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?

[HeIenaDove]

I got booted out of a local fb group for pointing out that

a. not everything can be done online. re things like prescriptions.
b. trips out to get food and electric ARE essential trips.
c. he said that because ppl didnt stay in it was badly affecting vulnerable people. I pointed out that a lot of people who ARE vulnerable are HAVING to go out because they cant get prescriptions or food. And put up links to tweets from people asking for help. His reaction? "oh its on twitter so it must be true"
So i pointed out that one minute he was calling them vulnerable. The next he was calling them liars!!!


He then began putting the laughing face on my posts and started gaslighting.

There are some very abusive people out there who will use their faux concerns about vulnerable people as an excuse to try and control others

[steff13]

I do kind of love the irony of someone making a (presumably) unnecessary car journey to "catch" people breaking the rules.

[OutOntheTilez]

@SpicedCamomile

I would have sneezed on him.

[HeIenaDove]

My neighbour has a Twitter account under a psudonym She has no idea i know. I found her when i went down the tweets and replies of my HAs twitter account so quite by chance. Shes a PITA. She takes a LOT of photos of the car park.. Our old car was visable in one of them.
She moans about ppl going out and agrees with threats of trolley searches etc.

[BanditoShipman]

@PumpkinP I wonder if that was my house?! 🤣 I keep having people take pictures of my cats as they walk past, it is quite surreal.

[LilacTree1]

Helena “ She takes a LOT of photos of the car park..”

Why?

[HeIenaDove]

photos of anyone who parks there like the workmen who have no where else to park. She had a go at the dustmen yet their service has been impeccable.

Batshit!

[LilacTree1]

Helena I wonder if she can be reported for harassment.

[browzingss]

I’d assume she posted the video on socials but then again, why? Would be a pretty shit post

Then I’m wondering if she knows you somehow, maybe she sent the video to her mates or whoever to gossip?

[browzingss]

If you’re “semi rural” maybe she thinks you’re an “outsider”?

[MsJaneAusten]

I’m definitely an outsider. I’ve only lived here seven years

[PumpkinP]

It was a massive fluffy cat, he was fascinated as it was double the size of our cat. The people inside were probably thinking why are these people taking a picture of our house 😂. In our defence he hadn't been out in a while!

[DressingGownofDoom]

'It's definitely the lock down police but why was she in the car as a passenger?'

This is what these wankers do. Like the posts 'I was in Poundland today and it was full of people! Stay @ home!! Idiots' or the videos of streets full of people that the person filming is walking amongst

[JemSynergy]

There are a lot of area/neighbourhood facebook groups springing up where people have taken up policing everyone's movements by posting up photos of people and complaining about what thery're doing. Search to see if there is one for the area you live in. You might find there is a post about you.

[TheGirlWithAPrince]

Im also getting fed up with the amount of policing people are doing..

You are aloud to go out! Its just about using common sense to be as careful as you can so no parties or big gatherings etc, some people take it too far.

People look at me wierd if i take my 2 toddlers to the supermarket but at the end of the day they need fresh air too! (We walk there) they cant literally stay inside my flat with no air or outside sun for 6 weeks and its not like they are running around in the store giving people corona virus they just sit in the trolley!

[GreenTeaMug]

DressingGown that reminds me of an old friend of mine who when we went to the pub once gestured to a person at another table and hissed at me; 'I think she must have a drinking problem, because every time I am in here she is too"!

[AmICrazyorWhat2]

Not related to lockdwn, but passersby often take photos of my front garden (and part of the house) because we have nice flowers and flowering trees...yes, they look nice in the spring, but I don't want my garden on your Instagram. Perhaps I should stick some junk out there instead to put them off!

[GreenTeaMug]

I was enormously pissed off a few years ago when i went to a local heritage exhibition and there were pictures of my house there. They had been taken and displayed without my permission (and the accompanying notes got some of the history wrong. And said 'owned since 1993 by the Family Green Tea Mug).

It was a total surpirse to see that there. (It is not a big house or anything, but used to be a bakery and so somehow was of local interest)

[TheUnquestionedAnswer]

I've been taking lots of photos, mainly of scenery, but if I see a nice house, I try to get it in the picture without being too obvious.
I was astounded yesterday when someone I know said she had been to visit her family 'at a safe distance'. We are talking 20 year olds not elderly relatives. I said that I didn't think that was allowed and she said, oh no, I think you can. So, I'm thinking, here's me, single, abiding by every rule in the book, not visiting my elderly mother (well, she is miles away, but still) and not seeing my kids who live local to me, so I looked it up (to make sure I hadn't imagined it or if the rules had changed) and plain and simple it's there on the government website. So, I sent her the link, and she said 'oh well, it's all a bit of a grey area'. Err no, it isn't - just read the fucking link!!!!!

[MsJaneAusten]

@JemSynergy - I did search the main local sites, but so many have cropped up since lockdown that it could be anywhere.

I’d not though if TikTok. Maybe I’m more ‘interesting’ looking than I thought. Sigh.

@GreenTeaMug - how rude! They could have at least told you. Did you know the people who’d taken the photo? A picture of my house is on the wall of a local restaurant, but it was taken before we lived here and is part of the history of the restaurant, if that makes sense (though not a particularly interesting house in its own right)

I just have to file this under “people are weird” and move on. Don’t I?

[PrincipalVernon]

This situation is bringing out the worst in some people: me, my husband and young daughter went for a short walk yesterday and a car slowed down with 4 women in it and the passenger started shouting abuse at us saying ‘what the f*k is wrong with people being out when wer supposed to be in social isolation, you f*king idiots’
Which was nice for my 4 year old to hear, I didn’t see much point in arguing with idiot but could have pointing out that there were 4 in the car so was that actually in the ‘rules’ and we are following social distancing not social isolation

[WhentheRabbitsWentWild]

What @Samtsirch said

I have seen a fair few videos of queues at the supermarkets, or people clapping the NHS but I have never seen one of a jogger minding her own business , jogging . Its bizarre if anything .
Unless, were there other people around OP ? Perhaps, for reasons known not to us, she was filming all of them as the car went along ?

[AuntieMarys]

Was it that poster Briggs who publicly shamed her neighbour for not clapping the NHS? Has she ramped it up?

[MsTSwift]

A better historical analogy is post war east Germany. By the time they dismantled that regime they found buildings full of mad files on pretty much everyone turned out about a third of the population were spying on family and friends for the government .

[Springersrock]

This situation seems to be bringing out the absolute worst in some people.

My daughter (14) was filmed and posted on a FB group. She was riding her pony in the school in our private livery yard. There is a public footpath that runs alongside the yard so people would have been able to see the top of her head over the hedge, but to have got the film he took he must have trespassed onto the yard

The group admin deleted it

People need to mind their own bloody business