Police round would you think it was the new neighbours?

[quicklybeingdrivenmad]

Live on a small lane in a small village, where most people know everyone's business and who you are if not your name. Moved here 10 years ago as our family business is in the next village, so made home work life balance easier. Get one with all our neighbours and are one really good terms with them all (a lot are elderly so the 3 younger households - laugh at that we all turned 50 in the last couple of years have been helping out shopping etc putting bins out since lock down started)
We had a new neighbour move in across the road mid October never really spoke to anyone, we would wave, say hi and get no response (not just me everyone)
Well today I have had the police round I have been accused of flouting lock down because there has been so many different cars on my drive (police had a list of registration numbers) I must be having people round!!
We have not been and these vehicles belong to our business (which is shut due to covid) so when going up to check on our premises I keep alternating vehicles, to keep them running and charged (as I cannot just abandon our business) all our original neighbours know what we do and joke about different vehicles on the drive all the time, would you think it was the new neighbours?

[BackforGood]

and as for it being a non event it may seem not much to a lot of people but it was the last thing I needed, after my mums funeral 10 days ago, so excuse me for being a little bit sensitive when you say its a non issue, I am trying to hold myself together so this really did not help. Sorry I posted on here I was just hoping for an objective view rather than an emotional one


Sorry for your loss.

However, I think that is what you have had - people telling you that, were you not in a highly emotional state due to your recent bereavement, you would also see that it is a 'non-issue'.
Someone - and you have no evidence it is your relatively new nieghbours - reported something that didn't look good, you were able to explain the situation, and that is the end of it.

People suggesting starting some sort of (even PA) war with the neighbours are really not being helpful.

[SirGawain]

@squirrelloveranon

Probably. Why don't you go and ask them and explain why you have all the different cars there. instead of posting here? Perhaps you could have tried a bit harder to welcome them to the neighbourhood.

None of their business! I don’t expect my neighbours to tell me what they’re doing or ask me what I’m doing.

[AuntyPasta]

I’m sorry for your loss.

Yes, it sounds like the new neighbours and it sounds like they’re massive arseholes. Don’t waste any more time or effort trying to be friendly to them.

[SirGawain]

Our neighbours behaviour really puzzles me but, as far as I can tell, it’s legal, so it’s nothing to do with me.

[EatingAllTheCookies]

Yes it was them.
Without a doubt

Well they'll look stupid when they report it again and them wasting police and your time.

[BonnieDundee]

Oh fuck. This is seriously depressing

[Throwaway99]

I bet they wet themselves with excitement when the police turned up.

[quicklybeingdrivenmad]

Kittylion, we own a car garage so the cars are only classed as in trade not registered to us, but are on insurance database as belonging to us, you do not change log books on cars in trade and we have a drive so no cars are left on road blocking pavements, just really upset me as me and all other neighbours have tried to be nice, my 87 year old next door neighbour caught their eye and asked as she has lived her for 40 years, did they want any advice on shops butchers etc she was told no we tried to move here before so we no the area

[Ireolu]

Our neighbors who went away for Christmas tried to switch it up on us saying they hadn't seen us around during the festive period and if we had gone anywhere? The cheek! I have no time for my neighbours they have been nasty eejits since we moved in a year ago. Pay these people no mind. You have done nothing wrong. When we are sad everything feels that bit worse. I am sorry for your loss.

[FuzzyPuffling]

Just leave it.
No rules broken, police are happy and a note through a neighbour's door won't help anyone.

[Lockheart]

@quicklybeingdrivenmad

Kittylion, we own a car garage so the cars are only classed as in trade not registered to us, but are on insurance database as belonging to us, you do not change log books on cars in trade and we have a drive so no cars are left on road blocking pavements, just really upset me as me and all other neighbours have tried to be nice, my 87 year old next door neighbour caught their eye and asked as she has lived her for 40 years, did they want any advice on shops butchers etc she was told no we tried to move here before so we no the area

The fact they didn't want advice on the shops doesn't make them bad people.

