“I Hate Neighbourhood Snitches”
A reader spotted a good comment by someone styling herself “Delores” on Nextdoor.co.uk, a website that hosts numerous local forums. This one was headed “Neighbourhood Snitches”:
I hate Neighbourhood Snitches. Unbelievable, after over a year in lockdown, a family decides to have a celebration in their garden with just a few family and friends and their neighbour opposite – not next door, opposite! – decides to take a photo of them in their garden, post the photo on a neighbourhood WhatsApp group asking whether they should report them and one of the group members informs them to contact the police!!!
The neighbour complains that the family are disturbing them. The police show up and stop the celebration. This is on a beautiful Sunday evening between 6-7Pm. The disturbed neighbour had their window open whilst taking the photo. How disturbed were they really?? This is the calibre of neighbour living on XXXXXXX Road. You know who you are. I hate Neighbourhood Snitches!!!! And the police need to find better ways of spending their time!!!
The reader replied to this person in the forum:
Magnificent comment, Delores. Do, please, one day go to the War Tunnels in Jersey (if you’ve yet to do so). The tunnels – built by the Germans – now house a museum about Jersey’s wartime occupation. There is one exhibit which it is impossible to forget: a small rather crumpled piece of paper on which, in faint pencil, are written two names – those of a father and son who listened to a radio [banned, of course]. The note was written by a neighbour informing the Germans. Father and son were shot.
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Our neighbour called the police, the accusation that we were having a party. We were actually watching the Voice. Not my cup of tea, if I had my way we would have cancelled our BBC funding by now. However, we have a family with remarkable lung capacity and the SAGEgovt had at the time threatened the nation with a fine (or worse) if we didn’t ‘stay home to protect the NHS’. It was Saturday night and yes it was noisy as our imprisoned teens joined in with comedy voice and unfortunately, percussion. At the door, the masked investigators tested out their freshly acquired 101 detective skills, asked a few questions, looked us up and down (no party clothes, inebriation or glass in hand). One pair of eyes appeared to glint in the moonlight as they settled on a celebratory banner. Is it possibly someone’s birthday? Perhaps there has been a little party after all? Husband smiled sweetly and mildly remarked on it being from a child’s birthday some weeks prior. He stayed firmly in front of me, aiming to end the inquisition with charm and understanding, sensing that I was internally constructing a more acerbic response to the masked enquirers,… Read more »
without a doubt people use these “rules” to get at someone who is annoying them, same as blasphemy laws in some countries.
When I had county lines dealers next door we used covid to get the police out when dealing was occuring because it appeared to result in a more immediate and consistent response. As it happens the scumbag dealers were then done for dealing when attending a covid breach.
Nextdoor.co.uk. Something resembling a scrappily put together memo was shoved through my door a couple of years ago. It was this organisation. As I was already getting suspicious and cynical about data gathering it looked far too amateur to look credible. Then the Rona kicked off last year, and we had another one of these “memos’ inviting to get together with our neighbours, help each other out, be kind and all the rest. It looked grassroots. It wasn’t. It’s a global tech company calling itself “hyperlocal” to land into communities and gather information and spread misinformation apparently. People in my got a bit excited about it but I refused to join in. So glad I didn’t.
It really is a truly dreadful thing. The version hereabouts, to which I do not subscribe (along with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all the other sewers) seems to provide a useful service in finding lost animals, keys etc., answering enquiries about various services that people want, and flogging stuff. Unfortunately, that’s perhaps 50% of the content.
The other half is bitching, griping, stool-pigeoning and curtain-twitching, with a heavy admixture of propaganda, lockdown-loving and complaints about non-wearing of “face coverings” by people who probably wear them in bed, as Poirot wears his moustache net.
I understand that a few robust characters have posted things, not just about Covid, but also trenchant criticism of local matters and people, which “step outside the narrative”, and have been rewarded with bans and censorships. That being so, they have without doubt protected both their sanity and integrity by being chucked off the heap of ordure that is Nextdoor.
by the way if anyone does have a good supply of pigeon stools, do please get in touch.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/05/lk-samuels/the-fascist-left-myth-or-reality/
Next Door is a nasty website. Scares the sh.t out of people reporting supposed criminal activity in your area. During this last year it has allowed scammers to post recommendations about dodgy tradespeople. Avoid like the plague.
Yes I think the neighbour was definitely disturbed … in the head!
I used to be a member and found it quite useful for tradespeople recommendations.
I actually came to this site via a recommendation from a fellow ND user, but they sent me a private message, seems they feared the snitches?
My account was suspended after someone complained as I once again asked people to use their common sense and weigh up risk and mental/physical health in regards corona restrictions.
To get back on they asked me to verify quite private information, so I did not bother.
I hate Neighbourhood Snitches!!!!
Me too – I loathe snitchers with a passion.
In my opinion if a person is accused of something then they have a right to know who the accuser is and face them – especially if the allegations have been proven to be unfounded. Anyone that has an axe to grind can call anonymously and report someone they dislike for absolutely anything.
Someone to snitch on the snitchers would be poetic justice – all those who snitched on their neighbours during lockdown revealed by a snitcher … give the lockdown snitchers a dose of their own medicine.
What goes around comes around.
Today’s snitches would have been WW2 collaborators, sending their neighbours to death without a qualm.
After the war, rough justice caught up with some of those foul people. Think on.
Tar? Feathers?
Aye, plenty of both.
We have some of the most selfish ignorant people I’ve ever known as neighbours. They make our lives hell on almost a daily basis; breaking our stuff, parking on our drive, using our drive to hold building materials (once, they even put a skip on our drive just before we moved in), their son fires up to 13 balls (including a basket ball) and other objects into our small garden within one playing stint and lately, the balls have started hitting our kitchen window. The list is really extensive.
Despite all this, I refused to dob them into the police for constantly breaking and continue to break lockdown ‘rules’. Even when they were having loud parties in the garden with multiple families in attendance late into the night, I stubbornly refused to grass on them.
In terms of the article above, I really don’t understand the mentality of someone calling the police on a neighbour who they’ve previously had no conflict with.
I truly believe society is malfunctioning.
Know how you feel.
Hell is truly other people.
One of the most distressing things about this whole saga has been the attitude, or rather non-attitude of the Church. I have yet to hear of ANY clergyman fulminating against these people, yet here is a flagrant abuse of neighbourliness and friendship.
I sometimes have met clergymen and women when out for a walk and have represented this to them in no uncertain terms; apart from some shiftiness when I mention it, this has had no effect whatsoever.
Well done Delores and to the reader commenting on her post.
I would highly recommend checking out the Irreverend podcast http://irreverend.org.uk/podcast/ – wonderfully sceptic; filled with the Gospel and much humour.
It’s a long life. I would make sure I had the most noisey party at every family celebration for ever. And take photos of them for posting as well. These people are stupid as are sites like that.
How on earth could anyone in National Socialist Germany go along with it??