>>>>>I know a few years ago we had real neighbour noise problems. If I'd had access to a gun I could easily imagine getting to the point where I would have threatened someone with it and the its only a small step or an accident to actually shoot and kill someone.
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>>>>If you would even consider threating your neighbors with a gun because they are loud, you are a complete idiot.
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>>>From an incomplete idiot's point of view, there are kinds and levels of music that may make that idea attractive. Of course, when it was my turn to engage in such a fight, we actually joined them. One or two glorious weekends of our best music for free for the whole street - return the favor - and ours was louder.
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>>>Next weekend, without a word (music does speak for itself), we came to an understanding that de gustibus non est disputandum, and as much as they may not like the Zeppelin and Tom Waits, we may not like either turbo folk or islamic turbo folk. The street remained silent.
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>>Somebody doesn't like Tom Waits? You hang around with such cretins? ;)
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>I left the country, didn't I?

Ah. I missed the part where you said this was 'back home'.