Drama in the local Facebook group.

[TheClaifeCrier]

A hairdresser opened up a salon in our village and spammed posted frequently in the village Facebook page about it.

The one and only Admin got annoyed and requested she stop. She kicked off, others joined the fray, pointing out that her posts were better than the ones about dog poo.

The admin archived the group in retaliation. He's just opened it up and announced he's quitting as admin.

So that's our scandal. Any going on in yours? It's better than Coronation Street.

@Changedname220 Yeah, we get the "call 101" comments whenever the Nottingham Knockers are around

Apart from that it's mainly posts about "why are police cars/vans/helicopters out?" which usually descend into bickering and personal insults so the thread gets locked by Admin.

Occasionally there's turf wars with a rival FB group from the same town

Yep all these.
Helicopters
Dodgy vans
Dog poo
Lost/found items
How we have too many coffee shops/real estate agents/hairdressers
How people moving from London are pushing up house prices

We did have a homeless an every one was helping nu then suddenly admin said we weren't to discuss him anymore 🤔
Politics gets quit heated and now we have a dedicated politics day and are deleted on other days.
An advertising day for local business (not the same as politics)
Local councillors updating regularly with associated bitching
And we also have an offshoot spoof site that takes the piss out of the 'grownup' site

So many typos 🙈

Dog poo
A batty barber
And recently lots of photos of planes ...

@Figentofimgination You must live near me, I recognise those stories from the local paper!

MrsJayy for some reason raves are becoming popular again round here. It is rural so there is loads of open land.

On a more serious note crime is increasing alarmingly in our area and there is pressure to reopen the police station. The crime commissioner is holding a meeting soon and will be facing a lot of angry residents.

Ours has a post about atrocious parking right across the pavement which has degenerated into an argument about spelling and grammar .
Its very funny as most of these posts pointing out the defects on others posts have a defect in their own. Its a never ending cycle and there's about 80 posts on there now.

@ItsAFuckingPotato Sounds scarily like my local FB group(s). If it's the same ones then I'm in the pisstaking group now, left the 'grown up' one as Admin was getting a bit like a dictatorship.

Oh god.

Shop closed.... we don’t want anymore nail places/fast food/hairdressers. Every day.

Strange men, look suspicious in a van, with the obligatory number plate pics.

Local teens, so rude, blah blah.

New housing, we have a lot being built. One of the groups started to protest this, the original admin actually ran for local government. Did badly, seems to have lost marbles lately. Slags everyone off and blacks those that dare to disagree with her.

The 2 homeless guys in the high street. They have a flat and make £100s a day apparently. I highly doubt it.

Grainy CCTV of car doors being checked.

Anyone know what’s going on? Police helicopter up.

Lol @ItsAFuckingPotato. Sounds like our one in Essex

Someone posted a meme of Dianne Abbott saying something silly.
Another poster called them out on racism.
Meme poster says they aren’t racist because their best friend is mixed
Previous poster goes on to explain in detail why the meme is racist.
Meme poster posts a photo of himself and said mixed race BF who apparently, is also his bio as teenagers with arms round each other to prove his point that he is definitely not racist.

Some argy bargy about Brexit
Someone has lost their torch.
Warning about kids running around knocking on people’s doors.

Glad I joined .

Today we have:

A crash/disturbance in the roughest neighbourhood

A 'boogie bounce class' which looks like a trampoline dance class. Actually looks hilariously fun, there's a video!

Some sort of pie van is touring

Arson attack

Extremely outing as to my area - Police spent almost half a million on the Gatwick drone crisis

Somebodys poor cat went missing and some body else found it in their garden and burried it without trying to find owners
Was it dead..?

@TapasForTwo I wonder if you're near me - we too have had an alarming increase in burglaries since Christmas (Tesco/Co-op/convenience stores/Costa coffee to name a few) and there's pressure to reopen the local police station (as allegedly officers have to respond from about 10 miles away).

Other than that it's people daring to be out on the street after midnight (obviously only ever for nefarious reasons), occasional lost cats, random found bank cards and yesterday the "excitement" of someone stuck down a sinkhole (which proved to be untrue!)

Trouble with Royal Mail.

Felling trees.

My favourite this week was who “came flying round the roundabout.”

Our group has about 1,000 members,it is the same few people who comment ,about 10 of them.

• Request for nail salon/window cleaner/landscape gardener
• Wallet found in Aldi car park
• Missing cat
• Naming & shaming of local thief and why isn't he behind bars.
• Tiler needed to finish job that original tiler won't finish.
• Dishwasher repair person needed.

Another week in Dullsville - although unusually no one is complaining about planning applications so that's refreshing

VillageEejit

That’s made my day

The three big ones that appear on a weekly basis are the Vaccination Debate, 5G and
Round Up (capped for seriousness, obviously). admin had to issue special ‘be nice’ instructions to the village the other day, after everyone got a bit overly snarky.

But, when we’re not getting offended (🙄) we also love:

• a good debate on the benefits of leaning to breath classes
• the powers of remote healing (PayPal me £30 and I’ll sort out your headache without even needing to see you!)
• there’s no shame in asking to pitch your tent in someone’s garden and live (of course making use of your kitchen and bathroom facilities) there in exchange for storytelling round the fire
• and people are happy to ask for lifts to Europe, ‘in case anyone is heading that way on Tuesday’ (Think it was Belgium, off the top of my head).

It’s fucking bonkers. Husband not allowed to post after wine.

It’s so fascinating to hear tit bits about different areas! I’m almost tempted to join my local one!

Feral youth coming in from other villages stealing wheelie bins and setting them alight.

Pictures of a healthy cat asking if anyone has lost it because it has been in a garden. Loads of responses saying to take it to get scanned etc. Makes people worried that if their cat innocently walks into someone's garden it will get lifted and taken to the vet.

Oh there's a big fire at the moment. A shop was on fire briefly but it was very exciting however it's out now, but... this is Facebook conversation on the group.:

'What's burnin coz it's v strong and
My kids are in my house asleep, v worried it might be near bye or in my house'

'If it's in your house wouldn't you know?'
'Get off Facebook and check your house isn't on fire'
'Ffs really?!'
'Bet you're the type of person who asks Facebook when Tesco is open'

My personal favourite

dont know hun my curtains are closed

Ha ha. Just logged into my one and there is an argument brewing . . . A photo has been posted of a whole load of rubbish (old furniture, cardboard boxes etc) dumped outside a hall. Poster did a spiel about how digusting it is to dump rubbish there, could've taken it to the tip etc. Then someone came on and pointed out it is rubbish from the local gymnastic centre clear out, and it is dumped outside the gymnastic centre building, they are apparently waiting on a vehicle to take it to the tip. Two other people have confirmed this also. Then someone else said how messy it looked. As I am typing there are more comments being posted bout the gym being 'done up' and it will be removed soon . . . I can sense an argument starting up - could be a good one!

Makes people worried that if their cat innocently walks into someone's garden it will get lifted and taken to the vet

Happens all the time! I regularly give the line "it's not a stray, it lives on your street, go and put it back!"

We are about to lose our direct bus service to the nearest city (quite rural here) and pretty much every day someone is posting on the fb page to ask if the bus is still running. The timetable has been posted many times, our council website is easy to navigate to find it, and the end date of the service has been well publicised, but pretty much every day someone asks!

The police helicopter was seen around the other night - someone asked "Anyone know what the police are looking for ?" ........75 people commented on that one ! Amazing how many theories were put forward .