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Neighbour has told our village I am a thief

419 replies

crazyneighbour123 · 24/03/2023 20:59

NC as obviously outing

Last night around 8:30pm a delivery driver asked me to take a parcel for a neighbour a few doors down and said he had knocked my door as my gate was open (all houses on my street have a gate and a pathway to the front door, roughly 20meters). The parcel was 2ft high and 2ft wide and heavy so I managed to push it along my hallway out of the way.

Here is the issue. At 6:50am there was banging and when I say banging I mean banging on my front door. I ran downstairs worried something was wrong and hoping it wouldn’t wake the whole house up.

It was my male neighbour who is in his 40s who didn’t bother to say hello only said where is my parcel. I explained it come last night let me get it. As I was pushing it down the hallway towards the door he said ‘ no need to be so dramatic there’s no need to pretend it’s too heavy that’s why you didn’t bother to bring it over last night, you just could not be bothered’ . I was shocked and just said how he wasn’t in thats why the deliver drive gave me the parcel and it is heavy. He then said he was in but was having his dinner and it was raining so didn’t answer the door and I should have had some respect and done the polite thing and taken the parcel to him. I started laughing as I thought he was joking. He then tried picking it up and realised how heavy it was and how far he had to go with it told me the least I can do is help him carry it back to his house I laughed and said I couldn’t. He then called me a waste of space. I then told him ‘ I hope there’s weights in that box cause you bloody well need them’ and shut the door.

He has now posted on the village Facebook (I know social media is the root of all evil) and has bad mouthed me and called me a thief and a chav and that everyone should be careful around me as I will try and take their deliveries to keep for myself. This is not true and unluckily for him I have this all recorded on the ring doorbell. You can hear us both word for word and see how angry he is in the video. Question is would I be unreasonable to post it onto the village Facebook group or should I just send it privately to the main admin person. My only issue with sending it privately which is the more mature option is the main admin owner walks her dogs with him so not sure if she would fully make the other members of the group aware of what actually happened? I could just try the private route first but it’s making me feel awkward going out today that everyone in the village thinks I’m a thief.

YANBU - post it on the Facebook group so the whole village will know the truth

YABU - send it only to the admin privately and hope she does the right thing

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Emotionalsupportviper · 25/03/2023 10:13

2bazookas · 25/03/2023 08:34

I would take it to local police and ask THEM to take it up with the idiot and with FB moderator.

Police won't touch this, unfortunately. It is a civil dispute.

Emotionalsupportviper · 25/03/2023 10:21

Those suggesting legal action are not aware of the cost of litigation. It is huge. Defamation is notoriously difficult to prove.

@GordonsAFGirl is right. It is horrifically expensive,, can be long-running, and even if you win you may be given a derisory amount of damages and are unlikely to be awarded costs.

It really is the last thing anyone wants to take on.

Itstillgoeson · 25/03/2023 10:23

Well done OP. I would contact the Facebook Admin, show her the doorbell footage. Point out that the post is defamatory and legal action could be taken. Ask for his post to be removed and a post put up saying that defamatory allegations were made on the site, with footage showing clearly otherwise.

wordler · 25/03/2023 10:24

ManipulatorPedipulator · 24/03/2023 23:52

Forgive me, where in that data does it show that posts from your page come up on every users newsfeed? 😂

I’m in about 30 different community groups and they do appear in my feed - and not just the posts from people I am also friends with.

I get extra notifications about friends posts in groups but I see all the random people’s posts in my feed as well.

Markasread · 25/03/2023 10:31

I would avoid him.

raincamepouringdown · 25/03/2023 10:37

I'd post the whole damn video!

SadMadGlad · 25/03/2023 10:46

Did you get your apology yet @crazyneighbour123 ?

ManipulatorPedipulator · 25/03/2023 10:49

wordler · 25/03/2023 10:24

I’m in about 30 different community groups and they do appear in my feed - and not just the posts from people I am also friends with.

I get extra notifications about friends posts in groups but I see all the random people’s posts in my feed as well.

No one, at any point, disputed posts appear on people’s newsfeeds.

ItsRainingCatsAndDogsAgain · 25/03/2023 10:49

I would post the whole video there for everyone reading his comments to see, but then I hate bullies like him and also know how damaging and lasting village gossip can be. Your video is the evidence of what actually happened. Just post your evidence and put a firm end to it.

Clark22222 · 25/03/2023 10:54

Do I need good credit to lease a car?

