Strange neighbours and bins

[Barbaro]

Our neighbours (dunno which one but suspect it's the same ones) keep putting rubbish in our bins. They are numbered so not easy to get it wrong but now they've put a dead tree in our green bin. Small one obviously but still wtf?! We've taken it out obviously and left it to one side but who the hell does that?

I know there are worse problems but its just weird. It looked like an old Christmas tree too, who still has a Christmas tree in August?!

Get a bin alarm. Scare the shit out of them when they open it. Soon stop

More likely scare me, I'd forget about the alarm.

Set up a cheap camera, figure out who it is and take rubbish out and put it back in their garden?

Ha! This is always happening to me. In the last place I lived in a Jewish lady (who was obviously a poor planner) would get to the time when she had to empty her kitchen of all the inappropriate foods for Passover (I think it was) and she'd fill her own dustbin and then IN BROAD DAYLIGHT start darting into her neighbours' gardens to put the remainder in their bins.

Where I live now is a cul-de-sac of 2-storey blocks of flats with communal garden in front and then the pavement/road. On bin day or just before we have to wheel all our bins up to the pavement for the dustmen to collect. By the time they come all sorts of strange things have ended up in my bin that weren't there when I left it. At least once it has been rejected by the bin men as someone put something inappropriate in the recycling bin. Also, if I'm at work and can't bring my bin back as soon as it is empty, the longer it stays out front the more old rubbish people chuck in it. From time to time I've had bags of old shoes and all sorts put in my bins when they are back on my property too. One man had a turn out and put his exercise machine in my bin and a few other things plus old envelopes ADDRESSED TO HIM (duh!). I called him out on it and he called his teenage son over and started berating him for doing it (but I know it was actually him as he was very unconvincing).

Buy bin locks, that will stop them.

mrsjoyfulprizeforraffiawork

God least mine haven't tried to put an exercise bike in there yet. I don't get why they do this though, they have their own bins and cars, if you have too much rubbish take it to the tip. Simple.

I like the bin alarm idea.

No-one but me seems to go to the tip from my road. They all just leave it out by the pavement (settees, self-assembly garden furniture, old mattresses) - sometimes opportunists will take away bits of furniture they fancy or a couple of creepy men with a white van come and look it over for scrap metal possibilities. Failing that, we are dependent on the council to take pity and remove it at their leisure. The annoying thing is, that up until a few months ago, you could email/call the council if you had large items to get rid of (up to 3 at a time) and they would take them away for NOTHING but now they've stopped doing that, not even if you pay. Strange how the same neighbours are always putting out lorry-loads of discarded toys/furniture etc every few weeks. I wonder if they are buying heaps of replacements and where their money comes from.

And the worst offenders NEVER arranged for the council to pick up even when it cost them nothing but the price of a call.