Ok, it was Saturday night, so people have parties. Sure.
Very, very loud parties. Sure
But it's reasonable, still, to dial it down a bit after midnight, no? Or sometime before 6am perhaps...?
Do you call the police and complain about noise in these situations? We did last night, at around 2am. The party was in the next street over and I could hear the music very clearly despite ear plugs. I think they turned it down for a bit, as we did get some sleep. But it was going again when I woke at 5am.
I know the police have far better things to deal with than this, so should we just suck it up? I might if I wasn't so utterly sleep deprived already. In any case calling didn't really help much.
Once (elsewhere) we went to a neighbour's place to ask in person for them to turn it down. They were rude, abusive and turned the music up even louder. So that didn't work out too well for us.
You definitely did the right thing by calling the police. Gee, i would have repeatedly called until the music stopped. That's what nightclubs are for IMHO!
I don't think you have over reacted at all love.
There was a party next door not long ago. The music was cranked till 3am... I rang the police at 12 and just after 2.45ish And they said they'd come out straight away. (which they did) and confiscated the surround sound system lol!
There was a lot of screaming yelling and banging, I couldn't sleep, was alone and scared. (they were smashing bottles over my fence)
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I would have done it too. If it's keeping you awake, you know it is keeping all the other people who live around you awake too. It's not stupid, there are real laws in place to deal with it so you are more than entitled to make the most of those laws.
Yep, I would have too. It's illegal for them to be so loud. And it is not unreasonable for you to expect so manners in the situation. I would have called the cops again if it didn't work the first time. Especially if they have parties often.
Yup I always call the police if its after midnight and the music is still unacceptably loud. Depending on your state, there are laws that stipulate music must be turned down after a certain time - here I think its 11pm, but I always give people extra time because I'm young too and I know 11pm is a bit early on a weekend night in a lot of peoples eyes, especially when half the time people don't even start to show up until 10pm!
There are also some council districts that have a requirement for you to notify neighbours of a party prior to the day/night of - that was the law in the district my parents lived in. For my 18th birthday we had to let all our neighbours with adjoining properties know there would be a party and to expect some disruption - we dared not not do it either since our back neighbour was a police sergeant!
Our neighbours had 30ish people squashed into a tiny court yard the weekend we moved in here. They were making more noise than the 100's of people in the pub over the road and it was so loud that in our bedroom (furthest away from them) we still couldn't talk to each other without screaming. DH approached them and like you had abuse hurled at him, so we called the cops and when it went back up after the cops left we called again. In total we called them 3 times that night.
We've had parties and we've played loud music but some people just go over board! There is NO need for it to be that loud.
I'm pretty sure the law states music has to be below a certain number of decibels after 10 or 11pm. No idea what the allowable volume actually is though. I would've called the cops, too. I've done so in the past, and would do it again in a heartbeat.
It's one thing to have a party, but another to completely disregard your neighbours right to 'peaceful enjoyment' of their property.
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So I thought maybe I'm overreacting.
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