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?

Clearly referring to the OP we are discussing.

If I had seen him doing that I would have spoken to him and said he should knock on my door next time and I would happily give him a drink.
At my old house I used to take drinks and ice pops out for the window cleaners when it was boiling weather.
It's good to keep a good relationship with people. You never know when you might need someone to help push your car down the road to start it or similar!

Like I said, I wouldn’t report it, but it’s still cheeky.

I wouldn't begrudge anyone a drink of water from an outside tap. I pity people who think this way. How uptight must you be?

WorraLiberty

I know what it is. I don’t want people taking my property without my permission. I pay for my water. It’s cheeky.

More to the point, I don’t want people wandering round my garden and back door. It’s not about the amount of stuff taken. It’s about the fact that it is my home and if they want something from it they need to ask me.

CarolDanvers

I’m more uptight than a crab’s wotsit, me.

Or, quite a few people on this thread are full of shit about how they would react to finding someone stooped over their outside tap in an area of their garden not visible to the road and where they have no business being.

Who can say?

Well you crack on then seaweed.

If you begrudge someone whose so thirsty they resorted to drinking from an outside tap, there's really nothing anyone can say.

WorraLiberty

I don’t begrudge it, as I said. I begrudge them taking without asking.

I've reported someone (multiple times).for no tax. He buys cars leaves them to rot on the footpath which makes it hard to get past them. I have reported 3 so far, all of which were removed by the DVLA. They are a danger and it's illegal. I have zero issue with reporting that. Maybe it makes me a bad person, but why should I have to walk on the road because he wants to tinker with cars once a month?

I wouldn't report someone for a crime such as taking water from an outside tap. But if something was illegal and dangerous i would.

Or, quite a few people on this thread are full of shit about how they would react to finding someone stooped over their outside tap in an area of their garden not visible to the road and where they have no business being

I honestly think you are in the minority on this thankfully.

For some reason I am reminded of this person when I read your posts @seaweedandmarchingbands...

Yep I would just say to her

Not to worry I've said he's welcome to fill from my outside tap if needed so it won't happen again.

Outside taps are usually mains water aren't they, so I don't think it's minging, same pipe as my kitchen two here.

Postmen are welcome to use my tap to refill their water bottles.

CarolDanvers

Is that Hilda Ogden?

😂👍

@Shoxfordian

I've reported your post op grin

Haha I thought you were bloody serious!!!

Seaweed, please do! Honestly, I wouldn’t want you to go without a drink.

Weedinosaurus

Oh I will. With your permission. Thank you.

I can honestly say that if I saw someone drinking from a garden tap that they had legitimate reason to be near - for example, delivery people go past my garden tap - and in the line of duty so to speak, not only would I not begrudge them the water, but I’d offer them cold water from a glass if they wanted it or to fill their bottle from the water in my fridge. Because that’s like the smallest, least inconvenient kindness you could pay someone. A glass of bloody water FFS!

She must lead a very boring life. That’s all I can say

Ena Sharples Seaweed and it's Bob on!
Even you've conceded you wouldn't risk postie losing his job over the relatively minor offence of taking water wooc.

Don't you agree though the people willing to jump to a disproportionate reaction are mostly weasels?
I don't mean people who report necessary things. Thirty years ago I called 999 on an almost weekly basis on my neighbour. He was a real abusive bastard, horrible fucker, hid from everyone else but kicked his DW to fuck when pissed. In the end I was calling 999 when I heard him raise his voice he was such a predictable scum. It was a very easy call. 100% would agree.

Michael you must be lying.

TheQueef

I’ve frequently thought MN was populated largely by weasels. I would have no desire to see someone lose their job over something like this. But if someone employed to post letters through the front door kept coming round the side of my house and taking my water, once I’d had a word, yes, I would end up having to report them. I want to feel safe in my garden. I want to feel safe naked in my kitchen if that’s what I want to do. The postman has no business coming round the side of my house.

Just think. It won't be long before people use being on a meter as yet another reason to object to workmen using their toilets.

A: what’s wrong with drinking from the outside tap?

B: OP, completely agree way too many people are willing to report people.

The height of utter patheticness even being slightly irritated by someone having a drink from a tap!

Reporting a postman filling out his water bottle from a garden tap: ridiculous.

Reporting a guy getting in his car after having had 10 pints at the pub: a service to society.

Then you have everything else in between....