Noisy Parties

[edgie]

As bad as the doof doof is nothing beats the bad karaoke backyard all night wannabe popstar

Nope, would take karaoke annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny day

Besides, with karaoke, it will eventually get to a state where they just get too drunk to do it and just give up

 

[djrossie16]

Nope, would take karaoke annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnny day

Besides, with karaoke, it will eventually get to a state where they just get too drunk to do it and just give up

lol maybe true but volume kept fluctuating between nothing to loud to really loud and obnoxious the ears couldn't really get used to the level

 

[BotsMaster]

One night I looked out the window and no shite there was 30 plus teens walking down the road.

Wow, just imagine if you had thrown a grenade amongst them.

 

[checkraiseulite]

This question doesn't really warrant its own thread, so sorry for hijacking this one, but I guess it's kind of "neighbour related".

I own a block of land. There are houses either side of it. One house appears to be owned by a builder/tradesperson type.

Today I went to have a look at it and it appears this builder guy is using it as his personal car park (there are crossovers already in place on the block). There were his building truck, two cars & a trailer on my block.

Now i'm in two minds, i'm not using the block so it doesn't really affect me, and obviously I don't liev on the block so it's not like the bloke could have asked me if he could park his truck on it whilst it's vacant.

But is this taking the piss?

 

[edgie]

You only explained one of your states of mind?

 

[checkraiseulite]

You only explained one of your states of mind?

One, it doesn't affect me too much.

Two, given the scale of the use, I think it's taking the piss and I should ask him to either (a) pay me to keep using it, or (b) move his crap to his own propertahhhhh.

 

[Roobs321]

I generally agree with the 10pm rule on weeknights and 12am rule on weekends, with some relaxed restrictions. Doesn't have to be a complete sound curfew, but subwoofer bass up to max after 10pm on a weeknight is blasphemy.

It's when there are 2-3 of these a week, often on week nights, in residential apartment buildings, that it becomes unacceptable. For the first 6 months of this year some young ones were doing this in the apartment above me.
I ended up moving away, couldn't handle their noisy behaviour (loud phone calls late at night on balcony, loud breakfast bbq at 6am after a late, noisy night, etc.).

The worst part is that these types attract loud females. Loud male voices can be tolerated due to lower register, but the female register when they are just screaming for the fun of it is highly irritating.

Anyone over 25yo who regularly does this, especially in apartment blocks, are just scum.

 

[edgie]

One, it doesn't affect me too much.

Two, given the scale of the use, I think it's taking the piss and I should ask him to either (a) pay me to keep using it, or (b) move his crap to his own propertahhhhh.

Introduce yourself as the land owner/neighbour, and ask when is a convenient time for him for you to have builders around constructing a fence. Ball in his court.

 

[edgie]

I'm not a stiff for the letter of the law on noise restrictions, but if the noise begins AFTER those times then it's open season, cop calling time. I don't mind if a party starts early and continues long in to the night, but when it is only starting after 10/12, there is absolutely no need for it

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I put this in another thread ages ago.

I had a noisy neighbour for around 18mths. If you've never lived next to one then you've no idea.

He was / is a long distance truck driver so would mostly have his time off during the week. He had a large shed in his back yard with a big screen, surround sound, foxtel and a dvd player all hooked up. He would regularly get home from the pub on days off at around 11pm to midnight during the week and head straight out the back to the shed and crank the music. He played about 10 songs, Pink and Gunners and another one that I can't recall but he used to sing along with it at the top of his lungs. The bedrooms of our house were all to the rear, adjacent to his shed.

If he had people around and they were just drinking and talking noisily then it was fine. It was when he was on his own, passed out in the shed with the music blaring that the problems began. The bass would just penetrate into the house and keep us up all night. I started calling the cops on him after asking him at the time to turn it down or approaching him the next day and talking about it. He was always agreeable but as sing as he was full of piss and pills it would be on again.

He had 3 mates around one Tuesday night and at 2am on the Wednesday morning he reckoned it was a smart idea to start up his drag boat that was in the shed, his mates were egging him on so he gunned it a few times. My girls woke up screaming, it scared the hell out of them. I bolted outside to rip into him but his missus beat me to it. Their bedroom was at the front of the house so she never used to hear what was going on out the back.

