£50 Fine for having bin stolen

[NorthernDave]

In a cruel irony, we got home tonight and went to fetch our bin from the end of the ginnel (it's bin day) and found it split open along the front, virtually from top to bottom. It can only have been done by the bin waggon and it's mechanical grabbers, but having looked on the council website it's going to cost us to replace it.

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

In a cruel irony, we got home tonight and went to fetch our bin from the end of the ginnel (it's bin day) and found it split open along the front, virtually from top to bottom. It can only have been done by the bin waggon and it's mechanical grabbers, but having looked on the council website it's going to cost us to replace it.

perhaps you could report a case of criminal damage to the police...

 

[slowmotion]

If your mate reports his bin lost or stolen and gets a police lost property reference number, the council will replace his bin for free.

There are some councils that are too mean to supply you with a bin in the first place. Some don't even supply plastic bin bags.

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4798343, member: 45"]"Mean" suggests that they're withholding money. Councils' ability to provide essential services are weakening by the day, and its only going to get worse. There's not enough money.[/QUOTE]
The two councils I have some knowledge of withdrew their bins and bags well over ten years ago.

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4798383, member: 45"]What were they doing with the money they were saving on bags?[/QUOTE]
No idea. Ensuring the pensions were still generous?

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4798410, member: 45"]"Generous" council pensions were gone by not long after the turn of the century. Contracted remuneration for retired workers continues.[/QUOTE]
If "contracted remuneration for retired workers" means I don't get a simple dustbin, I'm still unhappy. The lack of bin bags doesn't make me feel any better either.

 

[ayceejay]

When wheelie bins were first introduced here for recycilng mine was duly filled and wheeled to the road on bin day. When I got back there was a notice stuck on the still full bin. Unknown to me the wheels should be facing the house not the street, So the jobsworth got out of the truck and stuck this notice on the bin without turning it or emptying it. I HAD BEEN TOLD

 

[Profpointy]

If "contracted remuneration for retired workers" means I don't get a simple dustbin, I'm still unhappy. The lack of bin bags doesn't make me feel any better either.

Well contracted pensions is actually wages paid later. You'd be pretty hard done by if you worked for a number of years on the basis of £x now plus and extra £y at an agreed time in the future and then they decided not to pay the future bit.

I have never worked for a public sector nor have a guaranteed pension but it'd be much the same as deciding the steal my pension pot a la Maxwell

 

[slowmotion]

Well contracted pensions is actually wages paid later. You'd be pretty hard done by if you worked for a number of years on the basis of £x now plus and extra £y at an agreed time in the future and then they decided not to pay the future bit.

I have never worked for a public sector nor have a guaranteed pension but it'd be much the same as deciding the steal my pension pot a la Maxwell

Fair dos, but see it from my perspective. We pay north of £2000 pa in Council Tax and we don't even get a single frigging black plastic bag, OK? Surely I'm allowed to be just faintly grumpy?

I guess it really boils down to whether or not my black bin bag is more important to them than their pensions.

 

[classic33]

In a cruel irony, we got home tonight and went to fetch our bin from the end of the ginnel (it's bin day) and found it split open along the front, virtually from top to bottom. It can only have been done by the bin waggon and it's mechanical grabbers, but having looked on the council website it's going to cost us to replace it.

Which of the three contractors clears yours?

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

When wheelie bins were first introduced here for recycilng mine was duly filled and wheeled to the road on bin day. When I got back there was a notice stuck on the still full bin. Unknown to me the wheels should be facing the house not the street, So the jobsworth got out of the truck and stuck this notice on the bin without turning it or emptying it. I HAD BEEN TOLD

Were the words "resistance is futile" written at the bottom?

 

[PK99]

A third goes on pensions? Really?

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...ions-warns-leading-council-finance-chief.html

 

[screenman]

A third goes on pensions? Really?

Just Google it, I did and found the reading quite interesting.

 

[NorthernDave]

Which of the three contractors clears yours?

No idea, I'm at work when they do the bins.

 

[Cuchilo]

He may not need a new bin as in June Hounslow are giving us boxes We are getting a red one and a blue one to go with the green one and the food waste one .
These will look good next to the bin i already have plus the garden waste bin i pay £50 per year for and the two Sita private bins i hire for my trade waste .
I'll need to park on the road to keep the garden clear for bins and boxes