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to go steal my fucking bin back?

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OohMavis · 24/12/2015 14:32

My neighbour's stolen my bloody bin! It went missing last bin collection, two weeks ago. I left it out for a day after it was collected, but don't go victim blaming

I just thought well, it's probably been taken by some bin-stealing hoodlums or something, and resolved to use bin bags until it was either returned (ha!) or I could order a new one from the council come New Year.

However, I saw the cheeky cow wheeling her bin and MY bin out this morning to the kerb! I know it's mine as it's a darker green than all the rest, and has mud at the bottom from sploshing it up my garden.

I went out to put my bin bags to the kerb and looked inside, and my bin is full of her garden crap, so I couldn't take it back there and then. And I had to leave to get to the shop for some last minute bits, so I decided to get it back once the bin men had been - nobody brings their bins back in straight away.

So I came back and went to get it, and she's taken it back! So obviously intends to keep the bloody thing.

I know where she lives. I want to go nick it back tonight, but DH thinks I'll probably get arrested. He's probably right. I could knock on the door and go 'Oi, you stole my bin!' but I'm a but of a petal and would end up going away after apologising for it being muddy or something.

Angry
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OohMavis · 24/12/2015 15:40

I think I'm going to attempt to get it tonight. Long gardens, back gate onto an alley... how hard can it be?

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MrsGradyOldLady · 24/12/2015 15:46

Go and get it and make sure to paint your number on it. Our council charge for bins. I have 3 greedy bitch

gamerchick · 24/12/2015 15:46

Take something for the bike chain tying it to her washing line pole.

Enjolrass · 24/12/2015 15:47

I caught a lad stealing my bin in the summer. There was a few of them taking everyone's. I rang 101 who said they were sending someone.

They apparently were stealing them to fill with building materials from the building site next door.

I went out the back and to the neighbours and told them our bins were being mocked and the police were coming. Their teenage son dashed out so I went after him. More neighbours followed us.

In the end all we were missing was some got and pitchforks Grin

Got our bins back though Grin

Enjolrass · 24/12/2015 15:47

I would go now while it's light and make sure she sees you

peppielillyan · 24/12/2015 15:49

Very stupid to steal a neighbour's bin...
By the way, why do not you order a new one?

MrsGradyOldLady · 24/12/2015 15:51

enjolrass they would have deserved the pitch forks. How DARE they mock your bins 😀

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OohMavis · 24/12/2015 15:53

I could just order a new one and let her keep it, but I don't think I could live with the rage I'd get seeing it every other Thursday morning, knowing she stole it from me! It's the principle Angry

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BernardsarenotalwaysSaints · 24/12/2015 15:53

Yes get it back! We didn't have a black bin (household waste) when we moved in to our house so the council supplied a lovely new shiny one free of charge. 2 weeks later I come home from work to find the neighbours have swapped it with theirs. It was rancid in the bottom! I've never managed to get it back.

Enjolrass · 24/12/2015 15:56

enjolrass they would have deserved the pitch forks. How DARE they mock your bins

This made me laugh...yeah the fuckers...mocking my bins GrinGrinGrin

mintoil · 24/12/2015 15:58

Fucking bin mockers!!

Anyway, please please go and get your bin back OP....I am ever so bored!

HelloItsMeAgain · 24/12/2015 15:59

Our bin went missing Tuesday morning. Phoned council Weds morning. New one delivered this morning. Am not sure the reason for your angst.

Choughed · 24/12/2015 16:14

If you go in tonight wear a Santa costume and bring a reindeer as a disguise/cover story.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 24/12/2015 16:21

DEFinitely "steal" it back! It's your fecking bin!!

And as has been said, paint your number on it in foot high gloss paint of a startling colour (I favoured bright yellow or bright red). Be ostentatious about it. Paint it on all sides AND the lid, for good measure. Grin

I had a bin go missing when I was in the UK; found it when I went looking for it and retrieved it (yes, arm-chancey neighbour). Did the number painting thing, never lost it again until it disappeared completely - phoned the council, who apologised and said yes, sorry, my bin had fallen into the lorry and they'd get a new one out to me within the week. It was there the next day - service! That was years ago though.

Arfarfanarf · 24/12/2015 16:37

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clam · 24/12/2015 16:39

Round here you get charged for a new bin. 40 quid!

BathshebaDarkstone · 24/12/2015 16:43

I'm with Polter not that I'd have the lady balls either.

mmgirish · 24/12/2015 17:10

What? Go steal it back!

MytwinisMilaKunis · 24/12/2015 17:10

Don't steal it back. Knock on her door and say my bin has been missing and you saw her with it this morning. It is yours - go ask for it.

Justbatteringon · 24/12/2015 17:16

They charge £60 round these parts for a missing bin last time I checked.

MetalMidget · 24/12/2015 17:18

Bins in our area are barcoded and have the address printed on them. I wonder how many bin antics the council had to deal with before they decided that was worthwhile!

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OohMavis · 24/12/2015 17:18

Hello because it's MIIIINE.

And she's left me without a bin for a fucking fortnight. We have bands of cats that go terrorizing bin bags in the dead of night.

When the kids are in bed I'm going to have a nose around the alley.

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MrsH1989 · 24/12/2015 17:25

This happened when I still lived at home 8 years ago. My parents ordered a new one and then I found the old one in someone elses garden. I waited until it was dark and wet and got it. They still to this day have 2 bins!!!

carrielou2007 · 24/12/2015 17:37

They don't speak very much English so I do a lot of pointing to my house number and smiling through gritted teeth. I don't work on a Thursday so have been known the prowl about in the hallway waiting to pounce on my boxes Xmas Grin

NotSkinnyYet · 24/12/2015 17:38

Is she a new neighbour by any chance?

Our next door neighbour nicked our bin not long after she moved in. Our (old) bins went missing, so I ordered another through the council website. The afternoon after the new bin arrived our old bins miraculously re-appeared. I thought it a bit odd, but shrugged it off. The next afternoon I came home to find all the rubbish that was in the new bin over our back garden and the new bin gone. The next bin day I saw our new bin with the new neighbour's door number painted on it. I tried to get it back but she insisted the council had given her a nice new bin and it was hers. She still had the old ones. She wrote a right arsey letter stating that we weren't allowed on her property Hmm

She also tried to 'buy' the little alley/ginnel that runs in between our terraced houses. We told her to jog on and she has blanked us ever since. She is batshit. She's got her house up as sold at the moment though there are no new occupants yet, don't think the sale has fully gone through. Good luck to her new neighbours!

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