Bad Techno

In further neighbor news, the new deadbeat-downstairs-neighbor has taken to playing bad techno music as loud as his stereo goes until the wee hours of the morning. The music is so loud, in fact, that he could not hear me pounding on his door for 15 minutes at 3 in the morning. It was so loud that it made my floor vibrate and gave me the experience of walking on a bouncy trampoline as I made my barefoot way to the phone to file the second noise complaint of the evening. (OK...the commercials don't tell you have UNhelpful the 311 operators really are).

'Ah,' you may say, 'get some earplugs and you'll be fine.' Been there, done that, doesn't work - the music was so loud that I could still feel the beat surging up from beneath me. So - what could I do but take a sleeping pill ... drugs solve everything, don't they?

Apparently my downstairs neighbor had the same idea. When I confronted him today, he told me that he had done a lot of drugs and passed out (why he had not heard me knocking) with the music blasting. Sadly, I believed him - swollen eyes at 8 in the evening and all. Even more sadly, his music has been playing til 4 or 5 in the morning every night this week. That's quite a drug trip.

Actually, the music is playing even now. Any advice on how to deal with the situation?

Sincerely,
Sleepless in Manhattan