I called the cops at least 10 times on him and not once did they show up, I was actually asked by the call taker on more than one occasion if I thought it was the best use of police resources to be calling and making noise complaints and that they had more important things to do.

In the end I found out what their home phone number was. Every time after that I'd call it and wake her up and tell her that he'd passed out, out the back again with the music blaring. After doing this to her 3 or 4 times, the house went on the market. It sold reasonably quickly and it was bliss afterwards.

 

[phantom13]

I called the cops at least 10 times on him and not once did they show up, I was actually asked by the call taker on more than one occasion if I thought it was the best use of police resources to be calling and making noise complaints and that they had more important things to do.

Got told essentially the same thing, as well as being told that unless they recieved more than one complaint about the house they wouldn't do anything, also got told to try and approach the neighbors myself, totally flying in the face of what Caesar was saying... f**kin' cawps.

 

[Krujan]

One, it doesn't affect me too much.

Two, given the scale of the use, I think it's taking the piss and I should ask him to either (a) pay me to keep using it, or (b) move his crap to his own propertahhhhh.

I'd tell him $50 per week or GTFO my property.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

One, it doesn't affect me too much.

Two, given the scale of the use, I think it's taking the piss and I should ask him to either (a) pay me to keep using it, or (b) move his crap to his own propertahhhhh.

Do you plan to ever live there yourself, or even to build in it? A little goodwill with the neighbours might be handy when that time comes.

 

[kfc1]

This question doesn't really warrant its own thread, so sorry for hijacking this one, but I guess it's kind of "neighbour related".

I own a block of land. There are houses either side of it. One house appears to be owned by a builder/tradesperson type.

Today I went to have a look at it and it appears this builder guy is using it as his personal car park (there are crossovers already in place on the block). There were his building truck, two cars & a trailer on my block.

Now i'm in two minds, i'm not using the block so it doesn't really affect me, and obviously I don't liev on the block so it's not like the bloke could have asked me if he could park his truck on it whilst it's vacant.

But is this taking the piss?

How long have you owned the block? Do you ever visit or use it?

It could be a situation where the guy doesn't know who owns it, just hasn't seen anyone ever go there in months, years? and so started parking a vehicle on it when he needed the room and now parks a few there. Or it could be a one off that you happened to see on a rare visit? I don't necessarily think that its taking the piss but hard to know without knowing the guy

Maybe next time you go for a visit, take your dad with you (I assume you are mid 20s ish) and introduce yourselves, say you are the owner of the block etc and he might well be quite apologetic. You could always offer to let him park there indefinitely as long as he mows the grass and generally keeps the block in shape? If you have no use for it.

I don't think its unusual for people to start treating vacant lots as public land after a while.

 

[LANGFORDandSON]

We had police turn up 17 minutes after we started jamming 4pm on a Wednesday afternoon -

I know this for a fact because we had a timer going because we had our first international support the following night and had a half an hour set - We were timing to see how many songs we got done to make it our set list -

17 minutes after we started playing - The old coot must've picked up the phone as soon as he heard the snare drum crack in the distance, and the pigs must've been sitting on their arses waiting to hassle some kids who were doing nothing wrong...

That particular pig that day was a right royal c*nt - Didn't knock on our front door (our housemate saw them rock up and was waiting for their knock -

They went straight around the back of the house (illegal without knocking on the front door first? anyone?) and went straight to the fuse box and turned the power off and on a couple of times!!! Could have blown our amps!!

Sorry to take the piss out of an International Support Act but the bolded bit reminded me of this:

To be slightly constructive though, I believe the police, sorry pigs, are allowed to enter the backyard if the gate is open, at least that's what I was told by the police (pigs) standing in my backyard at the time.

 

[radiojake]

I never said anything about them breaking the Geneva Convention, but they were pricks and our back gate would've been shut because we didn't like our dog to go wandering...

 

[Jackfrost]

One, it doesn't affect me too much.

Two, given the scale of the use, I think it's taking the piss and I should ask him to either (a) pay me to keep using it, or (b) move his crap to his own propertahhhhh.

