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to report this to the police, even though I am technically implicating myself?

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Imperrysmum · 10/08/2024 15:27

My local park is locked overnight and isn’t opened until 6am. It’s a huge park but in one area part of the fence is missing so I squeeze through and go into the park to walk my dog at 4am (he is an XL bully so I like to go the park when nobody is about)

The last few mornings when I have been walking round by the pond there have been a couple of men sitting on the benches next to the pond “feeding the ducks”. I noticed they have black bin liners next to them too. I’m pretty sure I recognise these men from working in a takeaway restaurant.

I am concerned they are trying to catch ducks. I hope i’m wrong, but I just can’t see why two adult men would sit feeding the ducks at 4am?! Especially as the park is officially closed and they have bin liners next to them.

AIBU to report this to the police, even though I’ll be implicating myself too?

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SweetcornFritter · 19/08/2024 14:09

Andwegoroundagain · 19/08/2024 12:26

Thank you OP for the honest and rather amusing update (please ignore the unhelpful posters ... the rest of us were quietly engaged with the drama !)

If it ever really happened…

Andwegoroundagain · 19/08/2024 12:26

Thank you OP for the honest and rather amusing update (please ignore the unhelpful posters ... the rest of us were quietly engaged with the drama !)

Zvifflemeyer · 19/08/2024 11:37

nonmerci99 · 10/08/2024 15:30

This is some next level busybody behaviour. I’d think you were just as dodgy as them if I saw you both in a park at 4 am. 😂

LOL!!! "I know I am breaking the law and all, but how DARE they break the law too!!!"

Hectorscalling · 19/08/2024 11:35

user1493379562 · 18/08/2024 17:21

Many years ago I heard of an Indian restaurant in Luton that was closed down when it was discovered they were serving up Alsatian! Not being racist either, the ex was a copper and he told me.

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Why would your ex being a copper have to do with anything?

He was a racist idiot. The fact that he was a copper just makes his (and your) racism even worse.

Tulipsareredvioletsarebue · 19/08/2024 11:33

user1493379562 · 18/08/2024 17:21

Many years ago I heard of an Indian restaurant in Luton that was closed down when it was discovered they were serving up Alsatian! Not being racist either, the ex was a copper and he told me.

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Out of all stories that never happened, this one didnt happen the most.

Tulipsareredvioletsarebue · 19/08/2024 11:31

CurlewKate · 18/08/2024 20:41

@Bobbinette "As crazy as it seems there was a Chinese restaurant in a market town near me that got done for stealing ducks from the river so it does happen unfortunately."

I'd love to see the court report. Presumably you can link to it?

Probably another Daily Fail made up story.

Goldengamer · 19/08/2024 07:57

Hilarious OP , and although I don’t have an XL bully ,just a naughty cockapoo, it’s exactly the sort of thing I would do . I hear a lot about people working in take always being not legally allowed to work in this country and sleep rough or even on restaurant floors (yes actually in my local news) maybe these guys don’t have access to a shower and go there for a wash after their shift

CrunchyCarrot · 19/08/2024 06:53

januaryjan · 19/08/2024 00:27

Glad the ducks are OK though!

They're not OK. The ducks are in therapy - apparently they are in shell shock after their pond was invaded by two naked men flashing their bits to the world whilst being stalked by a nutter lurking in the bushes with the Hound of the Baskervilles.

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Noooooo!! Poor things. 🐧

😂

januaryjan · 19/08/2024 00:27

CrunchyCarrot · 17/08/2024 22:43

So those guys were swimming in the lake at 4 a.m. and then having a cuppa? Weirdos! 😂Glad the ducks are OK though!

Glad the ducks are OK though!

They're not OK. The ducks are in therapy - apparently they are in shell shock after their pond was invaded by two naked men flashing their bits to the world whilst being stalked by a nutter lurking in the bushes with the Hound of the Baskervilles.

Sallyh87 · 18/08/2024 21:10

Imperrysmum · 18/08/2024 16:27

Why’s that? What an odd thing to say.

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Do you really have a right to call anyone else out on odd things to say after this weirdness?

TheMarzipanDildo · 18/08/2024 20:52

I must say this thread wasn’t what I was expecting from the title!

BeachParty · 18/08/2024 20:51

CurlewKate · 18/08/2024 20:41

@Bobbinette "As crazy as it seems there was a Chinese restaurant in a market town near me that got done for stealing ducks from the river so it does happen unfortunately."

I'd love to see the court report. Presumably you can link to it?

Yeah, I think that one would have made the news so should be easy enough......

Waffle78 · 18/08/2024 20:45

Imperrysmum · 15/08/2024 21:36

Hi all. Thought I’d do a quick update as a few of you had been speculating I had ended up on the specials menu.

