Frustrated resident hangs note in window as neighbours keep calling police to home

A frustrated resident has been forced to attach a bizarre "polite notice" to their window advising others against calling the police over an apparent sanitation problem inside their abode. The note was spotted by a passerby, who couldn't help but share a snap of it to Reddit in confusion.

"Please note!" it began. "Yes I have a fly problem! It is being sorted!" Indeed several dead flies could be seen around the notice itself. The resident went on to urge: "Please do not contact police! They have visited twice to do a welfare check. It is not fair on them or me."

"There isn't anyone dead or injured on the premises," the resident went on to advise.

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The note concluded: "If you have any concerns, please knock on the door or leave a note with your number so I can speak with you and reassure you. Many thanks."

"The fly obscuring the M at the end is absolute gold," the passerby quipped in their post, before revealing the property in question is in Exeter, Devon.

Scores of Reddit user expressed their confusion in response, including one who pondered: "I feel like in the time it took to write out that notice, print it out (and laminate it?) and put it on the window, the homeowner could've gone medieval on the flies with some Raid [fly spray].

"That being said, I've also had issues with flies, and if it's this bad, I would wager there is rotting food (or a rotting animal corpse) or something somewhere in the property. Might even need professional attention at this stage."

A second person shared a possible explanation: "There are plants that attract them my parents had a caravan in the Lake District that was plagued by them. Dad was talking to the neighbour when they noticed the shrub was moving. It was 1000s of flies the neighbour dug up the plant and no more issues."

A third added: "Cat food can turn so fast in a warmer environment, literally an hour or two is all it takes to see visible eggs forming. My mum had a bad turn and couldn't empty her kitchen bin with some leftover Felix in. In just a couple of days it was like every fly in town had moved in and they were really hard to get rid of even after I'd boiled, bleached and fly sprayed like a maniac."

Whilst a fourth Reddit user recalled a similar scenario: "We had constant flies appearing in our living room and the only explanation was the chimney.

"Got it swept and the guy pulled out two bin bags' worth of bird's nests including at least six former pigeons. We have a cowl on the top of the chimney so no longer an issue but my goodness."

Others who had seen the sign in person offered their thoughts too, meanwhile. Big up Exeter! It isn't being sorted though, that sign has been up for f****** months," one of them claimed.

Another sympathised: "Yeah i remember this from Exeter too. They had a cat in the window too, poor thing."

And a third individual alleged: "Can confirm its been up for a while, I went by this house in August."