Dear, oh dear, oh dear.........
It buggers belief to learn that a man now has a criminal record for not being able to close his bin lid firmly shut. An offence, I believe, is what the clown from the council called it. An offence? Apparently Coco (from the council) had previously "worked" with the family on matters relating to rubbish and proceeded to inform a BBC journalist that Mr Family Man was a multiple offender!!!!!!
A multiple offender of: stuffing your wheelie bin with enough rubbish as to render closure of the lid impossible!!!!!!!!!!
This is clearly not an offence. An offence is thieving, mugging, burglary, aggravated assault, stabbing, murder, etcetera, etcetera.
Ramming a wheelie bin lid shut on a couple of empty baked beans tins will now bring the full force of law upon you. Mr Family Man was fined and refused to pay. What should he have done with his rubbish I wonder? As he said himself, if he had resorted to the nasty nature of fly-tipping the peek-a-boo bags, his fine would have cost less.
Fly-tipping: 19th-century British slang usage as an adjective meaning ‘clever’. Fly in this sense has connotations of being sneaky or dishonest, hence the idea of sneakily placing something where it shouldn’t be.
Evidently his peek-a-boo bin bags where somewhere they shouldn't be. In this instant, his own bin!
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2008-04-22 @ 18:10