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Neighbour films us from her house

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ChunkyChips76 · 26/06/2024 20:41

This will be a long one. Will try to keep details vague on the off chance the neighbour is on here.

We live opposite this woman, and over the last few months she has sat in her front window and watched us everyday. Harmless enough, maybe she is bored.

Then she started making gestures to us as we left. Still pretty harmless, the V fingers, middle finger, sometimes the wanker sign if she got arsey about something.

But now we have noticed she is filming us. She will sit in her usual watching position with her phone out, but the angle she is sitting at means you can see she isn't scrolling on her phone (holding it one handed, other hand visible, not scrolling, it would be impossible to see etc.)

Either she isn't filming, but wants us to think she is, or she is filming.

She seems to always know when we move outside our front door - the second we open it, she's there. If someone drives up and parks outside out house, she is at her window in an instant, filming. She films the children as they arrive and leave, which is a concern in and of itself.

We've just got a video system because we're concerned about if she escalates this further and comes onto our property (you cannot see into her house with this).

Is there anything we can do? Short of taking pictures of her (which obviously then crosses into carrying out the same behaviour she is, which we don't want to do.

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Nextdoor55 · 27/06/2024 23:13

I'd just ignore her, or wave back when she makes gestures, smile. Make her think you don't care.
Could she be lonely?

DaughterNo2 · 27/06/2024 23:16

Report online to the police

TizerorFizz · 28/06/2024 09:13

You cannot film someone else’s property. So she should be asked to stop that. We would get a letter from a solicitor threatening further action. Solicitors would advise. Ditto about filming your children. Just not acceptable. I’d speak to the police about that.

ChunkyChips76 · 28/06/2024 18:24

The police drove past her house yesterday, as she was filming. I assume one of our neighbours has reported her, so she's on her radar. I will be reporting her tonight.

Thank you everyone for your kind comments 🧡

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