I dont approve of benefit fraud but there are so many malicious snitches.
I loath snitches. They are often people with a personality problem and less concerned with the "public good" than petty spite and ingratiating themselves with those in authority.
This happened to some friends of mine in my native Liverpool. The lady (I will call her Sue but not hear real name) was hurt in an accident and ended on high level DLA. She could only stand for a few minutes and walk a few steps without severe pain. Sue could no longer tend her much loved garden and became very depressed.
Her husband and several neighbours spent weeks putting in raised flower beds so she could sit and do a little gardening in her chair. Neighbours donated timber, bricks, labour etc and they also put in a greenhouse with raised beds so she could sit there on wet days. Her specialist knew about it and approved as it revived her interest in life.
A bad neighbour snitched to the DWP and they got one of those nasty letters to go for an interview. The interviewer said they had a report her condition has improved and she was now able to do "heavy" work like gardening. They had taken letters from her specialist and the husband got out his phone, accessed Facebook where the history of the build was shown with Sue gardening from her chair. The interviewer said he was dismissing the allegation as malicious and some hints he gave enabled them to guess at once who the grasser was.
They had only one bad neighbour who had repeatedly parked his van across their dropped kerb and became abusive when politely reminded it was illegal. They had to call the police to warn him and it was evident he had grassed Sue up in revenge.
On their return the couple took no direct action against the snitch but word spread through the street that there was a grasser in their midst. The snitch and his family were targeted. SNITCH and GRASSER were spray painted on his house, car, etc. His car and that of his wife was repeatedly vandalised. Urine and poo were put through the letter box and smeared on their door. Even the kids were bullied (Your dads a grasser) and no one would play with them.
One night a brick with a death threat came through their window. Of course the police were brought in but could make no headway because no one had "seen" or "heard" anything. Another neighbour who had CCTV had recently re-located his cameras in another direction. There was no direct evidence against anyone.
Im sure you get the picture.
In the end the snitch and his family moved away.
Liverpool people can have hearts of gold when it comes to taking care of their own. They also know how to treat suspected snitches.
