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Nov. 7th, 2004 09:09 pm
[personal profile] ewt
I may have complained on here before about our neighbours, who have access to our flat through a fire door which should technically be locked but the crap adminstration don't seem to have a working key. A few times a week they come in, make noise, make a bit of a mess, and leave again. This bothers other people more than it bothers me, for the most part, but it's not something I'm happy about and I have complained to the administration several times now in an attempt to gain some semblance of sanity.

Last night said neighbours came in and decided to empty a fire extinguisher in our kitchen. This finally calmed down at 1 or 2am. At just past 3am some dolt pulled a fire alarm. I had to be up at 6 to get ready to teach wash the bicarb off my dishes and get ready to teach. I left just past 7am and taught and busked and taught again all day and only got in at 19.30-ish. This is what Sundays are like for me, exhausting at best, but I normally do them on more than 2.5 hours of sleep.

We'll be going to Student Services at the college tomorrow (AGAIN) to complain about this. Last time someone did this the neighbours in question got a stern talking to, but I'm afraid that isn't going to suffice this time. I'm not going to back down until they've done something about the door or removed the offending neighbours or both. This is my HOME and I don't particularly appreciate having my kitchen vandalised. If they were going to vandalise the kitchen couldn't they at least do some interesting stencil-graffiti or something? But no, as [livejournal.com profile] pfy rightly mentioned, when they were that drunk, emptying a fire extinguisher was probably the most meaningful form of self-expression they could think of. Anyway what I think would be ideal is if the fire door were locked with one of those little key-in-a-glass-box things - then every time they trespass they can be fined for the nuisance value, and it will be obvious it was them because the key-ina-box on our side will be intact. Second to that would be an alarm on the door when it opens. Really nice would be permission for gratuitous violence, but... well, no, I don't think I'd enjoy that as much as I currently think I would, and it wouldn't really be a long-term solution.

Thankfully my students today were all angels.

Date: 2004-11-07 06:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] polychromatic22.livejournal.com
I think I've seen travel alarms sold where you hang them on doorknobs, and they go off if the door's opened. Maybe sold somewhere they specialize in travel? Could do a google search...

Date: 2004-11-08 12:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ewtikins.livejournal.com
This is a good idea but I am loathe to do it in principle - the administrators of the building have a responsibility to make sure people cannot get into flats they shouldn't, and they have spectacularly failed to deal with it so far, and the result has been that we have been subject to this sort of nuisance. My current plan is to use every administrative power available to me to make life miserable, both for our neighbours and for the people who should have fixed the access problems within a day or so of our moving in.

I will keep it in mind, though.

Date: 2004-11-08 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wintrmute.livejournal.com
I think I've seen travel alarms sold where you hang them on doorknobs

you can buy em in maplins..

Date: 2004-11-07 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pplfichi.livejournal.com
Oh FFS >:(
Wire the handle to a high voltage supply, and turn it on around chucking out time from pubs and clubs... That should keep em out ;)

Seriously, they should be fined out of their deposit for tyhe vanadlism, that's how they did it in the halls I stayed in (though it still didn't stop one lot from completely trashing an entire floor, then flooding it, which meant that they killed power for everyone by virtur of flooding the electrical instalation for the building. Whooops...)

Date: 2004-11-08 04:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilythia.livejournal.com
What a mess! I hope that the adminstration will start doing their job and take care of this for you!

Date: 2004-11-08 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wintrmute.livejournal.com
that's unbelieveable; any decent administration would have your neighbours out on their ear in seconds!

...

have you considered waiting until they are out, then wandering in and emptying their fire extinguishers all over their rooms?

I know eye-for-an-eye isn't a very good way to behave, but perhaps they might just take the hint :/

Date: 2004-11-09 12:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ewtikins.livejournal.com
I'm attempting to set into action a full-scale administrative LARTing. This probably works better than just about anything else, once it can be set into motion.

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