Nextdoor Dramas

[HockyRorror]

So I recently signed up to the Nextdoor site out of interest after a leaflet came through my letterbox and decided to join and check it out. I don’t know whether to laugh or be slightly concerned I’m living nearby a bunch of busybodies!

Examples of some recent posts:

Did anyone see a man who didn’t look like he was from the area driving down the road at 3pm today? No, I did not, but people are allowed to drive up and down roads and *shock horror* they don’t have to be local to do so.

Hi all, just moved to the area, happy to be here, hope to be friends, etc, etc, blah, blah, long spiel, oh, and here’s a link to my GoFundMe page to raise money for furniture for my new place

Free Stuff to whoever wants to collect it! With pictures of said stuff underneath which you’d mistake for rubbish if left on the side of the road because it looks broken and dirty.

Did anyone hear GUNSHOTS last night, around 11:30pm last night? Cue lots of panic, drama and outrage, people riling each other up, completely ignoring the one solitary poster who piped up and said “it wasn’t gunshots, it was fireworks, I saw them from my window”, NO, of course it has to be guns, because gunshots sounding off for half an hour makes so much more sense than fireworks.

I’m not on Facebook so although I’ve read about local groups like this I’ve never actually seen one up close and personal like this before. It’s fascinatingly odd lol.

Have you joined yours!? Any funny posts to share?

 

[Magwitch]

There was a great one on my local Facebook page the other day. Someone posted a photo of a large pile of white powder at a local area that has lots of walking and cycling tracks, cue lots of hysterical posts along the lines of 'It's KIDS doing DRUGS' and 'It's POISON put down for DOGS'. Until someone pointed out that it was more likely to be piles of chalk being put down to later mark out running and cycling tracks. But, no, he got shouted down, poor sod, with all the DRUGS and POISON.

Then an older lady called Barbara (who very rapidly became my favourite local Facebooker) came on to tell everyone to pull themselves together and that she had smelled and tasted the white powder and it was, indeed, chalk.

I'm not dumb enough to think that the local kids would be leaving thousands of pounds worth of cocaine just lying around a local beauty spot, but I'm not sure I would have the guts to actually taste the stuff. Good on you, Barbara!

 

[Sardine]

>Downloaded it
>Asked if anyone had any weed
>Got into an argument with some old man
>Deleted it

 

[Notworthy]

To the Person who..... is my biggest bugbear. And the posts that are solely there to get praise. Our community Facebook page is just an endless cycle of complaints about Parking, Fireworks, dogshit, bins There have been some gems that have kept me entertained.

 

[Gairlfb]

I’m glad it’s not just my neighbourhood that’s like this

People on mine also love just being so nosey under the pretence of caring “Does anyone know why there’s an ambulance on bla bla road? Hope everyone is okay”

 

[Magwitch]

There’s something almost comforting about the fact that it’s the same all over the country. We are a proud nation that stands united against unauthorised dog shit and unknown vehicles on the road!

 

[watermelon sugar]

I'm not on it but my local Facebook "crimewatch" page is the exact same. Everyone posting about some poor innocent lad walking down the street in a tracksuit

 

[Holidaybobs]

Where I live now doesn’t have a group on Facebook but, I’m still a member of my old area and honestly it makes my night sometimes.

There are so many arguments, the last one was someone posted a cctv image of a woman apparently not picking up her dog shit. People in her favour started stating it was physically impossible for the dog to have a shit within that timeframe. The woman in question eventually came onto the debate to defend herself.

Arguments over the best local takeaway.

The classic, ‘foreign looking man seen in an old white van, be careful out there guys’. I mean, seriously?

Recently, someone set up a WhatsApp detailing any suspicious activity. Someone mentioned said WhatsApp group on the FB group and an almighty row occurred with people asking if they weren’t special enough to be in the group. And was it because they didn’t live on the right street!

