To suggest a means to report?

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We really need some system to punish the rule breakers properly. It's high time a website was set up so that those who are clearly going out of the house more than they should be can be reported to the authorities.

BURN THEM!!!
FFS. I believe when they did this at the start of the French revolution all the denounces ended up a foot shorter down the line too. Its only been a week and people are ready to do this to their neighbours, who may be a carer, who may be walking to a bus stop to get to work at a hospital or a supermarket. The nasty shit heads I've heard spitting this vitriol seem to only be doing it to people they've got an axe to grind with anyway...

I think it's quite frightening that people want to actively report other people. You can see how easy it is to divide a nation and get us to treat people as other and less.

You watch zombie apocalypse shows and think "fuck people are worse than the zombies". It's true in real life too.

Anyone policing how many times I go out will be told to F**k off back to work.

Is it that some people like to order people around and now that outlet has been taken away they are trying it out on neighbours

The limit is on the reasons people leave the house, not the number of times.

The Stasi might be your cup of tea.

I can't even stand the fact that police now have additional powers with with to antagonise people let alone neighbours / public being given permission to report 'rule-breakers'.

Some people are enjoying this far too much

How can you ring 101 and snitch on people when you don’t know why they are going out

People ‘going out’ could be

Buying food (my online shop had washing powder missing and I need to wash clothes!)
To take food to elderly relatives
To go to work, etc

Unless people are doing something blatant like having a mass gathering in a field how do you know they are breaking the rules???

Love this thread. Thank you x x x

Reporting some crimes makes sense, but this is to much like the "can I report people on benefits" thing. Where people can't really know if their neighbour is breaking the rules, but they want to hurt them anyway.

This.

WTF is wrong with people! How is this a good idea in any way?!?

My flab is gasted.

Yay, bring on the police state!

I’m so relieved the poll is currently at 80% - was beginning to feel I was going mad with all the bonkers ‘Where can I inform on my neighbours?’ posts on here. This crisis has really shown up those who would have been enthusiastic members of the Stasi.

80% against, obviously!

It's bad enough out there as it is. I got yelled at yesterday during my exercise period with my dd. Told we weren't from the same household. It was scary.

My local country park is encouraging people to take photos of cars and post them on Facebook to 'name and shame' people 'breaking the rules'. Their Facebook page used to be full of photos of toadstools and mandarin ducks. Now it's just people ranting at each other.

I don't think members of the public monitoring each other in this way is helpful.

Dear OP would you like to find a TARDIS and go back to Stasi Germany?

I'd also like to think the police have better things to do like preventing looting.

It's happened

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8162725/Police-urge-Britons-spill-beans-neighbours-suspected-breaching-coronavirus-lockdown.html

Not sure why people feel the need to police others anyway. Follow the rules yourselves and don't worry about what other people are doing, it doesn't affect you.

I appreciate if you work in the NHS you'd rather not have to treat the idiots but everyone else is just virtue signalling, from a n uninformed position - as pp's have pointed you may leave the house for work, for exercise, to buy something for yourself or someone else - or to give blood. I would probably try to combine trips if possible but then I can walk to my local shops (and the blood donation centre is within walking distance of my house and the shops too).

I don't believe the Daily Mail article - most police forces have been asking people NOT to phone them because someone has been out for a run twice.

Yes, our local police force have been putting up daily posts urging people not to phone them either asking questions about what they are allowed to do during lockdown or shopping others, as they have other things to deal with.

My local country park is encouraging people to take photos of cars and post them on Facebook to 'name and shame' people 'breaking the rules

Really?

Idiots

Hitler is still alive and well then....

Of course the flip side to this will be people remembering their busy body neighbour after the crisis.

Karma, anyone?