What to do about loud garage band disturbing the peace?

[northcat_8]

Breaches of the noise offence provision of the POEO Act can attract fines of up to $30,000 in the case of an individual and $60,000 in the case of a corporation, with additional fines for continuing offences.

Holy crap! Must be nice and quiet in your town!

No shit. Holy Cow, I would be afraid to fart in your town.

[ChrisX]

A woman banned from owning a TV, stereo or radio in the U.K after complaints from her neighbors as 'TOO LOUD'.

Check out: Mirror.co.uk '

[pyscrow]

Do they leave that car in the photo out at night?

Tape a little plastic bag to the windscreen of the car, put the valves outta the tyres in the little bag, with a note stating each time they play their crap music, they will get just such a little gift.


If they are good enough to get gigs or sponsors start ringing the venues and sponsors and complaining. I had an arsehole with a race car down the road from me. He used to think it was a great idea to take it for a late night run down the street whenever he was tuning it. So I started ring sponsors, (he kindly had them displayed on the side of the race car for me to view each time he went past), slowly the sponsors decals disapeared, each time a new one appeared they got a phone call as well. Even though he stopped running it down the street after a while, I kept ringing the new sponsors, until it forced him to move away.

[JeeDub]

I feel for you, I really do. I think I would invest in some noise-cancelling headphones and then fight fire with fire. Usually inconsiderate boors like that are the first to complain about others when it bothers them so I would fire up a noisy chainsaw, lawnmower, limb chipper, whatever on a Saturday morning about 8:00 am and make all kinds of racket. Get an old tin garbage can or some sheet metal and cut it up with a jig saw, slowly.
Borrow a fog horn and light it off at random times in the night in their direction. Use your imagination. I would think it would only take the parents a week or so to get the idea. There are lots of ways to be legally annoying without resorting to violence or destruction. Reserve those tactics for later if they start on your case. I think maybe a covert anonymous harassment of the owners of the house would be the thing that will change the situation. As long as they aren't sure who it is, they can't do anything about it unless they catch you. Deny everything, have alibis, smile innocently to the officers. Google search for "getting even" ideas, there are lots of them out there.

Good luck. Jee Dub.

[DVD_Ripper]

He also leaves town for weeks at a time leaving them there penned up alone and has the other neigbors kids come over and feed and water them. It's no wonder they bark! I feel sorry for the poor dogs.

SPCA would love to know about this... There may be some laws regarding penned up dawgs even if they are being cared for on a daily basis... would be a big problem if it was every other day care ... they would probably take them away.

[DVD_Ripper]

I would try a variation of what northcat suggested. It's true that you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, so cussing and yelling won't help - just make them more determined. They know the noise laws, and provided they stop before 10pm they know they're safe.

I would go over with a few beers (if their parents aren't home) and start getting buddy buddy with them. Tell them you love the music, especially since you've been away for so long. Wait for one of them to ask you where you've been. Act embarassed when you say "prison." One of them will surely ask you what you were in for, and answer "well .....I'd rather not say". They'll ask again and you say "I was in for manslaughter. The neighbor had a garage band, and I killed them for playing too loud."

And if that doesn't work CAP can give you good recipes for some incendiaries

[Capmaster]

I would try a variation of what northcat suggested. It's true that you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, so cussing and yelling won't help - just make them more determined. They know the noise laws, and provided they stop before 10pm they know they're safe.

I would go over with a few beers (if their parents aren't home) and start getting buddy buddy with them. Tell them you love the music, especially since you've been away for so long. Wait for one of them to ask you where you've been. Act embarassed when you say "prison." One of them will surely ask you what you were in for, and answer "well .....I'd rather not say". They'll ask again and you say "I was in for manslaughter. The neighbor had a garage band, and I killed them for playing too loud."

And if that doesn't work CAP can give you good recipes for some incendiaries

I think I still have my recipe for fulminate of mercury in my "fond old memories" shoebox
Or maybe some ammonium iodide - for the "bang without the flame"

[Will Hay]

...stiltman beat me to it.
I would set my camcorder to record one minute every twenty minutes and that way show the cops hours of footage, compressed to just a few short minutes.
Do this each day for a week and see what the copy say.
Will

[indolikaa]

...stiltman beat me to it.
I would set my camcorder to record one minute every twenty minutes and that way show the cops hours of footage, compressed to just a few short minutes.
Do this each day for a week and see what the copy say.
Will

Seems kind of shitty that a citizen should have to go through all of this 'investigative effort' just to get the police to act on a complaint...

[Roundabout]

...stiltman beat me to it.
I would set my camcorder to record one minute every twenty minutes and that way show the cops hours of footage, compressed to just a few short minutes.
Do this each day for a week and see what the copy say.
Will

Seems kind of shitty that a citizen should have to go through all of this 'investigative effort' just to get the police to act on a complaint...

Good idea, Will & Stilt. And I agree, with all of you and Indy. I shouldn't have to go through all this effort, but when it has to be done...

Sure, I've got better things to do with my time (posting on VH, of course ). I've been surprised, it's been all of two days now and it's been quiet over there (dare I say it?). Sunday they played for several hours, it's now Tuesday morning and I haven't heard anything (yet).

Of course, now that I've said that, they'll probably be out there today.

About JeeDub's suggestions, all fine ones... - but, the problem is the other neighbors wouldn't be too happy with me blowing fog horns in the middle of the night, etc. No reason to make everyone suffer, just because these guys don't care.

If they were right next door to me, sure, it would be easy to make late night/early morning racket to wake them up. Problem is, as you can see from the picture, they are across the street, three doors down.

The guy next door to him, the one that doesn't give a crap, has dogs that are on that side where the cars are, behind the gate. If I were to approach the car that belongs to this idiot, the dogs next door are close enough to him that they'd start barking before I could let the air out of his tires. So that won't work (great idea, though).

If this band has gigs (presumably they do, since they seem to practice a lot) I have no idea where they are playing and/or what the name of this so-called band is. If I knew, I could follow them there and let the air out of their tires at that place. There's nothing on their SUV's/truck to indicate what the name of the band is.

So far, the best ideas have been to continue calling the cops when the noise starts, and to video tape the noise and use a meter to indicate the level of noise at my property line. Revenge, Property Destruction, etc. while fine ideas in and of themselves, won't solve much except exacerbate the situation. It's already bad enough, I don't need to be in trouble myself for something they started. That would be ironic if I would up in jail when they were the original troublemakers.

Seems I'm not the only one that's had problems of varying kinds with inconsiderate neighbors. I didn't expect to get this much mileage out of a topic. Keep those ideas coming, this is fun. Who knows, might hit on something that'll work, and keep me out of jail.

[Doramius]

Get your .22 rifle and shoot the master transformer and kick out the power on the block for a while

Kinda counter-productive, I'd lose my A/C (It's 100° here today) and even worse, my cold brew when the fridge stops running!

Definitely not an alternative...

You should have yourself a couple of things to prevent power loss for yourself. A 1000Watt AC inverter, so you can use your car to power things like the lights, microwave, fridge and Home Theater. I hope you have a good UPS for your computer equipment. UPS also run those flourescent bulbs a LONG time. When the power goes out, people become much more noticeable about things around them. Before they realize someone has shot to transformer, they'll think someone used an unseemingly large amout of power and blew the transformer. WHo do you think will be first people suspected.