Nextdoor Dramas

[Tinkerbell cat]

OMG we have this here in Belfast and there is a guy who must be like the mod or something for our area, i swear he is never, ever off it. Always posting big long posts about absolute nonsense. He is never done saying that there has been a report of someone attempting to break into someone else's house. Seems to be happening every other day yet weirdly doesn't tell the police, just us. I feel like he only does it to get people to interact with him.
One my neighbours is constantly on it writing about the graffiti at the end of the street (she got the council and police involved and they came painted over it but they just graffitied it again and again the council painted over it, just saw yesterday they have spray painted it again ... it isn't even her wall and it's in a small car park that is genuinely nowhere near her house), she posts about people leaving stuff beside their bins and not in the bins, New Years Eve she posted asking did anyone want jam jars for their window sill to put candles in.. she then decided to take it upon herself and go into all our front gardens and place them on our window sills regardless of if he asked her to or not. Very awkward when I went into the living room and saw a small selection of jam jars lit up on my window sill
Then there are endless posts about missing cats
Endless posts from new people in the area all saying hi and introducing themselves.

Best one has to be a woman posting to find out what chippy was nicest in the area as the one her and her mum normally go to was closed for renovations. Loads of people were replying with their favourite chippy and one woman was getting so arsey because someone had said that the chippy she liked wasn't that good. I couldn't believe people were getting so worked up over someones opinions on a chip shop!!

Oh and yesterday, some guy posted a picture of a little black cat and asked did anyone know its name because he always sees it and its very friendly. A woman commented on it and said the post was suspicious and he was likely looking to steal the cat The fella was like ''excuse me? Hardly suspicious. I have my own cat. I just wondered what his name was because I see him alot. Crazy woman''

I genuinely never post on it but I do enjoy reading what has been posted on it.

 

[Vloggerfam]

Wait until someone decides their post is ‘urgent’ and it sends everyone on the app a text message no matter what time of day only to find out it’s not urgent at all.

the urgent thing is meant to literally be if the street is on fire or something

 

[Kim Mild]

I'm on our town's Facebook group.

Everyday a debit/ credit card is found . I think people cancel them , then leave them lying in public for a bit attention.

Lots of missing cats and dogs.

Parking/ traffic/ pot hole problems .

Unrelated things that should be on the potter's own profile .

 

[thedadalorian]

I downloaded and deleted the app on the same afternoon..

 

[Mrs Pomadour]

Most places in Britain seem to have the same disputes - bins, parked cars, suspicious vans, dodgy people hovering around - the list is endless, but very entertaining nonetheless.

Our community Facebook page is the same, everyday someone has a missing cat followed by the dog shit post and if the said dog owner, doesnt come and pick it up they will hunt them down, or release video footage they have, I wait in anticipation for that day it never comes followed by has my parcel been delivered to someone else by mistake, followed by picture evidence of where it’s been delivered to, there has been COVID advice by non experts followers by advice from an actual doctor who been shot down in flames I could go on but I won’t, it is definitely a source of amusement x

 

[DuckDuck]

My one today had a van parked outside their house for 5 hours ! No one sits in van for 5 hours, she then confronted him as to what he was doing then he drove off ? It none of her bloody business why he was sat in his van for 5 hours, and the bloke looked dodgy , what does that even

Oh and sometimes they look eastern European. do you know how many countries are in eastern Europe, a fuck ton that's how many and how does one look eastern European unless they're dressed as Romanian travellers I would literally have no clue where Anyone was from

 

[ReginaPhalange4]

Our poo police are much more sensible and have hung really pretty 'pick it up' ceramic signs with a poo bag dispenser attached to them on a load of lamposts. Someone swiftly posted a photo of a giant turd directly under one with the caption 'you're all taking the piss now' to which my favourite poster responded, 'I think you mean not taking the shit' and a war erupted.

I know a lot hate it but the app is absolute gold.

Yeah this was a few months ago now and you can still see faded circles everywhere long after the poo biodegraded / washes away / whatever it does when left outside It was some old lady thinking (or not thinking) it would help

 

[ReginaPhalange4]

Slightly off topic but I absolutely blew a gasket when I stayed at a relatives home abroad over Christmas and I was woken at 3am to the noise of a tennis ball bouncing. I was in the windows trying to find the culprit and pacing about in a fit of rage. Turns out my brother in law has the most annoying snore ever and he sounds exactly like a tennis ball bouncing!!

Imagine if I'd been on their neighbour app. 'Sorry about the angry post last night lads. Turns out Ben needs to see ENT'

I'm in another country where the equivalent is a site called "Neighbourly" -- and the content is much the same as what's been posted here! It gets very tiresome ... just endless complaints about everything and loads of bludging ("Does anyone have a near new King-sized mattress and 60" smart TV they're not using that my poor parents who lost everything in a flood and weren't insured, could have for free?"). (Sympathy for them losing everything, but why did they not have insurance?!).

