Leaving aside the question of whether or not you should move (which you shouldn’t) I honestly have to wonder what kind of city you live in that the war zone of a neighborhood you describe is one of the best neighbourhoods. In most “best neighborhoods” you don’t get three or four entire families in one house, mass vandalism, cars and trailers all over the street, the police being called all the time, and the other things you’ve described. Where the heck do you live? Mogadishu?
I want one hooked to my computer, where I hit a button and the water shoots out the other end! And in the winter it’d be icy cold water and in the summer, hot water.
Unfortunately it would mean that I’d be subject to it, too. 
Heh, we live in an extremely high density area. It’s not as bad as you seem to think, if nothing else the trailers/boats/motorhomes are not allowed to be parked there more than 24 hours? maybe it’s 48. Anyway, that’s why I say we are bringing the trailer home - normally it is stored in a facility about 20 miles away. And the police being called is mostly the one cranky retired guy.
Also, we didn’t have these issues until this family moved in across the street (and the other family next to them started renting that house). When I first moved in 18 years ago, there were no children under junior high age on our block at all and no multi-family in one house things going on. Then 8? years ago, the house across the street was purchased under one of those bad loans where you get in with little or no down and the mortgage payment goes way up after five years, and they couldn’t afford it when it went up. Not that they planned ahead or anything - during that time they had a third kid :smack: So they moved in a couple and their kid to help pay the mortgage, that couple had a second kid, then they moved someone else in - that person might be a single, I’m not sure because my “source” isn’t sure. Anyway, at the very least, there are five adults and five kids under 10 living in a three made into four bedroom one bathroom house, and each of the adults has a large vehicle.
The family next door to them is also inconsiderate, but I could live with their problems. Its really just this one house that is pushing the limits of decency. We are just unfortunate that they live right across the street from us.
Cow-irkers making you crazy?
Oh, no. I meant, through the computer! Through the Internet line. So if someone really was annoying me on the Dope or somewhere else in cyberspace I could press the button and they’d be hit with a deluge!
ETA: Although it would be funny as hell to do it here, too.
OH! Wow, if you can figure out a way to do that, you’d make a mint!
So, I just put our trash cans up and one of them came out and moved the Grand Torino from the shade tree down the block to in front of our house. And kind of glared at me while he did it - gosh I’m sorry I didn’t get those cans moved for you sooner! :dubious:
Nice to see you are making friends.
Have you considered cutting down the tree?
What you need to do is get a powerful speaker system and play a very high pitched tone (around 20kHz)
If done correctly it should work much like a dog whistle, whereas the children will be able to hear it, but most adults will not.
here is a link for comparison http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/
It was originally used as a ringtone that adults wouldn’t be able to hear, but I think this is a much better use for it.
You should hear the little girls in the park where I live. You’d swear someone was killing them. They sound like their terrified for their lives. But you look and you see them running around aimlessly screaming, high pitched and having the time of their lives.
I get mad, not at the yelling, but because I can’t remember the last time I was so happy doing absolutely nothing.
Unfortunately the tree belongs to the city. It was ill this past summer so we were kind of hoping it would die, but it appears to be making a recovery. I have thought about asking them if we can cut off the diseased limbs tho.
Young people can seriously hear those ring tones??? Gawd I’m old…
Anyway, if the kids are already making high pitched noises on their own, I’m not sure another high pitched noise is going to bother them at all.
Sounded like silence to me but when I played it, all of my kids reacted. (“WHAT IS THAT LOUD NOISE?!”)
For God’s sake just move to a home for crotchety old ladies, already.
You have a problem with every home with any kind of child in it in your area (granted, you said one is not that bad) and for that case pretty much everyone who lives near you. You’re all het up about the sex lives, parking habits, mother tongue, perceived household budgeting, gardening preferences etc. of people you apparently never talk to. You’ve apparently kept a running log of every family with the gall to reproduce for the last couple decades in your general area, carefully stoking every moment you’ve been exposed to a child so you can hold it up in righteous indignation years later. It’s weird.
I imagine that a choir boy playing chess with a gag on sounds like a burning, searing, devil-yell to curlcoat. I don’t think anyone is a fan of loud obnoxious noises, but I don’t believe for a moment that what’s actually going on is anywhere near what’s being described in the OP.
