I have two young children. When the scream they get one warning. The next time they scream they lose their outdoor time. Period. These are parents who either don’t give a crap about anyone else, or are obnoxious and loud as well. Either way, they should face fines for this. Nothing is more annoying than screaming kids, except perhaps loud barking dogs.
If the township allows them to build the pool in the first place, then so be it.
Probably, these homes are too close together.
Sounds like a mix of people who think they have money and those gronala types thinking they live in a quiet paradise.
This could have been fixed with a boom box and some hip-hop noise.
Sounds as if the parents have decided that they don’t have to do anything to control the kids. If these kids are allowed to behave as they please now I’m sure they will make wonderful neighbors for others some day.
I’m surprised at all the FReepers who think it’s ok to be linguine spined and not have a good time in your own backyard, especially one with a swimming pool.
The issue here is obtrusive government rules/ordinances and laws telling us how we WILL live, not two kids ages 5 and 11 having a good time that causes a neighbor to go anal about it.
I don’t think there is enough info here for me to make a decision. I like kids, and I raised 4 of my own, but in our old neighborhood there were many times when we could not enjoy our deck because of kids screaming while playing in their pools. We, however, never would have complained about it, especially since, during the week, the screaming usually stopped after dark. Weekends were loud until way after dark, but we were usually away. Now, thank heavens, we live in an area where the loudest sound we hear as we sit on our back porch in the evening is the singing of the birds.
I suspect that the biggest problem is that the houses are too close together and there are not enough trees and shrubs to dampen the noise.
I think this is ridiculous, and I don’t like kids.
Kids are nothin’ compared to the freakin idiots with their loud-ass Harleys and muffler-less cars in our neighborhood. Talk about annoying.
The noises of happy, playful kids is one the world’s delights. The noises of loud, obnoxious kids can be torment.
Take for example our neighbors’ kids. The girl just shrieks and screams for no reason. She has for years. We used to check to make sure she was okay, but we stopped long ago. We’ve learned to tune her out—for the most part.
Their oldest son used to smoke cigarettes between the fences and throw apples at the hobbit lass and her dog. He's moved out now, but alas, the longer ones are just as bad.
My neighbors have a pool, and their kids are the loudest, most obnoxious people I’ve ever had to tolerate.
One night, I heard frantic splashing in the pool, and one of the kids screaming for help. It was a shrill, panicked scream. I ran over to save her, and had to fumble with the latch on the gate. I was yelling to let her know I was on my way. It got deadly silent, and I just knew she had slipped under the water. When I got into the pool area, there was the little girl and her daddy, being very quiet. The dad told me they had just been playing. Not once during my panic did they tell me everything was okay.
That’s when I learned to tune them out.
They’re now young adults, still living at home, and worse than they were when they were children. They have bonfires under the trees, with up to 30 of their devil worshipping friends, chanting incantations. It’s little more than annoying to me now.
I have sympathy with BOTH sides here. Kids should be allowed to play and have fun, they’re kids.
On the other hand, our good weather months have been made miserable by the across the street neighbor boys and their friends who spend HOURS in the street on bikes and skateboards making a huge racket and taking their SWEET old time getting out of the street when we are trying to drive to our house (live on a one-way street, so no avoiding them). Hubby even ran over one of their skateboards left in the street one night. So I understand the frustration. In the house, we close our windows so as not to hear all the noise. But I certainly wouldn’t want them to go to jail for it. There really aren’t safe places to play anymore, except right at home.
The enlightened Democrap New Yorkers at it again. LOL.
Maybe they can get the Hildebeast to mediate.
After all it takes a village...
Are these the same parents who let their darlings stand/prance/wander obliviously around the grocery store aisles? The parents who are well aware of approaching shoppers, yet do nothing to instill situational awareness and good manners into their offspring? The parents who wait until other shoppers must attempt to navigate around the clueless child, before they will take action (if they do at all)?
Must be the same people who step into crosswalks without looking and/or without any consideration to motorists, confident in a pedestrian’s right-of-way. No wonder Darwin never sleeps.
At the first complaint, I would have invited them over to swim, maybe some neighborly friendliness could have averted this nonsense. Once they got to know the kids, and had a good time themselves, their attitudes may have changed. One could hope, at least.
What sort of screaming? To me, the sound of children having fun is a joyful noise—and I work odd hours.