Can you hide behind a screen placed near your scope..the main problem is looking at it and destroying your night vision. Shield it if possible and outta site outta mind may kick in..
alex
It wont work with him - we've had problems with him since he moved in - he's the neighboour from hell - drugs , schitso , alcoholic , never done a days work since his mum bought the house for him , very loud endless music (to hide his screaming and raving and ranting (but not since the AVO as I had that included).
.... he flips out when he stops taking his meds and gets onto the booze and pot and other stuff , he went crazy early one morning anout 18 months ago and wound up waking up the family in the wee small hours (it was dark) by banging on the front winds and doors and walls screaming he was going to kill us , so I called the cops when he refused to leave (wife was terrified) and wound up taking out a AVO on him , which I renewed last October , and plan to renew this year too.
I want nothing to do with him , and communicating with him is totally out of the question .... I live in hope that he'll flip out again and we can then have him prosecuted and taken away , or he is commited (permanently).
I am tempted to give the globe a poke with a steel spike on the end of long wood pole .... I considered the sling shot idea (but don't think my aim is good enough and if he hears the project hitting his house - I'll have trouble explaining what I was doing to cops I think. The other neighbours (other side of him) have big vulnerable windows that I'd likely hit if I missed.
A pneumatic slug gun would be good , but I don't think they are sold anymore.
Wait until he goes out, then nip over and replace it with a broken bulb. If he is as bad as you say, eventually he will assume there is something wrong with the power and stop replacing them
I agree with the screen. Lights are just a part of the reality of living in the suburbs. It is just so inappropriate to act illegally yourself (by inflicting any form of property damage): that would be stooping to his level.
A screen on the property fence as close as possible to the light could shield a large part of your yard from it.
Wait until he goes out, then nip over and replace it with a broken bulb. If he is as bad as you say, eventually he will assume there is something wrong with the power and stop replacing them
Paul
That strikes my fancy .... how do you kill a fluorescent compact light globe without breaking it ??
I agree with the screen. Lights are just a part of the reality of living in the suburbs. It is just so inappropriate to act illegally yourself (by inflicting any form of property damage): that would be stooping to his level.
A screen on the property fence as close as possible to the light could shield a large part of your yard from it.
His light is about 20 ft off the ground , so it would have to be pretty big screen (at least 15 ft high and 30 - 40 ft long , that's a big expensive screen no matter how you do it and major undertaking putting it up and taking it down) to block it from lighting up my backyard which his light does very brightly. It's murder on my night vision too.
Mind you - maybe a bit of PVC tube on the end of bit long dowel that I miight sneak into his yard and place over his globe temporarily might an answer if I can get the right length and tube diameter.
If he caught me in his yard -- it wont be pretty though.
If you havent got a reasonable response from a reasonable request, you are not likely too now...... just build a screen, i tried reasoning with my neighbours when they were building, but they are just (politeness stops me from being explicit). Their response to my reasonable request was to install 8 floodlights and about 20 other lights of various kinds then leave them all on all night.... and im not kidding you. So we dont talk and im hoping a bushfire will burn their house down , but i wont be breaking the law..... Enough ranting from me.
Heres the screen i built for my neighbours its 5 metres high about on the left side, just heavy duty builders plastic on a steel rod top and bottom drawn up like blinds with multiple cords joined together. Galvanised steel poles for the rest.... as far as i know no permit required as its not permanently up.
You know you are within your rights to have the offending light extinguished. Most Councils have rules and regulations concerning light pollution. Check it out but if all legal avenues fail well what can I say.
You know you are within your rights to have the offending light extinguished. Most Councils have rules and regulations concerning light pollution. Check it out but if all legal avenues fail well what can I say.
I thought that too so wrote a letter and I asked the local council and their response was they have no power to do anything to help me. (This is Lake Macquarie City Council for you .... pro developer , and a waste of space for residents.)
I am sure he turns the light on to annoy me , I've noticed it only gets turned on when my vehicle is in the driveway , backyard or garage , and it gets turned on if off almost straight away when I arrive home if at night.
The guy is a real nitwit and like I said , he is literally the neighbour from hell (I am not exaggerating).
So I am in position where I have no option but something illegal , the screen option involves money I am not prepared to spend and will only let him think he has had a win.
Last edited by Ian Robinson; 24-05-2008 at 07:04 PM.
Reason: TOS
Last year we bought a house to renovate in a nice suburb of Perth. The owner was identical to Ian's neighbour - drugs, loud music, noisy comings and goings, threatening behaviour etc.
Jeepers, the neighbours were so happy to see him go that they held a street party to celebrate - with us as guests of honour. Sounds crazy, but these guys had been subjected to years of living with this fear of not knowing what's coming next. Several neighbours stated that they would have loved to have been able to move away rather than live next to druggie, but the sheer delapidated state of the house near theirs devalued their homes by many thousands. Plus this dump would simply put anyone off wanting to come within a mile !
It doesn't seem fair does it. I know what I'd do to these types given half a chance........ and it ain't pretty
I heard of someone in Scotland where I used to live with problems with his neighbors.
It got sorted down the local pub with exchange of money.
Glasgow style
Last year we bought a house to renovate in a nice suburb of Perth. The owner was identical to Ian's neighbour - drugs, loud music, noisy comings and goings, threatening behaviour etc.
Jeepers, the neighbours were so happy to see him go that they held a street party to celebrate - with us as guests of honour. Sounds crazy, but these guys had been subjected to years of living with this fear of not knowing what's coming next. Several neighbours stated that they would have loved to have been able to move away rather than live next to druggie, but the sheer delapidated state of the house near theirs devalued their homes by many thousands. Plus this dump would simply put anyone off wanting to come within a mile !
It doesn't seem fair does it. I know what I'd do to these types given half a chance........ and it ain't pretty
You have my sympathies Ian
Cheers
I live in hope that he'll take a bad hit (of speed , ice , meth or heroine or what ever he uses as well as pot) .... or that the cops will raid his place (I'm sure he cultivated cannibus in his spare bedrooms (lights are on all the time) , or the ATO will catch up with him (and he'll have to sell) .
We've been here for 27 years (never had a problem with any neigbours until he showed up , and then problems started straight away) , the whole neighbourhood are wary of him and the people who frequent his place.
I worked very hard to buy my home as the sole breadwinner for my family , I wont be forced out the likes of this guy (though I am looking for a tree change .... but he doesn't really enter into the equation . though my wife is scared of him now and leaving him behind wont hirt , and looking for a new job somewhere adventurous and warm).
I'd rather put my place up for rent if we eventually relocate and buy a new home somewhere else , but with him next door , this could be difficult.
.. how do you kill a fluorescent compact light globe without breaking it ??
