Is it just me? - using my bin for their dog poo
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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
David, Normally, that would be my stance, however, it DID have an effect on ME, I don't expect to be insulted on my own drive because someone else has made an error by being too lazy to take their dogs rubbish home with them or even bothering to see that
the bin had been emptied!She walks the dog past every day, what does she do when the bin is not out? Chuck it in someone's garden / hedge??
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Its called the principle of the thing. I would not want my bin used for other people's rubbish, whether its outside on the pavement or not. Your bin is not a Council bin. Surely she would pass a Council bin (put on footpaths) on her way home. Just bone
idleness. I would rather carry my pet's scoop home rather than use somebody's else's bin. Would she let her dog pee on other people's property just because its grass and happens to be on her way somewhere with the dog?0 -
I have not used other people’s dustbin myself but I have seen other dog walkers doing it while on my country walks with the dog. The girl was wrong IMO but I wouldn’t have confronted her, just been thankful she picked it up in the first place.
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How ridiculous. How can a tied up bag of dog poo be any worse than the bags of rotting food waste that are legitimately discarded into black bins ?
As for getting all possessive over 'my bin', and stuff that is being discarded in any case ....
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I would have no problem with the action at all. It's a bin, I don't rake around in it, the poop was bagged & binned. The fact it'd been bagged & binned would be good enough for me. My rubbish bins are not that precious to me. Picking up/bagging/binning poop
is
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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
David, Normally, that would be my stance, however, it DID have an effect on ME, I don't expect to be insulted on my own drive because someone else has made an error by being too lazy to take their dogs rubbish home with them or even bothering to see that
the bin had been emptied!She walks the dog past every day, what does she do when the bin is not out? Chuck it in someone's garden / hedge??
Yertis
Sorry I didn't mean to imply that she was right to verbally abuse you. Obviously she should accept your request not to use your bin as you had taken the trouble to mention it. On the otherhand I can't see it as being a major problem if the rubbish was out
for collection. Different matter had she walked into a garden and put it in a bin not being collected for several days.David
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How ridiculous. How can a tied up bag of dog poo be any worse than the bags of rotting food waste that are legitimately discarded into black bins ?
As for getting all possessive over 'my bin', and stuff that is being discarded in any case ....
Hardly ridiculous Richard, it's the principle and the insults that are ridiculous. Obviously, you have different standards to me.
If everyone took your stance then we could just have a communal bin in the centre of the street!
Hope I meet you onsite sometime as I may need use of your waste bin
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I would suggest that it was your initial approach that provoked the 'insults', not that this excuses them. But a rubbish bin is for putting rubbish in, and is not as if you had put a rubbish skip out in your driveway and awoke to find it full of your neighbours
rubbish.I remember that 'One Foot in the Grave' sketch very well ...
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How ridiculous. How can a tied up bag of dog poo be any worse than the bags of rotting food waste that are legitimately discarded into black bins ?
As for getting all possessive over 'my bin', and stuff that is being discarded in any case ....
What a sensible response, +1
As for any insults that's a different matter, uncalled for but probably an escalation.
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How ridiculous. How can a tied up bag of dog poo be any worse than the bags of rotting food waste that are legitimately discarded into black bins ?
As for getting all possessive over 'my bin', and stuff that is being discarded in any case ....
+ a another ..... how can you get so upset over someone using your bin.
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How ridiculous. How can a tied up bag of dog poo be any worse than the bags of rotting food waste that are legitimately discarded into black bins ?
As for getting all possessive over 'my bin', and stuff that is being discarded in any case ....
+ a another ..... how can you get so upset over someone using your bin.
Quite easily, as it was empty and on my property!
We'll have to agree to disagree, hey?
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How ridiculous. How can a tied up bag of dog poo be any worse than the bags of rotting food waste that are legitimately discarded into black bins ?
As for getting all possessive over 'my bin', and stuff that is being discarded in any case ....
