New neighbours called the police at xmas, claiming some solar powered lights had been stolen from their garden. TBH, I never saw any lights in their garden so assumed insurance fraud. Police were polite, friendly, stood at the door didn't barge in. I said I knew nothing (although it was clear they'd been sent to us and no-one else, deliberately). Forgot about it.
Neighbours are very violent and threatening to their kids - constantly shouting, swearing and saying just unbelievably vile things to the 2 toddlers. I rang SS on them but it seems, after visiting for a couple of months, it was dropped. Now it is back to 'normal' with neighbours once more saying obscene and cruel things to their kids or screaming at eachother. (We call the man Fuck Fuck because we have never heard him say a sentence, even to the 3 year old, without the words fuck or cunt in it). Of course when officials come round, butter wouldn't melt.
This week at 9pm we had coppers at the door this time insisting on coming in. Apparently, this time we were guilty of stealing a BBQ cover (windy day so we assumed it blew away. They have an empty house and garden but because they saw us having BBQs, think they wanted to spend their last £15 and regain a presence in the garden. 3 foot fence which I can't afford to replace. A six foot one would solve my problem.
Anyway, rather than ask if it had blown over to our side their first reaction was to call the cops (and send them to us).
We'd been out but returned to see this cheapo plastic cover on the floor in our garden and despite loathing them, threw it straight back over the wall. It wasn't til after coppers left that I remembered seeing the woman scuttle out and retrieve it, seconds after I threw it over.
Later my teenage son told me he had overheard when we were out the man saying "Some cunt has stole my BBQ cover" (to the 3 year old - who replied that the police would come and get them!)
So if the woman lobbed it over, it is without the man's knowledge.
Took the coppers a good five minutes getting shirty with me before they understood that I was saying yes I saw the damn thing and chucked it back over... He kept insisting that the man said he had velcro'd it on firmly.
Dick. Coppers went to tell them the results of their investigations then returned to us, now laughing as it was so pathetic (5 mins ago had been the crime of the century).
This has unsettled me. We are council tenants. They are new tenants with an Introductory tenancy. In two months that will become a secure tenancy unless we can do something.
Are 'only' 2 incidents of having the cops called on you harrasment?
There is all the fighting and swearing and child abuse (verbal but we suspect physical - we have given up on that as the council and SS don't seem to care).
Oddly, apart from calling their kids cunts and wankers, they are largely silent in the day time. If they left us alone we wouldn't give a flying fuck.
But I am starting to think I may have to pursue harassment/antisocial behaviour as the only way to get them out.
The man left a previous area's social housing, apparently because he couldn't take the noise of living in a normal semi and he has accused us of slamming doors (all we do is normal family stuff. Hell, I have 2 teens and a 21 yr old in the house, as well as a 12 year old, and my kids only have iPods with earphones - hardly playing gangsta rap at midnight).
Anyone else had false accusations from nutjob neighbours? They are unemployed, and apart from the £30,000 car they just bought appear to have no life and no possessions and no interests. So they do seem very obsessed with us and our doings.
I'm freaked out by this. Do I have to expect a lifetime of coppers knocking the door at night? Anyone else had similar and how did you proceed?
We feel vulnerable as they could throw anything over the fence then claim it was stolen... Do I have to fear a knock at the door every time there's a strong wind? Council are (supposedly) ringing tomorrow.