When is neighbors music too loud? When do you call the cops?

[jimazee]

Originally Posted by bloominscranton

So sad but very true...tread lightly and thoughtfully when dealing with neighbors things can escalate before you know it and it will be a living nightmare. Thankfully this has not happened here, but on LI when I owned my home...it turned violent.

It's nice to see it isn't 'just another terrible NEPA thing'.

[WWallace94]

People like this make my blood boil. If I ever own my own house and some ****ty neighbor tries to call the cops because "I hate music, it makes my fibromyalgia really flare up in my scapula!" rest assured I'll be on my front porch with a trench gun every time they go by on sheer coincidence. Those neighbors who are just terrible people and are *always* trying to screw with someone in order to make their lives worse by calling cops or being a worthless tattle tale maggot are exactly the sort of people you just wish you could legally hit with a freight train. Same exact sort of scumbag who tries to set up home owners associations. My land. My house. Not yours. I don't whine and ***** and moan about what you do with your land, you don't pay the utilities or mortgage on mine, so you stay on your side of the fence, and the trench gun stays in the safe.

[WWallace94]

and to clarify, I'm referring to something like if your neighbor is a musician and they are practicing on their land that they paid for. or they occasionally listen to music at reasonable hours of the day. If you try harassing them by calling the police, you deserve to go to jail for calling the police when you had virtually no right to. if I wanna sit at my house and get out my guitar and play around on it, and it's reasonable hours and you can "hear me shaking your house" (which is 110% certified fake bull**** by the way) then I have every right to do it. If you want to start something with some passive aggressive ****ty neighbor thing like that, then that's all on you. If it's hostility you're looking for (which you clearly are if you're calling the cops on someone for something as innocent as music or god forbid a family pet) then there's a 99% chance it isn't going to end well for you. if I was in the shoes of the person just sitting there playing some guitar and if *I* had some ****ty neighbor complain about it rest assured I'm going to become so hostile so fast it will make you want to move out of the state entirely.

You stay on your side of the fence. I stay on mine. And maybe. *MAYBE* on christmas I *MIGHT* consider giving you something like a gift card for your family to dine out or something like a nice bottle of wine. You mess with my livlihood and the things that I enjoy? you make my life harder? The sound of my guitar will be replaced with the sound of your sobbing and tears every single night I promise you that.

moral of the story, don't be that ****ty neighbor that nobody likes. If you do legitimately have a sound issue (which is rare) then go ahead. Just know if you wrongly instigate a feud that most of your neighbors will hate you for it.

[DavidWebb]

Originally Posted by WWallace94

People like this make my blood boil. If I ever own my own house and some ****ty neighbor tries to call the cops because "I hate music, it makes my fibromyalgia really flare up in my scapula!" rest assured I'll be on my front porch with a trench gun every time they go by on sheer coincidence. Those neighbors who are just terrible people and are *always* trying to screw with someone in order to make their lives worse by calling cops or being a worthless tattle tale maggot are exactly the sort of people you just wish you could legally hit with a freight train. Same exact sort of scumbag who tried to set up home owners associations. My land. My house. Not yours. I don't whine and ***** and moan about what you do with your land, you don't pay the utilities or mortgage on mine, so you stay on your side of the fence, and the trench gun stays in the safe.

This is why I'm glad I live in the woods...I have neighbors but thankfully none like you and none that like to blast music....but I have experienced neighbors blasting music late at night and I called the police...there's a time for everything....between 11pm and 6-7 or 8 am is not the time for blasting music....if you want to do that buy yourself over 10,000 acres so you have no neighbors and listen to all the music you want at any level you want so you don't disturb anybody....

[SAE72]

Many decades ago our family had a nice summer cottage in the woods . People used to break in and eventually destroyed most of it. Later on, when I went up there and discovered the vandalism time after time, I would blast Rock music for the entire time I was there. Eventually they burned the house down, after burning one of the others nearby previously a few years earlier. I never rebuilt, and am hoping to sell the land once and for all.

[Gerania]

My friend experienced that in DE west of Rehoboth. It was a bit off the beaten path and vandalized over and over. The TV was smashed, pee on the mattresses, windows kicked out. This happened at least 3 times.