tell me i did the 'right thing' , i feel a total shit!!!

[jesuswhatnext]

have just rung police, young couple up the road, known drug users, so pissed/stoned sitting on bench near shops, guy has wet himself, she actually can't focus or speak, lo in buggy crying eyes out.

it's wet and raining, cold etc. BUT i couldn't trust them in my home, soooo, instead of inviting them in and seeing to lo, i have called police in hope that social services will become involved etc. am now worried i have put lo in more strife!

Only read OP - you have done the right thing. How shocking, and upsetting.

of course you did the right thing.

well done for making a positive step to prevent harm rather than just gossiping about it to others like most people do.

Very glad to hear Lo is now safe and well with her granny

Well done.

Just for the sake of not having a totally unanimous MN thread, am trying to think of a reason you shouldn't have done it. But I can't think of a single one and I would have done exactly the same.

You did a very good thing. LO is now with a caring, responsible adult (we hope) and that's the main thing.

Your op left me cold, well done you for not turning a blind eye. FWIW I would have felt like a sticky beak too, and wondered if it really was the right thing to do, but ignoring it wasn't.

Glad there's a good outcome.

i wanted to do this the other day but my boss wouldn't let me

a couple in the pub totally pissed out of their face. manager asks them to leave cos another family have complained about them. the women gets up from the table and falls down the step and can't stop giggling. the man gets all agressive threatens to knock him through the wall and to kill him etc. he goes outside and waits for a taxi and 2 of the barmen stay with him to make sure he doesn't come back in. he's still being agressive.

i wanted to call the police not so much cos he was being agressive cos they'd sorted that and got him outside but because they were both pissed out of their faces and were going home to look after 3 under 5's i suppose they might have had someone at home who was going to be looking after them but i doubt it.

I did do this about two weeks ago. Bringing DS home from school and I noticed two middle aged women arguing on the pavement. At one point they walked off about 50 yards up the road still arguing and left LO in her buggy in the middle of the pavement of a main road. I watched for a while and then one came back took buggy and went around the corner and did a drugs transaction as I watched with someone waiting there.

I went to the shop and when I came out she was outside arguing and falling around with a group of other inebriated people - still with the buggy with LO in it. So I called the police. I also felt quite guilty afterwards and wondered if I had done the right thing but reading your post I know YOU did so I must have done as well.

you did the right thing ALMummy. How could it have been better to just leave them to it? I bet you would have felt 100x worse and guilty if you hadn't called.

Well done all of you. Its reading things like this that make me certain that the world isn't turning into a cess pool. There are still good caring human beings out there.
Jesuswhatnext - You are a guardian angel to that little one and you always will be even if he never knows it.
And ALMummy hopefully the same outcome - you did the right thing.

I felt really wobbly for that little child when I read that but now feel a lot better s/he's with granny - a cosy familiar face.

I feel incredibly guilty when i wonder if those children are ok. I imagine they are but there's always that small chance that they aren't.