Reply #5: Two wrongs don't make a right [View All]

[HamdenRice]

I just have a thing against this approach, which in law is called "self help". When I lived in an apartment, I had a noisy upstairs neighbor and tried this, and all that happens is escalating noise attacks and no one gets sleep.

In a residential neighborhood, I would end up disturbing people other than them and who have no dog in this fight. Well actually they do, because they are complaining privately also.

Now that I am back in my old neighborhood, I think embarassment and humiliation of the "newcomer" would work better, backed up by resort to the authorities. But I'm open to pursuasion.