To be annoyed at DH for reporting local FB seller to Crimewatch?

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DH uses our local FB for sale page to sell bits and bobs from time to time.

He noticed that a woman in our village sells a lot of electronic devices and began to look into her selling history and found that she's sold roughly 30-40 iphones and ipads over about 2 years. He counted 5 new and used iPhones and iPads sold in the last month, along with a handful of new Nike shoes. He decided that she must be selling stolen goods (her boyfriend is a drug dealer who was recently arrested and this factored in to his assumption) and decided to report her to Crime Watch!!! against my telling him he not to because A. He doesn't know for sure and was sticking his nose in and B. Was wasting Crime Watch time.

I am quite annoyed at him for being so nosy but mostly his overreaction. I told him to report to FB not to bloody Crimewatch but he went against my advice

He has been watching a lot of true crime lately and I think he thinks he's Detective Inspector Frost.

Good for him! If it's all innocent, fair enough. If it is stolen, then it's a good thing he reported it!

If only Crimewatch had a Division solely devoted to test purchases and follow up of suss sellers.

Bravo, so mature.

Thanks Goodness for people like your husband!

Too many people cross by on the other side when it comes to what's perceived as 'petty' crime. No crime is victimless.

The only people I've ever met who use this phrase are a) children b) criminals. Which are you?

My husband didn't want me to respond to a police appeal once, because I "couldn't be sure it was the same guy".

Well no, but that's why they investigate. And in my case, I was seeing:

• an appeal about a series of rapes in the city
• a man who'd approached us who had a similar build, gait and race to the man in the footage
• a man who talked about having done bad things to women

Why on Earth would you be mad at him?!

Bravo to your DH.

Stolen goods and drug dealing fund sex crimes and human trafficking against women, children and other vulnerable people. Bad things happen because good people sit by and do nothing. We need to stop this ‘don’t be a grass’ nonsense

Yes and they are also the same people who say “Why didn’t anybody do anything” when abuse is discovered too.

Well done your DH.

Crime watch is a discontinued TV show so your dh clearly has not done this.

He’s probably bang on the money. Or she’s laundering drug money.

I can’t honestly believe you wrote ‘wasting Crimewatch’s time’ either. 😂

Crime Stoppers maybe?

Why do women on this site think they have the right to control their husband/partner's behaviour? It's none of the OP's business what he does in situations like this.

Yabu. Proceeds of crime fund crime.

Why does he need your permission to do something

good for him, how would you feel if your phone was stolen and then sold on FB

Assuming you mean Crime Stoppers rather than the TV programme, I reckon it’s up to him what he does with the info he’s discovered and it’s up the the police if they wish to follow it up.

Crimewatch? Are you posting from the past, OP?

He reported a legitimate concern to the appropriate (assuming Crimewatch is a misnomer and it's actually Crimestoppers or FB's own investigation team) people who can look into it if appropriate.

I'd be glad to be with an OH who tried to do the right thing and not turn a blind eye to something that looks dubious.

As PP's have said - it's not a victimless crime and is often the source of much misery and despair, on a number of levels. If there's no wrongdoing in the case that will be established with no harm done.

I agree with her. He's a snitch.

not good to be known by the local criminals as a grass family.

How would you feel if it was your kid’s iPad that had been nicked from their bag? Still snitching then is it?

I guarantee that if someone posted saying they were thinking about reporting a seller on FB to Crimewatch, the near-unanimous response would be "mind your own business". Disagreeing with the OP is the Mumsnet way!

I am in the "mind your own business" camp on this one, by the way.

Well done to your DH. YABVU.

As for the "He's a snitch! Don't diss the local criminals" lot on this thread, you are pathetic. But you'll be quick enough to call the police when it's your iPad that gets stolen, when it's you that gets mugged, eh?

Maybe where you live. Round here petty criminals dont run our communities and they generally try and keep a low profile because being reported to the police doesn't turn out well for them.

Good on your husband, he’s making the neighbourhood safer by reporting to someone who can investigate. It’s not a victimless crime, and if there’s no way for thieves to offload stolen goods, it reduces muggings and break-ins overall.