Man Thinks Entire Neighborhood Needs To Pause Their Lives While He’s Getting His ‘Beauty Sleep’ During The Day, Receives Petty Revenge Instead
Reddit user u/itsnik_03, a man with a builder background, patiently endured his new neighbor’s house repair ruckus. However, once the renovations were over, the neighbor proved that he himself wasn’t so understanding.
The man suddenly became hypersensitive to any noise during the day as he worked night shifts. He even called the police for every minor disturbance, including barking dogs. So u/itsnik_03 took out his loud tools.
Continue scrolling to read his post on r/pettyrevenge where he describes what he did with them.
After one man started working nights, he tried to place the whole neighborhood under a curfew during the day
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But one local refused to put up with him
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The vast majority of communities have laws and ordinances that prohibit excessive, unnecessary, and unreasonable levels of noise.
These regulations usually set aside certain times of the day when there is supposed to be a general quietness. But in addition, many cities and towns also have some prohibitions on sustained noise levels above a certain decibel. Police often investigate these situations by placing a decibel meter near the property line and taking a reading over a period of time.
However, it’s hard to imagine that a friendly neighborhood with no fraternity houses in sight could cause havoc in the middle of the day.
Of course, we need to have sympathy for night workers. Due to our modern 24-hour society, nearly 15 million people in the United States work full-time night shifts, evening shifts, rotational shifts, or other such irregular schedules.
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And it can be hard to get quality rest when the sun is up. By evolutionary necessity, noise causes a potent stress response. We are more easily startled by unexpected sounds than by objects that come suddenly into our field of vision. Our nervous systems react to noises that are loud and abrupt (a backfiring engine), rumbling (airplanes), or whining and chaotic (leaf blowers, coffee grinders) by instructing our bodies to boost the heart rate, breathe less deeply, and release fight-or-flight hormones.
Still, you should probably first get a pair of noise-canceling headphones for sleeping before you start a war with all of your neighbors.
The story received plenty of reactions, and some people even shared their own similar experiences
I never knew that I must have stolen this from an Australian at some point 🤣 one of my favorites
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This reminds me of what someone on Nextdoor a few miles away from me recently asked everyone to “plan their lives better” so he could enjoy a quiet Sunday without the sound of power tools, lawnmowers, strimmers etc! However, as it was a sunny Sunday I had just finished cutting my own grass, this riled me, and wrote (what I thought) a very elegant reply enquiring whether he was retired, when does he cut his grass, is it during the week when others might be sleeping, or exasperated parents are trying to get their baby to nap and have a nap themselves? How in the UK we don’t know what the weather is going to be and have to take every opportunity when we are free and it’s dry to cut it, and he deleted the post! I was so disappointed!
You're lucky, I'm on Nextdoor too. Most of them by me seem to be conspiracy theorists, professional busy-bodies or just generally batshit crazy.
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Judging by some of the spelling, and the language, I'm guessing this is from an Australian. Fines for stuff here are outrageous.
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I never knew that I must have stolen this from an Australian at some point 🤣 one of my favorites
Load More Replies... This reminds me of what someone on Nextdoor a few miles away from me recently asked everyone to “plan their lives better” so he could enjoy a quiet Sunday without the sound of power tools, lawnmowers, strimmers etc! However, as it was a sunny Sunday I had just finished cutting my own grass, this riled me, and wrote (what I thought) a very elegant reply enquiring whether he was retired, when does he cut his grass, is it during the week when others might be sleeping, or exasperated parents are trying to get their baby to nap and have a nap themselves? How in the UK we don’t know what the weather is going to be and have to take every opportunity when we are free and it’s dry to cut it, and he deleted the post! I was so disappointed!
You're lucky, I'm on Nextdoor too. Most of them by me seem to be conspiracy theorists, professional busy-bodies or just generally batshit crazy.
Load More Replies... Judging by some of the spelling, and the language, I'm guessing this is from an Australian. Fines for stuff here are outrageous.
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