About a month ago I submitted a complaint to my local council as the bin men kept leaving my recycling - which wasn’t overflowing or anything and everything was in the right bags and boxes. I even took pictures when I put it out in the morning as evidence to show all is present and correct. I checked my ring doorbell footage and they just look in it and walk away. This happened on 4 consecutive collections and reporting it as a missing collection was getting me nowhere.
Anyway I was getting ready for a day out today and 8yo DS comes running in from the garden saying men were trying to get into our garden - to clarify we have a large double side gate at the bottom of our driveway, which leads to the garden, it’s always padlocked unless I’m taking the bins out. It’s about 7ft high.
I went out to check and nobody was there, we also live next to a ginnal so I thought maybe someone had just walked by. then we had to leave straight away.
Then when I was driving DS was saying it wasn’t a passer by, a man was trying to climb our fence. I checked the ring doorbell footage and 4 bin men have gone round the side. I can’t see what they do but they talk about how “Yes last time we were here Jerry took the blue bags and I got the recycling bin”. They then went on my drive and were out of sight of the camera, but their shadows show their figures rising up - I do think they were looking over my fence. They then came out, were talking about how the gate is padlocked, took pictures and videos of my front door and living room and then walked away.
It’s not bin collection day BTW. That’s tomorrow. And by the time I checked the garden for DS they must have gone.
WTF are they doing? Why are they taking pictures of my front door and living room window? And why are they looking over my fence?! They don’t access my backyard garden to collect the bins - I put them on the street, in view of the ring doorbell to make sure nobody has been adding things to the bin.