about my upstairs neighbors making noise. They were drunk and beating on their furniture, as they have done before. A few months ago when I went up there to ask them to stop they simplyr replied that they were "playing the drums" with the music on the stereo. A few days later they do it again and I notify the landlord who goes up there to see what the problem is and they denied making any noise at all.
I did not call the police on a knee-jerk reaction tonight. I tried to solve it myself. But when i went up there I made the mistake of opening their screen door without knocking, (their regular door was open), and I yelled at the bum who was beating on the furniture to get his *** out here. He didn't do it but he did shove me with his forearm as he pulled his door shut. (he damaged his door when he did that). He was also yelling that I'm not man enough to kick his ***, and after a long stream of obscenitied I figured I needed help to get his problem solved and I called the police.
They did not write him a citation, so I'm assuming from what I've read from some of you guys on this board they figured there was three sides to the story, mine, their's and the truth. They spent probably ten minutes up there with them, and the bums were repeatedly telling them that I threatened to kick their *** and was challenging them to come outside.
This has been an ongoing problem, and they were actually written a noise citation back in June of 06. They were pretty quiet for a few months after that.
So I think I've made an honest effort to solve the problem without police involvement. I don't think it is solved right now based on thier lifestyle of partying around the clock. They are a group of old men who got an inheritance when their parents died. Their parents must not have been very rich because they can't afford to leave their apartment where they party and fight around the clock.
After tonight, I'm assuming that the police think I am part of the problem, and I should probably not ask for help in the matter again. I don't want to be the one getting cited for falsely summoning police. Reading the posts here indicates that police don't like responding to calls for service by someone they consider a nuisance, and I'm wondering if that's the position I have put myself in tonight. I'm asking if you guys would have thought I'm part of the problem, and what's a better way to handle this.
BTW, I did not threaten to kick the guys *** as he repeatedly said tonight, but I did tell him to get his *** out here as I was outside his door. One of the officers asked me if it could have possibly been a threatening gesture, and i had to admit it could have.
I did not call the police on a knee-jerk reaction tonight. I tried to solve it myself. But when i went up there I made the mistake of opening their screen door without knocking, (their regular door was open), and I yelled at the bum who was beating on the furniture to get his *** out here. He didn't do it but he did shove me with his forearm as he pulled his door shut. (he damaged his door when he did that). He was also yelling that I'm not man enough to kick his ***, and after a long stream of obscenitied I figured I needed help to get his problem solved and I called the police.
They did not write him a citation, so I'm assuming from what I've read from some of you guys on this board they figured there was three sides to the story, mine, their's and the truth. They spent probably ten minutes up there with them, and the bums were repeatedly telling them that I threatened to kick their *** and was challenging them to come outside.
This has been an ongoing problem, and they were actually written a noise citation back in June of 06. They were pretty quiet for a few months after that.
So I think I've made an honest effort to solve the problem without police involvement. I don't think it is solved right now based on thier lifestyle of partying around the clock. They are a group of old men who got an inheritance when their parents died. Their parents must not have been very rich because they can't afford to leave their apartment where they party and fight around the clock.
After tonight, I'm assuming that the police think I am part of the problem, and I should probably not ask for help in the matter again. I don't want to be the one getting cited for falsely summoning police. Reading the posts here indicates that police don't like responding to calls for service by someone they consider a nuisance, and I'm wondering if that's the position I have put myself in tonight. I'm asking if you guys would have thought I'm part of the problem, and what's a better way to handle this.
BTW, I did not threaten to kick the guys *** as he repeatedly said tonight, but I did tell him to get his *** out here as I was outside his door. One of the officers asked me if it could have possibly been a threatening gesture, and i had to admit it could have.
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