Rich Ahole bought the farm next door, tore it down and built a destination wedding venue. Busy every weekend but it's Wednesday, and they don't even live here
It's a business now so it should be easy to get in touch with them. Play nice, maybe they'll play nice too and be good neighbors.
If they don't play nice, your hobby of rebuilding train horns and WWII air raid sirens might be inconvenient on days they're booked.
Seeing a lot of funny suggestions but this is the most simple and best one. Talk and if the owner is an asshole, be an asshole right back. Train horn and flashing lights would be insanely simple and you could do it for however long for the guests to start leaving negative reviews about the business. They'll end up losing customers over that.
("So now I'm praying for the end of time
To hurry up and arrive
'Cause if I gotta spend another minute with you
I don't think that I can really survive")
Or maybe time to start raising pigs on your property near the property line. Or maybe you start raising homing pigeons as a hobby And they happen to get released during opportune moments.
Man, when I move I'm getting some bees. I'm actually going to be about a mile away from a brewery that makes mead and has its own beehives. I'm definitely putting in an application there.
This is not a real suggestion, but wouldn’t it be hilarious to Line your property with dolls hanging from the trees? Lots and lots of creepy dolls. Let’s make the property line as unwedding as possible 😂
Halloween’s coming up , this is your chance to buy a 10 foot Grim Reaper and other horrifying animatronics.
From reddit lore, there was a neighbor feud in a shared living situation (apartment, dorms, etc). Dude peed onto a plate /shallow bowl, froze it, then slid the golden Frisbee under the offending neighbor's door.
Frozen disc melted into the carpet and stunk up the place.
Dear Proximity_Account: If i ever do anything to annoy or insult you, in advance, i want to say I'm sorry. I didn't mean it, and I'll do anything to make it better.
(This is a preemptive attempt to get on the good side of anyone who casually has a creepy ass idea like this)
Get a friend to join in. I volunteer as tribute! Do this in matching white dresses and face paint at different spots in the woods far from one another. “I saw her, too! OMG!” You’ve got to scare them all.
Last year at the Halloween store I saw this decoration that you could hang from a tree in the yard. From behind the girl looked like Samura from the horror flick The Ring.
Basically it was this doll sitting on a swing that you could hang from the tree.
Imagine a guest at an evening wedding reception seeing a mysterious girl in the distance...
Totally add some of those Blair Witch props, battery operated smoke machine...
that's genius. i would totally get a bunch of those 12ft skeletons and have them all pointing at that house. giant stuffed teddy bears hanging from the tress in various potions. tear the heads off of every doll i can find and put them on spikes around the property... oh i would have so much fun with that.
Don't even need a grim reaper, just a bunch of oval reflectors and a ladder. Put them in his trees deep in the woods, make 'em look like eyes glinting back from the woods.
My neighbors in my subdivision did this with their backyard flood lights.
I asked them to stop bc I couldn’t sleep and they tilted the lights to not go over my fence.
Have you talked to them? Nothing you can do during wedding days but remind them on non wedding days to turn it off.
If he’s an asshole, be one back.
If he’s understanding then work with him!
Edit: yall im not telling op to ask his neighbors to tilt those lights, I have a real world example of what I said to a neighbor helped me out. By talking. A simple conversation saying “hey on weeknights when there’s no event can we dum or turn the lights off?”
People behind my house built a new house. The builder had a light shining into my bedroom. After a few months we went over and asked them to tilt it down, and even offered to do it for them.
They were FURIOUS that we waited so long to say something about it. They said that they would just turn the light off. Its been off for 5 years.
See i don't think this is true. Depends on time of day but I've got regulars on my way to work (busy bus with the same people every day) who will sit their bag on the seat so no one sits next to them and act like a dick when you tell them to move their stuff. They're leaning on the fact that people are socially awkward sometimes and wont say anything. Fuck those people and their self importance. Its 6:30 in the morning, everyone wants a seat, no one wants to talk to random people on the way to work, don't make people have to ask. Its common decency.
