Neighbors Let Their Kids Run Wild in the Alley—and She’s Reached Her Limit With the Endless Noise
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Kids will be kids, right?
Sure…
BUT, it’s okay to admit that some parents don’t know how to control their children…or maybe they just don’t care.
And that can lead to complications…especially with neighbors!
The woman who wrote this story has had just about enough of the kids in her neighborhood causing all kinds of problems for her.
Take a look at what she’s dealing with.
Noisy Neighbor’s Kids. What do I do?
“I’d like to know your opinion and maybe some options on what to do about noisy neighbor’s children.
In the alley adjacent to our home, there are two brothers that operate a tow truck business/car repair shop out of a garage at the end of that alley.
Whether it’s legal or not is questionable, but not the focus of this discussion.
Those darn kids…
They don’t seem like horrible people, but the children of the brothers/workers are constantly running up and down the alley and out in the street until midnight almost every night of the summer. The mothers sit around and don’t scold them.
The children knock on the door so that they can make my dogs bark because they think it’s a joke, we caught them running back down the alley and down our street or hiding behind the neighbors’ to our right, plants in front of their home.
They will knock on our large bay window on the side and throw uneaten food there on occasion, so I have to go out and wipe that down.
I live with my parents because I’m my mom’s caregiver, also an issue with the children being noisy because she is on disability and needs rest, so my dad will go outside and tell them to get away from our property or to maybe play towards the garage and not so close to our house.
This sounds incredibly frustrating…
They have a basketball hoop in a parking lot next to the alley of a business not in use anymore, and they constantly ride 4 wheelers/electric bikes/snowmobiles in the winter, up and down the street.
My dad has called the cops but our police in this town are useless.
The noise ordinance is 10 o’clock. I’m at a loss of what to do.
My dad is trying to move us out, but we’re on a VA loan and I’m not sure what the VA can do for my dad in terms of helping approve a second mortgage or using the house as collateral for a second house.
She feels stuck here…
I work 3 jobs and I still can’t make enough to buy a house since I’m single and have 3 dogs given to me by my ex who doesn’t help with any bills or food for them.
I’m trying to be respectful. I’m a musician and I sometimes will play my clarinet/flute/sax/sing outside to practice for gigs on nice sunny days.
I’ve never received a complaint. And I always stop playing around 9, at the latest. These kids come up to my yard and ask me why I’m playing them. I just don’t understand the ignorance. I really just want to have some peace after working and playing gigs.
But I’m always up until midnight and wake up sleep deprived. My poor dogs have to suffer. This just stinks.”
Take a look at what readers had to say about this on Reddit.
This person didn’t hold back.
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Another Reddit user weighed in.
This individual spoke up.
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And another reader weighed in.
This is enough to drive anyone crazy, don’t you think?
You better believe it!
I’d blow my top if I had to deal with this.
She needs to try to get out of this place as soon as possible…
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