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to film my neighbours in the shower/on the toilet and put them on You Tube?

149 replies

HarrietSchulenberg · 21/02/2012 23:29

My house backs on to another, there's approx. 50ft between us. Their bathroom window backs on to my garden. They have no curtain or blind in there and every time they shower I can see them, plain as day. It's worse at night as they have the light on so I can practically see every hair on their arses when they get off the toilet and wipe their furry backsides.

I tried to ignore it. In fact I ignored it for about 3 years. But last summer I went round and told them that I could see straight into their bathroom, and they might like to think about putting a blind up. I was very "english" about it and probably sounded like a female Hugh Grant. They weren't in the slightest bit embarrased or apologetic, and they insisted that it was OK as they have obscured glass. But, they did say that they'd put a towel up over the window when they were in there. Which they did for a while.

And now they don't. There are at least 3 of them in that house, more when the grown up daughter has her boyfriend to stay. They seem to spend hours in the bloody bathroom - every time I go out to the bin, every time I look out of a window, there they bloody are - naked and either wiping their arses or lumbering out of the shower.

One of them is a dinner lady at the Junior School FFS. And don't start me on the time they had super-noisy sex in the back garden (H and I got the toy binoculars out to see if we could spot them, but they were behind their shed so we couldn't).

So, WIBU to film the bastards and put them on You Tube, or should I break into their house and put a blind up when they're out?

OP posts:
GladysLeap · 22/02/2012 13:46

The houses over the back from us are further away than 50ft so it's luckily not the same people as the OP but we have similar shows most days. One of our neighbours houses seems to have about 4 men and a woman living there and one of them is always in the bathroom with the light on.

Standing at the sink washing up we can see them showering, the younger one picking his spots in the mirror. Luckily the window isn't low enough to see the toilet. We did wonder whether to put a note through the door asking them to put up a blind. perhaps this thread will prompt them to check.

TheIIlusiveShadow · 22/02/2012 14:00

When the neighbours are out, to encourage an opaque mould growth, sneak over and smear the outside of the window with a Muller Fruit Corner .

SarahStratton · 22/02/2012 14:09

eyebleaches at all the lolling>

MustControlFistOfDeath · 22/02/2012 14:13

I would so love the neighbours to come back unexpectedly while the OP is up a ladder at their window with a pot of yoghurt....Grin

MustControlFistOfDeath · 22/02/2012 14:15

lol at Stratters Wink

SarahStratton · 22/02/2012 14:20

So traumatised I lorst a

TalkinPeace2 · 22/02/2012 14:23

do you have a really powerful torch?
shine it at their window from your garden
they'll get the point that you really can tell what they are doing in the bathroom!

hiddenhome · 22/02/2012 14:29

tbh, I think there's a useful money making opportunity here.

You need to film them, transfer onto dvds then sell down the pub. You'll get all the dirty macs buying them. You could call the movies things like 'Peep Show' and 'Amaetur Toilet Antics'. You'll make a fortune Grin

Dotty0 · 22/02/2012 14:45

I'm so glad my bathroom has no window!

When I first met ex first time I stayed at his the bathroom window (positioned behind the toilet & looking out on a busy main road across from a pub) had clear glass & a blind which he hadn't closed, cue middlle of the night naked commando crawl in the dark to get to the window & close the blind before I could wee so those outside didn't get a show!

minitoot · 22/02/2012 14:47

Shut the curtains? Why are they open from 7 pm to midnight anyway? It's dark out!

sodapops · 22/02/2012 15:04

We used to live in a house that backed on to another row of houses.

One evening, DS2 came running downstairs shouting "X was having a poo and I could see him wiping his bum, from my bed!"

Fortunately we moved a few weeks later and I have never trusted 'privacy' glass again!

spicyorange · 22/02/2012 15:10

Pmsl Grin.

Mind i have nothing up at my bathroom window Blush in my defence no one overlooks us think i might get dp to go out and see what he can see at night with the light on.

Lunabelly · 22/02/2012 16:28

Our privacy glass is very patterny, but I have now developed a raging paranoia, cheers! Thankfully the bog window is high up and has a monster fern obscuring it.

I discovered that bamboo blinds were see through after a neighbour remarked on certain Things. I'm still traumatised, and now use them to cover garden fences in a zen-type way. (I was actually bloody mortified and haven't 100% trusted window treatments since) Blush

nobodyspecial · 22/02/2012 16:31

Why don't you make a massive banner and hang it outside your window saying:

"Hello there!! Hope you have a nice crap!!"

Or, you could get one of those laser pens and shine it on their "front bums" when they're weeing/crapping. That would be fun.

feedbackforfree · 22/02/2012 16:38

Nobodyspecial - laughing out loud at your laser pen comment - this thread has cheered me up as I've been off sick today. Thank you mumsnet.....

belleepoch · 22/02/2012 17:13

You could use the laser pen to draw willies on the dinner lady and boobies on the men!

Hairytoes · 22/02/2012 17:31

I think you need to go and take a picture tonight and stick it in your profile pics.
I need to see the evidence!

Adversecamber · 22/02/2012 18:28

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newbiedoobiedoo · 22/02/2012 18:40

This is one of the funniest things I've read in ages!

TalkinPeace2 · 22/02/2012 18:41

Ooh OOH
one of our laser pointers has thingy so you can make a shape
if you make binoculars shape and point it at their window they will SEE that they are being watched !!!

BluddyMoFo · 22/02/2012 18:49

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Nagoo · 22/02/2012 19:10

please please please shine the laser pen at her minge.

PLEASE.

fridakahlo · 22/02/2012 19:56

Thank goodness for mumsnet, without this thread this problem would have never come to light!

shockers · 22/02/2012 20:09

Bouncing turrets and laser binoculars Grin Grin Grin.

Hanikam · 22/02/2012 20:17

Errrr, feeling worried now cos we don't have a blind in our bathroom, only the obscure glass stuff. Our bathroom is opposite the bedroom window of the house behind. If our neighbours really looked I'm sure they would see some 18 rated material. Till now I never really thought about it (hey, hope it's not us we are discussing in here Blush