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about my neighbour filming DH?

33 replies

PurpleStorm · 19/01/2013 15:34

Dh went out this morning to clear snow - he spent quite a while clearing snow from our drive and the road / pavement just outside.

While he was outside, DS woke up from his nap, so I went into his room, opened the curtains - and spotted what looked like the neighbour across the road filming DH on a mobile phone from one of their upstairs windows. Given the way the neighbour had his phone pressed to the window, it's difficult to imagine what else he was doing.

DH has cleared snow before, so it's not a new sight. AIBU to think neighbour is being a bit odd? I'm pretty sure it can't be normal to film your neighbour's activities.

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Flisspaps · 19/01/2013 15:35

How strange

NirvanaSmellsLikeTeenMother · 19/01/2013 15:36

Weird!

ExitPursuedByABear · 19/01/2013 15:37

Perhaps he was just filming the snowy scene?

WorraLiberty · 19/01/2013 15:37

He's probably going to send it to friends/relatives in Australia or somewhere.

DonkeysDontRideBicycles · 19/01/2013 15:39

Hoping DH would fall over for a 'hilarious' upload? Sending footage of Our British Winter to foreign friends in warmer climes? Ready to sue you if he slips on the cleared area later on??

BinarySolo · 19/01/2013 15:40

Maybe they were filming the snow and how deep it is, using your dh for reference?

Or did your dh get hot, remove shirt to reveal perfect six pack then continue shovelling perhaps pausing to cuddle a cute puppy?

If neither I agree it's odd.

discorabbit · 19/01/2013 15:41

perhaps he fancies him, is he a great hunk of spunk?

BinarySolo · 19/01/2013 15:41

Damn missed the you've been framed angle.

LoopsInHoops · 19/01/2013 15:42

Are they going to injure themselves on the pavement and try to sue your DH perhaps?

Iamsparklyknickers · 19/01/2013 15:42

If what binarysolo said is correct, can you please upload the video to YouTube.

If your neighbour won't share, take your own.

WorraLiberty · 19/01/2013 15:42

The kids built a snowman yesterday and a random woman stopped and asked if they'd take a photo of her standing next to it...so she could send it to relatives in Africa.

zipzap · 19/01/2013 15:44

Did you take a video of the neighbour cuddling your dh? :)

Sallyingforth · 19/01/2013 15:44

Probably hoping for a "funny" fall to sell to a TV bloopers programme.
He was not breaking any laws.

RuleBritannia · 19/01/2013 15:46

Worral

I took a photograph with my camera of the lovely white, clean, deep snow scene in my back garden to e-mail to my son in a hot country where the current temperatures are around 30°C so he could show his little boys who've never seen snow. My photo also caught the falling snow. My back garden. It was obviously the OP's DH who was being photographed.

I suppose the neighbour's back garden could have been full of overflowing dustbins, discarded washing machines and other litter as well as mountains of dog poo and that's the reason he photographed at the front.

sooperdooper · 19/01/2013 15:47

He was just filming the snow in general surely, people always take photos of the snow

therewearethen · 19/01/2013 15:52

Do they think he's claiming some sort of disability benefit and thus getting proof he's not entitled to it or something? Or like the others have said is he particularly fit and hunky Wink

maddening · 19/01/2013 15:52

Maybe he was hoping for man falling over in snow footage for you've been framed

PandaOnAPushBike · 19/01/2013 15:55

How can he have been filming your husband if your husband was down at street level and the neighbour's phone was pressed against the upstairs window? The angle is all wrong. More likely he was filming something on the same level as him surely? Like the bedroom window opposite perhaps?

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PurpleStorm · 19/01/2013 16:07

Panda - that's a very disturbing notion. Our bedroom window is opposite the window that our neighbour was standing in.

I hadn't considered the you've been framed idea. Although DH didn't fall over, so neighbour would have been disappointed there!

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PurpleStorm · 19/01/2013 16:08

And DH couldn't double for a hunky male model.

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Birdsgottafly · 19/01/2013 16:33

If you clear snow from a public walkway and an accident happens, you can be sued.

The same can apply to your path, there have been cases of sueingin such cases being successful.

Clearing snow can cause the surface to freeze more easily and make it more dangerous.

Birdsgottafly · 19/01/2013 16:34

However people are uploading snow pictures onto FB, so perhaps he was doing something similar.

BadgersRetreat · 19/01/2013 16:37

not sure about that birds

in Calgary we are legally obliged to clear the pavement outside our house within 24 hours of the snow stopping falling.

if we don't and someone falls we can be sued. Or if someone complains the City will clear it and send us a bill...

BadgersRetreat · 19/01/2013 16:39

durr hit send too soon

so they must make us to that for a reason - it must be safer

the bits not cleared, when its trodden down and freezes overnight it's far more slippery

LadyMargolotta · 19/01/2013 16:45

Badgerretreat - same here. All residents have to clear the snow in front of their property, or you can be sued. If you clear the snow properly, then there is no problem with ice.

Everyone helps each other. My lovely neighbour cleared the snow infront of my house.

If you live in an appartment, then there are strict rules about whose job it is to clear the snow.

I don't understand the logic of the British rules. I rather I do understand the logic; and yet it's still illogical.

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