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This is nothing to do with cars but has really annoyed me. A friend of mine lives in the countryside close to an area popular with walkers etc. Yesterday she noticed that someone has dumped a load of rubbish bags at the side of the track in this area. They had obviously been taken there by car. Animals had started to tear the bags open and household waste / old nappies etc was spewing out. She used a stick to rake through this junk and found a wage slip with the address of the person who had presumably dumped it. The address was a couple of miles away.
She phoned the police and they said they would contact the council to pick up the rubbish but wouldn’t take any other action. This annoyed her, having gone to the effort of finding the offending address. What can she do if anything? (and no she won’t be taking the matter into her own hands ) .
The other thing is that there is a local council tip (open 7 days/week) – I don’t understand some folks.
She phoned the police and they said they would contact the council to pick up the rubbish but wouldn’t take any other action. This annoyed her, having gone to the effort of finding the offending address. What can she do if anything? (and no she won’t be taking the matter into her own hands ) .
The other thing is that there is a local council tip (open 7 days/week) – I don’t understand some folks.
tycho said:
She should go round in the middle of the night with it and spread it round their front garden.
That would involve touching it
So no way she could complain to the police and get them to do something?
The tip here will take anything. I recently dumped the front end of a Subaru, from just behind front wheel arches forward.
Nightmare said:
jap-car
As far as I know, Fly-tiping is entirely illegal.
Interesting quick story for you : my magistrate relative had a cse before her recently where a local developer type had gone and tipped a load of junk, and this included a wage slip (like yours)- which was then traced to him and he ended up in court. Turned up looking super smug, with a 'well who cares, its only a bit of tipping' look on his face. Got a nasty shock when she bitch-slapped him soundly, told him arrogant, thoughtless little tossers like him were responsible for turning beautiful areas horrible, and fined him heavily. Even got in local paper...think everyone expected him to get a slap on the wrists - hence the reason he tipped in the first place. tenner says he wont be doing it again!!
So - that in mind - it is an offence which ends you up in court. I would guess that the police don't view it very seriously (it's only a bit of rubbish') and therefore can't be arsed to prosecute....i could be entirely wrong here and apologise to bib if thats the case)
I shall speak to relative and fidn out how exactl bloke ended up n court and if you can do same thing
Personally I think it's f**king disgraceful. I understand that it isn't as easy to get rid of stuff anymore...so what? It takes you and everyone else a bit more effort. It's no excuse to say "bastard council have changed the rules so I'll just go and bung it in this persons garden' is it?
Night
Thanks - would be very interested.
Nightmare said:
righto - have talked to magi.....
turns out that it is the local council themselves who will prosecute. If you take the info/evidence to local council they will pursue it.....apparently!
Thank you. I will pass this message onto my friend. Maybe she misunderstood when the police said they wouldn't do anything more than pass the info onto the council. Ie it wasn't clear that the council themselves would actually prosecute. I'll let you know what happens
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