Going anonymous as this is still legend around the neighbourhood.

I live in a small hamlet on the coast ( somewhere in the world) where about 70% of the houses and cottages are permanently occupied. The other 30% are holiday homes for the wealthy or holiday rentals.

There is one large house perched high on the sand dunes overlooking a large portion of the community that belongs to a wealthy family that are only ever seen in the summer months and for most of the year the house is empty.

This house came alive one summer with raucous teenagers and young adults. The parents ( or anyone responsible) were obviously not around as the music was deafening into the early hours along with screaming and yelling.

This crowd were also seen breaking benches at the local lookout point and left beer cans and cigarette butts strewn on the beach.

The police visited twice after complaints were made and the noise would be reduced for a while but return to previous levels soon afterwards.

Us residents, while used to some inconsiderate behaviour from excited visitors, had reached our limit after 3 days and after some discussion over neighboring fences a consensus was reached that some local corrective action was required.

The morning of the fourth day, at the time that the shouting and screaming would usually start along with the music, there was a stillness.

As it turned out someone had crimped the copper water infeed pipe to the house at the flow meter stopping all flow to the house.

No showers, no washing dishes ( unlikely that was happening) or flushing toilets. I believe a note was attached to the meter requesting that noise be kept down and for more respect to be shown to the community.

I also heard that a call was placed to our local plumber but as “ luck” would have it he was fully booked for a few days in advance and couldn’t assist.

The greasy looking mob vacated the house that day and there has not been a reoccurrence since.