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In Reply to: RE: So you can hear your neighbor playing music!!! posted by EngHelp on April 7, 2010 at 19:44:21
Like DMan's neighbors, it was on their mid-fi as an alarm. Hers triggered Madonna at 4:30 am, and his ran Metallica at 5 am. So every morning there was a double blast of high-dB Metadonna for a few seconds (until, I assume, they respectively leaped out of bed to shut it off.)
Highly annoying, but for community's sake we tolerated it. Then they left town for a weekend... and forgot all about their clever alarm system. For the next 48+ hours, starting at 4:30 am, the same Metallica and Madonna albums repeated endlessly at insane volume levels below our bedroom. We literally couldn't hear each other speak, much less sleep, so wound up checking into a motel--as well as begging the landlord to shut off power for just a few seconds to kill the damn thing. (Which the bastard wouldn't do.) And to cap it all off, when the fools returned... they were furious at US for calling the landlord!
Our current neighbors: upstairs, a 4 yr old and 6 yr old running, fighting, and playing until bedtime; downstairs, 50+ married couple that argue, fight, and scream nightly. I play at 80-85 dB, C-weighted on an SPL; and don't give a damn what either one thinks. I learned the hard way not to care about people who prove themselves to be inconsiderate.
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Man, I was with you until the second paragraph!!!! I would have gone nuts, broke the doors down to their respective apartments, taken a sledgehammer to each system, and calmly walked back to my place...
Seriously, for them to even consider being gigantic you-know-whats to you just because you called the landlord about this??? YIKES!!! I'd want out. And I guess in retrospect, thats what Vicky and I did- we bought a house and rock whenever we want now. The neighbours know us well now and there's never been a complaint.
Still, I do feel for you!
I can easily stand kids.. In fact I used to enjoy hearing them run and tumble overhead. It's the cheap boombox, and fighting... 2:30 AM drunken arguments.. the gunshots down the street on the weekends... I do not miss those.
THe drunks here are quiet drunks... And, at night: SILENCE. I mean it is only the distant trains rumbling at night. And I am only about one mile from where I used to live.
YUP! I understand where you are coming from.
The ironically with me is that the drunks and drug-heads WEREN'T the problem in either of my places! They actually kept things on the "down low", so to speak. It was the drug head's "clientele" that didn't know how to keep a good thing (to them at least) quiet- cops showed up every weekend at the place the wife and I lived at!
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