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To wish I had the power to arrest people that....

119 replies

AbbyGal · 04/03/2023 20:38

-Don't pick up their dog's poo
-drop litter
-park like a knob ie half on the pavement so anyone with a pushchair or in a wheelchair has to walk into the road
-are rude to staff in shops or waiting staff

and by arrest, I actually mean lock up for at least 5 years!

Anything else I should put on my Go Straight to Jail list?

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Bog · 05/03/2023 09:37

Drug drivers. The 50 odd year old couple that live opposite us in the flats do this. Their shitty blue Ford car stinks of weed as they drive past with a joint hanging out their mouths. They've been engaged for almost 30 years....I reckon if they didn't smoke weed so much they'd be married by now. Utter tramps.

Brahumbug · 05/03/2023 10:21

People who don't understand merge in turn when lanes merge but think people who do are queue jumping 😡

Throwncrumbs · 05/03/2023 10:35

People who seem to think I’m invisible, like when I’m next to be served in the chemist and someone stands next to me and the assistant says to them’ can i help’ or when I’m looking on a shelf in a shop and someone pushes in front of me and stands there blocking my view

EmpressaurusOfCats · 05/03/2023 10:38

Most of these have already been done but:

People who play noisy music / games / videos on their phones in public or make calls on speakerphone.

People who either stand on the left on escalators OR who walk down slowly. If you’re not in a rush, stand on the right.

People who cycle on pavements.

People who stand in front of the tube / train gates fumbling for their card / phone / ticket.

donttellmehesalive · 05/03/2023 10:48

People who are annoyed by very petty things, especially if they don't realise that they themselves also do petty annoying things.

AllInADay · 05/03/2023 14:32

I think most people exercise a great deal of self restraint, to be honest, as you rarely see people challenged in public on alot of this behaviour. I think it's healthy to have places like this to vent.

cassiatwenty · 05/03/2023 20:47

London Landords

Heronwatcher · 05/03/2023 20:53

Phone. Music/ call on speaker on a packed train carriage.

WTF.

minidancer · 05/03/2023 20:57

Middle lane drivers! It's an overtaking lane, just to be used for overtaking, not to sit in because you are doing the speed limit 😡

ScatmanDave · 05/03/2023 21:24

In addition to the animal abusers;

The cunts who can't cope with their pets and just dump them at vets to be PTS

The cunts that dump their pets the minute a baby comes along

The cunts that breed their pets to make money. Get a job you cunting feckless POS

No need for stocks or a taser. I'd quite happily shoot most of the above.

AllInADay · 10/03/2023 11:39

People who talk on their mobiles for hours in the Quiet Carriage, then rip open an industrial sized bag of crisps and chomp their way through them.

cassiatwenty · 10/03/2023 12:35

People who live at Canary Wharf and are stealth boasting living in a souless VIP part of London.

Also when people do commercials but their narration is so freakishly quiet and pleasant, give me a Northerner yelling OI OI OI LUV instead on my tv screen

HumourReplacementTherapy · 10/03/2023 13:26

People who get to the top or bottom of an escalator and just STOP! I think they must enjoy human dominoes

Ditto people who walk into a shop/supermarket/hotel/theatre and don't shift their arse out of the way while they contemplate what they are there for.

People who bang their supermarket trolley against my back while stood in the queue as if it will make a difference to their wait.

Lock em all up together for a good 5 years with daily lessons on shifting their arses out of the way

cassiatwenty · 11/03/2023 09:40

HumourReplacementTherapy · 10/03/2023 13:26

People who get to the top or bottom of an escalator and just STOP! I think they must enjoy human dominoes

Ditto people who walk into a shop/supermarket/hotel/theatre and don't shift their arse out of the way while they contemplate what they are there for.

People who bang their supermarket trolley against my back while stood in the queue as if it will make a difference to their wait.

Lock em all up together for a good 5 years with daily lessons on shifting their arses out of the way

I feel you, I feel you.

Now it's time to practice stillness and being in the moment?

Oh my word, human dominoes 🤣

Nw22 · 11/03/2023 09:44

Based on yesterday alone
-people who play music or videos without headphones in public place
-people who use phones in the cinema
-people who use their phone on loudspeaker in public places
-people smoking in places you have to walk through or when walking in a busy street
-oh and the man I overheard on the phone threatening what I presume was his ex and calling her a scruffy fat c*nt

EatYourVegetables · 11/03/2023 09:46

About 80% of Mumsnet users, incl many on this thread.

quinceh · 11/03/2023 09:49

People who don’t have their phones on silent in public spaces or have conversations on speaker phone

JudgeJ · 11/03/2023 13:15

scoobycute · 04/03/2023 21:12

People that dither over contents on the shelves of supermarkets

People who dither at checkouts. Yesterday in Tesco, 4 self-service tills, on one an elderly woman didn't know how to use it so the assistant scanned all her shopping, packed it and did the payment, on the second one a woman placed all her scanned goods onto the side then once she'd paid proceeded to pack the stuff into her bags at the speed of a constipated snail, on the third a young man got the dreaded 'wait for assistance' notice but the assistant was too busy packing for the elderly woman! Before anyone jumps in I too am elderly, I think, so feel allowed to describe someone ion that way!

JudgeJ · 11/03/2023 13:17

Aquamarine1029 · 04/03/2023 21:48

People who use "loose" when they mean "lose." It honestly does my fucking head in.

Can I add chose/choose/choice to that list!

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