I fail to understand the logic behind waking me up at night. We understand I’m a dimensional traveler and my primary “super power” happens when I’m asleep right?

Sleep isn’t exactly something easy, I’ve always lived with people my entire life and so I trained myself to sleep early.

That most likely didn’t make any sense right? I’m writing at 2:22 am, exactly 1 hour ago the neighbor who is between 18-25 slammed his ball into the ground. I was sleeping and he was bouncing his ball, so I was trying very hard to ignore it despite waking up at every bounce. Now I’m fully awake because this dumb human male decided to create a “boom” noise that jumped me out of sleep exactly at 1:25am EST on March 24th. My body is currently full of adrenaline and I will not be able to sleep again for hours.

This sort of nonsense has been happening over the last 3 months very consistently.

Let me go back and explain the last 3 months:

I got here in December but was too exhausted at first. Imagine having to downsize from a house we’ve lived in over 18 years to a 2 bedroom. It was a mixture of depression and just being tired, I couldn’t even move the bunk bed without asking for help.

Sounds silly, but I had so little energy after the amount of cleaning, packing, downsizing and moving involved. My point is, I was tired for days when I got here.

As if being tired, depressed, and low energy was hard enough, it was noisy here, but I didn’t start noticing the noise until January 1st…

Almost like clockwork, the first set of noise came from someone who had poor taste in music playing outside my window and talking loudly. The 2nd set of noise came in the form of bouncing, thumping, and stomping.

January 2024:

As days went by I started to write down the specific noise which was booming me out of sleep. Some of the noise sounded so angry that I would curl up in bed unable to move out of fear during the day.

Around 2 am on January 6th after being woken up by a “boom” noise my adrenaline kicked in so I immediately searched for a number to contact. Not every website listed an agent for BLD 4137 and I couldn’t even find a proper address on Google Maps, so I had to leave a negative review on the DOEH property management office. Luckily, one website listed an agent with a number to contact so I called and left a message.

They eventually texted me to call them again, but due to the little sleep I got for some reason I misunderstood and thought they asked me to call them at 2 pm. Exactly at 2 pm I called and explained that I think the noise is coming from above me. The guy on the other end acted as if it couldn’t be them, and this made him sound like he knew exactly what I was talking about.

Though he didn’t fail me, he did actually speak to the people above us. The bouncing and thumping continued, but some of the stomping decreased. One night I texted him about the noise, then he responded back that he will contact the responsible person. Not one minute went by after that text, and then at 12:58 am a ball was slammed into the wall between the two apartments shaking the window near my head.

The DOEH property management agent that I had been contacting started to behave shady after the incident of my window shaking because he stopped responding to my texts.

There’s a deep and long crack by the baseboard underneath the window. It leads to some cracked and loose tiles, that I thought were suspicious. Why would you rent out an apartment full of loose and cracked tiles? However, if these vibrations were an ongoing occurrence then there would be no point in replacing something that will be damaged again. I also noticed the deposit for this apartment was $7200 which is a significant amount compared to other apartments being rented out in the same building.

It seems they knew this would happen because it’s likely that the male responsible for the late-night disturbances had provoked previous tenants. It’s not hard to deduce this, just look at the damage to the tiles and baseboard.

January 21st during another adrenaline rush after being “boomed” out of sleep I called the Davie Police non-emergency line. When the cop was speaking to the upstairs neighbor I listened and heard enough of the conversation before the neighbor invited the cop inside. I was in disbelief when they claimed not to be responsible for the late-night booms.

As I was there body full of adrenaline waiting to learn more, the real culprit walked out of his apartment at 3 am to throw away trash. His gaming computer is set up by the window so he had a clear view of me outside my door. It was a black male between the ages of 18-25, normal-looking in appearance, wearing a hoody. I didn’t try to push him down the stairs, my immediate reaction was to say “hello”. So I politely waved despite now coming to the conclusion I’m looking at the moron responsible for the unwanted adrenaline at 3 am in the morning.

