A Keelung man was sentenced to six months in jail for terrorizing his relatives with nighttime noise, a win for the family who spent over a year reporting him.

• The man slammed iron doors and hit shared apartment walls with a hammer between 3 and 4 a.m., shaking the building.
• His nephew's wife upstairs thought it was an earthquake and screamed for her children to run.
• He was already under a court protection order after being jailed for throwing paint on the same nephew in 2020.
• The judge found he deliberately used the building's structure to send low vibrations through the walls as mental torture.
• Three separate violations drew two, two, and three months, merged into six months, with a fine option instead of jail time.

Outlook: The sentence can still be appealed, and he can pay a fine rather than serve time.