Back in my Merchant Navy days, when visiting certain ports in the Middle East you had to build a "thunderbox" overhanging the aft end of the shift. Basically a floor-less wooden framed structure with some sacking around it, the purpose of which was for the dockers to use when having to have a cr@p which would fall directly into the sea. The alternative to the thunderbox was that they just sh@t wherever they wanted, on the deck of the ship.
More recently as a lorry driver I was forced to answer natures call various times whilst out on the road but without any public toilets anywhere near. I always managed to find a layby with an adjoining wooded area. As Globalti has said, it isn't such a bad experience. Quite liberating in fact! Can't stand the dirty b@st@rds who jump out of their lorry and just drop one at the side of the truck, where the next person to come along can stand in it, or be subject to the smell of it while trying to eat their M&S sandwiches.
I am sure the binman in question did what he did out of desperation rather than malice, and as someone else said it was probably a secluded area, rather than firing one off onto someones prized newly mono blocked driveway in suburbia.
Nice thread for a bit of dinner time reading BTW

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