Dog poo incident

[gwenlar]

I've just drove past a girl about 12 that let her dog poo outside someone's house and walked off. So I stopped further up the road and wound my window down and just said are you not picking that up? She said oh sorry and went back and I drove off. That was it.
10 minutes later a huge man knocked on my door and when I answered he said oh sorry I've got the wrong house, I asked who he was after, he said a name and said they've got the same car as you sorry and got in his car and drove off.
We never get people knocking on and I'm assuming this is to do with the dog poo thing.
I was in no way rude to the girl that is literally all I said to her and she was fine when I drove off not in tears or anything like that but I can only assume that she's gone home and told her dad/grandad and they have gone out looking for my car.
Now what? If he had anything to say he would have said it then so now I'm thinking he's going to come back.
If asked my neighbours to let me know if they see anyone hanging round and have also logged it with 101. I wish I hadn't of said anything now.

Ok so you think I've over reacted that's fine but what exactly do you want me to do about this now? It isn't going to change anything it's already done.

Yes but you're forgetting that if it was an emergency they should be ringing 999 not 101

No as I work for the Police im quite aware what the 2 numbers are for. The other poster was reporting a crime that wasn't life threatening or on going so it was totally appropriate as a 101 call.

Funny thread is funny.
Well done for challenging girl
Not well done for being staggeringly paranoid. Though of course all ‘huge men’ are dangerous lunatics. Ffs.

Well it’s aibu, and yes you are.

For all the people saying you can’t ring 101, is there amongst you a little rulebook we can all follow? Are you the same people that state when a person can and cant go to A&E.

For all the people saying you can’t ring 101, is there amongst you a little rulebook we can all follow?

YES! Yes there is. It's called 'the little book of common sense'

Actually OP where you were super unreasonable is that being a MN poster you NEVER open your front door, even to blood relatives, unless they’ve been sent an invitation. Silly billy.

I give up.

Ah yes common sense. The measure by which people not in a given situation that apply their opinion.

I would suspect he came round to cause intimidation and was probably all riled up to have a go but when he realised you are perhaps not a threat he went away.

I would have called 101 too, at least if something does come of this then you have something logged in advance. You never know people are odd.

Not unreasonable, and it was intimidation.

OP have a

We were ASKED for opinions!

Seriously though. Common sense is all it takes to realise a man knocking on your door isn't a 101 call. It's quite basic stuff tbh.

I would suspect he came round to cause intimidation and was probably all riled up to have a go but when he realised you are perhaps not a threat he went away.

This sounds very plausible.

Or not. You weren’t there. Your opinion is the OP was BU. Mine isn’t. Doesn’t make me a hysteric, I’ve never called 101 or 999 in my life. But I might have seriously considered it, at least, in the circumstances.

Because a man knocked on the door?? Come on, what an absolute waste of valuable resources.

But if it was connected to the girl you spoke to surely he would have said something?

Not if he was doing a recce, in order to come back later and leave a bag of poo on the doorstep!

I completely see where you're coming from. op. He might have knocked on your door to check that the girl's description of the driver who stopped, tallied with the car, which she probably only vaguely described.

Hopefully it is all a big coincidence, but many families do not take kindly to other adults reprimanding their children, (even if they're teachers, quite often!).

I would have thought 101 is precisely for this kind of incident, which obviously made the op feel uncomfortable. It's not as though she called 999, is it?

Hello officer. I'd like to report an incident. Someone has KNOCKED ON MY DOOR

Fuck me sideways, no wonder the police are stretched.

I'm amazed how many people say it was ridiculous to call 101. The police themselves didn't think so...

And well done to asking her to pick it up, I'd have done that too.

How ludicrous to ring 101. What a waste of time and potential delay for someone actually a victim of crime. People are crazy. My druggie, smack head, neighbours knocked on my door today, shall I call the police for that. Utterly pathetic.

She made a phone call, they logged it and told her it was OK to do so. Hardly a gigantic drain on resources is it? They didn’t send a SWAT team or sniffer dogs.

I’d suggest an estate agent first Xeneth

I think you did the right thing to log it with 101.

Where my folks live there is a no ball games sign, in a area that is really not suitable. Kids don't care, play on it, ball and kids running all over everyone's garden etc.

The number of times elderly neighbours go out telling kids not to play there (thuds on the sides of their house, gardens ruined, a window broken etc) only for the kids to go home and tell their parents, for the parents to come round on the bounce, ready to kick seven shades out of a person who dared "tell off their kid".

Big angry dad comes around, followed by kids in tow, waiting to see a rollocking, only for neighbour to point out incidents, damaged garden, broken window, ball prints on wall etc and kids get frog marched home.

People are weird. Police might have had more than one call about a random pretending to get wrong address, all the while looking for victims of a distraction burglary. You never know.

Another thread where the OP posts in AIBU but only wants posts agreeing with them lol.

You done the right thing