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What’s going on in this situation?

137 replies

Thestormishere · 09/01/2026 06:43

Name change because of possibly very recognisable location.

Live just off one of the most expensive areas in London. Houses between £20 and £40mil.

Go for walks daily.

There’s always a car with someone inside, outside of a specific house. The house is not on the road with the very expensive ones, just off it, so not an ambassador/Middle Eastern royalty one, more like a £5/6mil one.

Lots of private security guards around with high viz jackets and marked cars patrolling by car or on foot.

‘They’, instead, have normal cars with always someone inside looking utterly bored, checking phones, listening to music. Never outside of the car, not even in summer. So cars and people inside change, but car with person inside there day and night, always in front of this house.

From the outside, you can see that inside the house there’s a tv showing cctv camera feeds. It feels like the tv was positioned so as to make it clear to outsiders that there are plenty of cameras in and around the house.

And a man often sitting by the window facing the road in an office/library room. Neither the man nor the room look fancy, but also not a guard.

What’s the deal?

(I know it sounds like the beginning of a badly-written short story, but it’s all real, I’ve been discussing this with my husband and I just can’t understand what’s going on but I pass in front of it every day so it’s hard to not think about it)

OP posts:
Thestormishere · 11/01/2026 13:52

Pherian · 11/01/2026 13:46

Personally I’d just mind my own business.

And yet you don’t 🤣

OP posts:
Thestormishere · 11/01/2026 13:53

ForNoisyCat · 11/01/2026 12:31

Someone very scared who has received threats to their safety/wellbeing or believes they are seriously st risk. Driver in car ready to chase.

I like the idea of the hope for a little chase for the poor men getting bored and cold!

OP posts:
TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 11/01/2026 14:13

Could it be Salman Rushdie @Thestormishere ? I suggested a writer, and then someone said Rushdie, and I thought - oh! If it's him I might have to seek him out and put a note through the door telling him how much I admire him. 😂

BillieWiper · 11/01/2026 14:27

They're obviously bodyguards/close security who aren't deemed worthy of going inside the building. So just force them to linger outside in cars. The room with the cameras and man was a security office.

So yeah, just another diplomat or high ranking rich person who's extremely paranoid about privacy.

daleylama · 11/01/2026 14:32

TemporarilyCantDoMyself · 11/01/2026 14:13

Could it be Salman Rushdie @Thestormishere ? I suggested a writer, and then someone said Rushdie, and I thought - oh! If it's him I might have to seek him out and put a note through the door telling him how much I admire him. 😂

right! Cos what he needs is another stalker alert

goldenplacemat · 11/01/2026 14:36

Ask one of the high vis guys, they’ll all know each other.

Oldwmn · 11/01/2026 14:50

Cassan · 09/01/2026 07:06

Go in and knock on the door. Ask them if they’ve seen your cat

Best post I've seen in ages 😂

tommyhoundmum · 11/01/2026 15:03

Thestormishere · 11/01/2026 13:51

Hello, I hope you don’t mind but I reported your post and asked for the photo to be taken down as that is a special education setting that I think should not be discussed online.

Whyever not?

Pherian · 11/01/2026 17:17

Thestormishere · 11/01/2026 13:52

And yet you don’t 🤣

Actually, I do. I do not speak to my neighbours or look their windows like a creep.

Daftypants · 20/01/2026 16:26

It’s Roper hiding from Jonathan Pine 😉

Overitallnow · 20/01/2026 17:00

Might go up there tomorrow for a dog walk!

tommyhoundmum · 20/01/2026 19:48

BillieWiper · 11/01/2026 14:27

They're obviously bodyguards/close security who aren't deemed worthy of going inside the building. So just force them to linger outside in cars. The room with the cameras and man was a security office.

So yeah, just another diplomat or high ranking rich person who's extremely paranoid about privacy.

Or whose threat level is deemed high

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