To think we encountered a proper weirdo during tonight's festivities?

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We live in a cul de sac and once you get out of ours, there is another, much larger one....well this other one is excellent at Halloween because almost ALL of the houses participate, decorate and go all out. Trick or treating is welcome and there are kids everywhere...other kids come from surrounding streets due to the air of festivity etc. These houses are our neighbors and as our Dc are young, we go early and then go home and they call on us in return with their mostly older kids.

There's about 30 houses I suppose...it's a big U shaped street.

We were in a group of about 6 and one child only aged 3 in our group got a bit freaked out halfway round, so I left my DC with DH and the other kids and adults and went home with the little lad and his Mum.

As we were leaving this U shaped cul de sac, we noticed one house lit up like christmas...all the curtains open and a man, in nowt but a TINY towel, repeatedly bending over touching his toes.

You could see his arse crack and it was a bit odd. When DH and the others came back he said that they'd seen him...and he was standing in the window doing pelvic thrusts in this towel!

He knew what night it was...he must have done it for attention! We just looked the other way but what was his motive?

It's quite easy to see into peoples' houses where I live Salmotrutta. We don't have massive gardens so its not actually that far. I don't think, "I'm fed up of people staring, I'll expose myself in front of some children" is reasonable either. It is illegal to purposely expose yourself and I would report it on 101.

I think a call to 101 and see if they think YABU, I don't think you are unreasonable either.

It's such an open area that you really can't miss something like this....plus the fact that the lights in his house were bright and he was close to the window....I will call 101 but first I'm going to check which number the house is....I wonder if they got other calls?

I agree with the other poster who suggested asking other neighbours if they had noticed anything. I'd also be tempted to have a stroll by some other nights at the same time to see if it's a regular occurrence.

I do think it's very weird and I suspect he knew exactly what he was doing.

Well the trouble with that is that eveyone's out at work now....and I'd have to knock door to door which is slightly intrusive. People are friendly but not exactly on that sort of terms...I think I will report it and then if they've had others they will know....there's no point in me sleuthing around the street...that's the police's job.

We had a bloke who used to do this kind of thing in his upstairs bedroom window when we were coming home from primary school. His house was right beside the school. It was the 70's so we were told to ignore it as parents didn't talk about this sort of stuff and he was just an odd bod who lived with his elderly mother.
He went on to commit other sexual offences with teenage girls. I remember my parents being shocked and I did point out they all ignored the fact he had been flashing in his bedroom for years.

Just ring 101 and ask them to let him know he should be careful to shut his curtains, that way if it happens a lot, the police will have already give him priory warning.

people are always wandering around naked in this house, but would be unlikely to do a night time yoga work out with the curtains open, and lights on,

If the police take the opportunity to speak to him, then he will be clear about his options.

I wouldn't call it 'sluething round the streets' tbh, just seeing whether it's a regular occurrence or a one-off before getting in touch with the police. But you're of a different opinion so that's fine.

report it, if he has previous the police will know. He sounds odd.

Tobiasfunke I think this happens a lot, sadly.

This reminds me of my sister's boss.

She lives in a flat with a full view of a modern glass and chrome style house... so modern and full of glass that she can see right into the bathroom. Man doing a poo and everything.

She couldn't stand it any longer so went round to tell them that she could see everything in their bathroom.
They laughed and have never bothered to put a blind up.. so she can STILL see everything.

Some people are just weird exhibitionists, I don't get it personally, and the OP's neighbour sounds like a pervy exhibitionist.