Couple of weeks ago 4 large bags of trash appeared near the house in a ditch, we are on a private road with only access to a couple of houses. I finally got round to lifting the bags today and to my great surprise there was a letter with an address.
Long story short the woman in the house was most upset when I dumped it on her doorstep along with the letter. Will I end up with the police at my door to get me for fly tipping or an irate boyfriend wanting revenge on me.
Wish I had just put it in the bin now:(

How are they going to trace you? If you just returned their rubbish to them at an address not on your street surely they’ll need to waste quite a bit of time trying to track you down.

If the police turn up on your door step (TBH I very much doubt they will) just tell ’em you returned their rubbish which they’d fly tipped on your road.

Don’t see the problem personally.

Did you put a letter with your address in back in the bags you left with her?

Good on ya!

What did she actually say? Deny all knowledge, or just angry/embarressed at being rumbled?

if she fly tipped it herself then I guess she knows roughly where you live… time to put up the barbed wire, cameras and grenade launchers.

I think the problem might be, if he’s the sort of knucklehead who doesn’t care about dumping rubbish in someone else’s street he’s likely the sort of knucklehead who wouldn’t think twice about thumping someone who dumped a load of rubbish on his doorstep while he was out.

good on ya. a nobbish neighbour of ours dumps wheelbarrows of stuff down the bank into the river (for all to see). Boils ma piss, I tell you.

I know someone who got caught flytipping because they left their mail in with the rubbish. Good.
You should have called the council, it’s still illegal even if it’s on private land.

My council did sweet FA when I contacted them about a fly-tip with identifiable documents in it.

I simply took reasonable steps to return lost property to it’s owner, which I thought the law obliged me to do, constable.

Splendid Sir, cheerio.

But as above, bet you never hear a thing about it.

I found bags of rubbish on a footpath, containing names, addresses and other identifying documents. I tracked the owner down through Facebook. She was a law student who had recently graduated. She says she put out all her rubbish for the council to take. In which case it was either her landlord or someone looking to steal an identity.
OP was just returning property to its rightful owner.

Bags where full of Xmas detritus obviously didn’t have room in their bins and wanted it gone. Taken photos of the letter it is something quite personal from hospital about one of her kids so I took that as pretty good proof. The even more galling thing is that they drove past the bank of wheelie bins at the bottom of he drive to dump it next to houses.
Slightly expecting some idiot that likes fighting to turn up.

She was at the window wathching me as I walked up her path, when she opened the window I asked if she knew X. Who wants to know was the answer and when I showed the letter she started shouting that it’s not her. When asked if she had any id she disappeared after threatening to call the cops.

Good for you OP. Nice to see someone taking some personal responsibility rather than just phoning the authorities about every little thing.

Fair play.
A scrote left half a dozen bags of rubbish outside my house t’other week. After a little rummage I found a name and address.
40 odd doors down my road!! – So off I popped and put them all right in outside the culprits front door. I did knock but there was no answer.

good work sir!

jimmy – Member

good on ya. a nobbish neighbour of ours dumps wheelbarrows of stuff down the bank into the river (for all to see). Boils ma piss, I tell you.

Photograph the pillock – borrow a long lensed camera? Send pics to the polis?

Lady customer i had, discussing the job with her,council builders van outside relaying the roadway, passenger drops 2 mc donalds milk shake cartons on road as we watched, she ran out and picked them up, banged on side of widow, passenger opened window, she then dropped them on his legs, should have drunk all his milk shake, he hadnt, covered in the stuff.

2 very unhappy council builders.

A few years ago new cycle path opened in chester, dog walkers dog crapped on path, she eventually bagged it , waited for me to pass then dropped it at side of path, i rode back and shouted her she`d left something, tirade of abuse, so i lauched it over a garden fence, anguished neighbour shouting abuse about dog shit bag thrown over fence, i pointed out i didnt have a dog, she then had a tirade of the neighbour saying he would follow her home and make a deposit on her dor step.

Dont get mad get even and return flytiping.

When I first started riding around the local forest I was surprised to see on the roads plastic shopping bags with beer cans stc. Thought nothing of it except how could people dump rubbish. Then driving behind one of those small refuse trucks that collect bottles, aluminium etc I saw a couple bags fall off the wagon as it drove along with the side bin doors open. Emailed council but they still don’t shut the bin doors and theirs still little bags of rubbish along the road at the corners.

In my local town there is a decent recycling centre near the leisure centre. Every christmas complete idiots turn up and just throw rubbish there as the bins are quickly filled to overflowing.

Fortunately this year there has been a camera (with plenty of notices telling people about it) and people on faceache are complaining about receiving fixed-penalty fines for tipping.

