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Would you call the police...

263 replies

spongebob1000 · 05/02/2021 20:22

...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?

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Dowser · 06/02/2021 10:34

[quote spongebob1000]@Dowser ooo glad I'm not your neighbour 😂[/quote]
No, I’m not really that vindictive but thankfully my neighbour is of the same mindset as me.
Thankfully it’s very relaxed here.
It must be awful living amongst the snitches and curtain twitchers.

Dowser · 06/02/2021 10:44

@Chunkymenrock

The selfishness of others never ceases to amaze me. I would have reported them without hesitation. We're in a national lockdown. I can't believe how many people are saying to ignore. It's a very serious matter.
But are we and is it? The trouble is , is that it’s so illogical. That’s why there is such a huge lack of compliance because none of this nonsense makes sense.

How come my son can work as a carer with covid patients go home to his missus who does the shopping, and gives care to her elderly father , not now but his son was in school, another in college and another in college and in McDonald’s .

Where’s the lockdown in all of that.
The answer is , there isn’t any!

People have had enough and are doing their own thing and numbers are still coming down which with this amount of mixing..they should be sky rocketing and we all should’ve been ill or dead after Christmas.

Err nope. All still here and no ones died of covid yet

Bluntness100 · 06/02/2021 10:52

I really don’t understand this mind set. Curtain twitching on hour neighbours wanting to call the police on them. Then claiming that’s what’s happened to people. Eh no it’s not, as you can see from the vast majority of responses. It’s a small minority who do this.

My neighbours currently have people round, they are intelligent people so I’m sure they have assessed the risk, and know where each other have been,

I’d not even consider reporting them, or even start a thread on mumsnet asking if I should.

Am I jealous, no, I could easily make the same decision myself. I am choosing not to,

CommunistLegoBloc · 06/02/2021 10:56

no ones died of covid yet

What's it like being so terminally stupid?

Bluntness100 · 06/02/2021 11:02

All still here and no ones died of covid yet

Um what now?

Confused
Bubbinsmakesthree · 06/02/2021 11:40

How come my son can work as a carer with covid patients go home to his missus who does the shopping, and gives care to her elderly father , not now but his son was in school, another in college and another in college and in McDonald’s

Because working as a carer, caring for elderly relatives and food shopping are essential? And we’re being asked to limit our social contact to allow those essential things to continue as safely as possible while we get the spread of the virus under control and stop health services being totally overwhelmed?

Not that hard to understand is it?

EffIt · 06/02/2021 11:44

On New Year's Eve my neighbours daughters all turned up at her house but in cars and kept their distance from each other whilst chatting. They were still there when I went to look at the fireworks. As soon as the clock struck midnight they all started hugging before heading into the house together! It was as if they thought the virus would die out with 2020 lol.

User133847 · 06/02/2021 11:54

It's your duty to phone the police.

Fuhfeuucdr · 06/02/2021 12:15

Report.

They are clearly unable to look after themselves and are crying out for some external intervention.

User133847 · 06/02/2021 12:55

@Fuhfeuucdr

Report.

They are clearly unable to look after themselves and are crying out for some external intervention.

I know it'd be easy to mock and say it's Darwin at work, but some people need saving from themselves.
inquietant · 06/02/2021 13:03

Not that hard to understand is it?

Clearly it is for some!!

inquietant · 06/02/2021 13:04

I know it'd be easy to mock and say it's Darwin at work was thinking similar when I saw the percentage of Republican voters who intend to refuse the vaccine!

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spongebob1000 · 06/02/2021 13:13

@Dowser touché 😂

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IAmongstTheWorld · 06/02/2021 13:24

@User133847 It is never a person's "duty" to phone the police.

Bloody hell.

rhowton · 06/02/2021 13:30

We see my parents every day one way or another, through childcare or a cup of tea. We made a decision at the start of the pandemic that we wouldn't compromise on this. We all know the risks and continue to take the risk! Both under 60, normal weight and no under lying conditions.

