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Binmen have stolen valuables from infront of house - anyone had this?

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anon122414 · 27/05/2020 20:54

Title says it all really! The binmen came onto our property today and took a box of exercise equipment and a mirror (both which were left in front of the garage) but you need to walk about 10m down the drive past our cars to get to it. We leave our bins on the pavement for them.

Anyone had this happen and know what I should?

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SandieCheeks · 27/05/2020 20:55

Did you see them? Why didn't you say anything?

NuffSaidSam · 27/05/2020 20:55

Did you see the bin men take them?

If so, why didn't you chase them and ask for it back?!

If not, how do you know it's the bin men? Do you have cameras?

isitamapletree · 27/05/2020 20:57

How do you know it was the bin men? Do you have cameras?

Not had that but where we used to live we had the people who come round collecting scrap metal take something that we had just left on the driveway for an hour and wasn't actually scrap. Awful timing.

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anon122414 · 27/05/2020 21:02

We had the grey bin on the pavement. I saw them come onto the property and pull the blue bin up to the truck. I thought it was strange and they shouldn't be on our property but that they may just be doing us a favour. Later on I went outside to my car and noticed they'd binned EVERYTHING which was outside.

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MitziK · 27/05/2020 21:12

They probably thought they were doing you a favour.

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anon122414 · 27/05/2020 21:15

@MitziK

They probably thought they were doing you a favour.
Fair, I guess I'll never know. Plan to complain to the council but do you reckon anything can be done?
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anon122414 · 27/05/2020 21:15

@NuffSaidSam

Did you see the bin men take them?

If so, why didn't you chase them and ask for it back?!

If not, how do you know it's the bin men? Do you have cameras?

We had the grey bin on the pavement. I saw them come onto the property and pull the blue bin up to the truck. I thought it was strange and they shouldn't be on our property but that they may just be doing us a favour. Later on I went outside to my car and noticed they'd binned EVERYTHING which was outside.
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bonzo77 · 27/05/2020 21:18

Round here they only take the contents of your bin. Nothing left on top or next to it. And they only take the bin if you’ve put it on the boundary of your property or on the pavement. And they don’t take bulky stuff even if it’s in the bins. So if that’s the case where you are too, if not be blaming the bin men.

TerrapinStation · 27/05/2020 21:19

Had you put the wrong bin out? Why would they do anything other than empty the bin that was out? Sounds an odd thing to do.

Where are you in, everywhere that I've lived the bin men only take what's actually inside the bin, they aren't allowed to take random things afaik

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anon122414 · 27/05/2020 21:22

@TerrapinStation

Had you put the wrong bin out? Why would they do anything other than empty the bin that was out? Sounds an odd thing to do.

Where are you in, everywhere that I've lived the bin men only take what's actually inside the bin, they aren't allowed to take random things afaik

I thought the same... you only take what's been left out in the bin. Not bulky stuff. We live in Buckinghamshire
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VenusTiger · 27/05/2020 21:30

Depends - presuming you wanted rid of the stuff in the box, I'd not bother complaining - it was rubbish/to be reused was it not? So I don't understand the fuss here?

And as a pp asked - did you put the wrong colour bin out? they won't empty both into one truck.

Deadringer · 27/05/2020 21:35

A. Exercise equipment and a mirror are valuables?
B. It sounds like they were taken in error, not stolen.
C. Why would you leave them outside on bin day?

Floralnomad · 27/05/2020 21:39

If they were valuable why were they left in a box outside , anybody could have taken them . You keep saying the binmen took the blue bin did you actually see them take the box or are you assuming they did .

Longdistance · 27/05/2020 21:41

You’re lucky they took anything. They didn’t take our recycling bin last week. Sent a message and they said they’d take it two days later, nothing. Thought they might take it this week, err, no, still there 🙄
What was the exercise equipment and mirror doing there anyway?
We have cctv on our house, so watch everyone 👀

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anon122414 · 27/05/2020 21:53

@VenusTiger

Depends - presuming you wanted rid of the stuff in the box, I'd not bother complaining - it was rubbish/to be reused was it not? So I don't understand the fuss here?

And as a pp asked - did you put the wrong colour bin out? they won't empty both into one truck.

It wasn't rubbish, they were valuable items. Is everything you put at the front of your house for waste disposal?
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anon122414 · 27/05/2020 21:54

@Deadringer

A. Exercise equipment and a mirror are valuables? B. It sounds like they were taken in error, not stolen. C. Why would you leave them outside on bin day?
Is everything you leave at the front of your house for waste disposal? I shouldn't have to classify what is and isn't to be taken. It's pretty obvious that if I've put the bin on the pavement then that is to be taken and nothing else.
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anon122414 · 27/05/2020 21:55

@Floralnomad

If they were valuable why were they left in a box outside , anybody could have taken them . You keep saying the binmen took the blue bin did you actually see them take the box or are you assuming they did .
We had the grey bin on the pavement. I saw them come onto the property and pull the blue bin up to the truck. I thought it was strange and they shouldn't be on our property but that they may just be doing us a favour. Later on I went outside to my car and noticed they'd binned EVERYTHING which was outside.
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Embracelife · 27/05/2020 21:56

Round here anything left outside is seen as on offer for free
If valuable dont leave outside !
Anyone could take them
You dont know it was bin men

Greysparkles · 27/05/2020 21:57

I'd suggest not leaving valuable items outside unattended

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anon122414 · 27/05/2020 21:58

@Embracelife

Round here anything left outside is seen as on offer for free If valuable dont leave outside ! Anyone could take them You dont know it was bin men
So do people not deem the area of their property to be a secure place? That's interesting...
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anon122414 · 27/05/2020 21:59

@Greysparkles

I'd suggest not leaving valuable items outside unattended
Situation: it's a lovely day so you take a chair out the front (just outside your front door but not on the pavement) and enjoy the sunshine. You come inside for a while but leave the chair. Is that chair fair game now?
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Coffeeandbeans · 27/05/2020 22:01

Here people are leaving lots of stuff outside in their front gardens for people to take. I’m not understanding how they lifted an exercise bike which is heAvy and you didn’t see them doing it.

isabellerossignol · 27/05/2020 22:01

So do people not deem the area of their property to be a secure place? That's interesting...

No, not at all. Only if it is in the back garden behind a locked gate. I live in a really low crime area, but I still wouldn't class outdoors as secure.

MitziK · 27/05/2020 22:11

Not secure at all. There's a gate, path and front door that makes it inherently insecure.

Clemmieandareallybigbunfight · 27/05/2020 22:13

You left it at the front of the house. It looked like trash. They trashed it.

This is your fault not theirs.

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