Would you call the police...

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...on your neighbours?

My neighbours are having friends around atm. They have people around often and don't care about lockdown rules. They never cared really. I am a bit jealous tbh that they are having people around having fun/ drinking, when we can't have friends around due to obvious reasons.

I think there are 6people in the house.

What would you do?

They’re running the risk of catching a really nasty virus. My brother in law (28 fit and healthy) has it right now and he said he felt like he couldn’t breathe last night and has been wiped out for days
Let them catch it 🤷🏽‍♀️
It’s funny people blame the government for this spreading, a virus spreads because people ignore the rules!

If they were having a party with thirty people then I might but I would hope somdbody else would. Six people in the house I wouldn't bother.

In all honesty, unless it was a full on party, I wouldn't report them. But I would judge them. And I would not offer to support them if they become ill and need help. No shopping on their door etc.

I would report if they are willing to break the rules they are willing to pay a fine it pisses me off as we follow rules and loads of ppl don't and putting more ppl at risk

I’d let the police know. We’ll never get out of lockdown if people keep doing this.

I watched someone over the road from my in laws blatantly have people going in for a party, 2 or 3 people turned up all with bottles etc. Maybe not many, but I was sat in my car, not going into my mother in laws, as we waited for the hearse to arrive for my father in laws funeral...who died from covid. I didn't report, but I was extremely close to it, but I had other things on my mind. I was really unimpressed.

No I wouldn't.

I don't know why people have this fantasy about other countries following the rules?
Brits are overall remarkably compliant.
My family are in South Africa and about 99% of people there don't give a fuck,and cases there are now dropping despite their big bad scary variant.

Id be annoyed, but no, not for 6 people. Massive party, probably yes.

Yes I absolutely would.
After the devastation I see at work because of covid (NHS) and seeing the impact it has on other people following the rules trying to make it a better place for everyone
Would I fuck mind my own business
Selfish bastards.

I didn't at Christmas when they had people staying for 5 days. Our figures started going up again this week so I would consider it, I just don't understand them doing it when we need to get the numbers down and she is ECV so that makes it even stranger. My husband would tell me to ignore it but he is very laid back and also ECV.

Have you petty covid snitches ever considered that your petty tattling might prevent genuine non-emergencies being reported? Stuff that’s more important than Sharon and Terry over the road having two different people round for coffee? There are still real criminals out there you know?

Some kind soul reported a friend of mine recently for "having people in and out of her house all week" and it is true, she was. Like me she is a foster parent, she was transitioning two of her foster children onto adoption. Having the police rock up made a difficult time (moving children on is like losing a part of you) even more difficult. So no, I wouldn't report. I don't know what is going on in someone else's life.

Police don't deal with real crime no more, so I guess they rely heavily on the snitches for some work

I honestly wouldn’t. In five years time I can’t imagine that I would feel good about getting a group of people fined £200 each, just for having a drink together.

God what has this pandemic turned us into 🙄. A nation of grasses. There was a story in the town I lived in at the start of the year about people ignoring a dead body in the street. Probably the same people happy to grass on their neighbours during this 🙄.

My neighbors and I are pretty much all in agreement that we will absolutely not report each other for having people over.
Nobody is throwing raves or parties, but I think there's just a sort of understoof agreement at this point that people just can't go on living like this.

@Whatisthisfuckery

Have you petty covid snitches ever considered that your petty tattling might prevent genuine non-emergencies being reported? Stuff that’s more important than Sharon and Terry over the road having two different people round for coffee? There are still real criminals out there you know?

I think the police have more than one line so I'm sure someone else would manage to get through. If the police are busy I'm sure they are capable of working out priorities, we don't need to do it for them.

@MaxNormal, I agree, I don’t think overall Brits are any less compliant than any other country. People hold NZ up as a shining example, the country wasn’t anymore compliant, they are just much less internationally connected due to their location and they shut their borders early. I have friends in Spain and Germany, the situation sounds similar to here.

No, I wouldn't do anything at all. I'd mind my own business.

My neighbours do the same and it's so annoying. We live in a flat with one entrance and stairs. We joke when we here them that they are the covid patrol just here to spead some covid on the banisters. We heard one cough going into his flat the other day that was fun. I wouldnt call the police though. It's their provocative. If they want to risk their family and the people they see that's their problem. As long as you are doing what you can, dont bog yourself down with people that dont care.

I’d completely ignore it and get on with my life. None of my business what other people do and doesn’t put me at any risk whatsoever.

It puts us all at risk, but I still wouldn't do anything I expect.

So, if 1 of those people has it, they infect 5 more. If each of those 5 meet 5 others, you potentially have 26 people with the virus...and so on.

Sorry, but it IS your business. You will be kept a prisoner in your own home for longer because of fuckwits like your neighbour.

I’d report. I can’t even begin to express how furious it makes me seeing people like this think they’re above the rules. Why do some people think it doesn’t apply to them? I’d happily see them fined for the attitude alone, let alone spreading covid. If they have extenuating circumstances that mean it’s legitimate to have 6 visitors they won’t mind explaining that to the police. And it absolutely is selfish fuckers like this that keep the virus spreading. My friend managed to catch it despite following rules to the letter as her mum is vulnerable, probably because one of these rule breakers breathed on her in the supermarket or something!

Nothing, what good you get from snitching?