but I'll bet my life that nobody would be arsed to apply the law.
I'm talking about the family one road up from us...
the family that goes away every Christmas and New Year, every Easter, every Mayday, every Spring Bank Holiday, every Summer, every Late Summer Bank Holiday, most other weekends....
the family that never set their intruder alarm properly, so that it goes off all day and all night from their departure to their return...
the family that don't give a toss when someone "has a polite word with them" about it...
the family who are
SELFISH IGNORANT C*NTS
They know who they are.
And so do the people who are employed to uphold the law, but clearly don't.
THE SMALL(ish) PRINT... (updated 23/07/2016)
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It's a matter for your local council under Noise pollution legislation, the police won't get involved unless there is an actual burglary.
That might actually happen - I'm thinking of breaking in to steal their intruder alarm system.
Sadly, I've been considering the irony of my previous comment... an intruder alarm system which blares out before but not after the intrusion.
I need to get out more. But not around here - it's too noisy.
If you inform these people and they ignore it then I feel for all you folk. Sometimes I lose faith in humanity. I always leave a door key with a trusted neighbour for just these events., in case we have a power cut or God forbid an actual robbery. But my alarm shuts off after 20 minutes.
@BG! - @BG! -
When they get back you could then rub it in by telling them that you'd heard the alarm going off and just ignored it...