Stolen Bin thread

[ichifanny]

I have one of the larger council issued bins as I have 4 children , my neighbour also does though their bin is far older as they have grown up children .
I clean mine after each collection with bleach etc so it’s still fairly new looking .
I realised last week we have a stinking mouldy one instead now so been watching on bin collection day and realised my neighbour has swapped them over .
Now this could be a mistake I highly doubt they haven’t noticed theirs is now cleaner and bigger , so today is the day I’m getting it back . The man next door can be strange so I’m relauctant to approach him to ask for it back as I think he won’t back down so I’m just going to do a swap as soon as they are emptied , currently lying in wait .... wish me luck .

What?! He actually rang your doorbell?! Oh my days..he has balls! Quick get some white paint and paint your number on it!

Spray it bright pink.

Good for you OP - I am ridiculously invested in your bin saga

Get some paint and turn it into a Chuck Norris bin.

😂

I would put a bin lock on it now OP, render it useless to CF's!

I'm finding this fascinating. Do you think he really thinks it's his bin? Maybe he has developed false memories of cleaning it? Hmmm...

Nip out to your garden now that you have your bin back and add some more identifying features to it. If neighbour knocks again, you can, with a straight face say "What? My bin? I can show you my bin that has my details (i.e. house number) on the inside of the lid etc. etc. So you've lost your bin then? I'd get on to the council about that and see if they have had any reports of bins being stolen in the area" so it looks like you're being helpful but you're still getting to hang on to your bin.

Do you think he really thinks it's his bin?

Not theft but my parents would lend things to people who then appeared to genuinely believed they owned the item. If we were sent round to retrieve an item (scissors, say), there'd be a chap on the door < 1hr later asking for it back. And we'd then have to point out that it was ours and, No .

if he has the nerve to knock on your door and tell you its his (when hes had it 2 weeks) you can not give a shit right back at him - I would tell him that you have been left with someone elses for 2 weeks and finally got your hands back on your own again ( you know its yours as you have been bleaching it, and the one you have been forced to use is filthy so its obviously someone elses)..dont mention that you know its his youve been using..then tell him that this bin thief is trying that shit with him now and has obviously swapped theirs for his..

..and now after typing that, realisation has hit about how over invested I am in this bin saga, and a life is something I need to get..

Suddenly understands why my Dad used to put electrical tape around the handles of our wheelie bins

You are my hero ichifanny 😁

We should have a roll call of everyone who has just ordered the address stickers from eBay. I did. 😊

The vendors will wonder what the hell just happened 😂

Itchifanny, you should be asking them for a percentage 💰💰💰

Oooh our recycling was supposed to go yesterday and didn't, it was collected today instead. I wonder if you are anywhere near me? We definitely have some bin CFs near where I live, most recently our refuse bin completely filled by the cleaning agency doing a NDN house when they moved abroad!

Why are people always such cheeky fuckers around bin collections!? It seems to bring out the worst in people! Ive experienced bin cheeky fuckery a couple of times but the worst was when I was in the process of moving out of a rental property. I had moved out and was busy cleaning and packing up ready for handing the keys in. I didnt drive so couldnt get to the dump and I had absolutely loads to do while also looking after a toddler and being pregnant. I put the bins out ready for collection in the evening (it was an area where you have a strict limit on how many black liners you can put out, any more wont be taken) and went home. Next morning I returned and thought 'great, they have taken the bags'. Only to go round the back and see my bags neatly piled up in the garden. Some arse had presumably decided to put their extras outside my house and pass them off as mine. What pissed me off the most was that the street was off the curtain twitching variety, they knew I was moving. If that had been the day I handed the keys in they would have occurred me a costly fine for leaving items at the property. It doesnt seem like a big deal now but I was absolutely furious at the time.

Our green bin sometimes disappear when it's been extra windy on collection day. It usually gets returned but one time, it went missing for weeks.
I ended up ordering another bin via the council and on the same day the new bin arrived, I spotted our original on the drive of our opposite neighbours.

What made it all the more strange was that it clearly had our house number painted on the sides! So our neighbours were being lazy and CFs!

God what a dick, how dare he ring the doorbell to try and get your bin back! It's gonna be like this every two weeks, you need to totally deface it like everyone has said! Leave no doubt

We accidentally ended up with a mysterious bin once as I brought our bin in during the day, then DP brought another bin in when he came from work on a night shift .

We only realised our mistake 2-3 days later as we share the yard with a shop and there's unfamiliar bins anyway so we put it back on the street as it was unnumbered, it took ages for anyone to claim it!

ooh! bin-gaters! some good news to share. Whilst this has been going on, the handle was taken off my kerbside (food waste) bin at last bin pickup. SoI put in a request online to local council for a replacement handle (neighbour told me you could do this). I just popped outside and found a brand new kerbside bin on my doorstep. So excited!, its nice and shiny and a very deep green unlike our old faded one. Can't stop looking at it. 🤩

Our neighbours nicked ours. At the same time they also became very possessive about them and I didn't have the balls to take them back. It has further cemented my opinion of them!
Cleaning them out was truly barf-worthy, but they are now very obviously labelled and those labels aren't coming off easily. Six weeks on, our old bins are starting to look rather sorry for themselves. I'm trying to look on it that I did the street a favour by improving the overall condition of all the bins taken together.

It sounds to me like a lot of councils don't make a charge for replacement wheelie bins, is that right? Ours charges £40 a pop for a new one, and it doesn't matter if you're an elderly soul who's had their bin hauled off their property and destroyed by thugs setting things on fire in them, you've still got to pay!

I was selling my house and discovered someone had stolen the recycling bin from my empty house, I had to fork out for a new one as I didn't think it fair that the new house owner should have to pay for a replacement when a) it had been nicked while it was still mine and b) it's not a great time to have to fork out £40 for a bin you definitely need, when you've just been through house-buying process...

Needless to say, all three of my wheelie bins already have numbers on at least two of the sides, but neighbours are all lovely and we don't have any problems with "misappropriated" bins, thankfully

We have 53's at the moment, they have ours. They came round and asked for it back, but didn't want to give us ours back, as ours hasn't got any marking on it. So they've kept ours, and we've kept theirs...rolls eyes

Oh, and 51 filched our other recycling bins, so we waited till they were down the pub and stole in and pinched them back. They had about 4 of each, so I am not sure they've even noticed.

Someone stole my recycling bin, which was numbered. I was outraged! So I stole theirs...