Hypocritical neighbours

Everyone is doing What they want, lots believe that the rules don't apply to them. Ignore because no point reporting them. Be thankful you are u.

Just make sure you stay away from them and leave them to it. I live on a large estate and see lots of rule breaking. People will make there own decisions. I would not phone the police they have enough to do.

Neighbor is an NHS nurse has had a variety of family members and their dogs visiting since lockdown.
Not typical I’m sure which is why we still clap for workers, sadly the police won’t have time to investigate all the rule breakers in our village!

Nicky7of7 please do not feel guilty in this lovely weather there is nothing wrong with those who do your shopping to deliver to back garden and stay chatting two metres apart, lots are doing even me but this thread is talking about a gathering, a party in the garden with lots of people which would be ok if your back garden was the size of a park and each had there own portaloo.

Some people really don’t get it and absolutely are hypocrites. Went for a bike ride with my son a couple of days ago. Came to one part where there is a thin bridge and a kissing gate. My son, who has coordination issues, had struggled but persevered in getting through the gate and just started crossing the bridge when two women with two children (one in a pushchair) and their dog started to cross the bridge at the other end. You can barely pass and certainly wouldn’t be two meters away. I was just about to start manoeuvring my bike when I saw this and shouted out could they please wait and let me son pass. They refused and stopped on the bridge. I said that my son couldn’t go backwards and couldn’t pass at a safe distance they went all huffy and told me to come through too as I was making such an issue of it. I said no - i wouldn’t be at two meters away either. A bit of a row ensued and they argued their point that I should cross and “this brings out the worst in some people” I said yes it certainly does but wouldn’t cross whilst they were still in the bridge. Eventually they finished crossing - my son had to pass them otherwise he was stuck which made me so angry and I dropped further back to give them plenty of room - as they passed I could still here them saying how rude I was and I didn’t get it!! Really!!!! Thankfully the rest of the ride was delightful!

Quite a few police forces have a website you can report wrongdoers on which might be the best option.

might be the camera angle it can make things look nearer than they actually are.

This makes such depressing reading for those of use who are sticking to the rules by the letter. What makes people so irresponsible and stupid! I would love to see my family too but have to accept for the good of everyone I can't.

No you are perfectly correct. It’s people like them that spread this dreadful virus. No thought for others whatsoever.

Yesterday my DD came to my house and she sat at the end of my pathway,I placed a small table in the middle of the path and she set up afternoon tea for us each taking what we wanted and keeping our distance all the time.
While we where outside during the two hours my neighbour 2 doors down had 6 lots of visitors parking and going into his home,hugging each other as each arrived in total about 18 people over the 2 hours just stupid behaviour,these are not the sort of families you can report unfortunately.

Cannot understand why people don't think that it will not happen to them. House next door to me and next one after that are like building sites, with work going on most days and amount of people arriving unbelievable. Don't want to fall out with new neighbour before he moves in. My husband is in sheltered group, daughter works in hospital and son is a paramedic. Take care everyone

We can only live our own lives. Yes we are doing the right thing and a lot of others are too. Some aren’t.
Reporting people to the police is abhorrent to me. I’m sorry. It’s a nasty thing to do. Carry on doing the right thing and stay at home but stop spying and reporting people to the police.

There’s probably something in the modelling that assumes a certain amount of people will flout the rules at certain periods of the ‘lockdown‘.

I'm another one who is thoroughly fed up with selfish twats. My next door neighbour and I are both in the highly vulnerable categories that have had to shield and isolate, yet the younger families in the block sometimes stand well apart to chat and other times pass by very closely, allow various ages of children to play together and share toys (that I have never seen any of the parents so much as wipe down). I dread one of these idiots killing me or someone I care about. I'm furious that those key workers who have kept the country functioning, cared for the sick, comforted the dying, buried the dead, driven for miles to keep essential supplies stocked, delivered mail, worked long hours in supermarkets etc are being put at risk even further from people that deep down are selfish, entitled, hypocrites that think they are exempt from anything they don't like, that can meet up whenever they want. My better half has been shopping for us, our neighbour and an elderly customer of theirs (also shielded) and has been annoyed at families dragging brats who touch everything in the shop, who have coughed and sneezed the whole time and not made any attempt to cover their faces....If social distancing wasn't so important someone may well have given them a slap but as it was nobody wanted to be anywhere near them! We'd all like to go out, see loved ones, do normal things again but the majority want to see the back of this virus, not put others at risk and protect our NHS and key workers. Thanks to these idiots I fear lockdown and the virus will be here for longer than it needed to be.

