Friendly Neighborly Relations

[Pixilated]

Ugh, if my activities are being interrupted due to inconsiderate people in other apartments, then you can be damn sure the superintendent's activities are going to be interrupted by ME to force him to do his job. And calling him back each time it happened. (Or calling the police after calling him).
*snip*

Problem was, all you'd get was his cellphone answering service. And the cops just said, "Call your super." And even if they had decided to show up, a noise complaint was going to be pretty low on their "To Do" list.

I've always been amazed that nobody above or below him seemed to complain.

[Pixilated]

There's something you can do about that. It's not nice, mind you.

Get a parabolic microphone and aim it at the loud neighbor's apartment. There's a type of speaker you can get, relatively new and very high tech that basically does for sound what lasers do for light. Connect them together and aim the speaker at the neighbor's apartment. Amplifier optional.

Result: Your neighbor will blast himself off the face of the planet sonically, and only he will be able to hear it.

Oh ... my ... gods ... REALLY???

Damn. Now I wish I had a reason to move back into the apartment! I've heard that the guy decided to quit drinking so it's been quieter, but heck, I'd be happy to ruin his days and nights regardless!

So nobody above him, or below him, would be bothered by this??

[Difdi]

Wouldn't that just make a lot of howling feedback?

Or is that the point?

Yes. Yes it would. But it would be in direct proportion to how loud the guy's music is, and only the guy it's aimed at would be able to hear any of it. One of the neat things about those coherent sound speakers, their upper output limit is well above the point that windows get blown in.

[Racket_Man]

Sounds like they were prudes who felt that sex should be done quietly in the dark.

now that I remember back from that time.

Apparently the Husband talked to my Ex several weeks later and sort of apologized for his wife calling the cops that nights. She (the wife) was pissed that my Ex was getting some and he was laughing at her getting pissed off at us having a physical interlude and he (the husband) was not in the "mood that night". The wife just kept getting more pissed off and finally called the cops.

[Dreamstalker]

Our upstairs neighbors are back x_x After nearly a month of peace and quiet... Nice people, but they have NO rugs or anything in their unit and I don't think they realize how sound/vibrations carry in an older building. Area rugs would solve most of the problem, although there's some sort of uber-bass surround-sound setup in the living room...someone plays a lot of FPS games on that thing.

The toddler in the bedroom directly above mine has decided that I should wake up at 6AM -_-

[Shalom]

Get a parabolic microphone and aim it at the loud neighbor's apartment. There's a type of speaker you can get, relatively new and very high tech that basically does for sound what lasers do for light. Connect them together and aim the speaker at the neighbor's apartment. Amplifier optional.

Wouldn't that just make a lot of howling feedback?

Or is that the point?

[Difdi]

So we recently had new neighbors move in. And....loud bass vibrating my walls. Oh joy.

There's something you can do about that. It's not nice, mind you.

Get a parabolic microphone and aim it at the loud neighbor's apartment. There's a type of speaker you can get, relatively new and very high tech that basically does for sound what lasers do for light. Connect them together and aim the speaker at the neighbor's apartment. Amplifier optional.

Result: Your neighbor will blast himself off the face of the planet sonically, and only he will be able to hear it.

[Monterey Jack]

Why did I read "Crescent" as "Coruscant?" Yep, I think I've seen the entire Star Wars series just a *few* too many times...

Must be rockin' out to the Cantina Band music...

[protege]

When I lived in that crappy apartment on Crescent, our booming-bass guy was the idiot in Apartment 1 who would pop a 72-pack and sit back with his easy chair three inches from the speakers, crank it up to concert-hall level, get crosseyed-drunk, and pass out in the chair with the stereo still rattling the windows.

Why did I read "Crescent" as "Coruscant?" Yep, I think I've seen the entire Star Wars series just a *few* too many times...

[Jetfire]

Very true. When I called the local police to complain about the loud parties in the next apartment, they told me to call the superintendent.

Who had some months earlier said he wasn't to be called after 9 p.m.

Ugh, if my activities are being interrupted due to inconsiderate people in other apartments, then you can be damn sure the superintendent's activities are going to be interrupted by ME to force him to do his job. And calling him back each time it happened. (Or calling the police after calling him).

Thankfully, my current condos have thick walls (double thick sheetrock on each side of the shared walls for 4 layers + concrete floor between the first and second floor units) so I almost never hear anything from my neighbours unless the windows are open. Sometimes I might here the vacuum next door but that's all I've ever heard.

Before that, I lived in an apartment, and for the most part it wasn't bad. Sometimes in the summer, people would get loud and you'd hear them through the windows, but I only felt I had to call the police once due to all the screaming going on. (Though there was a second time I had to call the Super about some loud tenants a couple floors below mine; they moved out within a couple months)

[mishakal908]

One of the apartments I lived in while I was in college was a basement apartment. One of the nice things about my apartment was that there was an outside door (down a stairwell). There were a couple of guys that lived two floors above us and they loved to party pretty much any/every day of the week. My roommate and I spent a lot of time going up there and telling them to turn the music down. The final straw was that some of the guys that attended these parties decided that our outside door (down a stairwell) was a great place to relieve themselves. So after the third time this happened we called the police. See while most of the students in the apartment building were of age to drink, these guys and most of their friends were not and some arrests were made. Plus when the landlord found out about the police call , the guys got a nice fine for leaving their keg from their party out in the hallway (when you signed your lease you agreed not to have kegs in your apartment). While the partying didn't stop on the weekends it thankfully stopped during the week and we never had a problem with guys using our stairwell as a urinal anymore.

[Ben_Who]

When I lived in that crappy apartment on Crescent, our booming-bass guy was the idiot in Apartment 1 who would pop a 72-pack and sit back with his easy chair three inches from the speakers, crank it up to concert-hall level, get crosseyed-drunk, and pass out in the chair with the stereo still rattling the windows. You could see him sitting there from the street, beer can in one hand, head back, eyes closed, drooling lavishly, as those four-foot woofers pounded away at him.

The police weren't going to wake THAT guy up by banging on the door. God knows they tried - there was always the chance that they were looking at an alcohol-poisoned corpse that had aspirated its own vomit - so it was time to call the landlord to vie thee hence with the key, and, just for funsies, an ambulance.

It happened three or four times. Slow learner.

[Pixilated]

I'm sure the cops were called quickly. But, it was probably judged to be low priority. If it's not life-threatening, they can be slow to respond. *snip*

Very true. When I called the local police to complain about the loud parties in the next apartment, they told me to call the superintendent.

Who had some months earlier said he wasn't to be called after 9 p.m.

[Kit-Ginevra]

Ah I was thinking of Yakety Yak

[fireheart]

Or the Benny Hill theme...

Psst...they're the same thing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakety_sax