In thinking it's a bit cheeky to use someone's dustbin?

[pigsinmud]

Earlier today a car pulls up, woman jumps out and opens back door. She takes various bits of rubbish from small child, turns round, walks towards my house and throws it in my dustbin. I think that she was a bit bloody cheeky! There's a street rubbish bin opposite.

Now obviously I'm glad she didn't just throw the rubbish on the floor, but surely you just take your rubbish home and put it in your own bin don't you?

AIBU In thinking she was cheeky? I was on the phone to a friend at the time and she wanted me to go and shout at her!

What is the problem exactly? I mean if you were living in Holland where you pay taxes on waste depending on the weight of your bin, I would understand. But here??

I don't see what the problem would be.. It's only a bit of rubbish.

I just think it's a bit cheeky to walk in to someone's garden and chuck your rubbish in their bin!

Where I live, passers-by just chuck their rubbish straight into the garden. I think you're quite lucky tbh.

It is cheeky,particuarly as in certain areas,mine included,people can be fined if they have certain items in their bins including items such as plastic bottles and paper that can be recycled.

Well I do get rubbish in the garden too as I live on the main road near a pub. It's also the fact that if every other car did used my bin it would be full by lunchtime. There is a street bin opposite.

Was it your back garden or was the bin very accessible from the pavement?

Is the issue the fact that someone used your bin or that you elt someone went into your property ?

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So the issue is that they used your bin and not the sreet bin nearby...

I think YABU

My bin is in the front garden, but even if it was out on the street I'd object. I think it was more that she stopped her car - why can't she take it home with her?

You don't technically own the bin anyway, it belongs to the council....don't see a problem.

I think yanbu because stopping her car and nipping out to use your bin is a bit much, the example above about just putting an apple core in is not so bad.
However we have gone round to put whole bin bags of rubbish in another house near us cos we are pretty sure they stole our bin! one day ours was gone, they had one extra and we had to buy a new one, so if ours is already full we do go and sneak it in theirs

made me think of this

Well obviously I'm in the minority. I would never use someone else's bin. Perhaps when my bin is full from everyone else's rubbish I'll just start filling up my neighbour's bin.

I haven't even checked that she threw it in the right bin.

yabvu

I don't like it when people do that either. I certainly wouldn't use someone else's bin, I would always take rubbish home. Can't imagine why it would be necessary to stop the car to dispose of rubbish.

But OTOH, I can't really see a logical reason not to. Or at least, not a major reason, just minor irritations.

So I think probably YABU, but I would feel the same.

this reminds me about several childminders i know who look after kids, then call the parents cheeky , behind their backs, when they politely ask if the childminder can do an extra hour or day on occasion.

Well Pozzled that's it really. I know she is not BU to put rubbish in a bin, but I think it was more the fact she stopped her car. If she'd been walking by I wouldn't have minded so much. It was the stopping of the car, clearing her crap out of it, coming into my garden and opening the bin. I was just a bit surprised.

YABU

I'm really surprised you all think it's fine to stop your car, go through someone's gate, open their bin and chuck your rubbish in. Ok it was a few crisp packets and empty cans (which she didn't put in the recycling bin), but I think it's cheeky. She didn't even close the gate after her.

If I was walking past and there were no other public bins, I would rather stick the rubbish in someone's bin than chuck it on the floor. If I was already in my car, however, I would just drive home and clean the car out there.

I'm thinking she must have had a good reason to need to get rid of the stuff then and there. Maybe the child was sick or something...?

YABU - don't see what the problem is at all tbh.

YANBU. I think you were way too restrained about it. I would have had a few choice words to say to her and then point out the street bin.

YANBU