The guy in the downstairs/garden flat is belting out music very loudly and ranting all over the shop, shouting about "No one will defy him" and "c'mon you ****ers"
Not very nice to be fair, was I right to ring the Police to sort it out as I really don't fancy confronting him myself, he's a tree surgeon soa bit burly.
Does he have any shoes?
Do you have a full bladder?
Was the shouting before or after the Police arrived?
Shout louder and act more unhinged. See if you can out-crazy him?
The Police haven't been yet and he's still shouting, not nice at all 😕
@ LHS, no chance I'm too pleasant
Buy him a bonsai tree and ask him to be quiet?
Or get him in a headlock.
Do you live in Tripoli?
he needs a cuddle
just wait till he finds out that you called the police.... 😯
lol @ idave, but he's right
druidh - Member
Do you live in Tripoli?
Nah, far worse....West London.
You did the right thing calling the police, he might need some serious help although saying that they'll probably do nothing.
We used to live above a right weirdo and logged a few complaints, I was sat on the wall by the flats waiting for a bus one day, the police had been to see him and were just leaving and I heard the one say 'poor chap, I think he's just being picked on by the look of it'. They took a bit more notice a few weeks later when my other half came home from work one night and found a very drunk, nearly naked female minor slumped on the steps as she and some other very young people had been 'entertained' by him for the afternoon/evening. He went quite quiet after that but also we moved out pretty sharpish so don't know what happened to him.
I was going to write a lengthy post, but the police are knocking loudly on my door. Bloody do gooders....
Fingers crossed it is the Police.
Still no police action, it's been 45 mins since I called them, didn't realise London was that big 😆
Just want the annoying so & so shutting up as I need to get to bed, been up since 3am
Call them and say you think you saw him with a gun.
or a gun shaped object, they'd have the whole place surrounded in 30 seconds
tell the police you heard him asking where he could get large amounts of fertilizer and sugar from round here.
Call them and tell them his car's parked on double yellows with no tax.
Does he bring his work tools home with him? thinking that through have you thought of who would take care of your Nicolai, first dibs 
Thats miles away at my country residence 😆
Apparently the Police can't make him turn his music down or stop him shouting & ranting, WTF is that all about 😈
So you called the police and told them a burly bloke who may have access to a chainsaw/other sharp things is kicking off and wants to give someone a doing.
Perhaps they might be more likely to come running if you had claimed that he had over ordered at the doughnut shop?
the Police can't make him turn his music down or stop him shouting & ranting
phone his Mum then
she says she can't deal with him either 🙄
Don't they still make Bombers????
He's playing fekkin Robbie Williams now
@ CK, mine are at Home 😳
He didn't get a letter under the door today did he? maybe he's just getting into practise for when the estate agents turn up.
Apparently the Police can't make him turn his music down or stop him shouting & ranting, WTF is that all about
Being a member of the 'My ex was mental' club (no, it wasn't a funny club) the police nor mental health teams can't act unless he poses a danger to himself or other people.
Try and phone/talk to the Mental Health Crisis Team possibly.
/this is all IME, IANA mental health expert, etc. etc.
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Police can't section him if he is in a private place for starters. Can ask him to turn his music down but struggle if he doesn't that is for environmental health I am afraid.
Chuck some burning material into the garden, phone the police & fire brigade saying he has a can of petrol.
Has worked for me in the past.
BTW I don't agree with wasting the emergency services time, but occasional you need to introduce a catalyst.
Has worked for me in the past.
Yeah, and you've had more than your fair share of psychotic neighbours too! Was it you who grassed up poor old Fred? 😉
Tree Surgeon is he oh dear....be afraid
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Another reason to live in scotland - the police and council folk have the power to get these people to shut up and are really quite happy to use it.
tree surgeon eh? You'll need to call Special Branch.
Anyone seen my coat? 😀
Your London borough will have their version of a Noise Abatement Officer/Environmental Enforcer who can be contacted 24/7. If your neighbour is shouting and making a nuisance you can legitimately call them, if they arrive and he's mental they'll ring the fuzz and it'll add more weight. Lots of shouty nut jobs in London which is why I moved (too much competition). HTH
Tree surgeon friend not making himself very Poplar? As Yew have already rang the police I would hang around and Cedar outcome from a safe distance. 😳
In times gone past they might have given him the Birch!
Neil F - Membertree surgeon eh? You'll need to call Special Branch.
Anyone seen my coat?
Wood have thought He'll twig who called them, and then he'll bark at you to get knotted... I'd leaf it alone if I were yew.
Any developments? Is he o[s]a[/s]k?
It's plane to see he's not well. Don't let them palm you off.
Shrub be OK, fir play for calling the police though.
What are you all willowing on about?
Glad you called the copse though
Rich_s - Member"Has worked for me in the past."
Yeah, and you've had more than your fair share of psychotic neighbours too! Was it you who grassed up poor old Fred?
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No it was the hit man who lived opposite that attempted the murder of a couple having an affair
he's a tree surgeon soa bit burly
does he dress in women's clothes?
He's very Poplar in certain circles.
