Loud Neighbors

[okarol]

I give up.

Maybe you should get some chickens and let them roost at your neighbors. 

Sorry, the frustration must be bad. I think I would blast my stereo at their house for 24 hours a day until I got arrested. I don't do well with rude neighbors. I get even.

[tyefly]

   Go   Karol........          

[Stoday]

If chickens wandered into my garden, they'd finish up in the oven.

OK, buying a chicken from the shop means you get one that's been plucked and drawn, so you'd have to do this yourself. Not such a difficult thing; when I was a kid, during and just after WW2, my parents kept chickens. They plucked them but got a neighbor to draw them.

One day my dad suggested I should watch the neighbor drawing the chicken. Next time we had a chicken, my dad said that now I knew how to draw them, I should do so.

I struck a deal. I didn't like to stick my hands into a cold chicken so I'd only draw them if they were still warm. I think I was about 6 at the time.

[willowtreewren]

Hmm. Loud neighbors and dead chickens.....

Reminds me of the fish in the back seat in the movie Grumpy Old Men.

There MUST be some way to get even. 

[kitkatz]

How about adopting a very loud rowdy peacock?

[Brightsky69]

Well...we have decided we are going to properly insulate the house. The housed in this neighborhood were built cheep. That is why we can hear the mufflers so loudly. The builders used some sort of Styrofoam and studs instead of wood. We are going to spend the money to properly insulate the entire house. We might also use soundproof drywall in the bedroom. We'll see how the insulation works first.
It's goning to cost a pretty penny but it should save us on the energy bill....the bedroom does get chilly in the winter.

[dwcrawford]

It is deadly quite in the neighborhood today... Wish I had some of those loud people around.

[hurlock1]

For me, it's been difficult getting to sleep and staying asleep since I started dialysis. One thing that sometimes works is guilt. Like it or not, It's easy to actually say something to the culprits. Having a loud muffler isn't cool in any circumstance. Some people think so. To some people a loud muffler says. "I'm here! I'm cool!" Mostly these are unattached adolescents that are trying to get a mate, kinda' like a peacock and his plumage. Or maybe just trying to be cool in front of the other guys. Tell them that they're waking you up. Call the base commander. Call the police! I'm sure that there are laws that protect people from noise pollution. People that have loud mufflers tend to strech the limit. I'd bet that their sound is louder than the law allows. The police have detectors that measure the decibels, allowed by law. Of course not only will the perpetrators get a fine, but they will be ordered to have their mufflers silenced.
Don't cry, COMPLAIN! and Complain and complain. Just remember, some people like their loud mufflers so much that if there are complaints they might want revenge. Don't take the passive way out; no mater how cheaply your house is built the dam mufflers are TOO LOUD! I live in a mobile home and the guy that lives next door has a big diesel P/U truck. When he comes home the whole house shakes as if there is an earthquake. I leave earlier than he does. He comes home late shakes the house. There is no amount of mufflers that will muffel the noise that his stinkin' truck makes. On the other side there is a guy that demands only pre-emissions vehicles with big v-8s (Preferably with dual exhausts) He warms his vehicles up 365 days a year for 5 min. I can't say that either one is causing me to lose any sleep. I figure is I'm sleepy, I'll go to sleep no matter what is going on. People are strange when it comes to the amount of noise they make.
Anyway. . .
jmz

[JasonEb]

I don't know if this is still an issue, but if it is...

Do you have some kind of "In Your Corner" segment on any of the local news channels?  Contact them, tell them you have video of the neighbors, and how the police and Navy refuse to do anything.

There is still power in the press.

~Jason E.

[dwcrawford]

I'm just thanking  god (oh, sorry, that's another thread) that I don't know what "draw a chicken" means.  Please don't tell me Stoday.

[monrein]

Drawing a chicken, in non-art terminology, means taking out the guts'n innards.  Sorry dw, I know you didn't want to be told but there you are, I couldn't resist.  Now maybe you "want" to hear about "hung, drawn and quartered" and we're talking people here, not chickens. 

[-Lady Noir-]

My next door neighbor goes to work at 430 am. For awhile he would tinker in his garage in the morning before leaving, dropping tools and banging around, right outside my window, which faces his garage. I would wake up and just lay there until he drove off, and I sometimes could not go back to sleep. It occurred to me that since he gets up so early, he must go to sleep early. So for 5 consecutive nights, at 10:30 PM, I opened our garage door (which makes a loud groaning noise) and I would reorganize stuff, drop tools, and drag the trash cans around, just like he did. Amazingly, he quit the early morning stuff (probably cuz he was so tired) and the problem went away.