I'll show my own hypocrisy here and say it: I want a bullhorn.

It seems that every little whipstitch, some ninny shows up in a video with a bullhorn, screeching and shouting about something. I hate it.

Tonight, briefly, I want to be that screeching ninny, if only for a moment.

I want to open up the west window of my house, crank that beast up to 11 and shout, "Joe Schmoe*, shut your frickin dogs up!"

Every danged day this lunkhead's hounds go nuts, for long periods of time, and often right around the time it would be nice to open the windows, let some fresh/cool air in, and relax for the day. There's no way I'm the only guy in the neighborhood who's tired of hearing from these critters.

It's probably not all their fault; maybe he just hasn't trained them right. From my point of view, Schmoe seems poorly trained too.

"One of these days, Schmoe, right to the moon!"




* Not his real name, of course.

Reply to the offender in the legal way if you have noise ordinances in your area... File complaints with the authorities. .Follow thru legally on the complaints Not worth getting yourself jammed up and on the wrong side of the law. ....................... drill sgt.

Make sure to order extra feedback.

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Originally posted by drill sgt:
Reply to the offender in the legal way if you have noise ordinances in your area... File complaints with the authorities. Follow thru legally on the complaints. Not worth getting yourself jammed up and on the wrong side of the law.

We do, and that's one of the things that bugs me... this guy totally doesn't care.
I didn't want to "be the Karen," but I've talked with our local police before. They've paid a visit or two. Doesn't help.

But you're right -- risking getting in trouble for making more noise to combat the existing noise isn't the right thing to do.

It's fun to think about sometimes, though....

What do we want?

...A time machine!

When do we want it?

...it doesn't matter!

Time machine! That's the solution!
I could somehow get ahead of this fella moving in, and convince him to go elsewhere!

It’s the trainer, never or extremely rarely, the animal. Just a buster neighbor. I’ve got neighbors behind me same deal. They have little cat sized dogs, and just let them out and yap yap yap yap. Any time I want to get some work done in the garage they kick in.

Then there are the weekends. Saturday is by far the worst. Finally a day off from work. Can I sit on my porch and chill out? Nope. One by one, neighbor by neighbor, starts mowing yards. This goes on from 8am to 5pm, every Saturday. Most of them are neighbors who pay people to mow it for them but then several neighbors who do it themselves, kick in to boot. It’s all day long. Then the POS I nicknamed, Timmy the Builder, 2 houses down, with the power tools. He is in his driveway all the time with the power tools. He’ll be out there 8am to 10pm. He enjoys it and enjoys pissing everyone off. Man I can’t wait to move rural.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Make sure to order extra feedback.

I have a bullhorn, packed away in my attic. Turning the volume just even past half way, feedback occurs. The thing needs 8 C batteries to operate, and the batts do not last long. Kept it in case I need to run air raid drills in my neighborhood

Can you buy a predator call of howling coyotes or howling wolves? Crank the beast up to 11 on Bose speakers and added reverb.

Poison steaks?

I don’t mean for the dogs!

I had to deal with idiots like this for years in the rental behind me. Multiple tenants. It’s awful.

I wouldn't dare even mention something like that, truly, but sometimes I think a paintball capsule filled with vinegar -- just to stink a little -- would be a fun thing.

Wouldn't do it, but it's entertaining to imagine from time to time.

Listening to a barking dog is like a constant toothache. I have a neighbor who lets his dogs out, then goes in the shower. Dogs bark the entire time. It's like two doors down so I don't have the opportunity to confront them.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MMSIG229:
"Listening to a barking dog is like a constant toothache. "

Really good neighbors across the street, got a new dog.

Three months later, two phone calls to the tiny town office and two calls to the sheriff's office and it's just now becoming manageable.

We live on a walking,jogging, bike and meander loop.
Whenever someone went by the new dog would beller for 15 - 20 seconds.

We had a similar problem at our former house.

The family behind us would let their big dogs out in the backyard and keep the small ones inside with the patio screen door closed.

The little dog would bark at the big dogs and get them riled up.

The owners would yell SHUT UP occasionally but do nothing else.

I finally had enough. I brought an emergency broadcast bullhorn PoE speaker home from work, mounted it at the back fence and connected it to my network. Other than broadcasting voice, these devices have several ringtones and max out at 130 db.

One ringtone is of a large dog barking. Every time their dogs barked, I set it off.

After about a week of this, they stopped their dogs from barking.

All the neighbors on two streets were very thankful.

bullhorns are so cool.

Years ago every half assed teenage band played “Smoke On The Water” mostly poorly. My wife and I were living temporally with her parents and the next door teenagers kept playing it over and over trying,to get it right, their garage was oriented where their garage was adjacent to the bedrooms at my in-laws.

The noise ordinance kicked in at 11 P.M. and they promptly quit right at the appointed time, Friday night. Little smart asses and their parents forgot about the 6 A.M. end of that ordinance.

So late that night I worked on my 750 Honda with a RC Engineering 4 into 1 header, took the baffle out and “forgot” to reinstall it and left the bike outside in the back yard. Gate to the back yard was between the houses.

Next morning I had to go into work for a couple hours. Much to my “shock” I misplaced the bolt that held the baffle in. So I took the bike, bungee corded the baffle to the seat and fired it up. Warmed it up with a few good cracks of the throttle as I rode out of the back yard. Got down the road and “remembered” I put the baffle screw in the tool bag so I stopped and put the baffle in.

Their father gave me the “evil eye” when I came back a few hours but he got the hint. No more late night garbage/garage band concerts, they quit much earlier after that.

I had some next door neighbors that we really liked . They had a German Shepard that would bark at night after they had gone to bed .We casually mentioned it several times but they just didn't get it . I finally took matters in my own hands . I would walk over and let the dog out of the gate . He would run around for an hour or so and then go lay on their porch and go to sleep . They figured the dog was jumping the fence so after several times they started putting him inside at night . Problem solved and they never found out .

Be like Joe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBD8kGtJOkI

The wimmen two houses away apparently operate a chihuahua farm. The noxious little bastards are out in their yard raising hell incessantly. Every neighbor affected has complained but Jerkwater’s city animal control doesn’t do anything despite violations of a variety of city ordinances.

And don’t get me started on the neighborhood cats pissing in the bed of my pickup.