To think you should keep you nose out of others business

[EXmrsmascarahead]

Especially when you don't have any of your facts right.

If you're not sure or are uncomfortable with something I do, then ask me about it, I won't bite your head off.

Running to the authorities will only serve to really piss me off.

Rant over!

YABU

Oh dear! Something has happened.
Hope you are ok

That depends what it is and why someone feels the need to 'stick their nose in'

If I felt there was a chance that a child was being abused/harmed then I would feel no qualms about sticking my nose in.

Even though I don't know WTF you're talking about, it sounds interesting and I want to poke my nose in

What facts don't 'they' have right?

What kind of thing are you expecting to be asked?

Who's run to the authorities?

I need to know.

Ok - I'm nosy. What did you do?

But the world would stop turning! What would people talk about?

YABU for being obscure!

I know nothing about you, yet I am majorly intrigued! What's the story, We need information.

Irony of ironies really, posting on the busiest part of MN telling people to keep their noses out

If it's about something important perhaps you could link to the thread unless just attention seeking ?

Spartan amount of info here.

It all depends. Did you force your baby to hangglide off the roof of your house? If so, probably best if people didn't keep their noses out.

Did your kid eat some pick 'n' mix off the floor of the supermarket and someone reported it, probably nosy sod.

Tons of shades of grey for every situation. Without info, ti's hard to tell.

One of my neighbours has kindly complained to the police wildlife liaison officer about my 'distressed' birds, the birds which at this moment are sitting very happily on their perches watching the world go by waiting for their tea.

If the neighbours had asked then I would have told them that birds make noise, why they make the noise etc etc.

Calming down now

Maybe they're pissed off with the noise ?

And not attention seeking, just wanted to have a moan and DH is not answering phone so I posted on here instead

What kinds of birds are they? Are they very noisy? Do you live in a flat/semi?

Are you more upset because they said your birds were distressed or because they were complaining about noise?

It doesn't really matter why birds make noise etc. If they are making it and often enough it would be enough to drive me loopy, personally. There's a parrot at a local convenience shop near us and I just about end up running out of the shop after having to listen to it squalking for 5 mins.

That probably doesn't help you. Does it?
You are right though.They could have been nice and spoken to you first.

Is one of the birds a pigeon?

Birds of prey, they make noise at tea time, just to make sure I remember they need feeding. The complaint was about they being distressed, which neighbour believed you can tell by the fact they make noise.

Ah you're one of those people who wants to be asked what's wrong rather than just saying what's wrong. That's annoying and usually kept to facebook where perpetrators are deleted. YABU.

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I am boggling at why anyone would want to keep birds of prey

are you running a rescue centre?

Ah...
Those kinds of birds. How wonderful. I love birds of prey.

Where do you keep them though? Do you think this is about noise and not your treatment of them? Having a menagerie squalking away could drive neighbours crazy. You may do as well to put a flyer through the letterbox of all your near neighbours explaining what you have, why you have them and what their behaviour is. And perhaps invite them over to have a look so it personalises them.

I rescue them in order to afford to do this I also have to display some.

Can the birds not carry the irritating neighbours away a la the Go Compare caveman ad?

It's not a menagerie squalking away, it's one bird that shouts for 5 mins at tea time, when she sees her food.

I can't invite them over to look as it means I would need to obtain a zoo license. When I take them out to go flying I do speak to any of the neighbours that want to ask questions

That's an idea chocolate, I need to make some calculations so see if it's possible

I don't think your neighbour has done anything wrong really.

It sounds as though they acted in good faith and were genuinely worried for the bird's welfare.

Not everyone wants to approach the person who they see as causing the potential problem IYSWIM.

So no harm done.

Problem is IF you had been doing something to harm them and she had asked you would have come up with an excuse to protect yourself. She did the right thing handing it to people who know what they are taking about who can visit see all is right, thank the neighbour for the concern and reassure all is ok.