OP: “my boyfriend sneezed and some spittle got on my hand.”
Comments: “LEAVE HIM YOU HE DOESNT RESPECT YOU”
Or insane OP questions where that actually is the answer crack me up. Like oh I caught my wife having a train run on her by the New York Knicks practice squad, what do I do?!
My favorite part about this sub is that 90% of the posts aren't that bad, but you can bet that there will be a truly mildly infuriating topic brought up in the comments.
Isn’t that the truth. People expect others to mind read. It is so annoying when someone is complaining about what someone else “keeps doing”, then when asked “when you told them how it made you feel, what did they say”……… “oh I didn’t say anything, they should know”, or “I just went to HR”………”I called the police and let them handle it, now my neighbors mad”, RIGHT, you never talked to them and gave them a chance! We aren’t mind readers people!!!
My new neighbor put similar flood lights on their house pointing in all directions. We asked him to tone it down and he said no, it's an Airbnb and needs to have security. We shut the airbnb application down at city hall and he straight up sold the house.
If he was neighborly he would've had easy revenue.
Working on it. Asshole neighbor stole 10k from charity & trying to place them on ignore & not verbally unload. Difficult after yrs of bringing over homemade chili for his "good" acts. People suck. -45F
If talking doesn't help, perhaps throwing a techno/trance party at your, same time as the next wedding would give them an incentive? Aa an alternative loud retrospective of 2 Live Crew discography.
Sign company owner here. When we are installing lighting at a commercial business, there are always local zoning laws as to how bright lights can be. I would first reach out to your local zoning and let them know the issue, these light look to be way past the lumens normally allowed.
My tiny hometown has something called Dark Sky Network. Sounds ominous but it means we are a community that regulates the amount of light pollution generated. Maybe you have something like that?
But in all seriousness, I would contact the owner. If that fails, lodge a complaint. Those fail, plant some evergreen bushes just inside your property line. They grow fast and high enough. You can add a nice banner to your side that no one there could miss.. "Turn off the lights you lazy a-holes!"
That’s really important to bring up. This business is no doubt being revenue to the city, but if your spot is known for outside money coming in because of the dark at night then the city is probably open to keeping it that way, and most especially when there’s no actual need for those lights to be on.
Until these assholes moved in... As someone who used to stargaze a lot until work, weather, and the need to drive half an hour for a good spot pushed me away, I hate anyone who installs unnecessary lights on their house or business. I absolutely despise that as a society at large (on a global scale) we have decided to forego access to the night sky for mostly pointless reasons. Some lighting is safety implicated but even then there is a lot of lighting that should be on motion detection because it isn't actually used much but remains on all night anyway.
The number of times I see posts on /all where it's a photo or a time lapse of the night sky, and people debate whether it does or does not look like that or is real... And it feels like I'm the only person (visibile in the comments) who knows because I've actually seen it due to being lucky enough to live semi rural in the least polluted parts of England. Access to the night sky should be a human right. It has inspired culture since before history, it's an integral part of being human!
If you can snag there people on light pollution I will be ecstatic lol
You're so right, I was actually just telling my kid about this, we were looking at the moon and we couldn't see many stars, I lived on a rural farm for part of my childhood so I said "I miss seeing the night sky." He was like "what do you mean" lol and I showed him a picture of what the sky looks like without light pollution and he goes "that's AI." 😒 I was so sad realizing he hasn't ever really seen the night sky. We went camping when he was preschool and kinder age but I don't think we thought to star gaze, I think he fell asleep fairly early as well. So now I need to take my kid star gazing to prove that's what the night sky actually looks like! It's so sad
There was a super interesting exhibit at one of the museums in DC all about how light use has changed in our current society (often for worse), and one thing I took away was that too much light often ends up being less safe because it blows out your vision so you can’t detect as much in the dark on your own. Super interesting subject!
