I'm not sure what I want to take a baseball bat to first -- my neighbour's stereo or his head.

For the past two months+ he's been playing his stereo at an ear-splitting level and fucking with my study habits and quality of life.

Apparently he was shot in the head in a drug deal gone wrong sometime ago and now sits at home all day smoking weed and listening to shitty pop and rap music. Unfortunately I am forced to listen to it through the wall. I'm moving apartments tomorrow, up a few floors, to get away from him. The super is trying to kick him out but with a signed 12 month lease there is a bunch of bureaucracy to go through before that can happen.

Any suggestions as to how I can pay this asshole back (in a non-violent way) before I move off this floor tomorrow?

1/1/2009 3:45:31 PM

cops call

1/1/2009 3:46:52 PM

1. Take a dump in their doorway.
2. Profit

1/1/2009 3:47:08 PM

You already lost since you are moving to get away from him... Move on.

1/1/2009 3:47:20 PM

cops call

1/1/2009 3:47:59 PM

Quote :

"it smells like fish in here"

1/1/2009 3:57:16 PM

^^^I lost alright. of that there is no doubt. doesn't mean I have to like it.

[Edited on January 1, 2009 at 3:58 PM. Reason : ..]

1/1/2009 3:58:27 PM

did you ever ask him to turn it down?

if you couldn't even confront him about that, I doubt you'll have the balls for any "payback"

unless, of course, it is some pussy move like slitting his tires where he probably won't find out you did it

1/1/2009 4:07:39 PM

Was he actually shot in the head?

1/1/2009 4:23:22 PM

you should call my friend Pooky, he can probably help you out

1/1/2009 4:25:19 PM

Neighbour

1/1/2009 4:27:00 PM

yes, he actually took a bullet to the head. sucks for him but if he was as big a douchebag before he got shot as he is now then karma is a bitch i guess.

1/1/2009 4:28:34 PM

shape charges on all the walls of his apartment you can get access to, followed by as many bees as you you can get access to

1/1/2009 4:58:17 PM

karma for loud music /= shot in head

1/1/2009 5:01:38 PM

it should be

fuck noisy people

1/1/2009 5:02:19 PM

oh but wait HE SMOKES WEED ALL DAY

he must be a terrible person

seriously though, did you try and ever talk with this guy about it?

1/1/2009 5:02:32 PM

Sell him a baggie of oregano

1/1/2009 5:03:39 PM

1) Get a stereo

2) Get an ABBA CD

3) Insert CD in stereo and face against wall

4) turn volume up when you leave for work, school, whatever.

1/1/2009 5:07:25 PM

shoot him in the head

1/1/2009 5:13:10 PM

that obviously doesn't work though

1/1/2009 5:25:51 PM

no, no, i think he's on to something. it's like a hint, from God

1/1/2009 5:27:35 PM

WHAT WE JUST WITNESSED WAS A MIRACLE

1/1/2009 5:30:37 PM

Cops.

Though i like the stereo idea.

That if you can get in his walls or his room, get something that beeps. Then set it to beep all night at random.

1/1/2009 5:55:15 PM

I like the shape charges and bees idea.

From what I've seen over the years talking to the person has a low percentage of actually working and has 100% chance of making Bolt this guy's target for aggression any time the cops are called or landlord steps in. It will always be the fault of "that dick that told me to turn it down".

Oh wait, talking did work for me once. Some 40 year old sleazeball moved in down the street and was blasting his stereo at 12:30pm on Thanksgiving. Went to talk to him because he was disturbing our family dinner 5 houses away. After he bitched at me telling me he could make whatever noise he wanted during the day (not true) I walked to the sidewalk and pointed out the 2 unmarked cop cars and 1 marked cop car that were between his driveway and mine. "Welcome to the neighborhood, if you keep up with the loud music I'm sure you'll have an opportunity to meet 3 more of your neighbors - the drivers of those 3 cars." We haven't heard a peep out of him since.

1/1/2009 6:07:56 PM

Bought some of this. It's cheap and smells like (the dirtiest pig sty) X (20). Spray this shit all along the bottom of their door, and on any accessible windows and balconies. Also, if their car windows are cracked, go crazy. Either way, spray it all along the bottom of the windshield just under the hood. That's where the AC air intake is.

Enjoy!

http://www.liquidass.com

[Edited on January 1, 2009 at 6:20 PM. Reason : website address]

1/1/2009 6:14:46 PM

^ bravo!

1/1/2009 6:17:08 PM

Holy shit, someone sprayed that in the building we were at... took a while to ventilate enough for us to breathe

1/1/2009 6:19:11 PM

Starting a thread on tww fixes anything!

1/1/2009 7:33:43 PM

shoot him in the head

1/1/2009 7:40:22 PM

how bout you stop being such a pussy and go fight him

1/1/2009 7:42:10 PM

i too like the stereo idea. when i was an RA at UT, i had a couple residents who lived in the room right next to mine who would play HALO at 3 am at full volume. after repeatedly asking them to turn the volume down, i chose the stereo option.

at the time, i had two speakers with 15"subs and 8" horns that my cousin had built for his frat in Florida. i turned them around to face the wall of the accused and put in a Godsmack cd and turned it up. after about a minute, i heard pounding on my door. it was one of the guys next door. he complained that the bass had knocked almost everything off the wall and him and his rommates desks, that they were sorry, and that it wouldn't happen again.

profit.

