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Boom! Boom! Boom!

Anonymous032819 — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:43:01 GMT

What a 24 hours!

At about a quarter past midnight last night, I was woken from sleep by some idiot shooting off illegal fireworks a couple of blocks over.

Police were called, although not by me. There is a local "Police Blotter" on line that lists calls made for police, fire, medical, that tells the time of the call, and where and for what.

Then when I got home from work, the neighbors across the alley behind me had their "music" (and I use that word loosely) going, and it had the heavy base. You know the kind, where it rattles your windows, and makes the fillings in your teeth dance.

I got ready to make my mom's Blue Cheese - Garlic dip.

It is ridiculously easy to make. It only has four ingredients.

Blue Cheese

Cottage Cheese

Cream Cheese

Fresh minced garlic.

As I was peeling the cloves, my next door neighbor started to rev his motorcycle.

I yelled to no one in particular, "What is this? A noise contest?! Because if it is, I can make noise too! I still have my mother's trumpet, and I may not know how to play it, but I do know how to make noise on it!"

Eventually, the heavy base was turned off, but now it's back, albeit, at a lower volume.

I'm just glad that my dad wasn't around to hear the heavy base thumping, because that would have set him off, and I don't know if anyone here has had experience with trying to calm down an upset/agitated Altzheimer's patient, but it isn't fun, and it isn't easy.

So, hopefully soon they'll stop the noise altogether.

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Sooner — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:48:59 GMT

@Anonymous032819 I am so sorry. Maybe after the ballgame things will quiet down. Noise pollution is a terrible thing.

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SharkE — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:52:10 GMT

I was told if noise is above 80 decibels and cops are called they have a machine that measures how high it is and they will be given a warning first, then, if have to come out again will be arrested for public disturbance.

I called the law on my neighbor for revving and blowing out his engine for hours on end.

He don't do it any more.

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dex — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:57:36 GMT

@Anonymous032819 @Oh boy sounds like you have some noisy eighbors...did they just move in?

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Snowpuppy — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 23:59:54 GMT

Time to book a U Haul.

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Anonymous032819 — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:00:58 GMT

@dex wrote:
@Anonymous032819 @Oh boy sounds like you have some noisy eighbors...did they just move in?

No, they were already there when my dad and I moved in in October of 2018.

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lovesrecess — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:04:56 GMT

My friend’s son was pulled over when he had his radio turned up too loud while at a redlight next to a police car. Would you not be smart enough to turn the dang thing down then? He wasn’t.🙄

At least if a passing car is too loud you can drive away from it, but neighbors are 24/7. Have you ever had terrible neighbors? What’s the worst?

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SharkE — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:02:34 GMT

Way people are nowdays no respect for others.

all on drugs , etc.

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pigletsmom — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:09:24 GMT

Ugh I feel for you. Heavy base is the one thing that really sends me over the egde. I have a neighbor who constantly sits in his car in the parking lot with the radio blasting. Once it gets warm and happens on a regular basis again I'm going to have to complain to the office.

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SharkE — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:17:01 GMT

I'm lucky we don't have any teens around us. I'm in an expensive enough neighborhood lots of folks can't afford to pay the taxes, so, that helps a lot.

This fellow is like 30, old enough not to act like a teenager. I suspect he's a spoiled brat and like most of them today has this self entitlement issue.

I feel bad for the folks who live who have no recourse that are decent themselves, but, have to live around people who don't have the same sense

of how to act in civilization.

Anyway, he had a visit from 2 cops and now has settled down.

Course, summer is coming on who knows he may have short memory and

try to get out the ol' corvette and waste gas just sitting there with foot on the gas and blowing out the tailpipe.

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jannabelle1 — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:33:08 GMT

Your dip sounds so good, and we love blue cheese! How much of each of the 4 ingredients? Thanks!

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NAES1 — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:44:27 GMT

@SharkE

We have ...a lot.. of Interstate drivers driving right to the stopping point GOING THE WRONG WAY, so I know exactly what you are referring to. With the taxes we pay, the Highway Patrol ever so present, I often wonder how do they miss this over & over?

The so called (?music) is that blasted rap stuff and it's nothing ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but NOISE!

We live in a very quiet area, and pay dearly for it, but woth it if it remains. There are 12 pais uniforme hire village police that can be here within 2 minutes.

Absolutely, I understand...

'why is nothing being established, or done- REPRIMANDED for these free for all whatsoevers?

AND! for those not living in a -I suppose- proteted area'?

It's now just (as my dad had said: DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS... and that was over 7 years ago.

@Anonymous032819

@pigletsmom

@lovesrecess anyone whom had read this.