A few days later the upstairs neighbor came down and spoke with my family. He explained he also hears the noise and he’s working with management to sort it out. From that moment the real culprit started to aggressively slam his ball during the day, but at the wall we share.

If you’re wondering “why” this might be escalating. Well let us think back, did someone talk to them about their noise, and how exactly did they react to that information? The noisy neighbor slammed his ball causing the window to shake on my side at 12:58 am on January 7th… Now there’s an investigation so he’s amping up his volume during the day.

I’ve used “moron”, “noisy neighbor” and “young adult” to describe him, but his real name is the 202 Ghost aka the Sociopathic neighbor. I’m identifying him as a sociopath simply because he keeps escalating his problem aggressively.

I started to live stream and I kept the recording going sometimes for 30 hours straight after recognizing there would be no peace, instead only adrenaline-triggering booms jumping me out of sleep. This means this specific noise was recorded and time-stamped in January. I also noted the noise every time I woke up.

Come February the noise became more consistent and loudly heard throughout our apartment. It’s almost as if he knew I was on Twitch and he wanted his noise to be heard over my stream. However, it was getting weird to continue streaming just his noise and no other particular content. Imagine having to scrub through a 30-hour live stream to find particular noises that may or may not have come through. I even bought an omnidirectional mic and set it by the wall just to pick up the sociopath’s ball-slamming.

Nothing came out of that particular investigation. So I asked the agent for the e-mail address of the person looking into the noise. This time the agent gave me the DOEHPM e-mail address instead of dodging me. Up to this point, the only reference to this noise from me was the Google review I wrote on January 6th and the text messages back and forth between myself and the DOEH property management leasing agent I found listed on an apartment search website.

February 2024:

I thought to myself, this would be extremely annoying if I kept spamming their e-mail about the noise. I thought why don’t I put the noise on shadokix.blog so I have access to continuously update it without spamming the DOEHPM e-mail? Hence on February 1st I copied over all my notes to a page dedicated to the sociopaths’ noise. This is a WordPress website so I have limited storage which is why I can not add videos directly to the website.

I used AI to write my first e-mail to DOEHPM and I also asked the AI what more could I do. Yes, it was the AI Google bard, that suggested I start a noise diary about the disturbance. So, I did that, I started to record the audio on my phone in video format with timestamps. Then I searched for a program that deletes dead space.

My entire February became this:
➡ Set up phone in the bathroom
➡ Charge phone
➡ Set phone to record
➡ Move video over to my computer
➡ Go through 9hrs of recordings and delete unrelating noises
➡ One of these recording sessions takes 3hrs to condense into these short videos

This entire process depends on how much data my phone can store, how long it will stay alive, and if noise from our side drowns out his bouncing. We have birds and they are extremely reactive to noises. The sociopathic ball-bouncing moron was training our birds to mimic his dumb repetitive ball-slamming noises. The birds reacted to the noise consistently which was what consumed most of my time on the edits. While the program could detect noises above 15db consistently it couldn’t recognize the difference between a “squeak” or “bounce”, because they both had the same frequency. Yes, this meant I had to go through every squeak to delete it.

Here are a few noises I had to delete: squeaking, chirps, human voices, door creaks, kitchen noises, etc. If someone used the bathroom then naturally that entire part became contaminated so I had to delete it. I did set the phone in the bathroom because I snore when I sleep which also populated recordings taken from my bedroom.

For example, if I recorded from 9 pm, my phone would die around 7 am and there was the fact of limited storage. What I’m saying is I could not and can not record, transfer, edit, and then upload a full 24-hour worth of noises coming from this sociopath. This is why you have to look at the loudness of the noise, the time stamp, and the dates(plural). There was also the fact that sometimes I deleted hours of recordings either because the file was corrupted, I didn’t feel the noise hit 25db, the “booms” were under 15db or I needed space immediately.

