Noisy Parties

[Jackfrost]

What time does a noisy party become unacceptable? My general rule of thumb for what I’d deem acceptable is 10pm on a weeknight and 12am on a weekend if it is a rare occurrence and if it is Xmas or New Year time etc then go nuts.

The neighbours behind us (who are otherwise fine neighbours) decided they were going to start having a full on party at midnight last night (Tuesday) with lots of people, music and bass at a ridiculous level. Very weird as no one was there at 10 when we went to bed, they must have come home from a concert or something. Kept us awake from 12-1:30am but lucky the boys (age 1 and 4) are such good sleepers and were so exhausted so they slept through it. Ended up ringing the cops at 1am and this morning on the way to work drove past their house slowly and holding down the car horn at 6:30am outside their bedroom window to hopefully wake them up.

 

[Doggy doo doo]

Our parties start at 1 30 so I'm lucky I don't live near you

 

[Bluelegs]

I think it varies depending on the demographic of your community.

 

[Gough]

Restraining order. That's what my neighbour did to me.

 

[Jackfrost]

I think it varies depending on the demographic of your community.

Middle class suburbia in a 4 year old estate so the majority of houses have kids under 5. Got nothing against late parties just don't crank "a little bit of Jessica in my life" full through your subwoofer at 1am on a Tuesday night. That song was the catalyst for us calling the cops… at least play something decent if you are going to keep us up or better yet take the party inside.

 

[radiojake]

As someone who has been on the arse-end of noise complaints, I generally take a very dim view of people who make them -

In this instance, however, it seems a little more justified than some of the ridiculous shit I've had to deal with, however I don't think I could ever bring myself to make a complaint....

The latest laugh of a complaint I had to deal with was last November when we had a band play at our place on the Saturday night of the 'end of the Mayan Calander/end of the world rubbish' night - Our housemate's boyfriend's band at the time played - They were kinda loud and a doom/atmospheric/metal kind of band, not my cup of tea - But considering it was a Saturday night, 50 metres from Brunswick St, I was flabbergasted that the cops turned up at 10.45 pm!!!!

I mean, why the f*ck did you move to Fitzroy, within earshot of Brunswick St, if you are going to make complaints like that on a Saturday night?!!?


Don't even get me started on my days back in Salisbury when a neighbour regularly rang the cops whenever the drumkit played, even if it was 3pm in the afternoon -

 

[Nothing]

What time does a noisy party become unacceptable? My general rule of thumb for what I’d deem acceptable is 10pm on a weeknight and 12am on a weekend if it is a rare occurrence and if it is Xmas or New Year time etc then go nuts.

The neighbours behind us (who are otherwise fine neighbours) decided they were going to start having a full on party at midnight last night (Tuesday) with lots of people, music and bass at a ridiculous level. Very weird as no one was there at 10 when we went to bed, they must have come home from a concert or something. Kept us awake from 12-1:30am but lucky the boys (age 1 and 4) are such good sleepers and were so exhausted so they slept through it. Ended up ringing the cops at 1am and this morning on the way to work drove past their house slowly and holding down the car horn at 6:30am outside their bedroom window to hopefully wake them up.

I think you might need some of these products soon.

If it was a one off then either man up and go visit your neighbours and ask them to turn it down or suck it up, it's one night of your life.

 

[Bosun]

What time does a noisy party become unacceptable? My general rule of thumb for what I’d deem acceptable is 10pm on a weeknight and 12am on a weekend if it is a rare occurrence and if it is Xmas or New Year time etc then go nuts.

The neighbours behind us (who are otherwise fine neighbours) decided they were going to start having a full on party at midnight last night (Tuesday) with lots of people, music and bass at a ridiculous level. Very weird as no one was there at 10 when we went to bed, they must have come home from a concert or something. Kept us awake from 12-1:30am but lucky the boys (age 1 and 4) are such good sleepers and were so exhausted so they slept through it. Ended up ringing the cops at 1am and this morning on the way to work drove past their house slowly and holding down the car horn at 6:30am outside their bedroom window to hopefully wake them up.

If they are fine neighbours why not just go round and talk to them instead of calling the cops and then honking your horn at the crack of dawn to get even so to speak?

Humans are really losing their ability to communicate in person.

 

[Jackfrost]

I think you might need some of these products soon.

If it was a one off then either man up and go visit your neighbours and ask them to turn it down or suck it up, it's one night of your life.

Not putting myself in a confrontation with about 20-40 potential drunks at 1am on a Tuesday night. I pay tax so I'll let the Police do that job for me. I let it go to 1am to give them the benefit of the doubt but by that stage I needed at least 5 hours sleep and it was beyond ridiculous.
Did I mention they were playing "a little bit of Jessica in my life"?

 

[Nothing]

Not putting myself in a confrontation with about 20-40 potential drunks at 1am on a Tuesday night. I pay tax so I'll let the Police do that job for me. I let it go to 1am to give them the benefit of the doubt but by that stage I needed at least 5 hours sleep and it was beyond ridiculous.
Did I mention they were playing "a little bit of Jessica in my life"?

You did mention they were playing Mambo No. 5, along with the fact they are 'otherwise fine neighbours'. Putting these 2 factoids together would lead me to believe that it unlikely that there was going to be physical violence. If you were in fear for your life near a party playing Mambo No. 5, I guess it's lucky it wasn't radiojake 's End of the World Party.
As for you paying taxes, police resources would be better deployed in real policing issues rather than frivolous noise complaints, which would normally fall into the jurisdiction of Local Government.

 

[NSWCROW]

****ing bass !!!!!!!!!
2 girls and bloke that live next door to me play their music , it's not even the volume thats the issue , it's the bass that i can feel....and i'm on the other side of the house too

 

[Plugger35]

Past about 1am it starts to get unacceptable in most respectable neighbourhoods. I think most people don't mind the odd noisy party going to around 1am, past that and they crack the shits.

