To be concerned about my neighbours?

[Lynn981]

My neighbours are a young couple with a toddler. I normally seem them but I haven’t for 3 days now. All their lights and curtains hahe been drawn but their cars are still on the drive and haven’t moved. Or am I over thinking? It just seems a bit unusual. We are rural and you can’t really get to anywhere without a car, not even local shop. Also they’re not abroad or anything, as I actually spoke to the lady neighbour the other day and she said someone from the council was meant to be coming round

Arr they legally allowed to give out such information though?

Keep us posted

I'd be concerned too OP. Like you said, they usually mention when they go on holiday so it probably isn't that.

Not sure what good a 'welfare check' would do to be honest. Don't the police just knock on the door, like you have?

The police bashed my neighbour's door down when they came to check on him.

I know

As you are friendly, for the life of me I can't understand why you haven't just popped round and knocked on the door.

Probably got the sick bug

I spent over 2k on a new front door two years ago, I would be in fucking orbit if some curtain twitcher got it belted in by the police because I hadnt been seen in 3 days.

It would be helpful if the OP had said in what context the next door lady had said the council were coming round as it might be relevant? Pest infestation where they need to stay elsewhere etc, but why wouldn’t they drive there with toddler paraphernalia?

I assume she wouldn’t have just said it without saying why they were coming round and the OP has said this was why she didn’t think they hadn’t gone away.

Is it not a bit difficult to off load a dog in an emergency for a trip abroad unless you have unencumbered family/friends, or train travel within the UK if not using cars. Whoever has the dog would need to have collected it too as the neighbours cars are still there.

OP hasn’t said if neighbours have family/friends who visit and seems to have disappeared.

Let’s hope she’s called the police or it’s a plot of a novel, in which most of it is the nosey neighbour wondering if she should be worried and what should she do!

I would do this, just in case something wrong

I’d be concerned in this situation too, I’d be contacting the police for a welfare check, definitely seems odd.

If you were in the house, wouldn't you answer the door?
You say curtain twitcher, I say neighbour being concerned on noticing things are not as they usually are.

That said, one of my neighbours called the police thinking another neighbour was lying dead in his home because they noticed loads of blue bottles inside.

Turned out he had gone to France and left a banana on the side and it was the middle of summer. If that neighbour had asked me (she knew I am friends with the banana neighbour) I would have told them he was in France.

They had already bashed the door down by the time and I was the one who had to call him in France and tell him. It was the back door which wasn't as robust as the front, but still....

Any update OP ?

Yesxbut its not relevant in this case I dont think

What . Dont judge if they might be dead. Oh. All right then. .

Well I would if the police were at the door, but if I was away then obviously not, and that was my point.

3 days with no lights on and the cars not being moved, my first thought would be "oh they must have gone away" not "OMG!!!!They must have had a carbon monoxide leak and all be dead" which is how this thread has gone.

Reminds me of the thread by the woman pissed off that her husband wanted to do a 10 hour round trip to see someone on a very precious week long holiday that ended up with posters saying that he was in a threeway cuckholding sex ring with the couple he was going to see. Completely bloody barmy!

Common sense seems to be utterly lost on this place at times.

😂

Or on holiday.

Or her mother might be ill.

Or his mother might have passed away.

Or a plane crashed into his grandma's house.............

Flag down a cab to Real Street.

Yes, I agree. I would knock .

Do know whether either of the couple work? If it’s been three days and something serious has happened surely their employer would have noticed and be suspicious and concerned? I know mine would if I were suddenly not there and couldn’t be contacted.

You cant say things like that on this thread, apparently it makes you stupid.....God forbid that common sense be used!

Yeah.
Or dead.

😅Get a hobby!

Ditto

Exactly this. And Occam’s razor would suggest they are on holiday. There are plenty of other people who are more likely to ‘miss’ them much quicker than 3 days and raise the alarm, other than a neighbour they don’t speak to.

Employers would be raising the alarm within 24 hours
Family and Friends, depending on how close they were and how often they spoke. Nurseries, toddler groups, even dog walking friends would check in by text if they hadn’t seen me in a few days and they didn’t know I was away.

Also I’d be hopping bloody mad if I innocently went off on holiday (trying my best to not draw attention to the house by leaving curtains closed and cars in the drive) only to find that the police had destroyed my door because I’d failed to inform all my neighbours of my every movement.