Overfill Your Trash Bin, Get a Higher Fine Than A Shoplifter (England, of course)

The Daily Mail ^ | August 4th, 2008 | Steve Doughty

[AnnaZ]

Families who break the bin rules and overfill will get a £110 fine... more than a drunken yob would receive 

Householders who put too much rubbish in their bins face tougher punishments than shoplifters and drunken louts.

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has backed on-the-spot fines of up to £110 for those who overfill their bins, leave them out too early, or put out extra sacks of rubbish alongside them.

The price of defying rubbish regulations is £30 higher than the £80 fixed penalty fine given to shoplifters or those involved in drunken disorder in city centres....

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Mr Corkhill was taken to court by Copeland council in Cumbria after he failed to pay a £110 on-the-spot fine.

The father of four was ordered to pay a £210 fine, equal to his week's wages, plus a £15 surcharge to help 'victims of violence', and given a record.

By contrast, shoplifters and drunks are given £80 fines, which often do not appear on their criminal record and which frequently go unpaid.

Tory local government spokesman Eric Pickles said Labour was creating 'an army of municipal bin bullies hitting law-abiding families with massive fines while professional criminals get the soft touch'.

He added: 'It is clear Whitehall bureaucrats are instructing town halls to target householders with fines for minor breaches.

'Yet with the slow death of weekly collections and shrinking bins, it is increasingly hard for families to dispose of their rubbish responsibly.

'It is fundamentally unfair that householders are now getting hammered with larger fines than shoplifters.'

[healy61]

I have always said that if I owned a chicken in the city, and my neighbor sold cocaine, I would be in court first.

[AnnaZ]

If you want to see the kind of eco-nazi re-education that the left would like to put on all of us, you need go no further than to see the show “Outrageous Wasters”. http://www.sundancechannel.com/series/thegreen_outrageous_wasters

A British show, “Outrageous Wasters” is reality TV where a family of “wasters” (honestly, not much “worse” than the average American family) gets a tongue lashing from 3 smug eco-haranguers and then gets shipped off to an eco-brainwashing camp called (I kid you not) The House of Correction. Here, they are forced to live without any modern amenities, must recycle their bodily wastes, etc. When they get home, the construction eco-nazi has transformed their house and demolished/sold their “extra” cars and TVs. I could go on, but you get the picture. It’s literally porn for Al Gore.

Ohmigosh, besides only one slight voice of some kind of reason, the comments at that link were insane and terrifying. And juxtaposed with your opinion, absolutely hilarious.

[Bikkuri]

Or, as many do, Search out the unguarded construction dumpsters at night, or just leave it laying on the road somewhere.

For some reason, the image of the late '60s early '70 TV commercial with the Native American Indian standing near a badly polluted road with a tear running down his face pops into my head... :(

[AnnaZ]

I almost dread reading stories about the UK anymore. I pray that we are too stubborn to ever let it get that bad over here.

Sorry...

S.F. mayor proposes fines for unsorted trash ^

[catbertz]

Arrrgg. Liberal bastards.