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People who go on local Facebook groups and post this sort of thing

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OrangeIsTheNewRed · 29/01/2022 17:52

Does anyone else eyeroll at people who go on local social media groups and post things like:

'Anyone else spot the 11 police cars, ambulance and helicopter flying along x road just now? I hope it's nothing serious?!?!'

And

'I found a bank card outside the bank on the high street 4 days ago and I am keeping it safe. If you have lost one pm me and I will ask you questions to check if it's yours.'

And

'I'm sure that the parents of the teenagers in the chip shop will be really proud of the language their little darlings were using just now!'

Etc.

I know I could just leave the groups but they are useful for things like plasterer recommendations and checking when the tip is open and who is the best tree pruner in the area, etc.

It's not just be who finds this annoying, is it?

OP posts:
IamnotSethRogan · 30/01/2022 07:35

I find people checking when things are open on local groups the most annoying. Google it.

BigYellowHat · 30/01/2022 07:40

Someone had a right go at me the other day because of the following (words to the effect)

CF- ‘selling these straighteners that turned up today and are the wrong colour. £90’

Me- couldn’t you return them, then you’ll get all your money back not just some of it. Do you have a receipt?

CF- Do you actually want the straighteners? No.. now fuck off you nosy cow!!

Me- I was only trying to suggest a reasonable way you could get all your money back.

Anyway, I received about 150 likes etc, she got called a thief (well obviously) and then she deleted the post!

So many people like that on there. Why on Earth do they think people are going to believe them?!!

mogsrus · 30/01/2022 07:52

Found bank card, so why didn’t you take it into a bank & get them to deal with.

Inmyvillagetoo · 30/01/2022 07:56

Yes absolutely, and yes I’m thinking about all your Fb posts Linda!
All the ‘why don’t my immediate neighbours come and get their parcels?’I don’t know Linda why don’t you ask them, or, you know revolutionary idea, out a note through their door rather than ask a village on Fb!

iloverock · 30/01/2022 07:58

There is always one person (usually man in his 60's) that likes to appear controversial and looks to cause an argument over everything.

No john you are not funny, entertaining or showing of your education level you are a tosser and no one gives a shit about your opinion.

pinkstripeycat · 30/01/2022 08:04

Someone posted on FB that they’d found our dog running round the streets. It was posted on FB which I’m not on. Friends rang me to tell me. I was in the garden shed and taking stuff out through the back gate and thought she’d gone in the house so didn’t realise she was “missing”.
When we looked at our CCTV the people who “found” her had walked past our back gate and called her over. Apparently they got a lot of praise on FB after they informed everyone they’d found our dog.
Serves me right for leaving the gate open I suppose!

LonglegsMumtheBlacksmith · 30/01/2022 08:04

@DickMabutt73962
Sounds like you need to take this up with your local FB group pronto 😂

Grasping · 30/01/2022 08:30

@mogsrus

Found bank card, so why didn’t you take it into a bank & get them to deal with.
Because there’s no bank for 10 miles!
Grasping · 30/01/2022 08:31

Regardless of the subject matter someone will always moan about cyclists jumping red lights and not using the cycle path.

HashtagSexy · 30/01/2022 08:37

We have an absolute ghoul of a person who has set themselves up as a local reporter. They've been doing it for years and they seem to have an actual sponsored business due to the local ad pop ups on his "articles" but he encourages people to post tips and photos about emergency services incidents and then he hotfoots it over to the scene and takes photos (or uses someone else's) and posts the details of what's happened. People have found out their relatives have been in terrible accidents through his "999s" page rather than from the police or hospital. Once he posted a picture of a car in a crash, numberplate visible, and in his article wrote that "sadly both driver and passenger were declared dead at the scene" and that is how someone found out their daughter and her husband were killed.

