Holidays notwithstanding, a question.

[mandolin]

When your upstairs neighbor leaves his apartment and his alarm starts blaring for three hours without showing any signs of stopping, when (if ever) are you within your right to call the cops?

Because if he's gone all weekend with that sucker blasting, I'm not going to get ANY sleep, earplugs notwithstanding.

Guh.

Edit: Never mind, the damn thing finally shut off.

*thunk*

Comments

[mommie-geek.livejournal.com]

I would say that you're within your rights within that three hours. I mean, if he's going to be gone all weekend, the cops might be the only way to get the super in there and turn the darn thing off.

Fairly soon

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

It's a burglar alarm, right? What if its' going off because there's an actual burglar?

So really, if it's on more than a minute or two and you know he's out of town, call the cops. What's the worst that can happen? They wake up the super to turn it off 'cause there's no burglar?

Alternately, someone broke into the apartment, the cops show up and...

Wait? Do you mean alarm clock? I'd say after about ten minutes you can certainly call the super and complain.

Re: Fairly soon

[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

Alarm clock. And maintenance is off today. I don't think asking them to come and turn his alarm clock off qualifies as emergency maintenance, so I didn't call the emergency number. :)

No worries, I didn't hear anything again after 9:45.

Re: Fairly soon

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

This was the advantage of the resident manager--if they were home, they'd go do that. Took 30 seconds. :)

[violetbloom.livejournal.com]

I think you are well within your rights to cut a hole in his floor, pull yourself into his appartment and beat his alarm clock to smitherines with a hammer.

[kahva.livejournal.com]

Now that's MY kind of solution!! Perhaps not the most legally prudent solution, but I like it! :)

Too bad I can't do that when the on-air servers and our archive decide to have selective amnesia and spaz out. I've told the guys here on several occasions to just let me take a sledgehammer and put this stuff out of our misery...

Hope the alarm clock doesn't go off anymore!