Aibu to feel disgusted by this?

[Tractorprincess]

Am I weird for being disgusted by this?

Family over the road, man, woman, two young dc.

Just now the dad was lying on the front lawn, no shirt on, shorts hanging halfway down his arse, clearly pissed out of his face, throwing up, then he staggered up, went inside an got a tshirt.

He then came back outside, left his front door wide open, climbed onto next doors car and then up onto his garage roof. Staggering all over the garage roof tripping over before dropping off the other end into his back garden. I'm amazed he hasn't broke his legs.

His wife/girlfriend then came back with the two dc probably to find him unconscious in the back garden.

Dh thought it was hilarious, I was pretty disgusted. Thank fuck dh doesn't get in that state or I wouldn't be with him tbh.

I'm not sure if it's relevant I had a parent with a drink problem so this may cloud my judgement, but I don't think it's 'normal' for a grown man to get in such a state?

Honestly I half expected people to tell me to chill out and lots of "it's the World Cup let the poor man enjoy a drink" replies.

I can see now that most are in agreement it's disgusting behaviour, and some even think it's more sinister.

I drove a very drunk dh back from the football with an overtired 5 yr old and a screaming 12 week old in the back. Had to leave one in the car whilst I got one in (5 ur old fast asleep) and come back for the other as there’s no way I could trust dh to carry either. Joy!

You've literally described them as having a domestic yet not even called the police on 101. The will impact on the children, and could potentially be one of those cases where something awful happens and you didn't want to get involved because you'd rather post about it on mn.

Why on earth do you think there have been so many domestic abuse campaigns during the World Cup?!

Completely agree with the poster above who said that child protection should be everyone's responsibility (or similar).

In fairness, OP, - there was at least one "it's the football" reply. And even if you had called the police when you saw him climb the garage roof, I doubt they'd have been able to rush over. I imagine they are pretty busy tonight.

from experience trying to contact social service -how many days to get back to you? When working in childcare I had to ring just before Christmas -urgent help - Huh - answer phone told me to ring police they said social service would get back to me - took days -so the chance of anyone reacting to something like this? Excuse my cynicism? don't hold breath...

Have they come back? If not have you done something about the child who is potentially alone and the woman being chased?

You are right, it's disgusting .

So you think it is OK to behave like this then Wuss2018?

it appears to be linked to class

No it doesnt at all

Awful behaviour OP. When I lived in England, we had a neighbour like this. He used to get on roofs when drunk. It was "his thing".

Eventually he injured himself badly. Jumped off a roof whilst holding a carrier bag as a "parachute" and broke his back.

Domestic violence goes up 26 % when England play.

Pathetic and sad, and yes, if he broke his legs that would have hurt everyone, including the NHS having to fix him up.

It's great to have a few drinks but this kind of show is just very irresponsible.

I didn't say it was ok- i
Said its the football, he's had a drink. If he breaks his legs from being drunk then that his doing isn't it. But you lot really do that the moral line don't you. If he's there later being abusive to his wife/
Neighbours that a diff story. But he's just had too much to drink, been sick and been a little silly.

I suppose it is all how you look at it. Throwing up face down in the grass in the front garden and jumping off a garage roof aren't being "a little silly" in my world.

Yanbu. There's no excuse, thousands of people watch football without acting like that.