the mysterious case of the missing wheelie bin

[nancysmum]

most probably not a serious subject for discussion, but in the last 2 months two of my neighbours' wheelie bins have gone missing...(I promise I don't have them!). Has anyone else encountered this problem?

[redrouge]

Occasionally our recycling bin will vanish, and once our wheelie bin has vanished.

No idea where they went, but they both randomly turned up a few days later!

I live at the top end of LL, so you'd think you'd nothing someone wandering around with a plastic box of used newspapers and pizza boxes!

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

You need to be careful of identity theft, if they take your paper recycling bag.

[kford]

They to get away now and again, for a dirty weekend.

[Vik]

Our recycling boxes and bag alaways take a wonder after they are emptied, and accasionally our bin, but the latter always seems to re-appear after aq few days!

[TillieTrotter]

Ask it when it comes back where it's bin?>:D

[Rockets]

I had two go a year or so back and my neighbours reckoned it was the slightly, ahem, eccentric old woman across the road who would "collect" them!

[Jeremy]

Rockets - you're not on Goodrich Rd, are you??

[djw]

we had ours disappear annoyingly, so I ordered another one. A nice new, clean and shiny one arrived and then the old grotty one turned up again!!

[Keef]

So someone is taking bins away for a little while then bringing them home again... Hmmm :-S

[ClareC]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Rockets - you're not on Goodrich Rd, are you??

There is a house on Goodrich with 4 green wheelie bins outside.

[Rolo Tomasi]

djw Wrote:

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> we had ours disappear annoyingly, so I ordered

> another one. A nice new, clean and shiny one

> arrived and then the old grotty one turned up

> again!!

Some people are using them for garden rubbish clearances. Dont worry were onto them!

[ClareC]

my smelly old inherited with the house wheelie bin is clearly unappealing! Recycle boxes and bags are always going missing though!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

This is obviously connected with that earlier thread on UFOs. Everyone knows little green men thrive on smelly, green plastic containers.

[Bony Fido]

I live in a block of flats where we have 6 wheelies alongside the building - we "acquired" an extra green bin a few weeks ago - i.e. someone dumped it there presumably. Haven't a clue where it came from though (we're in Pellatt Rd.)

[theproject]

The binmen throw them into the back of the dump truck.... I've seen them lol.... seriously. Recycling obviously isn't one of their main concerns. I was going to say something to them but felt slightly intimidated.

In my world I'd prefer to think there was a wheelie bin militia but alas... it's just Southwark Council doing a sterling job at refuse collection LOL

[DaveR]

I asked the binmen this morning what happened to my brown recycling wheelie, and they said they do quite often get tipped into the lorry 'by mistake'

[theproject]

lol yeah right! definately looked like they were lobbed in!

[Horsebox]

Indeed there is and on Saturday evening at around 6pm there was a youngish man squatted between said bins, sleeping.

It was quite strange and slightly odd as my other half didn't notice it when we walked past.

[reidos]

There is a house on Goodrich with 4 green wheelie bins outside.

Maybe one of those is mine - I had my bin taken from outside my house on Dunstans Road a few weeks ago. However I contacted the Council and they provided another one pretty swiftly.

[ClareC]

There have been 4 there for quite a few months now, think it may have increased to 5 in the last few days!

[Annasfield]

If anyone needs a spare green wheelie bin, I'm faily sure that if one of the ones on Goodrich "disappeared" it wouldn't be missed. I think they are all empty and some sort of garden/pavement ornament. :-S

[Michael Palaeologus]

Hmmm - a three pipe problem if ever there was one!

[Annasfield]

A three pipe problem?

[Brendan]

Indeed it is Sir Arthur.

You can fashion a very usable wheelie bin from 3 sturdy pvc pipes and the inner band from an old flat cap Annasfield.