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I so agree with this! There's been days it was so noisy here that I couldn't read, couldn't concentrate on work I had to do on the computer, and not even be able to hear what they said on TV. That really is annoying! :mad: So I can certainly sympathise with some of you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catlady711
Marigold, I understand exactly what you're saying and I couldn't agree more. There are kids next door to us that scream and or cry constantly. We're on the first floor of a rowhouse and our upstairs neighbors moved a few months ago. These brats keep running up the stairs yelling and screaming the whole time. The parents play the radio so loud at night you'd swear it was in our place. The police have been called several times, things change for a day or two then the noise level goes off the chart again. Ours always was a quiet neighborhood, the other kids on the street play outside and have a great time without excessive screaming. They don't have to shatter everyone's eardrums to have fun or let off steam.
I agree completely with Catlady711.
I too was taught not to scream unless it was for a darned good reason. The kids today haven't been taught that there is a difference between yelling and screaming.
My neighborhood has a few screamers. One day I approached them while they were playing. I told them the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf. I explained that I was worried they were being hurt when they screamed, but I understand yelling and playing 'cause I was young once.
That seemed to work. They now have kids of their own who visit. They play outside and get loud, but no screaming.
Unfortunately, too many people forget that their right to make noise bumps into others right to quiet.
well said.
I've never believed in 'seen but not heard'. Yes the 'great outdoors' is fine for making loud noises, but not near close neighbors whether that's in your own backyard, or a campground, or public place with people's homes nearby. And certainly screaming one's head off is never appropriate unless you are injured or in trouble.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cookiebaker
You are a rarity since your daughter goes in after 7. In my neighborhood children are out screaming until at least midnight some nights in the summertime, and many times unsupervised at that.
Not in my neighborhood!!! I long ago gave up checking on the neighbor kids for trouble when I realized they were ALWAYS screaming as if in pain, when they were only playing. Heck at this point the entire neighborhood is so accousomed to their screams I'm sure they could be murdered right in the street or kidnapped and not one person around here would check outside to see what was going on since there would be no difference in the sound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cookiebaker
And I have, and do, call the police on every one of those. Getting along with people doesn't mean having to be tortured by unnecessary noise in your own home for the sake of you being able to be as noisy as you want in return.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cookiebaker
And also in the bible:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cookiebaker
Psalms 131:2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother
Isaiah 32:17-18 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;
1Tim. 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Gosh Karen, I feel for you!! I think your neighbors must be related to mine!!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
I don't know about anyone else, but I would much rather have the annoyance of the kids squealing and screeching, than listen to the teenager next door who has his car loaded with stereo speakers, and he sits in his driveway for an hour or more at a time, with the volume turned up so loud, that it vibrates the windows and thuds thru the walls of my house. There is no closing the widows to get rid of that damn doom-boom-boom, and the sound carries great distances!
And I'm not talking about his house so close that I can reach out my window and touch his - his driveway is a good 400' from mine. Listen to that for a while and then see if the kids are still all that annoying! :mad:
And sorry - there are no noise ordinances in the rural areas. :(
Pomtzu, That would call for an early (5:30) in the morning:eek: round of Whoopi John Polka music:cool: full blast when that kid is trying to sleep from a night out on the town. :D
We live right next to a park that has a public pool and tennis/raquet ball courts. A parking lot between the tennis and raquet ball courts is right over our fence. We often get the thumping cars and it is sooo darn annoying! Now we don't have screaming children so I have nothing to compare it to. But I did work with children in day care for 12 years so I'm not a stranger to how noisy that can be. :) But I agree, screaming children anyday over the bass of a stereo.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
Well, at least you know that he will pay - if he's not already suffering hearing loss, he will be before long! Sad, and preventable damage, and the effects are cumulative - they lose hearing, so turn it up louder, so lose hearing so ... Maybe mail some generic booklet on preventable hearing loss to his house, anonymously!Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
How true Karen. I was always preaching to my kids when they were growing up, about the eventual effects of playing music too loud.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
Sure - I could send something to his house, but I doubt that this one has the intelligence to even be able to read it! :eek:
Yes, but his parents could use it to bludgeon him upside the head!Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
I think it's so rude when people my age blast the stereo in their cars or elsewhere. I know I hate the annoying vibrations that come with loud music, let alone hearing the music itself! I hate hate hate when the 14 year olds down my block practice their horrible guitar playing in the garage with the door wide open. SO annoying! My sister is 19 and BLASTS the music in the car where I need to scream over it to here her. I am 17, and would NEVER do it. I can't stand when anyone else do it. I think I blasted my music once when I was on I-95 just to piss an a$$ doing the same thing off.
Hi Ellie, Over here we get both, often at the same time. The screaming, crying brats AND the shatter your windows blasting stereo of their parents from the same place...right next door. Weekends? Forget about it! Several people on our street have called the cops a number of times. It quiets down for a day, maybe two then it's right back to "let's shatter the neighbor's ear drums".
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Originally Posted by momcat
Ok, are both of your neighbors related to Karen and my neighbors?
