Police called out to my crying screaming daughter!

[paulanthony1976]

Hi everyone,
So our families bank holiday was ruined by a knock at the door on Saturday night at 10.30pm by the police. Someone had reported a disturbance from our home which the police came to investigate.

I was in bed already, as were the kids, and my wife was getting ready for bed when they knocked us up and interrogated us like criminals. About an hour earlier my 3 year old daughter had been kicking screaming crying tantrum as she didn't want to go to bed, but she soon wore herself out and was fast asleep when the cops came.

They took my kids names and birthdays and school details etc, as well as my wives and mine personal and work details. They had a good look around the house, checked on the kids sleeping in their rooms, asked us lots of questions and then left. Upon leaving the police told us they were satisfied that it was a false alarm, that the matter was closed, and that we had nothing to be worried about.

The next day on Bank Holiday Sunday at 9am, the police returned to our cul-de-sac, knocked on all our friends/neighbours doors and asked lots of questions about our family and if they had heard noise. Needless to say when the police left all our friendly neighbours came back over to us to tell us about their interviews with the police and to get the gossip from us and to express their support to us, and to condemn the "snake in the grass" living among us, and the for wasting the police time.

Although we had done nothing wrong, we now feel like criminals, and losing sleep worrying. Not to mention being gossiped about by our neighbours, even though all our kids play together in the street.

We are really angry at being falsely accused of something, a 3 year old cannot legally create a disturbance, can they? also angry at being told it was a closed matter, when then the next day they came back to interrogate our friends and neighbours. Can I complain for harassment and intimidation, or for defamation and libel?

I am now walking on broken glass every time my kids throw a tantrum and fearful of another public complaint or visit by the police and/or social services.

Any thoughts or suggestions are welcomed please.

Are you letting her contract all these diseases to be educational?

You can totally have chicken pox twice in two years. I did. Plus another three times (and I was indeed studied!)
But misdiagnosed as measles? Chinny reckon.

LOL @ 'chinny reckon'

Is a chinny reckon the same as a ?

Disclaimer: I am in furrin land and old. Modern expressions are like martian to me.

I thought was more of a pat on the head type gesture.

But then, I am probably not vibrant enough to understand t'interweb and all its complexities.

Wow, bad week Paula/Tony. Harassed by bastarding police, victimised by evil elderly neighbour, bullied by Mumsnet and now a second bout of chicken pox. I'd be surprised if you're still feeling vibrant

Just thanks for making me LOL

I think he's Peter Andre!

He luffs his kids.

Even if poor old Paul isn't vibrant, his daughter is certainly doing her part on behalf of the family!
I reckon "chinny" = "by the hairs on my chinny chin chin", but as I am almost as old as Paul (and single into the bargain!) I could be imagining things.

chinny reckon

This is for you Paula/Tony.

I'm amazed the police haven't come round to my house as my DS can throw some whopper tantrums. I ignore them and just let him get on with them. It does not mean he is rude, unpleasant, undisciplined though. Very bizarre thing to say about tantrums.

I properly yelled at the cat earlier for brining in half a mouse.

No police yet.

Mind you my neighbours are all under 50.

We have very good insulation in this house. There has been no repeat of the Singing incident.

lol I never thought of the age thing

So they married in 1976 so been married 38 years even if they got married at 16 that puts them at 54 and they have a 3 year old - wow!!!!

I am undoubtedly an old neighbour (over 50 therefore in my dotage) but thankfully I am not Paul's old neighbour. (whew, dodged the bullet there)
Should I start practising my cat's bum mouth just in case he decides to move? Or maybe I could invite him round for a Victorian evening around the pianoforte to show him how we oldies live it up? I might even stretch to a small glass of sherry (and then neck the rest after he goes)

I suspect the OP was born in 1976, which is possibly just young enough to be 'vibrant'.

You can hear quite a lot through our walls, Portofino- most mornings we are treated to next door's cries of "GERRIN THE FUCKIN CAR YOU DOZY TWAT, I'M GONNA KILL YOU" as their young brood is rounded up for the school run. My teenage dd and I amuse ourselves by being conspicuously nice to each other in loud voices- "Do you need any washing done, darling, I'm putting a load on?", "Thanks mum, I LOVE YOU!", "LOVE YOU TOO!" etc etc...

ballsballs

OP said 1976 was the year they were married. That came from him - so it must be right

Anyone else keeping an eye so that they can be The Definitive The End post when it reaches 1000? Or am I just being a geek (aka not sufficiently, if at all, young and vibrant).

Oh, chicken pox.
That explains it then.

Paulanthonytonypaul is a chain of hair salon, surely?

Redglitter I'd missed that.

In that case he's as old as the 'old-er' woman he slagged off on this thread. And possibly a teeny bit misogynist because only men in their 50's can still be 'vibrant'.

Ah, now that might be unfair, balls. Perhaps he is just extrapolating from his circle of female acquaintances, who just happen to react with ennui and by losing the desire to live when they are around him. He's not to know they are probably quite sprightly the rest of the time, is he?