Neighbour Rage

[§AB]

I've pretty much had it with the bloke next door. I can't for the life of me figure out why this baboon needs his frekkin 250 watt floodlight blazing into my backyard almost every night. Sometimes it's at 10pm, sometimes 1am. But its almost a nightly occurance.

On my last session, I was disturbed 4 times, FOUR, up until about midnight. :mad2::mad2:

I don't know why for fudging fudgepacker's sake he needs to replicate the bloody sun for his two pampered idiot little ****zu dog's poo-poo dumping sessions, it's NOT like those two dogs need to see to go to the "toilet", as they don't need to 'see' to wipe their butts after their freshly baked sausages, rather they just lay their enormous dung-heap on the grass and thats it. :mad2:

What I dont understand, is why he has that bloody artifical sun blazing at 1am. WTF for? Nightlight for his baby? Or doesn't he get enough poontang from his wife so he gets off over annoying the local astronomer :screwy:

Neighbours :doh::screwy:


Anyone else have silly neighbours?

[Ian Robinson]

Know how you feel.

I've an idiot neighbour too and have not been able to use my backyard for several months since he had his house clad with plastic pretend timber crap and replaced all his lights with those dammed low power high wattage fluorescent light globes (for the life of me I can understand why he needs 100 W fluoro globes burning 24hr/day 7days/week none stop on the outside of his house.

Can't talk with him, he's crazy , literally !!! he's a manic depressive skitzo alcoholic drug addict ( uses pot and anyone's guess what else since he came into an inheritance ). My wife and I have had an AVO on him for 2 years now since he really flipped early one morning and made threats to put bricks through our windows and to kill us - he go into his head we'd (me in particular) had dobbed him in to the cops for dealing drugs locally to the local kids .... wrong .... but if I haf known I would have without a moment's hesitation.

He's been flipping out continuously for months now and has been committed a couple of times by the local mobile thrinks, gets let out comes back home and makes up for lost time.

Like living next door to a mad house .... scares my wife and she wont go outsids when he's flipping out .... moving house is not an option , and why should we ? (We've been her for 27 years and he has only been a neighbour for about 10 years and I worked hard to pay for my home, where as his mum bought the house for him and furnished it for him.)

Anyway , I wound up putting together a letter threatening him with legal action if he didn't turn off his outside lights at night , posted it to him anomously - made out in it that it was letter from several of his immediate neighbours ( I know they are all pissed with his nocturnal lighting too as the lights are very bright and shine right into their houses - it's a privacy thing).

This had the desired effect - and last time he was taken away - ie last time he was flipping out all night - made sure his back light wont come back on - a gaff hook on a long cane pole was handy.

So the last month or so I've had my nice backyard back at night , too bad I've not had time to rebuild my 10" newt OTA and the weather has been pretty ordinary at night. Don't know how long that is going to last.

He breached another neighbour's AVO a couple of months back , and with a bit of luck he will be going away on a compulsory government funded holiday for while , once the magistrate gets jacked with adjurning the hearing (been adjurned 6 times) , my application for another 12 month extension on our AVO has been adjurned too .... he's been in Watt Street and the cops haven't been able to serve him with a warrant to appear. I'm betting this is a strategy devised by his solicitor.

[casstony]

Noise pollution is my problem - nightclub up the road, young adults with those vibrating cars that want to share their doof doof music with everyone else.

We need a light pollution/noise pollution/teenager free zone in each town where only us normal people can live. I wonder what friction there'd be within an astronomers enclave?

[monoxide]

not sure, but i bet every clear night it sounded like someone printing a novel on a dot matrix printer :lol:

[Ian Robinson]

I'm all for a curfew on everyone under the age of 25 , and for all fruit loops to be permanently committed.

[Tandum]

I got an orange street light on one side and a white street light on the other both lighting up my back yard, plus a freeway 200 meters away which is being doubled in size for a new bridge across the river meaning the lights on it will be doubled as well, I'm screwed here.

