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DarrenSV650S
03-05-09, 08:26 PM
I was working on the tzr earlier and he came down the drive and said "Do you mind? I can't hear myself think". I looked at him then just carried on working. I know what he is like, he has moaned at me before about where I park my car on the street. He then said "are your parents home?" which I found pretty insulting so said "What??" anyway he eventually threatened to phone the police so I said "go for it" and he said "fine if that's how you want it".
I heard him in his garden on the phone to the police and I swear it was 2 minutes later they were at the drive. They spoke to him then came to speak to me and asked what happened. They basically said it's our drive so it's up to me what I do and I'm not doing anything wrong. He's a complete to55er.:smt013
Sorry, bit of a pointless thread but I'm just pi55ed off and felt like having a rant
Dave20046
03-05-09, 08:28 PM
lol what a bellend!
I just went round to my mates house was looking over a few of their bikes and their neighbour came out on his and had a chat then their other neighbour got talking to me because he used to have an sv. It was unbelievable how well they got on. Was just thinking, wish I had neighbours like that! :(
davepreston
03-05-09, 08:43 PM
**** one mate im lucky my neighbours are diamonds (one is letting me put a big f off shed right beside his garden for me to work on the bikes and he's going help put it up gent) i think you should get a berco boiler and invite all your mates round to work on there bikes in your drive for a week (even if they dont need too) with a few brews and lots of engine idle testing
Miss Alpinestarhero
03-05-09, 08:50 PM
Bloody hell. Some people really have nothing better to do than whinge and complain about silly things.
Good on you for ignoring him and carrying on with what you were doing. I bet the police were peeved at him for wasting their time..! TBH im suprised they turned up that quick over a "minor" thing.
Ive got a neighbour who complains about EVERYTHING. you name it, she'l whinge. She even gets upset when my cat sits on the mat on her doorstep. She chases after him clapping her hands :confused: But then he was sick in her garden not long after which serves her right :smt029
Wait for them to have a party and then return the favour!
My neighbour cuts the leaves off my plants. I like plants that grow big and flop over, like my giiant scabious, but she complains that 'they invade my airspace'. True.
BBQ at yours this summer Darren and invite the 'ecosse posse'!
Now that will really tic him off and he'll never complain again!:shock:
DarrenSV650S
03-05-09, 09:09 PM
He definitely loves to moan. He is well known for it over the years. There used to be a pub next door to him (our house was built in the land behind the pub. It's now a B&B) and he used to always complain about the noise from the live bands etc. You'd think he would have noticed the pub before he moved in!
I don't want to cause too much bother because it is my parents that will have to put up with him for years to come after I move out. But I just can't be bothered putting up with his cr@p
:smt112Big breaths, and SMILE, a lot at him. Not worth the hassle tbh
Jamiebridges123
03-05-09, 09:14 PM
Take your bike to infront of his house.. make sure baffles are out or the slip on is removed completely, max noise please!
Park it so your back wheel is inline with his front door. Knock on the door and jump on your bike. Just as he opens the door, start it and do a huge burnout in his face. That out to shut him up.
DarrenSV650S
03-05-09, 09:14 PM
I'm just going to completely ignore him. I've got to work on the bike so what am I supposed to do? Hopefully now that the police haven't done anything he will realise he can't do anything about it and stop bothering me
When I had the sv running the other day I was even polite enough to put the baffle in! lol
appollo1
03-05-09, 09:45 PM
what a t0sser. if you have the kettle on any day and want to make a brew for some visitors then I am sure a few of us could turn up sociably to annoy him!!!
ManxMatt34
03-05-09, 09:48 PM
Gonna say i'm over from the Isle of Man in 2 weeks with my mate, my mates got a non-legal Micron on his CBRF 98' Honda, and i got a Quill 2 on my Sv sure we could make some racket? lol.
Dave20046
03-05-09, 09:49 PM
Gonna say i'm over from the Isle of Man in 2 weeks with my mate, my mates got a non-legal Micron on his CBRF 98' Honda, and i got a Quill 2 on my Sv sure we could make some racket? lol.
And there was me wasting my thoughts on the traditional brick through the window or **** through the letterbox :p
ManxMatt34
03-05-09, 10:01 PM
And there was me wasting my thoughts on the traditional brick through the window or **** through the letterbox :p
Lmao well w/e you like really :P Don't wanna get arrested hahah!
Ive got a nice next door neighbour who will talk to us allows us to cut his plants if they get in our drive etc never complains no matter how much noise we make (mainly my bike) and our other next door neighbour used to be nice, talk to us, tell us we were better than last people who lived at my house and all of the sudden one day out in my car fitting new speakers she comes along with her friend checks her car and says" just checking dont trust the buggers" yet we've never done any thing another day (trying to blame us) she says to her husband "need some touch up paint theres grey marks on my door" but none of us have a grey car and the marks on her door were polish... feckin biatch
ManxMatt34
03-05-09, 10:21 PM
Ahhaha i'm lucky where we moved to last year, we have 1 side old couple who dont care atall. and the other side are huge bike fans, have several bike, cars in out doing work all the time. Love it and comes in handy for bike related help aswell lol.
