Noisy neighbor kid scares the girls! :-(

**pomtzu** · 05-21-2011, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by Kirsten

How much noise do you have to tolerate? Last winter, a new family moved into the neighbor house, with a very loud 10-year-old boy. Tonight, that boy started blowing one of these very loud vuvuzela-thingies in his open window, and it really freaked Luna and Lily out. They literally flew out of the room, knocked things over while they were in panic; Lily is crawling on her belly and Luna is still hiding. And I'm furious!! How much crap do you have to take from your neighbors?

If you are in an apartment complex, you should file a complaint/report with the management. You pay rent, just as everybody else does, and you are entitled to live in reasonable comfort. Kids will be kids, but they must respect others who live around them, and their parents need to enforce this. Perhaps it doesn't bother them, but they need to instill in their children, respect for others.

**Kirsten** · 05-21-2011, 02:43 PM

It's the neighbors' house which belongs to my landlord's son. Calling the police wouldn't help, kids have all the rights in the world here in Germany to make noise. I think I will talk to his mother if this continues. I'm coping with a lot of noise here; kids screaming, kids yelling at their dog when he is barking, kids playing ball in the street (next to the cars, btw), I'm dealing with all that, but it cannot be that Luna and Lily are suffering and do no longer feel safe in their home!

**Kirsten** · 05-21-2011, 02:46 PM

Luna is still in shock, she's crawling on the floor, she won't let me touch her, and she doesn't respond to me!!! I'm so mad at that stupid brat!!

**pomtzu** · 05-21-2011, 03:25 PM

Kirsten, I certainly would talk to somebody about it. You shouldn't have to put up with that. Fortunately, I never lived in an apartment, tho I did live in housing that had neighbors very close by, but never had to deal what you're dealing with. For the past 40 years tho, I have lived where I am now, on a 2 acre lot. I guess the worst I had to put up with, was the teenager next door, playing his car stereo full blast. I wouldn't have tolerated that if they had been in closer range tho. But the bank took their house back and they are gone now anyway. Hopefully some old retired couple will buy the vacant house!

Hopefully the girls will come around soon. They certainly were traumatized tho. That's a darn shame!

**phesina** · 05-21-2011, 03:49 PM

Oh, how awful.

**Randi** · 05-21-2011, 03:59 PM

Kirsten, you have my sympathy.

I'm dealing with noise, too. I have 8 young people living upstairs, one is 1 year old, so you can imagine what that is like. I have a corner flat with 7 windows facing the street, and people like to stop and chat on their way home at night, right on the corner, of course. Other than that, there's quite a few barking dogs in the street. Oh man, if I had the money, I'd get a house in the countryside!

Good luck!

**momoffuzzyfaces** · 05-21-2011, 04:55 PM

My cats and I feel your pain Kirsten!!! Not only do we have booming car stereos to deal with, we now have kids playing in a band almost every afternoon. Not a band with music but a hard rock band. I expect to see the devil himself prancing across my lawn every time they play. (and these kids are half a block away)

I called the police. Seems people can make as much noise as they want to here until 11 at night. Never mind it is so loud it rattles our windows and shakes our floors and keeps us from enjoying our own homes.

I took myself off and had a chat with the kids and asked if they would turn the volumn down. It helped for 5 minutes. They have been keeping practice times shorter though. Hopefully your kid will find something else to amuse himself and lose the horn thing soon.