hopkins_student
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About two weeks ago I purchased a subwoofer for my stereo. This caused a disturbance to my neighbor below, and understandably so, of which I was unaware. She asked our apartment managers how she should handle it and if they could mention to me that it was bothering her. My apartment manger told her that the best option was to call the police and file a noise complaint. So last night around 7 a friend of mine came over and to play Rock Band and about an hour later we got a knock on the door from the Pasadena PD to issue a noise complaint and explain to me that if they ever have to come back I will be arrested.
My issue is not with my neighbor, although I imagine any independently thinking person would realize that calling the police for something so simple is a bit of overkill and would knock on the person's door to explain the problem, but is more with my apartment management. I'm not sure if it's laziness or just some sort of dumb passive-aggressive thing they've got going on, but it seems like it should be their job to handle minor issues within the apartment rather than immediately elevating it to the level where the police should become involved. Does anyone think this is worth a call to the human resources department of the company that owns this apartment, so that they have some idea that their management isn't really managing, just handing things off to others to manage inappropriately?
Also, can you truly be arrested for a noise complaint? I would have thought that that was a situation where a fine would be issued. I was also under the impression that noise violations were pretty much limited to nighttime hours (eg, after 10PM), is this not usually the case?
My issue is not with my neighbor, although I imagine any independently thinking person would realize that calling the police for something so simple is a bit of overkill and would knock on the person's door to explain the problem, but is more with my apartment management. I'm not sure if it's laziness or just some sort of dumb passive-aggressive thing they've got going on, but it seems like it should be their job to handle minor issues within the apartment rather than immediately elevating it to the level where the police should become involved. Does anyone think this is worth a call to the human resources department of the company that owns this apartment, so that they have some idea that their management isn't really managing, just handing things off to others to manage inappropriately?
Also, can you truly be arrested for a noise complaint? I would have thought that that was a situation where a fine would be issued. I was also under the impression that noise violations were pretty much limited to nighttime hours (eg, after 10PM), is this not usually the case?