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Posted on 03/07/2015 4:28:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Well this is garbage.
A sanitation worker in an Atlanta suburb has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for working too early.
Kevin McGill had been working for only a few months for a company contracted to do sanitation work in Sandy Springs when he was cited for picking up trash just after 5 a.m. one morning, according to WSB-TV.
That violated a city ordinance which limits trash pickup to between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. The statute is in place because residents have complained that early pick-up disrupts their sleep.
When McGill showed up to court to answer the citation, Sandy Springs prosecutor Bill Riley sought the maximum punishment against him — 30 days in jail.
And in a trashy move, a judge granted Riley the request.
“Fines don’t seem to work,” Riley told WSB. “The only thing that seems to stop the activity is actually going to jail.”
Riley, who jailed another sanitation worker for the same infraction last year, said that residents swamp 911 with calls when trash pick-up occurs too early in the morning.
“The solicitor said it’s automatic jail time,” McGill told WSB. “He didn’t want to hear nothing I had to say. I said it’s my first time.”
“I was stunned. I didn’t know what to think. I was shocked,” he added.
McGill, a family man, did not have an attorney during his sentencing. He pleaded no contest and took the punishment, agreeing to serve his 30 days spread out on the weekends. He began serving the sentence last weekend and will do so for 14 more.
“I just want this to be over with,” McGill told WSB. “I’m away from my family, my wife, and she’s got to take care of the two little boys and I have four dogs.”
McGill has an attorney now, and she believes the sentence is too harsh.
“Give him a warning,” the lawyer, Kimberly Bandoh, told WSB. “I mean he’s the employee. He’s not the employer. Sentencing him to jail is doing what?”
But Riley appears to be unmoved, saying that McGill, and not his employer, is responsible for operating his own garbage truck.
“The company doesn’t start that truck up,” Riley told WSB. “The company doesn’t drive that truck down the street.”
The correct response is then to go around citing people who put their trash out too early.
Good catch ! :-)
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How can you be ticketed if you’re on private property?
That would mean they could enforce a seatbelt if you’re just backing out of your garage.
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Thank the good Lrd illegals breaking into our country aren’t driving trash trucks or they’d get into serious trouble.
I think the garbage man has a good law suit to file against the company he is working for because I am sure that he was sitting in the situation of losing his job if he did not work the job at the hours they wanted him to work. I know in a civil suit I would be favorable to his situation.
Wonder how many of the morons that called 911 paid their fines or were threatened with jail.
In many municipalities the police have jurisdiction over traffic in parking lots. Some towns have sign posted in the parking lot stating this. The tentacles of regulation are far reaching.
Thanks,I was not aware of that.
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What a load of garbage.
The judge should spend a little time behind bars too.
We’ve got too many idiot judges on the taxpayer’s dole right now.
I'd be inclined to follow the money.
I could understand a fine, but 30 days in the slammer?
Anarcho-tyranny - it's what American peasants are having for dinner!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_T._Francis#Anarcho-tyranny
Samuel T. Francis apparently royally p*ssed off The Managerial State, while he lived. :)
It's called The Managerial State.
Every single one of the people who called 911 should be in jail for 50 days with this man. What they did was a bigger crime.
That’s hardly the point.
Do you think this would have happened if it was in a low-income black neighborhood?
Everything is not about race - but some things are.
The residents who are so stupid as to call 911 because their garbage was being picked up should be the ones going to jail.
Yeah, he should have told them he was a transgender.
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