The main takeaway from the playlist of noise recordings I dedicated to this nuisance is simple. The culprit is my neighbor who shares a wall with us. He’s bouncing a ball or otherwise thumping the floor throughout the night. During the day he’s slamming a ball at intervals near or on the shared wall. The noise is so persistent, that I will always be able to record it during the night if no one uses our bathroom. The noises vibrate our side of the wall enough to damage tiles under weight and the baseboard. The noise is heard throughout our apartment and these “booms” jump us out of sleep. When we wake up like this, we’re full of adrenaline so we do not return to sleep again for hours. This is the first time in 18 years have I seen 1 of my parents terrified in fear of a neighbor while the other 1 woken up before their alarm clock.

On February 24th some lady from the DOEHPM leasing team called my mother into her office and then berated her with words intending to make her feel bad. What mattered in this situation was the “way” and “tone” in which she was being spoken to. Let us take into consideration her age and the fact that she was home awaiting stent surgery. They told my mother they were disappointed in her, etc. This one-sided lecture went on for 30+ minutes. When they were done with her she was terrified and clearly affected.

I usually walk away from my computer to stretch my legs. So during a raid, I walked near the living room only to suddenly be attacked by my extremely paranoid mother. Now think about it for a second, she’s under medication awaiting stent surgery, she’s 60 and just came out of a beratement, without any clue as to what was going on. The woman who berated her made sure to use enough words to confuse her and make her feel she was at fault. You know “Victim Blaming” an elder, showing disappointment and making her feel as if she will be kicked.

Step into my mom’s shoes for a second here. She gets no rest, she has no proper sleep, circulation is limited to her foot so it’s turning purple, she thinks the neighbor has Jumbie on him so she’s terrified, she’s under diabetic medication and she was just lied to, blamed and made to feel bad as if she did something wrong. The DOEHPM lady agent told my mother how I wrote a letter complaining about the noise and that I posted that imaginary letter to social media. Keep in mind it’s February 24th and to that point, all I had were text messages to a DOEHPM agent, the one Google Maps review of DOEHPM, the noise diary I made for DOEHPM, my timeline, and the 2 e-mails I sent to the DOEHPM e-mail address. Obviously, I set up all that available information and sent it to DOEHPM so they can have a reference for the noise disturbances.

So when the DOEHPM lady agent used “social media” on my mother, it was a term my mother would not understand. When the woman said this shit to my mom, it made her feel as if I’d been publicly humiliating her. As if I’m blowing up Facebook slandering her(my mother) to her family and strangers. If you drag an old woman into your office, who is clearly suffering from sleep deprivation, then lie to her that her daughter wrote a letter and put it somewhere magical she can’t see, then you tell her you’re disappointed in her… WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU JUST DID TO MY MOTHER?! This undeniably stressed my mom out, so when she came out of that office she was panicking, her body full of adrenaline, and confronted me.

Aside from the obvious fact that this is NOT how to speak to anyone especially not your tenant. You don’t drag them to your office to berate them, to victim blame them, to make them feel bad, to tell them how disappointed you are with them, to make them feel as if you will kick them AND YOU ESPECIALLY DON’T LIE TO THEM about their family members. Reader, don’t you think this is unethical? Well, because of my mother’s age, this falls under elder abuse. It was unwarranted and extremely abusive to do that to an elderly tenant who is already being abused and currently terrified of her neighbor. I don’t see why the DOEHPM lady agent couldn’t just call me and have me explain or at least respond back to the e-mail I sent them.

I started to write at 2:22 am and it’s now 5:46 am. This neighbor kept thumping throughout the entire time, his dad is home so he feels protected which is why he slammed his ball earlier. I’m a veteran of the USAF and even before that, I am a born Guyanese. What the sociopath doesn’t understand is the amount of adrenaline running through me right now from his “boom” earlier that jumped me out of sleep… I don’t care if he feels “protected” that his dad is home. I’m not a violent person, when I have this much adrenaline I’ve trained myself to handle the causation in a very tactful way. So my mind is currently breaking down options to consider what I can do about this.

