Mann wurde mit einer Geldstrafe von 1.000 Pfund belegt, weil er „Umschläge in den Mülleimer geworfen“ hatte, während der Stadtrat die „Null-Toleranz“-Politik des Fliegenkippens verteidigt
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/man-fined-envelope-in-bin-council-5HjdWx6_2/
Von pppppppppppppppppd
18 Kommentare
If you hate your neighbour, hide then plant one of their bin bags somewhere.
Yes this is crazy, many people including myself probably grab a letter on the way out the house, open to see if it’s important and stick the envelope in a bin (although I don’t if it has my name on it for security anyway).
Also I get a vast amount of rubbish just chucked in my front garden, I doubt my local council would care about that.
This guy gets £1000 fine for putting a paper envelope in a bin while actual criminals only ever get fines of around £100-£300.
>“Fly-tipping not only makes our streets messy and unpleasant“
I’d like to hear this official explain exactly how this case fits his statement.
And people ask me why constant surveillance and automated fining systems do not result in good outcomes
I feel like we’re not getting the full story from this guy.
If I got fined £1000 for putting a letter in a bin I’d start flytipping out of sheer petty spite 😒
Type the name and address of the local council mayor/leader, place in the ‚wrong bin‘.
„After careful consideration, we will no longer be going ahead with the initiative“
I don’t see this as a crime, since you considered sending your views on this policy to the mayor by letter and then changed your mind.
„If I did it, it’s because I saw a bin and put rubbish in it. T“
So he was just walking around with a black bag of rubbish and put it in a random bin?
He should’ve drawn a flag on it and tied it to a lamppost.
I usually defend councils against ignorant claims about why charges, fines or being told „no“ sometimes happen but this is indefensible.
It is stupid to levy the maximum fine for a single isolated offence. The article said nothing about whether he was a repeat offender so we have assume this was a first offence. To have the same fine for an envelope as well as multiple bags of rubbish is daft. I get the council wants to stamp the problem out but their utterances come across as intolerant of genuine mistakes. My council doesn’t use purple bins so how the af would I know what a purple bin in Hounslow is used for if I were in the borough and wanted to dispose of some rubbish and someone grassed on me.
> If you deposit waste where it shouldn’t be then the offence is made out
You heard it here, folks. Don’t put your rubbish in the bin.
>He received a letter alleging fly-tipping, after the envelope was discovered inside a black bin bag in a bin meant exclusively for purple bin bags.
However
>“If I did it, it’s because I saw a bin and put rubbish in it. That’s normal. You don’t throw it on the ground. There were mattresses, bags, everything around it. No signs, nothing. If it was closed or marked, I would never touch it.”
From the look of the picture it doesn’t appear that there are any signs. But without any more info its impossible to know if he knew if he shouldn’t be putting it in there or if he was allowed to use the bins at all.
When filling out the questionnaire I would probably have used the Shaggy defence though.
This is absurd. People can be set up here too easily. Fucking joke
Envelope that was in a black bag in a private refuse bin for purple bags…so fly tipping…
Enforcement officers tend to be a bit lazy in my personal experience. This was an easy ‚case‘ for them. Meanwhile entire van loads of rubble n shite are being tipped into a lay-by. No address on that though….
And yet I see actual dog shit as I walk around. An envelope in a bin seems fine
Was his address envelope found amongst a load of other rubbish they associated with him? That’s the only way I see this making sense