We live in these yuppie-wood block condominiums in this "gated community" with these slow moving sloth gates that anyone can sneak in to. Our buildings are made out of tissue paper or swiss cheese, or perhaps a combination of both, because you can hear people sneeze above and below you.
Thankfully yuppies don't make much noise these days, especially the ones with full time jobs and no girlfriend to speak of yet. Like the guy who lives below us. The guy who just moved in above us on his brand spanking new hardwood floors? Not so nice. He enjoys stomping around above our heads and "getting things done" at one a.m. and then refuse to turn down his television because he has to hear it, and therefore suffer the rest of us to hear it too. By the way: he's supposed to have carpeting on his floor. The condo association's rules for filing a complaint are such that on the third complaint a tribunal is held to discuss compromises but the dick upstairs says "go ahead" and really doesn't give a hoot about complaints or compromises.
The LE questions come to this:
Alexandria, VA code dictates that if he so much as makes a peep after 11 pm on a weekday that bothers us, we can call the police and have them try to convince him to cooperate. The police tell us that if they have to come down the second or third time, he gets fined 25 dollars, and double that amount each subsequent time it happens again. Now, I don't think they actually enforce that, so how can I go about making sure that they do so the guy upstairs can learn a lesson?
Also, are there any other acoustically related laws and regulations that other people have heard of here that can help me "regulate" the jerk upstairs?
Lastly, is signing someone else up for "great promotions and deals from selected companies" illegal in terms of snail mail?
- Bunny
Thankfully yuppies don't make much noise these days, especially the ones with full time jobs and no girlfriend to speak of yet. Like the guy who lives below us. The guy who just moved in above us on his brand spanking new hardwood floors? Not so nice. He enjoys stomping around above our heads and "getting things done" at one a.m. and then refuse to turn down his television because he has to hear it, and therefore suffer the rest of us to hear it too. By the way: he's supposed to have carpeting on his floor. The condo association's rules for filing a complaint are such that on the third complaint a tribunal is held to discuss compromises but the dick upstairs says "go ahead" and really doesn't give a hoot about complaints or compromises.
The LE questions come to this:
Alexandria, VA code dictates that if he so much as makes a peep after 11 pm on a weekday that bothers us, we can call the police and have them try to convince him to cooperate. The police tell us that if they have to come down the second or third time, he gets fined 25 dollars, and double that amount each subsequent time it happens again. Now, I don't think they actually enforce that, so how can I go about making sure that they do so the guy upstairs can learn a lesson?
Also, are there any other acoustically related laws and regulations that other people have heard of here that can help me "regulate" the jerk upstairs?
Lastly, is signing someone else up for "great promotions and deals from selected companies" illegal in terms of snail mail?
- Bunny
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