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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

To think this is the lowest of the low and worry why my neighbours did this

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Fernie3 · 02/06/2011 14:07

my next door neighbours were banging on the wall this morning in the living room because they were pissed off at my 10 month old crying (she is ill). Just as background.

Anyway my 4 year old was playing outside and managed to get his head totally stuck in the swing, cue us spending a wonderful 15 minutes with soap and finally having to cut the middle of the swing to get him out.

And there's my neighbour hanging out her upstairs window filming us on a camera phone?!

Wtf?

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animula · 02/06/2011 17:30

I think your fear of SS is misplaced.

What, exactly, is the clip going to show? Other than you trying to free your child from a swing? And that you have completely barking neighbours who film you doing that?

SS are not from Planet Somewhere Else. They often have children themselves, and spend a lot of time going into houses/homes where people are in dire straits. A lot of them spend a lot of time trying to eke a little bit of the marmalade of social care a long, long way, very, very thin, over the bread of people's needs.

10 to 1 if your neighbour does try the reporting thing, SS aare going to be polite but dischuffed at having their time wasted by a malicious member of the public, with a huge sense of entitlement and weird, weird ways of dealing with others.

redflagsahoy · 02/06/2011 17:32

She sounds horrible. I would hate that she filmed me, I would have thought it was illegal to record a little child. What a witch. Keep a diary of all these 'incidents' so you have a record.

TheFlyingOnion · 02/06/2011 17:38

If you end up on YouTube you can ask YouTube to remove it, as she would have had to tick a little box before uploading to say she had the right to distribute the piece of footage.

They sound awful

emmanana · 02/06/2011 17:45

Sorry, but I would report them. Anyone who feels the need to film children who they don't know, especially in a domestic situation, needs to be questioned by someone in authority. it does make it any less serious that it was filmed on a mobile phone. My mobile can zoom and shoot HD quality. If they were filming for 'proof' that you were making a noise (bit far-fetched if you ask me), then at least you know.And yes, I would go as far as to make paedophile allegations. Why do these adults want a video of a child?

scurryfunge · 02/06/2011 17:50

Why would you encourage the OP to make false allegations? -that is the stuff that nuisance neighbours are made of

MizzyFizzy · 02/06/2011 17:54

"If they were filming for 'proof' that you were making a noise (bit far-fetched if you ask me)..."

Not as far fetched as you may think emmanana...my mother took air samples in glass jars as proof of her neighbours chimney polluting her garden!!

We came to know the environmental health man by his first name when we were kids.

JanMorrow · 02/06/2011 17:58

did you ask them why they were filming at the time?

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Fernie3 · 02/06/2011 18:02

We didn't ask them at the time because when they saw us looking back at them they shut they blinds and we were still trying to get his head out. They haven't been in since then

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tellyaddict · 02/06/2011 18:04

FWIW I spoke to CID via police station regarding something similar, they said tht photographing/filming in a public place is ok, even regarding children, but if someone was to point a camera into your garden and film your children it is not OK. Maybe phone your own police station and ask them for advice? Very difficult situation, if they were filming you and your child in your own garden that is a huge invasion of privacy, very odd and unacceptable. Having the police call round to them will make life very difficult afterwards but would perhaps stop them doing it again and know that you won't stand for it.

Hope you get it sorted out though.

AttillaTheMum · 02/06/2011 18:37

I would 100% phone the police and complain. I would also let it be known to the neighbourhood. What an awful woman. Prehaps send her a link to this thread so she knows 99% of us think she is a twat.

separated · 02/06/2011 19:41

Maybe they were filming you as evidence that you are noisy neighbours...? Not saying that you are, obviously, but for someone to get to the wall banging stage means that they are pretty fed up.
So sorry to hear that you are going through this; a good neighbour would offer their help rather than make things worse for you.

EvenLessNarkyPuffin · 02/06/2011 19:42

For all those talking about false allegations, I never suggested that the OP do anything of the kind. Simply that she report what happened ie she was with her son in her garden and saw the neigbour's partner at the window with his phone and she believes he was filming her son? How is that false?

scurryfunge · 02/06/2011 19:44

That second comment was directed at emmanana, ELNP.

EduStudent · 02/06/2011 19:46

It could be construed as falsifying by withholding relevant and potentially important information.

What vile neighbours, OP

TidyDancer · 02/06/2011 19:49

I would definitely phone the police. If only to ensure there is some kind of 'paper trail' if you have to escalate the complaints.

They do sound like absolute horrors to have as neighbours, so you have my every sympathy.

Hope the DCs are okay.

EvenLessNarkyPuffin · 02/06/2011 20:00

ok Scurryfunge

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