People have raged at him on his page about turning their accidents into his profit and telling him to take the photos down. He just removes their comments. He has taken people to court who have been so frustrated with him that they've tracked him down and confronted him in the street for all the grief he's caused, and then he's posted a huge article that he wrote himself, gloating about the whole situation and painting the frustrated person as an absolute monster. Pictures, names, the road they live in, where they work. He is despicable! I can't imagine he's the only wanker who has set up their own "news desk" based off of people who will post "omg, road closed and a fire engine!", but he is the only one I know and I just think it's awful!

MovingSwiftlyOn · 30/01/2022 08:40

@AudTheDeepMinded

Love ours. Someone at Christmas had had a card misdelivered to them. The intended recipient was called, and I kid you not, 'Mr Kneebone'. First response was 'I think they are connected to The Thighbones'. This still makes me start gurgle snorting when I remember it!
GrinGrinGrin
Izzabellasasperella · 30/01/2022 08:49

@HashtagSexy

We have an absolute ghoul of a person who has set themselves up as a local reporter. They've been doing it for years and they seem to have an actual sponsored business due to the local ad pop ups on his "articles" but he encourages people to post tips and photos about emergency services incidents and then he hotfoots it over to the scene and takes photos (or uses someone else's) and posts the details of what's happened. People have found out their relatives have been in terrible accidents through his "999s" page rather than from the police or hospital. Once he posted a picture of a car in a crash, numberplate visible, and in his article wrote that "sadly both driver and passenger were declared dead at the scene" and that is how someone found out their daughter and her husband were killed.

People have raged at him on his page about turning their accidents into his profit and telling him to take the photos down. He just removes their comments. He has taken people to court who have been so frustrated with him that they've tracked him down and confronted him in the street for all the grief he's caused, and then he's posted a huge article that he wrote himself, gloating about the whole situation and painting the frustrated person as an absolute monster. Pictures, names, the road they live in, where they work. He is despicable! I can't imagine he's the only wanker who has set up their own "news desk" based off of people who will post "omg, road closed and a fire engine!", but he is the only one I know and I just think it's awful!

@HashtagSexy do you live on an Island? That description is very similar to my local fb.
OrangeCinnamonCroissant · 30/01/2022 08:52

Maybe it's my own area's issue but I do find it worrying the amount of posts that seek to 'identify'

'Does anyone know this number plate /car it drove up and down my street very slowly'

'A suspicious looking man was walking on his own on the phone around a local beauty spot'

'Does anyone know who these teens are (followed by what they THINK don't know they are responsible for'.

cherrytree63 · 30/01/2022 08:58

Whenever there's an accident/incident there's always loads of posts along the lines of "OMG I drove down that road 3 days ago, it could have been me".
There's a local niche shop near me, and people asking where to get stuff have the owner posting as if she's a customer.
An abandoned red car, with someone saying she'd had her car stolen, exactly the same but black.
"Karma will get you"
When I was growing up the gossip was all about "her at number 3 hasn't washed her nets this week" or "saw a man going into Mrs Green's while her husband was at work".

Doubleraspberry · 30/01/2022 09:12

@HashtagSexy

We have an absolute ghoul of a person who has set themselves up as a local reporter. They've been doing it for years and they seem to have an actual sponsored business due to the local ad pop ups on his "articles" but he encourages people to post tips and photos about emergency services incidents and then he hotfoots it over to the scene and takes photos (or uses someone else's) and posts the details of what's happened. People have found out their relatives have been in terrible accidents through his "999s" page rather than from the police or hospital. Once he posted a picture of a car in a crash, numberplate visible, and in his article wrote that "sadly both driver and passenger were declared dead at the scene" and that is how someone found out their daughter and her husband were killed.

People have raged at him on his page about turning their accidents into his profit and telling him to take the photos down. He just removes their comments. He has taken people to court who have been so frustrated with him that they've tracked him down and confronted him in the street for all the grief he's caused, and then he's posted a huge article that he wrote himself, gloating about the whole situation and painting the frustrated person as an absolute monster. Pictures, names, the road they live in, where they work. He is despicable! I can't imagine he's the only wanker who has set up their own "news desk" based off of people who will post "omg, road closed and a fire engine!", but he is the only one I know and I just think it's awful!

