What is the strangest thing that was stolen

mildews wrote: »

You know what I have to do now to get a replacement bin...

(A) Call South Dublin County Council,
(B) Fill out the form they send me back,
(C) Get a Guard to sign the form
(D) Send form back with a cheque for €50 to the council
(E) Wait until the new bin arrives, Don't know how long this will be!!!!

Meanwhile the pile of used nappies continues to rise, along with anything else that can't be re-cycled.. you know, the smelly stuff.

Thank God its not summer time.......

Then again, if it was summer then the type of scum bag who steals bins would be on their scumbag summer holiday in "Costa del Knackeragua" stealing other crap thats not nailed down... and leaving us all alone...............

About 3 years ago, my brother burned down the green bin. He tried to make a torch when we had a power cut, but instead of a paraffin soaked rag on the end of a stick, he put a roll of toilet paper on the end of a stick, and lit it.

That didn't work, so he threw it in a puddle, and thinking it was extinguished, threw it in the green bin. My sister came into me the next morning to say the green bin was burned down, so I went down, and sure enough, there was the green bin, a clump of melted green plastic surrounded by various burnt things. We ended up having to cut up the remains, and threw the rest away in the other bin

When we rang to get a replacement, we just told the whole story, and they just put it down as theft, and got us a new one for free, must have given them a good laugh.

Even worse than that however, there were bits of plastic stuck to the wall around where the bin had been, I told my brother to clean it up, and when I told him to use the scraper in the garage, he said no, he wanted to use the burner we have for sealing the garage roof (like a small flame thrower), to melt the plastic off the walls. I made him use the scraper....