How to deal with noisy neighbors? How to react when we have suspicions that something bad is happening behind the wall? These are dilemmas that accompany many apartment dwellers. We asked a few people from different cities about their worst experiences in this matter.
Dominika moved into a two-room apartment in Krakow with her friend less than half a year ago, but the neighbor next door is already giving her a hard time. – Silence all day, and at 11:00 pm, when I go to sleep, my neighbor starts his stories in a very loud voice. In addition, she laughs so loud that I can’t stand it anymore.
I recorded him a couple of times, I even visited him once, play him this recording so that he will be aware that I participate in his life
– he tells. He recalls that for a moment he sat stunned and did not speak. After a few seconds, he realized that he hadn’t realized it at all. – Of course, he laughed at the situation – adds Dominika.
“All the stench flies straight to us”
Agata, on the other hand, lives in a prefabricated block of flats in Warsaw’s Ursynów district. One of the larger, four-room apartments. She lives there with her husband and two preschool children. She associates this type of buildings primarily with the fact that the cardboard-thin walls do not protect against practically any sound. Neighbors open and close windows, slam doors in their apartment, talk, and you can hear everything in her house. She’s used to it. Worse, a neighbor who lives alone and regularly organizes general cleaning every few days. In the night.
“When it’s that night and we put the kids to bed, that’s where it starts,” he says. “I think he’s just moving furniture around and moving things around, but the noise is so relentless… it sounds like he’s throwing boards on the floor.” We usually intervene then. The husband goes upstairs, knocks, asks for silence, he seems to calm down, but in a few days the situation repeats itself. Again and again, she adds angrily.
And he points out that this is not all. The same neighbor also has a habit of smoking cigarettes on the balcony, especially now, in the spring and summer season. – I can’t even open the window for a moment, because all the stench flies straight to us, to the living room – the 41-year-old complains.
“We were woken up by a quarrel, we heard children crying”
A much more serious situation happened to Karolina about a year ago. A family with four children moved into the apartment above us. Adults talked to each other in a raised voice all day, but at first we thought it was just some kind of stress, etc. – he reports in an interview with woman.gazeta.pl.
I remember waking up to an argument at 2am. The man was throwing objects and yelling at his wife. We heard the cries of children who should feel safe. While we previously ignored the tense situation, this time we decided to react
– he tells.
She recalls that at the time her partner simply went upstairs and knocked on the door. No one answered, but suddenly there was silence. Unfortunately not for long.
A month later, the situation repeated itself. Then they argued during the day too. Once a man stopped me on the street and asked me how to get to the children’s hospital. He was with his daughter and he smelled of alcohol. He clearly had a drinking problem and was aggressive when drunk. When we wrote to the owner of their apartment, it turned out that the family was already moving out
says Carolina.
How to react when we hear a brawl behind the wall?
In a situation where we hear the sounds of a fight behind the wall, screaming and crying of a child – you should react ruthlessly. Of course, we all think about how to make our intervention effective and safe – both for the victims and for ourselves.
First of all – as the organization emphasizes – reacting to a brawl happening behind the wall is always a good step. “The perpetrator, seeing that the victim has support, may feel less confident and stop the violence. Reacting is a signal for him that he has exceeded the acceptable limits” – emphasize the activists. By reacting, we also show that we can guess what is going on with our neighbors and our attitude towards them is not indifferent.
The third, and by far the most important point is that our intervention can break the chain of domestic violence and start assistance proceduresthat victims may require.
You should react regardless of whether you know which neighbors are having a fight. The report is anonymous. So what can you do? You can call the police on 997 or 112, or the Blue Line – 800 120 002 and report an act of violence. All phone numbers listed are free and open 24/7.
You can also notify the social welfare center in the commune about the observed situation. The institution should then send the employee for an environmental interview.
If you know where it is – provide information about the location (house and flat number). If not, please provide an approximate location. You can report a case anonymously without providing your details. When reporting alarming sightings, be sure to provide the officer with as much facts as you can – what you hear
– Feminoteka emphasizes on its website.
Sources: https://feminoteka.pl
Source: Gazeta
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