pinkcow

Our next door neighbours have several (can’t quite work out how many) teenage children.  Some of the said children live in their garage, and recently a delapidated caravan was towed into their yard to house more of them.  They own their house and we own ours…

We *think* that some of the family are drug dealers.  They have cars pulling up regularly and at all hours of the day and night, sometimes not turning the engine off, and leaving after 3 minutes or less.  I have also had an aquaintence tell me that my neighbours are dealers.

They have regular parties, starting at 9pm and not finishing until as late as 8am the next morning.  Their music is so loud that we can hear it over the sound of our own tv, washing machine, dryer etc.  The bass on their stereo is up so high I can FEEL their music as I lay in my bed (a wonderful wake-up call at 6am).  They are quite aware of how loud their music is as we have asked them MANY MANY times to turn it down, lower the bass, etc.

Their ‘guests’ consistently park on our nature strip or in front of our house, often leaving no space for our own visitors to park.  I can’t see why they can’t park out front of the house next door ?  We find cans and bottles on our front lawn and nature strip almost daily as their ‘guests’ throw them there before getting into their cars.  They flick their lit cigarette butts over our back fence, which we now return straight into their swimming pool.

I don’t think any of their behaviour is intentionally malicious, it’s just that they obviously have no respect for anyone other than themselves.

To top it all off, after a night of partying (a few weeks ago) they dared to send the father over to complain that our 18 month old was bothering their teenage children because he was crying and could we quieten him down !!  HUH ??  They could obviously hear him in their caravan through our open dining room window.

Then this past weekend, after a 4am finish to their partying and loud-enough-to-wake-the-whole-street domestic disputes, my unwell toddler was having a cry.  I was about to put him to bed when the mother screamed out “SHUT UP” at the top of her lungs {mind you, we’d been listening to her screeching like a banshee and dropping the F-bomb all day}.

Who on earth do these people think they are ??  My toddler can’t cry, but it’s okay for them to keep him and us awake all night with their regular partying ?  My littlies room is on the opposite side of the fence to where their ‘entertaining’ area is.  He has 18mm thick laminated glass on his window; double layer of pink batts in the walls; double layer of plasterboard on all the walls; and carpet.  Not much else we can do to keep the sound out.

My husband called the police SIX times between 12am and 4am before they came (well, we think they came).  What else can we do ? 

I’m afraid to do anything that might ‘upset’ them as I don’t doubt that I could find my car/house vandalised in retaliation.  We’ve already had to build a steel gate as just after they moved in we had their ‘guests’ entering our back yard and using our garden furniture to jump the fence into their backyard.  The father has admitted to having to leave New Zealand because he was in trouble with the law…I’m not sure I really want to find out exactly what kind of trouble.