February 26th my mother continued to argue with me even though she had stent surgery. The stress of her situation, the paranoia of being kicked out, and the terror of sharing a wall that constantly gets attacked. If this was not done to her, I would have had a shot to confront the sociopath and speak to him directly. Unlike the sociopathic neighbor, I understand I live with my family so I’m trying to respect their wishes by not directly confronting the target of my anger. Yes, because the DOEHPM agent lady berated my 60-year-old mother, is the sole reason I can not confront the sociopath. The aggressive way the sociopath was slamming his ball on and near the shared wall scared the living daylights out of her, enough to not want me directly intervening. After all, we need to consider the safety of our entire family vs a Sociopath. However, now there is a fear of being kicked out, because of the beratement, so now my chances at direct confrontation is nonexistent.

I finished writing this at 7am and there was a lot more… But WordPress didn’t save all of it.

The rest mostly stated we just moved here, and are not yet unpacked or settled. We have too much on our plate to be concerned about a sociopath and DOEHPM drama. I did the noise diary and reported the information I collected to the DOEHPM team. I can’t waste more time on this nonsense. Obviously, he’ll continue this shit, so I’ll be full of adrenaline, unrested, undigested, and in full paranoia exactly like he wants. What do you think happens to people who don’t get sleep? Clearly, DOEHPM will not do shit about it, so I just have to add them to my list of targets to sue.

March 2024:

As I wrote, I spent January writing messages about the noise, in February I recorded the noise and gave that information to the DOEHPM e-mail address I was given. At the end of February, the leasing office even berated my mother and did quite a bit of victim blaming. In March, my mother spent most of it recovering from her stent surgery and watching her foot turn black while being under the impression that she would get kicked out. You would think by March 21st the leasing office would have done something about the noise. They did not and it continued, with no stop.

March 21st at 4 am I was forced to call the Davie Police non-emergency line, this time about the Sociopath. I let this nonsense go on for 3 whole months before calling the non-emergency line. Later that night the Sociopath escalated the issue by slamming his ball into a wire in the shared wall, as a result, he shut off the electricity on our side for 1 minute. This included the bathroom light, which scared Zoey because she was in there, the internet box, TVs, and my computer.

Here’s a video of me complaining about this:

March 22nd, I had to call the non-emergency line again. It seemed for almost a minute that the noise had slowed down. However, this morning at 1:25 am the Sociopath slammed his ball, so loud that it woke me up full of adrenaline, hence I started to write.

Conclusion:

It’s clear that this Socipath is left alone to attack his neighbors, and he’s been doing it longer than we’ve lived here. He shut off our electricity, he doesn’t allow us to rest, he’s attacking the shared wall with a ball, and he’s “booming” us out of sleep. The sociopath will forever escalate the issue, my family as we learned from living at Douglas St. do not understand how to handle this matter, so they are choosing to live in fear. The DOEHPM representatives chose to berate and victim-blame us instead of handling the matter. All of this is warranted for a lawsuit, based on the fact we have a right to enjoy “peace” in our home and we’re not getting that due to “one” sociopathic neighbor. It’s one male between the ages of 18-25 who bounces a ball and thumps the floor day and night. People have to get ready on our side starting from 5 am, so mornings on our side will always be busy regardless of the amount of sleep we got the previous night. This is something both DOEHPM and the sociopath fail to understand. If you do not let us quiet to rest from 8 pm to 8 am, and especially if you are slamming a ball intending to “boom” us out of our sleep, then you’re going to be met with people full of adrenaline throughout the night.

It is just 1 person affecting an entire family, possibly even responsible for the broken tiles and damaged baseboards so I don’t see why he can’t be “handled”. His parents should sign him up for the Military or something that needs Sociopathic bouncing maniacs.