I felt a bit of a party pooper for not going out yesterday and eating on my front lawn, although I hung out a union Jack and observed the Silence.
Reading all this I am glad that I didn't.
Someone took issue with their neighbours about extra family members in the back garden and was told that they were all two metres apart, which they clearly weren't.

Oh dear......PLEASE live and let live. This mass hysteria has to stop at some point ….think how you would feel if your neighbour 'grassed' on you ….I hate this spying on people. We could ALL be carriers....or had the disease as there is no testing available for ordinary people ….the sad truth is no one knows much about it still and the sooner we are treated as adults and not children the better.

I was disgusted by my niece when she said her daughter and granddaughter came to visit and she drove them home afterwards. She said it was alright because they had been isolated for fourteen days. The country they live in has very strict laws about the virus with heavy fines for flouting them.

You are not being hypocritical just observing the rules. My neighbours have had the full family flow of family since the lockdown began. In fact it is two houses next door to each other and they are both two families of "Twats" There is no
use reporting them to police as the police have enough to do.

I did not let them ruin my V.E day yesterday although most of it I watched on T.V. I did enjoy the Vera Lyn song and listened to it inside. There was no point in singing it outside as the "neighbours " even at 9pm were outside playing their Reggae music. They haven't got a patriotic bone in their bodies. God I am praying that Sunday rolls around as we are expecting colder weather and low temperatures which no doubt will keep them inside their houses. "Praise the lord" for small mercies. By the way I like your word GRINCH and that is what I am going to start calling the neighbours.

We had afternoon tea on our front lawn yesterday and we watched as most of the locals did the same and kept to the distancing rules. But, two doors down had two cars full of visitors bringing presents and cakes. So I guess it was a birthday.They all went into the house, though later sat out the front in the sunshine. There was no social distancing at all and at one point a child walked right up to our neighbour with a slice of cake for them!

One rule for them while the rest of us are behaving, though we would love to have AC and grandchildren to visit.

I'd feel ashamed of myself if a neighbour "grassed" on me for behaving in such a selfish way.

Theyre Corona idiots.theres a police website you can report dangerous behaviour anonymously. Cant contain idiots

Same here with next door, they've had their Mum & Dad both visit, their brother and his wife, a friend and her small Son all sitting next to each other in the back garden. Then yesterday they allowed their two daughters to go and visit their friends for the afternoon across the road. The mother goes out shopping more now than ever before. Nobody wants to be a misery but come on, I haven't seen my Daughter or Grandchildren for six weeks because we are following the rules and hoping firstly to not get infected and secondly to stay at home as we have been asked to. Yesterday was lovely, most of the neighbours had a tea party in their own front garden and enjoyed the day, the front gardens are large so plenty of safe distancing.

I live in a sheltered housing scheme, we are lucky to have grounds we can sit in. But there is one neighbours that complains about us. We sit 2 metres apart, so as far as we think doing nothing wrong, but the neighbour has her friends around and sit outside her flat which is actually in our grounds, that`s ok . They make uo there own rules to suit

Well I feel a lot better now that most of you feel the same. I’m just of the opinion that my neighbours, who are immediately next door to me are either selfish or a bit dim !! They’re young - I’m over 70 so that’s my excuse. I didn’t phone the police because when all this is over I’d like to think that I’ll get on ok with them like I did before. ALANaV re your comment about ‘spying’, that isn’t the case. Our properties share the same drive and adjacent garages. I was concerned that I would bump into one of their coming and going guests and so couldn’t pop out to get my gardening tools which I keep in there

There is a merry band of us snitches, moaners, and busybodies.