What Would You Do? - Page 5

SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

I read in the paper where store owners was having trouble with young people standing around the front of their store entrance scaring away people and they started blasting Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, Mel Torme music and those kids ran like roaches when you flip a switch.

Lila Belle · ‎01-24-2013

@Pearlee wrote:
@Lila Belle wrote:
If you have a city service where you can report these things I would do that. You probably can complain anonymously.

Probably not. Except for reports like trying to get people to turn in criminals (hard core criminals) reports filed with a city are usually a public record.

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Not in these instances. Complaints about code compliance, like police matters, is confidential and known only to officials

debic · ‎09-02-2010

Sounds like you have the neighbors from hell. This is one of those things that is pretty much impossible to deal with.

I hope you can learn to live with it if nothing happens to resolve it.

We have unfriendly neighbors, but luckily I'm in the middle of a 2 acre lot and don't have to deal with them.

Many years ago someone someone actually called the police and said I was disturbing the peace as my music was too loud. They actually came and told me to turn it down. It was a boombox and I don't know how anyone could even hear it past my yard. I expressed my opinion to several neighbors, but never knew who had called.

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*Off The Deep End~A very short trip for some!*

SharkE · ‎08-19-2010

I send up a prayer of thanks every night I don't live next to young people and boom boxes. I'm in the middle of two and a half acres built the house in the middle and at the end of a cul de sac where I have nobody on 1 side at all and a cop on the other. No teenage boys thank the almighyt they're the worst. about 2 houses up there's an idiot who reves up his engine on occasion while he's working on his car(s) but he turns it off at 10 until then I can turn up my fans, TV, put on headphones.

Pearlee · ‎06-11-2011

@Lila Belle wrote:
@Pearlee wrote:
@Lila Belle wrote:
If you have a city service where you can report these things I would do that. You probably can complain anonymously.

Probably not. Except for reports like trying to get people to turn in criminals (hard core criminals) reports filed with a city are usually a public record.
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Not in these instances. Complaints about code compliance, like police matters, is confidential and known only to officials

In your city maybe; not in ours. So it all depends on the place where you live.

feline groovy · ‎07-29-2014

@Julie928 wrote:
Hello again, everyone! We have tried the friendly route, believe me! When they moved in I was the only one who brought them a housewarning gift along with a card with our phone number in case they ever need anything. I've given their child birthday/Christmas presents, even give their dogs treats and have gone as far as to bring the dogs doggie ice cream when it is very hot out (all with their blessing, of course). We had a situation last summer that may be a good example. They decided to do some weed pulling (creeping charlie to be exact). Instead of bagging it up and putting it on the curb like the rest of us they threw it in between their garage and our fence. I politely asked her to move it because it can take root and I didn't want it crawling over to our side. She said she would take care of it. A few days later I noticed it was still there so my husband asked her to move it (again, politely). She said she would. Well, you guessed it! Never moved it, still there to this day and healthier than ever!

As far as this situation is concerned, the two men were drinking and I had no idea what their mental state was. I think I did the best I could given the situation. OH! OH! I left out something you should know! I have a small, concrete birdbath under a tree near the property line. Every morning (except on weekends) the darn thing is knocked over. I figured it was those pesky raccoons but thought, why not on the weekends? And why is it always tipped over in the same direction? I decided to watch early one morning because I got tired of picking it up and refilling it all the time. Guess who! Yep! The neighbor from another planet! This all occurred just yesterday, but the tipping over has been going on for about a month now. Now, how do you handle that? :-(

How you handle most - if not all - of it is to keep this in mind:

PEOPLE; CAN'T LIVE WITH 'EM, CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT 'EM.

I know it's annoying, but it's also a part of the minutiae of life.

And that's something positive we should all focus on, not the trivial day-in-day-out stuff that really has no meaning in the big picture.

feline groovy · ‎07-29-2014

@Julie928 wrote:
Danky ~ I think we might have been posting replies at the same time, lol! I don't mean to sound as if I want to start an argument, so please don't misunderstand but....you've got to be kidding, right? These aren't sick, elderly people living there. They're younger than my husband & I and in excellent health. We pay for our trash removal, why should I pay for theirs? I'm outside working hard on my yard most days of the week. Why would I want to spend my time pulling their weeds? I look at it like this. I don't like tension between neighbors, but I think they got the ball rolling on that one. I tried to be nice. What do I get? An amplifier outside my window and my birdbath continuously knocked over. I'm not the only neighbor that has noticied this. I was working out front this morning and another couple came over and asked me about the barking dogs next door. They assured me they knew they weren't mine barking but wanted to know what gives. I said to ask them what gives, lol. I sound angry (not at you) and that's because I am. My tolerance for people that feel the world is their playground and we just live in it is exhausted.

You never know something like that for sure, as in "don't judge a book by it's cover".

There's always more than meets the eye.

No one is entitled to anything, although more and more people arrogantly think that they are.

We may have a right to some things, but we're never "entitled" to anything.

I know you needed to vent, so continue if it helps you deal better.

Whatever works for you that doesn't harm anyone else...

Pook · ‎03-20-2010

There are some you just can't be friendly with as OP posted. We have great neighbors but when new ones moved in I tried to talk to them and they just ignored any attempts of mine to speak to them. Neighbors like this would just make things worse after trying to speak with them over an issue. Years ago when we lived in an apartment with parking in the rear, one of the neighbors who didn't have a car allowed her visitors to park and block the entrance/exit to the lot. We couldn't get out for work one morning so we knocked on her door and a man answered who was beligerant and refused to move since we woke him up. It could have turned ugly if another man there hadn't calmed him down and moved the car himself. From now on I will call the police in a situation like that or contact authorities to deal with it as we would not have backed down and meekly slunk away. In this day and age there are more wackos who just want what they want and will just escalate their behavior.

Julie928 · ‎04-08-2013

Admittingly, I'm a bit confused with regards to your latest post, feline groovy. I respect what you have to say, but where did the "without harming someone" remark come from? That threw me for a loop...Oh, and I do know they are younger than us because I know their ages and the last time I checked sick people aren't out in their driveways drinking beer playing guitars hooked up to amplifiers.

I'm not sure if I'll be returning to this thread. There seems to be a little bit of baiting action going on, lol. Besides, I think this issue has been beaten to death at this point. I do appreciate all of your responses ~ both the ones I agree with and the ones that left me scratching my head. Thank you.