Stolen bins and/or recycling boxes

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Anyone experience this? Regularly or otherwise please share as I just don't understand it.

DD has just pointed out, again, that yet another recycling box has gone missing from the front garden. Now left with a solitary one. And whoever it was had the cheek to take out a couple of recyclable items from the box they stole and to be left on the floor. It is beyond infuriating to say the least but no, I am not shaking with rage or any other MN AIBU type symptoms. Just slightly perplexed as to who would fucking bother stealing recycling boxes?

So cannot wait till moving date which is now less than 3 weeks away

Please tell me this only happens in the ghetto and on its fringes because I am banking on a 17 mile move semi-rural coupled with a massive jump in council tax band to weed out the tramps.

Okay, vent over.

No.. I have to chain my bins up every bonfire night. Bring them in shit hot after emptying as they get pinched.

The council charge

For replacement bins so I can understand them going missing. Bloody irritating though.

Fortunately living in the middle of nowhere it's only the wind that tries to redistribute recycling boxes.

On single track roads this can make recycling day fell rather like playing Mario Karts!

Give me the wind as a nemesis any day Starballbunny! Lots of neighbours at current address have the right idea it seems scrawling house number on everything and anything that must be left in the front garden. Just a shame we have to live like that. Gamerchick I think you are right about the council charge but still no excuse. And you are most definitely right about the irritation!

Yes I'm happy with the wind, I'm certain recycling boxes and wheelie bins (had they existed) would have walked from our old house, Garden tables did

Is your daughter in Kent? 2 weeks ago I found someone's recycling bin in my front garden. I left it their forva week waiting for the owner to claim it but I had no response and now passerbys were putting their rubbish in it making my front garden untidy. anyway I have now put it my area until someone comes looking.

We've lost 3 recycling boxes in the last few years. We used a permanent marker on one, stickered another, and I used a fucking soldering iron to engrave our address on the third... The theiving bastards can't possibly have made a mistake. Our council replaces them for free, but it takes an age.

Notyetthere Its actually in Bromley. A part of it that is decidedly SE London than anything else. Might take a walk up the street tomorrow just in case the wind blew it away and it is now sat outside someone's house waiting to be reclaimed. Wouldn't hold my breath but I would love to be proved wrong about bin thieving saddos.

BSS we can mark and brand all we like and I swear these type would still deny it was ours upon identification. Reminds me of the time I found my CD album in someone's house which they denied as belonging to me though my funny scrawl was on it...