To steal from my neighbours

[catgirl1976]

Because one of them has stolen my wheeelie bin again.

For the 4th time this year my wheelie bin is missing presumed stolen by a neighbour. If I buy a new one, I will have spent £140 on wheelie bins this year.

Or I could wait till the dead of night, decide which neighbour looks the most theify and nick it back.

But then I will start some sort of wheelie bin war and end up on one of those TV programmes.

Fecking arse badger good for nothing wheelie bin thieves wankers.

A few years back ndn son used to nick my milk on a morning, so one day i got sick and nicked one of hers (dunno why he took mine when she had some) She knew he was taking them. I stopped it by leaving a bottle of milk which had gone sour by me leaving it in the sun for a few days out for him and heard him jump the fence to get it, jump back over, go in the house then "eeewwww" PMSL.

Why don't you paint your house number on it (after you have liberted it from your neighbours) ? It would be a lot harder for a neighbour to pass it off as theirs, then.

Hmmmmmm - I like your style Zelda

Maybe I should rig some sort of jack-in-a-box trap with my next one - so when opened all my dirty nappies ping out cover the offending neighbour in DS' finest offerings...........

it's maddening isn' it - our bin men mix all the bins up and then deliver them back randomly in front of the housess - so you get a filthy stinky one back - I've painted our house number on our bin, so it turns up eventually - but usually after someone has made it filthy for a week. I have been contemplating some kind of chain or bungee arrangement...or some kind of tracking chip

I had one of those stupid stickers on it.....but they have been sneaky and peeled it off...........Big painted number here we come.....

Nick one back off whoever has too many and paint your housenumber on it.

Paint a big house number on yours - then you''l know which is yours. Taking it back isn't stealing!

I have tried having a sneaky look into back gardens and I can't see anyone with too many.

The house across the road is empty and up for sale. - I might wait till nightfall and steal that one, then paint a great big house number on it

Big painted number is the way to go.

However, it is also worth phoning the council about it - once my wheelie bin disappeared, nowhere to be seen (and it already had a big red number on it) - I phoned the council and they said it had accidentally fallen into the truck and they'd send me a replacement in the next couple of days, which they did. Big yellow number went straight on it (ran out of red paint).

I will give the coucil a call thumb although previoulsy they have just been

"tough - thats £35 please and it will take up to 10 wokring days for us to deliver it. No you can't collect it. No we won't remove rubbish from one you buy yourself" etc

When you have it back, paint your house number a load of times, large and small ALL over it. That'll learn 'em.

Turn it upsidedown and paint 'This is my bin, you thieving bastard' on the bottom for proof.

Ooooh I like the Psammead

I think I could go a bit postal with this......turn into one of those people you see on channel 5 who have the night vision goggles and the cctv trained on their bins and mutter about the neighbours whilst wearing a tinfoil hat.

That's what they have driven me to :(

Or under the bin lid Psammead

In Poundstretchers last year they had massive stickers that you could cover your wheelie bin with. They were sunflowers, ivy, and something else. They weren't expensive and if you put them on your bin you'd know instantly who'd nicked it!

In our area if your bin is stolen on collection day you get it replaced free of charge - you call them on collection day, you tell them it was outside from 7am and when you came home from work at lunch time to put it back again it was gone - if you have already shelled out then I wouldn't be doing it again especially if it is actually being nicked then it's not fair! Get it and paint it!

take a knife and etch your number into the front of it and into the inside of the lid and the inside on the side - and the bloody bottom if you have to! They won't be able to to anything about that, because it will actually be carved out.

Oh, and tape a note to the inside of the lid "STOP STEALING MY BIN YOU FUCKING BASTARDS"

Do the knife etching with a massive great carving knife out the front of your house, while muttering loudly. That'll put the buggers off messing with your bin.

Get a new one from this site in a really contrasting colour to your neighbours
www.britishbins.co.uk/wheelie-bins.html

Carve your house no & postcode into it.
Paint your house no & postcode into it
Get some stickers from the pound shop.
Chain it to your fence via the hinges every day that's not bin collection day.

Put a large notice in your front window stating "wheely bin theft has and will be reported to the police"

I assume they are stealing your bin so they have more than one? Can you check on bin day who has more than one bin outside their house?

Steal their bin and then sit and hide in it during the dead of night.

As soon as you feel it moving, spring up and shout "ARSE BADGER!! I FUCKING KNEW IT WAS YOU!!"

YY to Worra 's idea!

Lol @ arse badger

We have our house number painted on our wheelie bin in BIG for this very reason. Same goes for our recycling bin, the lids are like golddust round here.