i've NEVER heard of a limit on how much garbage you can put out before... what are you supposed to do with it???
Posted on 08/04/2008 7:21:10 PM PDT by AnnaZ
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.'
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This is what happens when government believes the people serve it, rather than the other way around.
This is very definitely what awaits us as well.
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I guess people will just have to dump it in the river after dark.
“great” Britain continues to swirl around the rim.
Gee, it will be real easy to get even with your neighbor if you don’t like them . . .
Don’t overload the waste bin with trash, or a fine is in order.
Overload the Houses of Parliament with trash......Just Dandy!
They devolve daily.
Crazy bastard limeys.
Brits, start leaving your trash on the doorsteps of government bureaucrats, the high ranking ones. Leave some poop in the trash too. Make sure its bagged in biodegradable paper and pee on it so its good and mushy. Oh, and start knocking out the cameras.
Hey there San Fran Siko citizens. Coming to you soon. Keep voting socialist and enjoy the benefits.
There are over 200 comments accompanying the article, many of them expressing the exact same sentiment.
I can imagine the revenge at an imam’s house. Everybody drops in a bag of their own garbage, and the imam gets fined for being WAY over the limit.
Better yet, overfill a mosque dumpster with spam cans and liquor bottles, leaving them with a huge fine and a trash can they can’t touch.
I trully hope Governor Corzine does not fine this article. Our rubber stamp NJ legislature, would charge twice that for half of the space. We would have to register our trash bins, and face a fine for non-registration, and a penalty for late payment of such fine, and then interest on said late penalty, and then a penalty on said interest and fine on such non-payment, and a mandatory reducation in our allotted trash bin size, and then a doubling of the penalty, a tripling of the interest, and a quadrupling of such penalty on said interest, and a minimum of 90 days in jail or a maximum of six months, with each seperate day that such violation goes uncorrecter, or such fine unpaid, constituting a seperate penalty upon which we face a fine for non-correction of such non-registration, and a penalty for late payment of such fine, and then interest on said late penalty, and then a penalty on said interest and fine on such non-payment, and a mandatory reducation in our allotted trash bin size, and then a doubling of the penalty, a tripling of the interest, and a quadrupling of such penalty on said interest.
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i've NEVER heard of a limit on how much garbage you can put out before... what are you supposed to do with it???
Already happening in the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia ... the City of Vista in San Diego County, to be exact. Possibly other cities as well. Residents there are allowed ONE big trash can. Period. If you have more trash, you have to pay for a special pickup. Or, as many do, Search out the unguarded construction dumpsters at night, or just leave it laying on the road somewhere.
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.
I tell you what — I’m into alternative energy (because I would LOVE to stick it to the oil barons) and recycle, reuse what I can. Mostly it’s the habits of a child of Depression-era parents. But this show is enough to make me want to buy a Hummer and drive it cross-country, crank the A/C to 65, even though it would cost me a fortune, just to spite these bastards. They would just love to have the power to control everything about the way we live.
It’s must-see TV. You want to know what the eco-nazis would love to be able to do to us? Watch “Outrageous Wasters”, shudder, then wake up and fight.
You get rubbish regulations
>>i’ve NEVER heard of a limit on how much garbage you can put out before... what are you supposed to do with it???
>Already happening in the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia ... the City of Vista in San Diego County, to be exact.
And Santa Clara County. You pay rent commensurate with the size garbage can you select, and if you have more garbage than that, you can try to find empty space in a neighbors’ garbage can or buy stickers to put on additional bags of trash. By necessity I’ve started composting, which is smelly and a PITA, but I do gardening so it is not completely awful.
During our spring cleaning we rent a dumpster and/or give a bunch of crap away to Goodwill.
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.
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