I misread that part of her post. I danceswithcats came second. I apologize for that, and I thank you for bringing it to my attebtion.
But I still stand by my point. when the land was bought I’m sure he knew where the property line was. Another question, if I may…how much land do you each have?
And since when is working on your vehicles and riding your quadrunners on your own land a nuisance?
When it is so loud it prevents your neighbors from using the telephone…
Since when did living in Bston Mass qualify YOU as a hick?
Bleh… Boston, Mass obviously… Hence my new sig… (Assuming it works)
I’m living in Boston at the moment. But I grew up, and still spend every spare moment I can in Warwick, Ma. Pop. Approx 500.
Is that good enough for you? Do I qualify as a hick now sir?
No. You don’t live in the country. At best you are white trash…
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Ethnicity assumed… Please spare me the racist ramblings…
Go.
Fuck.
Yourself.
And you are a racist. And not worth my time.
Let’s first establish and clarify gender issues. I am a he. (Sorry for the grammar)
Sejal_Traurig nailed the original point. Had I moved to the nuisance, I’d have no one but myself to blame. My other neighbors are courteous and considerate. Asshat & Co. is the exception.
When I bought my home, the lot was vacant, a point observed by everyone except you,** Witch **.
There is no desire within me to deprive Asshat of his ability to enjoy life. All I request is that he enjoy his life peacefully, and allow me a similar measure of courtesy.
First off…IMO,Witch is way outta line.
Second…the next door neighbor is an asshat and should be reported. I’ve had to deal with that sort of thing a lot since until recently we had a blank lot behind our house where asshat teenagers would take their quads and go ‘off-roading’ on the weekends.
Call the cops and see what can be done about it and I bet you get that peace and quiet you went to the country for.
Or move farther out into the country.
IDBB
I grew up in a town with a population of 26 people, and the outlying farms. Guess that qualifies me as a Hick. No way in Hell would we have tolerated that type of behavior by our neighbors. Check into the laws for your County.
I live in rural Arkansas on 3 acres of mostly wooded land and it is very quiet. My home is pretty close to the main street and I can see two of my neighbors home from my house. The loudest noises I hear are cars driving by and the occasional gunshot when someone shoots something. I can’t imagine living in a rural area that was noisy all the time.
I also own an ATV. I’ve never heard one that was so loud that it prevented me from talking on the phone. How close are they driving to your house?
Marc
Sounds like someone here is yanking your chain. Surely no-one is that thick?
I have had to deal with these assholes you speak of from time to time.
NOTE: This is my recommended behavior, Sometimes it works to pay them a visit. Get a couple of your friends/neighbors and y’all agree to go to the new neighbors house together one Sunday afternoon. Bring your pastor, assuming you have one. Maybe invite your local constable and his/her wife (plainclothes).
Pitch-in and bring them a housewarming present, bake a cake or something. If they are responsive, who knows?
If this approach doesn’t work… The best thing is to sit with your friends and see how they feel about it. The group should then talk with your local constable or sheriff’s dept. and find out what you legal rights are. Hopefully, he/she was present at the original meeting.
The appearance of local authorities is usually enough. Especially if they have a little domestic violence, drinking, drugs, or abuse history. Odds are they’ll be gone within a month.
Usually the neighborly visit will make a hell of a difference. They don’t usually stop their behavior completely AND SHOULDN’T, but in most cases they do regulate it to the point of tolerance.
That would probably be wonderful, huh?
If you still can’t get any results…well, I can’t recommend anything illegal here on the Board. But fighting fire w/ fire comes to mind. Problem with that is the possibility of an escalating feud, those can get nasty.
If this bunch is as bad as they sound, there will probably be some bad history somewhere.
BUT…Hey, maybe they think you’re the asshole neighbor who didn’t even bother to introduce himself. If you are shur-nuff country folk, that is a necessity! You ALWAYS welcome the neighbors. You might just need’em sometime. I’ve put out lots of fires in my day. Sometimes the “neighbors” weren’t even home.
