Man Killed Neighbor For Playing Same Song One Too Many Times

[Swede]

A Bulgarian man has been sentenced to 16 years prison for the murder of his neighbor, who he says played the same song, at top volume, constantly, for more than a week.

Croatian Times reports that 45-year-old Alexander Alexandrov snapped after hearing Robbie Williams sing Angels constantly played by neighbor Martin Kromov.


http://weinterrupt.com/2009/12/man-killed-neighbor-for-constantly-playing-same-song/

[closeupready]

1. On the one hand, it was wrong to kill his neighbor.

On the other hand, who hasn't been in the same kind of predicament? Seems almost like Gitmo style torture.

[marshall]

23. I thought of Gitmo too, as soon as I read this article

Of course this man probably just couldn't stand the music. What likely repelled the inmates at Gitmo was the image of Britney, Lil Kim, or Christina's gyrating pelviss and darting tongue.

[dmallind]

2. If this place were not so humor impaired.....

...I'd be tempted to just say "sounds like justifiable homicide to me" and NOT add the disclaimer "just kidding". Most places it would be obvious....

[superduperfarleft]

5. Robbie Williams?

Oh, this is definitely justified.

And I thought mine was bad with the same fucking Black Crowes song on repeat.

[dmallind]

11. See here's how I dealt with this in reality

It was a while ago, but it undoubtedly still works.

When I lived in apartments my next door neighbors were young student types who stayed up very late and often played loud music till the wee hours.

I asked politely for them to stop. When they did not I complained to management, who did teh form-letter and forget thing.

Now I'm an opera nut personally, so I borrowed a friend's powerful amplifier, turned my speakers to their wall, and got into the habit of playing a best of Maria Callas CD at about 240 watts per channel every morning at 7:00 am when I left for work.

Took five days tops. No more loud music when I needed to sleep. No more loud music when thy did...

[superduperfarleft]

18. That's what I'm saying.

If you're going to keep me up all night, you can damn well wake up with me in the morning.

[pipi_k]

20. You could have cut it down to three days....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoYrBdw-aDg


She's got a couple of CDs out for your listening enjoyment. :)

[niyad]

24. I did a similar thing in a similar situation--but not opera--stravinsky's "rite of spring" and the

"jupiter symphony" and various bach organ works. took three days.

[closeupready]

32. I call the police on my neighbors. Every time. Not dealing with their smartass

attitudes. And if that means the building's owners get hauled into court and fined thousands of dollars, serves THEM RIGHT.

What the FUCK are you doing splitting apartments into every smaller rooms and inviting 3 and 4 people to rent at a time? Sheez. Greedy-ass scumbags. :eyes:

[alfredo]

37. I had a neighbor who played the same Back Street Boy's CD

over and over again. Luckily he got transferred to another city.

Why can't assholes have good taste in music?

[hlthe2b]

8. Depends on the song...

:evilgrin:


Oh, come on, DUers... who here has not had momentary thoughts like this....! ;)

[kentuck]

3. I had to click on the post to see if it was "Margaritaville"...

:-)

[ShortnFiery]

6. Too Funny! I was checking for "The Achy Breaky Heart Song."

:puke:

[Echo In Light]

19. That one would send most into their final, spiraling *SNAP* lol

[xultar]

10. +1

[xchrom]

4. Now that's a reason for murder . Nt

[BeyondGeography]

7. The same song at top volume 2,000 times in a week or so?

I'd reduce that to manslaughter and recommend early parole with good behavior.

[ShortnFiery]

9. Here is the OFFENDING tune on iLike:

http://s0.ilike.com/play#Robbie+Williams:Angels:54519:s492295.9634903.12397731.0.2.45%2Cstd_0a3b518f82e94576869a8d7cf1d592fc

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. Played over and over for a week?

What took him so long?

[Maat]

34. Oh, that was torture.

Really torture.

[undeterred]

12. Was it "Don't Worry, Be Happy"?

Some of you may remember this miserable toy...Big Mouth Billy Bass

[Kahuna]

16. If we're still doing DUzys....

:rofl:

[TK421]

33. Oh fuck...I was trying to forget about that fucking thing!!!

x(

[sufrommich]

14. .....................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow

[pipi_k]

22. OMG how could I have forgotten that one...

Most obnoxious song ever...

[ima_sinnic]

15. reminds me of when I was a kid & neighbor continually blasted "Battle of New Orleans"

I think my mother might have lost it a couple of times, but we managed to restrain her ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsRK3DNoa_Q

hmmm, listening to it again, it's pretty toe-tappin', eh?

arrrgh, ear worm!

[HopeHoops]

17. I can see that. n/t

[TwilightGardener]

21. The only difference between him and the rest of us is follow-through.

[izquierdista]

25. Remember this the next time your are tempted to Rickroll someone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0&feature=related

[Javaman]

26. "I mean, damn, how many times can someone play Break On Through, by the Doors?"

I actually had a neighbor that did that, so I have a little sympathy for the killer.

[niyad]

27. one holiday season, worked in a place where the manager played the same damned (short) c/w cd 8hrs

straight, days in a row. pleading, threats, suggestions for other music, did nothing. finally I brought a portable player, and a lot of pagan music, and just kept playing it until the other stopped.

turnabout is fair play.

[dugaresa]

28. in this case the insanity defense is justified and would work

[MikeE]

29. If it was this song, I would consider it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81fwLNklSM

There is a great scne from the movie PCU where the faculty are locked in a room and this song is set on repeat. :evilgrin:

[TlalocW]

30. If this were ruled justifiable homicide (and happened in the US)

All DJs at 99% of all radio stations would have to fear for their lives.

The only problem I ever had with another person's music was in college. "Scoob," a white guy from Leavenworth, Kansas, who looked and acted exactly like the main character in the music video, "Pretty Fly for a White Guy," liked to share his hip-hop music with the rest of the floor of the dorm I lived in. I found two things that could beat that back and be more annoying: Mariachi Music (one of my majors was Spanish, and mom used to give me tapes of mariachi music... to inspire me), and music that had more bass... and as it turns out, Danny Elfman's songs from the movie, "Beetlejuice," had a shitload of bass.

Scoob soon learned to respect the rest of the floor.

TlalocW

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

31. ...

Panic on the streets of London
Panic on the streets of Birmingham
I wonder to myself
Could life ever be sane again?
The Leeds side-streets that you slip down
I wonder to myself
Hopes may rise on the Grasmere
But Honey Pie, you're not safe here
So you run down
To the safety of the town
But there's Panic on the streets of Carlisle
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
I wonder to myself

Burn down the disco
Hang the blasted DJ
Because the music they constantly play
Says nothing to me about my life
Hang the blasted DJ
Because the music they constantly play

On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down
Provincial towns you jog 'round
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ

[Violet_Crumble]

36. One of the best songs of all time in a thread full of mentions of crappy music

And I'd welcome a neighbour playing The Smiths constantly at full volume :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlH2oYedfk&feature=fvw

[sakabatou]

35. This is the song that never ends...

[thelordofhell]

38. Like Chris Rock says

Sure it's not right........but I understand.

[omega minimo]

39. Unforgiveable, unless it was a Journey song .............

'...WHEN THE LIGHTS, GODOWN, IN THE CITAY ......... IN THE BLAH BLAH, BY THE BAYEEEEEEEEEEE .. I WANNA BETHERE, IN MY CITAY ............ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOARCHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYEAYEYEEEEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEY"'