I'm a college student living in the dorms. I've got a room to myself, though I share a bathroom with a suitemate. He's cool; we get along, but... he drives me insane! His sound system (especially his bass) easily carries right through the walls. During the day I don't really care if I hear his music, but when it's 12:30 a.m. and my walls are shaking when I'm trying to sleep I get annoyed. Really annoyed. Just to give you an idea of how loud the music/bass is, the girl who lives right below him repeatedly has the light in her ceiling rattle so much that it falls out. Now he is nice enough to turn it down when I ask him, but really, I shouldn't have to ask every night. I mean, it's just common courtesy to let people sleep at night. So then I bought two Annoy-a-trons from ThinkGeek.com. I turned them on and set them to "extra annoying" (a.k.a. 12 kHz tone) And then I hid them in his room I'll let you all know how it all unravels. Hopefully these two Annoy-a-trons are worth it. I'm really hoping to hear him yell "What the F---!" in the middle of the night when he's trying to sleep [lol] <offsubject>My physics professor started teaching us Einstein's theory of relativity yesterday and my head exploded. I'm still looking for the back half. If you find it, please let me know.</offsubject>

You can't sleep from 10pm to 12:30am, until you ask him to turn his music down, to which he complies.

So to get even, you're going to give him 24 hours of a nausiating sensation in his head. Not directly attributable (because you hid them) to any person or object in the building.

He'll have no one to ask to turn their music down, he just simply will not be able to sleep.

He's likely to go insane..

You realize you could have just sabotaged his stereo right? That's what i did when i had a similar problem. I took the fuse out of my flatmates stereo and roasted it with a lighter and put it back in.

Unfortunately he was truely a dumb ass and went out and bought a whole new stereo instead of a $0.50 fuse..

lolz.. BUT NO ONE WENT INSANE YA BIG JERK

Awesome, I have had one of those placed in my office and they are both very annoying and hard to locate -- even when you know it is hidden near by.

I have also been in the same situation as you with loud inconsiderate house/dorm mates. I have absolutely no sympathy for him. Why is it that some people (OK many, many people at least in the US) feel entitled disrupt the lives of everyone around them for the most trivial personal amusements and conveniences? When you live in close proximity to others you must be considerate of those around you. Whatever negative fate befalls him, he brought upon himself.

You may also consider informing him that acoustic scientists have discovered a new and fantastic way to listen to music and the the master engineers of our time have devised a profoundly elegant device that takes advantage of these innovative ideas in a way that can be brought into the modern home for a most reasonable price. I am speaking of course of a "headphones" device.

Good luck.

I got some of these for my office, and they were freaking amazing. When hidden above standard removable office ceiling tiles, the sound is very quiet and diffused so it's impossible to tell at all where it's coming from. It was so quiet that only about half the people nearby even heard it, and the other half was busy telling them they were insane :-D We just left it on until the batteries died several weeks later.

For those ignorant and lazy, what are these devices? They just make random loud noises?

Quote: Original post by bzroom
You can't sleep from 10pm to 12:30am, until you ask him to turn his music down, to which he complies.

So to get even, you're going to give him 24 hours of a nausiating sensation in his head. Not directly attributable (because you hid them) to any person or object in the building.

He'll have no one to ask to turn their music down, he just simply will not be able to sleep.

He's likely to go insane..

You realize you could have just sabotaged his stereo right? That's what i did when i had a similar problem. I took the fuse out of my flatmates stereo and roasted it with a lighter and put it back in.

Unfortunately he was truely a dumb ass and went out and bought a whole new stereo instead of a $0.50 fuse..

lolz.. BUT NO ONE WENT INSANE YA BIG JERK

Heh you're kidding right? Breaking someone's fuse is worse than the annoyatron prank. If you live in a student home you should be able to accept the annoyatron prank :)

It's fun and I hope the OP's roommate can have a laugh out of it when he solves the mystery.

Quote: Original post by d000hg
For those ignorant and lazy, what are these devices? They just make random loud noises?

See here

Wish I had known about these when I was in school. I almost had a fist one night because the people below me had constant parties and I would hear bass in my room at 2-3am. I always wondered if I could construct some super low bass output system and just point it towards their room and leave it on.

lolz.
If I were him... and even if I weren't him... he would probably turn on music for whole night so that he doesn't hear those annoy-a-trons (and if its music he likes, he can sleep with it, unlike you).

The equivalent of an Annoy-a-tron was installed at in my townhouse complex. This annoy-a-tron you have is a little device that sends beeping sound in a small area (like a bedroom), but the beeping device at my complex can be heard by the entire complex. About every 30 seconds, it makes a very loud BEEEEEP. Nobody can turn it off (or better yet, destroy it) because it is protected under a metal cage. My roommate asked about it. Apparently, the beeping comes from some fire or security alarm, even when there is no fire, and the only people who could turn it off are the fire department. It seems to be beeping to let everyone know it's working.

Actually, now that I think about it, it hasn't been beeping lately. I guess they fixed it, or someone was able to get through the cage. I had gotten so used to it.

My apartment complex used to do the same thing, and also was locked behind a door that only the fire department could open.

I'm pretty sure the beeping is the battery backup. If it's beeping the battery has failed. :(

Sorta related was my neighbor who was an awful chef. He'd set the fire alarm off every day late at night.. we'd go outside and just flumes of smoke would be pouring out of his door and he's just in there cooking god knows what.

He was a strange fellow, he had no furnature and a purple car. He also sold perfume and had a order form taped to his door..

Two of the most annoying things you can do to keep someone awake is either
1.) play halo, 2.) just leave halo on the menu... "ohhh ohh ohhhhhhhh" (choir oh's)