Sorry to learn this....it's good you were able to mention to your neighbour though.

We all like to have some party fun from time to time......especially this time of year. But just as you say, there should be some limits and some respect to the neighbours...... the least they could have done was to let you know a party was going to to had.

You definitely need to be very wary of going round under impulse with anger......groups of drunks can act in extreme ways and it often doesn't turn out expectedly.......timing timing timing.
Only last week a friend of ours got punched to the ground with serious eye injury after a seemingly simple comment about not throwing rubbish and empty cans around the town centre. Been a huge impact on his self-confidence as well as being unable to work for while. Impacted his family too.........what a world we live in eh.

I have some ideas on how to handle similar situations but won't print them here.

Enjoy your Christmas hols best you can.........