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Peoples rubbish bins and windy weather

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  • 31-03-2015 3:47pm
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    ZiabR
    Registered Users Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭


    Christ, this pis*es me right off. Where I live there are a number of neighbours who NEVER make any effort to secure their recycling bin with a brick etc when they know there is windy weather.

    Was home for lunch today and there was 3 bins on their sides with rubbish all over the roads and in peoples gardens... I know I will come home from work tonight and they will have made no effort to pick up their crap.

    It is not just where I live, as I was heading back to work there were plenty of other bins along the main road that had spilled all over the place.

    Surely they are liable for littering? I am a little OCD when it come to rubbish, I think it brings the look of where you live right down, as if no one gives a damn.

    They never seem to learn, whenever there is windy weather it always happens...

    Rant over :P


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    LDN_Irish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,188 ✭✭✭LDN_Irish


    Knock on their door and say "ah here how's it going like wha'. I got something to secure your bin for you. I'll THROW it in to you now." and they'll be all "ah jaysis tankx hun." Then f*ck a brick through their window.


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    #3
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    The Mint Aero prophecies strike again...

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=94900408


    The Mint Aero prophecies originally garnered world wide attention with this thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=93137779


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    #4
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    wheelie bins


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    #5
    PandaPoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    My neighbours bin has been knocked over, they're in work and the contents of the bin are now in everyone's garden and blowing down the road.


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    scdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 643 ✭✭✭scdublin


    In all fairness, sometimes you'll put the bin out the night before and the wind will pick up during the night and knock it over. Happened to me a few times and I agree it is horrible...looks awful etc. I always try to pick up what I can but I'm usually rushing off to work and don't know what's mine from the neighbours'.


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    TheDoc
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    As above, few times I've put the bin out the night before and a gale erupts overnight, come out in the morning and bin all over the place.

    Normally secure the bins down with a brick, but sometimes if I'm rushing out I forget. Granted my bin has only fallen over with rubbish once, and I was home at the time and was able to gather most of it back.

    In fairness if someone knocked on my door telling me I was liable for litter, as my bin fell over while out of the house, I'd tell them where to go with themselves.


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    [Deleted User]
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    scdublin wrote: »
    In all fairness, sometimes you'll put the bin out the night before and the wind will pick up during the night and knock it over. Happened to me a few times and I agree it is horrible...looks awful etc. I always try to pick up what I can but I'm usually rushing off to work and don't know what's mine from the neighbours'.

    It would be terrible to pick someones else rubbish by mistake?


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    mossytcb
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    The binman won't take my bum if there's a brick on it.


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    scdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 643 ✭✭✭scdublin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It would be terrible to pick someones else rubbish by mistake?

    No but I wouldn't go out of my way to run around the street after their rubbish. Don't pretend other people would.


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    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    TheDoc wrote: »

    In fairness if someone knocked on my door telling me I was liable for litter, as my bin fell over while out of the house, I'd tell them where to go with themselves.

    A summons might tell you were to come!
    ;)


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    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Breaking news on LMFM: A wheelie bin was knocked over...Gardai are appealing for any information about this incident.


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    xabi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,996 ✭✭✭xabi


    mossytcb wrote: »
    The binman won't take my bum if there's a brick on it.

    Wouldnt blame him.


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    TheDoc
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    Roger Hassenforder wrote: »
    A summons might tell you were to come!
    ;)

    A court summons for a wheelie bin blowing over in the wind while you were not actually present or at home?

    Work away :D


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    [Deleted User]
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    scdublin wrote: »
    No but I wouldn't go out of my way to run around the street after their rubbish. Don't pretend other people would.

    I would. I hate to see the place in trash.


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    scdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 643 ✭✭✭scdublin


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    I would. I hate to see the place in trash.

    Fair play. Still fairly sure the majority wouldn't.


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    Sunny Dayz
    Registered Users Posts: 5,308 ✭✭✭Sunny Dayz


    What's even better is one of the bin collectors for our estate was to collect the bins this morning and they insist you leave your bin out the night before (so that they can collect it at 5am and wake you up). Well they text this afternoon to say they had a breakdown but to leave your bins out and they will collect them tomorrow instead. They must be hoping it will be windy enough that there will be nothing left to collect.


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