Yeh but generally the public benefit will override what is normally considered a private nuisance. Might be different in the USA though.

Get your self a flood light...neighbour wars

Ouch. Sucks to be you. But I dealt with the same thing, except it was a neighbor who put up these huge Christmas lights, and had Christmas music playing until two in the morning, not the soft kind but rocking around the christmas tree techno rock metal remix. We cut his lights, he called the neighborhood watchdogs and they just told him to have a better holiday spirit. Now how does this help you? It doesn't. But i hope you realize someone understands. You could always smash the light when no one is around with like a bb gun.

pellett rifle

Could you, please use, more unnecessary commas?

it's called ******* blinds smart one

I'm the original writer. And it actually happened about 5-6 years ago (I fudged for the sake of the site's format). Thanks to everyone (with varying degrees of politeness) who suggested opaque curtains, blinds, etc. That is what I ultimately did. I repositioned my bed, and used some nice metal blinds from IKEA. The personal inconvenience aside, what pissed me off about it was that, as the local planetarium director, I was one of the community's foremost proponents of light-pollution awareness. And I was powerless even to keep my next-door neighbor from lighting themselves up like a prison yard. Anyway, I left that apartment a long time ago.

Sounds like someone really wants you to move.

If that happened to me, the light wouldn't last very long...

This happened to me over the summer. They installed a light that directly shines into our apartment. It was supposed to light up the alleyway from the parking lot into the side door. Unfortunately for us when we walked there at night, it stopped working. Fortunately for us when we were trying to sleep, it stopped working.