u/Capital_Being_1041

I haven't been driving for long (less than 5 years) but over the years I've had my fair share of interesting drivers.

This recent one takes the cake however, I was in a junction waiting to merge into a main road but had to wait for a queue of cars to pass, I'm about to move forward but see one more coming at speed so I decided to not go forward with my maneuver and wait for the last car to pass.

Well the car behind me, who has been tail gating me for a few minutes, didn't like that at all. He laid his horn and when I looked back on my rearview mirror, all I see is wild hand gesturing and angry month motion. Ok cool, I move forward and merge into the right hand lane- that should be that. But the guy? Nah, he didn't like that, he didn't like that at all, he accelerates forward and starts hurling some unkind words and dangerously undertakes me from the left hand lane, narrowly avoiding a collision, yikes.

He speeds off and and not a minute later I'm behind him at the lights. lol

Anyway I reported his ass to Operation Snap with the dash cam footage attached as they continued to do a lotta dangerous things behind the wheel (reverse into me at the lights, stall at both green lights to continue their angry monologue yapping and narrowly avoiding hitting two pedestrians in two SEPARATE crossings). Man.

Anyway, I'm glad I have a dash cam for all this but I think I need to upgrade it and get a rear one too? Lmk if y'all have any recommendations, cheers.

Phone and accessory was easily worth £1000+.

So today a family member received items through DPD which had a phone, airbuds and watch. Soon after we had gotten an incoming (spoofed) call informing us that the items delivered were wrongly sent (had the correct name and address btw) and needed to be returned ASAP.

A courier would come collect it but they later shifted into wanting me to deliver it to the closest postage through a QR code, which they had shared through... WhatsApp. Yup.

Anyway wasted all of my Saturday calling the bank and fraud teams in my family behalf. Apparently they had accounts open they weren't aware of, that and it could have gone very wrong, very fast if they had went with returning the items, a member of the fraud team confirmed we would have been stuck with the bill. 😬

Stay safe out there y'all, I fear to think what would have happened if I hadn't caught on to it.

Also I would like to know, should the police be contacted about this? No money had been taken out as I've been informed it was a credit agreement. Thank you.

edit: forgot to add, the phone had come from Sky and the fraud team informed us to return it to them, they have sent us a return label, but should I just go contact the police about this instead?

I'm so devastated y'all, I don't regret the decision at all but I'm utterly bummed out.

It was a toy poodle, a breed I love so much, I have the necessary resources, space AND time, everything was perfect.

But ultimately I ended up declining due to two main reasons, the uncertainty with the rising cost of living and safety concern with the pups overall size.

I have one elderly husky mix and an adult Springer. They're fantastic, absolutely AMAZING, but the fact is, it only takes one accident for the little guy to get seriously hurt or worse. As well behaved as they are I couldn't ignore the fact both breeds have an extremely high prey drive.

Anyway I know it was the right thing to do but man :(