Bailiff Threads

I appreciate fully I'm not Site Admin or anything, but I wondered if we could try to keep the bailiff threads more on topic. I know we always enjoy a bit of banter on this site, and that is what many of us like. However, last night I read a thread three times and gave up trying to advise because the chat made it impossible for me to take in the important content of the thread.

I'm also a little uncomfortable about the need to insult the bailiffs at every opportunity. This is completely unnecessary in my opinion. Occasionally they really ask for it, but some of them are people just trying to earn a living. It may not be one you or I would choose, but someone has to do it - resorting to insults hardly improves the image of the site, and as well as the banter, we do have a reputation for good advice.

When posting, perhaps you could try to keep the advice level up and the banter down a bit, and reasonably insult free (not totally!)

Rant over! Tell me when it's safe to come out.

:behindsofa:

[CleverClogs]

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I'm also a little uncomfortable about the need to insult the bailiffs at every opportunity. This is completely unnecessary in my opinion. Occasionally they really ask for it, but some of them are people just trying to earn a living. It may not be one you or I would choose, but someone has to do it - resorting to insults hardly improves the image of the site, and as well as the banter, we do have a reputation for good advice.

Yes, Eloise.

[CleverClogs]

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Other "people just trying to earn a living" must include the guards at Sobibor.

Just saying...

[wales01man]

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insulting bailiffs?they are an insult in the 21st century behaving like thugs above the law dressed in black like the SS they are on the whole nothing but intimidating lawbreakers sorry labman you may like them most dont

[labman]

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Yes, Eloise.

Never take the name of the one you love in vain. You were going to marry her! :beagle:

I know it seems a 'bossy' request, but at the moment I can't plough through the rhetoric to advise and that makes the posts pointless, for me at least. It crossed my mind there might be others in the same boat - possible the OC.

[CleverClogs]

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I agree with you on discussions of "Common Purpose" infestations and how best to shoot rats and other vermin, but such posts are usually made after salient and cogent advice has been posted.

Those bailiffs who act appropriately, never levy distress on cars belonging to someone other than the debtor and who do not shout, swear or threaten are hardly likely to be the subject of a posting here - and that is really most of the bailiffs in the country! I would doubt that the few whose actions inspired postings here were greater than 1%.

[bizzybob]

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Perhaps the spleen venting can go on this thread, leaving the others to dispense advice and analasis, by the way, it's a shame I didn't have a camera available when a bailiff was shot by some angry children with a brace of Super Soakers when he went to the wrong house and started threatening quite unlawfully to take their bikes if they didn't get their mother out to speak to him. They must have been all of 10 years old....

[labman]

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insulting bailiffs?they are an insult in the 21st century behaving like thugs above the law dressed in black like the SS they are on the whole nothing but intimidating lawbreakers sorry labman you may like them most dont

I think Wales, if you look at the hundreds of posts I've made on here, my view of bailiffs will become clear, so I'll ignore that comment. All I'm asking is if threads can be kept more free of chat. I'm not advising on several threads at present as I just cannot motivate myself to plough through the chat. If people think 'That's his problem', fair enough, it was just a request from someone who likes to contribute. I wonder also how many OP's give up because of it as well.

[bizzybob]

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Ok point taken LM.

[labman]

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Thanks BB! We're all guilty - me included. I just feel we should perhaps refocus a bit. I had to have time out recently and am going away for a week in the next day or two, so may or may not be able to get on. Coming back after a break hammers the issue home.

[Guest]

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Yes it does get a bit tiresome and detracts from the merits of some quite interesting useful legal and practical advice given on here IMHO.

None of us have any love for them, most of us find it difficult to understand anyone who would want to make a living out of what they do, but they exist they are human beings, and despite the ribbing I am going to receive for saying this, they are as a consequence deserving of a little respect or at least civility.

[wales01man]

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to respect someone IMO they have to earn respect how can you respect anyone who lies to people claims illegal fees and makes threats?We have read many times of bailiffs doing this while I agree someone has to do the job there are rules they must operate under,would we respect a copper who breaks the rules

[Guest]

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to respect someone IMO they have to earn respect how can you respect anyone who lies to people claims illegal fees and makes threats?We have read many times of bailiffs doing this while I agree someone has to do the job there are rules they must operate under,would we respect a copper who breaks the rules

OK then just plain civility, name calling is never productive in my experience it only makes a bad situation worse.

[bluebottle]

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Yes it does get a bit tiresome and detracts from the merits of some quite interesting useful legal and practical advice given on here IMHO.

None of us have any love for them, most of us find it difficult to understand anyone who would want to make a living out of what they do, but they exist they are human beings, and despite the ribbing I am going to receive for saying this, they are as a consequence deserving of a little respect or at least civility.

Oh we used to call bailiffs some pretty rude names when called out to incidents involving them, when I was a copper. Calling them "brain-dead idiots" was one of the more civil terms of reference. The terms they were usually addressed by would send the swear filter into meltdown.

[CleverClogs]

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OK then just plain civility, name calling is never productive in my experience it only makes a bad situation worse.

If we were calling them nasty names to their faces, you could be right.

But we're not. It is unlikely that any bailiff would have any viable complaint from any comment posted here.