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Concerned neighbour? Or busybody

  • 10-06-2011 10:09am
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Living in an apartment block here

    Off work today on study leave.
    And here we go again, more shouting, roaring, sobbing and stamping from the neighbors upstairs.

    I know them to see them but wouldn't know their names.
    Seems to be a couple, both are well able to roar anyway, so it's not a case that one is a quiet and meek person. So I wouldn't assume one is a bully and the other is abused, they give each other as good as they get!

    Some lad often calls around afterwards. No idea if he's a brother or friend, he seems to calm things down.

    Anyways. I am sick of these arguments. Most every day, some mornings at 2am. The unmistakable sound of plates being smashed in the early hours would wake most up.

    Some couples just need to break up, god knows why they're still together???

    Anyways, is it over the top to call up the local station to report domestic disturbance?
    I don't think they neighbours would know it's me. I wouldn't be bothered if they did know, so tired of it by now.

    Hear a blazing argument and shouting and plates breaking, would the garda even call around? Probably be over by the time they get here and they might doubt me


Comments

  • #2
    Sesudra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭Sesudra


    If its disturbing your sleep or your peaceful enjoyment of your place,then definitely call the Gardai.I'd imagine going to them yourself and saying their rows are very noisy might cause them to turn on you but if the Gardai show up at the door some night,it might make them think twice!


  • #3
    I am a friend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭I am a friend


    Record a bit of it on your phone so you can prove how loud it is from downstairs and then go to the police if you are not happy giving the neighbours a warning first...


  • #4
    tinkerbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    Sesudra wrote: »
    If its disturbing your sleep or your peaceful enjoyment of your place,then definitely call the Gardai.I'd imagine going to them yourself and saying their rows are very noisy might cause them to turn on you but if the Gardai show up at the door some night,it might make them think twice!

    Exactly what I was thinking.


  • #5
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,438 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    No. it wouldn't be over the top to call the local guards next time it happens, and no, your neighbours will not know it's you.

    It sounds like they are abusing eachother, and just because one of them hasn't been seriously hurt yet doesn't mean that that won't happen at some point if no-one intervenes. A visit from a guard might be the wake-up call they need to see that this is an abnormal and dangerous way to live.

    Besides which, even if it is just a case of immature idiots who can't make a point without this excessive roaring and shouting and recking the place , without physical harm being visited on anyone, I see no reason why you should have to listen to it. Hardly gonna get much study done today, are you, with this going on upstairs?



    Make the call. Peace and quiet for you at least and possibly the prevention of something awful happening to one of them in the long term.


  • #6
    tinkerbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,423 ✭✭✭tinkerbell


    I am a friend wrote: »
    Record a bit of it on your phone so you can prove how loud it is from downstairs and then go to the police if you are not happy giving the neighbours a warning first...

    I wouldn't advise confronting them to be honest - if their rows are that crazy where they are smashing plates up etc then I'd be concerned for the OP's safety. Let the gardai deal with it - that's what they are there for.


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  • #7
    Miss Fluff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Miss Fluff


    It's a breach of the peace, definitely report it.


  • #8
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    tinkerbell wrote: »
    I wouldn't advise confronting them to be honest - if their rows are that crazy where they are smashing plates up etc then I'd be concerned for the OP's safety. Let the gardai deal with it - that's what they are there for.

    don't contact gaurds directly.

    ring 1800 666 111


  • #9
    gosuckonalemon
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 730 ✭✭✭gosuckonalemon


    1) Write (type) an anonymous letter to them stating you are sorry if they're experiencing difficulties in their relationships but they are being excessively loud and please consider their neighbors.

    2) Give them a week and if nothing changes type another letter saying, sorry again for bothering them, but if the don't stop with their fighting and plate smashing you will have no option but to a) contact the managment company and get them to inform their landlord (if they are renting) or (b) call the gardai if they are owners.

    3) After a further week if nothing changes do as you said you would in (2) above


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