterday after the cops left, he fired up a chainsaw. What a ******* tool!

 

[Monsta-Tone]

I'm all for enjoying your space and toys, but there needs to be some limit. I'm always concerned that i'm playing to loud, but never get any complaints. if they did i'd just talk to them and find a teim when i could play loud, and when they need less volume.

My band practices at my drummers house, and we were always quite loud, most people usually enjoyed it... but if you don't have a full band there why do you need to be soooo loud? (i understand its fun)

.. in your sitch, i'd say if his grandkids constantly are loud and annoying, you have a right to be equally annoying. but you two should talk it out and figure out if there is some means to an end.... if after talking the guy is an ass.... well, diplomacy only works sometime :wink:

The thing is, it was 5:30 in the freaking afternoon for 10 minutes.
The whole neighborhood thinks he's a dick, and he has nothing nice to say about anyone.
Some people just can't get along with others. I'm way more understanding of people's space now than I used to be, but he's bordering on belligerent behavior.

 

[Spewnz]

you should take ever speaker cab you have and put it on his front lawn at 3am then let lose with a medley of ever song you know.