What's the best petty revenge for a neighbour that constantly plays loud music but doesn't answer the door when you try asking them to turn it down?

We’ve tried the usual of calling police (three times), inviting them over to hear how loud it is (they agreed that it was very loud), asking to at least reduce the bass, blasting our own music (not sustainable) and so on. Sometimes it works for a day but inevitably it’s back to the usual.

Hoping for some petty revenge ideas to complement the other efforts.

BennyInc,

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/4737a854-d796-4b2d-aaff-9178099bb532.png

xkcd.com/316

zenharbinger,

How is there always an xkcd for something?

TimeMuncher2,

Set up a mic and play back their own music after a delay, loud enough for them to hear. Don't open the door if they come.

TheVHSWizard,
@TheVHSWizard@artemis.camp avatar

This will be super effective, and also give you plausible deniability because it could just be an echo... just make sure that if they do turn it down, you turn down in response.

Hazdaz,

That’s a really good one.

splix,

solutions

The real fun option is using the cb option above to have ‘god’ tell them to turn down their music by setting the frequency to a high enough level that you can speak through the cb every time they play music right into their speakers. You can also speak through their speakers when they’re off!

Or blow them all up.

CADmonkey,

What an interesting article. From a purely academic standpoint, of course.

DrChickenbeer,

Now this is the content I come to the Internet for.

lemonlemington,

This is great! I think all three have some potential

okmko, (edited )

Wait… Am I missing something here? I don’t understand why a 10kHz wave would do anything to a pair of speakers at a distance.

Unless the speakers are actively playing the output of a radio themselves, it’s not like 10kHz waves will randomly affect the membrane of an electrostatic speaker. The membrane vibrates by an electric signal, not by EM radiation.

Even then, I feel like radios don’t just output whatever their antenna picks up raw. The electronics in radios tune to specific frequency bands and decode the underlying signal by means of FM or AM, and it is that underlying signal that gets played by the speakers.

So even a stronger encoded signal doesn’t necessarily mean louder speaker volume. It would just mean a clearer, less-noisy song.

cman6,

I didn’t study the article but it sounds like the idea is that the AM amplifier will cause an induced current in the speaker. No idea if that’s true or not though

okmko,

I was afraid that’s what it meant. I haven’t done Emag calculations since college but I feel like induction would only work at extremely close distances (as in centimeters) if at all, right?

All those induction experiments have multiple loops, tightly around the passing magnet for a reason since changes in the current is directly proportional to changes in the magnetic flux density (and only the ones normal to the surface area created by a closed loop).

And the closed loop created by the speaker and its source is a really irregular shape, designed to have a small cross-sectional area anyway. It all sounds kind of fishy.

BluesF,

Powerful radio signals will cause interference in anything aerial-like that they pass through. Speaker cables would serve perfectly. For FM signals this would just sound like static or horrible nosie, but AM the interference will sound like a distorted version of the sound signal. Interference in the speaker cables will pass to the speakers… I guess this is the idea, but you’d need a very powerful radio transmitter which would almost certainly be illegal.

GreasyTengu,
@GreasyTengu@sh.itjust.works avatar

You blast music right back, but not just any music. Blast Wannabe by the Spice Girls, but make it just a loop of the intro, like 10 hours of “So tell me what you want, what you really, really want I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want”

chief_chef,

That is a difficult one. Maybe you can boost the volume when he sleeps? In that case he sees/feels what you’re experiencing. Just make sure your other neighbour doesn’t hear it.

Another thing you can do is create a device with a timer that hits the wall every now and then. I saw someone made it for his neighbour and it hit the wall about every 30 minutes so his neighbours couldn’t sleep…

The best way to get a (petty) revenge is by fucking with someones sleeping pattern. If done correctly you will bother him for the whole day!

Thcgrasscity,
@Thcgrasscity@lemmy.ca avatar

If its a house and its summer tonnes of birdseed in their yard, handfuls upon hand fulls. Then let the birds do the work.

AlpacaChariot,

What would this achieve? Lots of birds? A bit of bird poo? I don’t think I’d even notice if someone did that to me

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

Most homeowners I know would be very bothered having their entire house, yard, deck, and driveway covered in bird shit. It’s less effective if you live somewhere that gets regular rain, though.

