They aren't quite right, are they?
They turn up at police meetings, and they tell the police that the number one most serious issue is cyclists (this happened here, about three months ago) cycling on the pavement. This was happening, btw, because the advertised offroad route/towpath had been closed, somewhat ironically, to build a Greenpeace HQ.
So the police sent out an edict 'please don't cycle on this pavement'.
Three days later a cyclist is hit by a BMW on the road adjacent to said pavement, and seriously injured.
The police take down the warning from their website.
Next police meeting, they are very concerned that people appear to be cycling in the town between 10am and 4pm, and they thought that this had been banned. Apparently not, the traffic order not in place.
Anyway, that was main subject of discussion. Obviously the spate of burglaries, sexual assaults, deaths on the roads, etc., are not as important as cyclists apparently not following the rules.
Aside from this, a year or so ago, they set up a NHW in my road.
They send me emails about things to worry about. E.g., we are warned about a scam 0906 number that charged at £15 instantly, to collect a parcel. This is an obvious hoax, so I google it, and send email advising that this is the case.
A couple of weeks later they send it again. I tell them again.
A few weeks later, they send me one about a fake baby being left in a car, so people will stop and get murdered or something, and another about gangs throwing eggs mixed with water at the windscreen, which makes the vision blocked '92.5%'
I send another email saying 'you might want to check before forwarding this stuff, it's debunked on numerous hoax websites'.
This evening I get one, passed one 'urgently' warning about people asking for a delivery charge for parcel, and subsequently running up £4k bills on the card. Again, a scam, copied from Australia, word-for-word, even down to the supposed name of the driver, but the email insists that this happened PERSONALLY to a friend of the 'committee member'.
Again, I inform them it's a scam.
Otherwise we just tend to get emails along the line of 'number 12 are doing work and have damaged the pavement with their heavy lorry' and similar sort of passive-aggressive emails-to-all.
A particular classic advised that there were 'vagrants' on the Common, and that they should be "talked to" and "encouraged" (scare quotes in original) , to move on.
Perhaps I should just be grateful that my neighbours are curtain-twitchers, rather than drug dealers and joyriders.
They turn up at police meetings, and they tell the police that the number one most serious issue is cyclists (this happened here, about three months ago) cycling on the pavement. This was happening, btw, because the advertised offroad route/towpath had been closed, somewhat ironically, to build a Greenpeace HQ.
So the police sent out an edict 'please don't cycle on this pavement'.
Three days later a cyclist is hit by a BMW on the road adjacent to said pavement, and seriously injured.
The police take down the warning from their website.
Next police meeting, they are very concerned that people appear to be cycling in the town between 10am and 4pm, and they thought that this had been banned. Apparently not, the traffic order not in place.
Anyway, that was main subject of discussion. Obviously the spate of burglaries, sexual assaults, deaths on the roads, etc., are not as important as cyclists apparently not following the rules.
Aside from this, a year or so ago, they set up a NHW in my road.
They send me emails about things to worry about. E.g., we are warned about a scam 0906 number that charged at £15 instantly, to collect a parcel. This is an obvious hoax, so I google it, and send email advising that this is the case.
A couple of weeks later they send it again. I tell them again.
A few weeks later, they send me one about a fake baby being left in a car, so people will stop and get murdered or something, and another about gangs throwing eggs mixed with water at the windscreen, which makes the vision blocked '92.5%'
I send another email saying 'you might want to check before forwarding this stuff, it's debunked on numerous hoax websites'.
This evening I get one, passed one 'urgently' warning about people asking for a delivery charge for parcel, and subsequently running up £4k bills on the card. Again, a scam, copied from Australia, word-for-word, even down to the supposed name of the driver, but the email insists that this happened PERSONALLY to a friend of the 'committee member'.
Again, I inform them it's a scam.
Otherwise we just tend to get emails along the line of 'number 12 are doing work and have damaged the pavement with their heavy lorry' and similar sort of passive-aggressive emails-to-all.
A particular classic advised that there were 'vagrants' on the Common, and that they should be "talked to" and "encouraged" (scare quotes in original) , to move on.
Perhaps I should just be grateful that my neighbours are curtain-twitchers, rather than drug dealers and joyriders.
