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AIBU?

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To have called the police?

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mythical · 08/04/2012 01:00

just getting into bed when me and dh had a bit of a "did you hear that??" moment. We heard some loud bangs coming from a house 2 doors down, they got quite loud at some point then we heard glass being smashed. At that point dh called the police and explained what was happening. Banging still going on. Even if it's not a break-in ( it sounds like it!!!) aibu to think most people would do the same considering it's 1 I clock in the morning and if it is the neighbours they shouldn't be making this noise anyway??

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JaneFonda · 08/04/2012 01:06

YANBU - you sound like great neighbours, and good for you for not just ignoring it.

PastGrace · 08/04/2012 01:06

YANBU, I don't think. Did you call emergency or non emergency police and what did the operator think? I've had to call ambulances a few times when I've been unsure if one was really needed (eg. looked out of my window to see someone lying face down on the floor, not breathing. Probably passed out drunk but possibly having suffered giant heart attack) and the operator has always said it was exactly right to call and not a waste of time.

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mythical · 08/04/2012 01:09

I think dh rang the emergency line and operator said she's sending first response team out ASAP and do we want a phonecall or knock on the door with update! Err phonecall please :p

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PastGrace · 08/04/2012 01:10

Do you know if the neighbours are in? I agree with Jane, you sound lovely to have around!

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mythical · 08/04/2012 01:15

We don't know the neighbours that live there (we've just moved in with Mil) but it's a v v quiet road usually! Just waiting for an update now (whilst peeking out through the curtains!!)

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NatashaBee · 08/04/2012 01:39

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Hecubasdaughter · 08/04/2012 02:09

YANBU and I would hope neighbours would do the same for me.

Yawner247 · 08/04/2012 02:12

Yanbu very neighbourly of you to ring the police due to your concern!

HateBeingCantDoUpMyJeans · 08/04/2012 02:20

Just the sort of neighbours I would want.

Whilst you are waiting for your update I'll will tell you a story of my beloved dad....it must be about 8-10 years ago now so he was around 60 at the time and one afternoon he heard voices in next doors garden so he got his ladder and it against the 7ft fence and had a look and there were two chaps about to break in so my dad asks them what they think they are doing and they scrapper .

StrawberryMojito · 08/04/2012 02:24

YANBU. Police are happy to investigate this sort if thing. No problem with ringing the 9s if you think it may be a burglary even if it ends up being nothing. Can't guarantee their response time tho, especially on a sat night.

zipzap · 08/04/2012 02:26

Yanbu. I've just nearly called the police myself and for much less. I've just spent too much time on mm and come downstairs thinking it was very cold down here, to discover the back door wide open. My immediate thought was aarrgghh police arrrgh but I did go and wake dh up instead. He's checked every room and cupboard (I would have done it, I just wanted him to be awake in case there was somebody in here or something - a cat etc- but once he'd been woken up he did insist on doing it and I stayed back with my hand on the phone instead).
Obviously nothing found and I am glad I didn't call the police but it is now half an hour later and I still am procrastinating instead of getting into bed and going to sleep as I've never found the door open by itself before - day or night! Didn't help that I'd been reading the local parish magazine that was delivered this week, which had a note from the local neighbourhood pc about the unusual spate of robberies and thefts locally recently...

So you called them When you had a proper something that was worth calling about. I'm sure they would rather know for something like that!

MrsHende · 08/04/2012 02:40

Well done you for calling, absolutely the right thing to do.

Any update? Can you see the house from where you are? Have the police
arrived yet?

StuckUpTheFezziwigTree · 08/04/2012 02:57

Definitely the right thing to do. Well done.

MrsBonkers · 08/04/2012 03:58

Now I want to know what happened......

HillyWallaby · 08/04/2012 04:24

So do I!

kittyandthefontanelles · 08/04/2012 04:39

Sooo? What happened? Do tell.....

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mythical · 08/04/2012 07:48

Sorry sleep took over!
We saw the police investigate around the back of their garden - there's a narrow path - the smashing was still going on ( which in some way is a good thing as it helped them find the house and we didn't look like idiots for calling!!)
They then went around the front and we heard some loud voices & everything stopped after! It must have been the neighbours as I assume there would've been more noise/commotion if it was intruders.
Apparently the police won't ring back with updates unless they need more directions - says husband and "no, we can't ring the local police station to ask!" says husband .
If it was the neighbours wtaf were they doing at 1-2 am smashing glass and banging!? Did they really not think what it must sound like?!

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EmilyPollifaxInnocentTourist · 08/04/2012 07:50

It will be domestic violence.

QuintessentialShadows · 08/04/2012 07:53

Good that you called. Especially if it was a domestic.

DumSpiroSpero · 08/04/2012 07:55

Could just be that they came back late from a night out and had forgotten their keys (hopefully).

HateBeingCantDoUpMyJeans · 08/04/2012 07:56

Good I'm glad they went.

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mythical · 08/04/2012 08:12

The best way I could explain the sounds - if you took a large hammer in the back garden and started taking your wooden shed apart by smashing it in - that's what it sounded like!

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HateBeingCantDoUpMyJeans · 08/04/2012 09:44

[buconfused]

MamaMaiasaura · 08/04/2012 09:49

sound like DV to me too, having had that happen with a neighbour.

ajandjjmum · 08/04/2012 09:51

If in doubt, I would always call the police, but......

Some years ago friends of my parents were at home on NYE and saw the lights in the house opposite turn on and off quickly. They knew the couple were out at another neighbours party, so they called the police and explained what had happened. They had a call minutes later asking them to stay indoors, the police had the front and back of the neighbour's house covered, and were 'going in', which they proceeded to do. Imagine the embarrassment of the guy who owned the house, who had popped back with another woman from the party he was at - presumably to show her his etchings!!!!

My parents' friends never confessed that it was them who called the police!

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