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Last night on my ride home from work I nearly crashed on one sharp downhill corner (quiet country lane), as it was full of old furniture, audio-visual equipment and general rubbish... After quick investigation I found a big collection of letters (mostly "private and confidential" stuff) addressed to one person.
This is the first time I experienced the power of Facebook... Short story is now I've got the details of the chavy b***ard who was paid to take this stuff to the recycling centre (which is located about a mile from where he dump it!), along with the screenshots of the conversation between him and the addressee.
Now I've got two options: report it to the police (would they do anything?) or get this sh*t on a van (a friend offered his help) and deliver it to the front door of the fly-tipper? Please inspire me!
You've got a third option, which wouldn't be the funniest but would be the correct one. It's not a police matter, you should report it to the local council.
I'd there's plenty of evidence, police and council.
Report it to the council and the police. The council have a department to deal with this, seeing as you have the info it should be an easy job for them to follow up on it. The police should be informed as it is an obstruction and a danger to road users.
If you drop it all off at his place then the police might be called on you for fly tipping. Or he might start on you especially as he seems to be the sort of person who dgaf.
Council/Police.
Local council will take up the investigation, no need to be all vigilanty about it just hand it over to them and let them take the investigation further.
Hope you took photographs and location details, didn't mess with evidence nor start any investigation work that could identify yourself.
Do it quickly, do it today because some farmer might clear the crap off the road to let cars get passed.
FWIW I did similar to two oiks in a transit van tipping stuff out the back in a quiet country lane in Hampshire, so I turned around and too pics of them and the van reg and location and handed it to HCC, no idea if anything came of it but I'd like to think something did. The fly tippers werent happy being photographed at all, I had to peddle quite slowy away from them whilst they both waddled towards me shouting obscenities.. It was hilarious.
Don't be a grass.
Contact the gentleman to which the discarded detritus belongs, explain the situation you have discovered and invite him to clean his mess up.
Then grass him up to the feds.
Contact Council, wait til it's sorted, then plaster the ****s name all over flakebook, along with all the evidence. Then curl one off on his doorstep.
Council websites usually have the facility to report. (I did this and they contacted me to say they couldn't find it 😆 )
Not only publicise on FB, but if it's a local company put a review on Checkatrade informing potential customers what a scumbag of a company they are.
I believe the first thing the council would do is go through the rubbish for said items you have found, and follow the trail. So report to them and if they want to prosecute leave it to them to sort via the police.
I've just reported this to the council.
Facebook smearing to follow 😉
Council and/or EA depending on where it was.
+1 report to the council. I was walking the dog at dusk at the end of last summer on a field that was previously a council pay and play course. Someone was using a mini digger to drag 4 massive stumps out of the fence at the bottom of the garden and then 100 metres into a ditch hidden from view. He was in the middle of a landscaping project and levelling his lawn. The house is a detached one and must be nearly worth 7 figures. As soon as he saw me they stopped what they were doing and pretended they were just doing nothing....this is always hilarious as they just looked more suspicious!
I causally wandered over (folllowing the dog) and asked him why the stumps were being put there...Oh just until i level the lawn was his reply...I just replied ok.
I took some photos at a safe distance and then uploaded them to the council website and they were gone within 10 days. Dont know whether they were ever fined or prosecuted.
Update: After reporting to the council (using their website tool) a woman rang me within an hour asking the exact location and she said they'd investigate this straight away!
I hope they will fine this fella.
Its not an offence to dump stuff in someones garden. It is an offence to litter a public place.
Good work dude.
Awesome! Great to hear about other people reporting flytipping. I'm reporting incidents all the time but never catch the urchins doing it though.
Its not an offence to dump stuff in someones garden.
You would need a waste carriers licence to move it though so it may well be.