Would you call the police...

[spongebob1000]

...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?

Have you watched Covid 23 movie on prime?

This one?

Is it any good?

No I wouldn't .

@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!"

We first heard of Covid in China in January of 2020. It is more than a year on....

We're not talking about people visiting a dying elderly relative, we're talking about people holding house parties for the fun of it.

Are you really that concerned about an Orwellian 1984 police state? Have you read the book? I have, and it's already here. Do you use Google Maps? Do you have a smart phone? Do you use a sat nav, have a bank account, use a debit / credit card, browse for things on the internet or have a laptop or tablet with a camera? All of these can be used to track you or spy on you and that's not including the 200 or so CCTV camera you probably walk past everyday when you leave your home.... but of course, if we snitch on people we're like the Nazis...

In reality, I would probably do nothing. But I'm more irritated by people who fuck around and break the rules than I ever was before.

I actually know someone who acted irresponsibly and infected family members and then carried on going out when they were supposed to be isolating.

Or others who use the word "bubbles" to justify doing whatever the hell they want.

Everyone is "special" and had some circumstance that justifies them breaking the rules.

The police are certainly attending parties when reported:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-55963093

I have no idea what my neighbours are doing and couldn't give a shit.

I would consider it none of my business and do nothing.

I know how you feel op

My friend does it all the time
She stay round her ex boyfriend house then go and stay with a friend

Make me mad but hey what can you do

Personally I think we should just try to ignore it.
At the end of the day it's only winding us up, people will still ignore the rules.

Can't you whip up the neighbours on the other side so that THEY report them

@PusheenLove

Have you watched Covid 23 movie on prime?

This one?

Is it any good?

It's ok. I found it terrifying though due to the restrictions we face atm.

The virus is real and it mutates so it's scary that it could get to that extreme. I guess it's just a movie though.

There’s someone on MN having to see a relative have their life support switched off today due to Covid. A previously healthy person. So I would call the police because people like your neighbours are selfish uncaring fucks.

@PusheenLove

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?

Well this was last night. They finished pretty late and in the end more people showed up. I was watching a film in my living room and heard some : hiyaaaaa thank you for coming hahaha - they were extremely loud I must say. I felt like we were in the same room.

I didn't call the police. I got a bit scared in case they realised it was us.

This evening they seem ok. Probably slept the entire day to recover 😐

@Hyperfish101

There’s someone on MN having to see a relative have their life support switched off today due to Covid. A previously healthy person. So I would call the police because people like your neighbours are selfish uncaring fucks.

Omg I'm so sorry. My heart breaks when I hear stories like this. ❤️

Mind your own business

@FleetwoodRaincoat

Can't you whip up the neighbours on the other side so that THEY report them

I did suggest 😂😂...they wouldn't call the police either.

But honestly if it happens again ... I've had enough and I will call.

@Topseyt

I have no idea what my neighbours are doing and couldn't give a shit.

I would consider it none of my business and do nothing.

Well if you lived in a terraced house with thin walls like us believe me you would really give a damn.

I don't care what the other neighbours are doing as I don't spend my entire day looking out the window. I only know what my next door neighbours are up to because I can hear everything they do 👍

In a similar boat with our neighbours. There's already not much love lost due to their general behaviour (swearing loudly in earshot of our young children, blocking our drive, the Great Escape floodlight. ..).

I came very close to reporting them on Boxing Day but resisted. They've been renovating the house and have lots of workmen in, many of whom seem to be friends and family. They've got worse in recent weeks with more family visitors. He's been heard to say, "I don't care, I do what I like".

The problem is if I so report and the police arrive, the family will just say they are there doing work unless they're actually caught sat down at dinner. I'm sure the kids would just hide in a cupboard or something and I can't see the police searching the house.

I find it incredibly frustrating. I've done the photo and angry texts to my family who we haven't seen in months. I've ranted at DH and now I'm completely blanking the neighbours. My kids are less subtle and have been known to shout things like, "Look Mummy,??? And???? have visitors again. That's naughty isn't it? "

@Sunnydays999

Mind your own business

It's everybody's business

@Randomschoolworker19

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.

