Who the hell moves at 12:30 in the morning?!?

[laconicsax]

Big-ass moving truck noisily backed into a neighbor's driveway at 11:45, knocking over garbage cans and nearly felling trees. 45 minutes and a lot of loud loading, the truck starts pulling out, guided by someone shouting directions to the driver. After knocking over more garbage cans and breaking branches off of more trees, the truck is gone.

WTF?

[Lasher]

1. Sounds a little suspicious to me.

[laconicsax]

3. Nah, I recognized the voices and saw the tenants loading.

The (hopefully former) occupants are often hanging out and having very loud discussions in what sounds like Arabic--they're one of three immigrant Muslim families that all live in the same row of houses. They haven't quite got the hang of not being loud late at night yet, but they're better than they were three years ago when I moved here.

[whistler162]

5. If not thieves then someone leaving to avoid paying the rent

wonder if the furniture was their's or the owners?

[laconicsax]

9. Theirs. n/t

[pacalo]

2. Could it have taken them awhile to get the truck, which can be a hassle sometimes, & gather up

helpers who may have had plans earlier? Or they wanted an early start, this being the weekend.

Or, are they defaulting on their loan (or lease)?

[Kennah]

4. In January 2003, wife and I moved with DS and 3 cats from North Carolina to Pennsylvania

Yeah, I know, fucking brilliant idea on my part moving to PA in January.

"Good morning Harrisburg. It's 9 degrees outside. 8 in Camp Hill. 7 in Hershey."

Anyway, the moving truck with our stuff shows up on a Friday night, about 8:45 PM. Either we let them unload, or they keep it overnight and charge us. What the hell, move it in.

They were pretty quiet, and I was worried about potential noise. Didn't hear anything and didn't hear any complaints.

Had to switch the heat off, in January, in PA, with the sliding glass door wide open for almost 3 hours while they brought stuff in. When they were done and we got the door shut, it was 44 inside the apartment. By morning, it was 59 inside.

Moving at night, yeah it happens. Movers acting like dickheads, unacceptable.

[NewJeffCT]

6. Jerry Dandridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voacjL9JFy8

[bluedigger]

7. Baltimore Colts? n/t

[OmahaBlueDog]

16. That was exactly what I thought

:)

[seabeyond]

8. i am not a people person. i hated being in an apt complex and people able to watch me

moving in and out. i often did my moves at night.

hadnt thought about it until your post.

i moved around a lot when i was young. lived somewhere no more than a year, two tops. did lots of moves. drove at night.

[Major Nikon]

10. Vampires

Just sayin'

[nadine_mn]

11. we did once - it was the only time we could get a truck

moving towards the end/begining of the month sucks - trucks are limited

We got a reduced rate and hustled our crap in the middle of the night

[undeterred]

12. That would be my first thought.

A lot of leases come and go around October 1 so all the trucks get rented around then. There are people standing around truck rental places waiting for them so maybe this was the only time they could get one.

[sam11111]

13. cool nite is best for long drives. also: which nation were they from?

Tks

[EFerrari]

14. When we moved up here from L.A. we did.

Not a great intro to our new neighbors.

[Graybeard]

15. Happens a lot in my apt. building.

And it's fine with me because the elevators are not
tied up during the daytime.

One strange incident though. The morning after one of those
midnight moves we discovered that the big, beautiful, crystal
chandelier in the Lobby had been disconnected and stolen!