Thingus
03-05-09, 10:53 PM
My bike's parked outside about 30 rented flats, described as ' professional lets' or something, my baffle's not really been in for a long time... i just hope people can carry on being this nice :)
If i get an early morning job or whatever i'll put the baffle back in i reckon :p it's swings an' roundabouts, i understand people wanting their P&Q, but not 24/7.
davepreston
03-05-09, 10:59 PM
what a t0sser. if you have the kettle on any day and want to make a brew for some visitors then I am sure a few of us could turn up sociably to annoy him!!!
ask girth about that one after a rivi meet we all piled back to his for tea and cake (about 12 of us) and she asked us to rev the shiiitt out of the bikes on the way out :) top bird
and a lunge photo as well for posperity
vardypeeps
03-05-09, 11:02 PM
**** one mate im lucky my neighbours are diamonds (one is letting me put a big f off shed right beside his garden for me to work on the bikes and he's going help put it up gent) i think you should get a berco boiler and invite all your mates round to work on there bikes in your drive for a week (even if they dont need too) with a few brews and lots of engine idle testing
Brilliant idea.
Test your bike out with out the baffles etc too
He definitely loves to moan. He is well known for it over the years. There used to be a pub next door to him (our house was built in the land behind the pub. It's now a B&B) and he used to always complain about the noise from the live bands etc. You'd think he would have noticed the pub before he moved in!
I don't want to cause too much bother because it is my parents that will have to put up with him for years to come after I move out. But I just can't be bothered putting up with his cr@p
Get right up in his face and tell him to Fu*k Off before you plank him one. Guaranteed he'll call the police, but then you only have to deny deny deny, and without a witness they don't have a case. When the Police have gone, keep your promise and plank him one. Worked for me when a neighbour of mine started getting shirty about my mates turning up at all hours. I never got any more bother from him.
what a t0sser. if you have the kettle on any day and want to make a brew for some visitors then I am sure a few of us could turn up sociably to annoy him!!!
+1
i think some of the Ecosse posse would welcome a little run to Carnoustie for a cuppa...
i cant see the problem in working on your bike on your own drive unless your revving the **** out of it at silly hours in the morning that'd **** even me off.
Jamiebridges123
04-05-09, 12:34 AM
I had a neighbour (friend of my Mum actually, and one of those Police security analysts with a stupid name that you could never understand) complain about my bike being "too loud and having woke her up". Bear in mind this lady lives about 15 meters from my house and my exhaust is pointing away from her house (so it wouldn't be as loud anyway)
I started it up at 9.30am a few Sundays ago so it could warm up a bit and send the oil round while I spent about 2 minutes putting lid and gloves on... got home after having a day out with my old man and found out she had complained. Yet when I start up at 8am for work on weekday next door never complain and they're a right bunch of ****y buggers!
Seriously neighbours can get stuffed. Screw them all haha
lukemillar
04-05-09, 04:46 AM
Take your bike to infront of his house.. make sure baffles are out or the slip on is removed completely, max noise please!
Park it so your back wheel is inline with his front door. Knock on the door and jump on your bike. Just as he opens the door, start it and do a huge burnout in his face. That out to shut him up.
you don't ride a 50cc scooter by any chance? ;)
Speedy Claire
04-05-09, 06:31 AM
I work with a girl who`s neighbour called the police when her 4 year old daughter was having her birthday party!!!! he said the noise from the bouncy castle was excessive!!!
Red Herring
04-05-09, 08:10 AM
There's some excellent advice on here, especially if you just want to aggravate the situation...... Good to see the coppers had some sense and did their bit, however the chances are they also told him what he should have done which is to get in touch with the Environmental Dept of the local council. They have an officer responsible for sorting out noise pollution issues and if you are in the habit of regularly making loads of noise at anti social hours (and I'm not suggesting you are) they have some unbelievable powers to do something about it, so probably best not to give them to much opportunity. Of course, a one off BBQ or party is OK.......
BBQ at yours this summer Darren and invite the 'ecosse posse'!
When and where?? :)
I know what it's like to live next to neighbours from hell... I've been on the receiving end... our current next door neighbours play loud music til 3 or 4 in the morning EVERY weekend, it gets tedious.
I try not to complain though, cos I know that the ART race can on my exhaust at 9 in the morning when they have hangovers is going to be just as annoying. :)
I'm on for a BBQ though. ;)
Just try and be mature about it... sometimes there can be a little give and take...Like the Red Herring says - you can get into an awful lot of trouble over noise pollution etc
SoulKiss
04-05-09, 09:44 AM
Go to your local pet shop and get a big bag of catnip.
Sprinkle on his front lawn.
:)
Dave20046
04-05-09, 10:02 AM
Or salt :D
phil24_7
04-05-09, 10:10 AM
There's some excellent advice on here, especially if you just want to aggravate the situation...... Good to see the coppers had some sense and did their bit, however the chances are they also told him what he should have done which is to get in touch with the Environmental Dept of the local council. They have an officer responsible for sorting out noise pollution issues and if you are in the habit of regularly making loads of noise at anti social hours (and I'm not suggesting you are) they have some unbelievable powers to do something about it, so probably best not to give them to much opportunity. Of course, a one off BBQ or party is OK.......
The environmental people don't do $hit. We had issues, many years ago, with the neighbours playing rave music at all hours of the day and night. I phoned the police who said they couldn't do anything, and that I'd have to phone the environmental department and keep a log of everytime they're noisey.
This takes months before they'll pay them a visit to ask them to keep it down. Then you must maintain the log and inform them if they persist with the noise.
I asked the Police, the next time I called them about it, if they'd come round if there was a serious assault and they said of course, so I said they'd better send someone as there was about to be one.
Wen't round next door, all but kicked it through (5 point locking system but 1 refused to give in!), hurled abuse and threats through the letterbox and never had an issue with them after that, apart from Fri and Sat nights (Which I saw as reasonable, even if I had an early start that day).
The police never paid me a visit, not even about the damage to the front door. I suppose it helps when your neighbours see you smash the $hit out of someone (right outside their house) who tried to break into your car!
