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snowy · 08-24-2010, 08:45 AM

My neighbors are obnoxious college students who built a skate ramp in their backyard, and skate all hours of every day. The noise of the skateboards on the ramp is slowly driving me nuts. We've called the police on them twice for making too much noise after 10pm. Seriously, they make me feel like an old lady, but they're just so damned obnoxious. Case in point: last September, my SO and I had to leave the house at 2am to head to the airport for a 6am flight to Chicago. Our neighbors were partying when we hit the sack around 8 and STILL partying when we left at 2, with drunk girls hanging off the balcony on the front of their house and yelling up and down the street. Suffice it to say, I did not sleep much in those few hours I had to do so.

The last time the cops came, we weren't the ones who called--one of our other neighbors must have. Here, we have a city ordinance that says that if the cops come out to a rental house more than 3 times, the police have to notify the landlord that they have a "nuisance tenant." Our houses are fairly close together, and so with my window open, I could hear the police officer telling the boys next door that they really, really needed to get to know their neighbors, because if they got one more call about noise at this house, they would have to notify the landlord. Sure enough, the next day one of the guys came over and gave us his name and phone number, and said to call him if they were being too loud. Can't say we won't try. While I don't like calling the police, they're really the only option when someone is having a drunken, loud party if you don't have your neighbors' phone number--there's no way in hell I'd ever walk through one of their parties to try and find someone who actually lived in the house.

My neighbors on the other side aren't so bad, except they fight when they get too drunk, and they're really loud when they fight, screaming and yelling. I feel like yelling back, "Hey, maybe you should drink less so you won't fight so damn much." And don't get me started about the neighbors around my lot--we have one of the bigger lots in the neighborhood, so we have about 5 immediate neighbors, and all except for 1 are loud, like bonfires, and have too many parties.

08-24-2010, 08:45 AM	#3 (permalink)
snowy Kick Ass Kunoichi Location: Oregon	My neighbors are obnoxious college students who built a skate ramp in their backyard, and skate all hours of every day. The noise of the skateboards on the ramp is slowly driving me nuts. We've called the police on them twice for making too much noise after 10pm. Seriously, they make me feel like an old lady, but they're just so damned obnoxious. Case in point: last September, my SO and I had to leave the house at 2am to head to the airport for a 6am flight to Chicago. Our neighbors were partying when we hit the sack around 8 and STILL partying when we left at 2, with drunk girls hanging off the balcony on the front of their house and yelling up and down the street. Suffice it to say, I did not sleep much in those few hours I had to do so. The last time the cops came, we weren't the ones who called--one of our other neighbors must have. Here, we have a city ordinance that says that if the cops come out to a rental house more than 3 times, the police have to notify the landlord that they have a "nuisance tenant." Our houses are fairly close together, and so with my window open, I could hear the police officer telling the boys next door that they really, really needed to get to know their neighbors, because if they got one more call about noise at this house, they would have to notify the landlord. Sure enough, the next day one of the guys came over and gave us his name and phone number, and said to call him if they were being too loud. Can't say we won't try. While I don't like calling the police, they're really the only option when someone is having a drunken, loud party if you don't have your neighbors' phone number--there's no way in hell I'd ever walk through one of their parties to try and find someone who actually lived in the house. My neighbors on the other side aren't so bad, except they fight when they get too drunk, and they're really loud when they fight, screaming and yelling. I feel like yelling back, "Hey, maybe you should drink less so you won't fight so damn much." And don't get me started about the neighbors around my lot--we have one of the bigger lots in the neighborhood, so we have about 5 immediate neighbors, and all except for 1 are loud, like bonfires, and have too many parties. __________________ If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau