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loopyapp · 2021-03-01T19:52:15+00:00

.. Has reported my immediate neighbour to the police .. For a small gathering following her mother's funeral?? She died very suddenly. I wont give details as it is very outing for the family. I just cannot fathom how utterly self righteous you have to be to do that to someone on the day of her mother's funeral. Add to which she has to live here now not knowing which of her neighbours did something so cruel.

Bluntness100 · 01/03/2021 20:44

The government has made it against the law, where do we start turning a blind eye? Ignore a burglary, a fraud an assault

Eh, why would you ever ignore this, even in non Covid times?

Op, some people are just like this, it’s brought out an under belly of society that’s deeply unpleasant. There was something in thr news the other day, someone did a heroic act, it was going and saving a dog or something, and some one reported them for breaking the rules. No shit, someone actually did that.

PearlescentIridescent · 01/03/2021 20:46

How awful. It is such a dark time for them. I lost my dad in December (still can't believe that as I'm typing it) and of course me and my siblings went to support my mum.

Couldn't have cared less in those moments about rules. Of course objectively it's not good for the pandemic. I made concessions. Wouldn't you have done?

Sowingbees · 01/03/2021 20:48

Eh, why would you ever ignore this, even in non Covid times? confused

Because both are illegal? Where does one stop? I may not agree with laws but I have to follow them even if the law is an ass.

rawalpindithelabrador · 01/03/2021 20:48

Awful, Tucan! I'm sorry that happened to you.

rawalpindithelabrador · 01/03/2021 20:49

@Sowingbees

Eh, why would you ever ignore this, even in non Covid times? confused

Because both are illegal? Where does one stop? I may not agree with laws but I have to follow them even if the law is an ass.

FFS.

MrsTerryPratchett · 01/03/2021 20:51

My utterly wonderful MIL's celebration would be described as a few friends for a drink (well pre-covid) by her family. It was a proper Scottish piss up with a lot of people. Very good for them and exactly what she wanted.

I'd reserve my judgement if I didn't know the details.

PearlescentIridescent · 01/03/2021 20:52

Because both are illegal? Where does one stop? I may not agree with laws but I have to follow them even if the law is an ass

How ridiculously reductive. Have you know capacity for critical thinking or sense of moral judgement? Society does not (nor ever will) fuction at a rate of 100% abiding by the law.

If you can't use you own cognitive function to do a cost benefit analysis of whether it is worth calling the police in a situation like this then I'm honestly lost for words. I can't believe how different peoples' perspectives can be.

Bluntness100 · 01/03/2021 20:54

@Sowingbees

Eh, why would you ever ignore this, even in non Covid times? confused

Because both are illegal? Where does one stop? I may not agree with laws but I have to follow them even if the law is an ass.

Seriously? It’s not illegal for the daughter as a single person to change to bubble with her parents. Calm yourself down.

Viciouslybashed · 01/03/2021 20:56

@PearlescentIridescent

Because both are illegal? Where does one stop? I may not agree with laws but I have to follow them even if the law is an ass

How ridiculously reductive. Have you know capacity for critical thinking or sense of moral judgement? Society does not (nor ever will) fuction at a rate of 100% abiding by the law.

If you can't use you own cognitive function to do a cost benefit analysis of whether it is worth calling the police in a situation like this then I'm honestly lost for words. I can't believe how different peoples' perspectives can be.

I don't think this poster was saying they would call the police. No need to be so angry. I imagine they are explaining how they would not do it as it is illegal and when you let one rule/law slip its easy to keep going with that line of thought. The fury online about this is unwarranted noone here rang the police as far as I can tell. And as for snitches get stitches that made me laugh.

Sowingbees · 01/03/2021 21:02

Thank you Viciouslybashed I wouldn't call the police, nor do I care (but its interesting how aggressive some posters get) The police in this country rule by consent, the majority agree and uphold the law, it's a foundation of our society. It's a very slippery slope when law abiding attitudes are hounded on social media.

TheCatWithTheFluffyTail · 01/03/2021 21:05

@loopyapp

Its just a few of the closest members of the family having some drinks after the funeral.

Everyone in the area knows what today was. The death was very sudden and very public. Our whole town was all out for her procession this afternoon.

It might have been family but I just cant imagine it. They're all very close.

Our street has a large divide made larger by covid.. To be clearer.. The sort that let a grieving family be and the sort that call the police.

In that case it sounds like it could have been anyone locally rather than immediate neighbour. If everyone was out for the procession and knew what had happened, then presumably it wasn’t unknown that half a dozen were going back to a house afterwards.