The environmental people don't do $hit........ This takes months before they'll pay them a visit to ask them to keep it down.
Same laws but different service levels, different staffing levels and different enforcement policies/practices depending upon where you live.
Here in Cardiff we have a night noise service 5 nights a week (Wed - Sun) and 24-hour cover at all times (I'm on-call at the moment). Night noise staff are based with the police call-handlers and Notices can be served within the hour and seizures of noise-making equipment are routine.
The police are pleased to be involved as they take the chance to look around the premises for "other stuff" whilst there ;)
If the service in your area is cr@p then complain to your Councillors - they are there to represent you.
SoulKiss
04-05-09, 10:48 AM
Or salt :D
Nah, salt it too obvious.
Cat nip will turn his lawn into the feline equivilent of a Crack House.
Cat crap doesnt half stink too :)
Cat crap doesnt half stink too :)
Chicken poo is worse :thumbsup:
timwilky
04-05-09, 11:06 AM
I had a neighbour from hell, We has a wooden panel type fence between us and a panel blew out. She used the opportunity to start throwing all her rubbish through the gap and into the back of my garden. My wife rang me at work to tell me what was happening and I of course returned the rubbish.
She then said the land at the back of my garden was hers and I got nasty solicitors letters, my neighbours then told me that they had received solicitors letters asking them to confirm that I had moved my fence etc.
She had surveyors in who must have told her what I already knew as her next solicitors letter was the smell from my BBQ, my response to that was to fire up the BBQ at every opportunity. Well I guess she is dead now as I have not seen her head pop over the fence for a while. and her 50 year old still at home son hides every time I am in my garden
phil24_7
04-05-09, 01:06 PM
Same laws but different service levels, different staffing levels and different enforcement policies/practices depending upon where you live.
Here in Cardiff we have a night noise service 5 nights a week (Wed - Sun) and 24-hour cover at all times (I'm on-call at the moment). Night noise staff are based with the police call-handlers and Notices can be served within the hour and seizures of noise-making equipment are routine.
The police are pleased to be involved as they take the chance to look around the premises for "other stuff" whilst there ;)
If the service in your area is cr@p then complain to your Councillors - they are there to represent you.
Cool. Wish there was something like that down here as it would save me going all Neanderthal!
Jamiebridges123
04-05-09, 01:07 PM
you don't ride a 50cc scooter by any chance? ;)
Haha, never ridden anything less than 125cc:p
Haha, never ridden anything less than 125cc:p
i have once never again :thumbdown: :D
BanditPat
04-05-09, 02:07 PM
i have once never again :thumbdown: :D
The 50's are funner than 125's thoughh:D
When I was younger, most of my neighbours were plod, it was like the Met police all lived here.
I had a scrambler and a 100cc Kart, I only had to start one of them up and you could guarantee the Feds would be here within minutes.
Now not a problem as there aren't many police patrols.
Personally, if he is a nosey-nothing-better-to-do neighbour that keeps hassling you, I'd knock on his door every time I was about to get my bike out, clean it, start it up, put it away etc.
Then he might leave you alone eventually.
I used to use Halloween as revenge time.
Theres nothin as queer as folk!
I had to work on saturday morning (builder) started at 8.30 we were just laying bricks not hammering making excessive noise etc, bloke from next door pushed past the owner of the house we're putting extension on stormed over to me and my gaffer and said to me "shut your f%***ng mouth your talking too loud and i did'nt get to bed till 2 am" to which i replied i have a hangover its not sunday its after 9 am your obviously an idiot and i suggest you get out of my face and stop talking to me like a dog!
Anyway he flipped his lid and went berserk shouting and balling and his next little gem was "right then so its bother you's want and its bother your gonna get am havin both of yous checked out backgrounds and everything then next week your both gonna get "sorted" your both gonna regret this if you dont put your tools back in your vans and let me get some sleep"
Honestly its hard to believe the amount of total idiots which inhabit this land
mick
"right then so its bother you's want and its bother your gonna get am havin both of yous checked out backgrounds and everything then next week your both gonna get "sorted" your both gonna regret this if you dont put your tools back in your vans and let me get some sleep"
Please, keep us informed. :D
Best part is my gaffer went to greece yesterday so im on me tod hahaha should be an interesting 4 day week
mick
Jamiebridges123
04-05-09, 03:02 PM
The 50's are funner than 125's thoughh:D
I really do want to have a go on a twist and go just to see what it's like. I've only ever ridden geared bikes and my first was an RS125 so I have no experience with twist and go-go :D
Miss Alpinestarhero
04-05-09, 03:49 PM
I'm just going to completely ignore him.
Best thing to do. Maybe your meighbour is so lonely that complaining and getting "attention" from you, the police, god knows who else is the only form of social contact he has?
Meh I dont know, psychological analysis over :D
Ooo soulkisses's suggestion of catnip sounds hilarious..Id love to see that happen. Cat party..! :smt043
DarrenSV650S
04-05-09, 04:28 PM
He does have a cat and a dog
dizzyblonde
04-05-09, 04:50 PM
Don't you love neighbours. I live in the middle of a block of six. My access is from the left of my back door, through two gardens. When i first got the 125 i asked the other end if they would mind if I accessed from their side, as I was not very confident at the time, and my access had a nice drop into the garden of the end house (which i landed in once upside down:-( ) They were fine with it.....but one day they got fed up with me asking them to move one of their 5 vans on the drive. It was dark i'd done my back in at work and was tired. The reply when asked to move the van was no.
Apparently I'd scratched one of their many cars! Funny that as it was always parked rammed against the privet hedge! Plus Suzy is my pride and joy, so I doubt I'd scratch her on their piece of poo.
