JohnyCaige
New Member
Claymont, Delaware, USA (New Castle County)
I am a 26 year old African-American male, who's lived in my apartment since 2002. In 2007, an African-American family of 2 (Mother 38? and Daughter 17) moved in apartment above me. It wasn't until then that I noticed how thin and non-private our walls are (particularly my ceiling)...
- February 2008 - Daughter has parties where friends are running & jumping.
I type and deliver a kind letter to the Mother asking her to remind her daughter that there's a family that lives under them and to please be mindful. But the mother scoffs at me...later the running & jumping continues, so I type another kind letter to the mother...
- The next week, the daughter has a "jumping party" while the mother is at work (I literally overheard kids challenging each other on how hard each can jump). CRASH...CRASH...CRASH...laughing!
I call the Police...and type a letter to the main office of our apartment community to complain. Following my actions, the parties stop indefinitely...but this causes another problem.
- Every night since the preceeding events, the daughter (who's room is directly above mine) would stomp and jump whenever she realized I'm in my room below.
So each time this occurred I typed a letter to the office to complain and ask for their eviction...But the office only gives written warnings to the mother. And these complains have only spurred the daughter on to perform even more harrassment.
- In the past 2 months, the daughter waits until I retire to bed and perform one massive jump above me...one every 2 hrs, every night this summer. During the day (I work at home so I'm home 70% of the week) she follows me through each corresponding room above the room I'm in and - once I'm settled - drops what sounds like a small heavy object on their hard wood floor right above me continuously until I move to another room..only for it to continue else where.
On several occasions, I called the police...but whenever I did the daughter would listen in through our walls (yeah, they're THAT thin) and immediately pretend to be asleep at night...or during the day, immediately leave her home. When Law enforcement arrives, if the mother's home she opens the door and defends her daughter, claiming "we're only walking in the natural course of living in our home".
The police informed me that they also have to catch the family in the act of this "stomping harrassment" so I should try to call them as descretely as possible, but how can I when my bed creeks, my door squeeks, my floor cracks, and they can hear my phone conversations...so I decided to move out of my home of 5+ years to another building.
I'm under a lot of stress and now I have no peace of mind. This constant harrassment has gotten to me so much so that I'm actually considering seriously hurting these 2 women (which is a bad sign once one starts thinking this way)...but then I would be in trouble as a man assulting both a minor and a female (something which I believe they know and take advantage of). I hate them.
Is there anything I can legally do to stop this harrassment, besides running away or killing them...so I and at least get a bit of justice?
It would seem that the law "restricts" those who try to abide by it, and "allows" others (who don't give a damn) to do whatever they want.
Please help me...
I am a 26 year old African-American male, who's lived in my apartment since 2002. In 2007, an African-American family of 2 (Mother 38? and Daughter 17) moved in apartment above me. It wasn't until then that I noticed how thin and non-private our walls are (particularly my ceiling)...
- February 2008 - Daughter has parties where friends are running & jumping.
I type and deliver a kind letter to the Mother asking her to remind her daughter that there's a family that lives under them and to please be mindful. But the mother scoffs at me...later the running & jumping continues, so I type another kind letter to the mother...
- The next week, the daughter has a "jumping party" while the mother is at work (I literally overheard kids challenging each other on how hard each can jump). CRASH...CRASH...CRASH...laughing!
I call the Police...and type a letter to the main office of our apartment community to complain. Following my actions, the parties stop indefinitely...but this causes another problem.
- Every night since the preceeding events, the daughter (who's room is directly above mine) would stomp and jump whenever she realized I'm in my room below.
So each time this occurred I typed a letter to the office to complain and ask for their eviction...But the office only gives written warnings to the mother. And these complains have only spurred the daughter on to perform even more harrassment.
- In the past 2 months, the daughter waits until I retire to bed and perform one massive jump above me...one every 2 hrs, every night this summer. During the day (I work at home so I'm home 70% of the week) she follows me through each corresponding room above the room I'm in and - once I'm settled - drops what sounds like a small heavy object on their hard wood floor right above me continuously until I move to another room..only for it to continue else where.
On several occasions, I called the police...but whenever I did the daughter would listen in through our walls (yeah, they're THAT thin) and immediately pretend to be asleep at night...or during the day, immediately leave her home. When Law enforcement arrives, if the mother's home she opens the door and defends her daughter, claiming "we're only walking in the natural course of living in our home".
The police informed me that they also have to catch the family in the act of this "stomping harrassment" so I should try to call them as descretely as possible, but how can I when my bed creeks, my door squeeks, my floor cracks, and they can hear my phone conversations...so I decided to move out of my home of 5+ years to another building.
I'm under a lot of stress and now I have no peace of mind. This constant harrassment has gotten to me so much so that I'm actually considering seriously hurting these 2 women (which is a bad sign once one starts thinking this way)...but then I would be in trouble as a man assulting both a minor and a female (something which I believe they know and take advantage of). I hate them.
Is there anything I can legally do to stop this harrassment, besides running away or killing them...so I and at least get a bit of justice?
It would seem that the law "restricts" those who try to abide by it, and "allows" others (who don't give a damn) to do whatever they want.
Please help me...
