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To ask if anyone has ever reported you to the police

69 replies

Fakeid7 · 05/02/2026 18:46

I have been for something I shouldn’t have been

OP posts:
BauhausOfEliott · 06/02/2026 15:19

TallulahBetty · 06/02/2026 14:38

Not illegal, so why did she even report you?

I was also wondering this.

I suppose if the OP had flatmates, it's possible she reported the premises as a brothel. It's not illegal to operate as a sex worker provided you don't solicit or advertise in public places, but brothels are illegal and any property where there's more than one sex worker can be classified as one.

Navybluecoat · 06/02/2026 15:20

BauhausOfEliott · 06/02/2026 14:45

The police absolutely would not, and did not, come to your house because someone reported you for 'not clapping during Covid'. The police are fully aware that this isn't any kind of crime or disorder and would have told your neighbour that.

If the police came round, the neighbour would have told the police something else instead / as well.

OK
I was there,I opened my door and let them in but on your say-so,im a liar
Are you my neighbour?

K0OLA1D · 06/02/2026 15:21

Well not ME, but my DC for playing football on the green

BauhausOfEliott · 06/02/2026 15:28

Navybluecoat · 06/02/2026 15:20

OK
I was there,I opened my door and let them in but on your say-so,im a liar
Are you my neighbour?

I'm not your neighbour, but I do know that the police are fully aware that there is nothing illegal about failing to clap on your fucking doorstep during Covid.

Like I said - the neighbour probably told them something else to make them go round. For example, she might have told them that she thought you were breaking lockdown rules or something like that. But they wouldn't have gone round to your house for the sole reason that someone said you didn't clap for carers, because that is of literally zero interest to the police.

ScarboroughFairy · 06/02/2026 15:37

purpleme12 · 05/02/2026 20:21

Yep the neighbours who were harassing us who we'd reported the police.
They reported us in retaliation.
They didn't get anywhere with it cos they were actually the ones in the wrong but it just added to the harassment. And they reported my child (age 8 at the time) claiming she was harassing them (fyi no she wasn't they were just truly awful people)

Wow. Why would someone report a child to the police.

Navybluecoat · 06/02/2026 15:38

BauhausOfEliott · 06/02/2026 15:28

I'm not your neighbour, but I do know that the police are fully aware that there is nothing illegal about failing to clap on your fucking doorstep during Covid.

Like I said - the neighbour probably told them something else to make them go round. For example, she might have told them that she thought you were breaking lockdown rules or something like that. But they wouldn't have gone round to your house for the sole reason that someone said you didn't clap for carers, because that is of literally zero interest to the police.

Who knows?
They came round and asked why we hadn't clapped on our doorstep and where had we gone?
their words not mine
We explained wed raced down to see a dying family member before he died and they left it at that
I was gobsmacked at the time-I didnt give a fuck about covid,I just wanted to say goodbye
They definitely asked why we hadn't clapped like seals on our doorstep

Im leaving this one there-my only day off is too precious to scrap with anyone on here and im not derailing this thread any further

Have a lovely day

paradisecircus · 06/02/2026 15:42

I once very drunkenly reported a bouncer to the police for violence and he made a counter-complaint against me (justifiably so). Luckily it was all dropped.

Shittyyear2025 · 06/02/2026 15:57

My ex threatened that he was going to report me for downloading Child Sexual Abuse images during our divorce. (100% made up allegations).

At the time I worked in a school so had to go through the whole rigmarole of reporting it to the LADO, my solicitor and the Police myself as further evidence of abuse. The police suggested to him that they would need to confiscate his laptop/phone/pc for months while the allegations were investigated and there could be a prosecution for installing a key-logger if he'd been monitoring my use of the family PC. That was quite the turning point in our divorce...

MrsMoastyToasty · 06/02/2026 15:59

When I still lived with parents one of the neighbours would call the police every time my parents had a party. They didn't like my parents and never got an invitation.
Another neighbour was in the police and got called to our house with a colleague in response to the report. My parents would chat to the officers and invite them to come back once they had finished their shift!

fabgirlfire · 06/02/2026 19:05

I was also reported by my neighbour who was also my ex for stealing his recycling boxes.
the police actually came to my house. It turned out that he had ordered new recycling boxes to my address and then reported me for stealing them.

but the police actually came to my house - I did ask her if she didn’t have anything better to do.

Spendysis · 06/02/2026 20:10

Yes dsis has reported me twice. To cut a long story short we are nc as she has been financially abusing dm. I raised my concerns with opg. First time she reported me after I gave my side of the story to a neighbour who believed me and blocked dsis so the police called me to have a chat to make sure i keep everything in writing by text etc. second time was when she rented dm house out i updated opg who advised me to pass her contact details to the letting agent that she will be in touch with them so i emailed them exactly what she told me to. They obviously contacted dsis who reported me to the police. The police couldn’t actually tell me what crime I had committed. They were aware of my claims that dsis was financially abusing dm as ss raised concerns to them and I had spoken to them but they closed the case while opg were investigating it

Oldraver · 06/02/2026 20:10

No but my partner was and it devastated him

There was an incident in a town an hour away from us, a new crime (so think the police were keen on getting the first arrest)

