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'He' is the neighbour of one of my customers.
& no there is not an ounce of truth in it..
Jokes aside ( of which this forum does itself proud again ) these seem to be the accusations of an unhinged couple. Shirley? Is it acceptable?
Mental illness? Someone I know got very poorly and started accusing her neighbour of murdering his girlfriend. He apparently buried her in the local park. I took her to the police station because she was so convinced but the police investigated and she wasn't murdered. Horrid thing for you to be accused. It's scary what mental illness can do to a person.
Just got back from watching Shape of Water. I'd be looking for a 7ft seamonster.....
One of my sister's cats- a big soppy loveable ginger Tom - began to disappear for a few days, then weeks over summer. She bought a GPS collar tag and put it on when he returned. Needless to say a few days later the cat disappeared again.
They tracked him down to a house a few streets away. Knocked on the door and some old guy answered.
B-in-L:"I think you've got out cat"
Old guy: "No I haven't"
B-in-L: "Well this GPS says you have"
They went into the garden and found the GPS device and the collar in a bush. The old guy said he thought he had seen a ginger Tom.
They reckon that the old biddy backing on to his garden had been feeding Rufus (that's the cat) and had been shutting him in at night for company.
The cat was catnapped.
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Easy to take the piss or call these people evil, but that could easily be a sort of paranoia caused by a mental health issue. Heard of similar before.
I can't see any other course of action other than to go round to accusers house and try to be the voice of reason. What happens next will probably make next steps self-explanatory....
To clear your name it sounds like you need to get a CAT-scan done and hope the results come out clear.
All cats should be named Arthur as you may think you own one, but somebody else does too. Sounds like your clients neighbours have some strange issues. I’d go see them to be honest. More to explain that worrying an old lady is not a nice thing to do as opposed to denying cat napping.
I think this is the culprit or another copy cat
I would act for sure, however I'd make sure that I was as friendly and polite as possible. I wouldn't shy away from being direct however.
It's not right that someone is spreading malicious rumours about you. I would be knocking on his door, being nice as pie, and asking very clearly about what your neighbour has told you.
I doubt you would get anything more than lots of spluttering and red facedness and you can both agree that it was clearly a mistake. If he did have the front to repeat his accusations to you (which he almost certainly wouldn't) then I'd suggest that it's against the law not to report a crime, and as he's clearly witnessed one that you'll call the po po and let them know that he's got a one to report.
What he's doing is wrong. Be direct, be completely non aggresive, smile throughout, take no prisoners.
Be very careful about getting engaged with someone who is not level headed. We once had an issue with a neighbour. Nothing we did/said would resolve things, and when she didn't get a rise from us, she went and started on others around the street with all sorts of accusations and weirdness.
If it doesn't materially affect you, I would try once to hear thier side and yours, and then walk away if no resolution.
I would write a letter before action, asking them to cease and desist from slandering you in public.
And give them their cat back.
If ever you needed a reason to hire a cat costume & drive your van past his house, with “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” playing loudly, you have one now.
I think you should go and set the record straight, and bugger the blokes wife getting upset. Not for your benefit, obviously they'll hate you forever, but I'm quite sure you're not arsed in the slightest about that, but for the benefit of the woman you work for who really doesn't need neighbour aggro.
Nah, don’t get involved.
You don’t know them, and you won’t be working there next week, ignore them.
Its quite possible the cat has had a better offer for the week, or that it’s locked in a shed or something like that. It could be mental ilness, could be stress from some other shit in their life manifesting itself through this. I always ask myself how id feel if someone shouted at my mum or dad, I wouldn’t be happy.
If, however, they start throwing accusations to your face, I wouldn’t be shy about telling them where to get off.
The puns on here have been good though eh.
almost purrrrfect in fact
Quite meowsing, this one
On a serious note, cats going missing because they've hitched a lift in a trade vehicle is pretty common.
I think you should go and set the record straight, and bugger the blokes wife
Seems a bit extreme.
Mention that you've just moved up from Croydon for maximum cat-lover angst.
I'd stay well clear, reassure your customer you've done nothing like what the neighbours claim.
If they have more than a distrust of tradesmen/strangers as a basis for the claim they'll take it further, otherwise let them carry on twitching their curtains and ignore them...
I think we need to paws for a second here, there’s certainly something fishy about this tale - I’m really not feline we’re getting to the bottom of this & I think we need to nip it in the bud before someone really gets their heckles up..
ask them if they want to come round for some dinner to discuss it, and you'll be cooking a lovely Cat au vin.
Mental illness? Someone I know got very poorly and started accusing her neighbour of murdering his girlfriend.
Seems paws- er, plausible.