Again with the fallback position of bad parenting - someone doesn’t like the fact the children are running amok without any sort of supervision, so that person should move and pray that they end up with neighbors that actually parent. God forbid the parents take any responsibility for their kids! :smack:
This is why I put this in IHMO instead of the Pit, since people there don’t seem to be able to read anything that something to do with their pet hot buttons without a huge dollop of bias. Your exaggerations are very typical of the sort of response I get there, and yet you come here, ignore all of the people posting much the same as I have and try to pretend there is something wrong with me. I mean really, my neighbors sex lives? Every home? Their “mother tongue”? Gardening preferences? I can’t even imagine what I’ve said in the past that you are twisting to fit your bizarre impressions.
As for you not believing that children can scream blue murder in a bounce house or at a pool party for hours on end - shrug. Either you have been very lucky, or you are one of those people who think doing that is “natural” for children. If it is the latter, you should note that I am not the only one who has a problem with this. Why don’t you just toddle on back to the Pit where there are others like you, who like to jump to unjustified conclusions?
The solution to the bounce house is simple…
get a few tanks of Helium (or Hydrogen if you’re feeling particularly nasty), and fill up the bounce house when they’re not using it late at night, they can’t use it if it’s floating away, can they? <evil grin>
Plus, if you have a shotgun, you’ve just invented a new sport, “Bounce-house-skeet”
Pull!
BWAHAHAHAHA! You know, I could use some target practice…
heh heh heh
curlcoat, I feel your pain. I live in a neighborhood that used to be full of old folks who have gradually died off to be replaced by families with kids. The guy across the street and one house down has two very well-behaved teenage daughters. The people across the street are from Mexico, and the adults don’t speak English. I estimate that there are at least two separate families living there, and I’ve counted six regular kids below the age of ten and a handful of ones that come and go apparently with the weather. These kids play out in the street in the afternoons while their parents play loud incomprehensible music from their bigass F350 truck that they park in the middle of their yard. The kids scream and run amok and try to sneak into my yard to harass my dog. The other neighbors will complain about the music (and the occasional chicken, which are not allowed inside city limits) but I have yet to hear them say a word against the screamy kids running all over the place. Why is the loud music bad, but the screaming and trespassing kids are acceptable? And not just in the neighborhood, because I completely understand that living in a a city means that some of your noise is going to bleed over onto other people. I was in the grocery store a couple weeks ago and this toddler started screeeeeeeeching. Not crying, just a long scrreeeeeeech that was deafening from two aisles over. If I had started screaming like that in a store when I was a kid, my aunts would have marched my happy ass right to the bathrooms and given me a real reason to scream. But miraculously, it continued and the parent continued shopping and nobody said a damn thing. But hey, kids will be kids, right? Whatever. It just makes me want to move to freaking Franklin County, that’s what it does. I would love a real answer for why this is so universally acceptable, and I think somebody had it right upthread: brat worship, plain and simple.
You know, when I go to Mexico (when I go, I live there from a year to 1.5 years), I’m the white gringo. The general assumption is that I don’t speak Spanish (although in reality I’m quite fluent).
Now I’m in China. I’m sure that I know less Mandarin (and certainly less Nanjingese) than your Mexican neighbors know English.
In neither of these two cases does it mean that I’m a disrespectful hater of the society that I’m in. Language takes time. Hating on someone because they “only” know Spanish is exactly the same as hating on them because their skin is olive (and not all Mexicans are moreno, FWIW).
Let me double check: yeah, we’re in IMHO, so IMHO you’re a racist, pure and simple. If we didn’t have rules against calling people trolls, I’d go on.
Dogzilla, you tease! What on earth did the “Whump - birds tweeting” sound turn out to be?
And apparently children as status symbols because I see so many parents that just don’t seem to really like their kids. The Cult of the Child I blame on Hillary Clinton with her “it takes a village crap”.
Huh? Are you talking about the fact that I was irritated when my neighbors tried to get out of moving their cars by pretending they don’t speak English? How the heck is that racist? Or trolling? Or do you just assume they don’t speak English without bothering to ask? If that’s it, well they speak English just fine - apparently they forgot that they’d had some conversations in English with me prior to that time.
Do you even know what “racist” means? I think you should check it out before you throw that sort of accusation around.