Why I hate people

brbr
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
Someone called the cops on me today for being too loud. The cops showed up at my door at 11:40 PM. The call must have been made during the previous 2 hours. During that time, I was watching 24 and The Practice, shows that I recorded on my ReplayTV. The TV was not on loud. Before that, I was listening to music in my bedroom while I worked on my senior project. Again, the music was not loud.



Some a-hole had the nerve to call the f**king cops on me. Could they possibly leave a note or kindly ask me to turn it down? No. They bring the police into it. Damn asses. I hate people.



By the way, the cops just asked me how long I'd been home and what I'd been doing. I told them that I was just watching TV after I got home from college. They told me to just keep the noise down and left.



I'm still f**king pissed though.
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  • Reply 1 of 45
    mrbilldatamrbilldata Posts: 489member
    Hey BR can you keep it down up there.



    As a bumber sticker I saw said "Mean people suck".



    Or is that "Mean people blow" and "Good women suck".



    I'm kinda lucky that way since my neighbors are pretty far away.



    Anyway, sorry to hear your neighbors are jerks.
  • Reply 2 of 45
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    now I understand why you're often so pissed BR .. whith such neighbours.... <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[oyvey]" />
  • Reply 3 of 45
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Maybe it wasn't too loud for you but was for other people. Try not to be so inconsiderate in the future and you wont have these problems.
  • Reply 4 of 45
    brbr Posts: 8,395member
    [quote]Originally posted by Scott:

    <strong>Maybe it wasn't too loud for you but was for other people. Try not to be so inconsiderate in the future and you wont have these problems.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Feh. I kept the TV on at the same volume and walked outside of my apartment into the hallway. It couldn't be heard. This is such bull.
  • Reply 5 of 45
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    [quote]Originally posted by BR:

    <strong>Feh. I kept the TV on at the same volume and walked outside of my apartment into the hallway. It couldn't be heard. This is such bull.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    i used to watch teevee when i went to bed, and the mother would always complain about volume. the thing was just about inaudible to me, yet she could hear it in the next room. some people's ears just work different.
  • Reply 6 of 45
    elricelric Posts: 230member
    Be carefull, the first time they come out they just slap your wrist, the next time they will fine you. Around here its $250 bucks.
  • Reply 6 of 45
    trailmaster308trailmaster308 Posts: 699member
    Next time you watch tv go outside an kick some car tires until their alarms go off (about 20 ought to do it). Then the tv volume shouldn't be a problem.
  • Reply 8 of 45
    giaguaragiaguara Posts: 2,724member
    My neighbour in UK (I was living with 5 guys there) came to complain that my pc laptop was making so much noise. I was listening to the mp3s with the lovely internal speakers that the laptop had .. to hear the sounds not broken, it can't be loud (yea, too much noise with its internal speakers??). Maybe it was because the music wasn't British?
  • Reply 9 of 45
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    I swear, my parents can hear ANYTHING as long as they're asleep. Not when they're awake, no way, but if they're sleeping they all of a sudden get superhuman hearing. And my dad also gets superhuman vision. They say it's because they've had kids, it makes them much more attentive at night. Anyway...



    My dad once woke up because my brother's iMac screen was on at night. The iMac was one floor below him, separated by closed blinds and a curtain, but somehow it woke him up and he came down and asked my brother to turn the lights off.
  • Reply 10 of 45
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    usually what it is is that there's bass that's travelling right into someone's place. may not be loud for you, but for some reason the sounds travels really well up, down or to the sides.



    then all you here is this annoying *thump, whump* type crap.



    although asking someone to turn it down is nice, with your attitude i'm not surprised they didn't.
  • Reply 11 of 45
    artman @_@artman @_@ Posts: 2,546member
    I am (well, was...) notorious for loud music at all hours. I have one neighbor who doesn't give a shit and most of the others don't care either. But we all recieved a letter of warning about it...so I have stopped that.



    Still the one neighbor above me clomps around all night...she sounds like a horse...