I'm sorry you're having a difficult time at the moment OP but this is really nothing to get worked up over. It's not personal, and no harm was done.

[Throwaway99]

I bet they expected to see you handcuffed and carted off in a police car.

They sound like dicks, OP. Just ignore them from now on. You had the last laugh really.

[B33Fr33]

Yes, the police could quickly establish all the vehicles are for a business but they might want to check whether it's emoyees coming around each day or the owner!

[BananaPop2020]

Sorry for your loss, but I still don’t see the issue. Nobody has done anything wrong, and you have received an objective view. Why are you even thinking about this?

[Emmelina]

The neighbours you know, will already know all the vehicles are for your business.
So it would be the new, unknowing, neighbour.

[Throwaway99]

@BananaPop2020

Sorry for your loss, but I still don’t see the issue. Nobody has done anything wrong, and you have received an objective view. Why are you even thinking about this?

Oh come on if someone grassed you up and the police knocked your door, I think you would think about it.

[KatieGGGG]

You’re giving this too much energy. They did nothing wrong and I’m glad to see at least some people are taking covid seriously.

You and your other neighbours need to stop gossiping about them as well.

[FoxyTheFox]

In a small village where everyone knows everyone else's business it's just as likely to be one of the old timers who doesn't like the cars being there.

Exactly this. For all you know its someone with a secret axe to grind, you've no proof it was the new neighbours. It could also have just as easily been the police have done a drive-by or two and have seen the different cars so noted down registrations to come and query it with you. They wouldn't necessarily check the owner details if they were only coming to chat about it.

[VetiverAndLavender]

It was probably them, but there's nothing to be gained by dwelling on it. You did nothing wrong, whoever reported it will know that, now, and you should try not to think about it.

I'd be bothered, too, and I wouldn't feel obligated to applaud whoever did the reporting for saving the world from Covid, but there's nothing more you can do about it. Ignore the new neighbours, for the time being. Whether or not they made the report, they apparently aren't in a friend-making mood, right now, but fortunately, you get along well with everyone else in the neighbourhood. That hasn't changed.

[toughluck]

Probably op.

We were also anonymously reported and had the police visit. We too were not doing anything wrong, I wish whoever it was just came and asked us.

[NoOneOwnsTheRainbow]

I feel like everyone is so eager to pile on the shitty guilt trip that they have all missed the actual question.
YANBU to think this was the new neighbours. But it might have been someone else, lockdown rules are making perfectly lovely people turn into grasses who think it's ok to behave like this instead of sorting out differences by actually talking to people (as can be seen from some responses on this thread).

Personally, if I was feeling mutinous and wanted to rock the boat, I'd wave at them and very loudly say "spoke to any police officers about my cars lately?" next time I saw them. They will pretend they haven't heard. But they will hear. (PS if I'm your new neighbour, I didn't call the gardai )

[LAgeDeRaisin]

I understand that you feel a bit got at. Maybe they lost somebody to covid and are sensitive to perceived rule breaking.

I know you didn't break any rules, and that they'd know that if they were friendlier and got to know you, but not everyone wants to be friends with neighbours, which I think is okay. I do think it's impolite not to say hello though, even if you don't want to end up close.

I'd just try to forget about it, in the knowledge that you are in the right!

[PinkiOcelot]

@quicklybeingdrivenmad don’t take any notice of those saying it’s a non issue!! MN is certainly a very strange place!! If you’d posted this tomorrow you might have got a totally different response.

It sure must have been those new neighbours. I certainly wouldn’t be trying to integrate them further if they’ve snubbed you and others up to now.

Sorry about your mum x

[BananaPop2020]

@Throwaway99 I wouldn’t, because it is (i) futile and (ii) given the circs OP has described and the climate we live in, it is not totally unexpected. All this talk about putting notes through doors is utterly pointless and will likely escalate.