Neighbor advice: Help! My neighbor turned their truck into a boombox. So I took matters into my own hands.

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Hey Prudence,

Re Dire Dog Debacle: I actually enjoy dog noise—I’m weird—but I can’t stand my neighbor blasting their music at three in the afternoon for the umpteenth time. So I had to take matters into my own hands.

I called the non-emergency line on them. Some of us work from home!

What’s infuriating is that they turn their truck on from the driveway, blast music from these gigantic subwoofers—and then they go inside !

Out in the desert, we all do some combination of indoor and outdoor living. But they’re not even near the truck! They just turn the truck on and keep it running with the music up loud enough to be