U.K.: The 250,000 families with a spy in the bins (Test of trash cans that weigh your garbage)

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | March 16, 2007 | STEVE DOUGHTY

[slane]

fly-tipping is simply dumping your rubbish/trash by the side of the road. 'Tip' equates exactly to the US 'dump'.

[slane]

Microchips in wheelie bins...if this weren't in a news article I would have a hard time believing it. The UK should take the funds they are wasting on this nonsense and spend it on the health care system, which is falling apart...apparently they literally have money to throw away.

[A Strict Constructionist]

One step back two steps forward. It seems to work every time. Except now we don't take any steps back. UNdo the UN from the USA.

[jordan8]

The Government has paid for the chips to be installed in three areas of Northern Ireland

Yeah, they tested Diplock courts and surveillance cameras in Northern Ireland before introducing or trying to introduce them on the "mainland."

I'm familiar with cow-tipping; fly-tipping seems rather poor sport in comparison.

[Chewbacca]

A little battery acid applied to the location of the computer chip might have interesting effect.

[Chewbacca]

"Stun guns do a marvelous job of killing chips with their 50,000+ volts... "



You bought the wimpy stun gun. Mine does 500,000 volts and I can wear it in my shirt pocket.

[The KG9 Kid]

The UK is just insane. The people there will let their overlords just do flat anything to them. San Francisco looks like Texas by comparison.

[BigCinBigD]

When I think of our young men laying dead in Flanders and Normandy so that the people they saved could reduce themselves to this idiocy I get sick to my stomach.

[vimto]

Fly-tipping is tipping anywhere other than on a tip. Usually by rivers, side of road etc.

[P.O.E.]

Amen to that. Not likely though, but it's worth a try.