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sojourner1

I was soundly sleeping and got woken by a scream in the night. These dumb asses have drinking parties all night long in front of my house on weeknights by the river, but are absent on weekends. There's a river access parking lot right in front of my house where selfish and inconsiderate people drink, eat, and leave all their litter while making a lot of noise in the middle of the night. Doesn't anyone care? I guess so, the police were called, but I'm not sure who called them.

5 minutes later after getting woke up, I noticed a police motorcycle flashing his red light pulling into my driveway and then just leaving, but not going into the river access lot. I ask myself, "why didn't he go down to the river road in front of the house?" I was trying to make my way outside in time to talk to him, but he was gone. He probably thought it was me yelling when he seen I had turned on all the lights after I had woke up. I then noticed a group of guys walking around outside laughing.

I get really pissed when woke up in the middle of the night. I'm considering telling my boss that we need to go to the police station to have a talk. I believe it's possible someone lied to the police and said I was yelling as they didn't go where the 3 groups of people were sitting in the lot having parties and they were in plain site. Koreans are sure tolerant ones who must keep the lube ready at times.

I know if this was my country, I'd be ready to fight as I was woke up by a honking car in the states in my driveway at 3AM and shot up out of that bed and outside with no pants ready to fight making threats and yelling. It really pizzes me off to be woke up by screwballs.

What's the deal? Don't they have to get up early? I"m sure they do as few work at night and if they did work at night, they would be at work right now.

yingwenlaoshi · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Location: ... location, location!

I dunno?

Throw eggs at them.

Passions · Joined: 31 May 2006

Go back to your country then?

PeteJB · Joined: 06 Jul 2007

Ear.

Plugs.

Lekker · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Location: Seoul

Tell them to shut up.

Draz · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

Look around for those 'safety shops'. There's usually one in any city. It's where the factory employees/bosses go to get safety equipment. You can see in the windows the fluorescent vests, gloves, steel toed boots, etc.

In there are some soundproof headphones just for keeping out sound. Like airport crew, shooters at a shooting range, jackhammer users wear.

If you wear earplugs, AND the 'jackhammer headphones' while you sleep I guarantee you won't hear a thing.

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

newteacher · Joined: 31 May 2007

I could say the same thing about foreigners in front of my place.

WoBW · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Location: HBC

orosee · Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Location: Hannam-dong, Seoul

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

With ear plugs AND jackhammer soundmuffs you need a special alarm clock to be able to hear it. The classic model alarm clock with the two big bells on top.

Draz · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Location: Land of Morning Clam

Jandar · Joined: 11 Jun 2008

I live in an apartment over a Soju Hof.

One night an old drunk was banging on the cage about 3am after the place was closed, and he was crying.

I threw a bucket of water out the window.

Hasn't happened again.

ardis · Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Location: Seoul

Uh, have NONE of you lived in a freaking metropolitan city before Seoul? Seoul is a city. A big one. People don't all go to bed by 9 pm or quietly read the paper in the living room. I went to bed hearing freaking gun shots in the US city I left, so...listening to a drunk ajusshi get in a fight isn't exactly stuff to start a "WHY ARE KOREANS SO ________" thread over. Christ.