Should I Report Them?

[TheQueef]

AIBU to think people are just too fucking eager to report others?
My nosey neighbour has asked me this morning to join her in reporting our postman. Heinous crime of filling his water bottle up from someone elses outside tap while they are out.
Why is it straight to nuclear option?
Why are we so eager to report every little thing to authority?
Someone makes noise - report them.
No car tax - report them.
Eats sweets at work - report them.
Built a wall - report them.
Has a boyfriend - report them.
Claims benefit - report, report, report...

We all have personal limits and moral obligations. Some things bother me more than others but unless it's harming someone or dangerous I'd struggle to report.

Is it me? Am I imagining this gleeful, weasely push to report?

Jesus Christ did you laugh in her face?

I've reported your post op

I'm used to her Harry she's a very unhappy lady

Haha I hope you laughed!!

Yanbu

Despite my goody two shoes, middle class upbringing, I fucking hate grasses.

Soz Shox forgot trigger warning

Yanbu though, obviously

It's since the rise of the internet/texting etc.

So many people wouldn't say boo to a goose but they'll sit behind a screen and report people.

It's cowardly.

I agree OP. It’s like a desperate need to have people told off by someone “important” and I think it says a lot about how compliant and unimaginative we are as a nation really

I’m from a different culture and “the authorities” are generally viewed with healthy suspicion and people rather enjoy getting one over on them, as it should be

I hope you told your neighbour that it was very unkind of her to watch the postman fill his water bottle up with water that is likely not be drinkable when she could have offered to do it for him.

I think YABU mostly. In my mind there is a civic obligation to report things that are dangerous, unlawful or could lead to significant issues for a person. In my mind this does not include interfering with interpersonal relationships or essentially gossiping so while I would report a car for not having MOT or tax (dangerous, car is not roadworthy), I wouldn't tell my neighbour if I saw her boyfriend on tinder.

Car tax should be reported benefit fraud...I know I'm on benefits but I keep my nose clean ffs it's not hard but if someone had a partner staying over à night or two I wouldn't say anything but working off the books and claiming? Hell no! Why would you do that? Just not worth it

I was always taught (pushed) to complain if unhappy with service by my dad from a young age. So I can be a conplainer at times. But there are limits! What si wrong with filling a water bottle from an outside tap? How does your neighbour know he doesn't even have permission? That seems totally over the top. There has to be a balance between advocating for yourself, moral obligation and being a normal human being who lets some.of the little things slide? Surely?

Someone makes noise - report them.
because that's only way to make the nuisance stop maybe?

Built a wall - report them.
if the wall is in the middle of your garden, I get the point

Eats sweets at work - report them.
that's my favourite
but if the noise is so irritating that the colleague is one candy away from hurling the culprit through the window, I'd rather they report it.

I don't think there's anything new, people have always reported - they might have used more anonymous letters in the past.

Is your neighbour getting on a bit?.They are the worse always worrying about whats going on ,an elderly lady (very sweet otherwise) told me to tell the Council that people were parking outside the local shops!Round the corner by 2 roads !.Another old boy walked by on the eve of Dustbin Day to tell me my bins were at a "funny angle" and out too early for the next morning !

I fucking hate grasses

I wouldn’t report it to anyone but I don’t think he should be using anyone’s tap without their permission. I wouldn’t ever withhold permission but it is a bit cheeky, isn’t it? She sounds like a busybody, though.

Back in the 90s I worked in a call center for the Automobile Association (AA) and used to get calls from irate members of the public to complain that one of our breakdown men was...
parked on the street and not doing anything...
err, maybe they were on a break? They are in a public place and this seems to wind people up to see workers...
NOT working.. lol!

You’re not imagining the gleeful, weasely urge to report OP. Some people just love having someone to ‘report’ don’t they? Nosy, unfulfilled people who have a drive to fuck shit up for someone else.

Royal Mail are bastards to work for so I hope she doesn’t report him.

She doesn’t know whether or not he has permission but honestly, even on a water meter who would begrudge someone taking at most a pint of water when they are walking miles in all weathers to deliver mail?

IMO, a small kindness never hurts. This could be a member of your family.

I fucking hate grasses. I like mine green, but it's usually on the other side of the fence.

Poor bloke must've been really thirsty to risk using an outside tap.

For all beak face knows he might've been diabetic.

But even if he's not, it's just a drink of bloody water.

Yanbu. I also really hate the way people take photos of other people or their property and post them on local Facebook groups because they are annoyed in some way. A woman was photographed picking a few flowers while out on a walk and was ‘photographed and shamed’ for not knowing you aren’t supposed to pick wildflowers. I mean if that’s her biggest crime...

Wow, crime of the century that is. He should be thoroughly ashamed!

I’d have replied ‘did you not catch his attention and ask him if he would like a better drink?’

Who the hell grudges anyone water from an outside tap?

It wouldn’t occur to me that using an outside tapis remotely cheeky - it’s fucking water!

It wouldn’t occur to me that using an outside tapis remotely cheeky - it’s fucking water!

Really? It’s not air. It’s not free, they’re paying for it and it’s on their property.