To have called the police?

[mythical]

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??

Oh it would KILL me not knowing [bugrin]

Update!
My husband received a phonecall from the police this morning! They were a bit vague but apparently the guy has been arrested as he was also wanted for other several incidents. Unclear if the guy was an intruder or the neighbour!!
But they thanked us for the call! Lol

Well done you and your DH!

Interesting.....

I didn't know the police updated unless you were the victim of the crime. Are they supposed to disclose information like that about the person they arrested?

Not that that's your problem of course I'm a nosy bugger so it would have been killing me to not know

I've phoned the emergency services loads of times for all sorts of things, better safe than sorry.

Well we don't actually know WHO the guy is that got arrested, dh just said they rang to thank us for alerting them and that they arrested this guy that also had several other convictions!
I'm not nosy enough to knock on the door and ask though so i'm happy they updated us! :o

I'm sure you are glad you rang the Police. I did it once when I knew our next door neighbours were on holiday. Just the other side of our back wall, I could heard their back door being broken into so called the Police. I also called the next door neighbour's in-law who lived about a mile away and he arrived while I waited out the front for him. The Police arrived in an unmarked car and clmbed over the back wall to the breaker in. He turned outr to be a relative of the neighbour and the in-law sort of recognised him but didn't know him very well. The breaker-in was drunk though and was taken away. I still see the in-law in Sainsbo's sometimes and he always acknowledges me.

Oh, and on Crimewatch years ago, there was a drawing of a supposed rapist. I had to call the Police then, too, becuse it was the image of the bloke living on the other side of our house. He disappeared.

Please don't think I live in a crime-ridden area. It's really rather upmarket and there's been nothing like those two examples in the last 20 years.

Nothing to do with burglary, but I phoned the police when I was driving on the motorway and a car with four laughing teenagers came hurtling down the fast lane in the wrong direction. That was really scary as that part of the road was two lane.

It was at midnight too, so visibility wasn't great. The operator sounded quite excited when I told her - must have been a quiet night!

Imperial that's awful! In my first year at university I was, ahem, getting to know a boy who was a bit rougher than most people I know. I thought it was all terribly exciting until he told me about the time he had to drive the wrong way up the M6 toll because he didn't have any money to pay the booth (although this must happen often enough for them to have a system in place?). His argument was "the M6 toll is really quiet, so it was safe".

Never saw him again after that. I realised I like my friends a bit more boring and a bit less likely to kill people.

Good on you Mythical, everyone should have neighbours like you.
DH is a police officer and we've had a conversation about this before and is resolute the police want you to call in this situation.