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AIBU?

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boffin9207 · 01/07/2017 00:06

or just have a whinge?!

Just got home, live in a new build block of flats. All flats either market rent or shared ownership. Area okay but not great. Walked in the entrance and the whole of downstairs absolutely stinks of weed! By the post room, lift and communal main entrance.

Not the first time this has happened but definitely the worst, stench wise. There is a flat on the ground floor by the lift so assume it is coming from there.

WWYD? Suck it up or anonymously complain to landlord? Don't want to create any ruction with the neighbours that I don't know but it's pretty unpleasant.

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boffin9207 · 01/07/2017 16:18

PetalsOnPearls - no shared bills in that aspect.

I have no issue with people doing what they want but when the entire communal ground floor stinks like that, I massively dislike it. I also don't think it is right when there are children around either (albeit not at 11pm last night, but I just mean that we live in a block that is largely young working couples or families). The only other issue the flat I am assuming the smell came from have presented before is playing really loud music late one Saturday night. I couldn't hear it in my flat but did when passing through and figured it is a Saturday, whatever.

It gets me because it is illegal, no one seems to give a shit because it is considered "soft" and actually it is pretty damn inconsiderate to stink out the entire ground floor of a building. There are only two flats on the ground floor.

As far as general drug activity goes, there is a noticeboard with a poster reminding people not to partake in illegal activity or similar, I cannot remember the exact wording. There is also a kid on a bike who I have seen go in and out frequently but does not live here. Correlation to kid (teenager) and smell also, but I have no basis for thinking that it is anything more than a correlation.

When I was at school (and I expect it is the same now), dealers used to use kids because they were less likely to get caught and if they were the penalty would be less. There was someone in your year, or the year above who did it, everyone knew it. Most kids would try it occasionally and eventually "grow out of it". I hate it because not everyone does.

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GahBuggerit · 01/07/2017 16:31

Quite a lot of maybes here op and not much proof of who it is. So you risk angering 2 neighbours when it might even be any of them.

And load music one Saturday does not make them the culprits neither. Just may be they enjoyed a bit of a get together.

It's a bit of weed, I'd much rather live next to stoners than the dicks I have living next to me - quite posh, lots of "ya rah hooray Henry" gatherings that end up in them all behaving like animals in their garden but it's apparantly fine because they drink Prosecco. Give me a weed smoker any day of the week, so quiet and keep to themselves generally.

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boffin9207 · 01/07/2017 16:38

GahBuggerit - sorry I didn't mean that I would tell Landlord etc who I think it was or anything. I have said throughout that I assume it is this flat but I don't know for certain. It also made me hesitant to do any notes under doors.

I know that loud music doesn't make any difference either, and it never bothered me. I was identifying the little I do know of them. And tbh, it was the same weekend we moved in here so figured that they had just moved in/were having a housewarming or whatever.

I wouldn't like those neighbours either! :)

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Greenkit · 01/07/2017 16:54

If the smell is such that the whole ground floor smells of cannabis then it could be a small farm. Anyway report to your local beat manager, the more people who report the better.

The police are interested and they will arrest people for this illegal act

WorraLiberty · 01/07/2017 17:08

They won't arrest anyone for smoking a joint inside their own home.

OP, I agree with others who have said you should ask them to stop smoking in the communal areas.

PetalsOnPearls · 01/07/2017 17:22

What are the communal areas like? Are they big or quite small and enclosed?

Greenkit · 01/07/2017 17:31

WorraLiberty

I have just spoken to a police sgt and yes they will

PetalsOnPearls · 01/07/2017 17:32

Isn't class legal now in small quantities? For personal consumption?

GahBuggerit · 01/07/2017 18:06

Any officer arresting someone for smoking a joint in their own home mustn't be very busy, I too have had a convo with a police officer friend on this subject who laughed and said "at most it would get confiscated and not noted down anywhere either " mind you round here they are busy trying to solve rapes, murders, burglaries.....issues way more pressing than an otherwise law abiding citizen enjoying a smoke

WorraLiberty · 01/07/2017 18:21

Greenkit well you certainly didn't speak to the Met Police!

Do you live in a little 'Midsummer Murders' type village?

And where does the officer you spoke to think they're going to get any proof from?

Or do they think the person will hold their hands up, burst into tears and say "Yeah it was me, I dunnit"?

Autofillcontact · 01/07/2017 20:05

When you say report it to the landlord what do you expect them to do? Because all they can do is evict them.

So what you're really saying is hey landlord I'd like you to spend loads of money, with an almost guaranteed stop of your rental income, to go to court and evict these people. You may or may not win and it may or may not take 6 months. And at the end your reward will be.... a happy tenant at number 7! Cheers landlord!

Greenkit · 02/07/2017 08:06

Your correct Worral I didn't, thank god it seems.

Report or shall we just gloss over it as it isn't really a problem?

WorraLiberty · 02/07/2017 12:09

I'm not sure what your reply means Greenkit?

My point is, the police can't do anything with a report of someone smoking a joint in their own home, except perhaps spare an officer to go round and have a word, which is A.) Unlikely and B.) Not going to solve the problem if the tenants choose to ignore/deny.

Police don't even arrest for smoking a joint in the street. They just confiscate personal use.

Greenkit · 02/07/2017 15:07

Worra

It meant:

No I didn't ask the MET and Thank god as you seem to think they wouldn't take it seriously. My police force would/do

If its stinking out the entire floor then it isn't one joint and the police would be interested (Not in the MET though it seems)

WorraLiberty · 02/07/2017 19:19

I meant the glossing over bit

And the fact you haven't said what your police force would apparently do about it?

They can take as much interest as they want but they can't enter the home without a warrant, and no high court judge in the land is going to issue one because people are smoking joints indoors.

So what would your police friend actually do?

loveslipstick · 02/07/2017 19:27

Fuck all will happen if you report. A house on our road was raided by the police, they were growing, police took out 10+ plants and they got a caution.

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