Is it just me? - using my bin for their dog poo
I'm beginning to wonder if I am really becoming a grumpy old man and just wondered if it's just me?
We live on a corner of a busy road and have a lot of dog walkers taking their pets for walkies past out drive.
Yesterday, as I was looking out the window I spotted a young, 20ish female with her pooch at the top of the drive with a poop bag in hand, great, I thought a caring owner. The thing that rattled my cage was that she then promptly opened our Black Dustbin
that was out for collection and deposited her dogs do-doos in our bin!!!
I went out to speak to her and asked her why she was using our bin, her reply was "it's a bin!"and I was being a nasty old man for questioning her right to do this.. They obviously live in the area as I have seen them pass every day but I was gob smacked
by her comments.
We have been dog owners in the past but I would never have dreamed of using someone elses bin to put any droppings in. Still can't believe it really.
My question is, is it me getting old??
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I would just be grateful, at least it was bagged and binned. It could just have been left, a lot worse. We have some local dog owners who don't bother to pick it up at all!!!
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my first reaction is yes that was wrong, after all it's your bin and your rubbish and it was wrong to use your bin, then after a while - no, after all your bin was going to be emptied, it wasn't loose and really what harm has been done. Is it just that it was poo, would you have been as annoyed if it was an ice cream wrapper that she noticed on the ground
So I'm semi grumpy!
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H&T, Oh, I know that, we have them here too. manys the time I've had to clear up after them.
She also threatened NOT to pick up the next droppings as I was complaining, which would be good, as we have CCTV!
It concerns me that my happy go lucky nature is fast disappearing. It's me age, I suppose!
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She was definatley in the wrong i would have made her take it out of your bin and take it with her to either a proper bin or take it back home and use her bin. I have no time for people like these, as for her answer what can i say this is a typical answer
from a younger person today. Dam cheek i call this. If she wouldn't take it out of the bin i would have followed her home and thrown it into her garden, or her front doorstep.0 -
Well I have done this in the past, I must admit. But only because the bin was waiting to be emptied - I untied the bin liner, popped the poo bag in then tied the bin liner back up. Don't think she really did anything wrong, much better than just leaving it on the path! Doesn't excuse her rather rude reaction though.
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my first reaction is yes that was wrong, after all it's your bin and your rubbish and it was wrong to use your bin, then after a while - no, after all your bin was going to be emptied, it wasn't loose and really what harm has been done. Is it just that it
was poo, would you have been as annoyed if it was an ice cream wrapper that she noticed on the groundSo I'm semi grumpy!
Thanks Corners,
As stated, I was pleased she had bagged it but why not take it to her house? Oh and the bin had been emptied already, so it's now sitting at the bottom of our bin for 2 weeks before the next collection day
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She was definatley in the wrong i would have made her take it out of your bin and take it with her to either a proper bin or take it back home and use her bin. I have no time for people like these, as for her answer what can i say this is a typical answer
from a younger person today. Dam cheek i call this. If she wouldn't take it out of the bin i would have followed her home and thrown it into her garden, or her front doorstep.I agree Briang, very cheeky, but I don't think 2 wrongs make a right! Anyway neither of us could have reached it!!
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I would tip over the bin - and retrieve and take to her garden! Or soft option would be a dog bin. Horrid to have it there for 2 weeks
I find it really scary these days that you can't tackle someone without getting a load of abuse - I never used to worry about it but people seem
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Ah, now if the bin had been emptied that does change things. No, that was definitely wrong then.
yes, agree, now completely in the wrong and she should have noticed that when she opened the bin
Yeritz - you have been cleared of any grumpiness
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Ah, now if the bin had been emptied that does change things. No, that was definitely wrong then.
yes, agree, now completely in the wrong and she should have noticed that when she opened the bin
Yeritz - you have been cleared of any grumpiness
Thank you for that. The thing that has really made me sad is her comment about me being a "nasty old man"
I'm still in my 20's in my head, I just appear to look like a 65 year old!!
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I think I would have taken umbrage, after all its my bin, my responsibility, just mine
so far I'm grumpy. Then again she did pick it up and disposed of it
not grumpy. But the bin was empty and although collection was 2 weeks ahead, it is bagged Oh, I don't know, suppose it depends on how I feel on the day. Must admit to having done this in the past
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The family who live in a house not far from Bugs Towers occasionally put things in our bins if theirs are full. They never actually asked if they could, just started doing it. I don't mind as, with children, they generate more rubbish than we do.
I must admit though to feeling a bit prickly the day I saw them picking strawberries from the bushes beside the North Lawns.........
Bugs
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A twist to this , our wheelie bin is lent to us from the council so techniclly we do not own it ,so can we stop people putting rubbish in it on the day of emptying, the rest of the time it lives round the back of the house...............
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Ah, now if the bin had been emptied that does change things. No, that was definitely wrong then.
It was definatley wrong in the first place.
Yes, briang, now that we know the bin had already been emptied, it was definitely wrong. But are you saying I was in the wrong by doing what I did when the bin was still waiting for emptying? Don't see your point in that case.
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A twist to this , our wheelie bin is lent to us from the council so techniclly we do not own it ,so can we stop people putting rubbish in it on the day of emptying, the rest of the time it lives round the back of the house...............
Good point, HD. And what if it hadn't been a poo bag? If she'd just, very public spiritedly, picked up some litter left on the path and placed it in the bin?
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mmm, it is lent to you but for your own personal use?
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Of course, if we had round the clock bin collection, a la francaises, the problem wouldn't have arisen in the first place, would it?!!!
Yes, I believe they even clean your bin for you over there.....several times a day.....and deliver freshly baked bread while they are at it.
You really must try it over there......
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mmm, it is lent to you but for your own personal use?
but if i saw someone picking up litter voluntarily i'd be happy, even if they did put it in my bin
but that's not what you asked, you asked if our wheelie bin is lent to us from the council so techniclly we do not own it ,so can we stop people putting rubbish in it on the day of emptying.
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Is the issue because it was dog poo? Health & Safety? Wouldn't like the job of refuse sorting if there's a risk of coming across such items as dog poo, bagged or not. Dirty nappies is another story.
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Is the issue because it was dog poo? Health & Safety? Wouldn't like the job of refuse sorting if there's a risk of coming across such items as dog poo, bagged or not. Dirty nappies is another story.
Do they refuse sort non-recyclable Jill, ours go straight to tip.
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I amended it to give people an idea what the thread was discussing as so many people start a thread with exactly the same title.
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I must admit that if I only have a couple of glass objects in my glass bin I will often pop them in the neighbours box to save putting my bin out. The reverse of that is that as I am there all day I usually make sure my neighbours bin is placed back out
of harms way so he can get his car on his drive without having to move the box first.I am not sure I would condem the lady in question as clearly the rubbish was out for collection and the course of action had no real negative effect on the person responsible for the bin. Live and let live perhaps?
David
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