On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Biddy Greene <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd just like to say that I agree with Natalie here. I'd rather they > 'harvested' our bins (thank you for that great new addition to my > vocabulary btw!) than took to stealing. Anything left out on the > street is, in a sense, fair game.
That not the issue Biddy. If there are not by laws against it then at the very minimum they often tend to leave a great big mess behind which definitely contravenes littering laws. It would I suppose not be an issue if they did not make a mess but they do so it is! Often they will take a whole bag and go and disect it elsewhere leaving a huge mess. The hotel near the river used to leave there baled waste outside for collection. I saw a bergie once with a trolley (stolen trolley = crime) carting away a bale and I asked what he thought he was doing and he gave me the normal bull so I let him on his way. Later the river team who clean up the Liesbeek fountain a mountain of trash in the bushes 50 metres from where he "stole" the bale. So in a word I do not tolerate bergies going through my or other peoples garbage and I tell them so - of course they just ignore you but there you go. So is that pile of bricks your builder left for you on the pavement fair game? Or the pile of building sand? Or you parked car? See how what you said is nonsense. So in a sense you are saying the batteries removed from various peoples cars was fair game? I know it not what you are saying but it is if you know what I mean - a nod's as good as wink to a blind bat eh? Say no more Say no more! Trev -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en.