Noisy neigh-bowers again? Not this old chestnut - I mean, who gives a fig? Had a proper chuckle at flippingheckler and neil-F.
Glad you called the copse though
GENIUS! 😀
Life's a beech sometimes, I would just get revenge by getting up with the larch and returning the gesture of loud music/ranting.
Which branch of the cops turned up?
[i]the Police can't make him turn his music down or stop him shouting & ranting[/i]
they can if they think there's likely to be a breach of the peace or he's using threatening behaviour.
Did they actually turn up and talk to him or just phone back to say 'Nah, not worth our while turning up for a job that small'?
Maybe he's upset and pine-ing for someone. However, dealing with people like this does sap all your energy.
You're in bother when he twigs you've grassed him up. I'd leaf the flat now if I were you.
They never turned up, phoned my at 10:30 to say they'd go round in the morning to have a word - yeah right.
He'll do well to Twig on as there are 7 other flats in the building 8)
wwaswas - that's what they actually said on the phone to me!!
The guy's plainly conkers.
I wood send Timbers round. He's an axe to grind.
They never turned up, phoned my at 10:30 to say they'd go round in the morning to have a word
- When he wont be in.
- Wont be off his face.
They'll then record/log your call as 'we have been to see him and have marked it down as a non-event/neighbour above is a busy-body'.
disturbing neighbor action
I have to be honest and say that, when I saw the title, I was expecting something about German neighbours and a ball gag. Disappointing to say the least.
Joking apart, I feel for you - in our last house, we had some nutter rock up to our front door at 2am on a Saturday shouting and screaming about how he was going to "give the bastard a doing", while what appeared to be his wife, son and daughter all shouted and screamed at him to come with them. Given that I had no idea who he was, (and didn't recognise either the wife or daughter), I phoned the cops, who proceeded to arrive about 2 hours later after he'd given up and gone home. This was probably a good thing as, after waiting for the cops for 30mins, I'd sent the wife upstairs and took up position behind our door with the butt end of a snooker cue, on the basis that it was the least lethal thing I could put hands on that might act as some sort of visual deterrent if he made it through the door. It's fair to say that the ensuing wait was something of a sweaty palmed affair, especially as I was pretty confident that if it escalated into a physical confrontation, his family would wade in on his behalf. Fortunately his family managed to coax him away, and I never saw them again - and to this day have absolutely no idea who he was, or who he was looking for.
Needless to say, plod were fairly miffed when they eventually turned up that everyone hadn't waited around for them to finish their cuppa back at the station and make their way round.
Take some steaks and beers down to his flat and ask him if you can join him next time he has a party/rant. Maybe he just needs someone to talk to. 😀
When me and the Mrs moved into our first house, a small council house that her nan bought and and left for my wife in her will, we were next to council tenants who were retired in their 60's but were aggressive drunks. We were in a block of 8 bungalow's, theirs being the only one still under council ownership and they had been terrorizing the other neighbours for years. He was a short 5 foot nothing ex drill sergeant and liked screaming at his wife and everyone else who would listen. Me being a 6ft South African and ex policeman too I couldn't exactly go and beat up the little old boy either although it very nearly came to that several times. It took us 2 years, 5 court appearances, 2 weeks of environmental services sound recording and 46 times calling the police out to get them moved on. In that time my wife became pregnant and our son was born so was pretty stressful on everyone. The same day the council came to evict them we moved out to our new house. It was VERY satisfying seeing them kicked out, their windows being boarded up and their front door locked up after such a struggle on the same day as moving out. I don't wish it on anybody.
I'm no legal expert but I'd have thought this neighbours ranting would constitute a public order offence.
I'd have thought that the police could use their do it all 'Section 5' public order act. They seem to use it in every other case where they need a reason to nick someone (and no I'm not talking from personal experience).
Scotland is good for that.
I had noisey neighbours a few weeks back, called police HQ in Edinburgh, they email enviromental health, they came out within half an hour - problem solved.
I had noisey neighbours a few weeks back, called police HQ in Edinburgh, they email enviromental health, they came out within half an hour - problem solved
I had an ongoing problem with a noisy neighbour in Edinburgh. He didn't take kindly to the environmental wardens, so in the end the police had to attend each time instead. Eventually he kicked off properly, in a similar manner to the OP. Called the police and that night they found he had a massive stash of child porn. Never found out his sentence, but I moved out before it went to court and as he pleaded guilty I didn't have to be a witness.
Anyway, yes the system seems to work in Scotland!
In Scotland, the police can force there way in to deal with excessive noise if the person won't open the door, and then if they refuse to quiten down, remove anything in the house that can make a noise - TV, stereo, guitar, the lot. English police can't do any of that.
what i'd do and of course i don't expect you to do the same is...
a. wait till he's gone out and kick his door in then make the stereo dissappear or....
b. tell a local chav about his nice expensive hi-fi and wait for it to dissappear!
In Scotland, the police can force there way in to deal with excessive noise if the person won't open the door, and then if they refuse to quiten down, remove anything in the house that can make a noise - TV, stereo, guitar, the lot. English police can't do any of that
What if they can't understand a word the Policemen are saying?
Open th' door 'n' we wull break th' door doon