AlpacaChariot,

Birds shit on everything anyway, no?

I’m in the UK so yeah, pretty much constant rain lol.

FlashMobOfOne,
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world avatar

It makes sense that the impact of this wouldn’t register as much with you, in that case.

Its effectiveness is very much relegated to specific geographical areas. :D

intensely_human,

The bird seed affects the position of the birds see

Thcgrasscity,
@Thcgrasscity@lemmy.ca avatar

The neighbor i did it to his fence on the one side luckily not mine, the tree, the swing off the tree and the entire roof of his house was just covered in bird shit by the end of summer. I did have some friendly fire on my house but not to the point i had to get it professionally cleaned. Seen alot of beautiful birds around that summer, and i dont even remember what the sumbitch did to piss me off just enough.

Delphia,

Id theres a lot of feral cats in the neighbourhood a d they have a garden buy a shitload of catnip seeds and absolutely saturate their yard.

Come spring time its a nightly cat gangbang in their yard.

Anticorp,

It’s really the rats that would be the nuisance. Wherever bird seed is, rats aren’t far behind.

surewhynotlem,

Spell something on the lawn in birdseed. Sure, birds this year. But next year the extra fertilizer will cause the grass to grow greener in that word.

Anticorp,

I knew someone once who salted insults into someone’s lawn. That shit never grows back either.

ohlaph,

Start mowing your grass, leaf blowing, etc. first thing in the morning, as early as legally allowed, for hours. If he asks you to stop, just ignore him.

ultratiem,
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

Pleas don’t bring innocent people around you into with that nonsense.

ringworld,

If you live in the UK you should report the issue to your local council. You can use this link with your postcode (for anyone in the UK with a similar issue) https://www.gov.uk/report-noise-pollution-to-council

Chriszz,

liquid ass

housepanther,
@housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com avatar

Yup, put a little old stink bomb under their door!

FART,

I use 3-4 bottles of that stuff per month

bernieecclestoned,

Relevant user name

FART,

I’m a fart fetishist

Dio,

😆

Royal_Bitch_Pudding,

Apartment or House?

lemonlemington,

It’s a typical old European terraced house (tall, thin with neighbours on each side)

TheDoctorDonna,

Like attached row housing or just really close together?

lemonlemington,

Like this kind of attached where the front door is on the pavement

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e789c0d4-9eb8-4682-9f6c-5ee89a680627.jpeg

Hikermick,

Go on the roof and pour cement down their sewer vent

lapommedeterre,

Take them to court for excessive noise.

SocialMediaRefugee,

I once had to tell the Indian couple above me to turn down their insanely loud Bollywood movie fest. When they came to the door the wave of noise that came out was like standing next to a speaker at a Motorhead show. I don’t know how they could stand it. They did turn it down finally.

This is the same couple who, based on the noise, sounded like they would take all of their pots out of the cabinets every night and drop them on the floor followed by a bag of marbles. Every, damn, night.

MedicPigBabySaver,

Research frequency that literally makes people feel ill, nausea… set up. Wear ear plugs and leave for a while.

No idea if this has ever worked.

Tiritibambix,
@Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml avatar

I’m a sound engineer and I had awful neighbors. So I tried that to calm the monster of a kid my upstairs neighbors failed to raise.

I tried every pure frequencies from 12 000 kHz to 20 000 kHz with 1000 Hz steps at absurdly loud volumes.

The problem here was the air in our different apartments acting as an isolant, the material between our apartments, and the fact that this kid and his parents where deaf fucking morons.

In the end, the proper solution was to move. That worked as intended as I don’t hear them anymore.

MedicPigBabySaver,

I’m sure this idea was very impractical.

liu_sasso,

My sister had this problem. I’m not a tough guy but I parked my car outside their house and blasted Hooker with a Penis so loud it blew out my speakers. And stared at them uncomfortably. They ended up moving

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

Sure you did Buddy 🤣

I bet you that old ocular pat down scared the shit out of them!

some_guy,

The sunglasses prevented them from knowing. Also, they couldn’t tell how scared OP was. Oh, I’m not supposed to tell them that part?

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