Fed-up mother unleashes rock n roll revenge on noisy neighbors after months of sleepless nights in chaotic apartment building: ‘If this continues I will play baby shark on a loop’

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Etai Eshet • Editor
Jan 28, 2025 1:00 PM EST

It seems like just a few minutes ago we were the wild and reckless ones, somewhat thoughtless to the point of getting parties shut down because of noise complaints. But somehow, in the blink of an eye, we've become the ones calling noise patrol on energetic youngsters because we have to work tomorrow. Or worse, because the baby finally fell asleep after hours of being fussy. 

Life has a funny way of flipping the script, turning party animals into exhausted adults, and transforming carefree nights into caffeine-fueled pleas for peace or even a nap once in a while.

In this tale of neighborly warfare, we meet a mother in despair, trapped in an apartment building that seems more like a 24/7 nightclub than a residential complex. 

For three long months, she endured a non-stop attack on her ears: stairwell smokers laughing until dawn, wannabe rappers showcasing their questionable talents, and bass that whomps through walls.

Despite her best efforts to reason with these noisy troublemakers, our hero found herself ignored, dismissed, and at the end of her patience. So, she did what any sleep-deprived, frustrated parent would do: she fought back with the most potent weapon in her arsenal - dad rock cranked to 11.

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  • "Had enough of noisy neighbours took it into my own hands"

    "I started screaming the lyrics, I cant sing for love nor money"
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  • So i moved into my block of flats about 3 months ago. Theres a group of young adults that are constantly sitting on the stairwell behind my bedroom smoking, laughing loudly, running about.
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  • One of them lives above me and plays loud music that they rap along to past hours CONSTANTLY. Ive tried reasoning and explaining i have a 2 year old and i am disabled, we deserve peace to no avail. ive called noise
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  • patrol who they have just argued with and continued once they have left. Well tonight I had enough, tonight im home alone with my two year old and ive spoken to them once already. So
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  • I chose welcome to the jungle by guns n roses, the most rock song i could think of, one that my son is familliar with. Then I turned my tv up to 100, which ive never done before, its pretty loud on 20
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  • Welcome to the jungle, neighbor!

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  • and has good bass for a lower end model samsung. I have misophonia but I was so angry it didnt affect me. Then just to add insult to injury I started screaming the lyrics, i cant sing
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  • for love nor money. Once the song ended. I turned my tv off. ?" And they One guy said turned their music off and have been silent since. I said to my husband if this continues i will
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  • turn my sound system on and play baby shark on a loop. Im not playing games anymore. Best part is, the two year old is still fast asleep.
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  • Tldr: you wanna torture me with your gangster rap, im gonna torture you with middle age white guy music.
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  • From the creators of Dad Rock, mother presents: Mom Rock

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  • In a moment of glorious rebellion, she unleashed Guns N' Roses at a volume that would make Slash himself flinch, complete with her own off-key screaming. And the result? turned her loud daze and confusion into sweet, beautiful silence, And the cherry on the  ZZ top? her two-year-old slept through it all, blissfully unaware of mom's rock 'n' roll revenge.

  • thesleeplessj I had some students move into a hose next door to me a few years ago, we went from super peaceful for years to endless nights of thudding beats pumped out by this little weedy wanna be dj, I went round there loads of times to no avail.
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  • The final straw was them singing along at the top of their voices to some rubbish song at 5am - I knew they'd be hanging the next day, so at 8am as soon as it was legal to start building work, I
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  • rigged up a hammer drill against a block of wood against their wall. Did this every morning after their late night beats - took a few nights for them to get the hint, and they stopped, music off at 10pm from there on out...
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  • Sanchastayswoke Genius!!!! did something similar with my neighbor whose dogs never stfu! I waited until 3 am when they finally quieted down, and pointed my huge JBL speaker out the window &
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  • played the sound of a Rottweiler furiously snarling and barking at full volume for like 1 minute. Aimed right at their bedroom window. Those dogs been quiet af for almost a year since then.
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  • Huntedbearly I lived in a small apartment complex that had a tenant like that. I lived above them. One weekend when the stars aligned and everyone except me and the rowdy neighbors were out of town we decided to take revenge.
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  • Cher's "Believe" had just come out and I had the remix CD with 11 different remixes. I put it on repeat, aimed my speakers to the floor, and went out for the night. I generally got home about 2am, but ended up getting lucky and got home about 10am. Needless to say, they were never rowdy again.
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  • CoderJoe1 Baby Shark? Calm down, Satan.
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  • Golbez89 If you want to go nuclear you could try Indian Love Call by Slim Whitman. In the movie Mars Attacks it is so bad it makes the aliens' heads explode.
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  • Rainy_Grave Baby Shark might be classified as a war crime. B
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  • Numerical-Words... I had upstairs neighbours who used to host loud parties on the weekends. I'd wait until they were hung over on Sunday, then blast Sweeney Todd as loud as possible.
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  • Honest-Hornet8746 Find a version of "Let It Go" sung by a 4yo who literally only knows the line 'Let it go' so it's just those words for three hours
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  • Low_Permission7278 There is a metal version of baby shark. You're welcome
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