Well if the parents do start to discipline their children, then someone will call Child protective services and arrest the parents for that. The parents should sue the couple for harassment and stalking. I mean if you have to result to "recording" the noise that kids make then something is wrong with you. Can you just record someone without their knowledge? I mean in the school systems you have to get written permission to photograph or video tape a child. This guy sounds very stalkerish.

6/22/2007 8:54:02 AM

well if it's Long Island, it's not like he's walking through the woods to do this...the houses are practically on top of each other.

6/22/2007 8:55:09 AM

I think it has less to do with the noise than the parents refusal to compromise with their neighbor.

6/22/2007 9:08:48 AM

Yeah, I mean it couldn't have been the neighbor's refusal to be reasonable.

6/22/2007 9:13:10 AM

They were reasonable. They approached the parents and others mutilple time with no resolution.

I wonder if there were multiple neighbors named though, it says that neighbor's wife is one of the complainants, indicating more.

6/22/2007 9:20:10 AM

Oh, so now we know that the neighbor was being reasonable? How do you know they aren't of the "keep off the grass or we'll call the cops" ilk? For all you or anyone else knows these could just be typical, everyday 5 and 11 year olds making typical 5 and 11 year old noises at typical 5 and 11 year old volumes and the neighbor is just being a jerk.

But yeah, continue on with the parents parents parents stuff.

[Edited on June 22, 2007 at 9:37 AM. Reason : -]

6/22/2007 9:30:32 AM

He asked them to keep the noise down for three years before he called the cops? He has the patience of a saint!

6/22/2007 11:02:44 AM

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"this is ridiculous. kids play. they are loud. when they are playing loudly in an appropriate area, get the fuck over it."

Obviously, you have never been around two screeching little girls for hours on end. You have no idea what kind of noise levels they are capable of.

6/22/2007 11:07:27 AM

So the parents have rights, but the neighbor does not? Yeah, indeed.

6/22/2007 11:35:12 AM

Quote :

"So you're saying that the average maturity level of a college student at a party is roughly equal to the average maturity level of an 8 year old. "

I'm saying the average maturity level of a college student at a party is greater than 43 year old Rachel Poczatek.

6/22/2007 6:00:12 PM

Quote :

"Obviously, you have never been around two screeching little girls for hours on end. You have no idea what kind of noise levels they are capable of."

Obviously, you didn't even read my response to that same statement:

Quote :

"Actually, I have. I don't have a stick up my ass, though: I know the difference between kids making normal noise and kids being brats because their parents are undisciplinary dickwads."

6/22/2007 7:46:05 PM

thread starter doesn't know what a rhetorical question is.

6/22/2007 7:46:56 PM

I do understand what a rhetorical question is. However, by asking it she is showing she doesn't know how to control her kids.

6/22/2007 9:36:16 PM

she should learn how to control her neighbors instead.

6/23/2007 10:39:34 AM