@Chloe84 yep, actually on our property. It was the mum and kid of their next door neighbour. The dog was running about all over our drive, her kid was staring into our window smirking and the mum was doing crazy gestures with her hands. The one who went off on me and my husband had parked on our corner and they were parked down the side of our drive but he was so close to their car he blocked her in, so I’m guessing she asked him to move it so she could get out and he took his opportunity to probably chat shit and get some back up to intimidate me.
He then moved his car where she was parked, rang his friend who came over then they were just loitering about outside my house with his boot open. His mum came back after a while and they went to the house but stayed by the front door. Then dad came home, parked on the corner (space on the street and obviously the humongous drive so he knew what he was doing too) stared at our drive as he was walking past (I must have a very interesting house the way they all look at it) and the kid still stayed by the door. It was then I knew he was waiting for my husband, but it makes me wonder how he knew what time he gets home. Judging by the fact when the wife initially had a pop at us, she must’ve been watching for when we got home because we’d just got back from hospital so I can’t help but think that they’re actually watching us quite a lot. I did notice when I was digging up the front the other day the daughter opened the window really wide. It’s not like it’s that warm now. But, I don’t even know what bloody time my husband gets home, he rings me every day when he finishes work and I have to ask how long he’ll be.
But this was all because I was by the window when their son came home (3 storey house, top floor so why would you be looking up there to see me? But it’s where my son‘a crib is so it’s like I get attacked now for looking after my baby because I’m near a window in my own house, I can’t live with my curtains closed. But he started giving me the finger, smirking, thumbs up so I just opened the window and asked him if he found harassment funny. He told me what he’s doing isn’t illegal, I told him it’s harassment and closed the window. It wasn’t even a massive altercation but it shook me up because I’m at home on my own with my son. So I called the police straight away and burst into tears that just did not stop lol, I must’ve sounded like a right hysterical mess.
When my husband got home the son was sat waiting in his car, the way he was parked was probably around 2 metres from our front door so he blatantly knew he was going to stop my husband by being there, as soon as my husband got out of his car the kid asked him if he had a problem with him parking on the corner so my husband was calm and said yeah, you’re blocking access to my drive, but I’ve got more of a problem with you intimidating my wife, shes just rang me in a right state, it was at that point the kid FLIPPED flung open the car door onto my husband, told him he was going to do something him (husband didn’t hear exactly what was said) and squared up to him. My husband took his glasses off and stood there told him to take a swing at him if he wanted and the son got right into his face, SCREAMING at him, this is when I got to the window and told him to get inside. He told the kid that we’d already phoned the police and he backed off to his house saying he’ll wait for them then - then the rest of the family went out and the kid stayed behind for about an hour then went, but made sure to stop in front of our house staring in for 5 minutes before he drove off.
Husband rang 101, took an hour to get through but they took note of everything, told my husband it was assault and that the complaint about The CID threat would be passed on to internal forces as they frown upon job titles being used as a threat, linked our complaints and said they’d pass it onto the local police who’d be in touch.
Obviously not heard anything yet but it was late by the time he got off the phone and they did seem really busy last night.
Sorry for the rambling, disjointed post, just a bit more context to what actually happened last night.
@MrsKittySmith I was actually thinking about if they’d issue a restraining order. The council ASB team won’t even help, they told us it was a police matter so I’m expecting the police to say it’s a council matter again, but we have a crime reference number for the assault now rather than just a communications reference so fingers crossed. It does make me wonder now though if the dad thinks he’s keeping his hands clean by sending his kids to do his work. I can’t understand why a young adult would be so incensed by us asking their dad not not to block our drive, it’s got to be the parents that’s have hyped it up.
Crapping myself at being home alone again today, though. It’s so stupid, it’s ruining my maternity leave because I don’t want to leave the house because they’re always there. I’ll never get this time back, it’s already been shit with so many hospital appointments but I go back to work next month, I want to make the most of it. 😟