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Brazen and Strange requests on NextDoor

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Eastie77Returns · 14/08/2021 17:52

I don’t know if it’s just a reflection of the people who live in my area or if Nextdoor just attracts strange people in general but some of the posts on my neighbourhood page are a just a mix of brazen entitlement and weirdnessGrin

Today a man has posted a long message explaining he desperately needs someone with a car to pick up his relative from Heathrow. He is not willing to pay but has offered to buy the driver a Costa coffee by way of compensation. For context, it would be a 40 mile round trip. Residents have responded asking why he cannot meet his relative himself or take the Heathrow Express/tube if he doesn’t have a car. He has replied that he doesn’t want to travel on public transport, his relative cannot take the Express as the ticket is “not in her budget”. When a (male) respondent offered to help the poster replied no thanks, the driver must be a womanHmm

Another woman has written an abusive message criticising people who offered to help fund her 5 year old’s birthday party and then backed out. She posted a week ago stating she needed several hundreds of pounds to buy a bike and organise a party. Apparently someone sent her a PM offering to meet her outside Morrison’s to buy her a birthday cake and didn’t show up. Another offered to transfer her money and didn’t. A third person offered something else and didn’t follow through and so it went on. Obviously sad if true but…who goes onto a public site and makes these kinds of requestsShock

Last week someone drew an intricate picture of a missing shoe. They lost it in a park whilst sunbathing(!) and said they were willing to pay compensation as the shoe had sentimental value (why they didn’t just post a picture of the surviving shoe is anyone’s guess).

I admit I just go on ND for the LOLs now!

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SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 14/08/2021 19:06

We have one woman who posts endless jokes, and a man who puts quotation marks round random words, inadvertently turning everything to sheer filth: ‘Wanted: “handyman” to “help” with light “gardening” jobs.’

AGirlCalledJohnny · 14/08/2021 19:06

[quote Eastie77Returns]@AGirlCalledJohnny I just checked out that Twitter account and I was not disappointed. My favourite is the vegan runner who asked his neighbours to please keep their windows closed when cooking meat so he doesn’t have to deal with the offensive smell when out joggingGrin[/quote]
I missed that one! The audacity of it 😂

GetTaeFuck · 14/08/2021 19:12

I came back from a week away to find an invite in my mail, I joined, it has not disappointed.

Whyemseeaye · 14/08/2021 19:14

We have someone who has written what looks like a 400 word essay on sandwich spread Confused

They write, at length, about the trials and tribulations of getting to the supermarket only to discover their preferred brand wasn’t available.

They then visited all the supermarkets in the local area to compare price. At great difficulty and expense to themselves.

They did manage to find their preferred brand at a suitable price eventually…but sadly it was in a non-standard container size Shock So they’ve written to Heinz!

They will keep us all posted on what the response from Heinz is. Thank goodness for that! I won’t be able to rest until I have all the details (if it is humanly possible to have any more details on this subject?!)

If this isn’t ridiculous enough there are six heartfelt responses to this nonsense! Talking about getting in touch too, strength in numbers, outrageous etc. etc.

LobotomisedIceSkatingFan · 14/08/2021 19:17

The mum sounds a bit bonkers, but people can go a bit crazy when desperate. If I was on the bones of my arse I couldn't go in Nextdoor to ask people to fund a birthday party but, but the same token, it's pretty fucking shabby to offer to buy a cake from Morrison's and not turn up. A few years back, when I lived in a city, I gave a homeless bloke a few quid and asked if he wanted to come and eat with me at a fast food place. He said a couple of times teenagers used to say they'd buy him a burger and then run off when they got to the front of the queue, laughing 😞

We get a lot of posts relating to those commuting rural crimes, and dodgy doorstep sellers. Posters are usually united in their conviction that they're travellers or illegal immigrants, and that they're always casing the joint in order to come back to steal your Evoque and tape and murder your kids for good measure.

purplecorkheart · 14/08/2021 19:17

I kind of what to read the sandwich spread post.

Our was quite boring but in the last few days we have had people looking for specific baby monitors (eyewatering expensive) Sofas -new only.

nameyourshorta · 14/08/2021 19:18

@Whyemseeaye When you mentioned strength in numbers, I imagined a little baked bean centre stage with a crowd full of other beans cheering him on Grin

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Eastie77Returns · 14/08/2021 19:19

@SomethingNastyInTheBallPool

We have one woman who posts endless jokes, and a man who puts quotation marks round random words, inadvertently turning everything to sheer filth: ‘Wanted: “handyman” to “help” with light “gardening” jobs.’
Grin

I think a lot of older residents post innocent requests for help that can easily be misconstrued.

