paper recycle bin fire

[dullwitch]

Anyone else have there paper recycle bin set on fire last night?

I'm on Upland road. Woke up to a fire outside the front door at about 12.30am.

[Pickle]

No (we put ours out in the morning, as Mr Pickle has "concerns" that people will go rifling through it!), but that does explain the burning smell that we both walked round the house searching for last night at about 1am! Either you live very close to us on Upland, or others near us had theirs set on fire too.

[dullwitch]

I think someone else had their's done too, further down the road.

The whole house stinks of smoke now!:(

[weloveforesthillroad]

I walked passed one on goodrich road this morning that had been done too

[cdonline]

dullwitch Wrote:

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> Anyone else have there paper recycle bin set on

> fire last night?

> I'm on Upland road. Woke up to a fire outside the

> front door at about 12.30am.

Just checking, you didn't accidentally put some cardboard in your bin? It might be that you were being made an example of.

[kford]

By whom?

And cardboard is fine, last time I looked.

[Frisco]

"By whom?"

I don't think the posting was meant to be taken seriously (a kind of 'Revenge of the Southwark Recycling Officers).

[PeckhamRose]

Had it anything to do with fireworks in the bins going off too?

[kford]

Frisco Wrote:

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> "By whom?"

>

> I don't think the posting was meant to be taken

> seriously (a kind of 'Revenge of the Southwark

> Recycling Officers).

I see! Fair point, now *tries not to view everything with such a serious eye*.

[spadetownboy]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Had it anything to do with fireworks in the bins

> going off too?

whats the point in that, its much more fun tying them to a cats tail.

[kford]

or blowing dog shit up

[McSporran]

Until last Saturday, we had some building materials (mostly chipboard) outside our house. This prompted a letter from the council saying that we were at risk of arson! Apparently it's been a problem over the years.

Cue prompt removal!

They didn't mention recycling bins though.

[Sushi]

I have the opposite problem - everytime I do work on my house and leave stuff outside for me to take to the tip, some kind person removes it over night .... now the estate agents failed to tell me that dobby the house elf came with my freehold!