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[Shiva]

Have a question hope some of you could answer, or shall I say, someone in my state, which is shown in the same place it always is.

I have a jerky neighbor who likes to blast his damn bass. Unfortunately his room- we live in a town home- shares the wall with mine, so I get to hear it. He does this after 10 at night and I'm about ready to beat him. My mom saw him last night and asked him if he could keep it down. He said sure, but what does he do when 10 roll around? He turns it up even more! I know if it was music I could call the police station and report it, but any cop showing up wouldn't be able to hear the bass.

Now, onto why I'm asking this. I looked up the ordinances today, by lucky I found them on the cities web page, and found the noise regulations one. Now, the way I'm reading it, he's violating it. Under it (A) states :"No person shall use or operate any electronic sound system or audio equipment including, but no limited to, any compact disc player, cassette tape player, am-fm radio, citizen band radio, paging systm or any other device designed to produce or reproduce audio sound in an unreasonalby loud manner that it disturbs the peace, quite and comfort of others or interfers with the right of another to use peacefully his or her property or public property without disturbance.

Now, if I'm reading that right, especially the underlined part, he's violating the noise regulations. Shall I add that the a$$hole does it while I'm trying to fall asleep? So one, do you belive he is and 2, who would I report it to? Like I said, I know if it was music I could report it to the police, but not this. I emailed the people who operate the page it was on, the customer service part, and have not yet received an answer so I thought I'd check with you guys.

Anyone?

Shiva

[arson571]

In my area, he would be violating the Disorderly Conduct statute which is similar to the one you cited. The local police will warn several times and document it and cite at their discretion. Unfortunately, it is only a C misdemeanor so it really doesn't have a lot of teeth regardless of how many times cited.

The patrol division would handle this one; call the non-emergency number.

[Shiva]

I really don't care about something happening to him. I just want the s.o.b. to stop! If he didn't do it after 10p.m. it wouldn't be a huge deal, but like I said, I'm trying to sleep when the jerk is doing this.

A year or so ago he did it with his music and was asked to keep it down. He actually did, but of course our stupid association might have had something to with that as they sent something out in their newsletter. He moved out of his mothers but now he's moved back in. From my point of view, he's a loser. I don't believe he works as he does what I've already said and his car is always there when I leave for work.

I was just asking as I know for noise complaints the responding officer has to be able to hear it. I can't hear the base if I go out front, but it sure booms in my room.

Would the officer be able to do anything if it wasn't going on at the time I called? Or, seeing as no one is there to answer the non-emergency line right now, should I call Monday and ask how my department would handle it?

Shiva

[county]

have the officer come into your house and hear it for himself. like someone said before, these are usually handled with "stern warnings", but when it continues to be a problem both for you and the police that have to keep responding, citations can and will be issued. maybe a citation wont change his behavior, but when he gets one every night for a week or 2 with a maximum fine of $500 for each incident, and has to rearrange his life to accomadate all of his newly acquired court dates he may choose to finally stop.

documentation is the key