Page 2 | To be angry at the phantom bin fillers

Summerbubbles · 2021-10-15T19:44:01+00:00

I know people will say it's pretty, but I've come home today to a completely full wheelie bin. It was emptied yesterday and in my garden and through today someone has trespassed on my property and filled it to the brim, I now have no where to dispose of my family's waste for the next two weeks. It definitely wouldn't have been my neighbours, who are lovely, and they haven't seen or heard anything unusual today. I suspect it's the family across the road who are due to move soon and so are having a clear out. AIBU to be planning on trying to find an address amongst it so I can return it to it's rightful owner?

Elieza · 16/10/2021 12:02

CFs.

Have any of your neighbours got cctv or a ring doorbell as they may have footage?

Totally look for an address in the rubbish. But make sure if you don’t find one that you separate out the stuff or take it out of your bin and in bags you can ring the council about, or the council may slap a notice on the bin that they have refused to empty it as it’s got the wrong stuff in it. They did that to my friend. It was her fault though not fly tipping.

SentDeliveredRead · 16/10/2021 12:11

I'd want to empty it all on the pavement. Then move my bin round the back of the house
They'd be nothing in there to point to it being me, let them sweat

upinaballoon · 16/10/2021 13:23

YANBU. I too would have been tempted to put it all out, preferably in the middle of the road.

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Summerbubbles · 16/10/2021 13:54

I put on my rubber gloves and had a good rummage around the top half and frustratingly couldn't find anything with a name/address, even the Amazon packaging had the labels ripped off so clearly these cf's had thought this through!
Had a quick look around on our council website and it seems this could maybe be classed as fly tipping, however rubbish dumped on private property is the problem of the property owner to dispose of 😡 I really wish I could prove who it was and deliver it back.

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purplesequins · 16/10/2021 14:01

the council wouldn't give a shit.
we got bin locks for our bins as it happened a lot where we used to live.

Bollindger · 16/10/2021 14:05

Get them back.
Start a rumour that you were cross and rummaged in it and found an envelope with £100 in it.
Then post pictures of you and DH out on a date night thanking your fly tippers.
Nothing will annoy them more, as they can't prove they dumped it, as there was no name,,,

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Summerbubbles · 16/10/2021 14:11

@Bollindger

Get them back. Start a rumour that you were cross and rummaged in it and found an envelope with £100 in it. Then post pictures of you and DH out on a date night thanking your fly tippers. Nothing will annoy them more, as they can't prove they dumped it, as there was no name,,,

Haha I like it!

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Singlebutmarried · 16/10/2021 14:17

We had similar with a CF plumber a few years back. We had 2 skips. Big one for building waste. Small one for plasterboard/gypsum waste. The two had to be kept separate.

Found a load of cardboard in the gypsum skip for plumbing supplies that weren’t fitted in our house.

Made the plumber come back and empty all his crap from both skips down including the waste from the work he’d done for us as he’d not asked to dump that either. Would have let that slide had they not filled up the small skip.

Dotty1219 · 18/10/2021 01:07

Not petty at all! I caught my cf neighbours quite happily filling up my green bin the other day. Asked them what they were doing and they said "oh just borrowing your bin".They were gobsmacked when I told them to shift all their hedge trimming out of it.
The best bit is, they have two green bins, and one of theirs was empty!

simitra · 18/10/2021 01:21

A couple of years ago my cctv cameras caught pictures of my NDN dumping sacks of rubbish onto my garden. The series of pictures showed that someone in the business park behind had thrown them over the fence and they landed in front of NDN's gate. It was bin collection day so instead of putting them in his own bin (which he could easily have done) he decided to dump them on my property.

I put a letter through his door showing several thumb nails of his activities and a message on the back to clear it up within 24 hours or I would call the police. He was out at 6.15 next morning clearing it up - sort of.

There were bits still all over my lawn a few days later when nephew and big mate came to do a job. They went next door and forced him to pick up every last bit of crap. Big mate filmed him while he did it. He tried to say it was a "misunderstanding". Big mate told him "if you do anything like this again we will be back and next time we wont be so friendly. "

Purpoole · 18/10/2021 01:37

That’s total CF’ery!
Once we couldn’t find our bins after bin day. As the collectors sometimes leave them along the path in no particular order I decided to go hunting and found our bins outside a house 3 doors away with the large stick-on numbers pulled off! I knew because the stickers had been on for so long the impression of our door number was sun bleached onto the wheelie bins. The bins were full to the brim and the family had just moved in so just decided to pinch ours instead of going to the tip!
I knocked on the door and asked them why they had taken our bins. The woman tried to deny it until I pointed out the very visible number, after which she seemed suspiciously confused about how they had gotten there. I gave her an hour to get her shit out and return them to their rightful place.
Some people are incredible!

Cuntness · 18/10/2021 05:27

@simitra

A couple of years ago my cctv cameras caught pictures of my NDN dumping sacks of rubbish onto my garden. The series of pictures showed that someone in the business park behind had thrown them over the fence and they landed in front of NDN's gate. It was bin collection day so instead of putting them in his own bin (which he could easily have done) he decided to dump them on my property.

I put a letter through his door showing several thumb nails of his activities and a message on the back to clear it up within 24 hours or I would call the police. He was out at 6.15 next morning clearing it up - sort of.

There were bits still all over my lawn a few days later when nephew and big mate came to do a job. They went next door and forced him to pick up every last bit of crap. Big mate filmed him while he did it. He tried to say it was a "misunderstanding". Big mate told him "if you do anything like this again we will be back and next time we wont be so friendly. "

Why did "Big Mate" feel the need to film him? What a dickhead.

Inthesameboatatmo · 18/10/2021 06:11

What cheeky bastards.

EnidFrighten · 18/10/2021 07:27

Tbh if this happened to me, I'd ask neighbours nicely if they had any space for my rubbish until the bin was emptied.

If it happened more than once, I'd get a bin lock or keep the bin somewhere else where possible.

I wouldn't dump rubbish anywhere, even if it's not your rubbish that is fly tipping. If you emptied it onto a neighbour's drive it would probably just blow around the street.

Take it as a one off.

Aprilx · 18/10/2021 07:31

Nobody would think that was petty. As well as being very inconvenient for the person who owns the bin, I find it very strange thing to enter a random persons garden to fill their bin!

slashlover · 18/10/2021 07:53

Buy a bin lock, there are loads on Amazon.

WeRTheOnesWeHaveBeenWaitingFor · 18/10/2021 07:58

Get a camera. I would be livid if this happened to me.

StrongArm · 18/10/2021 09:49

Yes I would get a camera

And I would be surprised if it wasn't someone on your street! People can seem nice and then are total arseholes when you aren't looking!

mmgirish · 18/10/2021 09:59

Well it looks like you'll have to bag it up. Set your alarm for 2am. Dress all in black and stealthily creep across the street to return it… let us know how it goes