I want to slap my neighbour silly

That's right. My upstairs neighbours, a french couple, has a daughter and the four year old child whether she is inside the apartment or not...screams and shrieks all day long, 24 hours a day, the whole week, including day and night...I hear the following sound :eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! And she sounds like a cat trapped under a car.
Here is what she sounds like:
4 year old child screaming
4 year old child screaming

call CPS. Maybe it's child abuse. Don't they ever let the "cat" out?

They do....when she sees me she stops screaming.

LiaB, you evil bitch!! What a good mother you will make. Don't ever ask me to impregnate you!
Shouldn't this thread be in the Family Life section?

There is young kid that lives in the block next to our, she cries every time she doesn't get her own way. Annoying as fuck as its all the time.

However, since when has it been not ok to slap French people?

Late at night, I'd be tempted to go up, knock on their door, and ask them oh-so politely to turn down the volume on their TV because you're trying to sleep. If they say it isn't the TV, act surprised and tell them you had assumed they were watching a horror movie with all that screaming.

i´d flog it stupid and strap a gag ball to it´s mouth.

Nice one, Bipa.

1) Talk to the parents about it. If they pretend not to understand point at the daughter and scream at the top of your voice and write 24h on their white walls with crimson lipstick.

2) Talk to the neighbors. If they are bothered as well, back to square 1).

3) Talk to CPS. My co-worker did this, they came around and knocked *some* sense into the parents.

Don't bother with the landlord, it's not his business.

Sort of along my line of thought...(comes naturally as a Canadian )

@Mapleleafdude,

having driven through ontario, seen the nice bi-lingual signs and then gone into Quebec province and listened to Canadian radio and seen the road signs there - I feel your right to slap them is even greater than (and I never thought I would say this) that of any Englishman

That's 55 seconds in my life I'll never get back. :-)
Now you know what I live with living across the street from a kindergarten.

A couple of years ago we lived in this beautiful ground floor appt in Munich, everything perfect except for the two little Ba§$%rds upstairs on the 1st floor.
They could'nt come into the stairway without shouting ,screaming and generally making a racket. I complained to the parents about them , " they're just kids " was the answer .
The house rules forbid kids playing on the staircase, I went out one day because of the noise , the older one (5), had his pants down taking a crap on the stairs, just next to the pool of pee he had let out! his brother (4) was sitting 2 steps higher knocking big dents in the Marble steps with his Dads hammer. They never even got a telling off from the so called parents. It got steadily worse, we ended up moving out because of them. It didn't matter who we complained to, we were "only renting the appt." whereas they had bought theirs .a case of one rule here , another one there.
I know exactly how you feel about slapping the neighbours kid, I was close a couple of times.

Dr Yes, that's quite 'shit' :-)

Its a shame you couldn't scoop the crap up in a bag and hand it over the parents, it belonged to their kids after all. It amazes me that the owners of the building didn't get involved, its a health and safety issue not to mention criminal damage.

The only advise I would have bee able to give was to ask the parents every time you saw them how their kids were doing and ask if they had become used to using the toilet yet rather than the stairs.

Its crazy that poeple have to move because they have some fuck-wits who cannot act like normal people.

The couple above my have a wee 3 year old girl. When she was a baby I was really impressed coz I never heard a thing from her. She was obviously a well behaved new born.

However in the past year she is making up for it. Every morning after her Dad goes to work the screaming begins with her screaming for her Dad, after her Dad on the stairl well, while I am trying to get my last hour or so of sleep. Evening time too when she returns with her Mum in the evening she bawls coz she doesn't want to go up the stair.

I totally sympathise.

"I love children, but I could never eat a whole one"

That was just one instance , I put some plants and stuff in the communal garden (basically right outside OUR terrace door ) looked out the window , the mother was stood chatting to the other neighbour, while those 2 shits were chopping all the plants down with sticks, I went out and shouted at them to bugger off and play on their own bit of garden , the mother just pets them up , and gives me a dirty look as if I'm at fault. If the parents don't pull their weight ,your fighting a lost cause .

As you say, its an uphill battle if the parents will not take action.

With the plant situation ally ou could do was walk up to mother and ask hf if she thinks it is ok for her kids to be cutting down the plants.

Other than that, the dreaded lawyer.

On the other side of the coin (having checked your profile like a proper stalker like) if we tried the talking approach where we come from (I am from the nice city with the castle and rather post uni just south-ish) it would prob involve a hospital visit...

shouldn't it say the silly parents rather than the silly child?

I agree, pm. Typical case of slap the parents.

Such kids should be seen and not heard, or better still not seen , not heard , tied up , gagged, aborted.

She was a Lawyer !... sort of put her 1-0 up .

well, at least her kids have sb to defend them in court, then, when they beat seniors in the ubahn on being asked to behave like normal human beings... :-P

sweetsilence, I would not dream of ... oh, you meant somebody. Please avoid SMS-speak here to prevent misunderstandings.
sb

LOL ROFL SB! LMAO!!!111

i would write a letter to your landlord (or whomever owns your building) saying that your neighbors are very noisey and could they have a word with them. i wouldn't necessarily mention that it's specifically the child.

the kid may have behavioral problems (or the parents) or a disability they are unaware of and this might push them to seek help for their child.

Seriously, candyland, the landlord is the last person to force the parents to control their kid. Sure, having them evicted would solve OP's problem but the kid would still be obnoxious and the parents still wouldn't do anything about it. If the kid has a behavior problem it would only be fair for the parents to inform their neighbors. They have not done this so chances are the kid is a common or garden brat and the parents shrug their shoulders the way the French do, drag on their Gauloises and say, "C'est la vie!" while opening a fresh bottle of petit rouge and airing their armpit hair. Whenever a child screams with temper or excess energy or pain its parents are at the bottom of it and they are the ones to control it.

the point would be to give the parents a warning. and then, yes they would get evicted. then there will be peace for the person who initiated this post. this would be the german way of dealing with the problem.

The non-confrontational way of hiding behind authority instead of dealing with it yourself. Neither the family causing the disturbance is German, nor is the disturbed poster. Do it your way, LiaB.

sorry, sarabyrd - though I'd rather shorten an impersonal 'somebody' than a real person's (nick)name...

But then, what's normal in this country?

if kids misbehave, basically you're screwed. all the legal stuff tends to favour the children, as their innocence needs to be protected, or some shit. the parents are the ones who need a beating.

i've got the same problem with my neighbours. the parents just say "well, they're kids. what do you expect?" then, due to german being my third language, I back down because I can't give it to them while pissed off - my mind freezes up.

i want to say "get a new wife, because she's shit as a mother" (turkish family), or at least "hey, Alter, es geht hier um Rucksicht..."

the kids just scream all day long, and they keep their windows open, even in winter. that pisses off germans even more, being so wasteful with their heating... i understand why turks in berlin get discriminated against, because despite being mostly very lovely, friendly people, you get the odd bad seeds who act like freakin farm animals, thereby giving the rest of the turks a bad name.