[b]I bet if I taped my council tax cheque to the bottom of the inside of my bin they would empty the f###er.[/b]
[i]“We are only obliged to attempt to empty the bin sir”[/i]
In that case I should only be obliged to attempt to make my payment.
4 men and a several hundred thousand pounds worth of bin wagon defeated by a flattened nappy box that got wedged when they turned the bin upside down.
And relax... I’m off to the LBS to buy some inner tubes.
3/10 😉
[i]Daily Mail[/i] anyone?
shouldn't that nappy box have been in the recycling non? 😉
Just remember that we put loads of dogshit in our bin. Same bin lads too.
By the time they reach your house they're probably at their wit's end.
so you want bin man to feltch around in your bin pulling out all your nappy sh1t?
shouldnt you be recylcing all that cardboard anyway?
get. over. it.
LBS shut. Half day closing in Moston. Pah.
You actually compained to them about this?
so you want bin man to feltch around in your bin pulling out all your nappy sh1t?
no that's not what he's saying. At all.
There's a piece of cardboard in the bin, if it gets a gentle tug, the rest of the crap will fall out of the bin.
What the binmen did was to tip it upside down with their Bin-Empty-A-Tron, watched as nothing happened due to piece of card, then put the bin back again.
It's not their job to empty bins, only attempt to empty them.
Change the ****ing record with the recycling thing as well. He put the thing in the wrong bin. WGAS?
get. over. it.
My goodness there are some sanctimonious pricks on here aren't there tracknico?
I'd like to know exactly what constitutes an "attempt" to empty the bin. I'm sure that in a room on a mezzanine, somewhere at Bury Council, there lies a document detailing exactly what constitutes said attempt. No doubt it's twelve pages long and cost £14k to produce - a commission to some community PR consultancy.
If paramedics made similar [i]attempts[/i] to resuscitate, there'd be a lot of more f*king dead people lying around our streets.
*happily bungs a few more dog eggs in the wheelie bin*
terrahawk - I assume you're either a) not in work or b) have very tolerant managers.
I'm working at home, I wasn't putting poo in the bin at work.
The Salford bin men are quite menacing.
Cardboard = recycle.
Bin use FAIL.
what glenh said +1
what glenh and kimbers said -2
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what terrahawk said + 1
What Jackie Wilson said.
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What colour bin should I put my cardboard in BTW? I assume that a 30 minute round trip to the tip everytime I finish a box of Shreddies will have a negative effect in the environment and having a big stack of damp cardboard by the front door isn't going to go down well with my better half.
and whatever Mark Datz would say
We just got a new bin delivered - what should I do with my old bin ? I am seriously considering breaking it into smaller pieces and putting it in the new bin. Or I might set fire to it.
Hels, torch it, leaves a nice puddle of melted plastic whereever it is torched.
Next time rush out and own them with your bombers
Next time rush out and own them with your bombers
The wife did, complete with squealing baby under her arm. The bin man said that it wasn't a problem and they would empty it on the way back.
So, you can't be bothered to make a tiny effort when you are throwing stuff away to make someone else's work day a little easier?
No wonder the bin men are pissed off. It's a common courtesy.
Do you think it was because he wasn't bothered? I assume he just didn't realise the box would get stuck.
here are some sanctimonious pricks on here
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No wonder the bin men are pissed off. It's a common courtesy.
oh stop bloody whining.
You love bin men you do.
They're your boyfriends. Especially the fat one driving the truck.
The offending box had been flattened to take up less space in the bin. The act of tipping the bin up had caused it to fall "trap door like" across the mouth of the bin thus jamming the items below it in said bin. Ironically, if the objects below the obstruction (or above it once the bin was inverted) had been heavier then they would have forced the blockage out of the way. Unfortunately all of the heavier objects tend to end up in the blue bin, the brown bin, the compost bin or in the paper recycling bag. None of which are suitable for cardboard.
In fact cardboard is about the only thing that we are allowed to put in the grey bin, well that and light bulbs. However, as my house is fully equipped with low energy long life tree friendly bulbs (that take 15 minutes to warm up and are **** all use when they do) that never ever break my grey bin is almost exclusively for cardboard and nappies (we tried the biodegradable ones but they leak. Sorry).
