All my binbags have been taken off my driveway- creeped out or aibu?

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I am home alone for half each month with baby DC as DH works away.

DC has been sick so have been cleaning like crazy so rather than normal 1 binbag I had 7 plus some smaller ones. I put them out this afternoon onto my drive, beside my car.

It has been stormy and wet here all day.

Now DC asleep I have just been out to add the recycling boxes and someone has taken every single back. To do this they would have had to squreze past my car. I saw my neighbour over the wall as I came back in, she heard my sidegate and came to check no-one was breaking in
I asked her but she didn't kbow as binmen come tomorrow

This has happened at least once before in the 3 years we have lived here.

DH not due back till tomorrow

AIBU to be creeped out? Rational explanations please?

Balloonslayer no normal thinking dude is going to take someones rubbish for them without asking if the owner wants them taken.

A group of travelling people regularly set up in the corner of our local rec ground while they’re doing seasonal work in the area.

They’ve tried to liaise with the local authority over waste disposal but the council won’t cooperate because they say there’s no way of putting a suitable system in place (whatever that means.)

The biggest problem is that unscrupulous local residents, tradespeople, et al dump large amounts of rubbish on the site at night, then let the travelling people take the blame. You here people in the pubs saying things like, "the 'gypoes' will be here next week, then I can go down the echo and get rid of the old kitchen units".

If it was windy, I'd probably think it was a neighbour who'd put them in a bin to stop them flying away....

FFS It's not racist to factually point out that it could be travellers. SOME are known thief and anti-social, why do you think some councils have to spend a fortune digging tranches and installing gates to prevent SOME of them to settle on local fields?

Any minute now and someone will pop in to say that maybe these anti-social people might have special need to explain the behaviour!

You could also point out that there's a nursing home down the road, it doesn't mean all OAPs would be under scrutiny, it's just much less likely

It's probably a nice neighbour who stopped them blowing away.
However I used to work for a company where one of my jobs was going through people's rubbish. So it is possible. Do you owe any money op? !

This is identity thieves. It has happened in our street and afterwards police were warning local people not to put unshredded documents in the rubbish that could be used. Apparently people throw out important things all the time unshredded such as bank statements.

Have you pissed off Scientology lately? Just thought I would give an alternative to the boarish “Gyppos did it”.

Hoover the area and wash well.

Er do you mean the baby's bum?

People take bags put out, rummage through for anything of value, then flytip the rest.

It's happening a lot in my area at the moment. I'd imagine because so many bags appeared they assumed it was a charity shop run rather 5han a tip run.

Yes I agree Pickle. Someone has assumed it’s charity shop stuff and has stolen it to see if there’s anything they can flog. They’ll flytip anything that’s not of value.

Do you normally put it in a black bin or is it normal to just use bin bags in your area, if the former they probably thought it was charity bags as waste would generally be in the black bin. That said we used to take NDNs grass cuttings up the recycling if we spotted a bag in his front garden but he knew we did this so would not be surprised to see them gone.

No one is kind enough to take 7 bags of rubbish to the tip for the nice lady with the baby! Dream on!

Yeah, I’ll just load all those bags into my Nissan Micra because I’m nice and I care. As if! Pull the other one.

Oh gosh, you’ve reminded me of when I refrurned from holiday to find my blue bin had vanished. I wasn’t using it as a recycling bin however as the bin men round here are rubbish and often miss most roads. It was full to the brim of household waste, pads, nappies the whole works. Whoever took my bin would have had a hard time getting it out from my garden and removing all the stuff from it. Now that would have been fun to watch There appears to be some rubbish bandits about!

Er, the wind? Not sure why people think lightweight bags of recycling or indeed wetwipes will stay where you put them in 50 mph winds

It'll be the wind.

Weirdly, my area was not predicted really heavy wind today but we definitely have it. Noisy gale outside as we speak.

Could it be the wind? It’s been very windy here.

Do you have streetcleaners in your area? We have a grassed area next to our house, with public litter bins, which are emptied by a council pick up truck. If someone like that came by, they might pick up your rubbish too?

@chuttypicks - get off your high horse. Some of the Travellers round here pick through skips - I know who they are I taught some of them, I know their parents. Although what the hell they wanted with a pair of old well worn boots is beyond me, as I watched them sling them in the back of the truck. They make their living picking through others rubbish, looking for salvagable parts and metals. As do the Romas, but they arent as prevalent in this area.

People look for offence every where. There is nothing prejudicial in the factual statements that have been made. Mentioning a nationality is not 'racist'.

Jesus. I am not racist.

I was responding to a previous poster.

I teach many traveller children and my husband is mixed race and my DC.

In no way do I think travellers stole my rubbish I was half asleep and responding to a previous poster

To pp who asked about anti bac wipes.

I am following NHS advice, hoovering and damp dusting just using wipes to damp dust. Soap for hands and water.

My neighbours are mostly older so dump run very unlikely.

They had not blown away, I could not see them.

The mystery remains unsolved.

Cannot believe Im accused of racism for answering a previous post! Yes, theres a traveller settlement. I have a friend from there and I teach some kids from there. Such a racist

OP certainly isn’t being racist and I wasn’t either.

Telling the OP a factual thing that happens in my area isn’t racism. Like wise if it had been Asian people that go round the streets the evening before bin day (most people put things out the night before as bin men can come any time from 7am here), I would have said that. That isn’t racism. I didn’t say anything bad about travellers or anything rude. I also never used the word gypos or gypsies, I used the world travellers.

They will probably turn up dumped in a lane or on someone's land when whoever took them has opened them.

We have had stuff taken from the garden, by the bins by people working on other houses and in gardens in the street, people driving by in vans, and the binmen who were checking all the bins before emptying them and then going in the drives to see if there was anything else to steal. I watched them putting it all in the cab of the truck.

Identity theft or thinking they were charity bags would be most likely round here, as well as the above although we often take our neighbour's black bags and other stuff to the dump when it has been left out the front.

The possibility of a neighbour disposing of the bags isn’t that far-fetched. It has happened in my street when a house has been up for sale and the vendors didn’t want potential buyers seeing rubbish sitting in neighbouring front gardens or drives.

Could be foxes.......

...... working in teams. ;-)