Why did someone film me today?

[MsJaneAusten]

Ok. I know you can’t actually answer this, but I’m genuinely baffled (and a bit pissed off tbh).

I was out for a run today, on the pavement of a quiet road, semirural, about 100 metres from home. Nearest people were about 20 metres in front of me on the path, no one else in sight. A car went past and the passenger clearly filmed me - holding her phone up, panning it around to follow me running.

Why???

I’m not particularly interesting looking. I wasn’t running like Phoebe from friends. Why was she filming? What’s she doing with the footage? I know I should just ignore and move on, but I’m totally confused. Did she think I was doing something wrong? Breaking lock down in some way?

[LilacTree1]

Lockdown police

Spiced, did you reply to him? What a knob. Never mind the virus, how do we eradicate these types?

[ANoiseAnnoys]

I’d go absolutely ballistic if someone was blatantly filming or photographing my kids - I’d grab the phone off them and I wouldn’t give a shit if the police came either.

[OneandTwenty]

If it was the "lockdown police" , surely they would have been in their own house, not a passenger in a car being out themselves!

[Justaboy]

Just goes to show what a nation of snitches we coudl be! There is a police guidance sheet around now that says what you can and can't do its onlinbe somewhere, bit here re excercise!

Exercise can come in many
forms, including walks.
Exercise must involve
some movement, but it is
acceptable for a person to
stop for a break in exercise.
However, a very short period
of ‘exercise’ to excuse a long
period of inactivity may
mean that the person is not
engaged in ‘exercise’ but in
fact something else.

It is lawful to drive for
exercise.

It was published be the National Police cheiefs council.

[LilacTree1]

One, the lockdown police think they’re doing people a favour.

[NoClarification]

I got photographed too the other day, on a solo cycle ride. The person in question was walking down the same (dual use) path as me. It beggars belief that these nutters think they can judge every other bugger for 'breaking lockdown' while they merrily walk down the same paths themselves.

[cdtaylornats]

I’d grab the phone off them and I wouldn’t give a shit if the police came either.

Well you would be arrested for assault and criminal damage and probably sued for the cost of the phone. Not to mention teaching your kids that violence is a solution,

[PeytonManning]

TikTok. Guarantee it.

[PeytonManning]

You'll be the runner in a TikTok that says something along the lines of, "What are you running from?! Do you need help?! You mean, you're running for FUN?!!!!"

[ellanwood]

Some people are filming/ recording lockdown experiences just for future evidence of this particular time in history, they are planning on publishing lockdown memoirs/ chronicles etc.

@Samtsirch - DF was telling my sons they had to keep diaries of this time as it is history. I know SO many people writing about it. Makes me giggle to think of the enormous quantity of diaries that will be uncovered in 50 years time.
Wednesday - social distance queue for supermarket. No flour. Watched TV.
Thursday - read a book. Made dinner. Everyone walking past is wearing a mask.
Friday - like Wednesday and Thursday except it rained.
Saturday - as before.

How is it going to be gripping history when nothing is happening?

[Daffodil101]

I was filmed by a woman in a car as I stood at the bottom of my elderly neighbours drive asking if she had enough supplies. People are wankers.

[underneaththeash]

OP - you take a photograph right back and if it's your children you complain - we had someone photograph us playing frisbee locally ( a perfectly acceptable exercise activity) and I had to threaten to call the police before they would delete the photo of my children.

[BramwellBrown]

There's a lot of knobs about at the minute, I was photographed standing at the bus stop the other day, which yeah I get that we should be avoiding buses but as it's the only way I can get to work it's not like I have a lot of choice.

[Bowerbird5]

There’s quite a lot happening in our village. People for some reason have started dumping rubbish here. Quite a few of us have been cleaning it up while exercising. Some of the youngsters have been pulling masses of stuff out of the river, another man has offered to get the rubbish someone mentioned in the beck. We collected a whole lot of bottles that looked like someone had tossed from a moving car. There are horses that come along there and if they trod on it they could bleed to death.
People were filming some builders laying a patio and a farmer feeding his stock. One of the people being filmed rang the police with the number plate as they thought they were up to no good.

Sorry you feel shaken by it OP.

[Rosebel]

The other day a car stopped while I was crossing the road with my children. I thought that's nice and then realised he was filming us. Not happy about him filming my children at all but felt too nervous to confront him. Only out for a 15 minute walk.

[TheProdigalKittensReturn]

So we moved again, and as I passed him I asked him “alright?” as I thought there was something wrong, and he said “two! Only two people from one family should be out at once!”.

Where did he get that from, then? Is there some sort of central make your own guidelines up as you go along site all these people are subscribed to?

[schoolrummum]

Actually lots of people fuming positive 'life in lockdown' stuff for various things. Unless you were doing anything wrong I wouldn't worry but anyone filming you would need your permission before you were identifiable in anything.

[schoolrummum]

*filming not fuming

[M4shy]

Hope your ok OP.
We got shouted, '2 metres' at us today by a man who chose to leave a passing place on a narrow road to pass us. We had bushes and head high weeds our side, no where to go. Then his wife said 'do you not speak English?'
Couldn't understand why we were being shouted at for them not being bother to wait 10 seconds. We had passed loads of people, walking, running and cycling, noone else had been rude, we'd all given space when we could.

[Cissyandflora]

Joggers are bloody annoying though. Yes I hear that you were not near anybody else. That’s because most people are staying at home. I’m only leaving the house for essential supplies and I’ve seen joggers come panting and blowing very close to people. They are getting a lot of negative attention because of this. I’m going to guess that why you were filmed.
And yes- exercise is allowed etc etc. But that would be my guess.

[Justaboy]

Here yer go the rules and regs;

www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/350/made

The way old bill interprets it!

Enjoy..

www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/COVID-19/Documents/What-constitutes-a-reasonable-excuse.pdf

And from the said regs it can be seen under part B members of the same houisehold excercising together!

2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a reasonable excuse includes the need—

(a)to obtain basic necessities, including food and medical supplies for those in the same household (including any pets or animals in the household) or for vulnerable persons and supplies for the essential upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household, or the household of a vulnerable person, or to obtain money, including from any business listed in Part 3 of Schedule 2;

(b)to take exercise either alone or with other members of their household;

[PumpkinP]

My son took a picture of a cat on someone’s wall the other day outside their house as we went for a walk, I hope the people didn’t think we were weirdos as he Really liked the cat and wanted to take a pic! (He didn’t touch it) The people inside probably thought we were nutters 😂

[AmelieTaylor]

@boatyroo. I try to be a bit subtle, but I have been taking photos of particularly pretty blossom or flowers and nice front doors! I need to get a new front door & I'm looking for inspiration. Maybe you have something more interesting out the front than you realise 😊

[SpillTheTeaa]

It's definitely the lock down police but why was she in the car as a passenger? 😂.
Some woman round my area filmed a ladies son going to her door (he was dropping off medication to his mum) and stood at the end of the garden. She made a right tit of herself and just kept saying 'I'm a jay worker' she works as a dinner lady in the school......

[robindeer]

Yep, hating the licence this seems to have given some people to be nosey, interfering arseholes. I live rurally and was filmed walking my dog last week, less thanhalf a mile from my house. They didn't even attempt to hide what they were doing, held the phone up and tracked me as I passed them. I had even moved further into the verge to be more than 2m away so they didn't have to walk single file. Absolutely bonkers behaviour. I've no idea what they're doing with the footage but I will look a combination of confused and then furious if they watch it back.