“and by a screamer, I mean a woman who absolutely can not keep her yap shut during sex to
save her life. My neighbor (I live in an old duplex house split into 4 apartments) has a new
girlfriend who is quite vocal during sex. Every night. At about 1am or later.”
Yeah, my neighbor went through something like that. But I told her that I she couuld record it & I would put it on a CDROM & mail to the radio station where the guy worked. (The guy who was doing all the sex noise.) So then we could call as ask for it as a request. Never got around to it. Nuts.
Here’s an idea for you. I had a neighbor that liked to play
his music loud. I lived ABOVE him. I’d go ask nice, call the cops, and that fun stuff. He’d still do it. So I bought myself some pepper spray. The fit around the front doors
wasn’t very good. Sneak down the stairs, shot of pepper under the door, five minutes later, no music, front door
slams, and quiet for the rest of the night. Took a couple
of times for them to figure out, “loud music=burning eyes”
but they eventually got it.
This’ll take a bit of investigation on your part…but first go out and buy an wind up alarm clock.
Look around for the electric meter. It could have individual meters for each apartment or main breakers in a box just below the meter. If you can’t figure out what to do, ask a friend who does to come over and show you what to do the first time.
I had some really horrible neighbors next door to me for a while. Didn’t do a single thing about them; didn’t have to. The other tenants in my building complained to the complex management repeatedly. The bad neighbors helped the rest of us out by not paying their rent. They were evicted two weeks ago. I arrived home to find all their belongings piled up on the front lawn. It was great. Now I’m just hoping some single females move in.
hehe. we used to do that in my freshman dorm. Each room had 2 breakers. When this one particular girl would get to playing her cheesy George Michael CDs too long and too loud, we’d flip the breaker that controlled the outlet her stereo was plugged into. It didn’t turn her overhead lights out, though, cause that was on a separate circuit. She just thought she had flukey electricity (our building was built in the 20s and retrofitted for electricity). I’m getting warm fuzzies just remembering…
EMP, baby. Only way to go. Just make sure your stuff is shielded or not in the area. Look around on the Web and you can find kits. Of course, this only works on electronics and constitutes malicious something or other, as you’ll fry all the guy’s stuff…What, who, me? Electrical engineering degree and my neighbour seems to have problems with their stereo every time they want to play ragas at 150Db at 03.00 to cover up the sound of their screaming, yelping sex, during which they start experiencing nausea due to the subsonic array set up next door? Don’t know what you’re on about, officer. Say, is that one of those new personal NCIC units? Can I see that just for a second? Oh, what’s that, you’ve just found out that my next-door neighbour is wanted for kiddie porn, distributing methamphetamine-filled chocolate Easter bunnies and being Carlos the Jackal? Coincidence’s a bitch, huh?
…It’s good to be smart and evil…
I always wondered whether or not this was feasible (I have a somewhat irksome neighbor of my own), but see if you can find out if there’s a universal remote that goes through walls/floors. If so, keep programming in codes until you find the one that works his stereo.
Well, it seemed like a feasible idea for me, since my neighbor’s main noisemaker is his damn TV…
Cable TV? my downstairs neighbor had his cable line run through my apt.
TV with an antenna? Get an old motor-operated item and put it in your apt, near his tv. If the brushes are worn enough, it should give him loads 'o static.
Grenades work pretty well, if you don’t mind the initial noise.
I’ve struggled on and off with noisy neighbors in duplexes and joined apartment complexes and found little in the way of relief. Get the land lord or the law on some and they find out you complained and they exact petty revenge, like smashing eggs on your door, stealing your outside light bulbs, superglue in the door lock, or flattening a tire on your car. If you go and get physical with them, then they call the cops and at the very minimum you get a peace bond slapped on your butt.
I no longer live in joined apartments, but look for houses and even then, you’ll find the a–hole who slaps gangster rap on his stereo and opens his windows to let the neighborhood listen too.
I live in a well built house now, right in the middle of an acre of land and on both sides of me is a nice, thick buffer of trees and brush I’ve let grow as a privacy screen. I want to eventually try to buy a 5 acre tract and put my home in the middle of it.
There should be better construction codes for joined apartments in sound proofing.
By the way, I still get this tremendous urge to find the neighbor who just has to crank up his chain saw, gas leaf blower, or whatever at 8 in the morning, when I’m sleeping, and wake everyone up to that demented mad hornet sound, and shove those machines up his butt!
Ooo - there may be a way to make this happen. RCA (and, for all I know, other manufacturers, too) makes a remote that uses RF rather than infrared. From our family room, we can turn on a VCR in the bedroom across the house. And (important note) the VCR in question is not an RCA product. So it should be workable for just about any product that uses a remote control. Of course, the pain in the butt factor is figuring out WHICH code controls your neighbor’s stuff…
On a related note - what do you do with neighbor kids who scream more or less constantly, and believe that your yard is their playground (even though you have no kids)?
Plant sandburs all over the lawn, and a stinging nettle hedge couldn’t hurt. You might not even need the sandburs with the hedge in place. Dolls nailed to crosses and put on your lawn. Every day when the kids are outside say, “Sorry, but mommy didnt like all that noise last night, so now I have to punish you.” Add dolls one at a time.
Wonko The Sane
The cable runs through your appartment. Cut the cable and add connectors to the end. Connect the cable when you don’t mind the noise, uncouple the cable at night before bedtime. You say you hate this neighbor? 110 volts into the cable going to his apartment. You just want them to have bad reception? Add a ghost image adjuster in line, and make sure it’s adjusted for double images. Send output from your vcr to their television. You could go for the slow kill and add an dc boast to the cable signal, and in the long run burn out the television. The alternating cable signal would ride through the cable on top of the dc voltage being sent their way.
Oh hell with it, just pull the cable back through one night when they bug you. Listen for the crashing of elctronics to to floor.
Legal disclaimer: Anybody using these suggestions,assumes full responsibility for such actions and the legal reprecussions that result.
sigh Life would be so much easier if his cable went through my apartment…
So, I’m looking for an RF remote, huh? Something pessimistic in me says that this won’t control a device using an IR remote port - there an engineer in the house?
Heheh, thanks jadailey, you might help me sleep soundly yet.
