But isn't this suspicious?

[Marmozet3]

I live opposite a construction site for new flats and I've just been woken up around 03:44 by heavy construction machinery that sounded potentially like an excavator. I couldn't see clearly out the window as it's dark but just a bright light. But whatever machine it was it sounded like material was being moved around and possibly crushed.

Now I'm not sure if it's just the crime junkie in me but surely this is weird and suspicious? It can't have lasted more than 20 minutes but why an earth would you be using that machinery at this hour for a short space of time and then just leave? It's all quiet now..

Rules in the UK are Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and Saturday 8am to 1pm for noisy work permitted.

AIBU to think that someone is possibly using their work machinery at this hour to hide something?

[VenusTiger]

No @WunWun it was onetwothreeonetwothree

[midnightstar66]

PPs suggesting a body oh let's make the most amount of noise possible and alert the neighbourhood whilst we hide a body !

Ah but that's what they want you to think!

[Luddite26]

Anybody mishandling asbestos may not necessarily get away with it. It can catch up with them later.

[WunWun]

@VenusTiger

PPs suggesting a body oh let's make the most amount of noise possible and alert the neighbourhood whilst we hide a body !
It's either kids messing about which is why it didn't last long and they likely scaled the hoarding, or some ppl trying to steal it and realised they couldn't get it out/off site - machinery is often 'parked' up by end of shift in a place where it can't be easily manoeuvred - i.e. other machinery blocks it in.
Re. police not seeing signs of anything untoward - they will have alerted the security company to accompany them, it's a building site, so police won't walk around it in the dark without assistance, that's highly dangerous. Security firm would've confirmed all access in good condition.

If you're talking about my post I was hardly being serious 🙄

[VenusTiger]

PPs suggesting a body oh let's make the most amount of noise possible and alert the neighbourhood whilst we hide a body !
It's either kids messing about which is why it didn't last long and they likely scaled the hoarding, or some ppl trying to steal it and realised they couldn't get it out/off site - machinery is often 'parked' up by end of shift in a place where it can't be easily manoeuvred - i.e. other machinery blocks it in.
Re. police not seeing signs of anything untoward - they will have alerted the security company to accompany them, it's a building site, so police won't walk around it in the dark without assistance, that's highly dangerous. Security firm would've confirmed all access in good condition.

[Thewiseoneincognito]

Sounds like a good plot for a book

[Celestine70]

I wouldn't have thought anything of it tbh.

[Zakana]

Another vote here for burying a cadaver in the foundations, never to be found again. (Rushes back to watch Robbie Coltrane’s Critical Evidence before bedtime). Night vision goggles definitely needed!

[Calmate]

Near where I live, thieves have used construction machinery & even a fork lift truck to extract ATM machines !! That's when they are not burning ATMs out, along with speed cameras ! It's a 4 mile trip to try & find an ATM which works.

[Corcory]

Work can be done at night but only for specific reasons. I'm in charge of a site next to a railway track. We need NWR permission and special authority for a line closure to work on the track side part of the building, they need to supervise and we can only work at night when there are no trains working. We do tell all the residents in advance though.

[Bedtimeforever]

I live on a newbuild site, and when I first moved in, was terrified with the sound of somebody climbing fences (it was behind my house as they were still building). Then I saw police, they had a report of somebody stealing machinery, but couldn’t find anything. It all seemed secure.

We later realised it was the wind causing the fences to move slightly and bang against each other....

[SameToo]

My guess would be to do with ecology. Costs a lot and no one cares. Maybe take down some trees in the night or knock down a building you’ve been told to leave...

[Wrenna]

Oh and Pat Phelan is dead! For ‘real’ this time lol

[Wrenna]

OMG I just started the third season of Unforgotten and the first scene was a highway maintenance team that dug up a 20 year old skeleton.

[Nc367465]

NC to avoid outing myself

Not long after we moved into our new build, I was up bf’ing ds and heard heavy machinery being moved about behind our house where they were building. I just thought it was teenagers messing about and it went quiet by the time I’d finished feeding. Next morning I found out it had been driven off site and used to rip out the cash machine at the bank just down the road.

If you hear it again phone the police straight away, they might just have been sussing things out last night.

[Serin]

Non emergency Police number is 101

[Beetle76]

Heavy machinery is sometimes stolen to be used in ram raiding. A number of ATMs were broken into using construction equipment at one point. That would be my first thought!

[WunWun]

Don't speak to them! They were probably burying a body and will know you saw...

[Lisasyns11]

111 is medical assistance not police. Theres a different number for non emergency police calls such as this possibly might be.

[Fizbosshoes]

^ I mean at unsocaible hours like 2 or 3am

[Fizbosshoes]

@Maddison12

Rules in the UK are Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm and Saturday 8am to 1pm for noisy work permitted.

This isn't strictly true. Noisy work can be done overnight in certain circumstances. When I used to live next to the train lines I was once kept awake all through the night, every night, for a fortnight. Loud heavy machinery til 4am😫 while they done repair works on the tracks.

Might be totally innocent, might not be🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

I was going to say we've had some pretty noisy work locally when network rail were doing something along the railway lines. We're not especially near so I've only heard it once ir twice but its been reported on local fb a few times. (I think they do warn when its going to be)

[ThePluckOfTheCoward]

You need to be better prepared Op. Get yourself some military style night vision binoculars and a powerful spotlight ready for your next lookout mission.

[Lweji]

@Jux

We had Open Reach doing incredibly noisy work a few weeks ago, at about 3am. Heaven knows why and I couldn't see what exactly they were doing. They've done it a few times (as have various bb providers, including Virgin, TalkTalk and a few others. They seem to have stopped now, we've had quiet for a few weeks.

Ah, possible urgent repair work? People don't like not having internet or cable service, usually

[Herewego2015]

My husband is a digger driver and I am H&S for construction company, due to noise pollution you can't start before 7/8am and I'm pretty certain at that time of the morning my husband would tell them to piss off If they asked him to work 😂😂 definitely weird!

[Mylifesadrama]

Excavating a body maybe? 🤔🙄