I mentioned it to the 'proper' end, and the guy said I tell you what, I'll widen the path and put a fence up, so it should make things easier..yyiiiiippppeee. I don't talk to the others now.
We're always fixing bikes in our garden, I ask regular if anyone is disturbed at 4.30am when I go to work....noooooo! Never!! nobody ever whinges about the noise. I'm happy with that
maviczap
04-05-09, 04:59 PM
I was working on the tzr earlier and he came down the drive and said "Do you mind? I can't hear myself think". I looked at him then just carried on working. I know what he is like, he has moaned at me before about where I park my car on the street. He then said "are your parents home?" which I found pretty insulting so said "What??" anyway he eventually threatened to phone the police so I said "go for it" and he said "fine if that's how you want it".
I heard him in his garden on the phone to the police and I swear it was 2 minutes later they were at the drive. They spoke to him then came to speak to me and asked what happened. They basically said it's our drive so it's up to me what I do and I'm not doing anything wrong. He's a complete to55er.:smt013
Sorry, bit of a pointless thread but I'm just pi55ed off and felt like having a rant
You need to invest in this drum kit :smt082
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=131126
-Ralph-
04-05-09, 05:10 PM
Go to your local pet shop and get a big bag of catnip.
Sprinkle on his front lawn.
:)
ROLF, excellent! :D Must remember that one.
I used to have a neighbour who came out all aggressive any time anyone made any noise. He worked nights. Came out shouting at me once for cutting my grass with a petrol lawnmower on a Saturday afternoon! You can guess what the response was. Always moaned about my zorst, and said "what if I come out and rev my bike at 2 in the morning?", the guy just couldn't get it through his thick skull that it was him who chose to work nights, and there was nothing wrong with cutting your grass or going out on your loud motorbike in the middle of the day. If I had to leave at 6am or return at midnight, I'd keep the baffle in. Wear earplugs or get a day job!
Ever since I used to look at his bedroom window to see if the curtains were closed during the day and make excessive noise, rev bike, beep goodbye to my wife, etc, etc.
Alpinestarhero
04-05-09, 05:49 PM
Ok, try this one for size:
1) start up your Suzuki SV650. Kit up, and go for a short ride to warm the engine.
2) once warm, head for home. Once home, turn off your SV and remove the exhaust. Restart the engine, and allow the engine to idle for a few moments, before blipping the throttle. Increase the revs gradually.
3) bounce the bloody thing off the limiter a few times
4) ask the neighbour to speak up as you cant hear him over the sound of your 645 cc v-twin.
The only problem we have around here is people getting shirty about you parking on ANY of the pavement front their house.
timwilky
04-05-09, 06:04 PM
ROLF, excellent! :D Must remember that one.
I used to have a neighbour who came out all aggressive any time anyone made any noise. He worked nights. Came out shouting at me once for cutting my grass with a petrol lawnmower on a Saturday afternoon! You can guess what the response was. Always moaned about my zorst, and said "what if I come out and rev my bike at 2 in the morning?", the guy just couldn't get it through his thick skull that it was him who chose to work nights, and there was nothing wrong with cutting your grass or going out on your loud motorbike in the middle of the day. If I had to leave at 6am or return at midnight, I'd keep the baffle in. Wear earplugs or get a day job!
Ever since I used to look at his bedroom window to see if the curtains were closed during the day and make excessive noise, rev bike, beep goodbye to my wife, etc, etc.
If I know my neighbours are doing a night shift, I tend not to do noisy stuff whilst they are in bed. Daughter and wife both work at the local hospital and get rota'd nights so we stick a sign on the door to say night worker sleeping and usually some stupid idiot that wants to talk about god rings the bloody bell and sets the dog off etc.
I agree don't change your life because the neighbours work nights, but if you can give them a break
Bluepete
04-05-09, 06:11 PM
Along the lines of the cat-nip, I was once told that a message left on a lawn in masses of cress seed would become evident when the lawn is mown. Apparently, the white stems of the cress would show the message in contrast to the green grass.
I don't condone this behaviour, unless you are leaving a message of love and peace ;)
Pete
Oh, and night shifts feck your brain up. Please be kind to shift workers!
Oh, and night shifts feck your brain up. Please be kind to shift workers!
This!
:)
dizzyblonde
04-05-09, 07:45 PM
Oh, and night shifts feck your brain up. Please be kind to shift workers!
yes they do, especially when you do 12 hr nights, every other week. My neighbour said earlier she told her son off for winding me up yesterday, as she knew I was on nights. Aww she thought I'd be cross for him bouncing up and down on the trampoline shouting my name while I was getting my bike out for work...I thought it was funny, hes only six and thought I couldn't see over the bushes.
-Ralph-
04-05-09, 08:15 PM
Oh, I'd have been kind if he didn't come across shouting and threatening violence right from the outset.
Another new neighbour was working on his bike on the driveway which required a bit of starting, stopping, tweaking, starting, stopping and the guy who he had never spoken to before just came over and laid into him. He didn't even know he worked nights. If he had come across and said, "sorry mate, I'm your neighbour from across the street, I work nights and the bikes waking me up each time you start it, would you mind doing it later or in your garage?" there would have been no issue. As it was I just said "well now you've met your neighbour", he said "bet you're glad your moving" and then carried on fixing his bike.
I was cutting my grass on a Saturday afternoon first time he came across and started an argument with me for feck's sake.
Night workers I have every sympathy for, done it plenty of times myself when I was a student, but this guy is just a to$$er.
