Would you report people to the police for for breaking the conditions of the Covid 19 lockdown

[Cid]

imo.

Yep.

 

[Yossarian]

But Frank's implication that he'd never call them is clearly ridiculous. Of course he would if e.g. he saw a rape in which he couldn't intervene, or thought he had credible information that a bomb had been planted. To pretend otherwise is just sub-sixth-form posturing.

He said he wouldn't "set them on his worst enemy," not that he wouldn't take steps to stop a rape, tbf - I think a lot of the coronavirus-related police callouts will be not from genuine concern for public health, but because curtain-twitchers have decided that people they don't like have breached guidelines.

 

[killer b]

What if people are having parties?

Coronavirus: Greater Manchester Police warning after 660 parties shut down

Greater Manchester Police says some house parties even featured bouncy castles, DJs or fireworks.

www.bbc.co.uk

it's interesting the difference between what the police say and what the BBC are reporting here.

The GMP said
There were 1,132 coronavirus-related breaches reported between Saturday and Tuesday, the force said.

That included 494 house parties - some with DJs, fireworks and bouncy castles - and 166 street parties.

They had reports of 494 house parties, and 166 street parties. They didn't 'break up' 494 house parties and 166 street parties. How many of these reports turned out to be real, and how many are overeacting curtain twitchers? We don't know, because they don't tell us. So we can probably assume lots of them weren't real.

 

[kebabking]

What if people are having parties?

Coronavirus: Greater Manchester Police warning after 660 parties shut down

Greater Manchester Police says some house parties even featured bouncy castles, DJs or fireworks.

www.bbc.co.uk

Depends on how goes to it I suppose - me and my kids had a party in the garden: music (awful), bubble machine, food, paddling pool. That's not a problem because we all live together anyway.

50 of my closest Facebook friends - that's all a bit different...

 

[planetgeli]

Can't imagine a lockdown violation so bad that I either wouldn't attempt to deal with it myself or it would be so obvious the police would probably already be there.

Fuck the curtain twitchers and the horse they rode in on. Which is what 99% (I've done a study, empirical evidence and everything) of this is about.

Police ourselves in this context.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Can't imagine a lockdown violation so bad that I either wouldn't attempt to deal with it myself or it would be so obvious the police would probably already be there.

Fuck the curtain twitchers and the horse they rode in on. Which is what 99% (I've done a study, empirical evidence and everything) of this is about.

Police ourselves in this context.

I think this last bit is the bit the police are really bothered about. People are policing themselves very largely, without their help.

 

[The39thStep]

it's interesting the difference between what the police say and what the BBC are reporting here.

The GMP said
There were 1,132 coronavirus-related breaches reported between Saturday and Tuesday, the force said.

That included 494 house parties - some with DJs, fireworks and bouncy castles - and 166 street parties.

They had reports of 494 house parties, and 166 street parties. They didn't 'break up' 494 house parties and 166 street parties. How many of these reports turned out to be real, and how many are overeacting curtain twitchers? We don't know, because they don't tell us. So we can probably assume lots of them weren't real.

Tbh having lived in Manchester for over 30 odd years nothing would surprise me. I got sent photos on Facebook a week ago from mates of mates in Wythenshaw having barbecues and drinking sessions saying if we cannot go to the pub then the pub comes to us.Nutters

 

[Struwwelpeter]

I voted no, but it is nuanced. e.g. Deliberately coughing in people's faces is assault and I would call the police for that. I have been going out to do exercise and I stress about crossing roads or taking detours to avoid groups. Where I can't (e.g. 2m wide paths blocked by people walking 2 abreast), I politely make a comment (from a safe distance). Sometimes I've had abuse, mostly people wake out of their reverie/gripping conversation and realise what they are doing. I'm not going to report people for a lack of awareness and I haven't reported people for abuse either. I think that gradually their behaviour will become so socially unacceptable that it will stop. Is gradually too slow? Probably, but turning UK into the DDR is worse.

 

[Spymaster]

Whilst agreeing with a lot you have said, I also know a police officer who admits to kicking homeless people in their sleeping bags for fun and said his favourite thing is taking their tents away. For fun.

He's not doing this because he's a police officer. He's doing it because he's a cunt. The police service is made up of human beings. Some human beings are arseholes. Whodathoughtit?

 

[killer b]

Tbh having lived in Manchester for over 30 odd years nothing would surprise me. I got sent photos on Facebook a week ago from mates of mates in Wythenshaw having barbecues and drinking sessions saying if we cannot go to the pub then the pub comes to us.Nutters

do you believe there were 166 street parties in Greater Manchester over the weekend? It's ridiculous, of course there wasn't.

 

[Badgers]

do you believe there were 166 street parties in Greater Manchester over the weekend? It's ridiculous, of course there wasn't.

If 20% of that report is accurate then is it still a cuntish thing to do and risk peoples lives

 

[The39thStep]

do you believe there were 166 street parties in Greater Manchester over the weekend? It's ridiculous, of course there wasn't.

