Should I Report My Neighbour To The Police?

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Hello folks.
Because of the Corona Virus Pandemic, here in the UK we all know that one is supposed to stay at home in their main residence and only go out in certain circumstances, as outlined above from the http://www.gov.uk website.
Also anyone over 70, particularly with health conditions should be self isolating for 12 weeks.
My Wife and I live in a ground floor 12 apartment block here in Rhos On Sea North Wales, and have a small garden which is very nice to have at this moment in time in particular, but anytime really.
On the top floor there is a penthouse apartment, and there lives an obnoxious person and his Wife who I have to admit has given me and my Wife a lot of grief during the 5 years we have lived here.

He was a director of the Management Company and very early on was saying you can't do this and you can't do that and kept trying to use the lease against us.
I should add that I won every 'battle' against him.

This person who is well into his 70s with health problems, so should be 12 week self isolating, also has a very nice home in mid Wales (Ruthin) which is around 40 miles away.
His children and grandchildren and some other family members live in that area.

Ever since we have lived here he and his Wife are usually in this Penthouse home, which I understand is his main residence from Tuesday to Friday every week.
Then he and his Wife travel to their other home and stay there from Friday to Monday, obviously visiting his family and friends.

This way of going on has not changed one little bit since the Coronavirus lockdown, and I am seriously thinking of reporting the situation to the Police.

What say you?

Kenny

 

Are you feeling more at risk because of it, or would that in reality be used as an excuse?

 

That's reasonable but I’m getting the impression it has everything to do with revenge and little to do with public safety. I could be wrong but I would be surprised.

 

I would mind my own business unless it affected me or mine ! (since you asked )

 

Well I have to confess.
Giving this guy some of his own medicine back does rather appeal to me.

And if you people really knew the suffering this person has caused my Wife and I then you might.
Just might.
Think rather differently.

 

I did ask.
This guy stuck his nose into my business many a time.
But thank you for your opinion.
Please read my last post.

 

We have a lovely garden in the backyard, and the same is true! It's beautiful and gives my parents (I don't garden) something to do when they're bored and when it's not too sunny.

 

I did read your post thats why I said what I did !
" He who seeks revenge must first dig two graves "
But you wont listen and to be honest I dont give a fuck if you do or not

But its Still No !

 

The police don't want to be bothered with that sort of thing here. It puts them at risk to have to deal with it.

 

The kind of people who'd rat on their neighbors for breaking quarantine, are the same kind of people who would have ratted on Harriet Tubman and Anne Frank.

 

snitches get stitches

 

I feel like it's your life, @Boozercruiser, but with my neighbors the problems we used to have went away. But it used to be noisy. Frequently!

We researched noise ordinance, mailed other neighbors within earshot, etc etc. The bottom line for us was we had to report them unfortunately. If it were once or twice, that would be different. This was an all the time thing.

Sometimes if you want peace it's you or them.

 

Times are difficult. There are some that do the same here.
I personally think that we should all support each other at the moment.
Live and let live.

 

Hey Boozer, what exactly did he do to you? You didn’t give us anything other than “you can’t do this and you can’t do that” according to your lease? Can you give more specific examples so that we could have a better understanding, and feel what it is you had to deal with the last 5 years?

Going to tattletale on someone for something like this - I don’t feel that anything will happen to them at all. Nothing. Maybe pay a fine? It maybe a waste of your time.

 

Well then... You should calmly walk up to him and beat him over the head with a 2X4, obviously.

 

Dobbing neighbors suck. I get the cops called on me for playing music once in a blue moon.

 

Thank you for the suggestion Ty.
If I could.
I would!

 

I really have not got a coupla days to try and explain to any of you ALL what has happened, except to say if I wrote that book, you just might understand why.

In any case.
He is breaking a Law which is there to protect us all.

End of!

But thank you for your considered reply.
He is putting us at risk.
We live in that Ground floor apartment with the hedge.
He is travelling about as if nothing has happened, and we are ALL at risk of dying because of this terrible pandemic.

He travels away doing whatever, then he comes back here possibly bringing contamination back.
He uses our front of apartment main door which has metal handles to enter in or out, he walks right past our front door in order to get to the ground floor lift, then he uses the lift which other residents use.

Who is to say he and his Wife are not carrying this Corona Virus between our home and his other home?

He is classed as highly vulnerable and is supposed to self isolate for 12 weeks, and that is very clear instruction indeed.
It's the LAW for ALL our safety!

I could try to explain exactly why he should not be travelling and staying at other addresses, but if people don't know now, then they never will.
But basically it is to protect ALL of us, including our NHS.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): what you need to do
Stay at home

• Only go outside for food, health reasons or work (but only if you cannot work from home)
• If you go out, stay 2 metres (6ft) away from other people at all times
• Wash your hands as soon as you get home

Do not meet others, even friends or family. You can spread the virus even if you don’t have symptoms.

 

the police aren't exactly known for wanting to be bothered with sorts of things. it is their job though.

that said, snitching on a neighbor out of revenge seems pretty childish. snitching on a neighbor out of self preservation is more reasonable, although it still might not be the best option, especially if you plan to continue living near him. but do we really even know that he's doing anything wrong? as far as i can see, we just know that he's splitting his time between two homes. that doesn't necessarily mean he's socializing.

 

Why would you need our opinion?

I'd mind my own business.

On the other hand, I haven't had to put up with this meddling cretin, either. I have my own meddler to deal with.

I also won't think less of you if you anonymously report seeing a guy of his description "waving a gun" in a threatening manner along the highway from an UNTRACEABLE (to you) phone. Back in the 90's this was done with one of those prepaid phone cards. You dialed a number to access the card's service, and THE SERVICE makes the call from their remote and untraceable location. Not sure how you'd do that these days, but a burn phone comes to mind.

I'm not saying you should take the above as advice, and I'm not saying I've ever done such a thing, but the results of such an anonymous phone call from other than your own phone could be epic and might teach this jerk a lesson in civility.

Unfortunately, the same skillset that makes one a good neighbor is also the same skillset required to learn one's lesson about civility and meddling behavior, so there's that.