Neighbours :/

beckster

beckster

beckster

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Last night was the last night of uni life for my flatmates and I so we went out celebrating. Had an awesome night, and ended up coming home at about 3.30am after some skinny dipping in the nearby lake. We were up till 5ish messing about and watching films and making a fair amount of noise.

This morning at about 7am we got a loud banging on our front door followed by about 10 minutes of violent verbal abuse shouted through our letterbox. I wasn't home at this point (went home with a lady) but apparently my housemates just ignored it as they were too scared to come out and see what was happening. I got home at about 10am and was soon confronted again with this knocking. I opened my window and talked to the guy for a few minutes, apologising for the noise we made earlier and tried to explain that it was our last night and we were leaving the house in a couple of days anyway. We have lived here for 2 years and never made much noise at any time, let alone at 3 in the morning so this was definately a one-off. The guy wouldn't accept our apologies and was constantly swearing at us and generally being very intimidating. He even said he "I'll get you evicted you ******* ******". Good luck with that, we leave the house in a few days. Eventually, he left after going round in circles arguing for 5 minutes. About 30minutes later two other guys came round - apparently also from the same house and started along the same lines. I apologised again but they wouldn't accept it and threatened us some more. I live with 2 girls and they are understandably worried that these guys might flip out and hurt one of them.

Meanwhile, throughout the two years we have lived here we have been woken up most mornings by their kids and them shouting "shut the **** up at them" - nice. We were also burgled earlier in the year and suspect it might be them (not based on much apart from their massive chaviness). They let their kids run wild in their skanky garden (filled with rubbish including broken doors??) and even let them come kick a ball about in our garden. The house we live in is actually quite nice but the area seems to be chav central.

How the heck are you suppose to deal with people like this? We can't rewind back time and be quieter and even if we could, it was our last night and would have done exactly the same thing. Should I ring the police and let them know what's happened in case they come round again hurling more abuse at us? Thanks!
 
top floor window air rifle sorted ;)
apart from that if your all leaving in a few days just forget about it or if you really feel like they may get violent inform the police
 
Simple solution you should have been more polite in the first place just because it is your last night at Uni doesn't mean you should think it's ok to keep your neighbours awake till 5 in the morning on a week night when they and there kids probably have to be up for work. The least you should have done was let them know in advance. If you were my neighbours you would have been asked politely to be quiet once, told to be quiet and then I would have contacted the police. Doing what you did next door to a bunch of head cases wasn't very clever to be honest you were lucky they didn't pop round last night and smash the place up.
 
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If they come knocking again, arrange for somebody to phone the police while you occupy them.
 
Yeah, just lie low and try to ignore/forget about their abuse. It sounds to me that they do their fair share of noise themselves. Just hold your breath for the few days :)
 
if they ever complain at 3 in the morning saying "we're trying to sleep"

reply "well your not gunna get much sleep on my doorstep" and calmly close the door :)
 
a1ex2001 said:
Simple solution you should have been more polite in the first place just because it is your last night at Uni doesn't mean you should think it's ok to keep your neighbours awake till 5 in the morning. If you were my neighbours you would have been asked politely to be quiet once, told to be quiet and then I would have contacted the police. Doing what you did next door to a bunch of head cases wasn't very clever to be honest you were lucky they didn't pop round last night and smash the place up.
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That's the point - we didn't realise we were making that much noise to keep them awake and had we been asked to keep quiet, we would have! Turning up at 7am and screaming abuse through our letterbox and then trying to intimidate us is not what I would call acceptable behaviour.
 
Nitro_Junkie said:
if they ever complain at 3 in the morning saying "we're trying to sleep"

reply "well your not gunna get much sleep on my doorstep" and calmly close the door :)
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Yes, provoking them further is a good plan... they sound like the sort of people to just leave it at that. Or not...
 
beckster said:
That's the point - we didn't realise we were making that much noise and had we been asked to keep quiet, we would have!
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I can never understand this I'm afraid. How can you 'not know' when you're being noisy? Why do some people require a visit before they keep their inconsiderate noise down?
 
beckster said:
That's the point - we didn't realise we were making that much noise to keep them awake and had we been asked to keep quiet, we would have! Turning up at 7am and screaming abuse through our letterbox and then trying to intimidate us is not what I would call acceptable behaviour.
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Your right two wrongs don't make a right but if you and your friends hadn't been making noise at 5am then there would have been no problem what you were doing was definately not what I would call acceptable behaviour!

As for not knowing you were being noisy, pull the other one it's got bells on! We've all been there and done it and we all knoew we were doing it. Your neighbours shouldn't have to come round and ask you to be quiet you should have enough respect to not need to be asked!
 
I have already said I accept that we were being unacceptably noisy and that this is a once off. They are much more inconsiderate towards us then we are towards them
 
Just leave it, no point worrying about it if your moving out in 2 days.
 
beckster said:
Another one has just come round and threatened to beat me up. I have no idea how many people live in this house - it's only a 3 bedroom :confused:
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lmao.

How many have visited you so far?
 
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