[Tip] Alerting direct neighbors without creating a hole in the walls

*throws up due to the long-lasting high frequency noise*

We have a neighbor (who not even the police seems to be able to track down due to the accoustics of the houses) who has an instrument which they use to give out monotone notes for a very long period of time, causing migraine and actually throwing up. I wake up every day for this, and that is another reason I'm sick and weak the whole day.

Most people (including me) have the best option of notifying these neighbors by banging on the wall really hard and fast. There is just one problem with it: the renter told us not to damage the walls. Even though the walls are like 20-40cm thick, they are so shitty that they let all noise through. So I had to find a good alternative for this problem.

Screaming is ineffective because the high pitched noise is a lot louder than you can scream, so it's less than functional. Hitting a frying pan is not an option because it destroys the frying pan. Using a phone or a loudspeaker also doesn't work due to these walls having this retarded sound characteristics of only allowing annoying sounds through, so good quality speakers wouldn't work. And cheap shitty phone speakers aren't loud enough.

I once accidently fell over in the desk's leg while carrying a 1.5L of full cola bottle, and while falling over I "put" the full bottle a bit too hard on the desk, causing an explosion-like sound with all the shit on my desk. So I figured out, what I had to do is first remove all HDD-like objects from my desk to prevent the head colliding into the magnet disk from the retraction. Then take the 1.5L cola bottle (because they are stronger than regular bottles, less risk of splashing the bottle on the table) full of water, and bang the bottom side of the bottle really hard and fast on the table where the strongest leg is, and it'll create a nice loud noise, along with the stuff on your table colliding with the table again due to the bouncy properties of your desk/floor.

Fun fact: the floor is so shit that I can feel on the floor when I'm typing on the keyboard, so hitting the cola bottle into the desk would be definitely feel-able by most neighbors. Luckily this mofo also hears it. Sadly they are a mofo, so they only stop for a few seconds before continuing. :cry::gun:
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@linuxares but sadly that's not possible, considering that due to the accoustics of the house array it might be possible that the mofo is not next to my room, but on the other end of the house block... yeah. Besides, as I said, not even the police seems to be able to track them down, because we can't figure out where the noise is coming from. The fucker stops it when the police arrives.
 
Just keep on informing the police.
If that fails, lob a frying pan against their windows (content of said pan), toss some maggots and meat through their mail slot if they're gone for a week orso

I got plenty of domestic terroristic tactics to make bad neighbors go away ;'D
 
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"20-40cm thick" counts as a thin wall in your world?

Anyway have you tried proper earplugs? Not talking the things they give to builders but proper audio tech grade things. They are still pretty cheap when all is said and done and so very effective for a lot of things.
 
@DinohScene as I said a few times, we don't know who and where they are, so I can't do that. Besides, some people only have inwards-facing windows, so throwing something around the corner of the while being 3m away from the corner of the wall is geometrically impossible

@FAST6191 I don't know what earplugs, but sadly I can't sleep them, and even if I have proper ear sound isolation, I can still feel it resonating in my body >.<
 
Man, what an inconsiderate prick, hopefully someone finds out what this instrument is and snaps it in half right in front of this loser.
 
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idk of austria's laws but are you protected from illegal searches? if not ask the police to do a sweep of the place or perhaps they can get a warrant for the entire building? and go door by door
 
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You said that the person turns the noise off when police are present,
1) You could use a decibel meter to 'track' the noise. If it is that loud, finding the source should be easy, but a decibel meter costs money, so...
2) Ask the police to send a "plainclothes officer" in their personal car to the building, making things more discreet.

When the police are called, when exactly does the noise mysteriously stop?
a) If it is during/immediately after your phone call, the person(s) are within hearing distance from your apartment, narrowing it down slightly.
b) If it is while driving down the street, the person has a window either directly facing the road or on the side that faces the end of the road the police car is coming from (Ex: police car is coming from the East, the window is facing East), narrowing it down to those 2 sets of windows.

Does the noise stop certain times of the day, or is the noise literally 24/7? Take notes of the vehicles parked outside and see if you can narrow down the noise patterns to a certain vehicle(s) and let the police now about your findings. Get the VIN number and license plate number of the car and give them to the dispatcher or officer, showing them that you are serious and giving the police more reason to pursue the issue. Make sure you get the information quietly so that you don't get into a confrontation or full-blown brawl.
 
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There are db meter apps you can download for your phone. You should also record the noise and get a sound profile. This is easy to find, if I can track down a wifi signal that you cannot hear, you can track down a sound. Technology is your friend in this case.
 
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Banging on someones wall is not the "best" solution as you put it. Man up and go talk to your neighbors. If it's bothering you, I'm sure it's bothering other people around you.
 
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Lol necro post.

Mom did some research. Appearently the building owner is kinda nice, but also a tiny bit greedy. They lease out a room as an "auditorium" which has no insulation at all. Also, I could bang the wall all day because on the other side of the wall there is a ~2-3m wide air gap...

Also, I'm not sure about the sound level. The freuqency the instrument produces irritates the ear quite a bit, but surprisingly only my HP laptop with Celeron CPU has a microphone good enough that on the max settings you can use Audacity to filter out the instrument playing from the amplifier's noise. None of my other devices are capable of even sensing the noise, let alone recording it.
 
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First, put vinegar in a pan; next, heat the vinegar in said pan on stove/hot plate/coffee pot(?)/ect until the smoking point has been reached--the hotter, the better/worse. Open your door and let the stink fly out.

Take up a very noisy hobby.

Play really bad music, constantly.

Sing karaoke.

Sweep all of your dust outside, everyday.

Slide Jehova's witness pamphlets under their door.
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For anyone wanting a "peaceful" or "non-intrusive" method: heavily soundproof your walls and run a dehumidifier and humidifier at the same time. Also, listen to classical music , e.g. fantasie impromprtu.
 
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I don't want to poison the rest of the neighbors whose windows open inside just because of one fuck
 
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