To ask what the drama is in your local Facebook group?

[ItsTheDramaaMick]

Ours is a on fire at the moment. Usually it's just dog poo and why is the helicopter out, and tourists parking in the pub car park to go for a walk and getting a ticket..

However in the last week or so it has popped off and I'm living for the drama 🤣 it's not even the local community groups,

It's beef between 2 niche (very niche) hobby pages where one is saying x will happen and the other is saying y will happen, then page 1 started posting passive aggressive comments on the page of page 2 and frankly it's incredible.

Any one else got something fun going on, on their Facebook groups?

I think it’s only a matter of time before he escalates his behaviour and does something serious. The anger he displays is worrying. I understand why people joke about it, but sooner or later, I think everyone will be saying that the red flags were always there. I really hope I’m wrong.

We have someone local who keeps exotic animals. I think they run some sort of rescue or 'rescue' excuse to hoard animals they shouldn't otherwise have so ours has at least a weekly post of 'Pretty sure I just saw a meerkat up by the off license!' or 'Anyone lost a wallaby?!?' followed by 25 people tagging the animal hoarder in bungalow #25.

We used to play that game too! But there was a lot of hand-wringing about "kiddies" getting hurt if they strayed off the foot path which they shouldn't be doing and which is why the farmer put up the fence. Anyone would think it was akin to an electric chair.

We also have someone locally who always seems to be in temporary dire straits - a delay in her benefit payments, just moved into a new flat necessitating large financial outlay etc. - and asking for food. She did it one Christmas and it became apparent she was getting her Christmas shopping done via other people's charity ("Just got a few more bits to get, hun")! By the time she was on her third round of begging (and, of course, ignoring all the advice about where the local food banks and charity groups are) people started to get ratty and I had to block her to avoid the drama.

Walthamstow?

If it is, Stella has my greatest admiration for staying on local social media when people just shout at her about Palestine and ask her to fix bin collections.

I might join Facebook just to join this group

Currently, a few posters/ ex-employees moaning about a restaurant and rude staff/managers. It started with 1 ex-employee and over the last week I think I've scan read about 10 more massively long posts!

Previously, someone's cat would frequent the local newsagent type shop and curl up on the counter for a sleep...the owner of the shop put out a little bed/blanket for the ginge puss cat and patrons would either ignore it or pet it and it would cheer people up. Local councillors got to hear of this cat and wrote to the owners of the shop to say they need to stop the cat from entering the premises otherwise his license was in jeopardy . So poor puss-cat has been kicked out. Locals are FUMING!! Not sure what happened in the end...i need to investigate and find out what happened!

@TooFondOfBooks on the N side of E London but probably similar demographics & borough council to several parts of SE that I could think of!

@Alexahelp ding ding ding! I hope she has a team of social media lackeys 🤣

Rubbish and recycling collections - a new system was rolled out in November and almost every other post on the local page is about it. Very boring now.

Ours had someone possibly outed as a cat-napper this morning - luring them in with dreamies allegedly.... other than that the usual assortment of recommendations and asking for the best breakfast/lunch/dinner.

Is it a town beginning with W?

Ours is like this but it's a woman with chickens.

The three mystery cars that have been parked outside the village church for months.
They are not abandoned, are taxed/MOTd and insured but why are they there? No one knows.
Lots of theories.
A few weeks ago someone spotted that one had gone but was back later that day. When they confronted the driver he was just a lad from the local garage who was returning it after [unknown garage activity] when challenged he refused to comment.

Someone covered them with hazard tape, and then the tape was removed by [unknown] but has left marks all over them.

@Curlygirl06 you are also familiar with the feral youth of said 'W' Town then who are apparently all going to be descending on it to fight and cause trouble!

Ohh we have a good one atm. Small local park has a very friendly (wild) rabbit. Comes out to play and chase the dogs. Very cute. Has lived there for a few years.

You can see where this is going…very early morning a few weeks back a dog killed him. There were several witnesses. But it is not public knowledge (yet) whose dog was the culprit. The frothing! ( they should be reported to the police! The dog should be put down!)