So…I was wrong.

Waited in the bush last Sunday morning for nearly 2 hours until they finally turned up at 5am.

They sat on the bench for a while, feeding the ducks then stripped off and swam in the pond. Meanwhile i’m stuck inside the bush, with CHRONIC cramp in my calf from crouching for so long, nearly in tears with the pain while wrestling my dogs mouth shut so he doesn’t bark at the naked men swimming past us in the pond.

When they got out they dried off with towels from the black bags and got out a flask of tea(?) to drink.

So yep, I was wrong. Not snatching ducks.

🤣🤣🤣

CurlewKate · 18/08/2024 20:41

@Bobbinette "As crazy as it seems there was a Chinese restaurant in a market town near me that got done for stealing ducks from the river so it does happen unfortunately."

I'd love to see the court report. Presumably you can link to it?

Efacsen · 18/08/2024 20:37

BeachParty · 18/08/2024 20:05

Oh come on, it's an age old racist trope, you must have heard of it?!.
Doesn't mean you must be hanging around with racist company to have heard of it!.
I mean, I bloody love Only Fools and Horses but there's a joke in there about it.
Del opens the door of the Chinese takeaway and a cat shoots out..
Rodney - "aw no, was it a pet?"
Del - "no, but number 39's off the menu!
That was in the 80s, you must have been living under a privileged rock to not ever have heard of shit like that.

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First heard it 40 years ago in Liverpool - stolen alsatian in the chicken chow mein

Racist then. Racist now

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BeachParty · 18/08/2024 20:05

Imperrysmum · 18/08/2024 16:45

No I haven’t, the company I keep does not spread such racist nonsense. Perhaps check who you are “friends” with on Facebook if stuff like this keeps popping up for you.

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Oh come on, it's an age old racist trope, you must have heard of it?!.
Doesn't mean you must be hanging around with racist company to have heard of it!.
I mean, I bloody love Only Fools and Horses but there's a joke in there about it.
Del opens the door of the Chinese takeaway and a cat shoots out..
Rodney - "aw no, was it a pet?"
Del - "no, but number 39's off the menu!
That was in the 80s, you must have been living under a privileged rock to not ever have heard of shit like that.

Itoosurvive · 18/08/2024 19:49

Bobbinette ·
As crazy as it seems there was a Chinese restaurant in a market town near me that got done for stealing ducks from the river so it does happen unfortunately.

Was that the same same river in which just 4 days earlier, a man with a necklace of garlic and wearing a beret and stripey jumper was caught pulling the legs off frogs?

Bobbinette · 18/08/2024 19:40

As crazy as it seems there was a Chinese restaurant in a market town near me that got done for stealing ducks from the river so it does happen unfortunately.

Itoosurvive · 18/08/2024 19:22

user1493379562 ·
"Many years ago I heard of an Indian restaurant in Luton that was closed down when it was discovered they were serving up Alsatian! Not being racist either, the ex was a copper and he told me"

But it's not just Alsatians. A customer recently complained to the council about the taste of a Bratwurst they'd eaten and when the council's EHO went to inspect the German restaurant, they found Dachshund in the freezer.

GripeOfTheDay · 18/08/2024 18:52

Oh no....

Now curry is off my menu....

How's that for a racist reply?

@Imperrysmum .. Great responses.

Can wait for your next post.

Fullyflavoured · 18/08/2024 17:36

user1493379562 · 18/08/2024 17:21

Many years ago I heard of an Indian restaurant in Luton that was closed down when it was discovered they were serving up Alsatian! Not being racist either, the ex was a copper and he told me.

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More racist bollocks.

user1493379562 · 18/08/2024 17:21

Many years ago I heard of an Indian restaurant in Luton that was closed down when it was discovered they were serving up Alsatian! Not being racist either, the ex was a copper and he told me.

Original poster
Imperrysmum · 18/08/2024 16:45

CurlewKate · 18/08/2024 16:32

@Imperrysmum "Why’s that? What an odd thing to say"

Presumably you haven't come across the widespread urban myth, active on many local FB pages, that Chinese restaurants frequently catch and kill cats for meat?

No I haven’t, the company I keep does not spread such racist nonsense. Perhaps check who you are “friends” with on Facebook if stuff like this keeps popping up for you.

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Tulipsareredvioletsarebue · 18/08/2024 16:37

CurlewKate · 18/08/2024 14:32

Good thing they weren't stroking a random cat.....

Now you said that, next time OP will see the said workers with a cat, she will know to ring the police 😅

CurlewKate · 18/08/2024 16:32

@Imperrysmum "Why’s that? What an odd thing to say"

Presumably you haven't come across the widespread urban myth, active on many local FB pages, that Chinese restaurants frequently catch and kill cats for meat?