Good.

Re: dumping stuff in the river – I think it’s the Environment Agency who deal with that and they take it very seriously. Worth calling them.

Send pics to the polis

Environment Agency every time. Polluting the watercourse can get expensive for the polluter.

I don’t get the hanging dog plop bags off of trees……why pick it up and bag it to then put it on a branch like the worlds worst christmas tree chocolate decoration

I was speaking in ignorance it seems, but the sentiment was correct, screw them over the little shits!

I don’t get the hanging dog plop bags off of trees

This really, really boils my pi$$. I have no idea what goes through the mind of someone who does this, especially in some FC woodland where there are now numerous signs to just stick & flick it off the trail. What on earth do they expect is going to happen to it?

Riding up on to the moor last summer there was a big 4×4 merc with two lads in it. As we were able 20 yds away a bottle of lucozade was thrown or of the driver’s window. I just rode up, picked it up and lobbed it back in his car. Tosser.

I don’t get the hanging dog plop bags off of trees..

It’s so you don’t have to carry it round. Hang it from a tree, and then collect for disposal when you return. Not such a dumb idea really.

Except the only people who do it seem to have such lousy **** memories that they never remember to come back the same way, and if they do their pitiful brains seem to fail them in this basic task. Jeremy Hunts, the lot of them 😈

All very commendable but I have a few concerns…

Firstly “trash” are you nine and brought up on a diet of Victorious and the Simpsons.
Secondly someone who can afford a house on a private road should be able to work out the likelyhood of prosecution for fly tipping without asking a cycling forum.
Thirdly the addressee of the mail was “upset” did you talk to her then, what was her excuse for the dumping the bags in your road?

TBH as it stands I call BS.

Woah Wilbert…calm down mate.

TBH

BS

R u 9 & bought ? on a diet of txt spk?

likelyhood

Tsk, pendant fail.

People are bloody stupid though. Once had a box of kittens dumped outside the surgery in the pouring rain one morning.

You would have maybe thought to remove the big sticker with your address on it 1st before using the box?

Not these people. Cue phone call to RSPCA and a visit from an angry Inspector.

Secondly someone who can afford a house on a private road should be able to work out the likelyhood of prosecution for fly tipping without asking a cycling forum.

Watch out the plebs are revolting….I never knew that to live on a private road there was an entrance exam.

mikewsmith – Member

Watch out the plebs are revolting….I never knew that to live on a private road there was an entrance exam.

might just be an unadopted road, pretty sure that could have impact on self esteem and needing approval from others

Panem et circus

Secondly someone who can afford a house on a private road should be able to work out the likelyhood of prosecution for fly tipping without asking a cycling forum.

cool you boots Sherlock. I live on a private road. Its a private road, not my private road, not even partly my road. The private rather than public ownership of the tarmac has nothing to do with the value of the property or the means of the occupiers. The relevance to the private status of the road and the reason for the OP mentioning it is its fall outside of the remit of the council to deal with anything dumped there or to pursue the people who do it.

Not these people. Cue phone call to RSPCA and a visit from an angry Inspector.

This must have been a very long time ago…

The usual reason for having a private roads is because they fail to meet the standards required for adoption by the local authority.

People are bloody stupid though. Once had a box of kittens dumped outside the surgery in the pouring rain one morning.

I was working at an RSPCA branch once, and it was an eye-opener. Very nearly every single phone call was “can you take a cat?” After being the 90th person to be told “sorry, we’re absolutely full”, one member of the intellectual proletariat decided to drive over anyway and dump a box of kittens in the car park. Suppose it’s a step up from the canal at least.

One of the staff members ended up taking them home overnight as there was nothing else they could do with them. What happened to them after that I’ve no idea.

Burgers?

People are bloody stupid though. Once had a box of kittens dumped outside the surgery in the pouring rain one morning.
I was working at an RSPCA branch once, and it was an eye-opener. Very nearly every single phone call was “can you take a cat?” After being the 90th person to be told “sorry, we’re absolutely full”, one member of the intellectual proletariat decided to drive over anyway and dump a box of kittens in the car park. Suppose it’s a step up from the canal at least.

One of the staff members ended up taking them home overnight as there was nothing else they could do with them. What happened to them after that I’ve no idea.

This happens regular, Mum works for the RSPCA and it’s not uncommon for this to happen. Chances are they will have had to keep them at the member of staff’s home till a space came clear, they will have been rehomed.

I’m sure that through some silly legal loophole the morons can’t get prosecuted as they have left them ” in a place of safety ” unlike the idiots who dumped some Pups outside a supermarket few weeks ago and the froze to death.