Grrrrrrrrr

What an afternoon. Let me backstory this.
There is a new development being built right across the street from me. They have been known on ocassion to get to work at 5:00 and 6:00am. They think it is a good idea to wake up the neighborhood with their noise. We think, not so much. So this morning was the fourth call I have made to the forman of the company. Very nice man. He says he is doing all that he can to stop their outside contractors from getting there so early. In my opinion he is not doing enough because they still do it from time to time. This morning it was 5:45am when they started with the heavy equipment.
When I was leaving for work, I approached the guy nicely and explained the noise laws, to which he shrugged and said "Oh well, what are you going to do". Without going into all the details, he and I ended up in a very heated discussion. Very heated. By the time I called the cops to complain, they had already received two calls.
Believe it or not, I can be very reasonable when I choose to be. But once I am blown off or treated as a joke, the gloves come off.
This afternoon I have been to the police department and the city planning commission's office and I have filed formal complaints. I now know the planning commissioner very well. :)
They do have records of our prior complaints but now that I have been there in person, they are going to approach this in a much more aggressive manner. We have exchanged names and numbers and he said he is going to take care of this. He is going to start enforcing fines against them and if it gets super ugly he is willing to give them a stop building order. Obviously not just because of me. He has had a lot of problems with this company and was very happy that I was getting involved.
I am pretty happy with how the afternoon went but what a pain in the ass for me to have to do just to have peace and quiet in my neighborhood.
*flexes muscles* *grin*
Have a good weekend.