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It seems that periodically people are visiting my neighbors (in the apt. above mine and the apt. next door to mine) in the middle of the night (from midnight onwards) ring my intercom buzzer to be let in my apt. building rather than the person that they are coming to. Last night it happened at 3 AM in the morning and then I heard people walking around rather heavily in the apt. above mine at that hour. I was wondering if this ever happens to other people as it is quite annoying and why people can't be more careful about which buzzer they are pressing in the middle of the night.
Because people that buy drugs late in the night often times are wacked out of their minds.
It messes with the vision.
Apt #9C when high on crystal methamphetamine can easily be mistaken for Apt #1M.
My dealers neighbors were lucky with me.
I only screwed up when I mixed my crack cocaine with angel dust.
My story is a little different than yours, I installed a new door bell two years ago.
And once in a while it seems to go off by itself, there was no one at the door when
I try to answer the door bell. I thought it was some kids playing pranks at first, but
I'm pretty fast to the door no one can run away that fast. It's getting creepier and
frustrating after answering the door bell late at night and no one was at the door.
And then one night I notice something like a small dark cloud with feets was floating away Gangnam style as I open the door. Then I knew it was a poltergeist!
Well...... Not really.
I actually saw a woman standing outside the house across the street and about 4
houses down the block. My door bell go off again as I watched that woman across
the street seems to press my neighbor's door bell one more time. Since there was
no switch for changing the radio frequency or signal of my cheap door bell, I bought
a new door bell the next day and there are no problem since.
Had it happen when I lived on UWS. Person started ringing about 2 am. I answered, nobody I knew, and couldn't make sense of him. He claimed he was "Maria's" boyfriend, who ostensibly lived in the building. I then told him to stop ringing, I knew neither him nor his girlfriend and had no intention of ringing him in. Mercifully, my husband, then my boyfriend got on the intercom and spoke roughly to him; no matter, he just kept ringing. Finally I called the police. To my dismay, they brought him to my apartment door! I'd never seen him in my life. Police said he was high. I still was disturbed because now he had seen me, and a high fellow who carried a grudge, no matter how unwarranted, is not something I wanted. But nothing else happened over the next months, and then we left the city. (Bad boo-boo, but that is another story.)
When I lived in a building & when somthing like that happens I would ignore it. If it continued I would call the 911 & tell them a man brandsihing a weapon was trying to break in. Problem sloved.
It happens to me in my apartment because my bell is all the way the last one on the pad and next to mine there is an additional busser just for the super.......ugh, people don't focus and ring mine, but I look out the window, look down and know they are not for me, so I don't answer.
Happens more during the day, not really at night, luckily....
Not that I would ever ring anyone in or answer the bell in the night time anyway. I don't get drop ins.
Since I'm on the first floor people seem to think "Oh she's close to the front of the building so it's nothing for her to buzz me in.", jerks! I don't answer since I don't get drop-ins either.
I've had the 2, 3, 4am buzzing too. This pain in the butt continuously rang my buzzer for hours after I asked who it was but I didn't let them in since I didn't know them. I ended up calling the police and they asked once they got here for me to come out. I told them no way was I going to let that person see who I was since I lived alone.
I remember watching some documentary on homeless/drug addicts in Manhattan, they would buzz apartment buildings for access in order to have a place to sleep and also do their drugs w/o being disturbed usually by going to the building's roof.
Palomalou, I would have spoke to the police through the door.
I don't have a doorbell on my apartment, and I love it. Anyone who actually knows us and needs to be let in will call.
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