Council/binmen rant

[Joe]

Sorry to any binmen on the forum..

Just had our collection done (5 days late due to Xmas hols) - the binmen who take the black bags have refused to take the 4 small black bags we had outside the wheelie bin and while they were down our road they demolished a tree opposite us and left a huge broken branch in the road which cars are swerving to avoid now..

I called up the council and asked what the deal was and they said they don't pick up side waste only what is in the wheelie bin..I said but you came a week later than normal how can I not have extra waste at Christmas? I could have gone out myself and put it in the bloody truck!

The second woman I spoke to was brave enough to say "if you were recycling properly you wouldn't have extra waste" I said that's a good one, the recycling van that picks up our cardboard boxes hasn't been seen for 3 weeks I have a shed full of it! ****ers!

As for the tree..****ed if I am picking it up! Hope they get more complaints.

 

[Joe]

The most annoying part of it is, they always take their council tax on time!!!

 

[Richard_H]

Unfortunately you can't win with the binmen. I had a twat who refused to take my bin because it was too heavy for the machine once. I had to put it in another street after a few weeks - funny the machine lifted it then fine. Every Xmas I know I'm off to the local skip with lots and lots of black bin bags.

 

[jackabina]

It's one of the things that annoys me most Joe. I make sure my two boys stand at the window and wave at them on collection day. I got them to make a 'special' christmas card for them this year. Needless to say, my binmen take everything I leave out for them. :wink:

 

[TwistedMetal]

Us bin men we always try too keep the honest tax paying people happy I shall talk too my superiors about these issues and I won't rest until justice is done

 

[weasel]

Don't start me on Council tax.
ANOTHER of the many ridiculous taxes in this country that we getting NOTHING for and yet people blindly accept paying it.

As for your bin, next time glue the extra bags to the top of the bin and make sure you have a few rotten eggs in there, or rub some **** all over the handle.

 

[jackabina]

Brilliant! Then they'll never take anything again :?:

 

[weasel]

If it's in the bin they gotta take it.

 

[Stormtrooper37]

Years ago (and I'm talking probably Star Wars Vintage Years :lol: ) I remember the Binmen would take almost anything.

Nowadays it's it's a bin for this a bin for that, you can't overfill it in the the slightest, you have to wheel the bloody thing to outside your house - not too early as the council (around where I live anyway) get 'funny' as it's a blot on the landscape and if your late with the bin you've had it!

 

[jedi_masters]

Its all down to health and safety. If the bin lid is even slightly open, the bin is overflwoing so is unsafe for then to move or lift. Utter rubbish!!

 

[itfciain]

Utter rubbish!!

Quite literally (or quite litter-ally :lol: )

 

[Joe]

Utter rubbish!!

Quite literally (or quite litter-ally :lol: )

Lol ba dum tshh!

Glad a few of you feel the same way! Silly (bin bag) tossers!

 

[JuniorChubb]

Years ago (and I'm talking probably Star Wars Vintage Years :lol: ) I remember the Binmen would take almost anything.

Lol, I remember we wouldn't dare leave anything by the bins or it would go awol, I remember a neighbour running after the binmen who took her kids tricycle :lol:

 

[jabbawokkie]

street 20 seconds from us get their bins emptied on a wed we have ours on a fri .someone must have missed bin men so dragged theirs round to outside my house .the bin men only ****ing emptied his .so i phoned up and they came all way back out 3 days later to empty one bin that they could of done in ten seconds .

i also got a big old oil drum in garden that gets filled with anything that burns when bins are getting full .then i just chuck a match on it before i go to bed lol

 

[theslider]

Don't start me on Council tax.
ANOTHER of the many ridiculous taxes in this country that we getting NOTHING for and yet people blindly accept paying it.

As for your bin, next time glue the extra bags to the top of the bin and make sure you have a few rotten eggs in there, or rub some **** all over the handle.

Nothing?!!!!

Yes, it is far too much, but it isn't for nothing!

 

[aussiejames]

When the garbage collectors used to manually empty your bins it was customary to leave beer out for them on Christmas. It doesn't happen much anymore.

 

[Joe]

I might leave our ones bottles of piss AJ if that counts as gratitude?

 

[weasel]

Don't start me on Council tax.
ANOTHER of the many ridiculous taxes in this country that we getting NOTHING for and yet people blindly accept paying it.

As for your bin, next time glue the extra bags to the top of the bin and make sure you have a few rotten eggs in there, or rub some **** all over the handle.

Nothing?!!!!

Yes, it is far too much, but it isn't for nothing!

What else do we get? Street lights? Leisure centres? Ehh..........

 

[Richard_H]

Nice flowers on the roundabouts.

 

[Stormtrooper37]

Bit of tarmac thrown into a pothole that's been a major hazard for 6 months + (if your lucky)