We used to have mega loud pill fuelled parties at our sharehouse in London almost every weekend until about 4am or even later and never any complaints from the neighbours. We lived in a dodgy neighbourhood though next to a housing estate so people were probably happy our loud music drowned out the usual sounds of drunken fights, domestic abuse and police sirens.

 

[Caesar]

As for you paying taxes, police resources would be better deployed in real policing issues rather than frivolous noise complaints, which would normally fall into the jurisdiction of Local Government.

Police specifically request that people call them with noise complaints rather than approach the offenders directly. Even neighbours you get along well with can get unpleasant when they've had a few drinks and you interrupt their good time. Cops would much rather deal with a noise complaint than risk an altercation. It's not a big deal - they usually have a car in the area just cruising around anyway.

With respect to what's 'reasonable', noise restrictions in NSW ban audible music in residential areas between 10pm and 8am on weeknights and 12am to 8am on weekends. You'd have to be a real dick to enforce those strictly - especially on weekends - but if I'm being seriously inconvenienced in that timeframe (e.g. I have work the next morning and my windows are shaking) then the cops are probably getting a call.

 

[TassieEagle]

Every now and then the odd weekend party lasting into the wee hours is acceptable to me. Weekdays should definitely have it wrapped up by 10 though

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Our family are suckers for letting neighbours off the hook.

Will be a little more forward and pro-active when I get my own place, though.

 

[Freofalcon]

Grab a 6 pack out of the fridge and rock on over. It's not a nuisance if you're in the thick of it.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Grab a 6 pack out of the fridge and rock on over. It's not a nuisance if you're in the thick of it.

True. I'll dictate when I want to be in 'the thick of it', however. Being the almighty one and all

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Depends on the frequency. If it's once in a blue moon then I think you just cop it. We all have to live together.

If it's a weekly occurrence, it's rude and unacceptable.

 

[Freofalcon]

Seriously though, we have neighbours who, from time to time, can be loud into the wee hours. It really doesn't bother me. I'm used to share house living, with people and gatherings at all hours, and shift work, so I have conditioned myself to sleep when I have too.

My wife on the other hand...

 

[edgie]

Mate, I would kill for our neighbours (or just kill our neighbours) to play something as musical as Mambo no. 5, the only words to the music they play is "doof doof doof doof doof dodododododododod doofdoofdoofdoofdoofdoofdoof doof doof doof doof wububububububububububububububub doof doof doof", it's complete toilet music. Repetitive, monotonous, irritating.

When I lived at home with mum, the neighbours occasionally had a party, maybe 2 or 3 times a months, and played musical music til the sunlight hours when I had work at 7 on sunday mornings. It didn't bother me as it was music and I usually fell asleep. Now I've moved out with the missus, I can safely say the toilet music is MUCH more disruptive to the sleep thing, and also the neighbours listening to it are much less approachable.

You really need to relax and let it go with your neighbours, you are one of the lucky ones.

 

[Plugger35]

When I lived in a share house back in my uni days we were having a few drinks in the backyard late one night after coming home from the pub with Definitely Maybe cranked up to 11 on the stereo as it should be.

Turned around to see my next door neighbour yelling at us over the back fence to turn it f***ing down, couldn't even hear him yelling over the music, no idea how long he was yelling for. We did turn it down slightly after that though so we weren't complete bastards.

I've probably pissed off more neighbours than been pissed off by them, there was a rental place out the back of one place where I lived where some bogans used to love having parties cranking Cold Chisel, Barnsey and ACDC to all hours. Could've been worse music though.

 

[Cleavy]

Mate, I would kill for our neighbours (or just kill our neighbours) to play something as musical as Mambo no. 5, the only words to the music they play is "doof doof doof doof doof dodododododododod doofdoofdoofdoofdoofdoofdoof doof doof doof doof wububububububububububububububub doof doof doof", it's complete toilet music. Repetitive, monotonous, irritating.

yes, play some 'normal' music!

 

[edgie]

yes, play some 'normal' music!

I'm just saying, some music is made for one purpose only. To have as much bass as possible. Since the primitive hand tools of yesteryear do not excel at this, one must resort to computers and synthesizers. Then make each track 12 minutes long.

 

[Bosun]

Police specifically request that people call them with noise complaints rather than approach the offenders directly. Even neighbours you get along well with can get unpleasant when they've had a few drinks and you interrupt their good time. Cops would much rather deal with a noise complaint than risk an altercation. It's not a big deal - they usually have a car in the area just cruising around anyway.

With respect to what's 'reasonable', noise restrictions in NSW ban audible music in residential areas between 10pm and 8am on weeknights and 12am to 8am on weekends. You'd have to be a real dick to enforce those strictly - especially on weekends - but if I'm being seriously inconvenienced in that timeframe (e.g. I have work the next morning and my windows are shaking) then the cops are probably getting a call.

Police might specify that however will they turn up? it might not be high on their list of priorities. If you get along with your neighbours, going round without being aggressive and speaking to them will get you the better outcome.

 

[edgie]

When I lived in a share house back in my uni days we were having a few drinks in the backyard late one night after coming home from the pub with Definitely Maybe cranked up to 11 on the stereo as it should be.

Turned around to see my next door neighbour yelling at us over the back fence to turn it f***ing down, couldn't even hear him yelling over the music, no idea how long he was yelling for. We did turn it down slightly after that though so we weren't complete bastards.

I've probably pissed off more neighbours than been pissed off by them, there was a rental place out the back of one place where I lived where some bogans used to love having parties cranking Cold Chisel, Barnsey and ACDC to all hours. Could've been worse music though.

Yes, it could have. Sensible posting.