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Original poster

To empty out all the crap that someone has put into OUR skip!

54 replies

Twiddlebum · 16/08/2013 07:20

We have hired a skip (£150) and it is sitting out the front of our property (we have permission from the council) as we are sorting our house out before the arrival of our baby in 2 months.
Budget is tight but to save time we thought we'd hire the skip to just get it done without numerous trips to the tip in my fiesta but......... It got delivered yesterday and this morning it it full!!! The f***g cheek of it!! AIBU to remove all this stuff and leave it beside as it wasn't my stuff that was dumped there??
We do not have enough money to pay for this to be taken away and replace it with another AngryAngryAngry

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LittleEsme · 16/08/2013 07:24

I'd be asking my neighbours sharpish if it's theirs and if so, telling them to remove it before i decorate their front door with it.

Cheeky feckers.

MrsLouisTheroux · 16/08/2013 07:28

Take it out, line it up along the pavement and phone the council.

MrsLouisTheroux · 16/08/2013 07:29

What kind of stuff is in there? Angry

MisselthwaiteManor · 16/08/2013 07:31

I don't think anyone will own up to it being theirs so it's difficult, you can't really dump it in the road but I would not be paying for it either! I think I would maybe take it out then call the council and say one of your neighbours seems to have chucked all their rubbish in the street, almost the truth.

My NDN is a hoarder and a while ago another neighbour cleared out the house and put all her rubbish in every bin in the street without asking us first, it was fucking annoying.

Original poster
Twiddlebum · 16/08/2013 07:32

I doubt its our neighbours. We live in a (its called a village but its on the outskirts of a city so is surrounded) our village is very obsessively proud and even has a grass police!! (Every front lawn is manicured and cut with stripes every 2 days and god help you if your lawn doesn't match!) and I don't mean to sound snobby but you can tell that the contents of the skip most likely came from the estate across the road (separated by a main road but connected with a underpass and over pass) which comes out near the back of our property. To be honest its a bit of an improvement as every year we normally get loads of manky old Christmas trees dumped in the road after Christmas!! At least this time they got it into a skip!

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megsmouse · 16/08/2013 07:35

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Runningchick123 · 16/08/2013 07:35

This happens all the time when people hire skips. Why people think its okay to fill somebody else's paid for skip I really don't know.
The only way to prevent people doing this is to have your stuff ready to out into the sip as soon as it arrives so that it is full and no space for anyody else's crap.
Or you get a rubbish removal company to collect your stuff and take it away, hence no skip for rude neighbours to fill.
I would take the stuff out and line it up along the pavement, fill the skip with your own rubbish and then speak to all the neighbours asking if any of the stuff is theirs. If nobody admits to it being theirs then phone the council and report it as fly tipping.

Original poster
Twiddlebum · 16/08/2013 07:36

Its things like broken furniture and garden waste (our village is with a different council and we have separate wheelie bins for garden waste whereas the estate across the road is with another council and I know they don't collect garden waste.
The furniture is the kind of 1980's type flat pack and childrens toys (that look like they should have been ditched years ago!!)

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Original poster
Twiddlebum · 16/08/2013 07:37

Megs.... I meant after Christmas but they do still appear months afterwards as well!!

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Hassled · 16/08/2013 07:38

This happened to us a couple of years ago - we had someone else's sizeable sofa in our skip. It makes me livid - it's theft really, isn't it? Agree that you need to take it out and call the council.

Original poster
Twiddlebum · 16/08/2013 07:39

Luckily as I'm 8 months pregnant I won't have to touch any of this manky stuff!!! Unlucky husband!!

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MrsLouisTheroux · 16/08/2013 08:04

Call the council and tell them to come and collect it.

MrsLouisTheroux · 16/08/2013 08:09

Oh no :( Just read this:
What if someone fills up my skip overnight, am I responsible for someone else?s rubbish? Yes, the person to whom the skip is licensed is responsible.

From here

Tailtwister · 16/08/2013 08:25

It happened to us (ours was in our driveway!) and I was absolutely raging! I spotted one guy raking around in it and went out to have words only to discover he was taking stuff out!

I don't think you can empty the rubbish out onto the pavement though :-(

CajaDeLaMemoria · 16/08/2013 08:29

You may well be donewith littering if you take it out aand don't dispose of itpproperly.

Rubbish is the responsibility of the skip owner - even if you didn't consent to it being put in your skip.

You can get skip covers to prevent this kind of thing.

(sorry for spaces. Button is being a bit erratic!)

Cyclebump · 16/08/2013 08:34

Unfortunately, it's now your problem. DH is a builder and this happens all the time! We also had a skip set on fire recently (it was covered but that didn't deter the arsonist). Wherever we put them it happens and people just don't think of it as wrong :(

On the plus side, the fire made more room as it destroyed the wooden rubbish that had appeared the day before :)

CaptainJamesTKirk · 16/08/2013 08:36

It's a common problem. You need to hire it to arrive in the morning ad fill it yourself by afternoon. So no one else gets a chance. :(

Weegiemum · 16/08/2013 08:38

My dh is the opposite of this. We have many possessions "rescued" from skips. I'll send him round!

MrsLouisTheroux · 16/08/2013 08:43

I feel so Angry for you OP.
The opposite happens here. I fill it up on day 1 and half of it is gone by day 2! Anything with metal, furniture, broken toys all gets taken!

shazbean · 16/08/2013 08:45

Several years ago someone filled our bins with concrete and wood with nails and metal sticking out.
I took it out and laid it by the side of the road and phoned the council to pick it up. The woman was really snotty and said I could be charged with dumping litter.
My stance was that it was now councils responsibility, if anyone had injured themselves on it then it would the council that would get sued...they'd have to prove I removed it from the bin in the first place. Funnily enough they turned up the same day to remove it.
So I think technically you are responsible but why should you be penalised for it?
Bloody people.

expatinscotland · 16/08/2013 08:46

That sucks.

CruCru · 16/08/2013 08:48

That's a real bugger. Sorry to hear that OP.

megsmouse · 16/08/2013 09:10

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IneedAsockamnesty · 16/08/2013 09:26

Happens every time you get a skip because some people are dishonest and can't be bothered to pay for one of there own.

It even happens with bulk refuge you put out 4 items for booked pick up over night they reproduce.

Duplogiraffe · 16/08/2013 10:23

I had a skip a couple of months ago and had a few polite people knock and ask to take stuff out. I was thrilled as it meant less to landfill. Can't believe the cheek of people fllling up someone else's skip, no sure how you can prevent it though

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