I just broke into every garden on our street

[LaurieFairyCake]

Climbing over gates and everything. In my pyjamas and dressing gown with a torch in London. At 10.30 at night.

tell me why I did this (I’m not Batman or a burglar)

Looking for your dog or cat ?

Well you are fooked if there was a serious crime committed nearby last night. Number one suspect spotted climbing over fences in her PJs.

This is utter madness. Why not just wait till bin day? A budgie that big is going to be really easy to spot.

Best thread EVER!

Where else are they supposed to live? Some houses don't have front gardens or wide enough side areas and it's against the local bylaws to keep them permanently on the street (and it's gross).

I hope you find it OP, it costs £60 to replace wheelie bins in our city (and that was two years ago).

😀

Today I learned a new word "fuck-budgie" thanks OP
Good luck with the new bin. Please paint Fuck budgie on the top of it in neon paint 😁

Can't really be arsed why you did it.

Your on drugs 😁

UPDATE

Bin is home and safe. 😊

it WAS next door with the new neighbours in the basement flat. Hereafter knows as bin thieving fuck budgies. DH climbed up on the wall and saw A bin.

and then I went round and rang the bell of the woman I know in the top flat (I take in parcels for her) and she let me in to ‘check’.

it was mine, I took it back 😜

thank you all for your er… prayers, good wishes, and menopausal understandings

Yes, front door is onto street. All bins round back.

The same neighbour who stole our black bin also filled our brown bin with rubbish when they re-modelled their garden. Said rubbish included a broken garden brush, clay pots...

When I challenged her over this - the same time I went round to remonstrate about the black bin theft - her response was "You werenae using it!"

Well no. We couldn't. She'd filled it up.

Why not?

I actually moved our bins to the back garden to make it harder for the neighbour to steal them. (The back garden has a locked gate.)

Oh well done, @LaurieFairyCake !

I'm fed up with my neighbours and their bin games. They take off my sticky numbers, so I painted my number on all my bins on every side, including inside.

They still fill mine up with their rubbish, when I've gone to bed on bin putting out night, but at least I get them back, not their filthy ones.

I had people coming in from other areas stealing my pots - even cheap plastic ones that were nicely planted. I took to writing 'Stolen from...[house number] [post code] on the bottom and in the inside.

My bins have the numbers plus Amazon labels and also the number and postcode inside the lid.

As you suggest, they're more likely to go after nice clean bins. Apparently, the 'policewoman' who took ours has form, but I'm the only person who has ever challenged her. [It turns out that she works for the council, by the way...]

The bin lorry ate our wheelie bin . I’d be worried about putting an air tag on the new one just in case it happens again.

Yay for the return of the bin!

OP, will you be 'having words' with the bin thief?

Yaaay I can sleep easy tonight not worrying if some mad woman will be entering my garden by suspicious means

Remind me not to get on the wrong side of you.

Oh I loved Elderly Korean lady thread
Pretty sure it was among the first thread's I read when I joined MN

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5357570-so-tomorrow-is-the-day-of-the-bin-off?page=1

Enjoy! A joyful read :)

Yes, ours suffered that fate too. When I phoned the Council about 30 mins later I was quite impressed that they were able to tell me what had happened to it!