Another “angry with the neighbours for flouting the rules” thread

[MrsExpo]

My neighbours are both police officers - the husband is quite senior in rank. We are in Tier 3. This afternoon, their DD has arrived for christmas, clearly intending to stay for a while. She lives and works in central London, where she lives with a long term partner (he hasn’t come, as far as I know)...... What the hell is the point of having rules? Speechless really .....

Other law breaking wouldn't be viewed this way.

Because in this scenario there is no evidence whatsoever that she is actually breaking the law and could be acting within it.

@TheGreatWave

Other law breaking wouldn't be viewed this way.

Because in this scenario there is no evidence whatsoever that she is actually breaking the law and could be acting within it.

In that case, there's nothing wrong with reporting.

@Chloemol

Don’t worry op, all these people saying mind your own business will be changing their minds when we go into full on lockdown pm schools closed etc

I certainly won't be changing my mind. Curtain twitchers are nosy gits who have been given validation by all of this and by the arbitrary rules. They are so often actually enjoying this pandemic.

They should mind their own business. I've no idea what most of them will do with themselves when this does all come to an end. Will they be campaigning for the erosion of our freedoms and personal liberties to become permanent? Perhaps because the cold and flu viruses mutate regularly too, so therefore people should never ever be allowed out again and they, as the local Stasi, can continue mindlessly spying on which neighbour has come and gone X number of times.

Why does anyone even do this? It must be about as interesting as watching paint dry.

We've all had Covid in our household. I am still suffering long Covid.

DD is a nurse in the NHS and has worked long hours all through this. For the first time EVER she has Christmas Eve and Christmas Day off - and is on a late Boxing Day.

She's coming home for those 2 and a half days. Fuck everyone else, frankly. She's not sitting on her own in a flat. She's done enough this year without martyring herself over Christmas. She's coming from a Tier 3 area into a different Tier 3 area and bugger Boris. If she''s safe to sit in our home for the whole of Christmas Day then she's safe to come for the (brief) time she has off a ward.

Other law breaking wouldn't be viewed this way.

Of course it often is. I couldn’t care less about people speeding on open roads at night, people parking on double yellows, or someone paying the odd trader cash in hand for example

I'm generally a rule follower but I couldn't get cross at a young adult coming home for Xmas. Sorry butYABU