Would you call the police if neighbours had family round?

[Baileysforchristmas]

Just wondering if people will still call the police if next door had more than 2 households not in the garden?

@Goldieloxx

Yes

It's good to see that you're in the minority

No, however I would have given it a lot of thought if I still had my old next door neighbours-as I hated them.

No of course not. I’d think good for you seeing your family. How accepting we have all been about being kept from loved ones and ‘not hugging’.

People like @Thelmber think that on the stroke of midnight on the 17th May the country will suddenly become ‘safe’ again. Or maybe it’s an arbitrary date made up by the government months ago.

@reformedcharacters it’s so shocking that the police are so poor at turning up to domestic violence incidents. I wish this would be highlighted. They’re probably too busy fining 80 year olds on a bench having a cup of tea. Easy pickings.

I had a violent ex boyfriend kicking my door down. Called the police. ‘Sorry love we’ve had a few stabbings tonight so can’t come out’

Nope. I’d be v happy for them.

Nope. I hope you have/had a great time OP.

No. I would not.

No
I would call if they were having a party while I was trying to sleep though

Umm no, restrictions are ending

No and I never would have done this.

No way.

I had a lovely afternoon 😊 mostly outside, it was a beautiful day, I hope everyone has had a great Easter x

Of course not.

If nothing else, I wouldn't know who belonged to which household or if any bubbles were involved, or if there were any specific caring needs, any health issues, if there'd be any emergency, etc.

Our neighbours didn't report us, but did make very pointed comments to us and about us when mil visited in lockdown 1, and then his brother. What they didn't know was that FIL was dying and moved to a hospice, mil had moved in for us for the whole lockdown and bil lived 3 hours away but obviously needed to be with his dad. Dh's very polite but firm response means they've not said a word about that kind of think since, and hopefully not to others either.

They helped make a very difficult time just that little bit worse.

I wouldn't want to risk doing that to someone else.

Have you ever heard of long covid?

Yes I've heard of it. I have long covid. Fortunately it's improving with time and I can do things, albeit at a slower pace and not quite in the same way. I have to make allowances for myself. I had covid in October and was in hospital. I most likely caught it at school where I work with no SDing and, at the time, no masks. Long covid isn't much fun, and for a few people it can be very severe.

Regardless, I would not report anyone know nor at any other time since last March.

The most vulnerable have now had at least one vaccine. Those in the highest groups have had second vaccines in many cases. The ongoing findings suggests the vaccines are performing very well in terms of illness severity and in terms of transmission.

I'm cv and have had one vaccine and second due in May, dh had his first this week. We do twice weekly LfTs so the risk to us and from us is pretty minimal.

And I cannot wait for lockdowns to be over and for life to continue once more.

Whilst we are sticking to almost all the rules (I refuse to not see my 18y just because she's gone to university) I cannot get het up about people bending the rules a little bit. I'm not talking about having huge parties etc but having their mum and child to visit doesn't bother me at all.

No, of course not. In fact I mentally high-five my 70 year old neighbour when I see she has her family round. As it should be.

I guess all my neighbours are lovely as nobody has been reported/had any trouble over 'rule' bending.

It's 2 households or rule of 6.

We had rule of 7!!!

But who do you miss out?

Also the teen and the younger kid buggered off to the park for a good proportion of it

No I haven’t and my neighbours haven’t done the same to me.

Although it's meant to be outdoors.

But I think we'd go in if needed - 4 out of 7 of us have had first vaccine and 3 both doses.
My ds is due soon and 3 of us LFT due to work twice weekly.

Plus there's been 10 cases in my town this week. Population 120k.

You'd have to have been really unlucky with all we do to be an asymptomatic carrier and pass it on to each other!

Maybe take a trip to a COVID ward and see where that attitude has got people.
OK, our local hospital currently has zero covid patients so fine by me!

Our neighbours had people round at the weekend, inside the house. My first response was to text my in laws "good news, the neighbours aren't going to report us they're doing the same "

I doubt people would know it's not 2 households. My mum lives with my sister and her two children and is in a support bubble with my Nan, so one household. They mix with my sister and her 4 children. Must look like a ton of households but it's only two.

Honestly can't believe people are still contemplating stuff like this or ever where in the first place! Get a life!

No unless it was a full blown rave because the crazy thing is I'm getting a kitchen fitted next week involving 4/5 tradesmen with olumbing etc from different households so if that's allowed?

We held a socially distanced get together in the cul de sac where I live with the neighbours as encouraged to do last VE anniversary day. There were 10 remaining and at 9pm, some put out candles, I put a fire log into a plant pot, yes the music was on, but through a small speaker. Our other neighbour called the police and fire engine. One of the neighbours attending knew one of the fire officers. They were called to a "mass gathering with an out of control fire" funnily enough when we were speaking to the police and fire officers it was then social distancing lapsed. The point was the neighbour who called the emergency services did so from a position of control, imo. As I've seen them have visitors when in full lockdown! Hope it didnt prevent them attending an actual emergency though.

We had lunch indoors yesterday with my parents. They're in their 80s and we've all been vaccinated (bar the kids who've not been out for a week since they broke up for Easter). There's been no positive covid tests in my local area for quite a few weeks now.

But all of that aside, we were breaking the rules. It's a choice I've made so that my parents can see their grandchildren after a year with little contact. I wouldn't judge others for doing the same.

I wouldn’t report.

If I had neighbours having a full-scale party with heaps and heaps of people clearly next door then I might. Clearly that is entirely different.

You read about a party of 50 broken up every couple of days. I think those should be reported.

My neighbours have definitely had visitors indoors. Sometimes I’m sure there have been several....but what do I know of their circumstances? Bubbles of single adult households with kids, or bubbled with a non-adult single household with kids can result in pretty large gatherings. Sometimes you wonder what ps going on, but it’s a fleeting thought and I don’t dwell on it or intend to report them.

Far too often we don’t know what’s going on in peoples lives or the reasons they are doing things. People do report those who it turns out are doing perfectly legitimate things. I expect the type who report still feel justified in their reporting, but in my mind, unless you can be 100% certain what’s going on isn’t allowed (and it’s very rare to know 100%) and also that there is a really significant breach, you just shouldn’t.

The Police don’t want to know about gatherings of 8 in a garden. They do t want to know about people having an elderly grandparent into their house. They want to know about 100 people gathering in a warehouse for a party.