You might want to check and see if California has got around to regulating those things yet. Some states do and there may be operating requirements that the company who rented the inflatable to your neighbor is not following.
These things are really fun for kids, and reallllly dangerous. Google “inflatables deaths” or “inflatables accidents”.
Hoo boy. That sounds bad. You’ll be lucky if screaming’s the only problem these folks bring into the neighborhood. I’d start worrying about drug dealers.
Huh, hadn’t thought of that. Sounds promising, especially since California is such a nanny state. Thanks!
Naw, multiple families in one house is more or less common here, due to the high cost of housing. The people on one side of us consist of Dad (Mom died a couple of years ago), Son, Son’s wife and Grandson. The other side has the older couple and a parade of their sons coming home and then leaving, bringing various women and/or babies with them - I really have no idea how many people live over there. About 10 years ago, around the corner and up the street, a house burned and it was discovered that 20 or so people were living in that one - don’t know how many rooms it had, but the fire was started because someone was using a hot plate in a bedroom! :eek:
And we live in one of the better communities…
Now, how can I get any sleep tonight - wondering what ‘WHUMP! birds tweeting’ for 12 hours could possibly be. and the thing is, I think I’ve heard those sounds before.
There’s 4 generations in the house I live in and more than 20 people including kids. We’re more quiet than all of our neighbors unless we really want to be noisy (in retribution for some of our neighbors noise). I like the caramel idea though. I haven’t thought about that. Maybe giving the brats enough sugar until they develop obesity is another idea. Listless slugs don’t make a lot of noise in my experience.
Try shouting out the window.
Quick follow-up, it appears that California does not regulate inflatables. I find that surprising and I expect it to change.
Have you tried screaming at the kids to shut the hell up? If you won’t talk to the adults (and believe me, I know about loud annoying neighbors) maybe telling the kids to shut up they’ll stop screaming so much.
Then if that doesn’t work, a cooler of ice cream.
Lastly, pellet gun. Whether that’s used on the bouncy thing or the kids is up to you.
They’re in the wrong for letting their children scream until all hours. During the daytime, I’d say you have no room for complaint because it’s no different than a neighbor mowing his lawn or the city jack hammering the street. Annoying, but what are you going to do except install better windows? After a reasonable hour, say 8pm, I’d have no difficulty going over and asking them if they’d mind shutting down the bouncy house so that you can enjoy the evening without all the shrieking.
You’re in the wrong for expecting your neighbors to move their cars off of a public curb because you need it to park your trailer. It doesn’t matter that it’s in front of your house. It isn’t your property. There is no harm in ASKING them if they minded moving so that you could park your behemoth there, but they certainly have no obligation to do so.
You need to coordinate your efforts. Talk to these good folks, and any other neighbors you can recruit. Next time the kiddies get out of hand, text them all the “go” signal. I can’t imagine the cops would ignore 6 or 7 simultaneous “oh-my-god-I-think-someone-has-been-seriously-injured-in-the-bouncy-house!!” 911 calls.
Some years ago, we had idiots living next door to us. Of course, said idiots had to shoot off fireworks late at night on the Fourth of July. Because we’re so mean, we went out there at 11:30 and told then to can it, that we were working the next day. They start bitching and whining all the while shooting fireworks into my yard. They quit after a few minutes and my husband, all bleary eyed, said he would fix it.
The time: 4 a.m. My husband goes over and bangs on their door until one of them answers. “Just wanted to let you know I’m going to work now.” Didn’t hear a peep from them again. Good times.
Also, do the residents own the house, or do they rent it? If they rent, you may be able to contact the owner who may have some legal liability for tolerating nuisance tenants.
Seriously, the cops have better things to do than to respond to a non-emergency. If you want to call the police, at the very least, call the non-emergency number.
I didn’t really want to bring cultural expectations into it, but my friend’s family is from Central America. I know it’s a stereotype, but large Spanish families with happy, boisterous noise? Yup, her family. And the OP mentioned something about the neighbours speaking Spanish somewhere back in the thread. I think it’s just that noise like that is the social default.
Ah, that must be why I couldn’t find anything when I Googled it! Thanks.
I’m not sure they would be able to hear me unless I walked over there and stuck my head in the bouncer.
OMG, I so sympathize with you on the rooster! We got a rooster chick once and when he got to the age of crowing, I couldn’t get out there fast enough to seek and destroy. Unfortunately, at that age he looked like all the rest so it was days before I could figure out which one he was, and I thought I would go insane.
I did like how DMark said in your thread “If it is just kids playing, or the occasional loud party (once or twice a year), I can live with that. Part of living in a neighborhood.” This is what generated my thread - for some reason, the sounds of kids playing, even if those sounds are way too late at night and/or insanely loud, it’s something we are expected to put up with. One dog barking or one rooster crowing? Kill it with fire. Kid screaming blue murder? Learn to live with it you child hater you.
And yet if I were to park the trailer (which is not a “behemoth”) in front of their house, how do you think they would like that? I am not getting why you think they have any sort of moral right to own five large vehicles at a two car house and then encroach on my property simply because they want to park in the shade. It’s not like they are just parking there occasionally, or even just parking there. They are also leaving shit in the boulevard, hanging into my driveway and the next door neighbor’s driveway, breaking plants, etc. These people are just flat inconsiderate, but I only irritate them with it once every other month or so when we need to park the trailer there.
Hmmm.
Own, tho given their extreme lack of financial sense, maybe they won’t be owning it for long.
Maybe that’s why we have so much of a problem with it here, since S California has a large population of folks from Mexico and on south. OTOH, the people on either side of us, also Mexicans, managed to raise their kids without more than the usual sort of noise.
Call Child Protective Service. If the adults are drinking to the point that you’re afraid to talk to them, they are not caring for their children.
It’s not your property. It is paid for and maintained by the taxpayers. Hell, it may not even be your tree. They have as much right to park their 5 cars there as you have to park your trailer.
That’s one of those city things that has two different things going on - the legal thing, and the societal thing. There are unspoken expectations that people will park in front of their own houses, not in front of their neighbours’ houses, in spite of it being perfectly legal to do so. I live on a corner lot and have A LOT of sidewalk to shovel; there is a bus zone across the street from me, so my neighbours tend to park in front of my house. It’s perfectly legal, but it kind of bugs me that I do all the shovelling, and they do all the convenient parking (we have a garage).
You have every right to be bugged. You have no right to ask your neighbors to move their cars to another spot. They have as much right to the shade as anyone else. That’s the way the ball bounces.
P.S. Many streets have parking on just one side of the street, which means that folks have no choice but to park in front of their neighbor’s house. Or maybe they like the shade.
Just move to a better neigbourhood.