Surprising response to question about calling police over loud parties
Hundreds have shared hilarious suggestions on how people should deal with disturbingly loud parties next door.
A Victoria Police Facebook poll asking whether people should report raucous celebrations attracted a number of surprising responses, with almost half saying they would not complain about partygoers.
Surprisingly, many said they would hold off calling the police if it was an isolated incident and not getting out of hand.
“If it’s not every night and during the week when you have to work the next morning, let them have fun, and do not call the police,” one said.
“If it’s once in a blue moon it’s fine by me. I actually open the windows so I can hear the music better. Or otherwise put the shutters down and ear plugs,” another said.
“Live and let live I say. Why ruin someone else’s fun?”
Another patient resident said if it was rare and on a weekend “leave them be”.
“Let them have fun,” she said.
Others bothered by parties had some clever ideas for shutting them down that did not require getting the police involved.
"If you can't sleep and it's 12.15am, yes, unless you own a loud V8 and tools of the trade then it's karma at 7.30am," one commented.
"Got to tune that V8, lawns mowed and you need radio while you work."
Another said: “That’s when you start the whipper snipper at 7 the next morning.”
“Wiggles music on full blast at 6am following all parties usually fixes the problem,” one joked.
Victoria Police told Yahoo News if they were called to an address after reports of a noise complaint, they could ask a resident to reduce sound to acceptable levels.
“If the resident fails to lower the noise, or if they lower the noise and it picks up again after police leave, we can issue an infringement notice for ‘fail to obey police direction to abate residential noise’ which carries a fine of $806,” police said.
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