Neighbour problem

[JeremyB]

Hey guys

Well a few years ago I was in a biking accident which broke both wrists and pretty much put me out of playing hockey for a couple years. It was just too sore to shoot pucks and just thought about packing it in.

Fast forward to around July. I was outside cleaning up and found a nice spot in the backyard where I could shoot some pucks, just to see if I could build the strength back up. I gave the net a nice coat of paint and washed all the pucks that were in milk crates. I also have a niece piece of puckboard which is great for shooting off.

So I started doing some shooting today and my neighbour comes over to tell me that I'm being too loud and the sound of pucks being shot is annoying her ( they only moved in here a couple years ago ) I just disregarded it and she comes out later on saying isn't street hockey for kids not guys in there 30's. I was started to get peeved.

She's acting like I'm doing this at 5 in the morning. I don't say nothing when her husband comes home and guts fish on there picnic table

But the wrists felt good so I hope with doing this over the next couple months I might be able to get back to playing again.

It's my yard, I can shoot hockey pucks if I want right?

[Gotmadskillzson]

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During reasonable hours, yeah.

[JeremyB]

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Yeah that's what I think too

If I have off days I might go out at 10:30-11am or maybe before dinner at 4:00-4:30. I'm never out earlier then that and the latest I'm out there would maybe be 7

[55]

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Check with your local city hall or police department and ask what the hours for your city's noise ordinance are. In my particular city, the noise ordinance begins at 10:00 pm from Sunday through Thursday and at 11:00 pm on Friday and Saturday. It ends at 8:00 am every day.

As long as you are shooting pucks on your own property and it isn't during the hours where your city's noise ordinance isn't in effect, you are perfectly within your legal right to do what you want as long as it is within reason. Shooting pucks is certainly within reason.

[redsox4evur]

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Yea you should be fine. It's not like you are out there at like 3 AM. That is perfectly fine doing it at like 10 or 11 and at 4 in the afternoon. I would get a little peeved it was a weekend at 10 but during the week you should be fine.

[RockinDaMike]

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It's liken me being mad at people mowing the lawn at 9 am. It kinda pisses me off but I can't complain.

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[slickdtc]

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Tell her to drop the gloves if she got a problem.

No, seriously, you're all good. Neighbors are part of the deal of buying a home, and you're being reasonable. She can take a hike.

[Redacted01]

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Yea, unless you are being excessively loud (which goes above and beyond noise ordinances), you're good. Neighbors here played basketball until 9:30 PM when it got dark quite a bit until it got too hot/they got bored a couple weeks ago, but it's not against the law or anything. Unless your pucks are making sonic booms, nothing for you to worry about. She could technically call the cops, but if they even bothered to come out, I think they'd say you have nothing to worry about.

[Majingir]

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It's liken me being mad at people mowing the lawn at 9 am. It kinda pisses me off but I can't complain.

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9am? Nothing wrong with that.

Its the ones who do it before 8am on a weekend or before 7am on weekday that are annoying. Or after 8pm on weekday,9pm on weekends.

Not just mowing the lawn,but trimming hedge,or using any power tool,or hammering something. Annoying if its too early or late. Seems to happen more with city workers though in the case of powertools/heavy machinery. They start the second they're legally allowed to make noise,and go till as late too. Which is earlier(and later) than most people would think to make noise.

As for OP, maybe you could see if they got any acceptable time they wouldn't mind you doing that. Though the "street hockey is for kids" stuff sounds like they'll just be unreasonable no matter what. Cause they think if they believe something isnt normal,nobody should. I've known people like that. Impossible to deal with. If they think something is stupid,or shouldn't be happening,everyone should think that way too about stuff. They'll never understand that people are diff and their own opinions might not even be shared by the majority of people

Maybe make up excuse too,be like you're a hockey coach or something and you're just getting loose for your teams workouts,so then your neighbor might accept your playing hockey

[jack1535]

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Yeah there's nothing wrong with what you're doing. If you're going to live in a neighborhood people have to learn that there are things you deal with.

[cusefan74]

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The sound of pucks being shot is annoying her. I would just say I'm sorry and if she continued to bother me about it I would just say....tough!

[Sportsforever]

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...and here I thought I was going to read about the neighbor's wet dog.

[C the Lyte]

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...and here I thought I was going to read about the neighbor's wet dog.

I was thinking, this is starting to sound familiar...

[daflyboys]

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The sound of pucks being shot is annoying her. I would just say I'm sorry and if she continued to bother me about it I would just say....tough!

Problem with that is you gotta continue to live around these people for the foreseeable future. Honey vs. vinegar. Kill 'em with kindness.

Take a small item to the neighbors.... something small but meaningful. Just explain why you do when you do it (not that you're necessarily gonna change). MOST people are reasonable.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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What do you do when your neighbor has an overtly aggressive Yellow Lab that reminds you of Old Yeller moments before he was put down?