2:30 in the morning!

[Aut]

Now that it's warmed up, I have one of our bedroom windows cracked open at night. At 2:30 this morning, I'm woken out of a deep sleep totally confused. I didn't know where I was, what day it was, what time it was, etc. All because a bunch of drunken neighbors are outside yelling and cheering. It's 2:30 in the freakin' morning! And it's coming from the apartment complex next door. DH tells me to close the window and as I do so, I say "don't they realize all those windows they see are where other people are sleeping?"

I don't know why management hasn't done away with these people. They've certainly had reason, and I was the source of one of those reasons once. They've been sucky neighbors for years. And I knew it was from that apartment because I know one of the voices (belongs to I-popped-out-a-bunch-of-babies-as-a-teen-and-didn't-raise-them-right-and-now-I'm-raising-my-grandchildren-because-mom-is-dead-and-they-are-popping-babies-out-as-teens-too party grandma). I wanted to call the cops, but then it would quiet down, then get noisy again. I did go and flick the back flood light on and off an that made them stop for a moment.

But OMGosh! Don't people have respect anymore? Stupid question, especially about these neighbors.

[Aut]

And I would take a small bit of revenge that there is another neighbors yippy little dog barking non-stop on it's balcony, but I just heard party grandma talking very loudly in the parking lot again. Apparantly she's done sleeping off the hangover.

[Andara Bledin]

Don't wait: just call the cops.

And management probably hasn't done anything because too many people do what you did: Whine about it to people you know and not call anyone.

Because, you know, someone else will take care of it, right?

[edit to add]
This isn't supposed to be a dig or accusatory. It's just a very common social problem when you have more people around you than you can keep track of.

For more information, look up anything regarding Kitty Genovese.

^-.-^

[Pagan]

For more information, look up anything regarding Kitty Genovese.

Or Theresa Saldana. Thankfully, someone did help her.

[Arcade Man D]

Because, you know, someone else will take care of it, right?

We actually just recently went over that phenomenon in my psych class. Diffusion of Responsibility, I believe it's called. My example was being taught in First Aid certification to always assign a person to call 911, as if you say "someone call 911", odds are no one will because they all think someone else did it.

[Andara Bledin]

Yup. I was going to add that to my post, but I didn't think of it till it was too late.

^-.-^

[Magpie]

For more information, look up anything regarding Kitty Genovese.

And that is why I get really anxious any time I can hear any yelling at all (or anything that sounds like yelling).

[Jetfire]

Last Saturday morning, around 2:30 as well, there was something going on at my complex as well. They were just a bit too far away for me to tell what was going on, but in the parking lot my bedroom window looks over (quite a way away actually) there was a cop car with flashers and someone shouting and arguing with the cops. There was a second cop car without flashers and a tow truck.

I never found out what happened, but I suspect a drunk drove home at the head of a cop train, resisted arrest and got his truck towed for his trouble on top of everything else.