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What appeared to be an entire shed, and sundry other bits and pieces, dumped on Goodrich Road some time in the early hours of this morning.


Reported on Southwark Councils' website, and less than 2 hours later, guys turned up to take it away.


Outstanding service IMHO


Just need to catch the feckers at it. CCTV being purchased this am from Maplins

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Bellerophon Wrote:

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> Outstanding service IMHO


Well, yes. But you want to be careful.


The council do a lot of stuff like that, and you never see threads about the absence of litter or dog poo or leaves, that most kids in care turn out quite nice or that most occupants of social housing don't perish in preventable fires. Although this particular item breaks the mould a little, I'm willing to be this is the last thread we'll have about the absence of a shed.


But you pay for all that, and you don't want to go round being nice and appreciative because, before very long, you'll be off to wave placards about the council tax or the lack of refuges or some newly-murderous cycle facility, and you can't do that effectively if you're open to the suggestion that they're not a bunch of corrupt, lazy, self-serving, faceless, unhelpful, complacent, indifferent, bureacratic and evil scum.


Sad though it is, that's how democracy works. It's also human nature. While we are happy to oathfully vituperate a broadly illiterate, innumerate, light-fingered and mendacious Royal Mail, it's all smiles and chat about the weather when we meet a postie face to face. We cheerfully call for the guillotine in public but, if we could get away with it, we'd kill far more people to get an invite to a garden party. We scream blue murder if we find a neighbour's put half a wheel across our dropped kerb, but when we get a fine for parking our land-yacht on the zig-zags, it's tantamount to a declaration of war.


Which, naturally, begs a question. What, exactly, is your beef with the council this time?

Burbage Wrote:

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> Bellerophon Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Outstanding service IMHO

>

> Well, yes. But you want to be careful.

>

> The council do a lot of stuff like that, and you

> never see threads about the absence of litter or

> dog poo or leaves, that most kids in care turn out

> quite nice or that most occupants of social

> housing don't perish in preventable fires.

> Although this particular item breaks the mould a

> little, I'm willing to be this is the last thread

> we'll have about the absence of a shed.

>

> But you pay for all that, and you don't want to go

> round being nice and appreciative because, before

> very long, you'll be off to wave placards about

> the council tax or the lack of refuges or some

> newly-murderous cycle facility, and you can't do

> that effectively if you're open to the suggestion

> that they're not a bunch of corrupt, lazy,

> self-serving, faceless, unhelpful, complacent,

> indifferent, bureacratic and evil scum.

>

> Sad though it is, that's how democracy works. It's

> also human nature. While we are happy to oathfully

> vituperate a broadly illiterate, innumerate,

> light-fingered and mendacious Royal Mail, it's all

> smiles and chat about the weather when we meet a

> postie face to face. We cheerfully call for the

> guillotine in public but, if we could get away

> with it, we'd kill far more people to get an

> invite to a garden party. We scream blue murder if

> we find a neighbour's put half a wheel across our

> dropped kerb, but when we get a fine for parking

> our land-yacht on the zig-zags, it's tantamount to

> a declaration of war.

>

> Which, naturally, begs a question. What, exactly,

> is your beef with the council this time?


Probably should have narrowed my thanks down to Southwark Enviromental Services Online Help, but it doesn't quite sing


Simple point was that as a shift worker coming home at the break of dawn, to find said fly tipping all over the pavement, and then, 3 hours later, to see it efficiently removed, I was delighted.


Burbage, your no doubt, finely crafted, witty riposte goes right over my head. Just apportioning thanks where it's due.

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