Is what I do in my garden my business?

TheVoice said:
Not sure why people feel the need to get the police involved already. There's nothing they can do that the OP can't i.e. speak to him and ask him not to do it again.

You'd just be wasting their resources.
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99% of the time when dealing with problematic neighbours, noise complaints, harrassment it comes down ENTIRELY to getting things on the record and time. If it turns into a weekly occurrence, he'd have to do it whenever that happens anyway, it saves time and gets the ball rolling.

You're absolutely underestimating how weird people can get, how bureaucratic these situations get. If someone harrasses an entire neighbourhood as per another thread on here recently, it can take YEARS to get it sorted, years of hell, and it always comes down to getting things on record and building up a history of incidents.

If it was a guy who had a party, once, that is one thing, but this guy is quite clearly weird, complaining repeatedly and threatening the police himself, over having a SHIRT off, in someones own garden, where that persons kids can't even see him... that isn't far far from normal behaviour.

It might become nothing, it might have been a bad day, he might have been high and weird, he might just be nuts and being on record first gets him well out ahead of any esculation from the other guy. Thats the big thing, weirdo's tend to esculate things. Today its "you're bare chested somewhere my kids can't see you", tomorrow he's phoning the police saying his neighbour took his shirt off while talking to his kids, after that he tells the police his neighbour tried to take his kids into his house.

As for wasting resources, he pays his taxes and wants to protect himself from future issues of a potential psycho, its what they are there for.
 
drunkenmaster said:
You're absolutely underestimating how weird people can get, how bureaucratic these situations get. If someone harrasses an entire neighbourhood as per another thread on here recently, it can take YEARS to get it sorted, years of hell, and it always comes down to getting things on record and building up a history of incidents.
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I'm not absolutely doing anything, I'm well aware of how things can escalate if not dealt with early on and I certainly wouldn't want to see the OP in that position, but it's an overreaction to go straight to the police about it without having spoken to the guy first. He may apologise, or he may go off on one, but at least then he's approached the situation himself and can act accordingly from there. I'd personally rather be able to call 101 and say "I've tried dealing with it amicably and he was having none of it".

If it had been the OP's wife/girlfriend/teenage daughter/kids out sunbathing and he'd started taking photos, my stance would be quite different because there's a whole other possible outcome there.
 
Little update.

Had another sunbath, looking a little more tanned now eh ladies? no? ahh well...

No complaint from neighbor.

Been living next to him and his family for over 5 years and not had any issues so It was a one off.

Got people coming to look at the house tomorrow so Ill keep my clothes on then
 
As others have said, no point in involving the Polis at this point; and if you are selling you DO NOT want any disputes ongoing as these have to be disclosed.

Guy sounds like a cockwhisk, I'd ignore him and carry on as you are, possibly involving BBQ's and other topless antics.
 
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