This lockdown really has brought out the power hungry little men

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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)

I couldn't have put it better myself, MoreGruel, but what I want to know is this ...
Why are these types so often pale, drawn and sweaty, and look as if their hobbies involve trainspotting and strange Japanese comics?

Or maybe that's just the guy round here

@sunshinewishes no way...omg.. I've heard it all

What does the goblin do if someone tells him to fuck off or does not have a good enough reason to be out?

The guy streaming pictures of the playpark is flouting all kind of data protection rules.

What’s height got to do with it? 🙄 why all the 'little' insults/ goblin?

In fact why personal insults at all? You can disagree without getting personal.

@AgentCooper And that business with the Easter Eggs, for fuck’s sake...
What business with Easter eggs?

@sunshinewishes
That I would be calling the real police for 101, not 999. That's so fucking creepy and intrusive.

Interesting article in the role of shame in getting people to reinforce new social norms.

Collaborators in another life. Horrible people.

There is a rival volunteer group
^^

I'm disappointed we don't have one where I live.

Could do with a laugh and someone to tell to fuck off

^

Me too!

I’m finding this really disturbing, these little Hitlers would score highly in the Milgram experiment.

It’s true though, it’s never hot and sexy 28 year olds with tousled surfer hair walking round with clipboards questioning where people are going.

It’s true though, it’s never hot and sexy 28 year olds with tousled surfer hair walking round with clipboards questioning where people are going

We have an accidental experiment 'oven ready' (remember that?) for post-corona analysis. Now we know how easy it is for people to turn.

It took about five minutes for the frustrated dictators to find purpose in their lives once the state of emergency was declared.

My dad encountered a man in his local supermarket who stopped in the aisle to phone someone to complain that he'd seen someone walking the wrong way down the aisles. He was very irate about it so my dad turned around and walked the wrong way - cue the man screaming down the phone 'he's doing it right in front of me - going the wrong way!!!' while giving my dad the evil eye .
It's a large supermarket with wide aisles which are only letting in 10 people at a time. Going the wrong way isn't going to kill anyone.

My dad encountered a man in his local supermarket who stopped in the aisle to phone someone to complain that he'd seen someone walking the wrong way down the aisles. He was very irate about it so my dad turned around and walked the wrong way - cue the man screaming down the phone 'he's doing it right in front of me - going the wrong way!!!' while giving my dad the evil eye

Gosh I would love to buy your dad a drink and hear all about this, he sounds ace. Who do you suppose this fellow was actually calling?

Reginald Christie was apparently one of these types in the Blitz
just saying

Read a brilliant book called How To Stop Tome by Matt haig. It’s about people that age realty slowly so the main character was born in the 1400s. He sees everything is cyclical and the same “types” appear in e dry generations crises. So yes these people would have been in the Stasi/ nazi party/ witch hunters depended on the era

Time every

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.

Is this really another virtue spiral? Once someone gets a small amount power, the only way to get some of that is to prove you are a True Believer by sacrificing others?

I’m sorry totally off topic but I need to hear more about @lyralalala lockdown with 9 kids!!

I’m delighted that all the local village Stasi are over the age of 70 so are self isolating. Yippee! I haven’t seen them for several weeks now.

It leaves the ‘young’ ones like me to carry out all the community stuff.

However, the ‘young’ have a WhatsApp group and I have spotted a very stressy outspoken individual in that. She chastised me on this for suggesting something she obviously hadn’t thought about.

I was going to reply but decided she’d dug herself a big enough hole.

(I’m now getting personal extra friendly messages from her. Which I’m ignoring )

We have a woman on our local Facebook page who posts daily enquiries. “Are bed factories allowed to be open” “are you allowed to put empty bottles in your car when it’s parked on the road” and yesterday’s gem “are you allowed to do cash in hand deliveries to avoid paying tax”

She really, really needs a hobby.

One of the admits of our local facebook group is threatening to abandon it.

He keeps posting absolute bollocks. Like talking why is it the BBC that releases the number of dead from corona on a morning, its media bias and should be coming from the NHS or government. The minute it was pointed out numbers are released on an afternoon and the BBC are just reporting on it, he turns comments off.

He has posted about local business that still open. One is a huge employer which, has furloughed lots of staff (but topping wages up to 100%) has stopped what the manufacturer and are using their huge fleet of lorries to support supermarkets to get supplies through. He kept talking about how its non essential, when the above was pointed out AND the fact that no one said non essential companies have to close, he deleted the post.

He seems to have a lot of opinions but doesnt know much about what's going on.

Thankfully though, he seems to stay indoors though.....as far as I know.

I just received an email that I have been officially designated an NHS volunteer. I hope this comes with a lanyard/high-vis jacket/clipboard. Tut tut move along.

I have a hi vis jacket and lanyard from work.

I could have fun.

Realistically I'm concentrating on keeping me and ds safe and allowing the rest of the world to do the same!

I'm actually concerned how many people in the population think someone going for an hours walk nowhere near anything or anybody else is a serious infection control issue.