1/1/2009 8:03:46 PM

cut his power on the outdoor breaker. it takes like 5 seconds.

1/1/2009 8:15:02 PM

Quote :

"That if you can get in his walls or his room, get something that beeps. Then set it to beep all night at random."

The ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/

1/1/2009 9:13:27 PM

pussy

1/1/2009 9:23:05 PM

Someone who was shot in the head probably won't give a fuck about any stunt you pull.

1/1/2009 10:26:51 PM

i had a noisy neighbor that was fightin outside my window last night at about 2am tryna fight some bitch

i yelled out there like "yo shut the fuck up" and the dudes friend who wwas holdin the dude off the bitch was like "yo man sorry ill calm himn down dude i got it"

i was like "yea man take that shit inside and i wont give a shit"

so they went inside and i went to sleep

so today at around 4 the dude who was tryna fight the bitch knocks on my door, he musta got his ass whooped or somethin cuz he had cuts all over his face a huge mouse, and a black ass eye

i was scared cuz i thought the dude was gonna pull out on me or some shit so i was kinda in ready position (his hands were in his hoodie pockets)

but he was like "dude im sorry man, as you can see i got taken care of dude i know im always bein a pain in the ass but i think i learned my lesson thanks for not callin the cops"

i was like "yea man its cool once yalll toook it inside i wasnt gonna involve the law, youre good"

i reached out to shake his hand and we shook hands and that was that


boy i thought he was gonna pull s methin out, kind of a surprise meetin there

i dont reckon he ever got his hands on that bitch either

1/1/2009 11:55:54 PM

Hopefully the way you handled it, he got put in a position with that other dude where he learned his lesson instead of having to pay with the law, so it worked out better for him.

There were a lot of times I secretly wanted someone to be nosy and beat the shit out of the dude I was with, because I didn't have the heart to call the cops.

1/2/2009 12:22:55 AM

yea i mean i dont want the fuckin police around either and i aint tryna ruin nobodys life

i just wanted them to shut up down there, and by the looks of that dude he learned something


good god, he got fucked up, yea thats definitely punishment enough however it happened

he was goin after that girl hard though she was tryna get into her car real fast and the other dude was literally hangin onto his ankles to stop him

and of course alcohol was not a factor whatsoever...

1/2/2009 12:25:56 AM

Naturally

1/2/2009 12:27:42 AM

i like to think that i at least stopped that girl from being curb stomped

so in a way i was kinda the police

i even yelled from the 3rd floor window with my shirt off, and the lights was on so i probably looked like a big hulking silhouette

also why i thought that guy was gonna pull a weapon on me at the door

double edged sword

1/2/2009 12:33:54 AM

Usually just the fact that you seemed somewhat aggressive is enough to jar anyone out of a drunken rage. People don't expect others to step up for a weakling.

1/2/2009 12:35:23 AM

when youve been watchin first 48 all day

you cant help but get a little paranoid

1/2/2009 12:36:19 AM

Quote :

"Someone who was shot in the head probably won't give a fuck about any stunt you pull."

1/2/2009 12:44:47 AM

Quote :

"The ThinkGeek Annoy-a-tron http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/"

it's nice in theory, but for it to work well it has to be basically silent around your target. they aren't very loud.

1/2/2009 1:18:00 AM

Quote :

"Usually just the fact that you seemed somewhat aggressive is enough to jar anyone out of a drunken rage."

It depends on the particular drunk and how drunk they are (and what else they might be on.) From what he said it sounds like the guy wasn't jarred out of his drunken rage by what was said, but by the beating that was visibly apparent on him the next day. Some abusive drunks can only be stopped by physical means- and pain sensitivity can mean you have work a bit harder than you might have thought. Part of my family tree consists of a long line of undereducated over-opinionated drunken Irishmen so I've been able to observe a variety of anger drunks. I guess I'm lucky to be the kind of drunk who annoys people by talking about physics when I can barely stand.

1/2/2009 1:39:56 AM

Quote :

"fucking with my study habits"

and that's why part of your tuition goes into funding for our huge library. Go study there....

1/2/2009 3:26:33 AM

1: Molotov Cocktails
2: ????
3: PROFIT

1/2/2009 3:28:36 AM

I have the same problem in my girlfriends apt. I have told the guy to turn it down over 5 times. The last time he just slammed the door. I called the non-emergency cop number, the cops said they would come but never turned up.. Isnt there a way to create interference so that the speakers next door have a buzzing sound along with the music?

1/2/2009 3:36:40 AM

^I can guarantee you that direct contact with explosives will fuck up the sound quality to a high degree.

1/2/2009 3:46:41 AM

I've successfully stopped noisy neighbors by "fighting noise with noise", but since you're moving out, that's pointless. I like the stink bomb idea, but that's a property crime, so you'd be sinking even lower than him. Your best bet is to wait a year or so before doing anything. That way, he'll have much less of a reason to suspect you. Also, after a year or so, you might simply not be mad anymore, and just let it go. (The best revenge is to live a good life.)

I'd think twice about calling the cops. Besides the fact that that is the biggest-douche-pussy-loser move in the history of mankind, it could backfire. Dude will know it was you, find you, and shoot you in the head. Don't fucking do it. Don't fucking snitch.

1/2/2009 8:16:31 AM