This lockdown really has brought out the power hungry little men

[Tibola]

Give someone a high vis and an ID badge and suddenly you’ve got a mini village dictator on your hands.

I give you the parish council. Headed by a man who has taken it upon himself to “patrol” the village looking for rule breakers. He likes to talk about his patrol a lot on FB. Two day’s ago they were given ID badges by the POLICE so people would know they were from the village response team when they dropped food parcels.

He mentioned the ID badges 57372772 times (with pics) and then refused them to anyone who wasn’t “frontline village response”. His patrol involves questioning why people are out of their houses. And watching for suspicious people. And generally walking around in a high vis.

Little fucking goblin (sorry I’ve had a hard day)

We have one and my household is really conflicting him at the moment.

He lives next door. His wife is encouraging him because it gets him out from under her feet.

Between us DH and I have 3 teens and 3 aged 10 and under. SIL is a single parent who works in ICU and her kids moved in with us for the durtion when the school closures were announced. Her 3 are all under 10 as well.

I've been taking half the little ones out once a day. DH has been taking the other half out. DH decided to join in with the teens playing Twister a few days ago and has goosed his knee.

So twice, for the sake of everyone's sanity, I've done his outing as well as my own. It's 20 minutes, let off steam and back home (we don't go out any other time - DH is wfh and I'm a prepper so haven't been to the supermarket, get a fruit/veg box delivered so we're being very cautious). The only person we see on walks is Mr Clipboard.

He is itching to tell me off, but he also knows that the less time the kids are out the more time they are in the garden and therefore his wife moans less

For context I do not let them be excessively noisy, but the wife complains about every single noise - she had a go at us around Christmas for the fact an engine was running 'excessively' when it was an ambulance that was taking my MIL to hospital and they did some checks before pulling away. She also wrote to the HT of the school that is behind her house - school that has been there for 40odd years more than she's lived here - insisiting they need to split breaks and lunches as she can't deal with the noise of all the children in the playground at once and also spoke to the Church (again - there much longer than her) about "excessive" bell ringing.

Lol
It reminds me of the Neighbourhood Watch sketches in Little Britain 🇬🇧

The legislation doesn't actually limit anyone to one exercise outing per day (never mind all the other crap people on here have been claiming is prohibited).

Op, most amusing thread please keep us updated...

Hunsnetters😀

Hilarious. Maybe he never got promoted at work. This is his big chance. Placemarking for the updates.

And power hungry and stasi like women on here too, castigating anyone for interpreting the rules in different ways.

Our (ineffectual at the best of times) village PCSO has made no friends by posting on twitter in a PA manner about ''continuing to see families flouting government guidelines and walking out around the village as if it was a sunday stroll ...''.

This was on Sunday We're allowed out for a bloody walk with our family once a day!

The first of quite a few (!) comments on his post was by the PCSO of a neighboring village telling him to wind his neck in ''take care not to start interpreting the governments advice in his own way as the good will of the people towards the police force is vital''. Well said that man!

I always wondered how during WW2 or McCarthyism, how could people hand in their neighbours, colleagues or family members?

Then I read some of the threads on here ripping others to shreds for asking reasonable questions about lockdown. One thread last week a poster with asd wanted to head over to a friends house for the lockdown period as she didn’t think she could manage being on her own for that length of time. Posters were acting as if she’d suggested sneezing and licking all over a nursery home’s day room. Total lack of empathy or common sense.

Shameless follow for when there's a showdown by the duck pond / on the village green

FWIW according to my mum's side of the family, this is exactly how some members of the Nazi party used to carry on in the early days. They used to police who had pictures of Hitler up in their home, who displayed Mein Kampf properly on the bookshelf, who sent their kids to Hitler Youth and Bund der Deutschen Maedchen, and so on. They would strut about in uniforms thinking they were all so important. Family members who were actually in the army having been called up used to hold them in contempt and refuse to do the Hitler salute on meeting them, but did the army salute instead, to take the wind out of their sails (many serving troops did not approve of Hitler or this kind of tinpot dictator crap). These people (usually men) are everywhere. You see versions of it in a Taliban as well, you saw it in communist Eastern Europe, you saw it in the petty burueaucrats silencing the doctor who identified the first Covid-19 cases.

A few weeks ago, the self appointed top man on our local area Facebook page posted a screenshot saying a case of the virus had been confirmed in a nearby village. It was the most ridiculous thing, a screenshot from a website called ovulationcalculator dot com.

I couldn’t hold myself back and enquired as to why a website which claims to help women track ovulation (I don’t even think it was a proper one, it was one of those dodgy clickbait ones) would have area-specific information about Coronavirus infections. This guy got well huffy and said it’s a medical website, people deserve to know.

Me: But that’s not my point...it’s an ovulation calculator.

Top Man: Well, surely ladies trying to fall pregnant would be anxious to know this information

Me: I don’t think you’re understanding me...

Top Man: Admin please close comments on this post. All of you posting laughing emojis should be ashamed of yourselves.

It. Was. Brilliant.

Could you not shit stir so your chap rallies a group to actually go into battle with the neighbouring village busybody group?

This is what I fear way, way more than the virus.

One of our neighbours partially blocked a country road with haylage and flagged everybody down to ask what they were doing. She then posted on Facebook with a picture of a car belonging to someone who swore at her. He was a key worker taking his kids to school but to look at her Facebook account you’d think she was performing a public service. The man called the police and she was told to remove the picture of his car. No high vis or clipboard needed.

Pitchforks at dawn.
He thinks he's the Witchfinder General.

Laiste

How dare you! You should be marching around that village green in full ppe, home made with, weights around your legs whilst beating each other chanting, we arnt having fun, this is lock down to that army chanting tune...

If you know his route could you string some fishing line at shin height..... Horizontal little fucking goblin.

😂😂 Mrs t

Little fucking Goblin 😂

Please provide updates OP.

Yep i innocently asked on a local fb page whether our local Tesco had any baking potatoes as they hadnt had any for weeks

A bloke replied "are you for real"

I pointed out that it would mean i would only have to go to one place instead of Sainsburys as well so i was trying to do as advised. Prick!

Round here it's the chair of our communty managed library. He hasn't even got a badge - or any other authority come to that - but he's stumping about round the village to get his rocks off "monitor our safety"

He's even emailed everyone he can think of to urge use of the online form for snitching on our neighbours

Tosser

VIDEO Traffic warden gets put in his place for ticketing cars outside a hospital.

twitter.com/CubaMac24/status/1242817440846942209?s=20

It was the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, Stasi was East Germany.

They didn't have anywhere near the resources to police the population. But they utilised people dobbing in neighbours.

What an insufferable little toad