Any road up, back to the OP. A quick inspection followed by a bit of a jiggle freed up the blockage allowing for an unobstructed discharge should they have attempted it again. However, as they had already carried out their obligation of attempting to empty the bin (despite a promise to my wife that they would have another attempt on their return past my house) the bin remains full and I will have to empty it into bin bags and cart it over to the tip.
Do you think it was because he wasn't bothered?
I'm playing Devil's advocate. I'm not actually making any judgement about the OP, and he does give a good account of himself in a following post 🙂
I will have to empty it into bin bags and cart it over to the tip.
Well at least you've got a box to put it all in. 😐
Well at least you've got a box to put it all in.
yeh, but he drives a Hummvee you know.
Epic green fail.
headfirst - MemberI will have to empty it into bin bags and cart it over to the tip.
Well at least you've got a box to put it all in.
[B]I HAVEN'T. I FLATTENED IT![/b]
I like this thread 🙂
what would chuck norris have done
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Enough to want to come round and see the bin? You can have some of the bits in it if you like.
un-flatten it.Simples.
Can I have the nappy box? I can put it in the pile with all our nappy boxes currently taking up all the spare room in our shed and awaiting a trip to the tip to dispose of them.
Eveyone knows that once you've flattened a box, the resultant un-flattened version retains only 47% of it's original structural rigidity.
Anyway, screw all you hippies, most weeks our wheelie bin is generally overflowing with shitty nappies, plastic milk cartons, full strength light bulbs and enough cardboard to house a homeless bloke for a year. Our bin men love us though because we give them cheap Australian wine at Christmas.
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Maybe at Christmas I will be obliged to attempt to give them cheap Australian wine but for a variety of really lame reasons I won't be able to do it. Perhaps the flap on the top of the wine box will have fallen in a manner that won't allow me to extract the bottle without first moving it.
Come to Harrogate and don't worry about recycling - the policy is so shocking as to be almost pointless.
They will accept glass and tin in the one box they will supply for household waste. But not plastic.
They have a small plastic bag for newspaper (but not magazines, Yellow Pages, cardboard etc). But that only lasts one or two collections before disappearing (assumed blown away every time).
They have green garden waste bins but have run out of money to supply them so if you don't have one you are told to share with your nearest neighbour. We got one straight away and now share it with 5 neighbours - in the summer it will only hold a tiny percentage of the garden waste produced.
The recycling tip is badly designed (it is a matter of time before someone is injured) and awfully signposted (it takes an age to find out which skip to put things in, meaning lots of aimless wandering around trying to find the correct one - adding to the dangers). I have contacted the council several times now and they haven't replied once.
Maybe at Christmas I will be obliged to attempt to give them cheap Australian wine but for a variety of really lame reasons I won't be able to do it. Perhaps the flap on the top of the wine box will have fallen in a manner that won't allow me to extract the bottle without first moving it.
LOL!
Council employees in being worse than useless shocker! 😆
In the spirit of fairness - our bin men will take away large white plastic bags (the ones from our internal bin) of rubbish and not expect us to double bag the rubbish just so it is in a council-supplied bag.
(Harrogate Council also still use the old style small bins - no wheelie bins for us)
We have a council supplied compost bin as part of an environmental study (hows that for eco-friendy eh? you sanctimonious pricks - I like that phrase and will use it on the wife when I get home). We also have a "chipped" brown bin that we don't need as all the green waste goes in the composter.
However, as we have moved house and taken our composter with us we will no doubt end up on the naughty boys list as there will be no record of us using the brown bin. We don't put that much in the blue bin either, so it only gets emptied every 3 months. With the grey bin not being emptied twice in 6 weeks as well they probably think I'm burying the rubbish. Perhaps they'll send round the enviro-rozzers as they suspect i'm running my own land fill site.
Cardiff tip is ace. You park up high above a massive skip, and you get to fling your stuff waay in the air to land right at the back.. the aim is to get it to break or smash something else, or at least to get it to make a big noise.
and further in the spirit of fairness we gradually disposed of an entire brick fireplace over the course of 5 weeks by placing the rubble in the grey bin.
They emptied it each time (despite it being extremely heavy). Then a couple of weeks later we rang them as our wheelie bin developed a couple of 'faults' (a big hole and a cracked wheel) and they replaced it no problems.
They really aren't being sanctimonious though.. sounds like an incompetent attemt to meet their govt obligations.
