Couple plague their neighbor with texts asking him to be silent EVERY time their baby has a nap - even when he's being quiet. So who's in the right?
每次女儿睡觉，夫妇皆短信轰炸邻居要他保持安静，即便他不出声时也不例外。谁是谁非呢？
Martha Cliff for MailOnline
Lisa R
your obligation when living in an apartment is to be as quiet as possible. It's called consideration in close quarters. I don't know if this guy is lying or not about the noises he makes but...sounds like he is in the wrong. Move out buddy ...rent a whole house with your buddies. Then you can just ignore your next door neighbors and get complaints that way.SkadiReply toLisa R
What about the TV midday and the "I thought I heard your drums" when he wasn't even home?! The other part of living in a flat (with apparently very thin walls and improper insulation and soundproofing and drywall) is that the other neighbor needs to understand that there is bound to be some noise and just put up with it. If not, then move out. Chopping vegetables is hardly a disturbance of the peace!Bloodrush
I guarantee I'd have made his life such a misery,he'd have to move. Or be seriously assaulted.Mise
In the first instance, he's a DRUMMER!! Even if I had no baby, I'd object to having someone practising their drums over my apartment! Secondly, he repeatedly asks his neighbours to tell him if he's making too much noise - therefore, they are only responding to his ongoing requests! I don't think the neighbours downstairs are being at all unreasonable. The guy above clearly knows he is noisy, which is why he has been apologising up to now.swiep12Reply toMise
First, he has every right to play his drums during non quiet hours that are set by the landlord/property management. Typical hours are between 8am-9pm. Second, he did tell the parents to let him know if he was making too much loud noises and he'd stop. They have texted him complaining he's loud when he's not even home. The reason he's been telling them to let him know and apologizes even when he doesn't need to is because he has this thing called manners and respect. But those two things can only go so far for so long before their requesting and complaining is out of hand and line. He, as a tenant who pays rent, has every right to do whatever he wants and not have to bend to the will of a baby that's not his.StarStar999Reply toMise
But they also complain about noise from normal daily tasks such as chopping vegetables!! It's not about drums being loud (they are, but this guy got an electric kit - the sound coming out would be equivalent to the sound of children running around in the apt above you), it's about these people harassing this guy to rearrange his life and interrupting him at work. You can't expect total quiet living in an apartment or multi-occupancy residence.MissS
When he has kids and a noisy neighbour that wakes his kids up when they go to sleep I think he'll be more sympatheticPug2014
The guy with the drums is an inconsiderate c@#t. He shouldn't need to be texted, he should know that he's being too noisy.petalReply toPug2014
The people with the baby are the inconsiderate ones! People have a right to chop veg or watch tv in their apartments if they want and I see no reason why he shouldn't play the drums during the day. It's not as if he did it late at night! He has been more than considerate.Mothercourage
This drummer is unreasonable. You cant play drums in a flat. Not fair. He is be living in a garage down the back of a backyard. I would hate living next to him.HawkDebs
It's no fun when a new neighbour moves in with a drum kit. It's the most awful goddam racket - endless pounding and thwacking, plus the odd crash of a symbol. They wear ear muffs themselves to protect their hearing when practising, but other people have to tolerate the cacophony which can be so loud it reverberates through your whole body. I'm with the baby on this one.Kaninchen11Reply toHawkDebs
The wannabe drummer is scum. Whether he moved in first makes no difference. He shouldn't bring a drum kit - electric or whatever into a flat. He should not play any musical instrument in a flat. I also think he has deliberately left out some of his own replies on the text messages to make himself look super polite. That way it looks like his neighbours are harassing him when it is, in fact, the other way around. The man needs to be ousted.rob
Having a crying baby and playing a cruiser are two different leagues. You can't help a baby crying but you can stick your foot through a drum !!rockdjuk
I'm confused.. he's a drummer but then the article goes on to say he's a musician. He can't be both.Kyly1215
All these foolish comments about the baby being able to sleep with the noise. How about this?? Maybe the people downstairs don't want to hear his drumming? Granted the guy sounds like he is nice but you cannot be a drummer if you live in an apartment. I hope just one noisy horrible neighbor on some of these commenters and you will totally understand these peoples pain.jac163
Playing drums in an upstairs flat? I would be complaining too. Even with an electronic kit through headphones, you'll get a thump on the bass drum pad which could resonate down stairs!VKSheridanReply tojac163
Do you own an electric kit? Have you ever been in the presence of one being played? Unless you're stomping the bass pedal hard enough to dent the pad, it makes about as much noise as thumping a count on a brick. If she thinks she deserves absolute silence, she needs to move to the countryside.atheistbychoice
I find it hard to believe that this took place in the US and there has not been an exchange of gunfire yet. These must be either the few sane people left in the US, or they are actually Canadians.评论
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