Just realised people are at it in my garden WIBU to...

[AVY1]

... whisper out of the window, 'I can see you!' in the creepiest voice I can manage?

In serious, heard the side gate swing a couple of minutes ago so had a glance out of the window. Fairly certain it's the neighbour from a few doors down but it doesn't look like her husband.

DH (who isn't here) thinks I should ring the police non-emergency. I think it's harmless (unless it is an affair but I'm not 100% it is her - there's been an event on at the pub at the end of our road but she'd have had to walk past her house to get to mine) but I don't think they mean any harm to us.

What would you do?

When I lived in a big shared house very near a very large and popular club, we'd get this all the time, and would awake to a little vignette on the lawn: a couple of epmty beer bottles, cigarette butts, and a used condom. Yuk.

I'm a bit staggered by the patio sit, but I believe it utterly, as people's cheek is infinite. At the same shared house I mentioned above, I once opened the front door to a man having a shit on our (sheltered) doorstep. He was outraged that I was invading his privacy and told me to shut the door!

Mind you I think this from JMJ1 is a bit over the top: we felt violated (our kids played in there!) as a field that's got a road between it and your house is hardly shagging in the kids' wendy house amongst their playmobile.

I think I would have opened bathroom window and closed closed it again very loudly.

I wonder what the police will say ?

Is it Katie Hopkins? She lives an alfresco so much, she invited a photographer

You've rung the police? What a ridiculous waste of police time.

You should have just told them to get out of your garden immediately or you would call the police.

We used to live near opposite a pub and had people shagging in our garden about once a quarter. I always threw a bucket of dettol water at them which strangely wasn't enough to deter some of them.

Once a woman came back the next day to ask for her wedding ring which she thought she had left behind in our garden. It was found weeks later in between two patio flags.

I'd definitely score them like Strictly! 😂

SEVEEEEEEEN!

How is it a waste of police time? They're sending a special out to warn the CF that it's not ok to go about shagging in other peoples' gardens.

I think you should have played this very loudly out of the window.

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On a serious note I would be concerned that someone was able to trespass on your property. OK it was people shagging but it could have been burglars.

Oh no! You missed the perfect opportunity to shout 'Get orf my land'. Wish I'd of thought of it last night

Score them like stritcly!

Your passa double was believable but you lacked a bit of omph during the cha cha cha section.

Why the hell did you ring the police? If you're not up to confronting skanky woman, then drop it. What do you think the police can do? It's not worth the CPS trying to do for public decency offences and trespassing is a civil offence. Ridiculous waste of everyone's time unless they broke the shed or something.

It's perfectly OK to phone the police if a stranger is in your garden, whether they're shagging or not, if you don't feel safe confronting them. Once discovered a random bloke in my garden who just stared at me when I hammered on the window. I phoned the police and they came out immediately and confirmed that calling them was absolutely the right thing to do.

It was a neighbour she knows and the time to phone is way past. What does she want the police to do now?

So you know that this neighbour was shagging someone other than her husband yet you are sending the police round to her house? Can just imagine the shitstorm that will create. Hope there's no kids in to witness that.
Don't get me wrong she is a cheeky fucker but have no idea why you didn't just shout out to them to piss off last night.

Would love to be a fly in the wall when the police visit her..... hope her dh is home to witness her trying to squirm out of it.

Haha not read the full thread yet but so far I agree with iamapixie

Waste of police time

Blimey, I don't even get anyone coming to my front door... (not a euphemism).

Can I recommend the possession of a very barky, nippy terrier? Let that out and people move pretty fast.

Get the hose out now!!!!

I would have chucked water out of the bathroom window. Dirty bastards!

Why do you need cctv though OP? You watched them live. How frequently do people use your garden to conduct affairs? Surely a padlock on the gate would prevent it reoccurring, be easier to sort and cheaper.

Phoning the police while there is a strange man in your garden is totally different to phoning the police hours after your neighbour has left your garden Polly

I think a waste of police time too. She is a cheeky bitch no doubt but having only happened once it is a waste of police time I think. I'd knock on her door and act dumb to knowing it wasn't the husband though

Don't think I would've sent the police round for that. I would be very concerned about the repercussions.