That's inspiring Walt.
I'd have merely retaliated, with neighborhood consent, by playing
something they're guaranteed not to like very loud at them starting
at 5am.
Best retaliation story I heard concerned a journalist who got home at
around 2;30am after putting the paper to bed. A newish neighbor had a
fowl house with rooster right on the fenceline and foghorn fired up
at 5am in the summer, for an hour or so. Rather than adopt the Wayman
approach (the local constabulary frown on the discharge of firearms
in built-up areas rather vigorously) and failing in the task of
reasoning with the owner (go f*** yerself) he got himself a hunting
spotlight and car battery and when he got home he fired it into the
chookhouse, triggering the fowl response. The owner got the message
and the rooster went.
On the other hand, an elderly pensioner did get so enraged by exactly
this problem that he went over and shot the 'musical' perp
non-fatally - which is unusual enough in Oz for it to have made all
the papers. He's a local hero I believe. Haven't been out here on
holiday have you mate?
AndrewF
>Tris, or anyone else considering outdoor speakers, unless you live
>way out in the middle of nowhere, I hope you will be a good
>neighbor with these things. They can be a real annoyance to those
>who live nearby if used injudiciously and inconsiderately. As an
>example, let me give you as brief an account as possible of a
>recent experience in this regard.
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>We live in an older subdivision northwest of Atlanta, where each
>house is on a lot of from about 1/2 to 3/4 acre. Five or so years
>ago a family moved into a house behind and slightly to one side of
>us. From our back deck to the deck of that house is precisely 347
>feet. They immediately hooked up outdoor speakers on their deck
>and played them raucously loud from morning to night on most
>weekends and on evenings during the week. The music was often so
>loud that it was clearly audible inside our house with the doors
>and windows closed.
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>Four other homeowners were unfortunate enough to be even closer to
>this family of scum than my wife and me. We all complained, but
>to no avail. These were truly obnoxious people, and the music
>continued unabated. We called the cops. They got a couple of $25
>tickets, which they laughed off, and the racket continued, even
>louder it seemed. The cops got tired of having to bother with
>such Mickey Mouse crap, and we got embarrassed about calling them.
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>Finally, those of us in the five houses most affected had endured
>enough and we got together to decide on a course of action. It
>looked like there were three choices: arson, murder, or a
>lawsuit. I was outvoted, despite what I thought was a most
>eloquent argument in favor of either of the former, so we settled
>on the latter, hired a lawyer and filed suit, alleging a
>continuing trespass and intentional infliction of emotional
>distress.
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>To make a story that's already too long short and cut right to the
>chase, it's quiet here now. The case went all the way to a jury
>trial, and we won, and won big. We had audio recordings and video
>tapes, a good lawyer, and, best of all, haughty and obnoxious
>defendants who showed their asses in court.
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>We now own that house, the five of us, subject to the remainder of
>the mortgage, of course. We rent it out, and the lease has a
>special clause regarding loud music. And those speakers are now
>somewhere deep in Mount Trashmore, which is the local euphemism
>for the Cobb County landfill.
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