    I have headphones for those occasions I need to hear Iggy & The Stooges "Funhouse" now... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
  • Reply 12 of 45
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    Everytime I think I might want to move into an apartment, the noise/neighbors issue makes me reconsider. Doesn't code require a minimum thickness in dividing walls? I guess 8" of concrete isn't enough. I get the super night hearing too. When I wake up in the morning I can watch TV and hear everything with just two ticks on the volume meter. By the end of the day everything gets loud, I think it's sensory adaptation.
  • Reply 13 of 45
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    [quote]Originally posted by Matsu:

    <strong>Everytime I think I might want to move into an apartment, the noise/neighbors issue makes me reconsider. Doesn't code require a minimum thickness in dividing walls? I guess 8" of concrete isn't enough. I get the super night hearing too. When I wake up in the morning I can watch TV and hear everything with just two ticks on the volume meter. By the end of the day everything gets loud, I think it's sensory adaptation.</strong><hr></blockquote>

    Seriously. I moved out of my condo and got a house because of the noise of the college kids below. I mean i would tolerate noise until midnight. But sometimes the yelling, Music or TV would be loud to 3 or 4 am.
  • Reply 14 of 45
    burnburn Posts: 49member
    [quote]Originally posted by BR:

    <strong>



    Feh. I kept the TV on at the same volume and walked outside of my apartment into the hallway. It couldn't be heard. This is such bull.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Yeah as was mentioned - your neighbour probably isn't hearing it from the hallway, just maybe their bedroom is next to wherever your TV is?



    Too bad they were mooks, a simple request would have probably been fine.
  • Reply 15 of 45
    burnburn Posts: 49member
    [quote]Originally posted by Outsider:

    <strong>

    Seriously. I moved out of my condo and got a house because of the noise</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I HEAR THAT!



    I am selling my condo and buying a house for this very reason.. I am turning into some intolerable fart! I can't stand noise from neighbours.. I have one who does her f*ck*ng laundry at 5:30am - HELLO!
  • Reply 16 of 45
    giantgiant Posts: 6,041member
    Most of my life I've lived in apartments. I tend to be the one complaining. I am a musician and I pick my apartments to some degree on how much can be heard between apartments. In my current place, you can only hear anything if someone is being insanely loud. Like over-the-top, no-respect-for-your-neighbrs loud. My policy: never call the cops unless you can't get them to come to the door (has only happened once, and the guy wasn't at home but left his TV on INSANELY LOUD). Otherwise, I explain to them that I have enough audio gear to make their lives a living hell. That usually makes them act like normal human beings.



    calling the cops before talking to your neighbor is pretty shitty, and it's a bad policy all around. I've actually had some good relationships with neighbors I first met when talking to them about their noise.
  • Reply 17 of 45
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    IME most sound goes up or down. TV/music tends to go up ... walking, dropping stuff of course goes down. In my current place I have never heard the people to the sides.
  • Reply 18 of 45
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    I used to have a huge problem with the bitch that lived next-door to me. Every morning early, even on the weekends the wall right next to my bed would *thump* *thump* *thump* with this horrible horrible Eurosex techno.



    Banged on her door; she couldn't hear it.

    Called the management for her #, they couldn't give it to me so they called; she couldn't hear it. So she got a noise warning and told me to go **** myself.



    I only had one problem with it after that. I do not understand why people listen to things so loudly. My roommate can't even hear what I listen to from his bedroom.



    A lot of people don't realize how freaking loud what they're listening to is. Irritating.
  • Reply 19 of 45
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    My next door neighbor keeps his subwoofer cranked up so high it makes stuff in my apartment rattle. I've left him two notes before, but he continues to play his hip hop crap (he's white) really loud. Still, I'll call my landlord before I call the cops. God forbid he leaves his apartment unlocked some day, 'cause that sub will be going right out the window...
  • Reply 20 of 45
    brbr Posts: 8,395member
    [quote]Originally posted by alcimedes:

    <strong>although asking someone to turn it down is nice, with your attitude i'm not surprised they didn't.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I keep to myself in my apartment complex. I'm polite there, actually. I open doors for the many old people carrying trash to the chute and perform various other kind deeds. Just because I have certain views that I express vehemently here doesn't mean that I'm an ass of a person to everyone I meet. This came completely out of the blue.
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