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Originally posted by arfmel:
No, no, no.

Wait for when he goes to the store, then steal them and run over them in the street in front of his house.

He'll get the message.

If you talk to him first, he'll know you did it.

^^^ While I don't condone destruction of property this may be the only reasonable solution

quote:

Originally posted by arfmel:
No, no, no.

Wait for when he goes to the store, then steal them and run over them in the street in front of his house.

He'll get the message.

If you talk to him first, he'll know you did it.

I am kind of in this boat. New neighbor put in a flood light in place of his front door coach light and has it pointed directly at my house. Not only that, there is a problem in the electronics and whenever a car drives by it starts flashing then gets really bright.

I have thought about going over and offering to trouble shoot the fixture and adjust the floods so they only light his yard, or maybe his yard and the street in front of his house.

If I go over and offer to fix/adjust his lights and he says no, or doesn't speak English he will know where to direct the cops when he comes home and finds that the fixture has been smashed into 7,000,000 little pieces with a aluminum baseball bat.

I am not sure if I should roll the dice and find out if he speaks English or is considerate enough to care about his neighbors.

Should I smash or offer assistance?

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Originally posted by lingham:
I had a neighbor who had 2 large dogs. They would bark continuously whenever he let them out. When I spoke to him about it he was not willing to train his dogs to stop barking or otherwise do anything about the situation. I set up a stereo with a Cd player in my shed which was close to our property line and after he brought his dogs in for the night I flipped a switch and the CD would play a continuous loop of guard dogs barking. After the second night he came over in the morning to say "I get it, I will bring them in as soon as they start barking." Problem solved.

^^^^Lingham, I like the way you think.

After the Serpent convinced Eve to eat the apple, she knew she was naked, and also that the garden could use some upgrades. So the serpent said "Wouldn't some nice wind chimes be just the thing?"

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Originally posted by sjtill:
After the Serpent convinced Eve to eat the apple, she knew she was naked, and also that the garden could use some upgrades. So the serpent said "Wouldn't some nice wind chimes be just the thing?"

That is funny!

Gale gongs?

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Originally posted by just1tym:
We most always have a breeze off the water being so close to the bay and the lib neighbors put up those wind chimes one year. Like you, they nearly drove me crazy, but before I could no longer tolerate the noise, he tired of them first and took them down and replaced them with bamboo ones. Much easier on the ears, I actually like those ones

Yeah, those fucking libertarians love their goddamn windchimes.

What do his politics have to do with chimes?

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Originally posted by jhe888:

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Originally posted by just1tym:
We most always have a breeze off the water being so close to the bay and the lib neighbors put up those wind chimes one year. Like you, they nearly drove me crazy, but before I could no longer tolerate the noise, he tired of them first and took them down and replaced them with bamboo ones. Much easier on the ears, I actually like those ones

Yeah, those fucking libertarians love their goddamn windchimes.

What do his politics have to do with chimes?

It now seems we have more in common than politics, bamboo chimes

Could they be relocated around the end of his house? Maybe use one of those shepherd's crooks you stomp into the ground?

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Originally posted by jhe888:

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Originally posted by just1tym:
We most always have a breeze off the water being so close to the bay and the lib neighbors put up those wind chimes one year. Like you, they nearly drove me crazy, but before I could no longer tolerate the noise, he tired of them first and took them down and replaced them with bamboo ones. Much easier on the ears, I actually like those ones

Yeah, those fucking libertarians love their goddamn windchimes.

What do his politics have to do with chimes?

I figured he meant librarians.

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Originally posted by arfmel:

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Originally posted by jhe888:

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Originally posted by just1tym:
We most always have a breeze off the water being so close to the bay and the lib neighbors put up those wind chimes one year. Like you, they nearly drove me crazy, but before I could no longer tolerate the noise, he tired of them first and took them down and replaced them with bamboo ones. Much easier on the ears, I actually like those ones

Yeah, those fucking libertarians love their goddamn windchimes.

What do his politics have to do with chimes?

I figured he meant librarians.

Actually my whole point was that though we'll not likely agree mostly with political views, we have a "live and let live" attitudes. I didn't bother confronting him about the wind chime and eventually he even recognized it was obnoxiously loud and exchanged it for the more pleasing sound of bamboo. And without words we both have common ground in our thinking, a pleasant ending. Especially since I'm a fuck**g independent and have some core values/beliefs on both sides

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Originally posted by lingham:
I set up a stereo with a Cd player in my shed which was close to our property line and after he brought his dogs in for the night I flipped a switch and the CD would play a continuous loop of guard dogs barking

This has long been my approach. It's amazing how quickly they correct when they are receiving incoming.

I've never understood the attraction of wind chimes. Why in hell would anyone want to install a noise maker of any kind? Silence is always better than unnecessary noise.

 

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Originally posted by Kadin:
I've never understood the attraction of wind chimes. Why in hell would anyone want to install a noise maker of any kind? Silence is always better than unnecessary noise.

 
I agree wholeheartdy. If those giant chimnes were next door to me. There would be words, or actions of some kind. Gale chimes, indeed.
 

I would ask him to take them down. If that is a no go find a rock band and let them use your porch at night for practice. Fight fire with fire!

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Originally posted by brecaidra:
I'm the opposite; I like the large low-pitch wind chimes. The smaller ones are too high-pitch and annoying to me. Anyway, I would go over and nicely let him know that they are affecting your sleep at night and ask him to try something like Mooney suggested above.

Good luck.

Me, too. The low pitched ones sound good.

And yes, you have to ask first. Are people seriously counseling going straight to vandalism and destruction of someone else's property?

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Originally posted by brecaidra:
I'm the opposite; I like the large low-pitch wind chimes. The smaller ones are too high-pitch and annoying to me. Anyway, I would go over and nicely let him know that they are affecting your sleep at night and ask him to try something like Mooney suggested above.

Good luck.

yup baritone chimes are nice. Probably not in an apartment setting that close though...

I fucking hate wind chimes.

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Originally posted by Kadin:
I've never understood the attraction of wind chimes. Why in hell would anyone want to install a noise maker of any kind? Silence is always better than unnecessary noise.

When they're properly tuned and it's a light breeze, they are music.

If they off tune - blecky,

in 25 years we were in at least 40 camp grounds or more, and it never fails that when you find an empty campground , some
ass hat in a $300,000.00 land yacht will pull in
and set up his space.

and then because its too ! quiet, he hangs up some wind chime , to bang clang and clank, all forking night.



I say make him a "good Neighbor" or "after hours" wind chime.

get yourself 5 pool noodles and hang them from a bucket lid. with a welcome to the neighbor hood plate of brownies