Also, another personal favourite - kids not from the local area are congregating at the shops. Someone asked how can you possibly know they aren’t local and the poster replied, saying they know every child in the area

 

[Magwitch]

I'm not on Nextdoor, but my local Facebook page is exactly like that, including photos of the 'suspicious' cars and vans driving down public roads. I would also add endless posts about dog shit (also often with photos attached ) and complaints about how many joggers and cyclists are on the streets.

I mostly go there to point and laugh.

 

[cheapwetham]

This is fab may have to download Next Door now!

Our village Facebook group consists of:

- how DARE people have bonfires
- how DARE people have fireworks (and 100 comments with various updates that are either in the 'my dog is shaking and my indignant rage probably isn't helping them' or 'sod you lot, my dog couldn't care less'
- lost cats (including one women who must have about 5 cats and posts at least a few times a week because they've been out for more than 10 mins)
- obligatory bigot who blames everything on Johnny foreigner
- suspicious vans & people
- unruly off lead dogs harassing other dogs

I can never work out if the level of pettiness makes me laugh or despair

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

I can’t work out if every neighbour is the same or we all live in the same place.

 

[under the ivy]

People on mine are either complaining about dog shit or using it as a dating app. Deleted

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

I’m not on Nextdoor but at the beginning of the first lockdown the busybody woman at the end of the road took it upon herself to create a Facebook group for the residents of our road (we’re not a private road or anything just a standard road).

My husband finds it hilarious that every delivery van on the road seems to cause mass panic that some randomer is looking in people’s houses and instead of going out and asking said stranger if they need any assistance they’ll put it in the group an hour later with “did anyone happen to see that man looking in number 42s garden?”.

Bin/recycling day is another drama filled passive aggressive status day because someone has found a random crisp packet or coke can in their bin that isn’t theirs .

 

[Shesaidwhat?]

I downloaded Next door to be nosey, saw who was on it and hastily deleted my account.
It’s like the Facebook group but ten times worse as it’s the whole area accusing the poor Hermes man of casing houses.

 

[TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo]

Ahh God it's grim isn't it. So much complaining! I was coming to the end of my tether with it but conveniently the app seems to have logged me out which has solved the problem.

One that amused me was a post of a photograph of someone's car, complete with visible reg plate, asking if anyone knew why he parked there and sat in his car all day and had been doing so for the best part of a year.

The answers ranged from a sympathetic "perhaps he's lost his job and can't face telling people" to him "definitely" being a drug dealer. I think the best response was someone who said "Are you telling us you've been watching him for a year and you've never thought to go and ask him if he's ok"? Just brilliant.

I'm not sorry to have got rid of it though, I can't deal with the constant negativity.

 

[Gem2212]

Not on next door but my estate Facebook has a new thing where people offer to swap their random shit found when having a clear out for wine/beer. I cringe so much when I see “will swap for wine”. I can’t be the only one though someone posted an actual bag of rubbish last night asking if anyone wanted to swap for a bottle of wine

 

[Sazbee]

There's a disused pub in my village which was also a motel so there are chalets at the back which have been taken over by the local junkies, covered in graffti and now the car park is full of abandoned cars with parts missing. Houses have been proposed to be built there and the UPROAR it has caused!! Most of the residents don't want houses to be built because they don't want to look at them and various other reasons. I don't understand how you would prefer to look at a squat/drug den but ok.

 

[Honestlyk8]

Mine is people complaining about homeless people while also petitioning to stop flats and housing estates being built!

Oh and one wanted everyone to fight against the proposal for a new chicken shop because ‘chicken shops lead to stabbings’

 

[Mrs Cucumber]

mine has some one who feels the need to update daily, morning and evening with coronavirus statistics!

 

[Magwitch]

People on mine are either complaining about dog shit or using it as a dating app. Deleted

Do they post pics of the turds as well, like they do on mine? I hate people who don’t pick up after their dog as much as the next person but I really don’t need to see that when I’m just innocently scrolling through looking for posts to mock.