Woman exercising quietly in her garden is berated by furious ‘Karen’ neighbour who tells her to ‘stop screaming’ because it’s ‘infringing her human rights’ and claims she shouldn’t be outside because she has Covid
- Joanne Groves shared a video to TikTok showing her working out in her garden
- Her neighbour shouted at her to ‘stop screaming’ while she was exercising
- ‘Karen’ neighbour said she was ‘infringing her human rights’ by making noise
- When Joanne told her she couldn’t scream because she had Covid, the neighbour added that meant she wasn’t able to go outside
A personal trainer who was teaching a client online in her garden has revealed how her ‘Karen’ neighbour shouted at her to ‘stop screaming’ because it was ‘infringing her human rights’.
Joanne Groves, from Wimbledon, southwest London, shared a video to TikTok showing the moment the neighbour shouted over the garden fence.
The mother-of-two was quietly showing her client how to do lunges via videolink when a woman living next-door shouted over the wall for her to ‘stop screaming’.
When Joanne croakily replied to say she can’t scream because ‘she has Covid and can hardly speak’ the neighbour replied saying she shouldn’t be outside if she had tested positive.
Joanne Groves (pictured) from Wimbledon, southwest London, shared a video to TikTok showing her working out in her garden with headphones in.
‘You’ve got Covid and you’re out in the garden, that means I can’t be out in the garden,’ she incorrectly shouted.
Under current guidance, people who test positive for Covid-19 must stay at home.
But the NHS encourages people to spend time in their gardens to exercise.
Joanne later clarified that the garden isn’t shared, and there is a wall between her garden and her neighbours, meaning there is no way the neighbour could be infected with Covid-19.
After the trainer carried on her workout, telling her neighbour to ‘grow up’, the ‘Karen’ quipped back ‘Oh f*** off’.
The video, which has been watched more than six million times, has also racked up thousands of comments with many branding’s Joanne’s neighbour a ‘Karen’.
A ‘Karen’ is a term for a person, sometimes racist and usually middle-aged and female, who tells people what to do and is entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is norm.
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The mother-of-two was quietly showing her client how to do lunges on a patio when a neighbour shouted at her over a wall to ‘stop screaming’. When Joanne croakily replied to say she can’t scream because ‘she has Covid and can hardly speak’ the neighbour replied saying she shouldn’t be outside
![Joanne later clarified that the garden isn't shared, and there is a wall between her garden and her neighbours, meaning there is no way the neighbour could be infected with Covid-19.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/01/07/16/52661843-10378681-Joanne_later_clarified_that_the_garden_isn_t_shared_and_there_is-a-47_1641573780973.jpg)
Joanne later clarified that the garden isn’t shared, and there is a wall between her garden and her neighbours, meaning there is no way the neighbour could be infected with Covid-19.
‘I teach a 30 minute class outdoors online everyday, and I was talking my client through her moves. It’s ironic because I wasn’t shouting,’ Joanne told FEMAIL.
‘She was clearly stressed. I’ve lived here for 18 years and she has a history doing similar things, I think people are fed up of being told what to do.
‘But I was working and keeping within the guidelines’.
‘I haven’t spoken to her since, she’ll just have to wait to see that she went viral’.
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![The video, which has been watched more than six million times, has also racked up thousands of comments with many branding's Joanne's neighbour a 'Karen'.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/01/07/16/52662187-10378681-The_video_which_has_been_watched_more_than_six_million_times_has-a-46_1641573780914.jpg)
The video, which has been watched more than six million times, has also racked up thousands of comments with many branding’s Joanne’s neighbour a ‘Karen’.
Hundreds of people replied in the comments saying they were shocked at the neighbour’s behaviour.
‘I can’t believe this is real. SCREAMING? HUMAN RIGHTS? is she okay?’ one person wrote.
‘How about “you’ve got COVID, oh sorry can I do anything to help you, get some shopping or any medicine for you?’ added another.
‘How dare you be out in your own garden with Covid. Is she okay? Does she know her Karen is showing?’ wrote a third.
‘People really gotta skip past ‘sorry, it’s just disturbing me a little’ and go right to “you’re infringing my human rights”‘ added another.
‘Karen is the new variant,’ commented one.
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