P$ssed off!!!!

[GLENRED]

Just got home sat down to watch a bit of Sky tv only to find that the bin lorry this morning has reversed down the side of my garage and smashed my sky dish in. It was fine this morning when i left and you can clearly see the tracks from where he has reversed into it on car park. I live in a small cul-de-sac and the bin lorry is the only large truck that I have ever seen in there.

Cant believe that they would just do that and drive off, there is now way he never heard or felt as he squashed my dish...

took some photos so will phone the council tomorrow.

I know its only a small thing but gf is away tonight and I had planned to watch the footy.

Any chance the council will pay for this to be repaired??

[TheEnd]

in all fairness, a reversing bin lorry would be unlikely to feel small walls, let alone sky dishes.

best bet is to contact the council or whoever do your collection, of course telling them about Mrs Miggins, your star witness.

[GLENRED]

Yeah I was going to tell them my gf had seen them from the bathroom window but didnt get a chance to get down there quick enough.

[750turbo]

GLENRED said:

Just got home sat down to watch a bit of Sky tv only to find that the bin lorry this morning has reversed down the side of my garage and smashed my sky dish in. It was fine this morning when i left and you can clearly see the tracks from where he has reversed into it on car park. I live in a small cul-de-sac and the bin lorry is the only large truck that I have ever seen in there.

Cant believe that they would just do that and drive off, there is now way he never heard or felt as he squashed my dish...

took some photos so will phone the council tomorrow.

I know its only a small thing but gf is away tonight and I had planned to watch the footy.

Any chance the council will pay for this to be repaired??

Phone SKY, and be brutally honest. It may just surprise you. (They are NOT the worst lot in the world)

[GLENRED]

|Well I tryed Sky being brutally honest and they tried to sell me insurance for £120 or charge me £65 for an engineer...or option 3 take sky HD for a year at £180 with the instalation.

Think I will go with trying the council in teh morning really didnt expect any help from Sky

[Alfanatic]

TheEnd said:

in all fairness, a reversing bin lorry would be unlikely to feel small walls, let alone sky dishes.

This is true. Someone I knew reversed his artic - just the horse bit - into his neighbour's VW camper van, stuffing the whole front in. Didn't notice and left it there, the rear end still pressed up against the campervan, only to be woken up the next morning by the neighbour wishing to ask some difficult questions.

Edited by Alfanatic on Wednesday 7th April 20:37

[GLENRED]

Thanks for moving this mods i really didnt want anone to see it anyway!!!

[dirkgently]

GLENRED said:

Thanks for moving this mods i really didnt want anone to see it anyway!!!

[bazking69]

He won't even have realised he'd done it I reckon.

[Gareth79]

GLENRED said:

Well I tryed Sky being brutally honest and they tried to sell me insurance for £120 or charge me £65 for an engineer...or option 3 take sky HD for a year at £180 with the instalation.

Think I will go with trying the council in teh morning really didnt expect any help from Sky

Phone up and ask for cancellations, say you will stick with Freeview because you can't afford £65 for a repair. If you are on the basic package they might not budge below £30 for call-out (which I think is what it costs them), but if you are have premium channels they will very likely relent and fix it for free to avoid losing you. Not guaranteed though, but stick with it until you realise they are really going to cancel your subscription, I don't think it's easy to get to that point.