Shellywoozle
04-05-09, 08:19 PM
I can't believe the call taker sent a bobby to that !! Next time more noise is required ;)
dizzyblonde
04-05-09, 08:21 PM
Working nights does make you act a bit of a nob at times when your tired though.
Another example. My son came in this afternoon after weekend at grandparents. Next door little lad called to play. I said he could play for ten minutes as he had his best gear on(had hair dye on my head)then come into get changed.
In ten minutes a kid down the road found it funny to dawb the two of them in paint. Well you can imagine the snarling blonde on the doorstep of the parents! Set of best clothes ruined by a little sh!t thats always causing trouble. My fault initially but......don't pi$$ off the blonde after a nightshift!
DarrenSV650S
04-05-09, 08:22 PM
I can't believe the call taker sent a bobby to that !! Next time more noise is required ;)
It was the speed they arrived that shocked me. Ok the station is just a mile or two along the road but you'd think they would have better things to do. When I was in a car accident a few months back I had to practically beg them to make an appearance
-Ralph-
04-05-09, 08:26 PM
The thing I could never get used to about working nights (6 til 6 in a bakery) was driving home and having absolutely no traffic and the world still being asleep. Your brain thinks it's 6pm, when actually it's 6am. Didn't make me grumpy though, I actually quite liked it 'cos you'd go to bed at 7am and get up at 1-2ish, then you had 4 hours of useful daytime, daylight, shops open, etc, before you had to be back at work.
dizzyblonde
04-05-09, 08:26 PM
I certainly wouldn't waste police time with petty stuff like that.....no matter how peed I was. Maybe next time he does it, ask him if hes been on holiday lately!
dizzyblonde
04-05-09, 08:28 PM
The thing I could never get used to about working nights (6 til 6 in a bakery) was driving home and having absolutely no traffic and the world still being asleep. Your brain thinks it's 6pm, when actually it's 6am.
Worst thing is when your sat at the lights on your bike, and you suddenly realise your heads on the tank. i don't recommend it. Luckily that incident was in the 'getting use to' stage. I'm usually bright as a button when I get home now.
DarrenSV650S
04-05-09, 08:36 PM
bright as a button
:lol: I love the sayings you come out with dizzy. I swear if you didn't have a photo of yourself anyone would think you were 80 lol
Jamiebridges123
04-05-09, 08:37 PM
Worst thing is when your sat at the lights on your bike, and you suddenly realise your heads on the tank. i don't recommend it. Luckily that incident was in the 'getting use to' stage. I'm usually bright as a button when I get home now.
Ever find yourself having the urge to hug your bike when sat at the lights? Or is that just me..? :confused:
DarrenSV650S
04-05-09, 08:39 PM
Ever find yourself having the urge to hug your bike when sat at the lights? Or is that just me..? :confused:
I get that on very long motorway rides
dizzyblonde
04-05-09, 08:40 PM
:lol: I love the sayings you come out with dizzy. I swear if you didn't have a photo of yourself anyone would think you were 80 lol
Ever find yourself having the urge to hug your bike when sat at the lights? Or is that just me..? :confused:
a slight derail but i'll answer.
I'm from Yorkshire Darren, its where all sayings like that come from and it don't matter how old you are, you just come out with them:p
Jamie...no your not the only one;)
DarrenSV650S
04-05-09, 08:42 PM
a slight derail? Yes let's get back on topic here! We are supposed to be talking about night-shift people!! Oh wait............
;)
Bluefish
04-05-09, 09:07 PM
:lol: I love the sayings you come out with dizzy. I swear if you didn't have a photo of yourself anyone would think you were 80 lol
It's amazing what they can do nowadays. :D
I know what it's like to live next to neighbours from hell... I've been on the receiving end... our current next door neighbours play loud music til 3 or 4 in the morning EVERY weekend, it gets tedious.
Good grief, how on earth do you put up with this? Our neighbours started this but after the second weekend at 3 in the morning I stormed round with bike jacket on and tore them off a strip, threatened them with the Police. They turned it straight off and have been so so since. However this weekend they had a big party Saturday night and I could see it ending up the same as before, so I'd had enough by 10pm as Evie was trying to revise. I went round again and told them it had better not end up as before, they were good and turned it down. Of course I felt bad then cos it was quite early.
Trouble is, where music is concerened I'm intolerant, and I think if your attached to someone then you should be more considerate. And they never have it from us.
Am I the neighbour from hell??
Oh yes, and our neighbour occasionally works nights and I'm tempted to cut the hedge on these days, but I can't bring myself to their level so I do tend to creep around. (the music isn't the only thing, they bang around constantly)
Also, and I have wondered about this, they are so petrified when I say I'll call the police so I think if it ever gets to that I ask them to bring the drug dogs.
jamesterror
04-05-09, 09:56 PM
Good grief, how on earth do you put up with this? Our neighbours started this but after the second weekend at 3 in the morning I stormed round with bike jacket on and tore them off a strip, threatened them with the Police. They turned it straight off and have been so so since. However this weekend they had a big party Saturday night and I could see it ending up the same as before, so I'd had enough by 10pm as Evie was trying to revise. I went round again and told them it had better not end up as before, they were good and turned it down. Of course I felt bad then cos it was quite early.
Trouble is, where music is concerened I'm intolerant, and I think if your attached to someone then you should be more considerate. And they never have it from us.
Am I the neighbour from hell??
I can understand how your daughter feels with revising, even a pin drop can distract, loud noise don't help.
When me & mates have people round we knock of the loud music and shouting at 11 cos one of neighbours at my mate's house appreciated we did that cos they were curious what happened and nobody left!
