Our next door neighbours (we’re in terraced/row housing) are great screamers - all conversations are held at high volume, and they yell things at those kids I wouldn’t say to someone who was actively stabbing me at the time. Gruesome stuff.
And yet in person they’re very nice people and very good neighbours - they’ll hold packages for us if we’re out and we have nice conversations over the back fence. Yes, the son (currently four or five years old) is on track to become a delinquent and the daughter (slightly older) will almost certainly be pregnant by the time she’s 15, but AFAICT they’re not physically abusing them or neglecting them so there’s not much to be done there.
My neighbors had the SAME fight just about an hour ago. I didn’t yell out the window. If I did that EVERY time they got drunk and screamed, I’d never have time to read/post/lurk here.
The cops have come about 3-4 times in the last couple months. Someone got taken away in a cruiser last time, someone else in an ambulance.
Oh, did I mention we’re not in an apartment building or townhouses but single family homes? In a respectable neighborhood where no one else makes a peep at ANY time of the day?
I’m getting good at surreptitiously peeking out the window.
I’m in a good suburban neighbourhood, but with a student share house across the road. Every couple of weeks one of the occupants will stand out the front of the house screaming at the top of his lungs for the length of time it takes for him to have a cigarette. Sometimes he then just goes back inside, but other times he repeats the process at half hour intervals. Usually starts at around 2.30am, usually on Monday mornings. He’s not shouting at anyone else. Just shouting presumably to hear his voice echo off the other houses in the street in the stillness of the night.
Twice now I’ve gone across and asked him to keep it down. Twice now he’s told me he’s on his property lawfully and there’s nothing I can do about it. I’ve spoken to the police who are happy to give him a warning if they catch him at it, but basically indicated they wouldn’t treat a call out with much urgency, and since he only shouts for five minutes at a time the chances of the coppers being there is zero. Once this guy starts, I basically can’t get back to sleep and spend the rest of the morning plotting ways to kill him…
As I’m up at 6.00am every morning I’m considering pounding on their door at 6.00 to wake them all up and see how they like living my hours for a few days, but that strikes me as petty and likely to escalate matters, but it’s the only legal thing that occurs to me. Naturally, I’d be knocking on their door first thing to check they were OK as “I heard shouting last night at 3.00am…”, that sort of thing.