Someone found the corpse thrown in the bushes. They took it to a vet for cremation. A memorial has now appeared including a pot rabbit and pictures.

@Fluffycloudsfloatinginthesky @Curlygirl06 I also thought of the ‘W’ town when I read this! The bit that I couldn’t get was when they were all complaining how it’ll do all the pubs out of business! Who thinks ‘ooh we’ll pop into W for a posh pub meal (as majority of them are posh!), oh actually no, I’d rather a mcchicken sandwich”. Certainly got them all wound up!

We are on the same billboard! Tree man is causing a real stir

Love the Planters Of Doom, @TooFondOfBooks! And I’m glad that you managed to survive them! Aaaah, @FrillyGoatFluff, you must be near Frome / Glastonbury, surely, to have so much mad hippy stuff going on? Used to have friends down that way and it always sounded both lovely and quite bonkers!

Aww @Projectme, poor Puss cat! I hope the officious officials are forced to back down soon!

@GrannyWeatherwaxsHatpin I sometimes tell my offspring what my friends and I used to get up to, to try to persuade them that non-screen-based entertainment is A Good Thing. They have quite fairly pointed out that (a) this is the city, not the arse-end of nowhere; and that (b) it’s a miracle none of our lot went to prison / suffered permanent injury.. Stories like how as children we would sometimes ride in the (open) boot of the car because there was no room anywhere else are just met with horror 😂

Lost cats, found cats, found cats that aren't actually lost just Six Suppers Sid-ing, fireworks, incomers from the new builds grappling incomprehendingly with the brutal realities of rural existance (driving your kids everywhere and no pizza deliveries) a crippling shortage of bell ringers and the weird woman who comments on absolutely everything at great length with no punctuation or capital letters.
Also loads of blurry pictures of doormats and where's-my-parcelage ...

I think I live near you! It’s excellent isn’t it? Only we’re one of the houses who hasn’t had a collection in bloody weeks as our street has been deleted from the round. We simply have stopped existing.

It’s absolutely shite. I spend a lot of time ranting about bins now. It’s so exciting to finally rant elsewhere about it 😂 and the stupid new Christmas tree disposal rules issued after everyone had bought trees. Good to see green bin users offering their services for tree disposal!

You don't live in a town beginning with O, do you? Loads of FB posts reporting sightings of the escaped skunk/meerkat/other exotic animal belonging to the local exotic animal collector here too!

We currently have #yukkagate

Proper chavvy post from a woman (where she's was no surprise!) in one massive block of text with no paragraphs or punctuation about her buying a yukka plant from Lidl for £8.99 but the cashier accidentally also scanning some sauce for 36p which chav woman accidentally paid for. After complaining (rudely!) Chav woman returned to Lidl to complain and demand the 36p refund with the whole post being "she said your being rude so i said you have attitude and she said no i'm not so i said i want a manager so she she said...".

End result: Chav woman got her 36p overpayment back again and came straight home to rant on local community group about it.

However since then there's been several parody posts from both the supposed customers in front of her in the queue (complaining about their missing 36p sauce they needed for tea but don't have when they distinctly remember putting it on the conveyor) and the customer behind (saw all the commotion, picked up the 36p sauce after realising chav yukka woman had unbeknowningly paid for it, so now has a freebie) and a passing plant specialist further back up in the queue (knew full well it was a cordyline rather than a yukka but was too scared to speak up!)

Local councillor also joined in and posted (great chap!) saying he is getting government officials involved and will launch an official investigation over the 36p, and that he'll be holding a televised press conference to address the matter.

Others also posing AI generated images of a fight between a yukka plant and a packet of sauce in the middle of the supermarket.

To be fair to chav yukka vicky pollard woman she's taken the whole town laughing at her ranty meltdown over 36p in VERY good spirits, and now seems very happy and cheered up compared to yesterday afternoons explosion of anger. Was just lovely having so many local people laughing and joking all together about something light hearted.

Just checked and #yukkagate still going strong this morning!

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