The house next to mine lives a single mother with her 2 children (6 and 14 years old), they all live on welfare. everyday the mother screams at the kids, and the kids scream back. I've talked to her before on how their noise is runing my life, but nothing much has been done, she is still screaming, from 7am to 9 pm daily, they have no communication skills. I am sick of being 'nicely' asking them, can you give me some 'evil' strategies (legal ways) to stop this inconsiderable family ruining my life?
2007-04-08 23:26:15 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
I probably shouldn't tell you this! but somebody I knew, had the same problem. His (we'll just call him Dick), solution wasn't nice, but it worked.
He got a shovel and threw doggy doo over the fence. He had his wife take some candid video of the neighbors getting thier shovel and throwing it back over the fence. Then he called the police and they wound up in jail. Of course, Dick had to lie, when the police said, the perpetrator claimed he was just returning property to the rightful owner. "I never threw doggy doo over thier fence!"
Dick came up with a few more dirty tricks.
He threw a rock at one of them (we'll call him Mortimer). Mortimer picked it up and threw it back! Of course, Mortimer admitted to throwwing the rock, when he stupidly said he was just throwwing it at Dick, because Dick threw it first. Of course, Dick denied ever throwwing a rock and Mortimer went back to jail.
A few more creative thinking experiments and Mort and his noisey family moved out.
2007-04-08 23:53:45 · answer #1 · answered by Poquah 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hrm... I had formulated many plans in my head, until I saw that "Legal" part. Damn. Next time she screams, you scream. No matter what she's screaming, just yell over the top "Shut the F*** UP!" The people next door to here are constantly shouting, and I find the best solution (if you don't like confrontations) is to yell just as loud as them, place a stereo next to the wall and blare like you've never blared before, Metallica and a band called Rammstein are particularly good. In fact a really crap band that has beats missing and just sounds out of time, is even better.
Play and play and play. Also, drinking nights are fun. Ask your neighbor on the other side if you can have a party, explain why. (Otherwise YOU might have an annoyed neighbor) Have a drink up where everyone brings their own, supply some drinks, invite as many loud friends as you can, and dance until the wee hours. Leave beer bottles strewn across her yard and make sure you see her as she's leaving the house. Smile drunkenly and tell her all about it. She'll probably reply "Yeah, I know. It was so f***** loud, we had trouble hearing!" Reply "S***, isn't it weird, that's how I feel about you all the time! Your family's constantly loud and never shuts up!" *drunkenly stumble back inside, slamming door in her face*
Either that, or call her landlord so he can have a word to her. *shrug* Whatever works for you.
2007-04-08 23:42:29 · answer #2 · answered by mikkajd87 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The most evil one I can come up with is buy yourself earplugs.
By the way, did you actually say 'inconsiderable'? I believe the word you want is inconsiderate. Have you ever had kids? They can be little jackasses. Get earplugs pal and learn the right words to use because your spellchecker won't catch yours but you still look stupid to those of us who do catch it. Why are you home those hours anyway? What, they keeping you up during the day? LOL! Grow up and get a job during the day, then you won't be there for their noise to bother you so much! LOL!
2007-04-08 23:52:45 · answer #3 · answered by sherijgriggs 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you know her realestate agent, let them know that she is being a problem. Report her to them for anything, if the lawn is over grown & a potential for vermin, noise, sounds of breaking furniture etc.. If there is danger to the kids report it to the authorities. If they have friends over etc... use that time to mow the lawn, use the leaf blower make noise like they do. (espically good to do the morning after they have a party & sleeping off hangovers). If you can install aircon to block out the noise and make sure you put the outside unit as close to her house as possible..
2007-04-08 23:35:07 · answer #4 · answered by Sharon P 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
pity you lah, thankfully I've never had that situation but I did have a neighbour with a yapping dog. lt was driving me crazy yap yap yap almost 24/7 so I mixed some rat poison in with some dog food and all was quiet for the rest of the day. but the next day yap yap yap again as the dog recovered from the poison, hummm, thankfully the neighbours moved away shortly afterwards abandoning the dog who joined a pack of wild dogs and yap yap yapped somewhere else...!
2016-04-01 04:44:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL. I'm with Mikka! Best answer! Obviously asking politely is getting you nowhere, and you don't want to do anything thats going to get you arrested. Do what mikkajd87 said and make them see that they should be able to be quiet at least sometimes. It's not your place to get involved with her family, I kinda feel for her, it's probably not her fault, 16 year olds can be hard to manage. But she has to learn one way or another. mikkas right. Take action either by fighting fire with fire, or call her landlord.
2007-04-08 23:54:58 · answer #6 · answered by benjih87 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes,start adding that noise as unpaid entertainment and stop thinking about it as SCREAMING.Infact i will advise that anyday they failed to Scream that you should go over and ask them not to disappoint you ,that you are expecting the days ration.If you treat them this way they will stop screaming just to make you angry
2007-04-08 23:31:43 · answer #7 · answered by Ogbunigwe 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Study the bible with them...befriend them...show them how people can get along without screaming....as long as it depends on you be peaceable with all men...pray for her.
And one day the kids will be grown..it should quiet down then...And statistics prove that people move every 3 years...just be patient.
There is always a disturbing the peace law. Contact the local DA
2007-04-08 23:32:50 · answer #8 · answered by debbie2243 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Report her to Child Protection, call the cops, then innocently say you heard the screaming and thought someone was being hurt.
2007-04-08 23:29:32 · answer #9 · answered by Liz 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
She's a single mom, right? Maybe if you were nice to her and offered a little support to her and friendship to the kids--instead of being such a butthead--things would quiet down some.
2007-04-08 23:32:26 · answer #10 · answered by Alice K 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