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AIBU?

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to be worried that I am living next door to Patrick Bateman

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cupcakesandbunting · 18/10/2010 19:47

Disclaimer: I have an over-active imagination and am very paranoid Grin

Over the last two days, DH and I have killed around 40 bluebottle flies. I killed 12 in the space of ten minutes this afternoon. We were worried that we had an infestation but we've poked around in the loft/cellar and nothing. All our windows are closed so they're not getting in that way.

We just went outside to investigate around by the bins and DH pointed out that in nextdoor neighbour's back window there were seven of these flies.

He is a bit of an oddball tbh. Since his girlfriend left he's been doing weird stuff like not going to work but wearing a suit and coming and going at weird hours. He never seems to have visitors and he clips his hedge with nail scissors.

You know what I'm thinking. DH has suggested it too but he is more of a fantasist than even I am Grin AIBU in thinking there might be a dead body nextdoor?

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scurryfunge · 18/10/2010 19:49

If you are concerned for his welfare and he is not responding to a knock on the door, then call the Police, if you think he has come to harm.

Grumpla · 18/10/2010 19:49

This happened to a friend of mine and they noticed the smell way before the flies. Have you knocked on the door?

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cupcakesandbunting · 18/10/2010 19:51

Oh no, I'm not worried about him being dead. He's alive. I saw him today.

I said to DH that we ought to knock on the door and ask about the flies but DH reckons that if he has killed somebody that meddling will only put us next on his list.

Yes, I did laugh in his face.

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JamieLeeCurtis · 18/10/2010 19:51

I would investigate if I were you - knock on his door and if he's not answering call non-emergency Police number

JamieLeeCurtis · 18/10/2010 19:52

X post - Oh I see .......

scurryfunge · 18/10/2010 19:53

He is probably just careless with food hygiene and the like. Is it a rented property?

Call Environmental Health.

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cupcakesandbunting · 18/10/2010 19:54

No Scurry, it's his property. I'm not sure about his lax food hygiene. He seems tidy/clean to the point of being anal.

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scurryfunge · 18/10/2010 19:57

Maybe ask him outright if he is experiencing a problem with flies at the moment?

Did you actually see his girlfriend leave? Wink

MrsMellowdrummer · 18/10/2010 19:58

Are you sure they're bluebottles?

It's the right time of year for Cluster Flies - we've just had our annual visitation. They're big, look bluebottlish, and are very slow and dozy. You get LOADS of them (and I mean loads), on windows, usually on the first sunny day after a cold spell, about this time of year. For some reason they return year after year to the same spot.

We get them, and so do our next door neighbours. Not much you can do to stop them it seems - I just accept that there will be one or two days when they appear, and I hoover them up. Came home last week, and there must have been 200 of the bloody things on our hall window. Horrible. But not necessarily a sign that you have dead bodies in the vicinity! Smile

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cupcakesandbunting · 18/10/2010 20:00

The girlfriend comes and goes sporadicallyGrin

MrsMellowdrummer, they are very slow and dozy. I will Google cluster flies now and put my inner Vera Duckworth-style gossip monger to bed Wink

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scurryfunge · 18/10/2010 20:01

Sniff the letter box....you'll know if there is a body in there....unmistakeable odour.

MrsMellowdrummer · 18/10/2010 20:03

If that's what they are, the good news is that it's not as a result of bad hygiene or anything nasty. Just flies coming in off the fields, and finding a nice warm spot to hibernate. Don't think they're considered a public health issue...

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cupcakesandbunting · 18/10/2010 20:07

I still prefer speculating that next door is a potential moider scene.

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MrsMellowdrummer · 18/10/2010 20:30

Well, you never know... Wink

AllGoodNamesGone · 18/10/2010 20:43

Could be a dead bird or something. We had one die and fall down our chimney once and were invaded by bluebottles - disgusting!

eToTheiPi · 18/10/2010 21:56

Cluster flies are horrid, my parents have them and the only way to get rid is to hoover. They have a dyson - my dd loves watching them spinning around the collector! Blush. You may as well do them then as they'll only be dead in a heap on the floor the following day!

She also wants them to get more spiders to help clean the house (she's 3!)

LynLiesNomoreZombieFest · 18/10/2010 22:57

YANBU. I went to the pub for lunch with DD last week.

When we left, we got into the car and noticed that the car next to us was completely covered with flies.

There were about 20 cars in the car park and none of the others had a single fly on them.

I thought they must have a body in the boot.

hmc · 18/10/2010 23:03

We had a bit of a fly infestation centered around our kitchen around 4-6 weeks ago. It lasted for a few days and at its zenith I was swatting a dozen a day! Am quite anally hygienic when it comes to kitchen and bathroom hygiene so cannot account for it. They went as suddenly as they arrived!

hmc · 18/10/2010 23:05

Just read rest of thread about cluster flies. Probably fits - especially as we is in the country

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