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cgod  ·  2859 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: At what point is it fine to complain or ask a neighbor to turn down the stereo?

I can deal with music noise up to a point.

I had a neighbor that would leave his dog in the yard to bark for 10-12 hour stretches, sometimes overnight. That fucking dog would bark loudly every 5-10 minutes.

It made me insane. I tried to talk to him about it with civility but he wasn't listening. I got less civil.

He was convinced that I was giving him a hard time about his dog because he was a gay guy that liked to cross dress. I couldn't give a fuck about his or anyone elses sexual or sartorial proclivities, I just wanted to not listen to his shitty dog all my waking moments.

It was a strange scene, a half made up drag queen, screaming at me about being a bigot while I begged him to just put his fucking dog in at night.

I actually considered killing the dog at one point.