So my neighbors seem to think that because they're retired/unemployeed, that it's a-okay to hang out in their backyard getting drunk and cracking themselves up all hours of the night. The other night they woke me up at 4am when one of their friends was yelling drunken slurs and they sat there laughing about it... LOUDLY. They kept this up, along with "talking" (more like yelling) for another 2 freaking hours before I guess they decided they had had enough. I had to run on 4 hours of sleep that day thanks to them.

Now, they're at it again. It's already getting late and I need to get to bed soon, but it's impossible with them out there carrying on. (I'm a light sleeper, but gah, there ARE laws about this for a reason.)

So... how would you guys deal with this? I know I can call the cops, but then that can lead to all sorts of crappy actions on their part to return the favor. Or just plain cause drama in the neighborhood. But I need to sleep and they don't seem to care a bit about the rest of us. I don't know them, btw, never met them or talked to them even though our yards meet. All I know is they like to drink, talk and laugh incredibly loud, have 3 of the most obnoxious little dogs, and 3 cats that they never put inside so they like ot use my garden as a litter box. (Yeah, not my favorite neighbors for sure.)

You just answered your own question.

Show them your collection of Assault rifes and Bullets. Get a german shepard. Tell them to "Shut the [censored] up!". Try using the force on them.
I should mention I don't have neighbours.

Buy some earplugs.

http://xkcd.com/368/

http://xkcd.com/316/

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/01/spechjammer-gun-gives-loudmouths-a-dose-of-their-own-medicine-to/

ask some of your other neihbors if they feel the same.

also the best thing to do is to politely make them aware that you are loosing sleep, and if they continue any ways then call the cops. at that point you already have drama and you might as well get some sleep.

Either you could call the cops or you could threaten them with calling the cops, that's my suggestion.

1.Go to a Star Wars con
2. Round up as many nerds and neckbeards and stick them in the back of a cargo truck
3. Drive to the neighbours home, open the doors and point at said neighbours home.
4. Yell, 'THESE ARE THE dikeS RESPONSIBLE FOR JAR JARS EXISTENCE!', duck and cover
5. Forever free of pesky neighbours.

Brilliant!

You could also say they are EA and Activsion executives.

I feel for ya man, I have annoying neighbers as well, they either play their radio loud enough where it shakes my walls or they ride around on their ATV and dirt bikes...but what makes my situation svck even more is that I live out in the country and there are no noise laws out here, but at least they don't do it all the time.

There's only one response; open your window and place your speakers on the sill, crank em' up and fill their ears with sweet melodious sax: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=KHy7DGLTt8g

We had a similar problem on my street with get togethers on the neighbours front steps at all hours of the night, and they'd race dirt bikes up and down our little secluded street in the Winnipeg suburbs. We just called the cops anonymously and they haven't done it since and have no idea that we narked on them, though we know many other people in the area were pissed too and probably would have called the cops eventually.

No that won't work---it would just cause a neighberhood party . I have to say I could listen to that for hours .

I have a scarier dog, who's also well trained to attack on command.

Lol that's purely awesome! I'm somehow not remotely surprised that the Japanese came up with that.

I really don't know how to confront them. They're kind of rude people even during the day.. hence why we've never been properly introduced, yet I know all the rest of my neighbors well.



........

Beartraps...lots of them.

To perform my suggestion, you will need the following:

1) Very powerful, durable speakers. Loud, bassy, and can handle being used for a very long time.
2) A good reciever.
3) A good CD player with a repeat album function.
4) Good locks on your doors and windows.
5) A reliable alarm system.
6) A copy of Meshuggah's Chaosphere album.
7) A reliable friend with time to kill.

Set up your equipment, aim the speakers toward your jerk neighbors, but keep the windows closed and locked. Insert Chaosphere, set it up to endlessly repeat the entire album. Crank the volume up as loud as you feel is necessary. Hit play, and leave the house for several hours. Tell your friend to monitor the situation and call you if someone does anything to your house. Return home, enjoy the silence from your neighbors forever after.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas6akz1jWU

Sometimes I got that when talking on a cell phone with bad reception. It's really distracting. Great invention.

you could always leave an anonymous letter, the content of which should definitely be to the point but not containing any accusations or any thing like "you are rude people, stop making so much noise, i am going to call the cops" since its human nature to believe that you have the right of the matter and trying to guilt or demand any thing from them is just going to antagonize them.

If you can't beat em', join em'!

I could beat 'em... but I'm quite sure I'd be spending another sleepless night in a far less comfortable place then.

Luckily, tonight they seem to have gone to bed early. Or are taking a nap... either way, I'm going to go enjoy the silence in my bed.

We had neighbors who had yelling screaming children, my dad went over there, calmly I might add, and asked them to quiet down because my mom was resting from back sugery. The house owners daughter comes out and shouts undesirable words, my dad gets pissed and almost loses it. Then this guy blames me and my brother for egging his house, and says my mom (who just got back surgery) went to his house and sprayed weed killer on his flowers. Then the guy sets up a camera looking at our yard (pretty sure it's still there 5 years later) Then he would start arguments about stuff like how 6 inches of his yard is within our fence so we can't put anything on it. Eventually during one of theses arguments my mom tells him he can [censored] himself, and he is a [censored] creep. Then he stopped, except the camera. maybe just yell at them.

EDIT: Forgot about the child molester, and the kid who burnt his house down smoking. Cops dealt with them though obviously. I just have the best neighbors.

Well I have a tendency to be rude right back to those that get rude with me. Crank up some nice metal music after the go to bed at like 5am and see how they like it, may I suggest Slipknot All Hope is Gone, or Otep Confrontation.

ehh call noise control

or move

or flip it over and be louder and more annoying

im the loud neighbor where i live. i had one guy move out because i asked him to to clean out his letterbox (because im sick of picking his newspapers and letters off my lawn when it overflows) he percieved it as a threat and called the cops who basically laughed at him. a load of censored [censored] to be honest

Oh! Sorry man!

It's just they are having a sale on this here bud.

I'll be a little quiet wit my friend.