What do you do when your neighbors are screaming late at night?

How bad are they screaming/ what are they screaming and how long have they been at it?

My mom and dad had a lot of late night screaming. I wish someone would have called the police. The end result was tragic.

I live in a civilized neighborhood, so thankfully I don’t have to deal with crap like this or any other neighborly problems. If I did I would call the police immediately; homie don’t play ‘dat.

Well, thankfully, he/she/they are done. One or both got in a car and left.

It just randomly started up…from my woefully uninformed perspective, it sounded like a bf/gf fighting, and for some reason there was another guy there. The bf was calling his girl all sorts of names. TBH, he sounded drunk.

So, if it happens again, would you call the police? Should I wait to see if it goes on for a while?

Call the police immediately if it’s late at night and a drunk guy is yelling at a woman. Immediately.

If it happens again, I’d give it a few minutes.
If it doesn’t stop, then I’d call the police and let them know.
They’ll check it out and warn them about being loud if nothing is seriously wrong.
This is a daily occurrence for my neighborhood.

If I could hear my neighbors screaming, there would be no doubt that some SERIOUS shit was going down. In space, and in my neck of the woods, no one can hear you scream. However, if I had neighbors who lived closer than a quarter of a mile away and I could hear their domestic disputes, I’d definitely call the police if it lasted more than a couple of minutes. Better safe than sorry.

@FutureMemory is right. Always call the police in a situation like that. Too many times many people hear something, always assuming that someone else will do something about it, then you hear on the news that someone died. Don’t even take the chance.

If it is going on long enough to get up and look out the window-call 911. I’ve called twice (2 different homes.

Midnight-I heard 2 guys yelling. I looked out and saw 2 guys beating another. As I called 911. I yelled out the window that I was calling the police to make them stop. By the time the police arrived they had taken off,

After 3 am-Doors slamming, screaming, baby crying 4 or 5 houses down, across the street. By the yime the police got there everything was quiet and I wasn’t sure which house ir was.

I hate drunken screaming at any time of day so yes I would call the cops.

I would call them because someone could be getting hurt, but also because I should not have to endure that in my home.

I sometimes hear the people who live above me through a heating pipe. They aren’t screaming, the sound just happens to travel well down this one pipe. I usually growl loudly at them, but once they heard me growling and growled back. Since then we have been communicating periodically through growls. Ah, the joys of knowing the people who live above you.

I live in a fairly crowded area with homeless people and junkies roaming at night. So it has to go on for a minute or two for me to call. If it’s someone who lives here and they are screaming/fighting then I call immediately because the police can find them. Junkies can disappear in a second flat.

@ekans that is so cool!

I had that happen once. It was accompanied slamming doors. I called the police. If I had a relationship with that neighbor that would have allowed me to call him and ask him to hold it down, I would have, but I knew he was prone to going to jail on a regular basis and he was a real jerk to everyone in the neighborhood, so calling the police seemed like the best bet.

Call the producers of COPS or cheaters lol to see what happens :P

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-Al Capone

Scream back, that’s what I did last weekend and it worked like a charm.

Please call the police. I just had a horrible flashback to the time when I was getting my ass kicked by a boyfriend, screaming for help, and nobody called the police. Get this…A group of teenage boys walked right down the hallway of the apartment building, past my open door, looked at me getting strangled and kept walking! All it would have taken was for one person in my building to pick up the phone and I would’ve been a lot less banged up by the end of the night. So yes, please call the police next time anything like that happens.

@ItalianPrincess1217 I would have jumped on the dude immediately had I seen that. How someone can not intervene, let alone not call the authorities is beyond me.

@FutureMemory It blows my mind too. I could never see something like that and keep walking. Especially when the girl is screaming “Call 911, help!” I just couldn’t believe it.

@ItalianPrincess1217 I did that once. I heard the lady next door getting beat up by her husband. My roommate and I went next door and told the guy to stop. He got in our faces and threatened to kill us. There was a little scuffle, then we left. He slammed the door in our face and began to beat her more.

We called the cops. The cops showed up and took the guy away for the night I am assuming.

Later that night the lady came to our door, knocked, we answered. I thought she would thank us for interjecting and calling the cops, because she was safe for the night.

She did not. She went off on both of us for about 20 minutes. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was so stunned. But I know it began with “You need to mind your own Fing business”

To this day my friend Bill and I still talk about this and wonder what we did wrong. We tried to help and we get yelled at for it? It was obvious she was in trouble.

I really don’t get it. Stockholm syndrome maybe?

practice noise cancellation stuff. buy a recorder then record scream1 okey then the next time they scream you have the option to record scream 2 or play back scream 1.

@mowens Definite Stockholm Syndrome. You did the right thing. Imagine if you later found out that the woman was beaten to death and you did nothing to help? Yikes. Women who are in abusive relationships tend to stick up for their abusers so when the cops showed she probably felt sorry for him (even though she just had her ass beat). It’s twisted, I know. But I would have given anything to have someone like you in my apartment building that night!

They usually only yelled at each other, and I could understand most of it. I just shut my window, and felt sorry for the kids. He eventually moved out, and both of the girls ended up getting pregnant in their teens and are living at home with their Mom and their kids. Now they and their mother yell at each other a lot. It’s just normal for their family, I guess.

If I heard screaming, I would listen for the ambulance. Since there is really no way of knowing what is happening, I don’t see any point in calling the police. I would have to be a lot more familiar with the situation before I would do that.