Maybe a barter of free parking for getting the block slashed?

 

[checkraiseulite]

Do you plan to ever live there yourself, or even to build in it? A little goodwill with the neighbours might be handy when that time comes.

I do plan to build on it. But I won't be living there, at least not for any decent length of time.

Next time I'm there I might introduce myself and say it's cool for him to use it until I start building on it if he can mow the lawn when he does his, but when the time comes I might need a favour from him.

Seems fair. & the plan is to build units right to his fence line heheh.

 

[Northworth]

This question doesn't really warrant its own thread, so sorry for hijacking this one, but I guess it's kind of "neighbour related".

I own a block of land. There are houses either side of it. One house appears to be owned by a builder/tradesperson type.

Today I went to have a look at it and it appears this builder guy is using it as his personal car park (there are crossovers already in place on the block). There were his building truck, two cars & a trailer on my block.

Now i'm in two minds, i'm not using the block so it doesn't really affect me, and obviously I don't liev on the block so it's not like the bloke could have asked me if he could park his truck on it whilst it's vacant.

But is this taking the piss?

you have every right to be annoyed - but you may want to carefully consider before saying anything
it is your land and you don't need to justify it sitting empty to anyone - but having said that.. it could help to keep him on-side for future neighbourly negotiations to let it slide for now


When I lived in a flat with a car space but no car - the neighbours just used it... I recall thinking it would have been nice to have been asked but it felt petty in the scheme of things so I never said anything

 

[checkraiseulite]

you have every right to be annoyed - but you may want to carefully consider before saying anything
it is your land and you don't need to justify it sitting empty to anyone - but having said that.. it could help to keep him on-side for future neighbourly negotiations to let it slide for now

Having thought about it further, given that he has no idea who owns it, it's not like he could have asked me. I prob would ahev done the same thing if i was him.

I was a bit shocked when i wnet there and saw all the crap on it, but i don't think i care now. Given some of the nightmare stories I've heard about people pissing of neighbours whilst building (had a freind who think his neighbours poured concrete into his plumbing whilst it was getting built because he refused to change his plans that obstructed thier view), i think it's wise not to piss him off.

 

[phantom13]

When I lived in a flat with a car space but no car - the neighbours just used it... I recall thinking it would have been nice to have been asked but it felt petty in the scheme of things so I never said anything

That's bulls**t. Our block has one car spot per unit yet nearly everyone in the block has two cars, people use the one visitor park and park out the front of their unit. Don't live in a block of townhouses in f**kin' Richmond if you need two cars, or if you do park on the street.

 

[kfc1]

Yeah I'm living in an apartment with 1 car space at the moment, Syds from across the driveway used to park in the spot all the time, never once introduced themselves let alone asked. Stopped after we put a traffic cone in our space lol. Other neighbours ask from time to time if they are desperate for a spot and no dramas. Pretty rude to park there and not ask first, or at least leave a note on the car saying "call me if you need to move the car, went to ask but you weren't home" or something

 

[phantom13]

For whatever reason this has really got me fuming at the moment, our neighbors are otherwise good but this two car stuff is driving me nuts. There is sort of a bay at the front of each townhouse but it states in the body corporate charter that this is for "5 minute parking only to drop off groceries etc" and nearly every apartment has a car parked out the front of it plus the car in their spot, the syds next door to us park in the middle of the bay therefore we cant use it for its intended purpose. It's petty and actually doesn't affect us in the slightest (we have one car between us) but it just seems stupid to me to have two cars when you live in Richmond, makes it worse when its in a block that clearly only allows one car.

 

[HBF]

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

This.
Even though it can be annoying, it's only one night and i'm sure we can all put up with it.
Where I draw the line is when it gets out of hand and spills into the street.

 

[BotsMaster]

Yeah I'm living in an apartment with 1 car space at the moment, Syds from across the driveway used to park in the spot all the time, never once introduced themselves let alone asked. Stopped after we put a traffic cone in our space lol. Other neighbours ask from time to time if they are desperate for a spot and no dramas. Pretty rude to park there and not ask first, or at least leave a note on the car saying "call me if you need to move the car, went to ask but you were masturbating" or something

EFA