Reading through this I feel quite lucky with neighbours, person next door just had their drive done that was really annoying as I've not been able to sleep and an angle grinder right outside my window doesn't appeal, however hes never in and has never complained about the racket in our house. As with over the road, the lad has 2 ZX6's which sometimes he's sat there with the choke on at 3/4K at 8 in the morning.
dizzyblonde
04-05-09, 11:24 PM
I've said I live in chav central on many occasions. The previous next door neighbours were from hell.....until they got the house repossessed. Kids used to climb the back gate and climb in my kitchen window(at the age of 3) couldn't care less how many people at all hours they had in and out. Music blaring, cars screeching up and down the street, one of them knocked down the wall over the road to a garden.
the last straw was when 'a guest' got high on something, and at 3am, myself and guests mother tried stopping him from putting a meat cleaver through his girlfriends head. The day after I had a nose to nose conversation with the neighbours basically saying they made the Dingles look tame, and couldn't wait for the day that they left.
After 2 years of hell, the new neighbours gave me the best xmas present ever....by occupying a house that had stood empty for a year, and replacing 'The CHAVS'
metalangel
05-05-09, 07:26 AM
I know what he is like, he has moaned at me before about where I park my car on the street.
Yeah, wtf is wrong with people like this? I can't park in front of my house (double yellow lines!) so instead I park down the little street on the side where there's space for four cars. Unfortunately, with a pub, takeaway and car parts shop there's a pretty good chance a customer of one of those will be in the spaces. And given there's my neighbour's 4x4, his son's car and his neighbour's car too that means when I turn up all four spaces are filled.
So, I've had to sometimes drive a bit further down the little street to find a place to put the car as the main road is absolutely packed. I always ensure I put it in a good place that doesn't block anyone's driveway or anything. Yet twice, this one guy (Victor ****ing Meldrew I call him) has confronted me, demanding that since I don't live on the street I shouldn't park there, why can't I park in front of my house, why can't I build a hard stand or garage at the back of my house, etc etc etc. He goes on to admit that legally I'm not doing anything wrong (I pay my road tax, I can park wherever it's legal to do so) but basically acts like a total ********.
Grrr, it makes me FURIOUS just thinking about it. If he ever says anything to me again I won't be polite this time, I will tell him to get ****ed and that the only reason I'd park elsewhere is if I wanted to, and he's not exactly making me WANT TO.
Everyone else on the street I've dealt with has been lovely! One guy came out as I was parking up, I expected trouble but he just politely asked if I could park a few feet further back so he wouldn't worry about tapping me as he backed out of his driveway? No problem, buddy!
Another guy came up and said 'I've been trying to catch up with you for ages' and I expected another telling off... but no, he liked my car and wondered about it as he was thinking of getting one himself. I told him what I'd been expecting him to say and he laughed heartily!
*end rant*
missyburd
05-05-09, 07:30 AM
What a to$$er, clearly has nothing better to do, especially when he knows the police won't do anything about it :rolleyes:. It's possible he's trying to push you to your limits and waiting for you retaliate with something that the police may act on so try not to rise to it is the only real suggestion I guess. It's your house, your drive, you entitlement to do whatever the fook you like so if he can't accept that then a few well placed revs while he's stood right next to you may give him the hint. Loving the catnip idea though, that will only end well :smt029
Brilliant idea.
Test your bike out with out the baffles etc too
YC may have been known to do this on occasion....always in respectable hours though :-) The number of bikes he has, revving 'em up and tinkering about with them, his neighbours really are saints. Just well used to it I guess lol.
timwilky
05-05-09, 07:57 AM
my nephew (13) was grassed up by his neighbour for riding his field bike in the field behind their house. Multiple time they had shouted at him from their garden, next fuzz arrived. He was told he was having his bike seized and they would apply for an ASBO. He phoned his dad crying.
Bro went up to see what was happening and told plod to feck off he had permission to be there. We need the landowner to confirm. Your ****ing talking to him. It took them at least an hour to get it into their heads that my nephew and his mates could ride their bikes. The only trespasser was plod
We had to repair the field the next weekend by ensuring that well rotted fertilizer was applied. moaning gits would have more than noise and kids to upset them.
pity we no longer had my dads old Fordson major with a belt driven saw table, we could have generated some real agricultural noise to upset them
Dave20046
05-05-09, 08:13 AM
Yeah, wtf is wrong with people like this? I can't park in front of my house (double yellow lines!) so instead I park down the little street on the side where there's space for four cars. Unfortunately, with a pub, takeaway and car parts shop there's a pretty good chance a customer of one of those will be in the spaces. And given there's my neighbour's 4x4, his son's car and his neighbour's car too that means when I turn up all four spaces are filled.
So, I've had to sometimes drive a bit further down the little street to find a place to put the car as the main road is absolutely packed. I always ensure I put it in a good place that doesn't block anyone's driveway or anything. Yet twice, this one guy (Victor ****ing Meldrew I call him) has confronted me, demanding that since I don't live on the street I shouldn't park there, why can't I park in front of my house, why can't I build a hard stand or garage at the back of my house, etc etc etc. He goes on to admit that legally I'm not doing anything wrong (I pay my road tax, I can park wherever it's legal to do so) but basically acts like a total ********.
Grrr, it makes me FURIOUS just thinking about it. If he ever says anything to me again I won't be polite this time, I will tell him to get ****ed and that the only reason I'd park elsewhere is if I wanted to, and he's not exactly making me WANT TO.
Everyone else on the street I've dealt with has been lovely! One guy came out as I was parking up, I expected trouble but he just politely asked if I could park a few feet further back so he wouldn't worry about tapping me as he backed out of his driveway? No problem, buddy!
