Fucking anti-social bastards. It's currently 7:00am. I've just finally got some quiet after listening to half an hour of trumpets and drums. Seriously, muslim calls to prayer have nothing on this bunch of wankers. And I wouldn't mind, but I don't even live near a buddhist temple. What I live near is someone's house, who have put a few tables and chairs outside under a bit of a gazebo, and erected one of those god-awful shrines in their living room (the really tacky ones that are obviously mass-produced in some Chinese factory). So not only are they waking me up at 6:30 on my one and only day off, but they've begun to take up half the street with their lines of fucking motorbikes and Parisian cafe set up. I can only hope it's an illegal temple and the authorities find out about it, because normally you can't wipe your arse without filling in a few forms first in this country.

Oh, and they've just started up again.

Any tactics on how to combat this would be much appreciated. I do have a rooftop balcony which looks right down on them, if that's any use.

Issue a noise complaint, maybe asking them to quiet it down first.
Failing that, from the rooftop balcony you could leap over onto their roof, stealthily making your way down to a ground floor window via rappel. Then use a thing blade to open the catch and a car dent-remover to pull it open. Then sneak through the house to the living room, and steal the shrine. Then before leaving you can also urinate on their inside front door handle.

Easy, cheap and reliable.

LIFE wrote:

Easy, cheap and reliable.

Talking about your mom is a derail unless she's a buddhist, LIFE.

Do what my asshole neighbor did to get us to stop using our fireplace (it was our only source of heating and totally legal and very effective.)

He hosed down his plants next to our house oopsy daisy water went in the windows sorry I don't see how I can water and not get water in your windows. If the windows were closed he would pound them with the full force of his hose. We complained but unless we filed a civil lawsuit the cops here would do nothing. Finally we got the landlord to fix the gas heaters and he won the war.

I am sure your plants need watering to calm them down whenever there are loud trumpets and drums.

Threaten to swat a fly if they don't shut up.

virphen wrote:Threaten to swat a fly if they don't shut up.

Not everybody is a reptile, virph.

If your standing on a balcony, overlooking them, your bladder is your friend!

Remind them of the spiritual benefits of the noble silence.
If that does not work suggest that by making you so angry they are damaging your karma rating and by inflicting such spiritual harm on a fellow being are in danger of hampering their own road to enlightenment.
Compose some diagreeable haikus and declaim loudly.

Okay, so apparently it was a funeral.

james1v wrote:If your standing on a balcony, overlooking them, your bladder is your friend!

And very quickly theirs!

LIFE wrote:

Easy, cheap and reliable.

At first glance I took those to be baton rounds. I think it's a sort of confirmation bias ...

Byron wrote:

LIFE wrote:

Easy, cheap and reliable.

At first glance I took those to be baton rounds. I think it's a sort of confirmation bias ...

I know the OP was serious but I found this thread quite entertaining somehow.

Funeral!