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Neighbours with group of friends on garden

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FrostyChocolateMilkshake · 20/01/2021 16:33

Sorry another COVID post but I need to rant and I'm fuming. My neighbours across the road have invited a group of friends over to exercise on the garden. I'm trying to WFH and I can hear them yelling and clanging weights around. There is a child there too.

My life, and so many peoples, are on hold at the moment and these people are brazenly flouting the rules. They garden is in the view of most people on our street (due the set up of our estate).

DH has told me to ignore it and mind my own business but I'm furious over their total lack of respect and regard for other people. Why do some people feel the rules and guidelines don't apply to them!?

So I don't really know what my AIBU is - I guess it would be what would you do? Report it or keep your head down and ignore it?

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Gobbeldegook · 20/01/2021 21:02

Then perhaps you could bugger off over there then. It's tedious.

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FrostyChocolateMilkshake · 22/01/2021 08:13

@Gobbeldegook

Then perhaps you could bugger off over there then. It's tedious.
A bit rude!
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SmellyPooHead · 22/01/2021 09:44

The filth? Seriously @Butchyrestingface, how old are you?
How disgusting and disrespectful, do you realise what they are up against

Butchyrestingface · 22/01/2021 09:48

Seriously @Butchyrestingface, how old are you?

Older than someone who has SmellyPooHead for a user name (probably). And it was fairly lighthearted. I momentarily forgot I was on MN, the bastion of middle-class pearl clutchers (my bad).

Fufumuji · 22/01/2021 10:04

I would ignore it, not your problem

It's everyone's problem, and if you don't get that, you are part of the problem.
I's report them. Selfish pricks.

SmellyPooHead · 22/01/2021 10:15

Perhaps you'll think twice before calling them that again @Butchyrestingface, I didn't realise you had to be middle class to show respect for the police
My bad indeed 🙄

Butchyrestingface · 22/01/2021 10:22

Perhaps you'll think twice before calling them that again @Butchyrestingface,

That's right. Being chastened for immaturity by someone calling themselves SmellyPooHead has really made me see the light.

Btw, did you contact the police in the end, @FrostyChocolateMilkshake? My neighbours were 'entertaining' again last night, but so far I've restrained myself to merely hoping they catch it. Grin

Fairyliz · 22/01/2021 10:37

So we all stay at home, the economy tanks but we reduce Covid rates great.
Then we start mixing again and rates go up again. It appears the vaccine doesn’t protect you and once you have had Covid you can get it again.
So it looks like we all have to get Covid and recover or die.
Do you want it to be now or in six months time?

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FrostyChocolateMilkshake · 22/01/2021 10:52

@Butchyrestingface no, not reported them...yet.

I'm on good terms with other neighbours and I have spoken with them about it. They have noticed it too. We are going to keep an eye out and see what happens this weekend.

Fed up of all these selfish pricks carrying on as normal. The ones who are being so brazen about it (like my neighbours) are the worst ones IMO.

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ripples101 · 22/01/2021 10:58

@Fairyliz

If or when I catch covid, I would want it to be at a time when I could get hospital treatment if needed.

Isn’t that the whole point?

Now is not the time to be flaunting the rules, because the NHS is under enormous pressure as it is. It helps absolutely no one if the NHS becomes overwhelmed and ultimately full of people who have ignored the current restrictions and caught it (and passed it on) as a result.

DenisetheMenace · 22/01/2021 10:59

Ask them to be quiet, lots of their neighbours will be trying to work atm.

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FrostyChocolateMilkshake · 22/01/2021 11:01

@DenisetheMenace I'd rather them just not be there at the moment...isn't that the point of this lockdown?
You're right though, lots of people working from home at the moment and it is annoying hearing weights being clanged about on the garden!

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FrostyChocolateMilkshake · 22/01/2021 11:03

@ripples101 Now is not the time to be flaunting the rules, because the NHS is under enormous pressure as it is. It helps absolutely no one if the NHS becomes overwhelmed and ultimately full of people who have ignored the current restrictions and caught it (and passed it on) as a result.

Completely agree. But unfortunately not everybody is considerate of others, or the NHS. Some people simply just don't care.

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DenisetheMenace · 22/01/2021 11:06

FrostyChocolateMilkshake

@DenisetheMenace I'd rather them just not be there at the moment...isn't that the point of this lockdown?“

Yes it is but unless you report them there’s not much else to do than ask them to be quiet 🤷‍♀️
Maybe tell them if it happens again you will have to report.

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FrostyChocolateMilkshake · 22/01/2021 11:16

@DenisetheMenace the only reason I'm hesitant to report is because I don't want to be "that neighbour". Also I'd worry they'd know it's me. Gonna keep my eye out and see if it happens again and report if anything happens over the weekend.

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NavyBerry · 22/01/2021 11:17

What a hateful person you are... mind your own business

Fufumuji · 22/01/2021 11:19

What a hateful person you are... mind your own business

Back at you. Hmm

Cheeserton · 22/01/2021 11:20

The equivalent of four jumbo jets a day crashing every day these days in the UK with Covid deaths, and still it's 'not your problem' what others do, according to many on here...

C152 · 22/01/2021 11:27

I would ignore it.

OverTheRainbow88 · 22/01/2021 11:31

No difference to meeting up in local park and exercising together there... unless they went inside the house!

mummabubs · 22/01/2021 11:38

@OverTheRainbow88 True... But that is also illegal right now! OP says it's more than one other person, so against the rules. (I'm in Wales and it absolutely baffles me that in England in lockdown during the highest hospitalisation and death rates we've seen so far it's still been deemed acceptable for any one person to meet with as many other individuals as they like as long as they do it one at a time). 🤦🏻‍♀️

Trying2611 · 22/01/2021 11:46

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mumsie8 · 22/01/2021 12:01

@steventatlock it's people like you who contributed towards my wonderful bil not getting the cancer treatment he needed and deserved, leaving him to die, alone, emaciated and in pain and my sister to pick up the now devasted, shattered pieces of her life and their two young daughters.
I hope you think about that while you meet your 'family and friends' and i hope to god no one you loves needs urgent oncology care.
It's not just about covid killing people, it's about all those slipping through the net and dying due to not being able to access medical care thanks to the impact of covid.
It's about so much more than 'oh i'm alrite jack'. 'I'm not going to have my human rights imposed upon by the government telling me what to do.'
You and those like you should be ashamed but you won't because that would mean you have a grasp of something bigger than you and your needs, something which you blatantly don't.

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FrostyChocolateMilkshake · 22/01/2021 12:31

@NavyBerry

What a hateful person you are... mind your own business
Hateful!? How the heck am I hateful? A case of pot calling kettle I think...
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FrostyChocolateMilkshake · 22/01/2021 12:32

@mumsie8 so sorry to hear about your BIL Sad

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