Hi lemmys! My next door neighbour is driving me crazy. They started at 10:30AM and you can hear them through closed doors and windows, and two brick walls. They have enough brain cells to understand “turn it down”. Any ideas to deal/screw with them?

Ideas like frozen pee through letterbox are also appreciated :) Edit: I meant this as a joke. I’m not going to do that

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    • joe_archer@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      This. 10:30 am would not be considered a problem legally where I’m from, you can only make a noise complaint before 7am and after 11pm. People are allowed to enjoy their lives, having neighbours play music during the day is just part of living near other humans.

      Do not take petty revenge because that probably is illegal. Be an adult and deal with it.

    • Footnote2669@lemmy.zipOP
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      7 months ago

      That’s fair. I went a bit too far. The urine part was meant as a joke but I see what you mean. It’s just frustrating. It’s Sunday, and I can’t even go to my own garden and have a chat cos I can’t hear the person next to me.

      Do I really have to wear headphones to be comfortable in my own house? It’s so loud and they’re not even outside, they sit inside and have windows open, it’s like a concert . I’m pretty sure I could hear it if I was 2 blocks away

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        7 months ago

        I think it’s ridiculous that it’s allowed. It’s the reason why I can’t live in apartments. Most of them have poor sound isolation and it’s terrorizing to have to listen to music through the walls, or to walk around with noice canceling headphones constantly.

        The argument “people need to live their lifes” is also weird. What about my life where I want my apartment to be quiet?

        Also it’s dangerous to human health to be forced to have noise around us. You can never fully relax. It’s against our very nature to not be able to rest in quiet.

        Only when I moved to a house, I felt finally at peace.

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          7 months ago

          Kind of a misplaced dig at apartments there, considering OP appears to be dealing with this in a house.

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            7 months ago

            Yeah true. I usually hear about noise complaints from people in apartments. It should be a lot more uncommon in houses.

            Just bad luck I guess.

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              7 months ago

              Bad luck on both counts. I live in an apartment and the walls are thick enough that I hardly ever hear noise from neighbouring units (or at least that was the case until recently when one of my neighbours had a baby and now I can hear the baby screaming in the hallway semi-regularly.)

        • Ginger666@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Please show me some studies that show “it’s dangerous to human health to be forced to have noose around us”

          Everyone that lives at a crappy built apartment is enabling the builders to keep building substandard housing.

          If you signed a lease, its your fault for not checking how good the walls are insulated.

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    7 months ago

    I know this sounds extreme, but have you considered… Talking to them?

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      7 months ago

      Yes, I did. I’m still here 3h later, listening to their music. It’s the type of people that lock each other out of the house, and you can hear them „open the fucking door”. There was a gas leak and the we were told to evacuate the neighbours, they told us that they need to take shower first, and they evacuated 30 mins later

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    7 months ago

    You come across way worse than your neighbours in this post.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah I’m probably overreacting a bit, but it’s so annoying cos it’s like a full on concert next door. I’m in my living room and I hear them more than my TV

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    7 months ago

    +1 because their freedom stops where it encroaches on your rights. There’s 0 reasons they should be blasting the neighborhood with music of any kind, which from the sounds of it seems like it’s purely done to be a nuisance.

  • Ginger666@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Have you tried talking to them?

    Or are you like my passive aggressive roommate and just think “they should know better so now I have the right to punish them however I deem necessary”?

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Walk around your complex doing things like trying to bite your own ear or use invisible deoderant. The next time they make noise, go over and address them as Nordic royalty, thank them for their invitation, and offer them a herring from the carry on luggage you brought with you. They will do whatever to keep you away.

    Or you could talk to them.

    Or actually pee in their stuff. Preferably an AC unit. What kind of psychopath ruins a perfectly good ice cube tray by pissing in it? Jesus. Have some self respect

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    7 months ago

    Ever tried making techno on your pc? There’s also great apps for that.

    I mean after talking to them, writing a clear letter, and going to the police.

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    7 months ago

    Move… Your clearly unhappy. Any revenge will just escalate things.