You're not allowed to take photos of me!!

Cagey75 said:
There's a lot of assuming here. We don't know exactly what happened in this "incident" - for all we know the binmen could be in the right.

Either way, there's not a lot to do with photography here, I think this would be best in out of focus tbh.
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In agreement not a lot to do with photography :thinking:
 
I just found it funny how you just had to mention your exact lens model and set up.
 
RJL2005 said:
Try this.

When I lost my job as an analytical scientist I both swept the streets and did the bins rather than sign on. That was twenty years ago and not much has changed I bet. Cat's **** on the bags, that was my pet hate. Other classics were scalpels, broken glass and even diabetic syringes hiding like booby traps.
Then there were the people who threw litter at you and laughed about it giving you work.
I could go on but...
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You would lose that bet ;).

The bin men won't touch a bag left out, if the correct rubbish isn't in the correct bin, at the correct time and put in the correct place on the pavement they just ignore the bin these days.

Some places they won't even touch the bin if it is all correct, but you commit the crime of failing to allow the bin lid to be closed flat.

These days they just walk behind the wagon clipping wheelie bins on to the back and the machine does the rest.
 
See, this is why I'm pleased that although we have a blue recycle bin, we are under no local council edict to actually use it. (we do, to a degree).

If in doubt the rubbish goes in the normal "one size fits all" bin, and so long as the lid is closed, there ain't nothin' the bin men can do about it.
 
Dave1 said:
You would lose that bet ;).

The bin men won't touch a bag left out, if the correct rubbish isn't in the correct bin, at the correct time and put in the correct place on the pavement they just ignore the bin these days.

Some places they won't even touch the bin if it is all correct, but you commit the crime of failing to allow the bin lid to be closed flat.

These days they just walk behind the wagon clipping wheelie bins on to the back and the machine does the rest.
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Must be lucky where I am then. Still put out bags here!

Good bunch of boys too, turned their backs the other day while I "lost" my old fence somewhere in the back of their lorry:)
 
RJL2005 said:
turned their backs the other day while I "lost" my old fence somewhere in the back of their lorry:)
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Now that made me chuckle :lol:
 
My bin men have always been fine.
ONE time they wouldn't take out neighbours' green bin but it was piled to the lid with exactly the evil cardboard that causes the O.P. misadventure.

Now let's get down to the serious stuff about what lens may have been even better and whether more FPS could've got their leery expressions just right.
 
erictearle said:
I just found it funny how you just had to mention your exact lens model and set up.
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How do we know who's right and who's wrong in all of this when he didn't give us his lighting set-up?
 
viv1969 said:
See, this is why I'm pleased that although we have a blue recycle bin, we are under no local council edict to actually use it. (we do, to a degree).

If in doubt the rubbish goes in the normal "one size fits all" bin, and so long as the lid is closed, there ain't nothin' the bin men can do about it.
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I have a blue bin for recycling (but not paper), a black box for paper, a light green bin for normal waste and a dark green bin for garden/green refuse.

They've also decided to be clever, they now only pick up the normal waste bin every second week and the garden bin and recycling the other week, so if you simply chuck everything in the normal rubbish bin it won't last the fortnight :bang:.

On the bright side, I could throw out nuclear waste in the normal bin, the bin machine operatives don't look in it at all normally, it's just grab, clip, machine turns it upside down and off, if you're lucky the bin is left somewhere in the vicinity of the gate.
 
Ulfric M Douglas said:
My bin men have always been fine.
ONE time they wouldn't take out neighbours' green bin but it was piled to the lid with exactly the evil cardboard that causes the O.P. misadventure.
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Just to be very clear - the council says that food waste should be wrapped in cardboard, so as to keep the bins cleaner and more hygienic! It's not like I piled it full of the stuff!

Ulfric M Douglas said:
Now let's get down to the serious stuff about what lens may have been even better and whether more FPS could've got their leery expressions just right.
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I was just thinking that I should upgrade my 'bin lens'...what do people suggest I move to? :-)
 
Boy, am I glad I've only got 2 bins. and can I just say I read the first sentence too and I took it read his specialist subject was bin men, but now I have read the full story and understand the order of events.
 
Dave1 said:
You would lose that bet ;).

The bin men won't touch a bag left out, if the correct rubbish isn't in the correct bin, at the correct time and put in the correct place on the pavement they just ignore the bin these days.

Some places they won't even touch the bin if it is all correct, but you commit the crime of failing to allow the bin lid to be closed flat.
These days they just walk behind the wagon clipping wheelie bins on to the back and the machine does the rest.
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Known as the crocodile bin
 
Dave1 said:
You would lose that bet ;).

The bin men won't touch a bag left out, if the correct rubbish isn't in the correct bin, at the correct time and put in the correct place on the pavement they just ignore the bin these days.

Some places they won't even touch the bin if it is all correct, but you commit the crime of failing to allow the bin lid to be closed flat.

