Call the police anonymously and say you think your neighbor is running an illegal bar out of his house due to the noise.

While noise complaints can sometimes fall on deaf ears with the police -oops, I really didn't see that one..
but zoning violations are often dealt with more urgently.
Why this is I have no idea, maybe a holdover from speakeasies and the Prohibition.




Or wait until the one evening they're not having a get together, and practice you tuba in the back yard all night.

What? You don't play the tuba?

Time you practiced

Just playhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwFqShcxaQ0when they get to loud. They will hush up instantly...

You know there is laws against it, you know you can call the cops, case solved.

Alternatively, leave a crap in a bag infront of their door until they move away.

- Get the cops to shut them up
- Tell them to shut up yourself
- Kick the animals out of your garden when they enter.
- Chase them out
- Tell the owners if they are caught in there again the above will happen.

Demand the authorita of your neighbours!

That gun will be like nuclear war, everyone will have one. Then no one can talk because everyone is silencing everyone. Then we proceed as normal finding out how dumb of an invention it is. We HAVE to talk to get anything done. If your the only one with it huzzah, otherwise look forward to being silenced frequently.

When our neighbor was making lots of noise we formed a small confederation of angry neighbors and bombarded him with threats until he shut the [censored] up. It worked when he was one warning short of being forced to relocate.

We had neighbours like that and my girlfriend currently has neighbours that think it's ok to do housework i.e drilling in the early hours.

For both situations I suggest playing music very loud when they are trying to sleep and if they come round like they did me say what I said "Oh I'm sorry I thought considering you were playing your [censored] the other night it would be fine if I played mine as well.... anyway goodnight" *shuts door and turns music up a bit louder*

Hah, if half of the suggestions here are serious then half of the people attending these forums are more childish than I thought don't fight fire with fire by being loud, fire likes to spread and in this case noise is the fire and your neighborhood is the forest, you don't put the forest out by lighting up even more trees. As for asking them to be quiet you seem to be a bit intimidated by them but I would rather go and ask them if they could be quieter in a nice way and if they keep being loud you can come and ask them to be quieter with a warning that if they keep it up you will call the police or whatever other more appropriate authority you can think of to handle the situation. And of course if they then keep it up or even if they just act rude the first time around then the 3rd time (or 2nd if they made it clear they weren't going to be silent the first time around) you call your authority of choice to handle it.

People who act this way only get away with it because the people around them think they will take drastic measures if they do something about it but in most cases those kind of people are all bark and no bite since they know as well as you do that they can get in some big trouble if they actually do anything in retaliation.

I have a neighbor who lives in the apartment beneath mine who was pretty loud when he first moved in but I only needed to give him a single visit and he's been quiet since. Just be prepared to call them out on their crap and have an appropriate response ready if they decide to play that "oh but you were loud once too" card or if they try to act intimidating, a lot of people will try to win an argument just by catching you off guard and the moment you ponder any question for even a second or show that you feel they are intimidating is where they start thinking they can just slam the door on you and not hear from you again.

You can actually build it yourself with some know-how. All it is is a microphone and a speaker with a small delay between playing back what the microphone picks up. Of course to make it directional like the one shown requires much more expensive parts than the standard stuff.

Also, it can't silence typists

Unless it amplifies the sound of typing tenfold and plays it back

can't believe nobody has said this on the first page.

Talk to them

Dis---you'll never have to worry about neighbors within a 500 mile radius ever again .

Radscorpions are such a pain though.

Honestly call the police, weve had problems with bad neighbours, we have a rental property on one side and when the old lady died in the house on the other side its had 3 other owners and 1 were fine, second lot were criminals and the current ones are crazy and what we call here westies, its a catch all name usually for people who come from the western suburbs which is usual an area of low income and high crime rate. The rental property has had so many owners ive lost track and so many people have lived there but usually it ends up being a drug house.

Weve called the police many times for noise, the local cops unofficial line is go ask them to stop the noise, the official line from police command is not to do that as people have been stabbed, had grievous bodily harm caused to them and acouple of months ago a family was murdered because of a neighbourhood dispute, and the police didnt get involved, anyone one who is your neighbour and has no care and cannot realise that people are sleeping at night arent nice people or reasonable, you shouldnt have to ask them to be quiet, they should know that they are being annoying by being loud at night, so call the police and get them slap with a noise order plus if they persist its on record with the police.

Yikes. That would make me want to move. Real fast.

My apartment is right next to the freeway and it gets pretty loud, I remedy this by wearing ear plugs when I sleep. Maybe it could work in your situation.