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

[OrangeIsTheNewRed]

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?

@bigbluebus

Worse than the bank card ones are the driving licence ones - it's got the address and photo of the owner on FGS if you really want to reunite them just go and knock on their door.

Yeah, or if it is too far away, pop it in the post. I have done that a few times now.

Hilarious!!! I totally agree. Another favourite… ‘can the person who hit my wing mirror on this road at 4pm get in touch’ I’m sure they will be PM’ing you immediately

@Caramelvanillafudge

Not too sure what’s wrong with the bank card one … am I missing something?

Agee. I think this is quite useful and kind of them.

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!

My favourite I've seen in a long time; people moaning about council not cutting grass frequently as would be liked and one person comments about a certain area and states her dog was confronted and attacked by a badger!!!
This wouldn't have occurred if the grass was short as she would have spotted the badger!!
Clearly a work of fiction 🤣

There are always a lot comments complaining about local news pages publishing the results of Coroners inquests which are PUBLIC hearings.
Calling the reporters "disgusting, heartless, the family might be reading this"
What they fail to grasp is that the family were probably present at the hearing, distressing as it will be, and that the court reporters are just reporting on the findings, therefore ensuring that all aspects of the case are fully and correctly investigated.

The long-grass aggressive badger 😆😆😆😆

My local Nextdoor is full of strange people, Gordon keep putting pics of himself sitting in the bath, some woman begging for stuff cos she's broke, she wants to make a cake so she asked for not only all the ingredients, she wanted a mixing bowl and a cake tin...weirdos

Ours is mainly for people looking for the Hermes delivery person and complaining about fireworks.

If a dozen police cars are rushing past, of course people are curious.

@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!

Kneebone is a Cornish surname. I’m sure everyone with that name is familiar with that joke.

@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!

It's horse poo round these parts, those inconsiderate horse riders not scooping the poop 🙄
That and parking, the rude man at the post office/Dr's receptionist.
Can't ever leave the group though, far too entertaining

We had an absolute classic on ours today in the form of a lecture from one member about how dirty all of his neighbours’ expensive cars are, and how they really ought to get them cleaned if they want them to be status symbols. He is receiving short shrift.

Someone posted on our local group recently in a response to a post reporting a fatal collision on the nearest local A road, avoid the area etc:
"Oh how sad, I do hope there was no bad news, and no one died"
🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

YANBU. Most of the time it’s virtue signalling and attention seeking for “ur so kind hun” responses (yes, I’m sure you did find a bank card but the best thing to do would be to return it to the bank, not least because it’s almost certainly been cancelled by now) or pure laziness: “NEone no what day the bins r being emptied?” Google broken is it?

checking when the tip is open

I was going to add that one as a regular question on ours.

Yesterday I saw a post from a lady who had waited with a woman who was unwell until the ambulance arrived, alongside other people.
She posted under the guise of wanting to see if the woman was ok.

It was such a blatant virtue signalling post, looking for people to tell her how kind/helpful she was.

Ours is all moans about dog poo on the pavement and which bin is it this week?

Also,
‘I’m thinking of taking some bits into nearest town tomorrow to distribute to the homeless. Any tips on what I could bring them?’

Blatantly looking for praise from random strangers…….

My local FB group is great. They have a rule about no business promotion posts except on Sunday which I like. 99% of the posts are about missing cats/dogs, roadworks, and people moaning about fireworks.

I was hoping ours would be full of drama, it's mostly the "found X" posts and people asking for recommendations. The answers to the recommendations are always self-referrals, to the extent that people have started saying "no self-referrals" (it doesn't work)

@2holibobssofar

Also, ‘I’m thinking of taking some bits into nearest town tomorrow to distribute to the homeless. Any tips on what I could bring them?’

Blatantly looking for praise from random strangers…….

Or "I gave a Greggs pasty and a cup of tea to the homeless man sitting near the car park. Had a good chat. Any idea who he is, and if he will be safe/warm tonight?"

They just want a pat on the back.

We've just had a big tree cut down 🙄 dining off that one for weeks

I've just joined nextdoor off the back of this thread and the first post I read was about dog poo

It's the 'anyone know what time Asda is open today' that gets me.

You're on your smartphone ffs, just chuffing google it Brenda!!!