One of the neighbors who had the worst of the screaming tresspassing kids several years ago. Well those kids are teens now and have graduated to hollaring obscenities and the boom boom radio. It's in the trunk of the car, which apparently has to be full blast before the car can be started, and up until it shuts off. Car is a beater so I'm guessing they think the boom boom is required for it to run?? And it also requires twice a week 'tuning' which means standing in the side yard with the trunk open, radio full blast, and having your friends gathering around it looking at I have no clue what, then getting in and out of the car (which requires slaming the doors of course) and back to stare at the trunk again. Unfortunately it doesn't quite drown out the screeching of the little girl on the other side of me when she's in the pool. *sigh*
I think in general the population is so inundated with loud sounds coming from screaming commercials, loud malls/restaurants, loud music, video games, traffic noise, and possibly screaming parents, that the kids have no hearing left to begin with and think the whole world has to be loud all the time.
having lived next door to the neighbours from hell a few years ago for almost a year, no children, just continous loud parties nearly every single night, i sympathise with anyone suffering this, it is totally inconsiderate and for me it took a real toll on my health,everyone has a right to peace and quiet within their own space.
To clarify, the little girl in my neighborhood who used to yell like that is now a driving-age teenager, as tall as me, and with a certain gravitas and dignity, and no one now would ever suspect that it was her who was the worst! Her younger siblings never developed that habit, even though both younger sisters are far chattier than she ever was!Quote:
Originally Posted by Catlady711
My neighborhood is far quieter now, even though the number of small children has increased over the years as new families moved in!
Wish mine was quieter! As new families with younger children move in, the behaviour gets worse and worse with each set! I used to think that having kids shooting my vegetables in the garden with BB's was as bad as it could get till I saw a 7 year old rip one of my shrubs in half, to the ground with his bare hands, and didn't even blink or look sorry when I went out to scold him!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
I always liked the on post rules regarding stereos in cars.
If the MP can hear it with the windows in their cruiser closed, it's too loud and subject to confiscation.
All I can do is sympathize with you all. I have been there, though not in a very long time, and hated it as well. We now live in a place where, most of the time as a friend put it, you can hear a pin drop....
I hope you can somehow correct your noise issues.
At 8 am this morning, on my enclosed (but windows opened porch) Jonah let out a scream that startled both me and my neighbor (who was out in the backyard). We BOTH said something to him about it...the fact he scared both of us, the volume, the tone, the hour (thankfully, everyone but the two of us have on their A/C, etc.). I think he really 'got' the wrongness of what he did, and why it shouldn't be done. But, I do know he will do it again. He is a child.
WHY did he scream? The cats were running out the front door as he was trying to get out. His scream had its rightous affect on them. :p
There's supposed to be a 'law' here that says if you can hear a radio clearly at 50 ft then it's in violation of the noise ordinance. The problem is it's never enforced. And it's impossible to call the police if they're just driving up and down your street since they most likely won't be there when/if the cops do show up. The only time it works if it's at home during a party or something when it's a sustained noise. Last time I called the cops on the neighbors for the volume of the radio the dispatcher asked me to turn MY radio down so she could hear me. I explained that it wasn't MY radio, it was the neighbors. They dispatched a cop immediately and the cop was shouting at them from the moment he got out of his car but they couldn't hear him. Finally when he was within 8 feet of the homeowner they could finally hear him and only turned the music down at that time because they couldn't hear him talking!! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady's Human
I wish they would enforce that, and I like the idea of confiscating the stereo! lol
Since I live in a rural area, it's pretty hard to get cops involved in anything short of a murder.
There are several motorcyclists that use this road as a drag strip. They ride these "souped up" crotch rockets at a good 100 mph (I'm not exaggerating!) up and down the road. This has been going on for quite some time, and I truly don't see how that someone hasn't been killed yet. Unfortunately when (not if) it does happen, it will be an innocent party that was in the wrong place at the wrong time! No way to get a tag number to turn them in, as they are literally a blur going by, and no way to follow them to see where they live because of their excessive speed. They might not even be from this area.
People have complained to the police, but they can't do much, since by the time they got out here (a good half hour drive to the nearest state police barracks), there's nothing to investigate. Do a stake-out??? - too busy attending to a sure thing.
Talk about being caught between a rock and a hard place..........:mad:
get a few people with pickup trucks, on call if possible, and when they start, block one end of the road and close in on them from the other end. Dial 911 from a cell phone and wait.Quote:
Since I live in a rural area, it's pretty hard to get cops involved in anything short of a murder.
There are several motorcyclists that use this road as a drag strip. They ride these "souped up" crotch rockets at a good 100 mph (I'm not exaggerating!) up and down the road. This has been going on for quite some time, and I truly don't see how that someone hasn't been killed yet.
Oh my. I have lots of neighbors including those with children, and thank goodness we never hear a peep out of anyone. There is one dog that will bark when he hears human voices close by. Every now and then I will hear a cow making a gawd awful noise when they take her calf from her ..... but that is about it. I have heard construction noises lately but oh well.
I do live in the country but managed to luck out with the neighborhood.
I don't understand why people have to annoy each other. I played outside as a child and had lots of fun. No neighbor ever complained because we were in bed at some early hour in the summer....like 7 or 8. How much noise do you need to make if you are playing on a swing or playing games? I think some parents forget to teach their children to be considerate of others. If the shoe fits...... It is not necessary to scream at the top of your lungs except when there is an emergency. Really. I learned that at quite a young age. It is not a difficult thing to teach or learn. Will it happen sometimes, surely, but it could and should be the exception.
I have a close friend who has a day care. When the kids are outside, you hear noise, but pleasant, fun, loud noises....not screeching. It can be controlled, but someone has to want to control the level. My friend will not allow screaming like a banchee at her day care.