To the neighbors

Tuesday, April t7rh, 2OI2 Good Morning.

of initiating your band rehearsal last night shortly after 9 pm, which is precisely when my children are put to bed in order to attend school and pre-school (and after my son asked we come over to your house to complain, since you consistently start rehearsing right after he has been put to bed and is trying to go to sleep), your wife explicitly responded to me about how she doesn't care about the situation and how it is affecting my children, ancldenied thatyou were rehearsing until 11:00 pm the week prior on Wednesday April 4th. I was awake; moreover I documented it in real time on my computer. The only reason I did not bother with a nolse comp.rlaint was because obviously the rainstorm happening at the same time was nearly as much of a sound nuisance'as yourself, -which is why you presumed you'd just get away with keeping on playing as late as legally possible, more than doubling the sound nuisance. Both of my children were agitated.
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The wife residing at the above address put forward the ultimatum last night to call the police before I ever made any threat to do so, presumably in full understanding that by implication of the bylaw, her husband and his band are legally entitled to keep playing until 11:00 pm. I learned this bylaw time from the neighbors many months ago, implying they'd looked into it since they knew about it and responded to me that none of us had the power to make a complaint to the police. This put me in a position of assuming I was without recourse all these months. The message, however politely you might want to frame it is, "screw you, I don't care what our rehearsing is causing you, we are legally entitled to do this and will continue to do so,,. This was the officialverbal response on Monday night of the wife, so this in no way is an assumption, as lam the only complainant you've ever had to deal with. Despite being legally within the prescribed bounds of the bylaw, you are a public nuisance, and when call the police, I will have established the case for this. I have already had a teacher's meeting on her concern about llly son gettirrg adequate sleep in .ianuary. As of last week, this complaint has officially
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garnered the reply of how this is continuing to be caused by your band rehearsal, your utter lack of common consideration and your lack of common sense. When you have played over-late on weekends it was not my concern. When you are literally affecting my son's performance at school, then obviously it is. You consistently begin rehearsal at precisely the time school age children should be going (or are already in bed) for school by starting at 9 pm on week
nights on a consistent weekly basis, often commencing even later, as late as 10 pm. your children may not be affected yet, but you are surrounded by pre-school age and school age children for whom you

show absolutely no consideration, and I will document these addresses. The only reason you have escaped official complaint is because you have deliberately forced every neighbor you have to abide this situation by predicating your rehearsal times on the precise limit of what you can get away with under

the pretext of the existing bylaw. There are neighbors other than myself who, unless prohibited by the

understanding they were legally without power in this situation would have made cornplaints to the police months ago. lt will not stop me from lodging, and continuing to lodge complaints officially, as it is already official, as of last night and this letter, that you have refused to alter your rehearsal times, not even giving all due consideration to shift it to weekends, which would have been common sense. My reaction going forward depends on your conduct henceforward, and even if you happen to be exonerated in the eyes of the law (which based on my rational basis of complaint is unlikely), the

situation remains that by starting your rehearsals at 9 pm, in terms of the school age children who are your neighbors, you irrefutably are a public nuisance. lt is beyond comprehension in light of the existing
environs that you consider this rehearsal time appropriate. You are adversely affecting my son,s performance at school. You might even be able to be legally entitled to ignore what the police say about it, but you will face some measure of opprobrium, and there is always the consideration of taking my cornplaint to the neighborhood association as well. Thank you so much for setting the stage on how this
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waited in complaining to you until this is inescapably evident and has reached a head, -not before. It is a realexisting problem. I have waited untilyou presented the ultimatum of forcing me to go to the police with your utter lack of consideration. That your setting of bad rehearsal times was predicated on an utter lack of consideration for your neighbors was a pre-existing fact. Based on how you employed and avoided the by-law but were constantly at its limit (and you have broken it as well), the original assumption has always been basically "stick-it", as you were fully aware of the ages of the children who lived around you. That your wife's solution to the problem as of last night was for me to call the police, confident in the assumption that this will provide no recourse, is proof positive of your existing attitude. But it really is a bluff; it will not be entirely without consequence.
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The reason I did not confront the husband on this matter when I saw him on the front porch the week previous after April 3'd is because he was with his daughterJHad he not been, I most definitely would have. lt is not a matter of whether I am passive aggressive or not, but a question of limits of

tolerance. When this is a longstanding issue with his teacher and we are committed to bedtime before 9:00 pm and you force him beyond it and ignore him when he asks for you to stop twice in his pyjamas, this is beyond cornmon thresholds of tolerance. You have inflicted this situation on us the entire school year, and as you've developed a sense of impunity from the fact that you assumed no one could complain, it has only worsened. appreciate music very much. I would have loved to have been in a position to have asked if my children could have witnessed you rehearsing some time, but I would have had to pull them out of bed in their
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-nor obviously would I have ever been so presumptuous. I think it's great there are bands

rehearsing and playing in this neighborhood, just not when they're affecting my son scholastically. l,ve never had cause for complaint with the other band that plays two doors down on our opposite side, just

yours. Believe you me, I am fully phonetically aware of the fact that you are improving. lt is my son who is getting out of bed with this complaint, not me, and it is fully justified. I think the police will have a

little more consideration of his situation obviously than you currently do. He wants to go to sleep so he can perform well in school. Even if he wore ear plugs it would be too loud, and he doesn't like to wear

them, we have tried. I know you ade too loud (even with earplugs) from my own experience in attempting to go to sleep despite the fact that you are playing. Being on the second floor meansthere nothing to muffle the sound waves. By,starting at 9 pm and going until 10 pm, you are merely putting

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my son in the position of being forced to stay awake for approximately t hour as opposed to two hours. We are through with the additional frustration you cause to our daily lives. Thanks for another late

night. l'd suggest if you legitimately cannot rehearse at an appropriate hour in your residence/neighborhood, inquire with the Kenwood neighborhood association to find an appropriate venue; there is probably an existing solution. lf you want to call me in order to discuss this matter, my number is,trl":;##F'm not hiding behind anonymity; you'll know full well I called. on the contrary, you sliouici appreciate a final warning that I will be reacting as per your wife's instructions.

Best Regards,