Would your neighbours report you

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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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I am bloody lucky, all my 12 neighbours are fantastic. They wouldn't report me if they noticed me taking an 'extra' walk, they'd ask if I needed something they could get for me. I dread the day someone moves out and a monitor moves in. Curtain twitchers not welcome.

NFI and quite frankly not bothered . I take dog out first thing in the morning and then go to work . My DD ( student ) may take dog out during the day for her own exercise . Overall though dog quite happy with an hour in Hyde Park chasing 🐿 .

How does everyone notice what their neighbours are up to anyway? We’re the ground floor flat in a big 3 storey terrace house, so 2 sets of upstairs neighbours, and the same on either side. DH is working from home all day, and I’m entertaining the children and trying persuade them to do schoolwork. Despite the close proximity I have no idea what my neighbours are up to! I’m so used to hearing upstairs moving around I just tune it out, and I’ve have to be sitting by the front window all day watching to see who came in and out of their front doors. Don’t people have other stuff to be getting in with?

Also I’ve read Stasiland by Anna Funder. It’s a brilliant book (if anyone is looking for a good read) and an interesting account on the long term effects on society when people are encouraged to police each other “for the greater good”.

They could report me I guess but I am probably the only one of my neighbours to walk to the shops, walk to the GP, walk for exercise etc so they wouldn’t get anywhere

2 of ours wouldn't but the ones directly opposite would - even though they sat on a bench outside their house, wrapped up in fleeces for over an hour yesterday, with their front door wide open.

They hate us (for no good reason) - we hate them (for very good reasons)

Well I am a care worker and my neighbour blocked my car in with her bins the other day to stop me going out. I removed them and left her a note..

Update she just came round standing way to close to my door and trying to step in. Does she not watch the news?

Well I am a care worker and my neighbour blocked my car in with her bins the other day to stop me going out. I removed them and left her a note.

Bloody hell, really? Has she not heard of key workers?

Me and my DH are key workers so he’s leaving the house daily to go to work, I’m on the rota for school next week so will be leaving at my usual time. Then the dogs need a walk and I have to do the horse too. Apparently this latter is essential animal welfare, so I’ve been doing that this week, just once a day. We’re not allowed to stick them in a field 24/7 (yard rules, they would further destroy the field) so have to be brought in at night.

Our neighbours all know what jobs we do, I very much doubt they’re going to report a police officer for going to work.

Hell yeah they would, one of them has already sent an email round telling people off for having visitors (not me, I'm playing by the rules). With their very harsh interpretation of the rules

Someone else replied clarifying the actual rules.

We suspect it's the same person who sent an anonymous official looking letter 'from the neighbours' about our dogs barking.

(A quick note telling us dickhead dog had started barking out of the cat flap when we were at work would have done the trick rather than implied threats and comments about us being new and disturbing their lovely quiet close, actually posted no less)

I'm restraining myself from sending something about their caravan sticking 3 foot out into the road, will not stoop, might not actually be them.

For £150, definitely.

We have a road WhatsApp group and I had to gently dissuade people going for a group walk from different houses early in the morning 'because there's no one else out'. So I wouldn't call the police but I'm doing my best to keep them sensible (I'm one of the only ones not retired and also working on Covid full time so can use my professional hat to get them to listen).

@Isadora2007 I do think you're being reckless but it sounds like you're not going to change your approach which is a shame.

@YesItsMeIDontCare - Thank you!

I hope not, I've got to go out twice today for valid reasons.

No.

One is a pothead who barely knows what day it is let alone what's going on in the world and the other seem to think the rules don't apply to them.

the spiteful bitch next door would she has been vile to us; worse was when she started on my partner saying our dog had been poohing on her front lawn my partner told her our dog had been pts a week before so if there was pooh on her lawn that day it certainly was not our dog as dead dogs dont pooh
that is just one incident but she is not playing by the rules she has had all and sundry popping in to hers. her granddaughter only lives over the road so no reason why she cant just say phone her tell her to come outside and talk from the end of the drive way. she is one of those people who think it dont apply to them.
its not just us everyone round here hates her as she is an evil cantankerous old cow

I don't think it's as draconian as some people think, as long as there are no gatherings and people observe distancing when they go out not sure the police have time/inclination to monitor it that much.

I didn't go out yesterday but need to do a supermarket run today which I'm dreading.

isadora2007 could you not move in with your dd for this period? Or could your dd move in with you? What you're doing is really not acceptable. Your dd's partner will be bringing the virus back to the house if he's still working.