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?

[DagenhamRoundhouse]

I'd have reported it.

[momtoboys]

A dear friend had construction going on at the house next door and the contractor had left an enclosed trailer there with their tools in it. Someone pulled up in a big pickup truck at midnight one night hooked up the trailer and drove off with it!

[McCorona]

I was woken up at 1am a couple of weeks back to the sound of loud drilling - took me a few moments to realise why was going on; it was thieves stealing the catalytic converter off my neighbour's car; they had jacked it up and were brazenly cutting it off with an angle grinder. All over in less than two minutes but very noisy and not at all discreet!

[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🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[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.

[Mylifesadrama]

Excavating a body maybe? 🤔🙄

[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!

[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

[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.

[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)

[Fizbosshoes]

^ I mean at unsocaible hours like 2 or 3am

[Lisasyns11]

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

[WunWun]

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

[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!

[Serin]

Non emergency Police number is 101

[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.

[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.

[Wrenna]

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

[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...

[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....

[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.

[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.

[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!

[Celestine70]

I wouldn't have thought anything of it tbh.

[Thewiseoneincognito]

Sounds like a good plot for a book