Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 1156095)

Less, I think you are wasting good drinking time getting annoyed.......the council do not listen...they are not there to listen.

Originally Posted by gpick24 (Post 1156128)

Have you reported this as fly tipping?
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While in an ideal world you shouldn't have to, when I've done it in the past it's been cleared up pretty quickly.

Originally Posted by RainbowSix (Post 1156143)

Have some fun, before every bin day move it to outside someone else's back gate - then everyone gets a letter and eventually the offending person will :)

Originally Posted by Less (Post 1156094)

I've been musing this point since Friday morning.

A letter was pushed through my door, rather than bore you with the full details of it's contents here's the short version.

Friday was bin day, my bin was out because I am a dutiful member of our society, obviously the bin police in the mean time had inspected the back alley, then, they walked all the way around the terrace to give me a final warning (it included a threat of a £1,000 fine).

According to them, I have yet again placed a bulky item to be removed. Well, not only had they got the address wrong AGAIN, I didn't place the micro-wave oven on the alley nor did my neighbour (it was outside their yard).

When are you people going to stop issuing these notices to the wrong people and realise that when people do this type of crime it's never outside their own house.

I have actually sent several requests to the Councils web site asking about this, however, it seems I'm guilty because the evidence (they claim) was there.

Originally Posted by jelly baby (Post 1156375)

Why do they think it was your microwave? Or your neighbours

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 1156461)

Payback? Seriously?

Originally Posted by accybeme (Post 1156472)

[threat of a £1000 fine] can the council issue such a fine without proof of a violation or breach of a law

Originally Posted by hyndburner (Post 1156476)

If we go back to the very start of the incident, where the bin policeman spotted the offending microwave, then spent time writing out a warning notice, going round to the front door, posting it through the letter box, thereby provoking a discussion in which many regular contributors to this forum have had to spend many hours arguing the pros and cons of the council bin collection service (all cons, it seems. I haven't seen any pros).....

If, instead of him doing all that, he'd just stuck the microwave on the back of his van and taken it to the tip, we'd have all been spared the palava.......

Is there a lesson there for the council? Or are the bin policemen too 'important' to get their hands dirty?

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1156482)

The Council and lesson should never be in the same sentence.;)

Originally Posted by accyman (Post 1156468)

Maybe the councilor that came on here to clear his name could have ago at clearing your name as well Less

ya know help the people and all that :)

Originally Posted by gpick24 (Post 1156485)

Unlikely he`ll see this thread, it`s had more than 6 members reply to it.

Originally Posted by accyman (Post 1156468)

Maybe the councilor that came on here to clear his name could have ago at clearing your name as well Less

ya know help the people and all that :)

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 1156755)

You are right but the Councillor is responsible for that section so he should be told whats going on in the same way Ken took the blame for the crem cross

Originally Posted by Ken Moss (Post 1156211)

My point is that it wasn't the best way of having a discussion. Rather than a reasoned debate in private first (it would have ended up in the papers eventually anyway), it was used for maximum political capital instead.

Instead of getting a balanced news report in the local press, it ended up starting a war in the Daily Mail. The Council officers were bombarded with calls from people who said we should be clamping down on Muslim immigration (this had nothing to do with Muslims, who don't use the Crem anyway) to death threats from people who claimed to be regular church goers.

I'm sure some wil find that amusing, but the number of emails also heavily criticising the church was surprising. They wouldn't have had that if they'd not fallen into bed with Peter. I just think that is a shame.

You then get Britcliffe crowing in the papers that HBC have acceded to his 'demands' which to be honest just damages us all (and again the emails bore this out).

The saddest thing of all is that Cllr Judith Addison, also a lay preacher, wrote a magnificent Facebook post looking at things from both sides of the fence.

She was completely ignored by the press.