[net.social] Noisy neighbor problems in an apt building:HELP!

jack@cca.UUCP (Jack Orenstein) (07/01/86)

> ...
> 2) If you (and neighbors) can evacuate a while: Tape 6-8 hours of
> music on a reel-to-reel. Borrow a pro-amp (2 KW/Channel). Borrow
> a pair of multi-KW speakers (pro) & place them against the
> ceiling. Turn on music (full) and leave on for a bit. Works great
> when you *know* they've got a hangover.
> 
> Suggested music: 1812 Overture (w/Cannon); any drum & bugle corps
> stuff; anything *classical* & *loud*! (e.g., Pink Floyd won't
> do).
> 
> Karen Davis

Don't evacuate - Karen's idea makes for a great evening with friends:


	Make sure their door is locked (from the outside). Their windows
should be unlocked. Below, in your apartment, the lights are dim. Play
Beethoven's ninth. As they smash their heads against the floor, begging
you to stop, you gaze upwards from your wheelchair and cackle
maniacally, while Julian, your manservant, contemplates the Rembrandt
over the fireplace. Your closest friend (and fellow subversive) is there
too. Slowly and methodically, he rolls the red snooker balls across the
green felt, one at a time, waiting for each one to go into the pocket
before starting the next one on its way.



Jack Orenstein

Disclaimer: "I was cured"

mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) (07/03/86)

Summary:

In <2687@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>In article <2858@sdcrdcf.UUCP> faigin@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Daniel P Faigin) writes:
>>
>>Suggested music: 1812 Overture (w/Cannon); any drum & bugle corps
>>stuff; anything *classical* & *loud*! (e.g., Pink Floyd won't
>>do).
>
>Drum and bagpipes would be very good.  There is a recording of Bach's
>Toccata and Fugue in D Minor played by E. Power Biggs (sp?) on *four*
>organs that could also be quite loud...

I have a Vangelis album called Aphrodites Child.  There is a cut on it which
bears an uncanny similarity to a woman being raped by a sheep while banging
on garbage cans with her fists and chanting, moaning, and wailing.  This
would keep anyone awake.
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spencer@osu-eddie.UUCP (Stephen Spencer) (07/07/86)

In article <434@bnrmtv.UUCP> fox@bnrmtv.UUCP (Richard Fox) writes:
>
>Oh yeah, there is one other solution that is perfectly legal, you could always
>move to another apartment.

That's no solution, though:  this person obviously likes his/her present
living arrangement (as far as location) and someone has come on the scene
who is disturbing her.  His/her privacy is being invaded by the unfeeling
attitude of his/her noisy neighbors.  There are plenty of legal (and quasi-
legal) alternatives to moving.  Who knows, she may move, and move next to
someone even worse!


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perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Henry Perkins) (07/09/86)

> Anyway, after one particularly miserable Saturday night we finally got
> fed up and treated the bozos (and their hangovers) to several hundred watts
> of Bach's Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor at about 8:30 on Sunday morning.
> Not long after that, they moved away...
> 
Probably couldn't take the exposure to culture.
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blake@sx7000.UUCP (Chris Blake) (07/11/86)

> Suggested music: 1812 Overture (w/Cannon); any drum & bugle corps
> stuff; anything *classical* & *loud*! (e.g., Pink Floyd won't
> do).
>
   Ah,but the Clocks and Bells on Side 1 "Dark Side of the Moon"
would sound wonderful at 7AM while you're making your morning coffee!

                                      -Spunk Blake
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