I was at a loal dry cleaners the other day, and when I had gotten out there was a large red (new) $60,000 truck with the engine running, the boom box loudly playing this junk...I ould hear my heart go thump thump. I walked around- found no one, then went inside the dry

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mizree — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:44:50 GMT

@Anonymous032819 sorry others have disturbed your peace. Mom's recipe sounds delicious. Please tell us how much of each ingredient. TIA

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x Hedge — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:47:43 GMT

Sounds like one of my neighbor's party's.

She blasts music, and has drunk arguments with her guests outside my bedroom windows in the wee hours.

One night she was celebrating something, and (drunkenly) shot fireworks off between the houses, so most landed on my roof and in my gutters (with the dried leaves!) while still burning.

Her guests throw cigarette butts and beer cans on my lawn as they go to their cars, because they don't want to risk getting stopped with an open beer in the car.

Her ex is on the police force, and she brags that she can do anything she wants. Her police friends won't stop her noise, but they'll tell her who reported her. And she's the vindictive type.

When I was still working I set up a bedroom in my basement to take advantage of the sound blocking below ground level.

On the other side of me I have absolute angelic neighbors.

Ahhh...they're wonderful.

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chrystaltree — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:52:18 GMT

Oh, my goodness. It was fortunate that your father wasn't home. I don't have many noise problems now that we are on the quiet side of our condo complex. Over on the other side, where there are more young working people, there would sometimes be loud parties. We have Noise Police in our town and we found out, the noise threshold isn't just at night. It's during the day too. You call them, they arrive in about 20 minutes, check the decibel level of the noise and if it's too high, they take of the problem. Day or night. We do get some noise from holiday fireworks and when a local team wins a championhip. If the Patriots had been in the Super Bowl and if they won....illegal fireworks would have gone off into the wee hours. Don't have to worry about that this year.

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Desertdi — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:53:02 GMT

I lived in Hollywood for 3 years........it's 24/7 of noise, sirens, and circling helicopters

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Ms tyrion2 — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:53:19 GMT

@SharkE wrote:
Way people are nowdays no respect for others.
all on drugs , etc.

OK, Boomer

😁

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AuntG — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:57:31 GMT

@Anonymous032819 that is an unfortunate situation. I'm glad my neighborhood is quiet. What angered me was our recent hotel stay. The fire alarms went off while we were sleeping with that shrill sound and flashing lights. It's happened several times in the last few years and it's not a bit funny. It upsets me that no "all clear" comes over the loudspeakers. Some drunken guests probably pull the alarms to be funny. I did notice more security at the elevator this morning so I hope that discourages the wise guys.

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NAES1 — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 01:02:43 GMT

@NAES1 wrote:

@SharkE

We have ...a lot.. of Interstate drivers driving right to the stopping point GOING THE WRONG WAY, so I know exactly what you are referring to.

With the taxes we pay, the Highway Patrol ever so present, I often wonder how do they miss this over & over?

The so called (?music) is that blasted rap stuff and it's nothing ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but NOISE!

We live in a very quiet area, and pay dearly for it, but worth, it if it remains.
There are 12 paid uniformed hired village police that can be here within 2 minutes.

Absolutely, I understand...
'why is nothing being established, or done- REPRIMANDED for these free for all whatsoever?
AND! for those not living in a -I suppose- protected area'?
It's now just (as my dad had said: DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS... and that was over 7 years ago.
@Anonymous032819
@pigletsmom
@lovesrecess anyone whom had read this.

I was at a local dry cleaners the other day, and when I had gotten out there was a large red (new) $60,000 truck with the engine running, the boom box loudly playing this junk...I could hear my heart go thump / thump.
I walked around- found no one, then went inside the dry cleaners.
QV's ............{{{{> XXXXXX>>>>>>>>>THIS WAS SUDDENLY CUT OFF AND Transferred, then off. ..................so continuing-<}}} ???????????????

I went inside and the ladies inside said they could not tolerate any longer, and I asked - how long? Answer: About 1/2 hour, so I called 911 for emergency for hearing damage. As soon as the call went through, this GUY runs out of this small pub and jumps inside driving unbelievably fast.

THEY must (had to) have had a CB or inside tech apparatus to hear what goes through.

Yes, this is noise and the GUY was out of his element for sure, from what I saw.
People are now, apparently, are afraid to call, or approach anyone that is causing a justified problem.

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Mom2Dogs — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 01:03:37 GMT

@SharkE ...off topic --but our church uses that meter and the music is always ABOVE 80 decibels....way to loud for me and DH, so we quit going to church and just go so sunday school....sometiems the base is just rididculous.

@Anonymous032819,...sorry it's so loud at your house today, sometimes it was like that in our neighborhood but the noisy neighbors moved last year, thank goodness.