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For a film crew to block my front door?!

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Lj8893 · 20/10/2013 14:49

I live in a small town and there is currently a blockbuster film being filmed right outside my front door. Its a period setting so they have done loads of set decoration all around, including blocking up some windows etc.

Yesterday my dp came home (I wasn't in) and our front door had a door shaped block wedged in front. He grabbed a crew or security member who moved it and he told them it can't be there as I am due to go into labour any day (I'm 39 weeks) and it is our only exit/entrance so for fire and health and safety reasons it can't be there, or we at least need to know when!

Earlier on he popped in from work, and it was there again. He repeated the same speech from yesterday and they moved it, and told him when its up it will only be for 2 mins max.

Its up there again, and has been for nearly 45 minutes!!! I have rang and left a voicemail for the assistant location manager (his number was put on a info leaflet through our door a week ago).

Essentially I'm trapped in my house, and yes I could push it out with some force but that's not really fair on me is it?!

Its actually starting to make me feel quite panicky now.

AIBU?! Or what should I do?!

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Lj8893 · 21/10/2013 20:33

Hahaha I might start wandering around the windows in my full stretch marked huge naked body!! With nipple tassels on!

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YouTheCat · 21/10/2013 20:33

Now is the time of year for some full on Halloween decorations and some luminous skeletons. Wink

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Lj8893 · 21/10/2013 20:33

Ooooo and maybe some red light district style lighting!

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Sallyingforth · 21/10/2013 20:36

Invite some friends round for a party!

Angelodelighto · 21/10/2013 20:36

Hope this wasn't your DP

FrankelInFoal · 21/10/2013 20:38

Use this link to contact the right people.

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Lj8893 · 21/10/2013 20:39

God no angelo but I did say I hope the police don't start thinking the angry pregnant lady who lives at is too blame!!

The night that happened there was a big local football match on so its suspected it was some drunken football fans.

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Lj8893 · 21/10/2013 20:40

Thanks frankel

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Angelodelighto · 21/10/2013 20:45

That's good !
I never knew filming could be so disruptive Halloween Shock

ConfusedPixie · 21/10/2013 20:57

Jeez, what twats. Call the police if they do it again. And keep calling them. Maybe even call an ambulance because you think you've gone into labour Wink bad idea I am only joking. Sort of.

C0ffeeN0biscuit · 21/10/2013 21:06

Yeh film makers do think they're god, and that their film about real lives trump your real life.
A well known film director was film outside a row of pwriod houaes near me. A woman i know left her houae at one to collwct her youngest then returned with him at about 1.20, then left at 2 to collect her eldest. When she was walking back to her houae twenty minutes later both kids in tow he yelled oh fuck off princess at her what a tosser. Award winning film director . There was also a power cut affecctin the area and that was cauaed by the film crew!!!

deepfriedsage · 21/10/2013 21:07

Don't waste an ambulance on a false alarm, please.

Go open a top window moo as if in labour and scream for them to move the door block.

YouTheCat · 21/10/2013 21:10

Name and shame, COffee Grin

jellyboatsandpirates · 21/10/2013 21:15

If they are blocking your only exit, and with enough force to actually delay your DH from getting out to work on time by a whole half hour, that's not exactly "we'll move it straight away or you can shift it easily," is it?!
That's outrageous, and a surely a fire hazard? What happened if you needed to get out in an emergency?
I'm sure your local fire station would be very interested to know if they're doing that. They might go have words with them!

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Lj8893 · 21/10/2013 21:16

coffee that's awful!!!

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Wibblypiglikesbananas · 21/10/2013 21:18

That is terrible. My DB is a TV producer and what this company are doing is highly unethical at best, downright dangerous/illegal at worst.

Name and shame and go to the press, I say. How dare they alter your property, without your permission? It's crazy! And they actually held you and DP hostage in there when he was trying to go to work?! I'd have been tempted to call the fire brigade to rescue me. Seriously, what would have happened if you'd needed to get to the hospital quickly? Ok, might not happen in quite the same way, but I had an emergency c-section yesterday just 90mins after my waters went at home. That half an hour could have been the difference between life and death for me and my DS.

It sounds like your MIL said they could use the pub but your property was specifically excluded - hence why do they believe they have the right to work there?

WilsonFrickett · 21/10/2013 21:22

They are being complete cocks. Demand to see their risk assessment. Demand to see a producer - not a location manager. Explain that their system isn't working for you and that unless they come up with a better one (like having a runner specifically stationed outside your door) you will be keeping your door open for the duration and wandering freely through their shot.

Stuff like that gives me the rage - and I'm an ex tv producer. There is just no need for it.

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Lj8893 · 21/10/2013 21:26

My mil told them they could use the pub etc but they could not touch our door due to me being heavily pregnant.

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ChasedByZombees · 21/10/2013 21:28

There is no way that you could push that door out if the way if you were in labour (or suffering smoke inhalation). Be careful about asking for compensation, it will give them the 'right' to trap you in your home. They are being outrageous. I would threaten to massively disrupt their filming if they trap you in your home and call the police.

Wibblypiglikesbananas · 21/10/2013 21:31

I don't even know what to suggest - solicitor's letter? Imagine this behaviour if these people were not part of a film crew. It'd be classed as harassment or criminal damage or any number of other offences. And it'd be thought incredibly creepy too. Why they think it's acceptable is beyond me!

bundaberg · 21/10/2013 21:36

i would call the police on 101 tbh... as others have said it's a terrible risk if you were to have a fire

i'd be absolutely fuming

WorrySighWorrySigh · 21/10/2013 21:40

DH has suggested that you screw up the continuity: different plants in the front window every hour, ghostly face in the window that sort of thing!

bundaberg · 21/10/2013 21:43

yes just keep your front door open... all the time. any time you spot them putting the thing there kick it over!

LittleBairn · 21/10/2013 21:51

Get your MIL to ban all cast and crew from the pub I bet they would soon remember not to block up your door!

LaGuardia · 21/10/2013 21:53

But you are getting paid for them to use your house as a set, right?