Back in the day I lived on the third floor of a three-floor apartment building in Florida. My neighbors downstairs were devotees of Gangsta Rap.

Then I built the Stereo From Hell. Tri-amped, 800 watts per channel, and the woofers were 18" Cerwin Vegas that came out of a P.A. system that once belonged to the rock band Foghat--I knew a guy who knew a guy, and Foghat was buying a new PA, and this guy had a warehouse with a bunch of odds and ends in it, and said "take what you like, I'm just going to haul the rest to the dump anyway."

Two o'clock in the morning on a Sunday, and the thumping comes through the floor. So I turned the woofer cabinets on the SFH so they faced straight down, and put on Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker" with the volume knobs cranked up to 6.

Let it play for about two minutes, and then turned it off. I had this vision of lil' gangstas downstairs pasted into the floor with their do-rags on fire. Never had a problem with "battling stereos" ever again.

Beavis rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



One time a couple years ago hubby & I were rocking out to similar music (old school hard rock) and we had our volume cranked up past 22 (which we learned later is the magic cut-off number) and we get a knock at the door. This was about 11 p.m. on a weekend. Hubby opened door to a cop saying, the neighbors called, are you having a party? We said naw, it's just us two. Cop got a big sh*t-eatin' grin on his face, and said, no problem, just turn it down a little.

Love it!! Those neighbors have since moved.

Beavis,
You actually reminded me of the help you gave me with my neighbors when I first moved into our house in Hoquiam.

The neighbors would open their windows and on a nice sunny late summer day — when I had the windows open, too - they'd blast their gangsta rap and bad pop music.

I tried a few "battling stereo" battles, but nothing got through to them. I told a couple of people at work what was going on and Beavis came to my rescue - he gave me a burned copy of Slayer's "Reign in Blood."

So, the next time they decided to "share" their music, at 9 p.m. on a Wednesday, I set up four 16-inch woofers I borrowed from another neighbor at the back windows. Click, I turn up Slayer to 5 and let the first two songs roll through them.

By the time the second song was in mid-stream, the musical neighbors came over and pleaded with me to turn it off. Never heard their music again...

(And I was fortunate that none of the other neighbors in a 10-house radius didn't call the cope, too...)

Good times.

I remember that! HAH! Slayer will definitely do it, and "Reign In Blood" is about as Slayer as Slayer gets!

Move out in the country where you can not see your neighbors and start listening to country music. Okay stick to your music of choice.

Some times - Most of the time people do not even realize the impact they are having on others.

When it's slight, I'd agree they may not know. But, often it is perversely loud and imposing. I'm convinced they know exactly what they are doing.

I like music. I like almost all types of music (rap is a blantant exception). As a neighbor, if you crank your Beethovan or Mozart up too loud, I'm probably not going to get too irratated... same with The Beatles... Sondheim, an opera, or jazz, even gospel!. I may think you are rude/insensitive/lacking in social skills, etc. but I won't get really irritated.

The worst for me are the booming drum tracks. When I can hear, from my neighbor's house, or the car going by, or third car up on the bridge, "Boom! Boom! da Boom! Boom!" and their windows are shaking and my windows are shaking, I get really irritated.

... I may need a copy of that.

anyone have advise for nosy neighbors? i wish they would just mind thier own business.

Nosey in the sense of asking too many questions, or nosey in looking in your windows?