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To the people living across the street from us,i just have to say on behalf of my roomates you guys are by far the biggest losers,
we know its your house that calls the cops for the parties,its not our fault you guys dont have friends.
—over boring people
This article appears in Dec 31, 2009 – Jan 6, 2010.
37 Comments
Are your parties, loud, obnoxious, frequent and on weeknights? That’d probably do it.
it depends on the neighbourhood; if you live in a student dominated area than duh people; if your in a family oriented area knock it off; it’s a nimby thing really
I’d call the cops on you too if you disrupted me on a regular basis.
Fuck off and go downtown to the bars. They call the cops because you have to shut up after 11pm. Dumb asses.
Basically you and your roommates are assholes. There are noise regulations for a reason and if you’re breaking the law you deserve to be called on it. Obviously your reference to “parties” implies it happens often, which is unacceptable when you have neighbours. Also, you are personally attacking the “popularity” of your neighbour because they call you on your asshole-dness? lol Fuck you, I wish I knew your neighbourhood so I too could call and complain. And hey, I have friends over all the time. Maybe you could make fun of my hair, or something. Assholes.
There’s a very old law in Halifax that says you can’t shout after 10PM. But it also says you can’t knock on someone’s door after 10. You just can’t win!
You also can’t drag a dead horse down Yonge St (Toronto) on a Sunday. I think I may have learned both of these tidbits on LTWWB.
I guess they haven’t heard the rule. If you’re going to have a loud party, invite all the neighbours. If they’re there, no one will call the cops. Start being neighbourly, douchebag.
If you are in violation of the noise laws, REGARDLESS of the neighborhood, I would be calling the cops on you too … I even used to call about construction workers if they were making noise during off hours.
At least they didn’t have an ice cream cone in their front pocket.
Bro Tim I did that one time.
All the neighbors on our cul-d-sac showed up, even people the next street over who’s yard was baked on mine , when the cops came by & said a neighbor had complained I invited them in to point the ‘neighbor’ out !
At that point about 8:30 pm or so everyone around us was there, everyone… kid’s & all….Seems the cops were driving by, heard the noise & decided to check us out… we as a group decided to tell them to piss off, or come back with a legitimate complaint…bye bye piggies…they never did come back 🙂
good time had by all :p
soome loudness is okay to a certain extent,but when you go overboard with your stereo or loud raucus yelling and screaming.then it is call in the cops time.remember this little tidbit people.if it ain’t loud to you,there is a thing called reverberation,or echo.that’s when it becomes over bearing.and yes,i would call them on you too.and if you kept turning it up,after they left,then i would have to personally turn you down,and out for the night.it has been done to a few,and was nice and quiet for a long time after that.
I’d call the cops too, just to piss you off again.
Why do losers always think that everybody wants to come to their boring ass party?
I was at a backyard party once that was pretty tame, a dozen people sitting around listening to one of us play his accoustic guitar, some of us singing along. When the neighbour had enough at around 3 a.m. they simply phoned the host and said ‘okay, it’s enough now’ and we all went inside, eventually dispersing to our own abodes. That’s my only house-party complaint story. All the rest were complaint free. Inviting the immediate neighbours helps sometimes. I guess the key word here is sporadic and not every weekend all weekend along like some former neighbours believed in.
I’ve never had a noise complaint in my seven years of DJing. One of my neighbour’s would open his windows whenever I was practicing or sampling new vinyl purchases and hollar at me to keep up the good work. The people passing by on the street seemed to enjoy the sweet house music also.
Yes, its better than prog or anything Desi can produce.
Why do losers even waste the cops time with a ” noisy party” complaint. Speaking of being neighborly – why not just go over – talk to the cop callers and make a deal about the noise – IE : you keeping it to a dull roar . Fuckin wasting cops time with frivrolous complaints. THAT is being a douchebag!!
And disrespecting neighbours with loud, obnoxious noise and people coming in-and-out all night long is even more ridiculous, dude. Noise laws are in place to create a sense of responsibility in home owners and tenants who rent. Its not “douche baggery” at all.
Plus the cops in this city don’t do much except for target minorities and do paper work. WHat else are they going to spend their time on; busting more pot dealers and following Jimmy Melvin around? If they were bringing down meth and coke dealers I can see your point, hog, but not this time.
I live in an apartment so I file noise complaints with the building manager. Done it before and will do it again if I have to. Anybody who bangs on my door with a chip on their shoulder exercises extreme caution in doing so; I keep a bat and kitana behind my front door.
If someone got a chip on their shoulder fat – i agree – because i would likely either slam the door in their face or beat them abit and then slam the door . Agreed . I was aiming more for the being cool about it and respective towards the people . But fat – true about the heat wasting time .
You know you’re a douchebag… I’m sure it’s not the first chance you’ve had to figure it out. Grow up and learn some respect or wind up in jail getting banged up the arse by all the other “cool” people.
Given past experiences with roommates, I kind of have a special sympathy for your neighbours in this situation, OB. I can sleep through my mom vacuuming my room, but pump up the bass on a sound system when I’m trying to sleep and I go fucking postal.
Have the people across the street come over and asked you to STFU?
I had issues with my across the hall neighbours, last year — their surround system was on the common wall and they’d have their shit up so high you could even hear it through the hallway through the door. All the stuff on my wall would vibrate! A loud knock on their door a few times fixed the problem — they moved their system to the other wall and everything’s cool now.
However, I’m betting you’d still bitch if your neighbours complained directly to you. I understand that parts of this city are student oriented and are probably going to be louder than other residential areas, but that doesn’t give a bunch of douchebag inconsiderate little asshole students (not saying all students are inconsiderate little assholes, but there is a large proportion of them trolling around halifax university campuses) the right to blast their music during inappropriate times of the day/week (like, oh, say, 2am on a tuesday morning…you’d get more than a cop complaint from me then, you’d likely get my foot up your ass).