Abraxan · 06/02/2021 13:52

Unless it was some big party then I'm ignore. I'd probably comment to dh and Dd about it.

But if it's just the odd visitor every so often I'd assume there may well be reasons for it.

Our neighbours made some snide digs to dh in lockdown 1 when they noticed both mil and bill's cars visiting us. Dh was much more polite in his response to them than I would have been. They were visiting because his dad was dying and subsequently died. His mum moved in with us just before. His brother visited us and stayed for his death and funeral as he loved 3 hours drive away and was very upset and needed the support of his family. Fortunately they didn't call the police or similar ( I wouldn't put it past them) as it would have just been the final straw for dh and his family.

We've had visitors to the house - mil and bil for fil's death, my parents for a SD call when both my nanas died, Dd back from university at times, plus we've had perfectly legitimate trades in to do work.

It's always worth bearing in mind that, even when you think you might, you don't always know what's happening in someone's life. Yes, they might just be wilfully breaking the rules, but they also might have genuine reasons for visitors.

peak2021 · 06/02/2021 13:55

I would certainly do this if it were not the same six people each time.

Randomschoolworker19 · 06/02/2021 16:38

I would report. One of the staff at our school died of Covid recently. A mother in the class had sent her child into school even though she had tested positive and the child and others in the bubble including the TA who passed subsequently tested positive.

This was not a one off. The child often let slip about other breaches. I hope the police throw the book at her but suspect it will only be a slap on the wrist.

We really do need to grow up and get away from this victim blaming and decrying of 'snitching' culture. We're in the middle of a lock down and pandemic, people are dying and there are real consequences to your actions.

If people are still breaking the rules a year on then they need locking up. None of this namby pamby talking to them until they see the error of their ways. They don't care. They have never cared and they never will care.

wanderings · 06/02/2021 16:55

If people are still breaking the rules a year on then they need locking up.
It isn't a year on. And I thought the prisons were dangerously full, anyway. Is this why they've been letting murderers out, so they can fill the prisons and make examples of those who dared to see their granny in her last days of her life? Is Saint Boris's next idea for creating jobs to build titan jails to house all the rool-breakerz, along with HS2 for which lockdown has destroyed the business case?

I only grass on rool-breakers when roolz are sensible. I will not be part of Saint Boris's Orwellian police state. "Do your civic duty, join the tyranny, grass on your neighbours, you get Brownie points!"

listerclocks · 06/02/2021 16:55

@Kitkat151

Do nothing....the police will do nothing even if you report it... and there will always be bad feeling between you and your neighbours
They did something at the 1st birthday party in Nottingham, big fines for all the adults.
thefallthroughtheair · 06/02/2021 16:56

Gosh no. How horrible.

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spongebob1000 · 06/02/2021 17:20

@wanderings

If people are still breaking the rules a year on then they need locking up. It isn't a year on. And I thought the prisons were dangerously full, anyway. Is this why they've been letting murderers out, so they can fill the prisons and make examples of those who dared to see their granny in her last days of her life? Is Saint Boris's next idea for creating jobs to build titan jails to house all the rool-breakerz, along with HS2 for which lockdown has destroyed the business case?

I only grass on rool-breakers when roolz are sensible. I will not be part of Saint Boris's Orwellian police state. "Do your civic duty, join the tyranny, grass on your neighbours, you get Brownie points!"

Have you watched Covid 23 movie on prime? Scary 😬
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corlan · 06/02/2021 17:31

I'd report them. You have to be pretty thick , selfish or both, not to appreciate that every time someone catches covid, we all suffer one way or another.

MondeoFan · 06/02/2021 17:38

My neighbours are the same and they tell me too "oh I'm just popping to my mums" etc
Gone couple hours usually

PusheenLove · 06/02/2021 17:41

Another vote for report. They ARE putting lives at risk. Each of these people are going home to their families.

OP, what have you decided?

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