That mother was directly responsible for the death of the TA. There is no sugar coating it

@spongebob1000 I wouldn't blame you for not reporting because horrible neighbours who don't give a shit about anyone else (which clearly they don't) can make life a misery but.... the thread about the man whose ventilator is being turned off is very sobering and I think having read that, I might. His poor kids and wife.

Whats really depressing about so many of the posts is that people seem to be incapable of separating the emotional from the fact.
It is an emotional response to identify with these neighbours and sympathise with them.
It is a fact that this virus is highly contagious.
It is a fact that not everyone who is infected shows symptoms.
It is a fact that 15 minutes or longer of close exposure substantially increases the chance of cross infection.

@Randomschoolworker19 Yes I have read the book of 1984 (or more properly, Nineteen Eighty-Four), thank you very much. And here are some of the alarming parallels with Saint Boris's "new normal":

• The government actively encouraging the public to dob each other in, like the children do in 1984. Doubleplusungood.
• Speaking in slogans "hands face space", "new normal" is reminiscent of "Big Brother is watching you"; "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength". The government like to keep the public ignorant, by waffling a lot, but telling us as little as possible.
• The "enforced" clapping is startlingly similar to the Two Minute Hate; and the social media posts such as "poor turnout this week".
• The mind control by leaking things to the press; telling us something with great certainty; then telling us the opposite, with equal certainty; and nobody bats an eyelid!
• The "look them in the eyes" posters seen everywhere, like Big Brother on the telescreen.
• Online workouts: one of the milder examples, but again, very similar to what happens in the book. "Smith! 6079 Smith W! Yes, you! You're not trying!" Such workouts are voluntary at the moment, but now that we've been softened up with them, wait until the government starts prescribing compulsory "treatment" of this kind if you're over a certain weight.

1984 by stealth. And yes, I know that it's already here in countless other ways: CCTV, smartphones, creeping discouragement of the use of cash (with occasional news items to say the government is "concerned" about this - doublethink) etc. It would be easy for a malevolent government to use these to their advantage. Incidentally, I do believe Covid and death from it are real, but from the way the government is handling it with the frequent bluffing, playing divide and conquer, I also believe that mission creep towards 1984 is also doubleplusreal, and I will not support it by dobbing people in.

But people aren't being encouraged to dob people in for 'wrongthink' - I know some things in recent years have tended that way, and if it was that sort of thing obviously people wouldn't and would be right in being worried.

But when a virus is raging out of control and the only way to stop it is to stop all non-essential social contact (parties that are so loud that they are disturbing the neighbours qualify) then something needs to be done.

The fact is you can already report people for noise if it's impacting your life, so this kind of thing is not unprecedented. No-one goes around complaining that that is like 1984. Arguably this is much more serious.

If you just have the attitude everyone in society can do what the hell they want then murder becomes legal. What if the OP saw the neighbours burying a body in the backyard - that's 'dobbing someone in' if reported? How far does this get taken? People have lost lives because others behave like this.

The boundaries in society change in different situations.

The fact is if we'd imposed MORE controls and checks earlier on (e.g. not just relying on people arriving at Heathrow to isolate out of the goodness of their heart) then we'd be more likely to be like Australia - deaths = 909, rather than deaths well over 100,000.

There does need to be careful scrutiny that things go back to normal afterwards but for now I do think people should report those breaking the law. Maybe they're not breaking the law (seems highly unlikely), in which case a quick chat with the police will no doubt sort it out and no harm done.

And come on there is no 'enforced' clapping. It's not illegal not to clap. I didn't either time. It's at DD2s bedtime but I probably wouldn't have even if it hadn't been.

No one is reporting people to the police for not clapping.

Not clapping can't kill anyone.

What a very fertile imagination you have Wanderings

As PP have commented (including OP) I've noticed myself that the most enthusiastic clappers in my locale are also those who are most obviously breaking the rules. I've no idea what that's all about.