Another guy came up and said 'I've been trying to catch up with you for ages' and I expected another telling off... but no, he liked my car and wondered about it as he was thinking of getting one himself. I told him what I'd been expecting him to say and he laughed heartily!
*end rant*
I once parked outside some loons house (on the road, not obstructing any driveways) anyway as we were just about to drive off he swung the door open and launched into a rant about how dare the car be bparked there etc and if it happened again don't hold him responsible for any damage.
I explained to him that everyone is entitled to park where they want on the road as it is a public highway, which he didn't like. I asked if he'd like me to get out and he retorted with 'I have big strong hands' :?
Left it at 'I'll park where I want you nutjob bellend' and drove off.
He is a very wierd neighbour.
timwilky
05-05-09, 08:37 AM
Trouble with parking, is people do it where they shouldn't as well.
We had a public footpath that ran alongside our drive, past the side of the house and into the land beyond. Normally most people were responsible, but you did get those who assumed that because it was a public footpath they could actually park on our drive. The drive was quite long (about 400 yards) so you would not see/hear them do it. but then you cannot get your own cars in/out.
We therefore had an arrangement with a local garage to tow away dumped cars. They would knock on the door, "have you seen anyone with my car?", what car, where was it parked and then launch into them about parking on private land, causing obstruction etc. Village bobby knew the score, they would end up with a recovery and storage charge and lesson learned.
nutjob bellend' .
He is a very wierd neighbour.
PMSL at this. Ribs ache etc...and he's the wierd one? :smt044
Nutjob bellend....I can't wait to use that later!=D>
Dave20046
05-05-09, 09:14 AM
lol, point taken probably didn't make myself sound better/help matters but he was an odd one. I left it at that because I could tell he desperately wanted me to hit him so he could run to the plod, went off on one about drink driving youths parking illegally etc. (I was drinking a smoothie and parked perfectly legally! Infact more than just 'legally' I was no inconvenience to anyone else). I was extremely calm and diplomatic until he got a bit up in my face about 'quoting the law to him'
I'm thinking pete's cress seed idea would be brilliant, 'nutjob bellend' 20 ft across his lawn :mrgreen:
tim - You were quite right in that case, shame you couldn't set up private clamping and see some of the money (is that legal?).
Photo's please!!!:D ( I am v fortunate; don't have parking problems at home...touch wood etc etc)
metalangel
05-05-09, 09:51 AM
I once parked outside some loons house (on the road, not obstructing any driveways) anyway as we were just about to drive off he swung the door open and launched into a rant about how dare the car be bparked there etc and if it happened again don't hold him responsible for any damage.
I explained to him that everyone is entitled to park where they want on the road as it is a public highway, which he didn't like. I asked if he'd like me to get out and he retorted with 'I have big strong hands' :?
Left it at 'I'll park where I want you nutjob bellend' and drove off.
He is a very wierd neighbour.
Big strong hands because he's a w***er? :smt045
So long as you're parked in a legal spot and not causing an obstruction, that should be fine. You should have told him that if there was any damage you'd send the coppers straight to him for basically saying he'd deliberately damage your car.
i live in a cul-de-sac, i have only 3 neighbours and they're all great.
hope that helps
gruntygiggles
05-05-09, 10:57 AM
We just get laughed at here for how often Stretchie is down on the pavement working on the bike or Land Rover! We have to use the pavement as we don;t have a drive, but it's a big wide pavement in from of our garage. The only person that complains is a lady that lives up the road because she would rather ride her horse on the pavement than on the road. She's a right old trout so I can't wait to be down there next time she mouths off as we have every legal right to park on and work on the pavement, provided we leave enough room for people to safely get by.......which we do (it's only an access pavement to us and out neighbours). Funny thing is, she has no legal right to ride her horse on the pavement, so I she's just showing herself to be a stuck up idiot!
As for your neighbour, just smile and wave every time you see him. I had a neighbour like that once that tried telling me he owned my driveway and could stop me from parking the land rover defender on it. He said the big nobbly wide tyres were ruining the tarmac and that he'd have to foot the bill.
I said, "Actually David, the council own the pavement, my landlord owns my drive and so it has nothing to do with you, however, just to put your mind at rest........your little Corsa is causing more damage than my Defender as on the defender, the weight is distributed over a larger surface area in relation to the weight of the vehicle. Also, these tyres are mud pluggers, they are made of very soft rubber compared to yours and so the only damage they'll do on a road is to themselves by loose surfaces causing rubber to come off". He called the police four times and was warned with an asbo and a charge of wasting police time. Funny.....I was 26 at the time and he blamed my "irresponsible behaviour" on my age, but it was him that could not even muster the decency to say thank you when I went into his kitchen after hearing his wife screaming and put out a fire that was engulfing the cooker and half the back wall units!
All you can do with people is remain perfectly civil and keep yourself on the high moral ground. Every time you remind them that it's their behaviour that should be called into question, you'll pi$$ them off more than any amount of revving your engines!!!
Bluepete
05-05-09, 11:14 AM
All you can do with people is remain perfectly civil and keep yourself on the high moral ground. Every time you remind them that it's their behaviour that should be called into question, you'll pi$$ them off more than any amount of revving your engines!!!
That's the winner. It's lovely to have in your mind all those vicious and damaging things you would do, but in reality, all we want is peace and the ability to be inside or outside our house, barn, hovel without geting grief.
I spent years working as a Beat Bobby (No, I didn't walk around dancing!) in Moston and Harpurhey where ever day I would have to deal with exactly this sort of thing. It was like talking to kids! Adults shouting and yelling over the tiniest infractions into "Their rights".