I believe there will have been people out drinking outside their houses with friends/neighbours why not? whether its 166 or not is a different matter.

 

[Mation]

This is just such a nasty comment. All Sams points to Epona were valid and polite, just a different opinion. This remark is just bitchy.

No, they weren't. Read scifisam's post again. It was really fucking nasty to Epona. Not acceptable, and if she thinks about it, she'll know why.

 

[killer b]

I believe there will have been people out drinking outside their houses with friends/neighbours why not? whether its 166 or not is a different matter.

Of course there will have been - but why not report the actual number rather than let people think these fantastical figures that makes the whole of greater manchester look like a bunch of cunts are a reflection of reality?

 

[killer b]

(I mean, I know what the purpose of this kind of report is - it's to discipline us)

 

[hegley]

 

[Mation]

You know, you posting that is much more personal and unpleasant than me making one post where I'm somewhat sarcastic about a topic. Apart from that I haven't posted in any way that justifies your comment. (Which does hurt, BTW, as you clearly intended, so well done).

Nup. What you posted was really fucking nasty. And you wouldn't feel bad about what I posted unless you understood how. Use feeling bad about it to help you not do it again.

 

[Thora]

Nup. What you posted was really fucking nasty. And you wouldn't feel bad about what I posted unless you understood how. Use feeling bad about it to help you not do it again.

Are you reading a different post to me? It was a slightly tetchy exchange/disagreement but you seem to be the only one making “really fucking nasty” posts I’m wondering if you’ve misunderstood something or think there’s a backstory?

 

[Mation]

Are you reading a different post to me? It was a slightly tetchy exchange/disagreement but you seem to be the only one making “really fucking nasty” posts I’m wondering if you’ve misunderstood something or think there’s a backstory?

I'm reading the same post. scifisam will get it, even if neurotypical people don't.

 

[kebabking]

Nup. What you posted was really fucking nasty. And you wouldn't feel bad about what I posted unless you understood how. Use feeling bad about it to help you not do it again.

I've seen nothing nasty or bitchy in scifisam's posts. I've seen a lot of i know better than you, while getting at least one clinical fact wrong by an order of magnitude, and some frankly bizarre analogies - though none of that from sam.

 

[existentialist]

I'd probably report it (and I'm aware that there's a seam of opinion that suggests these online reporting forms are just a placebo to keep interfering busy-bodies away from the phone lines) if one of the houses in the village was (still) hosting swinging parties, but I'm not going to report my neighbours adult children turning up with a couple of bags of shopping and staying for a brew and a chat.

Mrs K has been over to her mum's with shopping - she stayed in the garden and MiL came out with cups of tea. They stayed 3m apart and chatted for half an hour.

That was MiL's first social contact with anyone in 3 weeks - normally she's very social, WI, horticultural society.. she picks our kids up from school, they stay at hers every week, we were all due to go on holiday together - she's a widow, and this exile is really giving her mental health a bashing, which of course has a huge impact on her physical health.

It's about trade offs and dealing with several different dangers at the same time - in epidemiological terms the ideal would be to give each household a mountain top, a box of food and to pick them up in six weeks - that would certainly stop C-19 in its tracks, but at the minor cost of killing half the population through starvation, hypothermia and dying of all the things they're no longer being treated for....

Admit it, you'd fucking LOVE it, wouldn't you?

Especially if you had a squashy gunner to sit on instead of rocks

 

[ruedas]

Let's hope you don't need them if you get robbed, beaten up, raped or any other shit happens to you or your family.

Fucking idiot, you sound like some ridiculous juvenile parody.

Christ!

Wishing ill on those you don't agree with is not very enlightened, is it?

 

[Teaboy]

Wishing ill on those you don't agree with is not very enlightened, is it?

Depends doesn't it?

Depends on what the disagreement is about.

 

[kebabking]

Admit it, you'd fucking LOVE it, wouldn't you?

Especially if you had a squashy gunner to sit on instead of rocks

I must admit that I was going to include and if I wasn't invited... in there!

(Squishy Gunner has commissioned, she's running a GMLRS troop now, so I've had to find myself another - a tall, brunette Captain: unfortunately his name is Rob, and I don't think he fancies me).

 

[Spymaster]

Depends on what the disagreement is about.

I think we also need to consider the level of malady one wishes upon another. For example, if SpookyFrank got pube fleas for a couple of days, I'd find that hilarious but I wouldn't wish him any serious harm.

 

[Spymaster]

Of course there will have been - but why not report the actual number rather than let people think these fantastical figures that makes the whole of greater manchester look like a bunch of cunts are a reflection of reality?

It does seem genuine (over two weeks though):

 

[littlebabyjesus]

'Reports of'

 

[killer b]

the map shows the location of reported breaches, again. not the number of actual gathering.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I could create a new dot on that map right now just by calling in.

 

[Griff]

Wishing ill on those you don't agree with is not very enlightened, is it?

How am I wishing ill on anybody? I said the opposite, but you take it however you want to take it, mate.

I don't claim to be enlightened either.