Why don’t you just turn your music down, assfuck? If they can hear it across the street that’s pretty much an indication that it’s TOO FUCKING LOUD.
Let’s see – you’re a loser if you can’t tolerate loud music and appear to have no friends (which you have no proof of) – ergo if you like loud music and have a bunch of loud, obnoxious friends, you’re a success. I think I know who the real loser is.
I had a group of young “fun” partiers living next to me, but I also had the landlord’s number from the property tax rolls.
I would call him every 15 minutes when there were parties.
OP: I am sure you are absolutely positive that it’s only ONE neighbor calling the cops, just as I am sure that it is very likely that most of your neighbor’s think you are a total asshole and douchbag loser. Grow the fuck up kid, the World doesn’t owe you shit and TTFN is absolutely right…we all know who the losers are in this story of yours.
@More: “who’s yard was baked on mine “…uhhh, what are you growing in your yard? Sorry I just had to make a stupid comment 😉
@NGF: Nice to hear that there are still people loving Da House Muzik…who is on spinning on your decks right now? I just found out that I can import all of my old sets into itunes so I can listen to sweet 4 hour long sessions!
DER? I have not purchased new vinyl in a LONG time – BUT did get a snazzy digital turntable that converts vinyl into MP3 format (which can be burned as CDA)! Still the same usual suspects: Kaskade, Junior Jack, Ronan, Fred Everything, Laurent Wolf.
Honestly I took a break from it for the longest time and preferred listening to other sets really. I’m hoping to get back into it more again this year and get some new sounds on the go. Also really digging Adam K right now (Toronto-based producer).
You heading to Afrika Bambaata on the 15th?!
NGF: Sweet digital goodness! Sounds like a great way to shrink the storage requirements of our particular habit (records can end up taking up ALOT of room, plus it’s a bitch to move). I have a few tracks redone by Adam K (mostly DeadMou5e stuff) I like his different takes on good tracks, usually more subtlelaidback beats etc.
I hadn’t even realized Afrika Bambaata was going to be here, though I usually stay away from big shows that are open venue (no seating etc) nowadays…just not into large groups of humanbeings (always disapointing behavior commited, people think that if they are in a big crowd…noone will notice or care). Last big party I was at (a loooong time ago now lol) was at a place on Brunswick st that is now something else. This guy (obviously on a bad combination of entertainment enhancements) freaked out and started bashing people (guys and girls), what freaked me out was that his intitial attack was on a group of people that looked almost exactly like a group of my friends that I went there with, I couldn’t get near enough to the scene to help, I felt so trapped and helpless. It ended up not being them just people that oddly were wearing the same color shirts and stuff. It took 7-8 cops and security to haul the crazy bastard outta there. After seeing some poor girls face swollen bigger than mellon and in obvious distress…my party days were over, I can’t go into party crowds now without expecting the worst.
Annnddd…there’s my big personal reveal for the month. LOL
Sounds like you were at the BBB set in the underground parking in 2002 lol The one where the pipes backed up and there was about a foot of water on the ground.
AB is playing at the Paragon again and its on the 15th. Check out Adam K’s “Wrong Guru”! It’s very, very noice indeed =D
I was there for that; though after it got too wet I left! Was it in 2002? Time certainly does fly. The situation I described didn’t happen there though, it was at the converted movie theater on Brunswick (I can’t recall what they were calling it at the time…) next to the empty lot and the 2nd hand furnature store.
I will check out that track for sure man!
OBP,
I didn’t know you posted here, too. I will be calling the cops on your loud parties as long as you live across the street from me.
Given the propensity of human communicators in this town you should be grateful, OP, they didn’t come over and introduce your stereo and loud mouth to their baseball bat. Having the cops show up instead is a goddamn gift!
Oh, yeah, because Halifax is such a post-nuclear anarcho-punk Mad-Max bizarro world that it’s perfectly normal for neanderthal zombie cave dwellers to show up at their neighbors’ houses to threaten them a baseball bat—or force them into a non-consensual arm-wrestling match.
I forgot.
In kay’s mind, all of Halifax’s residents are gun-toting ego-maniacal freaks who all resort to grunting and fisticuffs whenever there’s a whiff of disagreement.
Yeah, in my mind and in the heads of the evening news reporters.
The bitches hardly ever recommend you don’t show your baseball bat to people who shit all over you. Hypocrites!
Huh that’s funny….kay you have posted suggestions of violence against individuals that offended you, if I remember correctly it was about someone letting their dog shit on your lawn or something to that effect.
Is it that you don’t see your own hypocrisy or do the rules you hold the rest of Halifax (Nova Scotia in general) to do not apply to you? You do love to use the word hypocrites alot…something there to be said about the pot and kettle eh kaytard?
Also…I shudder to think of what actually goes on in that tin can you call a mind.
You’re a fucking idiot if you can’t TASTE the sarcasm dripping from my post. You shoulda left things at , “Huh that’s funny” if you want to prove you know what a kay is. pfft.
I worked on a resort once where my neighbour started work at about 5am and I was just finished around 3am and gone to bed. He’d CRANK his music every morning at 5am. I went and knocked for him to turn it down about 3 days in a row, and the last day he told me to fuck off. I resisted punching him in the face because I’d have been fired. So I had my friend from security open his door while he was out working and ripped out all the wires from his stereo. That was one of the best paybacks ever.
Kay threatens all the time – shes worst then us – she “big city calgary” , now excuse me while i spit out what i puked in my mouth ! *cough cough cough* RETARD