When the Mayor, Alec Fong Lim, introduced wheelie bins here, citizens were worried about the smell. Due to the increased capacity of the monsters, collection was reduced from twice weekly to once. Things can get whiffy pretty quickly in the tropics. The Mayor was then dubbed Alec Pong Bin, although he did salvage his reputation for civic duty by successfully dying in office.
But you have to be strict with these rubbish abusers. Let them get away with open wheelies, and the next thing you know there will be marauding gangs of suburban fly-tippers roaming the city streets with impunity.
You're bringing attention to an insidious development here in England and this story highlights just one aspect of refuse collection.
And it's not the quantity of the garbage in the bin, it's the volume. I take a sledgehammer to mine if it's likely that I won't be able to close it. Won't be long before I get charged with using an offensive weapon, I suppose. This compacts the rubbish down to 'acceptable levels'.
I used it with the garden rubbish wheelie bin recently and it took two to move it!
“I consider the fine against Mr. Corkhill to be a matter of injustice, really, and as a Christian minister I’m required to speak out against injustice,” declared the Rev. John Bannister, the rector of Whitehaven, a seaside town in Cumbria, in the far northwest. Referring to the garbage cans residents here use, he said, “To be given a criminal record for leaving your wheelie bin open by three inches has, I think, really gone beyond the bounds of responsible behavior.”
When the Mayor, Alec Fong Lim, introduced wheelie bins here, citizens were worried about the smell. Due to the increased capacity of the monsters, collection was reduced from twice weekly to once. Things can get whiffy pretty quickly in the tropics. The Mayor was then dubbed Alec Pong Bin, although he did salvage his reputation for civic duty by successfully dying in office.
"The rubbish fairy is dead".
(Sob)
But you have to be strict with these rubbish abusers. Let them get away with open wheelies, and the next thing you know there will be marauding gangs of suburban fly-tippers roaming the city streets with impunity.
Put Grandpa in the stocks!
Bilby -- HAHAHAHA hee hee hee! :-D
Damn. Sounds like some sort of emu intervention might be in order...
I like the phrase "sticker of shame" from this article, too. Not that I'd enjoy getting one.
It sounds like an awful nuisance, but part of me wishes for a similar crackdown in the United States....
Oh, wheely?
You're bringing attention to an insidious development here in England and this story highlights just one aspect of refuse collection.
And it's not the quantity of the garbage in the bin, it's the volume. I take a sledgehammer to mine if it's likely that I won't be able to close it. Won't be long before I get charged with using an offensive weapon, I suppose. This compacts the rubbish down to 'acceptable levels'.
I used it with the garden rubbish wheelie bin recently and it took two to move it!
“I consider the fine against Mr. Corkhill to be a matter of injustice, really, and as a Christian minister I’m required to speak out against injustice,” declared the Rev. John Bannister, the rector of Whitehaven, a seaside town in Cumbria, in the far northwest. Referring to the garbage cans residents here use, he said, “To be given a criminal record for leaving your wheelie bin open by three inches has, I think, really gone beyond the bounds of responsible behavior.”
The New York Times, Take Out the Trash Precisely, Now. It’s the Law., by Sarah Lyall, June 27, 2008
Either a bicycle trick or one of those pull-along, wheeled airport suitcases.