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Dodgy neighbour doesn’t care

75 replies

peedoffnow · 08/03/2022 17:13

While we're all complaining about fuel costs constantly rising, my neighbour blatantly takes a delivery of 5 drums of red diesel every couple of weeks and stands in full view of all the neighbours while he fills up his car, his wife's car and his sons car...all top of the range cars I may add...

Meanwhile, he's on benefits (although he delivers for local Chinese takeaway 6 nights a week and likes to tell anyone that will listen, how he earns at least £150 per night😡)

This has been going on for several years now...if I had the bottle I would phone and report him to the police.

He's also mentioned that he needs to decorate his house and get new furniture so he's going off on a lads holiday abroad for a few days and said he will damage a pipe in his loft before he goes so his house will be totally flooded by the time he gets home, as the house will be empty while he's away, and he will claim his house insurance to replace and reinstate everything, all for the cost of his £150 excess.

AIBU to be peed off at him?

OP posts:
SamphiretheStickerist · 08/03/2022 17:45

Look at the forms on thos sites, you don't need to know who his insurers are, just his details.

And the red diesel would probably bankrupt him, given that they use the mileage on the car to formulate the tax bill.

Just fill out the forms, see what happens.

BIWI · 08/03/2022 17:46

Well what on earth was the point of this thread then, if you're not going to do anything about it?!

forlornlorna · 08/03/2022 17:46

I'd report. We had a neighbour like this until last weekend when they got kicked out by the landlord. Neither of them worked, yet they had a holiday home! Work that one out lol. Every school holiday they'd pack up and leave to go to the coast with their 7 kids . Always loved a brag about it. When my dh was made redundant and we had to claim benefits we literally had pennies left after bills so I'm stumped as to how they ran two cars, holiday home and the constant parties.

Report! Hope the git gets his just deserved

SpittinKitten · 08/03/2022 17:46

www.insurancefraudbureau.org/cheatline/report-claims-fraud/ is likely form you need to fill in from @GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut 's link , OP
It doesn't even ask who his insurers are.

debbiewest0 · 08/03/2022 17:54

Why start a thread if you’re not going to do anything? At least report the red diesel so they can crack down on all the tax evasion

LizDoingTheCanCan · 08/03/2022 17:57

Can't get my head around how you know so much about someone you dislike. Does he issue a newsletter?

Toodleloodle · 08/03/2022 18:03

Life is way too short to get upset about this kind of thing. Do yourself a favour and just let it go. Yes, it's not good, but what goes around comes around, eventually, and none of what you've mentioned is directly harming you or anyone else.

Onlyforcake · 08/03/2022 18:08

How do you know he's in receipt of benefits? Are you going through his bins. You sound hugely over invested in the life you imagine your neighbour to be living.

TyrannosaurusRegina · 08/03/2022 18:14

"This has been going on for several years now...if I had the bottle I would phone and report him to the police."

You can make an anonymous compliant to the DWP you know.

HereComesSpringAgain · 08/03/2022 18:15

Do people get re-housed because they are splitting up?

Is that a thing? I thought social housing was scarce?

Sparklesocks · 08/03/2022 18:20

She’s been rehoused as they’re splitting up and she will be moved out by then

Wow your council must have a lot of housing stock because in mine you’d be on the list years!

TurkeyRoastvBubbleandSqueek · 08/03/2022 18:20

Are you his wife OP and upset that he is splitting up from you? It would explain how you seem to know so much, and how long he has been doing it for.

accentdusoleil · 08/03/2022 18:20

Are you engaging in chat with him?

Ishoos · 08/03/2022 18:21

You can report the potential ( and past) home ins fraud here: www.abi.org.uk/products-and-issues/topics-and-issues/fraud/

CityHigh · 08/03/2022 18:24

What benefits is he on?

tkwal · 08/03/2022 18:24

It can be very frustrating to see someone profit who doesn't merely bend the law but breaks it into smithereens and then jumps all over it. I can almost guarantee that he and his wife will miraculously reconcile once their house has been refurbished at the expense of others.
However you need to comfort yourself with the knowledge that you're a law abiding person with principles and that everything you have, you earned. polishes halo
Then you have to hope that he delivers a meal to someone from your local traffic branch and that they mentally note his car reg....that's a very flashy car for someone delivering meals after all. Unless he has added business insurance to his policy , while he's working he's driving while uninsured. Car can be removed and crushed. While the police have his car they will discover what its running on, and then check any others in his household. The insurance Companies aren't daft either, they communicate data to each other constantly. Anyone who has had a series of "unfortunate events" will be noticed and they take fraud VERY seriously. Karma may take a while but he will meet it eventually.

Hertsgirl10 · 08/03/2022 18:31

No one knows how to mind their own anymore going by this post and comments … what is it doing to you other than the obvious jealously.

tkwal · 08/03/2022 18:35

Oh and...if you have ever

  1. Had something done in your house and paid cash in hand to make it cheaper
  2. Bought illegally imported cigarettes or alcohol to make it more affordable
  3. Taken something from a hotel because you could
  4. Bought something you know is counterfeit because the original is outrageously over priced ( like football kits and they certainly are)
Then you're one of those people too, maybe just on a smaller scale
KrisAkabusi · 08/03/2022 18:36

as for reporting him, I don’t think I could live with my conscience for reporting someone even tho I know he should be reported

You're being pathetic. Where do you draw the line? What crimes do you think should be reported. Or would you let him get away with anything?

Hertsgirl10 · 08/03/2022 18:36

@LizDoingTheCanCan

Can't get my head around how you know so much about someone you dislike. Does he issue a newsletter?
@LizDoingTheCanCan

Same.
People have far too much time, clearly.

skodadoda · 08/03/2022 18:38

@yorkshireteaspoonie

He doesn't need to be seen filling up the diesel they will simply dip his tank so they could pull him over anywhere at any time it doesn't have to be at the house where you might feel 'identifiable' as the person who reported him
I’ve seen this done agricultural shows where hmrc officials dip vehicles in the car park. Using red diesel unlawfully is taken very seriously.
CaMePlaitPas · 08/03/2022 18:44

What is your relationship with him that he is so comfortable talking to you about the dodgy stuff he does? Surely the first rule of getting away with stuff is to not tell anyone anything.

skodadoda · 08/03/2022 18:47

@Hertsgirl10

No one knows how to mind their own anymore going by this post and comments … what is it doing to you other than the obvious jealously.
So let’s all behave in this way so there’s no tax revenue and we all have to do without our publicly funded services.
Spannwr1971 · 08/03/2022 18:49

I used to live on a canal barge, so red diesel was kicking about in our community all the time. I know three people who've been done for using it on the road, all of them grassed up by the MOT center.

Andacherryonthetop · 08/03/2022 18:51

Op either do something about it (there are many suggestions on this thread from other posters) or get over it. No point being annoyed about it forever and doing nothing

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