Neighbor gets tired of loud neighbors being inconsiderate, so he leaves a loudspeaker with an annoying song only for them to hear during whole weekend

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Giuliana Tiscioni • Writer
Oct 8, 2026 4:00 PM EDT

Sometimes, inconsiderate people need a taste of their own medicine… 

They say you can't choose your family, which is true, and sadly, you can't choose your neighbors either. You might encounter great people, the kind who bring you housewarming gifts and introduce themselves, and to whom you can ask for a cup of sugar when you run out of it. Or, you might happen to get acquainted with people who are terribly inconsiderate, loud, and with whom it's impossible to establish any kind of friendship. I've had both kinds. I have a neighbor with whom we even exchange food. And another set of people who have loud parties on weekdays until 3am. My bedroom window is right beside their backyard, so many times I couldn't even go to sleep in the first place. 

What happened to me is actually a pretty common occurrence, and it's what happened to these people. Their neighbors were constantly loud, and calling the authorities was the same as doing nothing, since they wouldn't show up. They took matters into their own hands then. They got a big speaker, downloaded an annoying song, connected both things for it to play on loop, and went away for the weekend. No one said a single thing when they returned, and they never heard a loud party again. A few months after, the neighbors even moved away. Seems like they finally realized how annoying loud noises and music can be when you're trying to live your life quietly. 

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  • Neighbors were being inconsiderate with noise at night and I gave them a taste of their own medicine.

    A couple of years ago, my family and I lived in an apartment complex that had been steadily going down hill due to constant
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    Apartment complex. 

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  • management changes. We went from a gated community to the gate being removed. It got to the point the police would only come
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  • of they could guarantee that there was a violent crime as noise complaints were nearly constant, which brings me to my situation.
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  • We were there for about 6 years from mid-2016 to mid-2021. We had neighbors move in and out so that was nothing new. One set of neighbors started off fine like most
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  • people. We had never met or seen them, but we knew they were new because it had been nearly silent in that unit for a few months before a moving truck came in. Hearing
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  • voices and the occasional music and ahem nightly extracurriculars was normal for this complex. But these people liked to party at random times throughout the
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  • week. Sometimes it was on the weekends, which we didn't mind too much, and sometimes it could be like 3am on a Monday morning,
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  • and anywhere in between. And I mean these were the types of parties you would expect for New Years.
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    Loud neighbors having a party. 

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  • For a few weeks, we had complained to the leasing office about it. They said they would handle it but nothing had changed
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  • We even tried to go to the opposite side of the building to find their door and ask them to turn it down, but the complex was built in a way that you couldn't
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  • hear noise from another unit outside the door, but it was easily heard inside. Because they always did it at crazy early hours, we
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  • couldn't get anyone to come check it out. We even recorded the noise using a voice recorder on our phones and nothing changed.
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  • After one VERY bad weekend, I had a nasty idea. We were going to be out for the entire weekend, so I decided fire with fire. I booted up
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  • my computer, found a 12-hour loop of a very irritating song (it was either Rebecca Black's Friday or Baby Shark, I can't remember),
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  • downloaded it with audio software, and put it into Windows Media Player to repeat once it was finished. I also bought some
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  • speakers and put them right against the wall for maximum effect. Right before we left, I queued it up just loud enough that it couldn't be heard by anyone else.
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    Loudspeaker.

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  • I believe we went to an amusement park and stayed at a hotel. When we got back two days later with the music still playing. The complex
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  • never said a word about the incident. We didn't have any more issues with noise out of them. About a month later, we saw a
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  • moving truck, and it was silent in that unit for a few months. I've never lived in an apartment complex since.
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