Ramblers not respecting privacy.

Bob

Bob

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Glam said:
Are they posting photos of your children Bob?
I suppose you've gone down the route of asking for any photos to be removed and been ignored?x
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No photos of my kids, no photos of my house actually, obviously it’s not pretty enough or possibly they didn’t come past it, but I know some of the people who’s houses have been plastered on the internet, along with pictures of garden ornaments, tools and sheds.

I was interested in people’s opinions on whether or not it’s an acceptable thing to do. Personally I think it’s rude, selfish and an invasion of privacy, I wonder how the photographer would feel if their home and belongings were treated with the same levels of brazen disrespect purely to add to a ‘look at me’ Facebook post.
 
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Bob

Bob

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That-Crazy-Rat-Lady said:
Signage?

'Tresspassers will be shot / fed to the dog'

Should do the trick!

I do sympathise! I suppose all you can do is put us signs / fencing
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I struggle sometimes with the mentality of people, we have our driveway used as turning circle for all visitors of the neighbours if our gates are open, and sometimes if even if they’re not open, people will still try and we’ve had the gates significantly damaged on three occasions.

We’ve had our blue bins rejected on two occasions because someone walking past has chucked a dog poo bag in it before it’s been collected which was obviously very pleasant to have to deal with, Along with a month long over bin. We’ve had people ignore signage and feed the pony, we’ve spent in excess on £1000 fencing the lane side boundary only to have people trespass on farmland who see it as their right to chuck apples at someone else’s animals luckily he doesn’t like them or eat them but they could potentially cause him a problem if he did. Good knows what else is chucked over that he does eat.
 
Bob

Bob

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proactive said:
Best way to do it is with a drone. You can invade anyone's privacy with one of them.
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We have also had people knocking on our doors looking for missing drones. One was found in the field which was returned to the owner with a polite request to use it elsewhere in future.
 
Mudgie

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Noah said:
"If you are standing on public property you can legally photograph private property, but you still need to be respectful of personal privacy. If, for example, you shoot a house from a public road and the resident can be seen getting dressed through an upstairs window, you could be sued for invasion of privacy." " There are some 'prohibited places', which it is an offence to take photos of (such as factories, dockyards and mines owned by the Crown). Some public places also have bylaws preventing commercial photography, such as in Trafalgar Square, Parliament Square and some Royal Parks. But if you're not taking photos for commercial gain or causing an obstruction, you're unlikely to be restricted."
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Wasn't "mines owned by the Crown" before Thatcher closed them all ?
 
Noah

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Mudgie said:
Wasn't "mines owned by the Crown" before Thatcher closed them all ?
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They still seem to be there though, sometimes batches of them turn up on the Land Registry. I suspect that these relate to changes in leaseholders but I am not spending £3 a time to find out. Also I think "mines" covers a multitude of sins in this case, chalk & other stone quarries for example.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
If they are on your land (and it isn't a public right of way) then yes they are in the wrong, if on public land then I'm afraid you'll just have to accept it. You only own what the deeds say, not the view from it.

I used to get my recycling bin rejected regularly because it was collected the morning after student night at zanzibar and there would often be half eaten kebabs etc. deposited there.
 
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