Boo Bin Men Boo!

[bugsbgone]

Ohhh I am not so happy about this then. Came home and found this had happened to the front wall of my house. Recycling day today it was and I found the blue plastic remnants of the offending 'object' that caused this on the top piece of the crumbled stack of bricks.

Stuff happens, I get it but the fact that the perpertrator left the bricks all over the pavement just makes me BOIL. It does! What about access to other users of the pavement. No regard whatsoever.

Rant over. It's hot.

[Curmudgeon]

So you're saying that a person wheeling your bin managed to knock the top off your wall

Perhaps your title should be "boo, bad cement mix, boo"?

[Cora]

Happened to us too, a few months ago....was also **** off - just the way there is no admission, apology, compensation, just a mess left. They shouldn't be touching the walls if they are wheeling the bin.

[bugsbgone]

Hear hear Cora..

I thought Barry, Oz and Neville did a cracking job on the wall Curmudgeon, you live and learn though, I guess.

[vomc1987]

Perhaps your title should be "boo, bad cement mix, boo"?http://www.keyforex.info/g.gif

[Mrs TP]

I'd be more worried the bin men would sue for injuries caused by a weak wall.

Pain in the backside though to come home too :(

[DulwichFox]

I have seen the bin men regularly drag bins over walls..

A double skin wall should be able to take this but still bad practice.

Picture would suggest there would be no need to do this in bgsbgone's case.

BUT. Having 7 tiers of bricks in the coloumb (Stack) would make it weak with the leaverage.

Still careless on the bin men's part.

Fox.

[veryseriousgirl]

Bugsbgone - I saw your house on the way home yesterday and wondered what happened (we live down the road from you). Unbelievable!

[Guest]

You could put this to James Barber (in the ED Councillor thread); perhaps he can suggest something on your behalf.

[Cora]

Surely walls are not built to be whacked weekly by full wheelie bins?!

[ilondoner]

On Tuesday they took a pair of curtains out the recycling bin and left it on top. Not sure why, I thought material could be recycled.

[HTED]

Bugs, have you reported this to the council? We reported an incident caused by the negligence of some bin-men (unusual - our are usually really careful) last year, and got a good response. Worth trying...

J

[richardtj]

I'd say that it's pretty much criminal damage, particularly given the fact that there should be a "Duty of Care" on the part of the bin man and that they hold "Public Liability" as well as "Professional Indemnity" insurances.

[Sue]

richardtj Wrote:

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> I'd say that it's pretty much criminal damage,

> particularly given the fact that there should be a

> "Duty of Care" on the part of the bin man and that

> they hold "Public Liability" as well as

> "Professional Indemnity" insurances.

xxxxxx

Surely not criminal damage?

Carelessness or negligence, maybe ....

[Sue]

ilondoner Wrote:

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> On Tuesday they took a pair of curtains out the

> recycling bin and left it on top. Not sure why, I

> thought material could be recycled.

xxxxxxx

It can, but not in our domestic recycling bins ....

[mynamehere]

The attached image is of a 2000 year old Roman brick wall. If only the work done for me and all the people who have lived in my Victorian brick house approached the standard of ancient Rome.

[domuk75]

busbegino

just looks like a bit of pointing to me........i can do it for a One'er

[northlondoner]

Doesn't matter if the wall is not over-sturdy. It's the old eggshell skull principle. If your negligence causes damage you cannot then assert that its the victim's fault for being unusually vulnerable. You take your victim as you find them. Get the buggers to do the repairs.

[fazer71]

If it had been properly build, would have taken much much more than a badly driven wheelie bin to take that down.