Found a house for sale nearby, next to an enviromental park which at most will become a golf course and of course the family complaint is, "We'll never get out of here in peak hour". FFS, I'm screwed again ....

At least you guys can talk to your neighbours or take legal action against them. I just screwed.

Narowband imaging isn't an option it's the only way.

[shredder]

Well I thought I had a silly neighbour, but I think he shades into insignificance in comparison to some of yours.

Like Sab he feels his poor little pooch cant go to sleep in the dark, and so leaves his outside flood light on at night, and often forgets to turn it off.

But generally hes not bad and if I ask he will turn it off, but seems to forget quite regularly (and I must admit I do feel a little silly asking at times).

[Jen]

Awwwwww Sab you dont have much luck do you? sounds like you need to take up another hobby you dont seem to be enjoying this one as of late :lol::lol::lol:

[Jen]

:scared::scared: wow Ian im glad i dont have a neighbour like yours :eek:

[leon]

I really feel for guys, I had a bit of a small problem with my neighbour some time ago, with the same issue of putting on flood lights late at night so his lady friends dog could see each other in the dark. :screwy:

Anyway after a few light polluted imaging nights i thought I would wander around to his place and explain what I was doing.

He understood, ;) and instantly the lights were off, he now has them on a very short timer setting, just long enough to go to his shed if need be at night, and there off in about 30 seconds.

It is not an issue anymore.

Leon :thumbsup:

[Kevnool]

Bring back the biff :tasdevil::tasdevil: Bloody good thing i drink grog with mine...cheers Kev.

[Ian Robinson]

I wish he'd go away and never come back. So does most the neigbourhood .

It's a nice quiet neighbourhood when he isn't around (with the exception of the subby kid across the street from the loonie (who is his only local mate and also has a habit of using too much booze and pot and gets noisey sometimes)).

I keep a small crowbar handy for the loonie , if I ever catch him on my property again he is going to wind up with some serious injuries.

[leon]

Ian, don't put yourself in jail over some twit, is it really worth it. :shrug: however, having said that, if there is threat to your family, then "WHACK HIM" hard.:whistle:

Leon :thumbsup:

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol:
:cheers:

[matt]

What with the weather and your neighbour...astronomy doesn't appear to be happening for you.

But you seem to have the cussing down pat...have you thought of taking up rap music?:lol::lol:;)

[Jen]

:lol::lol::lol::lol:
:party:

[casstony]

I've thought about targeting unwelcome visitors with the dry chemical fire extinguisher - I imagine it would be somewhat disabling while not putting me at risk of going to jail. I don't think you could breathe or see in a cloud of that white powder.

[AstralTraveller]

Both my neighbors annoy me at times but then I probably annoy them a bit too. It's all part of the fun and games of suburbia. Both sides commit light trespass but, as I don't generally observe from the backyard and if I do it's moon or planets, I haven't tried to educate them.

One side used to have too many parties that were too loud too late. Much as I love the Beatles being kept awake by them a 2am twice a month was too often. That has now basically stopped and they only one or two fairly tame parties a year now, and I consider that reasonable.

The others have two retarded children. One is autistic and used to take fits quite regularly. The other has some condition with a jaw-cracking name that causes her to be a little ****. She used to walk around repeating the same thing over and over for hours (generally "I want...") or just stand and scream. The parents used to lose it regularly, I've seen the mother run from the house in tears several times. As much as I pitied them, listening to screaming matches every Saturday morning was a strain. Well the autistic one's medication is sorted now and he is coming along nicely. The other one is at a special boarding school during the week and her behaviour has improved significantly. So that side is pretty good now too.

On the other hand I probably annoyed both sides on Friday night. You see we were supposed to go away with some friends playing with our scopes this weekend. It's been planned for months. Instead I'm stuck at work all weekend getting some urgent data out for an honours student. (There isn't much to do once the instrument is running but I have to babysit it as there will be no second chances. He only managed to grow a tiny number of micro-organisms and they had to be used for trace-elements and isotopes. At least there should be a paper published from the thesis and I want my name on it!!!) So my wife went off with my mates and my new, unused eyepieces and left me alone for the weekend. I was unhappy on Friday night - to put it mildly. So there was a bit of vino and a lot of very loud music.