Years ago, my gran used to look after an even more elderly neighbour across the street. Cleaning, cooking and suchlike. Then the neighbour went barmy, she was on our doorstep every other day accusing my gran of stealing from her and worse. She said a sore on my gran's arm was "the evil coming out" (for added yuks, this turned out to be cancer). Brains are funny and fragile things.
think you should go and set the record straight, and bugger the blokes wife
Selective quoting is great 😀
Poor old fella hasn’t had any pussy for a week, surely buggering his wife would just be rubbing his nose in it?
Well?
I killed my neighbour's cat once, back when I was a student. It wasn't really her cat, just a stray that she always fed because she was a lonely old crazy cat lady. It was a savage beast, toughest cat in the neighborhood. Every year it would have another litter of kittens, but they were never as tough or smart as the mum, so they would all starve to death, poor mangy things were horrible to see. I lived in an old house and the cat used to sneak into the kitchen and steal any food it could grab if I left the door open. I didn't mind until I got a cat of my own, which was too terrified to go outside because of the wild cat. It gave my cat some wicked beatings, nearly ripped one of its ears off. I installed a cat door so that my cat could bolt back inside to escape when the wild cat showed up, but the wild cat just started coming inside at night to beat up my cat and steal her food. I set up the cat door so it would let the cats in, but not let them out, then trapped the wild cat and managed to corner it and put a cardboard box over it and slide another sheet of cardboard under that, then taped it up with duck tape. Christ that cat went berserk, totally unbelievable. Drowned it in the bath, which was actually much less horrible than I'd expected, I'd never drowned a cat before so had no idea what to expect. I threw the dead cat over the fence into the other neighbour's yard. They had a dog, so I hoped the dog would maul the dead cat and everybody would assume the dog was the culprit. As a bonus, the neighbour's started keeping the dog chained up after that. It used to go a bit mental, barking and trying to jump up over the fence if it saw anyone on the other side, so it was a relief to not have to put up with that anymore.
Anyway, I always had a feeling the old lady next door suspected me, she always gave me a filthy look when she saw me. Then one day, a guy I had worked with turned up with his wife and kid, turned out the mad neighbour was his mother-in-law. He was a pretty weird guy, conspiracy nutter, probably the gloomiest guy I've ever met. He was nicknamed "Six Feet of Misery" because he was so depressing. Anyway, when I worked with him, he was always on about how his MIL was mental, but I just assumed it was just him opening his mouth and letting random crazy stuff spill out. Turns out he was right about her though, she was nuts, but never saw much of her after the cat vanished. Oh, the relief of graduating and moving out of that hovel.
errrmmmm
Err wtf?
I don't like you Hols2. That's all I have to add.
Hols2 - That sounds like the kind of confession you should send into Simon Mayo's Drivetime.
WTAF??
At least he didn't get it stuffed and mounted on a nice piece of polished hardwood with a little engraved brass plaque.
That would have been a catastrophe.
Hols2 – That sounds like the kind of confession you should send into Simon Mayo’s Drivetime.
Well no, they are meant to be funny, not ****ing sick.
Hoopla! Thanks for sharing, I suspect this thread will go up a notch after that.
It reminds me of the stories I heard about my great-grandparents who were dirt poor and lived in rural Scotland. They had cats (as well as dogs, pigs, an illegal distillery and the occasional sideline in poaching, as did pretty much everyone else in their village by all accounts lol-erg). If one of their cats had a litter, and they couldn't find a home for them, they would put them in a sack and drown them in a river *ugh*. My Nan, who told me the stories, said they called this 'taking them for the long drink' *uuurrgh*
Crikey, what a rollercoaster.
What are the mechanics of drowning a cat in a cardboard box, in a bath? Shirley that moggy would be going mental and would shred that box to bits.
My Nan, who told me the stories, said they called this ‘taking them for the long drink’
Wow, it's possible we had the same Nan. Did she really hate Germans, too?
When a thread starts out weird, and then takes a hard left turn.
To the OP, I'd want to have a word with the nutters that are slandering you, not least about the upset they seem to be causing the old dear.
Is this what the new look forum is going to be from now on. PMSL
No, they just did it as a joke in order to solicit completely off-topic and irrelevant comments. Looks like it's a successful upgrade!
As for the OP - I'd have a word with the neighbours to try and set things straight but I'd record it on my phone as well just in case anything kicked off and they called the police, they don't sound completely with it...
Not sure how I'm feline about this thread at all.
Nobody suggested bombers, a burning dog poo in letter box, or the shoe + wee combination yet?
Must admit, what I would do is nothing. If some weirdo I've never met wants to believe I've stolen their cat, they're probably worth avoiding.
I might moan on the internet.