Grassing

[KingRocketman II]

Assuming that you are not 12 years old nor deeply embedded within any organised crime syndicate, why is reporting someone to the relevant authorities for committing a crime or for anti-social behaviour still considered by many to be a dishonourable act? 

Have you ever been a paid informant? 

Are there any occasions you would not "grass" on someone? 

Do you consider "grassing" to be a shameful practice and a "grass" should be treated with contempt? 

 

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Just now, KingRocketman II said:

Assuming that you are not 12 years old nor deeply embedded within any organised crime syndicate, why is reporting someone to the relevant authorities for committing a crime or for anti-social behaviour still considered by many to be a dishonourable act? 

Have you ever been a paid informant? 

Are there any occasions you would not "grass" on someone? 

Do you consider "grassing" to be a shameful practice and a "grass" should be treated with contempt? 

 

Fly tippers deserved to get grassed.

[Lex]

Yep flytippers are bigger c***s than grasses. 

[tamthebam]

He's got this, folks

[Newbornbairn]

Flytippers should be shot in the head and buried under the grass*

 

 

*but on top of the Orange walkers

[TheScarf]

I don't see the problem with it if it affects you directly in some aspect of your life.  At work for example.  

Edit - If someone is being a lazy cunt and it means you have to pick up the slack, then I think grassing is ok.  But only once you've told them to get their finger our their arse first.

Edited March 29, 2022 by TheScarf

[carpetmonster]

2 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said:

Flytippers should be shot in the head and buried under the grass*

 

 

*but on top of the Orange walkers

I think I’ve found a suitable burial site

 

 

 

Edited March 29, 2022 by carpetmonster

[Brother Blades]

Snitches get stitches. 

[bennett]

4 minutes ago, carpetmonster said:

I think I’ve found a suitable burial site

 

 

 

 

Throbber is an underappreciated artist imo.

[RawB93]

1 minute ago, Brother Blades said:

Snitches get stitches. 

Grasses get slashes.

[The Moonster]

6 minutes ago, TheScarf said:

I don't see the problem with it if it affects you directly in some aspect of your life.  At work for example.  

Edit - If someone is being a lazy c**t and it means you have to pick up the slack, then I think grassing is ok.  But only once you've told them to get their finger our their arse first.

Aye, in things like workplaces you always speak to the person first and if nothing changes and you're being shafted then you're within your rights to go higher. I think for crimes it's a bit different but really it depends on the severity of the crime. If I saw someone stealing a Freddo from a shop I'd probably wish them well on their merry way, but if I saw someone pulling a knife on the shop owner and stealing all their money I'd give a statement to the polis. 

[D Angelo Barksdale]

Outside of Lee Wallace, the most famous grass in Edinburgh is McCabe.

f**k knows who he grassed and for what, but it used to be written everywhere.

[Albus Bulbasaur]

I agree with Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr.

 

 

[Brother Blades]

2 minutes ago, Detective Jimmy McNulty said:

Outside of Lee Wallace, the most famous grass in Edinburgh is McCabe.

f**k knows who he grassed and for what, but it used to be written everywhere.

That’s McCabe & he looks suitably ashamed, grassing b*****d! 

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

27 minutes ago, KingRocketman II said:

Assuming that you are not 12 years old nor deeply embedded within any organised crime syndicate, why is reporting someone to the relevant authorities for committing a crime or for anti-social behaviour still considered by many to be a dishonourable act? 

Have you ever been a paid informant? 

Are there any occasions you would not "grass" on someone? 

Do you consider "grassing" to be a shameful practice and a "grass" should be treated with contempt? 

 

The c**t's been sussed.

[scottsdad]

My previous neighbours were a bit strange. They had a beef with another neighbour about parking spaces and ended up phoning the police, accusing this guy of not having tax on his car (he did). Then they phoned again accusing him of videoing kids playing in the street. Phoned the council about him putting his bins in the wrong place.

They went door to door in the street trying to get folk to phone the police about this specific guy, for anything we could think of, "to get him out". 

Deranged people. When they moved out I spent a happy evening drinking rusty nails. The other neighbour is still here.

[Bairnardo]

This is a right tough one tbh. I actually don't even naturally arrive at a position on this.

I give my daughters a hard time for constantly "telling tales", so I guess we are conditioned a certain way from young? We all must have heard that growing up.

But then we encourage them to "tell a grown up" if they find themselves in bother at school or that.

I instinctively sort of leap to "say f**k all" to the likes of police or gaffers at my work, but then I don't like criminals.

Wtf is it all about....

[Brother Blades]

2 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

My previous neighbours were a bit strange. They had a beef with another neighbour about parking spaces and ended up phoning the police, accusing this guy of not having tax on his car (he did). Then they phoned again accusing him of videoing kids playing in the street. Phoned the council about him putting his bins in the wrong place.

They went door to door in the street trying to get folk to phone the police about this specific guy, for anything we could think of, "to get him out". 

Deranged people. When they moved out I spent a happy evening drinking rusty nails. The other neighbour is still here.

Do you live near @Philpy? 

[Bert Raccoon]

I will only grass if it provides a direct benefit to myself 

[Glen Sannox]

24 minutes ago, Zen Archer (Raconteur) said:

The c**t's been sussed.

He just looks like the sort of scumbag who fly tip. Stick on Sevco fan!