Feraldogmum · 25/03/2023 10:57

Tell him to retract the statement or he will be hearing from a solicitor, and tell him you are considering reporting him to the police for harassment . Tell him was aggressive and threatening to you inside your home and left you feeling unsafe and that you may have to let the police and others know this for the safety of other women as you would feel awful if his behaviour escalated and endangered someone else.

RobertsRadio · 25/03/2023 11:00

Clark22222 · 25/03/2023 10:54

Do I need good credit to lease a car?

🤔 I don't know.

Want2beme · 25/03/2023 11:06

Bloody hell, there are some unhinged people out there. Think I'll get a ring doorbell thingy myself, just in case. Hope all OK, OP.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 25/03/2023 11:14

Is anybody else wondering if Amazon sometimes sponsor MN threads as marketing for their Ring doorbells? Like the modern online equivalent of the local emergency glazier who sends his kids around the neighbourhood with catapults and pebbles early on Sunday mornings Grin

<just joking - NOT an actual accusation!>

TonTonMacoute · 25/03/2023 11:20

TruJay · 24/03/2023 21:02

You could comment and ask if he’d like to retract his untruthful slanderous comment or he’d like you to post your ring camera video for people to see what actually happened?

This

Trinity65 · 25/03/2023 11:27

What a total rude, arrogant bastard
I will assume you will never take anything in for Him again.

Emotionalsupportviper · 25/03/2023 11:36

I doubt anybody will @Trinity65

RB68 · 25/03/2023 11:42

Perhaps if he had had the manners to open the door when it was knocked there would be no issue. And as for taking it over to him - nah his job to come get you did him a favour. Next time just don't take it

CaveatmTOR · 25/03/2023 11:43

A really good friend had an incident so similar, it's astonishing so there's more than one of these low life types out there.

Friend put a poster up in his front yard telling people to look at the video on his FB page for the truth. This worked like a charm as the slanderer had no control and looked like a dick to anyone interested.

He has been given enough rope. Hang him!

Showersugar · 25/03/2023 11:52

God I love it when bullying arseholes get their arse served to them.

Some poisonous busy-body in my home town accused an extremely vulnerable family member of mine of being a sexual predator (she was getting him confused with someone else but even the person she was getting him confused with was a vulnerable/ severely learning disabled young person).

Thankfully her accusations werent online, they were all verbal. But obviously with all these vigilante groups about these days you can't take any risks so I wrote her a very stern, professionally written letter threatening legal action and a few days later we got a profusive, grovelling apology.

crazyneighbour123 · 25/03/2023 11:59

It’s gone. The post has been taken down. The Facebook admin woman has put a post up stating that this is a space to make the community aware of positive actions in the community and to discuss ways to improve it. It is not a space to defame residents. She has also stated she is happy to work as a go between for those who have a grievance but this will be done privately. He has blocked me too as I can’t find him on Facebook anymore. However my neighbour has sent me a screenshot of his post this morning that says
‘I’m ignoring you, I don’t want to speak to you and don’t care about you’

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Socrateswasrightaboutvoting · 25/03/2023 12:03

crazyneighbour123 · 25/03/2023 11:59

It’s gone. The post has been taken down. The Facebook admin woman has put a post up stating that this is a space to make the community aware of positive actions in the community and to discuss ways to improve it. It is not a space to defame residents. She has also stated she is happy to work as a go between for those who have a grievance but this will be done privately. He has blocked me too as I can’t find him on Facebook anymore. However my neighbour has sent me a screenshot of his post this morning that says
‘I’m ignoring you, I don’t want to speak to you and don’t care about you’

Well done. Hopefully he will think twice before trying to defame/intimidate you in future.

Silvers11 · 25/03/2023 12:03

@crazyneighbour123 - Well I am glad it has been taken down. I hope you managed to get screenshots in case you need them in the future, before it was taken down. The Guy sounds unhinged to be honest.

DimplesToadfoot · 25/03/2023 12:05

@NIparty

**How do you explain the 20% that don't?

Is it because the algorithms aren't putting it in their news feeds?**

When I join a group one of the first things I do is turn off notifications, if I want to see any posts I need to visit the group, I know I'm not the only one to do this, it might explain the 20% it might not, I dunno.

Dymaxion · 25/03/2023 12:24

‘I’m ignoring you, I don’t want to speak to you and don’t care about you’

He sounds about 10 !