Do they KNOW that you have a problem with them or are you assuming intelligence exists to the point of obvious recognition?
danceswithcats, I really think you should go talk to your neighbor. Seriously, some people don’t realize that their noise level is too loud. And it shouldn’t matter to the authorities who approached who first about the noise level. I don’t know your noisy neighbors, but based on your post, you’ve given me no reason to believe that they’d react to your complaints by vandalizing your house while you’re out of town.
You might be surprised when you approach them. They might be apologetic and agree to keep things down.
Start a good ole’ fued, thats what I say gosh dern it.
Is your name McCoy?
Aaaaaaah, a prejudicial and ignorant assumption about the country folk neighbors.
Almost as mind-numbingly stupid as the “white trash” comment above.
I’ve been here awhile, and I didn’t realize we got to pick and choose what groups and subcultures were deserving of respect.
Silly me. I believe they all do. And, in my mind, if you’ll slam one, you’ll slam another, even if you’re enough of a hypocrite to keep it to yourself.
If a group of guys beat you up while you’re walking down the street minding your own business, is it “picking anc choosing what groups are deserving of respect” if you call them violent pricks? Witch, there is a difference between judging people by their race or culture (“my next door neighbors are hicks/black/whatever, so if I bring up this issue with them they might vandalize my property”) and judging by the behavior of a group of people that has already been illustrated (“the family next door is acting thoughtlessly and selfishly, and it concerns me that there might be backlash if I point this out because they have demonstrated themselves to be rude and selfish”).
Please remove yourself from the big wooden cross, mmkay? You’re not exactly showing a lot of respect for city folks and suburbanites, are you? Or, gee, I guess that’s different, right?
Hmm, I pick and choose what groups deserve respect all the time,for instance that group of teens standing in the middle of the road blocking traffic yesterday, oblivious to everyone but themselves. They displayed no respect for the law or the person honking at them…
Not me, if you have no respect for yourself or others, you’ll get none from me.
I’m just crazy like that I guess…
Dear Witch:
I moved to 19 acres in the middle of nowhere. I’m an ex-urbanite.
My neighbors grew up here. They are, by your definition, hicks.
I respect their rights to 1) operate an ATV on their land; 2)set off firecrackers periodically and 3) have loud parties in their backyard .
They respect our rights to 1) make loud noises while remodeling; 2)operate heavy machinery. and 3) peridoically blare music from the house into the garden.
However, in the interest of being good neighbors, we’ve all tactilely to function within an understand perimeter.
Their parties move inside after a certain time and we don’t use the chainsaw before 9 AM on a Sunday morning.
I can understand your a measure of your frustration.
I have city friends that don’t understand that cows bellow, horse shit draws flies and, as Mr Zevon so aptly said:
“There ain’t much to country living,
Sweat, piss, jizz and blood.”
However, danceswithcats neighbor’s are rude louts.Why are you defending them?
Because jlzania, danceswithcats have given no evidence that are in fact rude louts.
I asked how much land we are talking about here. He never answered. In a rural setting you and I know this makes a big difference.
Unless I am talking on the phone next to an open window and the kids are driving the quads directly next to it, there’s no problem hearing on the phone. That’s just bullshit.
Unless they are working on their vehicles or riding thier ATVs at ungodly hours of the day or night, they have every right to do so.
The bit about “I don’t need my home vandalized” if I complain really got my goat. Afraid they’ll come at your place with pitch forks? Spit chewing tobacco all over the place?
Worst case scenario for your neighbors?
The town police will say “There, there, we’ll go talk to them”, go speak to the “perps” (probably about the weather and then about what an asshat YOU are), and life will go on as normal.
Unless proven to me otherwise, they are not doing a damn thing wrong. If they were lighting huge fires, having huge parties or huge brawls I’d be the first to say such behavior is inappropriate in ANY setting. But from the evidence presented here, danceswithcats really needs to get a life.
I think Witch is demonstrating how aptly some of us choose our user names.
I don’t actually understand how country, suburban, or urban living enters into the equation. If you have neighbors, you should be considerate of them. Loud revving engines, two cycle engines running continuously, and soil erosion are not considerate nor acceptable.
As for the “I can do what I want on my property” argument – that works pretty well as long as you can figure out a way to keep your 100 decibel sound waves from leaving your property.
Apparently Witch is a cyber-polygraph…