hey you kids

[ritaxis]

Mine is a quiet neighborhood. Except fopr the retired nurse next door and her Harley. And the guy on the corner who plays his television so loud you can hear the dialog a block away. And the occasional fireworks and firearms.

Tonight the student house across the street is having a rockin Halloween party. Each track they play is a little louder than the one before. It's almost one in the morning. Aslo they keep shouting like there's something really exciting going on, but as far as I can tell it's just a lot of okay music and Phyllis Diller wigs and fake cobwebs. Fun, if you're the one doing it: but not worth roller coaster screams. Oh maybe it is. What do I know?

It's Friday night, check, it's Halloween, check. But they better calm down by two in the morning or I'm calling it in.

I won't go over there myself. The last time I did that it was the loud television guy whose volume was deafening when I was several blocks away and the conversation quickly went from me trying to be kind of gentle about complaining about how very loud it was to him making vaguely threatening noises (but not actually making any threats). But he hasn't been so loud since. I think he's been called on it before. In any case, it's the cops who are going to deal with this.

Oh lord, they're yelling like drunken Ivy-league frat boys. Is that what happened? The Gaona family abode has turned into a frat house? Can they do that without a public hearing?

Because if there had been a public hearing I'd have said anything but that. I don't mind living with overcrowded student houses -- I lived in those myself for years -- crap, they're chanting. They stopped, it must have been the chorus to the song they're listening to -- anyway, I would be okay with a half-way house, a group home, a raft of students -- almost anything but a frat house.

I'm going to bed. If I can't sleep because of the noise in an hour I will definitely call the cops.

Comments

[sciamanna.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I hope you did get a good night's sleep, and didn't need to call the cops to get it.

If it is any consolation, Halloween in Dublin seems to have been even more boisterous (http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1101/halloween.html) this year... (I may have missed something, but I never got the impression that attacks on police and fire officer, 500 emergency calls and 50 cars burned were normal for Halloween here.)

[nojay.livejournal.com]

It was an ambulance I called last night, for the drunken (and drugged) idiot who managed to fall down a flight of stone stairs outside my flat. Loud party rocking on the third floor, screaming and wailing slightly-broken idiot directly outside my door, three in the morning. Sleep? What's that?

In the end his "friends" managed to put down their beercans long enough to hoik Mr. "Feeling no pain aaargh!" outside and into a taxi and I called 999 to cancel the waaahmbulance. I rather got the impression they were having a busy night whodathunkit?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

That's awful.

We had a nunch of stabbings on the main drag a few years ago, but it seems to be generally calmer now.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Wow. We were much quieter. No noise here in the development, but we heard the edges of a party across the woods and branch. I was thinking I'd call if it wasn't over by the time I went to bed (3:30am), but it stopped about midnight.