To the douchebag who called the police over noisy toddlers playing outside at a daycare in a family suburban neighbourhood: Don’t you think our police resources would be better used actually solving crime rather than quieting down some jubilant kiddies while you nurse your hangover?
—Mom who loves her loud 15-month old.
This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2010.
Call the cops on this guy when he starts drinking after 11 pm…
Nothing the police could do anyways as the silent hour begins at 11 pm, so I am surprised they even responded to the call.
Next time I’m sure they’ll tell him off over the phone and not respond to the call.
Unfortunately they HAVE to respond to each complaint they get. My friend had one of those neighbors who would call the cops on absolutely everything like the fact that their cars were parked too close to their house, that their cars weren’t parked right in their own driveway, etc. The worst was when they built a new deck. The neighbors called in and said they weren’t building it right or something because a new law passed about building decks, but since they started building theirs before the law, they were supposed to be fine. But the cops came and told them since someone complained, they had to rebuild their whole deck. Fucking old geezers.
melectric: Bullshit they do. I’ve called them before for drunk teenagers tearing shit up in the middle of the night and they don’t show more than half the time.
To be honest, I don’t like kids. Parents need to learn how to control them. Just because you stuck Tab A in Slot B and out popped a baby doesn’t make you a parent, just a breeder. I request seats at restaurants specifically to be as far as possible from kids. Kids suck, put a gag on them.
some people don’t love loud 15 month olds, or even 15 year olds. learn from it, and wait another 13 years.
Un-supervised “feral” kids can reach a crescendo of screeching and wailing that has to be heard to be believed…
…I do agree that there must be a better solution that calling the police. Maybe some oversized lawn sprinklers that are triggered by noise over 85 decibels…that would be easy to build, in fact I’m gonna patent it…
unsupervised feral kids that is effn precious 🙂
Alternately, one could easily design a loudspeaker system that would be triggered by noise above, say, 85 dB, and then in response blasted head-ache-inducing VLF signals.
Some folks have even claimed to identify the “brown sound”, e.g. a certain sub frequency that could make the little tykes shit themselves if they got too loud…the more they scream and holler, the louder the resulting brown sound, and the bigger the load in their pants…
For older kids, i.e. teens, I “know” of someone who got sick and tired of certain cellphones ringing all summer long in a neighbour’s back deck, and bought a cell “jammer”. “That durned cell company… they must have lowered their signal, now I gotta go out front!”
Of course these are illegal in Canada, so be sure not to get one HERE:
http://www.chinavasion.com
Cheers martyn…getting stoked for t’olympics?
Better get your snow dance on bro’!
yea i’m effn stoked omfg i’m staying in a hostel in the downtown eastside for one night; it’s just as bad as it was when i was here in 95; walked down hastings and got asked about 10 times for drugs; hope the “world” doesn’t get a full look at this shit(or maybe they should)
ps i’m entered in the not eating yellow snow competition in the special olympics; i’m so goin for gold:)
What hostel, martym? If it’s the Patricia, that one’s not so bad. I’ve stayed there a few times. Just stay away from the Empress and Balmoral! Unless they’ve cleaned them up now. Get some cheap brekky at The Ovaltine, and check out some deals at “Save-On-Meat” for food and The Army & Navy Store for clothes. Party it up at Vancouver’s Favourite Country Music Pub! At the end of a long day, relax at Pigeon Park.
Ahh Vancouver… almost making me nostalgic and jealous.
There is a frequency the tykes can here that adults can’t…
it was a ringtone that was getting banned because kids could tell when they were getting test answers via test messages to each other and the teacher couldn’t hear boo.
just blast that at 100 dB and sit quietly in peace.
the devil child across the road from us has the same blood curdling scream for every emotion…she is 5 and sounds like someone is gutting her. but i always check just to make sure
no q i know the really bad ones stayed at the cambie it’s cheap and it’s full offf kids skiing/backpacking so no problems; yea already hit the a+n; save-on; the ovaltine closed so i hit the carnegie centre for dins really cheap and always good; all the places i gigged at are either changed or torn down for condos.
ps q the empress is trying to get $150 a night for a room good luck with that right now
sorry i meant the patricia
Right on Martym !! I remember some of those places on my trip up there . You all set now up there? I think the world already knows about Van ! Especially the eastside – it’s famous !!
not set yet leaving for whistler in an hour than got to get my accred. than i bus to squamish than i check into lodging than i bus back to whistler for orienteering than i bus back to squamish than get work sched. than who the fuck knows? friggn tuckered out already gett’n too old for this shit!
…also, if you “15 month old” is extraordinarily loud, there may well be something wrong with it. You should have it checked out…
I’d like to get me some slot b right now…