Trust me on this, the Cops don't want to know. It's not a Police issue that Mrs Miggins can't sleep until 10.00am because Tiddles the cat has an upset tummsy and didn't get to sleep until 2.00am and you have to fix your bike.
Ignore shouty people. They get bored and find something else to be upset about soon enough.
Pete
DarrenSV650S
05-05-09, 03:53 PM
Interesting stuff. Thanks for all the replies
The 50's are funner than 125's thoughh:D
that sound though and the lack of anything power wise drived me mad they make sense if your just going across town though i must admit probably use 50p for a weeks worth of riding :D
Good grief, how on earth do you put up with this? Our neighbours started this but after the second weekend at 3 in the morning I stormed round with bike jacket on and tore them off a strip, threatened them with the Police. They turned it straight off and have been so so since.
About 8 years ago I lived in an upstairs flat after I walked out on the missus. The lass downstairs was a girl with free and easy emotions, who shared her love of all things sexual with a number of partners. This would happen usually at weekends after she'd finished work in a restaurant/bar a few miles away, and she'd always bring a different guy home on each night. To say she wasn't the quietest girl would be an understatement.
I worked for myself at the time, and I worked long hard hours and valued every minute of sleep I could cram into a night, so being woken at 2am by dance music making an attempt at masking the sounds of a pair of loudly shagging strangers going at it until 6am wasn't my idea of fun. After 4 weekends of this I had had enough. I warned the neighbours behind me of what I was about to do and waited for this Friday's drink fuelled amorous male to come home with the fat sticky slapper (she usually had a different one each Friday and Saturday night, and never the same one twice). I endured their screams, grunts and music for a while and then waited a couple of hours for them to be well asleep.
That's when I turned the huge Mission speakers I'd borrowed towards the floor over her bedroom and front room and slapped Nirvana's 'Never Mind' CD on my stereo, wound the volume right up to 'distort', wound the bass up to 3/4 and set it to repeat. At that point I walked downstairs, got in my van and drove to my mum's for a nice long sleep.
She never bothered me again.
metalangel
06-05-09, 07:30 AM
fat sticky slapper
Up until you said this, I was going to ask why you didn't just go downstairs and ask for a bit?
I had an upstairs neighbour in flats who played deafening dance music constantly. He was an outrageously arrogant Nathan Barley-type do-nothing web designer who parked his huge car miles away from the curb on what was a very busy road, came stomping and screaming up the stairs with his equally c***y mates at all hours (especially early hours) and succeeded in driving several groups of tenants out and having another lodge a formal complaint with the council and have the cops around several times. As my flat was on its own at the rear of the house, I didn't hear the music really, just the stomping. It was fun to come walking up the front path to the sounds of Judge Jules, though.
But downstairs from me, the lovely couple moved out and were replaced by a less social couple who loved to have blazing arguments for hours and hours. Shouting was bad enough but then agonised crying which wouldn't be drowned out by the gunfire and music from my PC (Desert Combat :D) so I ended up being that sad ******* who sits in the pub on their own, just to get away from it.
gruntygiggles
06-05-09, 07:30 AM
About 8 years ago I lived in an upstairs flat after I walked out on the missus. The lass downstairs was a girl with free and easy emotions, who shared her love of all things sexual with a number of partners. This would happen usually at weekends after she'd finished work in a restaurant/bar a few miles away, and she'd always bring a different guy home on each night. To say she wasn't the quietest girl would be an understatement.
I worked for myself at the time, and I worked long hard hours and valued every minute of sleep I could cram into a night, so being woken at 2am by dance music making an attempt at masking the sounds of a pair of loudly shagging strangers going at it until 6am wasn't my idea of fun. After 4 weekends of this I had had enough. I warned the neighbours behind me of what I was about to do and waited for this Friday's drink fuelled amorous male to come home with the fat sticky slapper (she usually had a different one each Friday and Saturday night, and never the same one twice). I endured their screams, grunts and music for a while and then waited a couple of hours for them to be well asleep.
That's when I turned the huge Mission speakers I'd borrowed towards the floor over her bedroom and front room and slapped Nirvana's 'Never Mind' CD on my stereo, wound the volume right up to 'distort', wound the bass up to 3/4 and set it to repeat. At that point I walked downstairs, got in my van and drove to my mum's for a nice long sleep.
She never bothered me again.
Well, seeing as the other neighbours were on board with this.....what a fab thing to do. I've done similar, but nothing quite like that.
Brilliant!
Red Herring
06-05-09, 07:58 AM
I did something very similar once, only instead of playing music I played a choice selection of all the recordings I had made of their rows. It lasted about ten minutes before they came round looking extremely sheepish and apologized profusely with lots of "would I mind not doing that again". I should be a marriage councilor....
-Ralph-
06-05-09, 07:50 PM
I played a choice selection of all the recordings I had made of their rows
:smt100 STALKER ALERT! ;)
BanditPat
06-05-09, 08:35 PM
that sound though and the lack of anything power wise drived me mad they make sense if your just going across town though i must admit probably use 50p for a weeks worth of riding :D
and carry another set of levers with you and you can do what ever you want if you fall off it doesent matter :D
and carry another set of levers with you and you can do what ever you want if you fall off it doesent matter :D
true :)
Red Herring
06-05-09, 09:43 PM
:smt100 STALKER ALERT! ;)
Yeah, that was a bit how I felt, but trust me there was nothing sneaky about it. These were full blown shall I call the cops type rows and I didn't need to hold the mic to the wall either - see the posts earlier about getting evidence for Environmental noise dept.
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