Misusing public garbage????
Is this coming to Canada??? This item is from the UK...
With ten days to go until his next fortnightly rubbish collection, John Richards wanted to avoid a stink in his kitchen.
So he neatly packaged his food scraps in a carrier bag and deposited it in a public bin.
A few days later a letter arrived announcing he had been fined £75 - for misusing' the bin by putting domestic refuse in it.
Council snoopers traced him after rummaging through the bag's contents, in which they found an envelope addressed to him.
Yesterday 84-year-old Mr Richards, of Boston, Lincolnshire, said: "I've been fined for putting my rubbish in a bin and that's just ludicrous.
posted by GayandRight @ 10:21 PM
3 Comments:
Poor bugger.
It's in Canada already...
In Toronto I think the fine is $250.
And they do go through bags in alleys for such evidence (garbage workers wont pick up bags that they think have a recyclable in it or are over 40 pounds - which is less than my cat litter for a week in the green bin)
Then there's the dog poop problem - people walking their dogs stoop and scoop and place in bins which then - in two weeks between pickups - weigh more than the garbage pickers will lift. Conundrum..
Then the problem that with the deposit on wine and likker bottles - the city is pissed off that enterprising poor people are collecting same from blue bins - and not allowing the city to get their 20cent deposits that they never paid...
City councils are full of people with dreams of grandeur.
They don't want to be responsible for simply picking up garbage when giant bureaucracies can be established that include the use of force.
It's a Socialist thing.
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