Anyone else getting nuisance calls from a female?

[Salsaboy]

For goodness sake, pack it in all of you. You're like squabbling children.

[Alan Medic]

Anyone who thinks Tom's posts are anything but mature and that they don't show great consideration for this caller needs their head examined. Louisa summed it up well while Salsaboy's mother hen comment is strange as you have the option of ignoring a thread on the forum if you wish.

[aquarius moon]

LadyDeliah Wrote:

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> aquarius moon Wrote:

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> If someone posts a load of old crap in response to

> your opening post, how is correcting them a cat

> fight?

There are ways of correcting and ways of correcting LadyD.

A 'thanks for trying to help but you are wrong on this one' would have sufficed, instead of using provocation tactics.

Then it wouldn't have turned into a bitchfest would it?

[Louisa]

aquarius moon Wrote:

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> LadyDeliah Wrote:

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> > aquarius moon Wrote:

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> *Like*

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> >

> > If someone posts a load of old crap in response

> to

> > your opening post, how is correcting them a cat

> > fight?

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> There are ways of correcting and ways of

> correcting LadyD.

>

> A 'thanks for trying to help but you are wrong on

> this one' would have sufficed, instead of using

> provocation tactics.

>

> Then it wouldn't have turned into a bitchfest

> would it?

aquarius moon I think that's slightly unfair. The opening post made a very reasonable attempt to explain themselves - subsequent early responses went off topic and made wild assumptions. The OP clearly felt these comments were not relevant.

Louisa.

[aquarius moon]

I know they were not relevant Louisa, but like I said, there are ways and means of saying things.

[Amelie]

Tom

I think the best thing might be to contact the Adult Services team at Southwark and ask to speak to the team that deals with elderly vulnerable people and/or adult mental health. They may be able to identify the lady and offer her some support following an assessment of her needs.

[ianr]

I was drafting s post on those lines too. They're presumably the department with whom any referral would end up. They'd also, if so, know how best to get an address, through their own or police RIPA powers, or otherwise, from BT.

[tomdhu]

Amelie Wrote:

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> Tom

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> I think the best thing might be to contact the

> Adult Services team at Southwark and ask to speak

> to the team that deals with elderly vulnerable

> people and/or adult mental health. They may be

> able to identify the lady and offer her some

> support following an assessment of her needs.

OK, many thanks, will do first thing Monday.

Tom

[unlurked]

For what its worth, Tomdhu has done owt wrong at all, only trying to help. All went pete tong with the fox butting in.

[grabot]

To be fair though, if part of the theme of this thread is extending special courtesies to the elderley. Shouldn't this be extended equally to the Fox? I am correct in assuming he is a mature gentleman? A lot of his post have a "In the good old days, East Dulwich..." theme.

[DulwichFox]

My Ears are burning..

http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab167/mickdavies83/50518c74-add8-4bb7-a385-238bc8efe8a3_zps06e2d64e.jpg

DulwichFox

[LadyDeliah]

I think his posts may be somewhat deceptive. The Fox seems to me be one of those people who hit middle age in his 20's :-)

[DulwichFox]

Why are SOME people here so obsessed with what The Fox says. ?

Have you really not got more important things to worry about. ?

People doing Post-Mortems on all of The Fox's past posts.

'Middle age in his 20's'

Age only exists in the minds of ordinary people..

The more Talented and Exceptionable are sometime Old and sometimes Young..

In the same way they are sometimes Happy and sometimes Sad..

DulwichFox

[Green Goose]

Here's another one of the species.

http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/savedelhi/Fox4_zpsc5bc149c.jpg

[LadyDeliah]

Lol.

Give and take Foxy.

If you're going to give it, you need to learn to take it. One of The laws of physics son.

[DulwichFox]

My original reply to the OP may of been wrong, but was based on the symptoms of what the OP described.

They were similar to calls my late mother had been receiving a couple of years back.

The reply was a genuine attempt to help. That's what I do. I help people.

Sometimes advice is misguided or misunderstood. But if I can help one person for every two I try, I am happy.

It is not The Fox (as people seem to of named me) that is negative. It's the pack of Hounds that chase him.

This Fox Hunts Alone.

DF.

[Green Goose]

Looks like the habit is fairly widespread :)

http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/savedelhi/Fox5_zps9af672d6.jpg

http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/savedelhi/Fox7_zpsc4ef2ceb.jpg

http://i1318.photobucket.com/albums/t643/savedelhi/fox6_zps9e8ce76c.jpg

[Pugwash]

Social Services operate on addresses generally and not phone numbers however given more details as to the nature of the calls and conversation had, they may ring up the person and try and find out more about the lady. A quiet talk with PC Adrian Crust and giving him the number, he may be able to find out the address and do a 'checking call'to see if the lady is ok. Depending on outcome, Police will decide whether to contact Social Services.

[tomdhu]

Delighted to report that the calls have stopped. None for the last 2 nights/days.

The new phone system enabled us to bar calls from her number and it also lists all attempts to connect to us from that barred number.

Whether the lady in question reads the EDF or has a friend/relative who intervened, we will never know but whatever happened, a positive outcome was achieved.

May thanks to all those who offered sympathy and suggestions.

Tom

[unlurked]

Er, so, did you report this to social services, or just knocked it on head now you're not bothered?

[tomdhu]

Gave an nod and a wink to the Old Bill.

Tom