Would your neighbours report you

[chomalungma]

Apparently the police have been getting calls saying their neighbour is off for a 2nd run and should be arrested.

Another one stating someone might be off for a drive.

So what would your neighbours do?

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Yes it's me, what breed is your cat?

I had a lavender oriental that we used to walk on a leash. Until we met a golden retriever, and she took fright and climbed up DH's back ending up on his head, with all her claws stuck in around his scalp, and swearing her head off, with him pissing with blood.

I'm afraid I couldn't stop laughing. The dogwalker and dog looked seriously traumatised.

So we stopped doing that. . .

Here he is 🥰

One of them would - the old bastard & his vile wife hate everyone, especially me and would report me to various 'authorities' - environmental health, RSPCA, even the police, hilariously for removing a fence they had constructed that blocked my access.

Shockingly, the lovely RSPCA inspector told me the vast vast majority of the calls they receive are malicious complaints. What an absolute waste of a charity's time - and highly indicative of the mindset that is always just a nudge away from gleefully propping up a police state. These Stalinist hall monitors already existed, this has just given them more fodder for their desire to make life worse for everyone else and waste everyone's time and energy in the process.

Nopes...I live miles from people 😂

I doubt it as they have better things to do with their time, as do I.

What a fine figure of a pussycat!

He's clearly part Maine Coon - the raccoon "trash panda" bit 😂.

He's a Rescue Mog, FIV+ which is why he doesn't go out "normally".

Nope, though I'm not breaking the rules. Mine don't believe in the virus, haven't vaccinated their son (as they told me AFTER my immunosuppressed DS had played with him for about 6 months!), and had a BBQ with a few family friends yesterday...

Came for the chat, stayed for the cat - s/he is majestic, @YesItsMeIDontCare

I don't think so. But the various local FB pages, especially the Covid-19 related ones, are having a few pictures posted with captions like: "whose kids are these? Get them home!!" etc.

Me and the DSs are about to take the dog out, poor thing hasn't had a proper run for 3 days. We will of course maintain the minimum distance, and the fields we go to only ever have one or two other dog walkers - little dots in the distance - even during 'normal' times.

I bet we still get our 15mins of Facebook fame though

@chomalungma What I think she is doing wrong is mixing with other households. We've been explicitly told not to do that. She think it's ok because it's outside. What if everyone thought that?

My closest I don't just mean children. For example I see my mum about 3 times a week and my daughter misses her a lot. She's in her 50s so not elderly, lives a 10min walk away and has a large garden so we could maintain a 2 metre distance outside. Will I go there? No, because we have been told not too and I believe in the greater good.

It's hard on so many people but we all have to pull together.

No. I have probably the nicest neighbours in the UK. We are all following the roolz anyway

Cat on a lead makes my day Who

S/he looks like one of my cats, although she would take my eye out if I put a lead on her.
A great solution for your cat though.

Sorry, I meant Yes
Interesting, I had guessed the breed to be Chantilly.

Gorgeous kitty.

Probably not because most people around here tend to do their own thing but I don't know them well enough to be confident about that. I can smell a bbq from somewhere but I don't think it's a party, just a family making the most of the time together and nice weather.

My neighbour would without a doubt cos she is a grade A cunt neighbour from hell, but that would also rely on her not being stoned or drunk so no she might not!

Our neighbours definitely would! We have been following guidelines to the letter, as do most people in our area, they have not, at all, but still curtain twitch constantly and moan about locals going about their normal business.....!
They are not liked locally at all due to anti social behaviour and the activities of their " pharmaceutical specialist" son, who's taking the opportunity to kindly do his special deliveries in the current climate by bicycle instead of car, to cunningly avoid detection.....doh!
They are notoriously noisy/ difficult/ pushy but also the most blood boiling inducing hypocrites going. A daily favourite is to shout and argue, complete with expletives, from 5 am onwards, but honestly a stray cat could go past their house and silently fart in the wrong direction at 3 am and they'd be moaning about being woken up!
On the plus side it is highly entertaining to watch them morph from loud mouthed bigots to elderly couple with disabilities who claim not to know their son is living with them when the police come a knocking.....!!! Which is a relatively frequent experience! Let's hope they turn up when they are off out socialising or going shopping for the third time in a day. Bless em!

The birch next door probably would.She reported us to the RSPCA when our previous cat became old and wobbly. She knew he'd has a serious accident as a kitten which left him with a strange hair on his hips and his hair was starting to fall out. If taken him to the vets the previous day and luckily I had a dated prescription for him. I'd report her but she goes everywhere in her bloody car.

@Teakind honestly, what is the difference between me seeing my grandson (who has only contact with his mum- my dd and his dad) albeit sneakily and outdoors and a family where the children are seeing their non resident parent, plus step parent and step siblings?
How is my activity increasing anyone’s risk outside my own family? My dd is young and I worry that her mental health could suffer if she is completely isolated during this time with a toddler and her partner out working... so yes I am bending the rules and no I don’t have any issues with doing so.

No we have lovely neighbours. There’s only about 12 of us in the immediate vicinity anyway (children included). One neighbour had a (child) relative over the other day and I just assumed that the parents are keyworkers and she is the only viable childcare, rather than trying to report her like I’m sure some people would.

I hope they wouldn’t. I’m doing all their shopping for them as they’re over 70 and I work in a supermarket.

Maybe they’ll report me if I forget their cake .

@Isadora2007 because each time you have to interact with key workers (shopping/hospital etc) you are exposing them to germs that not only come from you, but come from your daughter and grandchild and every single person THEY have interacted with. And the same for anyone your daughter interacts with. You are putting your grandchild at more risk too. Your decision making does not trump the law.

@Isadora2007 the key to what you’ve just said is that your daughter’s partner is still going out to work. Now imagine everyone he sees has a family who is doing the same as you... It’s just going to keep spreading. Can you not see that? Why should it be ok for you to do it but not other families?

I’m at home all day with a toddler and baby just like thousands of others. It can be hard and exhausting to do it alone but we do because we have to.

I’d give them short shrift if they did. Fil is currently undergoing tests for suspected bowel cancer. He’s attending hospital appointments alone because one of us has to go sit with mil as she has dementia and CANNOT be left alone for even a few minutes.

Dh cannot drive so I have to take him (though I don’t enter her house.

I also have no washing machine and I called a halt to my kitchen alterations so am having to make regular trips to an empty property to do my washing (especially towels).

Some would, some wouldn't. We live in a Neighbourhood Watch area....

so yes I am bending the rules and no I don’t have any issues with doing so

You're not bending the rules, you're believing they don't apply to you and it'll all be fine as long as you're not caught

You're acting irresponsibility. Shit isn't just contained to your little group. There's a family member who goes out to work.