Grrrh!

Grrrh!

 

I got up happily this morning thinking about you all and wondering how my first blog had been received.   As I got my first cup of coffee ready I looked out of my bedroom window and saw a collection of assorted white goods up against my garden wall and none of them was mine.

 

Grrrh!  thought I imagining that I would have to call the council tomorrow to get them taken away.  

 

Fly tipping is epidemic in the UK, my elderly former neighbour was caught out by a man who offered to take her fridge away for a fiver and when she went out he'd taken the fiver and left the fridge in place....Katching for him!   Deep embarrassment and a loss for her.

 

I have cameras and have just checked to see a wagon passing by at 04.00 this morning and as it went by it shed its load of items in the middle of the road.  The guy calmly came over and put his rubbish against my wall and left it for me to sort out.   Later a council vehicle came and two really nice fellows told me that they are out every day removing discarded items from all over the borough.  

 

When did we become so dirty?  How do we stop these buggers from doing such things?  Clearly whoever did it has no scruples and we are all paying for the disposal of these items on our rates.   The council fellows told me that these critters weigh in the gas bottles in the back of fridges and dump the rest because they have little or no scrap value.

 

Apparently if I had called the council I could have had five items removed...for a modest fee so  rather than pay people are dumping their furniture and other items on the pavement and calling the council and telling them that the items have been fly tipped.   It beggars belief that people will do such things but I have driven down countless country lanes and seen dead mattresses and other items that have been dumped.  

 

I am sure we have all seen such abandoned items and it is our rates that are going up to cover the cost of retrieving and disposing of such things.

 

I have not problem with people trying to earn a living but at what cost!  Our urban  environment is fast becoming a dangerous wasteland.  

 

I will be contacting the council tomorrow to tell them that I have some film but sadly no identifying features to enable them to prosecute the perpetrators.

 

Our towns used to be clean and safe places to walk in, nowadays I don't venture into my town unless I really have to.   There is rubbish everywhere and I see people throwing their flotsam and jetsam down without a second glance.

 

When I grew up we saved our rubbish and took it home, driving through Birmingham this morning I saw empty booze bottles and all manner of trash and it absolutely disgusts me that people have so little thought for others.

 

Youngsters learn from us so we need to be sure that we set a good example for them.

 

Just beware if someone offers to take your dead fridge away for few pounds, he may move it down the road or leave it in a country lane.

 

Rant over.........

 

I'll be in a better mood when I've had a coffee.

 

Back later,

 

Me