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Original poster

To find the bin thief and steal it back.

47 replies

EverdeRose · 02/12/2016 10:29

My bin's been stolen. I only put it out at 5.30, I went out at 7 to do the weekly shop and buy a birthday present, when I got in an hour ago I noticed the bins on the street had been emptied but couldn't find mine, It's the only new variety on the street and has my house number in a lovely floral pattern, I've looked all long my street and the next one but still can't find it.

I've informed the council to check it hasn't been eaten by the bin lorry, it hasn't, they say it's £20 to replace it, even if it's been stolen, this seems ridiculous to me.

WIBU to wait until next bin day, have a good look around and find the bin thief and steal it back.

Or should I do as DH suggests and just order another one, it's not that we can't afford to pay the twenty quid but more the principal of having to pay to replace something that one of our neighbours has most likely hidden in their gaden.

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pipsqueak25 · 02/12/2016 10:34

i'd have another furtive look round, then probably buy a cheap one if i couldn't find it. but would def be looking out next bin day, but by then the number might have been removed, will be hard to prove.

WindInThePussyWillows · 02/12/2016 10:37

I'd be going all Nancy Drew over this, it's he principle!! Leave no bum behind.

WindInThePussyWillows · 02/12/2016 10:37

BIN, leave no bin behind.

RaptorInaPorkPieHat · 02/12/2016 10:38

Wait and see if there's a spare at the end of the day, the owner of that bin will be the culprit (if the lorry hasn't eaten it).

We've had it happen a couple of times (accidentally) and we just swap back at the next bin day.

JenLindleyShitMom · 02/12/2016 10:39

Oh definitely wait 'til next in day. Book the day off work if you have to! Grin but that's your bin. Of course you should take it back.

ArmySal · 02/12/2016 10:40

I'd hunt that bin right down, even if it took all day.

AlwaysYes · 02/12/2016 10:41

It's £25 for a replacement here misses point of thread can you spot it in a garden from one of your upstairs windows? Do the police care? It is low level crime like this that leads to much bigger problems. See Malcom Gladwell's Tipping Point for further examples....

BathshebaSnowflakeStone · 02/12/2016 10:42

I love a bin thread.

Find it and steal it back, if only for the entertainment value. Grin

Mol1628 · 02/12/2016 10:42

This happened to me the other week.
At the end of the day a house several doors down hadn't brought their (clearly numbered 🙄) bin in. And they had my, also clearly numbered bin in their back garden. Annoying.

myoriginal3 · 02/12/2016 10:44

Go get your bin back woman!

heartskey · 02/12/2016 10:44

The trouble is the person who stole it probably had theirs stolen so there won't be a spare at the end of the day. It can be a vicious circle. I had mine stolen, the one I've got now has my house number painted on in huge letters.

DramaInPyjamas · 02/12/2016 10:45

I've had my recycle box stolen by a neighbour before, it has our surname and number on it so I don't know how she thought she'd get away with it

I snuck into her garden and got it back during the night (and I may have stolen hers and threw it in another neighbour further down the roads skip - because I'm petty and revenge was eating away at me Grin

Don't mess with me or my bins!

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EverdeRose · 02/12/2016 10:46

Pipsqueak the council will only collect bins with their logo on the front, so buying a cheap one isn't really an option.

Ours is a completely different shape to the rest of the streets because we've got a newfangled one as we didn't have any when we moved in. It's not one someone could easily just confuse with their own. I also put everything in in bags and clean it out after every bin day (bin OCD at it's best).

I secretly believe this bin has been targeted.

I'll grab the dog later and head back out, have a look over a few fences and see if it's lurking in anyone's garden.

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HemanOrSheRa · 02/12/2016 10:47

Leave no bum behind Grin.

I'd be hunting that bin down too OP.

1happyhippie · 02/12/2016 10:47

Its a new world problem!
We have bin and bag snatchers around here.
My neighbor played detective when her bin went missing. The house on the end had another bin and she was convinced it was hers.
It ended up in the police been called. It turned nasty real quick. The neighbor had to buy a new bin.
She now has it chained and padlocked to her drain pipe!
She knows exactly what time the lorrys come around and she stands guard ready to retrieve her precious wheelie bin once emptied.
She also watches mine when im out.

OrianaBanana · 02/12/2016 10:51

Wait for the ransom note Wink

Some bugger (or buggers) kept stealing our paper caddy despite the fact each of them always had our number on it. No one else seems to have theirs either (or risk putting it out). Where do they all go?? I have to sneak it out last thing at night round the front and collect it back in first thing when I get up. Sad

myoriginal3 · 02/12/2016 10:52

Hippie. I love your neighbour!Grin

DramaInPyjamas · 02/12/2016 10:52

I've just remembered a story from the local paper a year of so ago, woman came back from holiday to find all her bins stolen from her garden, but the thieves had left behind the unchained bikes etc Grin

Organised bin crime !

pipsqueak25 · 02/12/2016 10:55

so your 'fancy' bin is a council one, mmm, someone is jealous of it !!

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EverdeRose · 02/12/2016 10:55

It get worse everyone,

I also put this on facebook and now a friend has commented that when her bin went missing she bought one off a friend who can get the council bins for £10. I'm guessing he's the one who stole mine then.

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EverdeRose · 02/12/2016 10:58

ye Pip, I say it's fancy because it's a bit posher around the lid than than the old type and has larger wheels when really it's just the new type of bin the council gives out as they phase out the old type.

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pipsqueak25 · 02/12/2016 11:03

some people are sad aren't they ? pinching your bin because it's nicer !! wtf ? the bloke concerned is a knob, hope he gets nicked.

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EverdeRose · 02/12/2016 11:11

It's quite a naice area too so I didn't expect this, where I lived before was very rough and you couldn't even leave your wellies outside the front door or someone would take off with them.

I trimmed up the tree outside my house and the wall for Halloween and some of the bunting went missing, I assumed at the time it had blown away but now I'm wondering if I'll be seeing it next year on a neighbours wall.

I'm going to have one last look when I take the dog out after lunch, if I can't see it I'll report it to the police and give them this chaps info.

He might not have nicked mine but if he's got a supply of the new council bins and is selling them for half price he's certainly nicked them from somewhere.

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Isitjustmeorisiteveryoneelse · 02/12/2016 11:11

Bin envy? Bin wars? Bring it on! They cost GBP38 down here so when my sparkly new red lidded paper recycling bin went walkies I went all Sherlock, found it, and marched it back home. No way the bin stealing fuckers neighbours who had it on their drive had mistaken it for their stinking festering old bin.

Badbadbunny · 02/12/2016 11:15

It fell into the bin wagon and got crushed.

I watched exactly the same happen to my neighbour's garden waste bin a couple of weeks ago - the contents didn't drop out so the bin man kept pressing the button to nudge it and eventually it flew off and into the wagon, then there was a crunching sound and it was gone. Bin wagon just drove off, emptying more bins as it went.

My neighbour phoned the council but they denied all knowledge and tried to charge her for a replacement. It was only because I witnessed it that they relented and eventually gave her a new one.

I wondered about whether the green waste was actually going to be recycled - someone's going to get bits of a green wheelie bin in their compost! But seeing as the bin men just continued, it tends to suggest they knew it was all going to landfill and didn't matter anyway.

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