Revenge on neighbors

[pudley4]

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Have you talked to the landlord about this?

I had a similar situation once. There was an old lady who lived in the next apartment sharing my wall. I would turn on the t.v. when I got home and immediately she would start pounding the walls. Now, this was for the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour on PBS, just talking heads, and it wasn't very loud.

Complaint after complaint, and it intermittently got me feeling really weirded out. Several times the landlord's dad came in and looked around and saw that the t.v. wasn't loud at all. But still more complaints.

Finally I told the landlord look, this isn't a prison and there is no way in heck a tenant can expect not to hear another tenant. There are laws against making too much noise and it's a great thing we have them, but I'm not violating any of them. There's no way that turning on a t.v. at a moderate level at 6 p.m. is unreasonable. The landlord finally agreed with me and spoke to the crazy lady and things were fine.

I think you should really make the case to your landlord in a responsible, clear way, in person if at all possible. BEFORE it becomes a crisis. Way before.

You should also, if you write letters, keep copies and show them to the police if they show up so they can see that there is an ongoing dispute, you have been contacting your landlord about it, and the crazy lady is not on the right side of this thing. Ask the landlord if you can call him if the police show up any more, right when they are there, so the police can verify to their satisfaction that you are in fact being reasonable and have your landlord's support. Show them the landlord's business card or stationery so they can verify you're really speaking to the landlord, if you get to make the call.

Having written and reasonable documentation regarding this kind of thing is always very helpful, and will go a long way toward making your case clear and convincing to others. Don't always be reacting to this and at the mercy of a stranger's craziness; be the initiator in getting it resolved before it really blows up in your face and you or the old lady wind up doing something nus out of anger.

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This is intelligent and appropriate, but not fun at all.

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It's what blarg is here for - a little rational thought in the midst of the asylum.

[diebitter]

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It's what blarg is here for - a little rational thought in the midst of the asylum.

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Ayyyy, matey, that suggests the rest of us sea-riding scum are not uv sound moynd, ARRRRRRRRRRR! We be resentin this slurrrr, ya lubberrrr, on aaaall the gold of ole Jamaicy we be betting we be sawnd in the head!

[vexvelour]

Actually I have spoken to the management, Blarg. They don't care, because I'm 22 and that means I obviously make more noise than her because she's in her 30's or so. On top of all of this, I have complained 10 times to the office about the people above me that ACTUALLY DO make a crazy amount of banging and stomping noise...and when I asked yesterday to show me how many complaints they actually delivered...none.

I f'in hate this apt complex.

By the way, great contributions gents...I'll be cracking up all day.

[Blarg]

Are you friends with any of the neighbors? A statement from a few of them that you're quiet would be good supporting evidence.

[vexvelour]

Nah, from what I can tell pretty much everyone that lives in this complex is a douche in some way or another and I want nothing to do with any of them. Good idea, though.

[MelK]

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Nah, from what I can tell pretty much everyone that lives in this complex is a douche in some way or another

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Don't be so hard on yourself. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[4_2_it]

So what did you do last night? We need an update. Pictures are always helpful.

I am surprised no one has suggested letting a rabid mongoose loose in her apartment.

I am very am very disappointed in all of you. I cannot believe you are making these kinds of suggestions for revenge. Flaming bag-o-poop, frozen urine tray under the door, phony phone calls, bogus pizza deliveries. You should all be ashamed...for not realizing that you cannot enact revenge on your home turf. If something happens at the apartment complex it will pretty clear who the perpetrator/plotter is. You need to make suggestions for things that will occur away from home. e.g. flaming bag of poop outside her place of work.

[djoyce003]

put an ad in the paper for a garage sale at her apartment...put lots of things in there like baby clothes, tools, fishing tackle.....stuff everyone wants to go buy at a garage sale...early birds welcome...if you know her phone number that's even better....put her apartment number down...they'll be beating it down at like 7 on a saturday. Classic.

[Shajen]

"She lets the annoying neighbor lady go. She waits until her husband and kids are in the ground and then she goes after the rest of the tenants. She kills their kids, she kills their wives, she kills their parents and their parents' friends. She burns down the apartments they live in and the stores they work in, she kills people that owe them money. And like that she was gone. Underground. Nobody has ever seen her since. She becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. "Rat on your pop, and Vexvelour will get you." And no-one ever really believes."