This document provides 5 ways to stop neighborhood noise through involving neighbors: 1. Encourage kids to play soccer near loud music equipment to potentially damage it. 2. Agree with neighbors to picket loudly singing neighbors at night to demand they stop. 3. Do unpleasant acts like reciting poems when neighbors sing to discourage the association. 4. Buy a dog or chicken that will bark every time loud singing occurs to disturb sleeping neighbors. 5. Intermittently reward neighbors for singing then suddenly stop to reduce their interest.

1. Stop Neighborhood Noise
Five Ways to Do It…. And Involve The
Neighborhood Too
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2. Smash
1. Play a street soccer game with the kids while the neighbors are singing and
the radio or videoke (sing-along) machine is in use.Just hope that any of the
kids kick the ball to the radio or videoke machine, which will get smashed.

3. Picket
2. Agree with some progressive-thinking neighbors that every time someone
sings loudly at night, thus preventing most people rom sleeping, all of you will
rush to the errant person's doorstep and demand to stop the singing.

4. Act Crazy
3. Do unpleasant stuff while the neighbors are singing, such as declaiming
poems from E.E. Cummings or repeating a news report again and again. (Then
when someone asks you why, tell them it's for school and for the good of
their children.) They may stop singing because of the association with stuff
they find unpleasant.

5. Alarm
4. Buy a dog who will bark incessantly every time someone sings loud enough
to distract people who are already asleep. (Or buy a chicken instead.)

6. Bait & Switch
5. Give neighbors a reward for singing (such as a few candies) while explicitly
stating that the rewards are for their good singing. Do so a few times, then
withdraw the rewards suddenly. That ought to be a good way to suddenly sap
off their interest in singing.