Don't get me wrong, some neighbors are way over the top. But I also try to imagine how they see me and accept that there has to be some give and take.

[xelasnave]

May I suggest you think kindly about him and take the approach in the Bible to love your neighbour.

Do you think that a nice letter to him explaining why it is a problem could help.

alex

[xelasnave]

If you think good things they may well come to pass.
I dont know how just thinking the right way helps but I have found it does.

alex

[matt]

and hope like hell that you don't get a 'nice' letter back, wrapped around a brick tossed through your front window, politely telling you where to go!!!:lol:;)

But seriously, i'm with you Alex. Try being reasonable first....

[xelasnave]

I feel I little hypocritical given my post re kids and tagging.
alex

[tornado33]

I have an elderly lady's property at the back of my place, she turns on a floodlight to see when she goes into her backyard or garage at night but she is very frugal with it, turning it on only long enough to see what she is doing, always turning it off immediately she is finished, so its usually on for only a few mins at a time. I do dred when she departs this mortal coil, we will surely get electricity lovers who will leave it on, if that happens I will make up a tarp that I can put up on poles whenever I am observing to block the light. Because I mainly do imaging, as long as the light doesnt fall directly onto the scope or lens, it wont cause too much problem.
Scott

[Glenhuon]

Don't know a lot about Aus law, but don't they have a law about disturbing the peace. If not, time they invoked one and made it stick. There's an ancient one in Scotland which is still on the statutes "Disturbing The Peace Of the Leiges" and the cops make use of it when required.
If I remember correctly it applies after sundown.

Bill

[Glenhuon]

I have an elderly neighbour on one side, but although she talks at about 100Db through the day (sure she's a bit deaf) never hear her after sundown. The guy on the other side has 2 vicious dogs, one of them came over the fence and chewed hell out our little one, but we didn't see it so couldn't do anything. It got out again and did the same to my mates dog a few doors up, but this time it was seen and he got a visit from the cops and was forced to pay the vets bills. Pretty sure the vet would have padded it up a bit too as she treated our dog and knew the score :)
He used to have a bloody spotlight on half the night too, my lady had me extend the fence height by 400mm and it blocks that now. Since the dog incident he's been pretty quiet, and long may it continue.

Bill

[Ian Robinson]

He has threatened our lives , reason for the AVO , so if I catch him putting so much as a toe onto my property , or even looking at us , I will consider this a serious threat to my family and myself and any action I take will be in "self defence" , I will clobber him if I can physically catch him - and as hard as I can , I don't want him getting up again afterwards as he is totally unpredictable and crazy as they come.

[Ian Robinson]

Love thy neighbour be dammed .... I hate the SOB and want him gone , one way or another .

I have had a gut full of his bulldust and don't see why I should have put up with some mad cretin who should not be in general circulation but should be living permanently in the Loonie Bin.

You'd feel the same way if he was your next door neighbour too and you've had to put with his crazy crap for over ten years , and it is getting worse lately .

[Ian Robinson]

With some people being reasonable does not work .... I tried that several years ago , not long after he moved in, I got really vile verbal abuse, and my car two bobbed one night as a response (never able to prove it was him , but I know it was), and an increase in the undesireable activity (very loud music all day every day and every night until very very late .... so I then involved the cops and have kept them involved since - they must have a very long dosier on him now.)

He played loud music to hide his ranting and screaming and raving (he lives alone except on those occasions where he has a tenant (which I now duely dob him to Centrelink for as soon as I notice he has paying tenant , sod him , he's on a pension and I'm dammed if I am sit by and let him cheat the system).

[iceman]

This thread has gone too far, not just with the bypassing of the profanity filter in many places by a few people, but also the threats of physical violence amongst other things.

IceInSpace is not the place for such discussions.