I live in an apartment complex that has a FB community page which used to be great, but just in the past year or so serial whiners have moved in and seem to post daily looking for things to be outraged about. One of the pools has been emptied for maintenance - there is still another one that people can use - the reasons for this needing to happen at this time are very clear, yet people start whining and asking if they'll get some of their body corporate fees refunded as a result. The communal gardens have also come under the spotlight recently, with some complaining there isn't enough colour. I'm just waiting for someone to complain about the noise of tennis balls being bounced!

 

[anonimus]

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?

Did the leaflet include:-
Are your neighbours having people around?
Did any of your neighbours not clap for the NHS
Have any of your neighbours gone out without a mask, not social distance, and not had a 'valid' reason?
If so shame them on Facebook and report them on this number.

 

[ReginaPhalange4]

There's an old chap on ours who pops up every now and again causing trouble. I love him! I think he's lonely and thinks I'll amuse myself today and cause some trouble! He never replies to anything, just comes on, drops a bomb and isnt heard from for a few weeks, whilst everyone goes absolutely mental in the comments. Only reason I've kept the app!

 

[Cooksie]

They used real paint and not a chalk one?!

Yeah this was a few months ago now and you can still see faded circles everywhere long after the poo biodegraded / washes away / whatever it does when left outside It was some old lady thinking (or not thinking) it would help

 

[ClockworkDolly]

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

Most places in Britain seem to have the same disputes - bins, parked cars, suspicious vans, dodgy people hovering around - the list is endless, but very entertaining nonetheless.

 

[watermelon sugar]

I feel like downloading Next Door now too

It is funny whenever a helicopter is out on the FB page. There'll be about 500 comments of people going 'it's over my house now' 'here now' 'it's been over mine for 20 minutes' 'I've not even heard a helicopter'

Whenever a police or ambulance goes past with the sirens on someone will always post about it. Then there will be a few angry people like 'you are so nosey!! Have some compassion!!' Proper kicking off

My local crime watch page also tends to take pictures of people not picking up their dogs poo. Those posts can get a bit rowdy. I think I remember seeing one girl comment that she'd pick the dog poo up and shove it in the owners face

 

[Kikini Bamalam]

My one today had a van parked outside their house for 5 hours ! No one sits in van for 5 hours, she then confronted him as to what he was doing then he drove off ? It none of her bloody business why he was sat in his van for 5 hours, and the bloke looked dodgy , what does that even

Oh and sometimes they look eastern European. do you know how many countries are in eastern Europe, a fuck ton that's how many and how does one look eastern European unless they're dressed as Romanian travellers I would literally have no clue where Anyone was from

I often think it would be easier for these people to whinge about "others" if there was an international law that stated that you were only allowed to wear the national costume for their country of birth I must admit though it did throw me down a rabbit hole of wondering what the English national costume would be, all I could come up with was a tracksuit or leggings and a hoodie (maybe that's just me though)

On my Next door it's all really dull. Just people asking for recommendations for tradespeople or moaning about the Thames levels when we have rain

 

[Artax79]

My Nextdoor is full of people asking for recommendations for a ‘local’ plumber, builder, scrapman or gardener. Emphasis on the word local

My area FB page is PURE COMEDY GOLD!
It’s called “[my area name] Past & Present” which initially was to share memories from the past etc.
Then some people got the hump because people were using it as a sort of neighbourhood watch type of group.
It was decided it would be both

Randomly a couple of weeks ago a neighbouring town’s name popped up in the title of the group. This caused absolute uproar!
So everyone from my town is reporting all the ‘past’ memories posts from the neighbouring town and vice versa

Then our neighbouring council have decided that residents of our council are no longer allowed to use the tip. This has caused more uproar than the neighbouring town joining us on the group. Quite rightly.
But none of them have actually read the councils website and people in the North of our borough can still use it (it’s less than ten minutes from us - the alternative is 40 minutes away)

It’s actually quite entertaining on our groups sometimes

 

[Mojojojo67]

We always have- someone has hit my car and driven off I’m expecting you to do the right thing & own up before I report you. Just report it ffs!!

 

[WilmaHun]

I never knew this existed. I've also just downloaded the app. If it's anything like the Facebook group for my local area no doubt there will be some absolute gems.

 

[Cooksie]

The dog poo drama in the local Facebook group by my mums really escalated. Someone was taking it upon themselves to spray paint bright Orange circles around the dog poo to ‘shame’ the owners but it made the place look even worse Cue 100’s of comments of people kicking off

 

[Bitofthebubbly]

Facebook is where the drama is in my area. Parking comes up frequently! I rarely get involved now but I once got into it with someone over a picture someone else had taken and uploaded of a car parked across the path, leaving very little room for anyone to walk past without having to go into the road.

As usual there’s some back and forth in the comments. I pointed out how this was a danger, particularly for people in wheelchairs and this guy replied saying there are no disabled people in the area and he knew this because “he hadn’t seen them”. I mean that is besides the point but righto mate..

 

[Vloggerfam]

Oh I forgot we always have people moaning about fireworks. On bonfire night, like it’s cropped up unexpected