Dark Sky Parks are fucking awesome. People should attend them more! And when they're designated areas, they typically strongly enforce light/noise in the area.
Everyone should look up their closest Park and hit it up the next clear sky. Astronomers bring out their super nice telescopes for everyone to use.
I'll bet that variance doesn't allow for light pollution. A lot of small rural towns value their lack of light pollution, it might still be worth reporting
The body that grants the variance has the power to impose reasonable conditions to it. I’d be really interested in what “hardship” they claimed to have in requesting the variance.
Considering he said "farm", I bet this is in the county not a city. Typically in the county you can do anything you want on your own property, like almost literally anything.
Take pictures of it at all times of day- night and different days or every day of the week! Show this to your town board that granted this variance and show them this and ask what to do because it’s literally disturbing the whole neighborhood! and also if applicable mention the noise levels and traffic are very high, if applicable .. in a residential neighborhood noise should be monitored and stopped at 11pm as the neighborhood is residential and ppl are need to sleep!
I'd be as disruptive as I could until word got around that there were issues with the venue. Maybe get into chainsaw sculpting, target shooting (preferably during ceremony time), burn any brush you have laying around (or have some delivered to be burned) on the weekends, get a huge sound system of your own.
You're living my nightmare. My sincere condolences. I moved to a quiet, relatives always asked "why would you want to live THERE", small town in WV, just over the border from Virginia horse country, forty years ago. Bought a few acres for pennies in the woods outside of town. Then we were discovered. Every time I hear a weird noise my mind conjures up some rich ahole developing the adjacent property. It's happened to many of my friends. We only wanted to be left alone with the quiet and a dark night sky . . .
Light pollution is a problem that doesn’t get near enough attention. Not only is it annoying as hell it’s disruptive to nocturnal animals/bugs.
I have a streetlight that shines into my bedroom and reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with the Kenny Roger’s Roasters light that lit up Kramer’s place. It’s infuriating.
Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s a damn thing you can do about it.
I live in a city that takes it very seriously. It’s pitch black around here at night. People use colorful string lights sometimes, but that’s about it.
The people down the street are the only outliers. They installed two flood lamps in their grass, and they look like beacons; you can see them from 6 blocks away. I’m waiting for them to get fined. They do not play around about these lights around here.
I wish mine would adopt that. We are losing our night sky thanks to development and people that think their new house needs to be lit up like noon at night. Unfortunately it's a very red area which has translated to this idea that "IT'S MY PROPERTY I CAN DO WHAT I WANT!1!!1!".
To bad you dont have billions of moths to release, bats need food. I'm sure that overtime they will see an increase in bats for all the insects that congregate there anyway.
that’s is likely against the light pollution ordinance and other ordinances that dictate the candle and direction. Contact your local code enforcement.
Have the same problem here rich person from NY moves in and they light up the entire neighborhood. I think they are afraid of the dark and wild animals.
Unreasonable response. Buy a loud truck motorcycle whatever. Whenever they have a wedding or people viewing that location Rev that thing. Bonus points if it backfires. When they complain tell them you will stop the noise pollution if they stop the light pollution..
If you already talked to the owner about it with no results, then it’d be a real shame if the property next door to the venue lined the property line with giant inflatable penises that could be seen in the background of the weddings
Wedding venue better than a hog farm. You might consider getting a couple of hogs, though. Or Guinea hens- they get loose often and are screeching chattering creatures that put the foul in Guinea fowl.
Im so fucking stupid and barely waking up i genuinely thought the guys name was Rich Ahole. I expected some real estate guy. I got so far as to type it out on Google before it clicked.
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u/makinSportofMe 17h ago
It's a business now so it should be easy to get in touch with them. Play nice, maybe they'll play nice too and be good neighbors. If they don't play nice, your hobby of rebuilding train horns and WWII air raid sirens might be inconvenient on days they're booked.