The police put out a stil from cctv, in a we want to interview this man for this crime etc. Someone gave my OH's name

They did a bit of basic investigating looked at his Facebook and saw an old picture of him wearing a blue Fila top. The perpetrator was wearing double denim 😲

They came to our house, initially arrested him, de arrested him and confiscated his phone

Crime revolved around taking pictures no longer allowed (up skirting) . Well his phone was clean apart from copious pictures of cats and peacocks. In fairness they dealt with it quickly, phone was back with him four days later and no further action

But we had four days of wracking our brains how to prove he wasn't even in that town. They phoned his place of work, he was a wreck afterwards

BeMellowAquaSquid · 06/02/2026 20:18

My exh had me questioned under caution for calling him a fucking prick. I had to explain why I was calling him a fucking prick and by the end of the interview the police were laughing so much almost agreeing with me that he was indeed a fucking prick.

fabgirlfire · 06/02/2026 20:33

Oh another time I was invited for interview because I sent the ex an email saying he was a liar and a coward. The police officer asked me why I had said that. I told him it’s because he’s a liar and a coward.

needless to say it didn’t go any further.

SorcererGaheris · 06/02/2026 20:42

Navybluecoat · 05/02/2026 19:26

My neighbour rang the police on us for not clapping during covid

What she didnt know was my darling fil was dying and it was 'get here now or don't get to say goodbye'

She was clapping like a seal on her doorstep when she saw us leave,upset and panicking that we wouldn't make it in time

So the mad bitch rang the police on us and they came out a fortnight later

She told everyone she'd done it so our landlord would throw us out

That's impossible as we own our house (no mortgage) but she doesn't know that and really thinks that by stirring the pot,she'll get us thrown out

Ill never forgive her as she made a really hard time impossible for us-it was the last thing we needed

Still cant believe they didnt tell her to fuck off

Another neighbour (different house) rang the police on me for playing loud music (id been at school with her and she was an evil bitch even back then)

I wasn't even at home-i was on holiday 100 miles away with my kids-the police had words once they'd rang me and I confirmed where I was

She got her revenge by setting off fireworks aimed at my bedroom window

We moved away

So the mad bitch rang the police on us and they came out a fortnight later

@Navybluecoat

What I don't understand is why did the police come out at all? It wasn't a crime to not clap during Covid.

Seainasive · 06/02/2026 21:04

Yes we had a couple of very nice, unarmed, WPCs come round as someone had reported that we had firearms on the premises. My DH owns some low powered air guns that he shoots tin cans with. 🫤. I suppose we should be grateful we weren’t SWATted!

ConcussedPigeon · 06/02/2026 21:05

Couple of years ago, I got reported because my then 10 year old didn’t invite her daughter to his party. She called me, emailed me, harangued me so much that in the end I told her to fuck off - without me knowing she recorded me. I got a warning for being threatening and told to consider having her daughter to the party. My son wasn’t even friends with her. Batshit.

WiddlinDiddlin · 06/02/2026 21:39

mmm, several times over a few years in my teens, yes.

Reported for stealing an old ladies broom from the communal meter cupboard in our block of flats.

Same old lady also reported me to police and council for being a drug dealer and running a brothel (both based on zero actual evidence).

Then she started a petition to get me evicted and I genuinely thought she was having some sort of seizure when she found out the council moved me to a larger semi detatched property as a direct result of her behaviour!

I once got picked up by a very nice police lady whilst chilling in the woods one day smoking a roll up and reading a book - a dog walker had reported a run away teenager smoking pot - I got to sit in the front of of a riot bus and driven home. I was 19. I think she started to realise I wasn't actually up to no good when she asked what I was reading - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance. By the time we got to my house she was happy to just drop me off and leave it at that as I had in fact done nothing at all wrong!

And worst of all, and somewhat longwinded - I got my flat raided and turned upside down for a crime I had initially reported to the police, that they had taken an on-the-spot statement from me about.

I witnessed the shop opposite get broken into, called once they'd gone because my phone had no signal indoors and outdoors was immediately in front of the crime in action - waited, spoke to the first attending officers and made a verbal statement as to what I'd seen. Sent back to my flat, went to bed, told someone would be back around lunchtime the next day to do a written statement.

6am (so 4 hours later) my door gets booted in and a search warrant waved in my face and they tip the place up as apparently it was reported that I came into the block of flats carrying a load of whiskey and tobacco products stolen from behind the shop counter.

It was really horrible, they kept shouting at me 'where is it!' and 'we WILL find it', my support worker was no where to be fucking seen (homeless young persons housing set up, we all had support workers)... then when they found nothing they all shambled out leaving my door hanging off and the flat absolutely bollocksed and stuff broken all over the place.

The later shift, who i had directly spoken to did come back and apologise - somewhere along the line a neighbours report that they'd maybe seen someone run into my block or later into the side street beside my block had been mismatched with my address for the official statement, conclusions had been jumped to that shouldn't have been.

Still don't like people bashing really hard on doors to this day. Ugh.

purpleme12 · 06/02/2026 21:48

Wow that is awful

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