Wazzocks keep instagramming my house

[znaika]

I realise this is a very 21st century problem to have but seriously Just bog off will you (grammers not mners)
There' s been a queue of 'em today and another one now in the small hours, presumably because no passers by. BECAUSE NORMAL PEOPLE ARE ASLEEP!!.

Anyone else have these twats? Bucket of icy water? Aibu?

I understand this. I used to in an area with lots of medieval houses & my family owned one. People were always taking pics, peering through the windows, posing at the front door. Got very irritating! This was way before Instagram though!

I just searched the hashtag of the village I live in. There's loads of photos of two cottages facing the pond, and not a single photo of my house.

Gin - this will all change when you have that award-winning garden

If I saw someone pointing a camera at my house, I would honestly assume they were trying to find a phone signal. It's not exactly architecturally distinctive.

shove I'm drawing up a pond to compete with the other as we speak

I live en route to one of the most famous tourist attractions in the world, loads of tourists milling around, and not one of them is interested in my nondescript 1950s semi

Sorry Hedda, I just read that as "pooing at the front door"! Nobody needs photos of that

My guess is that the OP lives in Amsterdam's red light district...

I was coming on to suggest Granchester but the OP is not in the UK. The 20-somethings bit is interesting though it isn't helping me.
I suppose OP if this has been going on a while, you either move house or try a polite sign in the window.
Though I'm intrigued by you saying people could blackmail you online. Why would they? Are you famous?!

Is it the Home Alone house OP?

There doesn't have to be a connection to anything! These people will take photos of literally anything if it looks good on their instagram feed. if you get enough followers you can start to make money from your account so I'm guessing they're all chasing that dream.

But how and why do the instagrammers blackmail you online?
They threaten to reveal where the house is? That sounds crazy. Surely they're not ALL doing that.

OP, do you live in the same street as Harry Styles (the curly one out of One Direction)? My workmate lives in Holmes Chapel where he is from (but doesn't live there now) and says the village has been besieged by screaming teens wanting to photograph Harry's old house/school/bakery where he had a Saturday job etc. She was very tempted to get her teen DS to don a curly wig and pretend to be the actual Harry and make a few quid

Emmageddon The OP said she's not in the UK.

I knew someone who lived in a very pretty village of timber-framed houses. They actually had some American tourists open the front door and walk in, on more than one occasion. It was as if it was a theme park to them: they didn't seem to have grasped that it was a private house in normal use by a family.

I used to live on Penny Lane in Liverpool and bus loads of Japanese tourists used to come and take photo's.

Mind you I cant complain, this summer we arrived at our holiday let and couldn't get in, the lady said she would leave a key under a plant pot but it just wasn't there.

Owner said she would bring another key but it would take 30mins or so. We therefore took out the picnic blanket, folding chairs, picnic food etc and made ourselves at home on the front lawn.

Only it wasn't a holiday cottage at all, a bemused family turned up to find us having a grand time in their garden.

I was going to post an apology to the OP, because I spent a lot of time taking photos on holiday in the UK this summer.

Then I read how OP isn't in the UK, and I thought I was safe.

And then I remembered: oh hell. I went to France, too.

#sorryforbeingatourist

I used to work with someone whose parents lived in a very pretty and ancient street - right next door to a house which had belonged to a famous writer and was now a museum. They would often discover people walking round their house and garden in a bemused fashion, having mistakenly gone through the wrong door

They started selling cream teas on summer afternoons - nice little earner...

Serin

I used to live just off Penny Lane. Actual coachloads used to arrive to take pictures.

I saw the less attractive side of this too. I live very close to both where Charlie Hebdo was, and to Bataclan. The rubberneckers arrived in droves, for both sites. I found it....uncomfortable.

That must have been/would still be awful, Strange.

And I can certainly understand frustration at the effects of mass tourism.

But I am genuinely surprised that people who live in picturesque locales seem to be harrumphing about tourists taking photos. The really intrusive stuff is clearly wrong. But a simple photograph taken from a public place?

Have you seen any of the photos posted? I ask because a friend of mine started getting regular visitors in her street who were just milling around with phones. Turned out her house was a pokestop..or something to do with that fucking game

A motion activated sprinkler might help. Although wouldn't be popular with legitimate visitors.

I haven't read the full thread as it's quite clear you're pretentious twat.

Is this that so-called 'doortrait' thing? Apparently people have started taking pictures of interesting doors and posting them online. The internet can make a craze out of anything. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised-if there's a site for people who like to have sex with cars (see prurient Channel 4 documentary for details), why not one for people who like 'interesting' front doors?

I'm so going to start taking doortraits for instagram!