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[grandmoon]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/27012102/fines-of-1500-for-leaving-out-bins-early/

[imastawka]

But, but  that's my Council

Don't know what their game is.    The people that leave them out all the time

are the very ones who can't afford the fine.

If they are overfull, (as in the picture) they are not allowed to empty them.

Being that full, the arms on the truck would just dump it all on the road

As for this idiot  - Reservoir resident Rose Ljubicic told Fairfax: “My 90-year-old neighbour has a personal carer and they put his bins out a day or two early, because that's when they're at his house. What will happen to him?’.

She could put it out for him!!

[grandmoon]

I think it is a money raising exercise

[imastawka]

They could stop paying the local graffiti artists to paint

the traffic signal boxes for a start.

As pretty as they are,  we don't really need them painted

 

 

And there are hundreds of them

Yeah, yeah,  I know, they look great.   But it's a lot of money to throw around

[siggie-reported-by-alarmists]

They are not painted by graffiti artists.

They have been painted by artists...... and at a very low cost compared to their usual fees.

[imastawka]

My bad.   Not  'graffiti'  artists then.

But still money that could be used in a better way IMO

I pay rates and am not impressed with signal boxes being painted

when there is so much more that needs fixing

[***super_nova***]

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@imastawka wrote:

They could stop paying the local graffiti artists to paint

the traffic signal boxes for a start.

As pretty as they are,  we don't really need them painted

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It also gives income to people who were often unemployed, and the boxes used to have just ugly scribbles all over them, which cost the public even more in constant cleaning them up.  I think it is money well spent, and has nothing to do with the issue of bins left on the street, which is a nuisance, especially in streets where there is not much parking and bins make it difficult for people getting in and out of cars.  But there should be some leniency when people might go away for few days, and put their bins out before they go, old people etc.  The fines should be only for people who leave their bins out repeatedly.  I used to put out and bring in bins in for old neighbors; well, now, I am the one finding it hard to take mine out.

[imastawka]

I got sidetracked when grandmoon suggested the bins idea was

a money making exercise.

I really don't think they can enforce it (the fine)

As I said, the people that leave their bins out, tend to be the ones

who can't pay the fine anyway

I think it was mooted elsewhere (another council)  a while ago and dropped

[ashjoma]

I thought this was about the UK as this is exactly what is happening in the UK at the moment