+ a another ..... how can you get so upset over someone using your bin.
Quite easily, as it was empty and on my property!
We'll have to agree to disagree, hey?
at the end of the day, it was your bin and your rubbish and strange as it may seem under the law just because someone throws something away, does not mean they don't still own it. You have as much right to be grumpy as you want. I wonder if people would be happy if their bin was used as a toilet?
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How ridiculous. How can a tied up bag of dog poo be any worse than the bags of rotting food waste that are legitimately discarded into black bins ?
As for getting all possessive over 'my bin', and stuff that is being discarded in any case ....
+ a another ..... how can you get so upset over someone using your bin.
Quite easily, as it was empty and on my property!
We'll have to agree to disagree, hey?
at the end of the day, it was your bin and your rubbish and strange as it may seem under the law just because someone throws something away, does not mean they don't still own it. You have as much right to be grumpy as you want. I wonder if people would be happy if their bin was used as a toilet?
There's a difference between someone crouching over a waste bin and a bag being deposited Corners
but at the end of the day, would it change my world, no I don't think so but the OP has a right to his opinion and be grumpy .0 -
Especially so if the bin is policed by one of the local authorities that are paranoid about what goes into which bin, and that wasn't the dog shit bin. They apparently just don't collect until the householder goes through the contents and gets it right.
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Up here, if you buy a brand new house, you actually have to buy your general refuse bin from the council, same if you need to replace one. So in that case the bin would actually belong to the householder.
No rotting food in bins here either these days, that has to be placed in the special food waste bin.
And dog poo bins are provided on selected lamp-posts, and are separately emptied by the council.
So I would certainly not be happy if anyone used my bin for dog poo.
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No rotting food in bins here either these days, that has to be placed in the special food waste bin.
Differant in our region Kj, waste food goes in the garden waste bin, doesn't matter if its cooked or not, even doggie and cat poos can go in if you so wish.
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Yes its different colours and practices dependent upon what council district you are in. I believe the OP mentioned a black bin and if all of Derbyshire follow the same practice, then that will be non recyclable waste.
Ours are green for that, how odd.
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If the bin had been emptied it could be there for a fortnight. Doggy poo bags don't seem the most durable of containers. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that it could burst and the contents being stuck to the inside of "your" bin. Would the 'lady'
in question have been as sanguine at your old engine oil being dumped in her bin in a leaky container?0 -
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
Give an inch and they take a mile...
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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
Give an inch and they take a mile...
I think Bugs should sack his gamekeeper
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I wonder if people would be happy if their bin was used as a toilet?
There's a difference between someone crouching over a waste bin and a bag being deposited Corners
but at the end of the day, would it change my world, no I don't think so but the OP has a right to his opinion and be grumpy.Well, that would be an interesting sight (so long as it wasn't our bin!)
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My friend has a holiday home in Abersoch, where all rubbish has to be in large black bin liners. If there are no bin liners in then the bin isn't emptied.
People taking their dogs for a walk often use her bin to pop in their 'offerings'. The problem is that they can sit in the bin, building up, unless someone is using the house and putting in black bin liners. The number builds up and eventually one bursts
- and it is a most unpleasant job to remove all the packages, put them in a bin liner, and clean out the bin. Worst of all is that there is a proper 'doggy bin' just at the end of the lane, about fifty paces away!She has written, in large letters, all over the bin - No dog poos please - and yet everytime we've been down there recently there must be twenty or more bags of poo!
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A friend of mine had the same problem until he pop rivited a hasp and staple to his wheelie bin and padlocked it shut.
Bet the bin men were happy with that!!
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A friend of mine had the same problem until he pop rivited a hasp and staple to his wheelie bin and padlocked it shut.
A good idea in theory, but not in a holiday home, where you might leave after a weekend and not be there when the bin men arrive to empty the bin. However, a combination padlock with the number given to the bin men team could work!
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