TheCatWithTheFluffyTail · 01/03/2021 21:09

@Bluntness100

The government has made it against the law, where do we start turning a blind eye? Ignore a burglary, a fraud an assault

Eh, why would you ever ignore this, even in non Covid times?

Op, some people are just like this, it’s brought out an under belly of society that’s deeply unpleasant. There was something in thr news the other day, someone did a heroic act, it was going and saving a dog or something, and some one reported them for breaking the rules. No shit, someone actually did that.

Do you mean the two doctors who found and saved a lost dog and carried it down the mountains to their owners? I’m so glad the dog was ok and couldn’t believe they were reported for it.

doucey · 01/03/2021 21:15

I didn't realise 6 people could gather indoors after a funeral.

GoodbyePorpoiseSpit · 01/03/2021 21:20

You’ve got to be a special type of meddling arsehole to report a funeral :(

fadestogrey · 01/03/2021 21:23

I've name changed for this but DS has been reported several times to the police for breaking Covid rules. He hasn't.
He lives in a house with other students, in a tourist resort. The Police have visited twice after reports from the public that people were holidaying. Today he went for a perfectly legal walk and was again approached by members of the public questioning if he should be there and threatening to report him.
I'm hoping they are just over the top do gooders and the fact that he is mixed race has nothing to do with it.

hayley037 · 01/03/2021 21:29

Sad times. I worry about the country when it's all over, we seem to have really unleashed an authoritarian tone to our society and we have a populist and very right wing government in power for the foreseeable who might feel emboldened to introduce some pretty appalling laws on the back of this knowing these types will cheer it on and even demand it.

FireflyRainbow · 01/03/2021 22:19

Yanbu. I spent 7 days in our local hospital with my son as he had an operation and my curtain twitcher neighbour reported me as they thought I went on holiday.

liverpool1981 · 01/03/2021 22:35

@GoodbyePorpoiseSpit

You’ve got to be a special type of meddling arsehole to report a funeral :(

Exactly op The same happened in our town We used to have someone who reported people's tax discs out of date Now we have another who is reporting people living with their partners and claiming maybe it's the same person I would love to know who it is/ who they are It's not me btw But it really makes you realise people are watching other people's every move

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loopyapp · 01/03/2021 22:51

It just confuses me what people get from it? I mean yeah you might be furious that someone is breaking rules, and I suppose if you lived under a rock and didn't come across any local news since the woman's death, and you didn't see the funeral cars or procession through the town with lined streets of dozens of mourners .. But then one would have to ask how you noticed a handful of people in a house?

This has nothing to do with protecting the NHS and everything to do with someone enjoying some virtued vindictiveness.

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MichelleScarn · 01/03/2021 22:52

@doucey

I didn't realise 6 people could gather indoors after a funeral.

Its in the roolz...

To be appalled that someone i would call a neighbour..

MichelleScarn · 01/03/2021 22:53

This has nothing to do with protecting the NHS and everything to do with someone enjoying some virtued vindictiveness.
Agree wholeheartedly, while having the pious moral highground of the witch denouncers.

PearlescentIridescent · 02/03/2021 04:48

@Viciouslybashed no, the poster I was quoting said something along the lines of where does it end, I have to report everything or it ends up being the same as not reporting a burglary.

That's ridiculously lacking in common sense and judgement at the detriment of other people and I feel is used as an excuse to hide behind by the likes of whoever did call the police in the OPs post.

I know my response was not the most pleasant sounding but I wasn't angry and doing to insult the poster - I was genuinely shocked and concerned at the attitude and thought process. It's a part of human nature that I find really unsavoury and concerning.

Lubiluxe · 02/03/2021 05:45

That is really sad 😥 what did the police do?

Graciebobcat · 02/03/2021 05:55

Why would you report anyone at all now anyway for having a small gathering? Perhaps at Christmas when cases were really high there might have been cause to, but even so I don't think I'd bother.

It's so absolutely mind-bogglingly thick to equate breach of Covid rules with burglary. You can really see how police states and fascism take hold with all these good little informer curtain twitchers around.

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loopyapp · 02/03/2021 07:12

@Lubiluxe

That is really sad 😥 what did the police do?

I've no idea, my son came to tell me police were outside. I went to the door and the officer indicated why they were there.

I pointed who they were and who's funeral it had been and both officers looked horrified. One got on the radio and I said my piece about how awful I think someone has to be to report them before coming inside.

I respect them too much to go prying after the fact.

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