These days they just walk behind the wagon clipping wheelie bins on to the back and the machine does the rest.
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I did a couple of weeks relief work on the bins when I was 17 (which would make it 1994, so almost 20 years ago). Wheely bins had been around at least 5 years by this point, and as you said, all we touched was the handle and the button to operate the lift.

You don't touch anything in the bin, and you don't pick up any bags or boxes of extra rubbish that's piled up on the pavement.
 
Dave1 said:
They've also decided to be clever, they now only pick up the normal waste bin every second week and the garden bin and recycling the other week, so if you simply chuck everything in the normal rubbish bin it won't last the fortnight :bang:.
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Fortnightly here too. But there's just the 2 of us. A fortnight of nothing but normal bin isn't an issue :)
 
fortnight here too - but if I fill my bin I just use my neighbour's (and vice versa)
 
We have 2 large bins, one blue, one black. Waste in one, recycle in the other. The blue recycle gets taken fortnightly, the food/rubbish every week. It's not complicated.

Since this is not the bin thread ...


:D
 
KIPAX said:
wow!


Quick get a camera..lets get these muthers sacked! :)
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Who said anything about getting them sacked? The point of the camera was to identify the individuals guilty of rude and verbally abusive behaviour, to support a complaint to the council about the service received. Are you saying bad service should just be allowed to continue?

I suspect, because it's what I'd want, that the OP wanted them spoken to to have them correct their ways, not that e wanted them sacked.

RJL2005 said:
Try this.

When I lost my job as an analytical scientist I both swept the streets and did the bins rather than sign on. That was twenty years ago and not much has changed I bet. Cat's **** on the bags, that was my pet hate. Other classics were scalpels, broken glass and even diabetic syringes hiding like booby traps.
Then there were the people who threw litter at you and laughed about it giving you work.
I could go on but...
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All true; my father in law is an ex bin man. But, none of it justifies their behaviour in this instance. The OP, as far as we can tell, hadn't done any of those things, and hadn't shown any lack of respect; he'd just challenged their incorrect decision not to empty his bin. He didn't deserve what he got in return, and was right to complain about it, if only to have the service he pays for corrected.

Respect is a two way street.

What all of that does justify is better pay for bin men and women, more respect from the rest of us, and an understanding of how difficult thier job is.
 
Southdowns said:
Who said anything about getting them sacked? The point of the camera was to identify the individuals guilty of rude and verbally abusive behaviour, to support a complaint to the council about the service received. .
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but that would have been identified anyway by round rosters - the operator knows who is on which round - so all the camera did was unnecessarily aggravate the situation
 
he's a canon user , he must be right !
 
This thread is like the black hole of pointless posts... (including this one)
 
Right, so go comment on my dragonfly
macro instead :-)
 
I refuse to waste my time reading any more of this rubbish.

And on that note time to recycle this old one:

A dustman is going along a street picking up the wheelie bins and emptying them into his dustcart lorry. He gets to one house where the bin hasn't been left out so he has a quick look for it, goes round the back but still can't see it so he knocks on the door. There's no answer so he knocks again.

Eventually a Japanese bloke answers..."Harro", says the chappy.
"Alright mate, where's ya bin?" asks the dustman.

"I bin on toiret" replies the Japanese bloke, looking perplexed.

Realising the Japanese fellow has misunderstood, the binman smiles and says "No mate, where's ya dust bin?"

"I dust bin on toiret havin a dump, I tord you!" says the Japanese man.

"No mate" says the dustman... "you're misunderstanding me....Where's your wheelie bin?"

"OK, OK", says the Japanese bloke, "I wheelie bin having a w**k!"

:coat:
 
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big soft moose said:
but that would have been identified anyway by round rosters - the operator knows who is on which round - so all the camera did was unnecessarily aggravate the situation
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I'm fairly sure the OP said the reason for taking photos was to identify only the people the complaint was about and not the whole crew as some weren't involved.
 
DorsetDude said:
I refuse to waste my time reading any more of this rubbish.

And on that note time to recycle this old one:

A dustman is going along a street picking up the wheelie bins and emptying them into his dustcart lorry. He gets to one house where the bin hasn't been left out so he has a quick look for it, goes round the back but still can't see it so he knocks on the door. There's no answer so he knocks again.

Eventually a Japanese bloke answers..."Harro", says the chappy.
"Alright mate, where's ya bin?" asks the dustman.

"I bin on toiret" replies the Japanese bloke, looking perplexed.

Realising the Japanese fellow has misunderstood, the binman smiles and says "No mate, where's ya dust bin?"

"I dust bin on toiret havin a dump, I tord you!" says the Japanese man.

"No mate" says the dustman... "you're misunderstanding me....Where's your wheelie bin?"

"OK, OK", says the Japanese bloke, "I wheelie bin having a w**k!"

:coat:
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Ha ha ha, love it
 
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