August 23, 2026 at 10:35 pm

She Asked Her Loud Neighbor to Keep It Down—and Now He’s Making Open Threats

by Matthew Gilligan

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If you ever thought that a simple request to a neighbor to keep the noise down wasn’t a big deal, well, you’ve never met the person that this woman lives by.

Any rational person would understand that being too loud is a nuisance to the folks who live around you…

But then again, there are a lot of IRRATIONAL people out there.

Check out what this woman is dealing with and think about what you’d do in her situation.

Loud, problematic neighbour threatened me last night.

“I moved into this house in January. Early on, I noticed really loud screaming and yelling between 10 pm and 3 am.

Okay…this is annoying…

At first I was genuinely concerned because I thought somebody was getting hurt. But time went on, and I concluded that my neighbour just plays video games at night and can’t seem to control her emotions and anger.

One night in February, I went over to her house at around 11 pm and asked her if she could quiet it down, and she said she would try. However, the screaming, yelling, and cursing would still go on almost daily, and I truly couldn’t fall asleep at night.

In mid-February, I ended up calling the police department to file a noise complaint, and they showed up and spoke with her. Thankfully, her yelling at night stopped, and she’s now been playing during the day, which I have no issues with.

There’s some weird stuff going on in that house.

However, I think nowadays she’s been dealing with some personal issues. Initially, it was her and her mom who were living here. But I don’t think they have a good relationship anymore because sometimes I could hear the argue, and as of recent, I’m pretty sure they have been taking turns living at the house here.

There was also a situation about 2 months ago where the police came at around noon, but this was something I’ve never seen before in my life. There were about 15-20 police officers with guns and dogs. Some were hiding in our part of the yard; it was really sketchy.

To this day, I still don’t know what was happening, but the police broke down their door, and somebody in her house got arrested. After that scene, it was pretty quiet for about 2 weeks.

Now and then, the girl would have some friends over, and it seemed like they had a good time. They just listened to music and talked, which kind of disturbs me, but I would rather have to listen to music than listen to screaming, cursing, and yelling.

Now..about last night.

She again had some friends over at around 9 pm; they were just listening to music. And I think after that, they went somewhere, and at around 2 they may have come home because at 2:30 I woke up to loud yelling.

This was about to get interesting…

I was so annoyed I banged on the wall, and she yelled: “Bang on the door, and I’ll mess you up!”

She yelled that twice.

Throughout the night, I could hear her telling her friends something, and she seemed to be really upset. I could hear her crying and sobbing, then yelling because she was angry, then she would cry again. She was just going through all the emotions.

Of course I couldn’t fall back asleep after, especially after what she told me about “messing me up”. Like, why would she need to mess me up if I’m the one who just wants peace at night? I honestly just don’t understand.

So since I was awake, I ended up listening to what was going on on the other side of the wall.

What the hell?!?!

It seemed like they were trying to figure something out together, but then at one point I heard the girl say, “Bro, I was going to slit his throat with scissors! I never wanted to kill somebody this bad before”

I understand that she could have 100% just said it to show off in some way or to make herself feel more powerful, but part of me got a little concerned.

Of course she could have just said that out of anger, but I just kept thinking about the police being here searching their house, and it kind of got me overthinking that she could damage my car or something after I banged on the wall or even after I made another noise complaint.

Sorry, I know this was a bit long, and thank you for reading this. I honestly don’t know what to do. I slept through all my alarms this morning and woke up at 11:30 am and I am just so annoyed.

What should I do?”

Check out what folks had to say about this on Reddit.

This person offered some advice.

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Another Reddit user weighed in.

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This individual shared their thoughts.

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And another reader spoke up.

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This woman is off her rocker.

And it sounds like the best thing she can do is give her a wide berth and stay as far away from her as possible.

Yikes!

Her neighbor legitimately sounds dangerous!

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