There are a lot of upfront posts for, ahem, services though. One man regularly asks if anyone would like to join him and his wife in a hotel for an evening of fun.

I also never really know what to make of couples who are “new to the area” and are looking for people to go “walking in the park” with or such like. I suppose it could be legit and I’m just a typically suspicious Londoner!

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MarchXX · 14/08/2021 19:21

Ours went through a spate of dog-napping posts i.e. people warning of a certain type of van in the vicinity of dog walkers or strange men lurking. They may have had a point, but some replies were not sympathetic. Not had any of that type for a few months now goes off to check again.

SuzyDaarling · 14/08/2021 19:23

Ours is an endless loop of missing cats interspersed with 2 tradesmen who take pictures of every flipping job they do with comments like “Another satisfied customer.” There’s the occasional ‘what was that buzzing/droning/loud banging noise around 3 am. Then there is a smattering of racist xenophobes and 3 anti vax and general conspiracy nutters one of whom has been told to stop emailing our local MP about 5G masts/absence of birds and bees/covid being a huge worldwide plot etc etc. All this and the people trying to flog their old clothes and household crap for vastly inflated prices.

Whyemseeaye · 14/08/2021 19:26

[quote nameyourshorta]@Whyemseeaye When you mentioned strength in numbers, I imagined a little baked bean centre stage with a crowd full of other beans cheering him on Grin[/quote]
🤣🤣🤣

MrsTerryPratchett · 14/08/2021 19:30

I haven't RTFT but Brazen and Strange would be a great name for something. Shop? Band?

recreationalcalpol · 14/08/2021 19:33

Ours is fully insane about cats:

‘Has anyone lost a cat? This ginger one is in my garden’ - no, it’s not lost, just a cat being a cat…

Or

‘NEW CAT ON THE BLOCK! Is this your cat? I’d really like to know its name’

Mental.

MrsSkylerWhite · 14/08/2021 19:35

It’s all dog poo on ours Grin

beigebrownblue · 14/08/2021 19:40

I joined with a name that I don't usually use to see what it was like.

I agree, some of it is weird.

example

'Like to warn people that my husband opened the door to a naked man last night'.

?

I was glad I hadn't used my usual name. I thought I had mental health issues...

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Eastie77Returns · 14/08/2021 19:44

@Mummyford

Oh, and people coming on in huge numbers to ask why there's a helicopter overhead. Because it's bloody London. That's why.
Yes we get a lot of “did anyone hear a motorbike backfiring at 3am” or “why was there a helicopter buzzing around last night at 11pm”
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bruffin · 14/08/2021 19:44

I refused to use Nextdoor, seems a pretty dodgy organisation in the first place.

EBearhug · 14/08/2021 19:45

They write, at length, about the trials and tribulations of getting to the supermarket only to discover their preferred brand wasn’t available.

It's probably a couple of decades since I had sandwich spread, but I didn't know anyone other than Heinz did it!

Teaandakitkat · 14/08/2021 19:47

I logged off ours when it became a daily competition about who was getting their covid vaccine first. "I'm 44yrs and 332 days old, at xyz surgery, my surname begins with an A and I haven't had my vaccine letter yet but my friend who's 73 days younger and her surname starts with a B got her letter last week. Has anyone else my exact age with a name beginning with A had their letter?"

Dontforgetyourbrolly · 14/08/2021 19:51

Our Next door is much more sane than local fb
So many dogs " escaping " day after day , dogs either being looked for or photos of " is this your dog " . Saying this, me and ds walk everywhere locally and have NEVER seen a dog roaming free without an owner.

They are barking mad Grin

SingToTheSky · 14/08/2021 19:53

@MrsTerryPratchett

I haven't RTFT but Brazen and Strange would be a great name for something. Shop? Band?
I would totally eat at a cafe called brazen and strange! It would have outlandishly extravagant cakes.
AlexCabot · 14/08/2021 19:54

@MrsTerryPratchett

I haven't RTFT but Brazen and Strange would be a great name for something. Shop? Band?
Title of your sex tape?
SingToTheSky · 14/08/2021 19:55

I’ve not joined our nextdoor, DH is on it but hasn’t reported anything interesting yet!

Off to look at that Twitter feed, hope I can on the browser as I also don’t use Twitter

poopyface · 14/08/2021 19:58

Please can you post screenshot of “the shoe”

Ivegotanewfridge · 14/08/2021 19:58

One of my local groups, a more anything goes one, had one regular who would repeatedly post “anyone know why an ambulance just went up Dean street?” Or “2 police cars just gone up Mitchell road, anyone know what’s happened?” She got told repeatedly to mind her own business and respect privacy. She was nicknamed Norris and the group admin changed the profile picture to one of Norris Cole