I assume the police are aware of him? I can’t believe they don’t take an extremely dim view of this. It could cause all sorts of issues for them.

Our local group has someone, with a very sad history, who has previously posted details of individuals’ previous criminal records and incited vigilante behaviour. The police are extremely frustrated and keep pleading with her not to do it.

DdraigGoch · 30/01/2022 09:20

@BigYellowHat

Someone had a right go at me the other day because of the following (words to the effect)

CF- ‘selling these straighteners that turned up today and are the wrong colour. £90’

Me- couldn’t you return them, then you’ll get all your money back not just some of it. Do you have a receipt?

CF- Do you actually want the straighteners? No.. now fuck off you nosy cow!!

Me- I was only trying to suggest a reasonable way you could get all your money back.

Anyway, I received about 150 likes etc, she got called a thief (well obviously) and then she deleted the post!

So many people like that on there. Why on Earth do they think people are going to believe them?!!

Who the hell cares about the colour of hair straighteners?
Doubleraspberry · 30/01/2022 09:21

Who the hell cares about the colour of hair straighteners?

Almost no one. She’s nicked them.

OddSocksSparklyDocsandDungaree · 30/01/2022 09:36

'I have all these clothes im getting rid of. Can anybody tell me where a charity shop is?'
'I'm getting rid of all of this (absolute tat) but it MUST go to somebody in need!!'

mangomama91 · 30/01/2022 09:41

Lost toy posts annoy me a bit too. When they finder takes the toy and posts on Facebook to say they have it.

  1. Just leave it there so the owner can retrace steps.
  2. Owner (parents)might not even have Facebook
  3. Take it to a shop that's nearby if near a shop.

I get they're trying to be helpful but like I said not everyone has Facebook and their house could be further away to where the toy was lost making it difficult for the toy being reunited to the owner.

And the bank card thing, baffles me why they didn't just take it into the bank!?

TheVolturi · 30/01/2022 09:41

Don't have fb thankfully, but around here Nextdoor is just as bad. A woman posts at least once a week that her bengal is missing again and demanding everyone search for it. Drives me mad.

Creamcrackersandricecakes · 30/01/2022 09:43

Our local mums group on FB does a thing every few weeks where they encourage local female business owners to promote their business on the group. After the first couple of times they announced that no MLMs were allowed to be promoted, (the previous threads were filled with Younique/Forever Living/Scentsey/Avon, meaning the genuine small businesses were lost).
My god, the absolute outrage. It was hilarious. The admins stood firm, explained that MLMs were not small businesses etc, which just led to more hysterical rantings: #bossbabe #smallbusinessowner etc etc

Guacamole001 · 30/01/2022 09:47

Our local spotted is full of racism and ageism. It also has the most appalling grammar. Have these idiots never been to school?

Some of it can be very witty though.

I dont find local recommendations useful at all. I use bark.com or My Local Builder.

CornflakeMum · 30/01/2022 10:00

I’m astonished by the people who seem to forget they’re in a public group with tens of thousands of users and share deeply personal information. Someone was promoting a menopause cafe on our local page recently and there were loads of identifiable women discussing their menopause symptoms (vag dryness, lost libido etc) in the comments Confused. These were probably the same people who were complaining the previous week about the nosy pharmacist at Boots who asked about her HRT in front of 3 other customers!!

Chocomelon · 30/01/2022 10:03

I‘m concerned at the poor literacy of so many in our village. Sorry but dyslexia isn’t this common, it’s 100% simpletons.

Not just your village. It's Facebook / people generally!

Oceanrudeness · 30/01/2022 10:11

@cobblers123 I think we are neighbours!