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To go round?

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JackieWeaversAuthorityHere · 28/06/2021 19:55

We pay a company to clean our bins once a month on bin day. I’m not usually home when they come, but I’m off work today And happened to be in the kitchen. I watched my next door neighbour wait until the cleaner left, take the house number sticker off my bin and put it on his, then swap our bin for his so he had the cleaned bin and I had a non-cleaned one.

He was back in his house before I had time to contain the dog and go outside but now DH is home, WIBU to go round and ask for my bin back??

OP posts:
CurryLover55 · 29/06/2021 18:15

Cheeky bugger!

lastcall · 29/06/2021 18:14

I'd tell them you have them on a doorbell camera doing it and you'll post it all over social media if they do it again.

LoverOfAllThingsPurple · 29/06/2021 18:13

Please give your hubby a high five from me!!! Nicely done!! Well done for standing your ground too OP!!! I think a drink is due for both of you!!

I can’t believe the cheek of your neighbours either!!!!

Bleachmycloths · 29/06/2021 18:07

Pity you didn’t take photos or video it

saraclara · 29/06/2021 18:02

@LILLYPRINT

On each bin, on the left hand side in white, there are numbers. When we had our bins, 2 guys came round and checked the numbers. These are then registered to your address. The cheeky sod. I would definitely go round and tell him.
Not here there aren't. I suspect that that's just your local council. Nothing at all identifies one bin from another unless the householder writes on it.
Flossatops · 29/06/2021 18:01

Cheeky sod! You have to let him know or he'll just keep on doing it. Great idea to paint number on your bin. This site is so bad for my blood pressure 😡

mummybean84 · 29/06/2021 17:53

I wonder if he in fact changed the the numbers before the bins were cleaned (so that it was in fact his bin that was cleaned). I say this because it seems like a lot of effort to go to to simply take a slightly cleaner bin. BUT if he noticed his own bin had a problem (maggots etc 🤢) rather than deal with it himself of arrange a clean he might have though he could just swap the numbers for a day and make use of your scheduled clean. Either way it is an unbelievable cheek!!

Itwasgoodwhileitlasted · 29/06/2021 17:53

This story will be in the papers tomorrow. I can't wait. We'll done OP and OPs husband. What a hoot!!

soulandcats · 29/06/2021 17:49

Wow! What a sly, sad bugger. I'd be tempted to try and get footage of him doing it again and splash it over socials.

GabriellaMontez · 29/06/2021 17:47

Wow. Cf award goes to your neighbour. And man of the match to your dh!

Melitza · 29/06/2021 17:47

We started paying for bin cleaning when we moved house and the previous occupant had left the bin so filthy I thought I would vomit.
My dsil recommended a company and they are brilliant.

Hertsgirl10 · 29/06/2021 17:46

Can’t trust a Tory 😂

Why have you not sold this to the sun 😂😂😂

Happyd · 29/06/2021 17:44

Don't say anything and record him next month.. and put it in social media tagging him !!! Cheeky fucker

Fluffycloudland77 · 29/06/2021 17:44

I’d do it a tacky barbie pink & do little love hearts all over it.

Runmybathforme · 29/06/2021 17:42

Please, please let us know what happens.

LILLYPRINT · 29/06/2021 17:38

On each bin, on the left hand side in white, there are numbers. When we had our bins, 2 guys came round and checked the numbers. These are then registered to your address. The cheeky sod. I would definitely go round and tell him.

openallflowers · 29/06/2021 17:38

What a CF! Tell him to pay up or you'll post this on Facebook and name him. Bloody hell

Carpedimum · 29/06/2021 17:35

One of my favourite MN posts ever! I’m vicariously enjoying this sweet, sweet, victory over the Thatcher-hag loving Tory councillor. Bravo husbeast!

Booboospud · 29/06/2021 17:35

I need to know how this goes 😂😂 please update us 😂

2018SoFarSoGreat · 29/06/2021 16:47

I think I'd go for a campaign picture of NDNDirtyBin, pasted on, with a huge red X across it (not obliterating the features mind you!) and then highly varnished. Nice and big and clear. That would do it for me.

Love this thread. Still laughing at the thought of your face as you watched him doing it.

MrsMackesy · 29/06/2021 16:06

My pleasure, @Congressdingo

Binstealer's wife said DH was being petty
As opposed to her husband, a petty thief?

My own personal choice for OP's bin would be a giant Margaret Thatcher sticker, with her mouth opening when you lift the lid. It would go perfectly with his commemorative plate.

Small talk at the next dinner/pampas grass growers party they attend: I have bin a councillor, I wheelie enjoyed it, but I have bin sacked.

OchonAgusOchonOh · 29/06/2021 15:52

@magicstar1

I'm laughing at *@OchonAgusOchonOh* .... I'm in Dublin and thought oooh a bin cleaner is a great idea. I must be getting notions Grin
You definitely are!
LizB62A · 29/06/2021 15:35

Honestly, I'd report him to the local council - cheeky git !

S0upertrooper · 29/06/2021 15:27

Get a local artist to depict a tug of war scene between Mr Jackieweavers and Tory MP ForBinSnatching, painted on the side of your (ver clean) wheelie. Worth every penny.

Mix56 · 29/06/2021 15:18

Could you get a local Tagger to paint your bin ? it would be just the thing to wind up Councillor Bin Thief.
Your DH is a legend !
At the very least get some vibrant neon pink or green, something loud !